Rebel News Podcast - July 11, 2018


Declassified Live: Lisa Page defies Congress, Sacha Baron Cohen mocks vets - PLUS viewers questions


Episode Stats

Length

57 minutes

Words per Minute

178.62042

Word Count

10,244

Sentence Count

1,116

Misogynist Sentences

19

Hate Speech Sentences

7


Summary

Lisa Page, the FBI lawyer who was the attorney to some very senior people, Andrew McCabe and James Comey, is defying a congressional subpoena. The other story is about comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who did something disgraceful to Sarah Palin.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Welcome to Declassified Live.
00:00:08.860 There's always that weird little delay when I start the show, isn't there?
00:00:12.140 There's always that strange little delay when I'm waiting to see if the stream goes live.
00:00:15.760 Got a lot to talk about today.
00:00:17.120 We have two pretty big stories out there.
00:00:19.600 The first is Lisa Page, the FBI lawyer who was the attorney to some very senior people,
00:00:26.380 Andrew McCabe, James Comey.
00:00:27.900 She then worked on Robert Mueller's team.
00:00:30.200 Of course, you know Lisa Page.
00:00:31.580 She and her boyfriend, Peter Stroke, who were both having extramarital affairs.
00:00:35.760 Well, they exchanged about 50,000 anti-Trump text messages.
00:00:40.280 Pretty reprehensible stuff.
00:00:41.640 Well, now in the true spirit of today's FBI and DOJ, the FBI and DOJ that have an absolute disdain
00:00:49.020 for America and for justice, she's defying a congressional subpoena.
00:00:57.260 It testifies.
00:00:58.380 She will not testify.
00:01:00.480 The other story is about comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, who used to be really funny when he
00:01:03.840 did the Ali G show, and something disgraceful that he did to Sarah Palin.
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00:01:33.580 And that's the topic we'll discuss.
00:01:35.220 John Zeeland, good morning, my friend Akash Singh, India National Congress.
00:01:39.280 Don't know what you mean by that, but welcome to the show.
00:01:42.080 And DUF Berlick says, hi all.
00:01:44.580 Well, hi.
00:01:45.420 Well, I'm sure you guys have seen it by now.
00:01:47.160 Lisa Page, the texting mistress of embattled, disgraced, could-be-fired FBI agent Peter Strzok
00:01:55.840 is refusing to testify.
00:01:58.380 Now, she was subpoenaed to testify before the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees.
00:02:03.480 They're doing a joint committee meeting, committee hearing.
00:02:07.060 Bob Goodlatte, the chairman of the House Judiciary, is slamming her.
00:02:11.620 Chuck Grassley is chairman of the Senate Judiciary, Bob Goodlatte, of the House.
00:02:16.160 He's slamming her, slamming her.
00:02:19.560 Now, Representative Ron DeSantis is slamming her as well.
00:02:22.360 Here's what Bob Goodlatte said.
00:02:23.880 I'm reading from a Fox News piece.
00:02:25.640 Quote, Lisa Page is a key witness, and it is critical that she come before our committees
00:02:30.380 to answer questions as part of our investigation.
00:02:34.540 He said she had known for months.
00:02:36.940 Bob Goodlatte said this, quote, it appears that Lisa Page is something to hide.
00:02:40.320 She has known for months that the House Judiciary Committee has sought her testimony as part
00:02:44.560 of our joint investigation with the Oversight Committee into decisions made by the Justice
00:02:50.060 Department in 2016.
00:02:51.540 And she has no excuse for her failure to appear.
00:02:56.600 Chairman Goodlatte is right.
00:02:57.940 Ron DeSantis, conservative representative from here in Florida.
00:03:01.680 His district is up on the Treasure Coast near Kennedy Space Center.
00:03:05.100 He's also running for governor of Florida.
00:03:06.800 He's the frontrunner now on the Republican side, and he'll be the big frontrunner.
00:03:11.060 He said, he tweeted yesterday, anti-Trump FBI lawyer Lisa Page defying a congressional
00:03:17.780 subpoena because she doesn't want to answer questions or be held accountable.
00:03:21.440 Pathetic.
00:03:22.100 Representative Jim Jordan said, Lisa Page ignores congressional subpoena, once again showing
00:03:27.440 the double standard.
00:03:28.780 One set of rules for regular Americans are different.
00:03:31.600 Set of rules for the swamp and House Freedom Caucus leader, Representative Mark Meadows of
00:03:36.740 North Carolina said, the statement from Lisa Page's attorneys could have been better summed
00:03:41.260 up in one short sentence.
00:03:43.400 We're choosing to ignore a congressional subpoena.
00:03:46.160 Now, Paula Reid, her attorney, basically, I won't read you the whole statement because
00:03:50.680 it's kind of pointless and useless and it's really just a big excuse.
00:03:55.580 Her attorney is saying, well, we didn't have enough time to prepare for this testimony.
00:04:00.720 Nonsense.
00:04:01.620 You've known you were under investigation since 2017.
00:04:04.840 You were under OIG investigation.
00:04:07.100 You've known Congress wants to talk to you, but you're claiming you don't have time to
00:04:10.740 prepare.
00:04:11.060 Well, then they changed their statement a little bit and said, well, we needed documents from
00:04:15.440 the FBI to prepare.
00:04:17.000 We went up to FBI headquarters, Lisa Page and her lawyer, in this statement through her
00:04:21.160 lawyer, I'm paraphrasing.
00:04:22.220 We went up to FBI headquarters and they made us sit around for three hours and they didn't
00:04:26.420 give us anything.
00:04:27.080 Now, that I believe because the FBI won't even give documents to Congress, nor will
00:04:31.080 the Department of Justice.
00:04:33.980 So the whole thing is just really, really, really pathetic, really pathetic.
00:04:41.220 And John Zeland says, Trump kicking ass at NATO.
00:04:43.540 He is.
00:04:44.280 But I want to do NATO tomorrow because I want to see what shakes out today.
00:04:47.460 We do the show so early in the day.
00:04:49.240 I think things are going to get really frosty today with their responses and everything else.
00:04:52.980 So, John, I'm glad you brought it up because I know people will want to know about NATO.
00:04:55.700 But I'm going to do NATO tomorrow because I think we're going to have a lot more content.
00:04:59.560 And I'm sure Trump is going to give us some thingers.
00:05:02.300 I'm sure he's going to insult people to the point where I'm going to laugh trying to tell
00:05:05.840 you about it.
00:05:06.400 But let's wait on that one for one day.
00:05:08.840 And then these stories today are pretty topical.
00:05:11.860 Well, of course, Lisa Page is defying a subpoena.
00:05:14.760 Now, Peter Strzok is set to testify tomorrow to the joint committee.
00:05:18.840 I think he's scheduled for something like two hours.
00:05:20.900 It could go longer.
00:05:22.200 You know what he's probably going to do?
00:05:23.540 He's going to be as smug and defiant as he was in the closed-door committee meeting.
00:05:27.840 Hell, why would he tell the American people anything that he wouldn't tell Congress people
00:05:34.020 in a classified setting, in a closed-door setting?
00:05:36.920 I think he's going to be smug, defiant, plead the fifth.
00:05:39.880 Now, any other, any other, excuse me, any other sitting FBI agent hold that thought
00:05:46.740 would probably be fired.
00:05:50.760 Well, they already probably would have been fired.
00:05:53.500 See, the FBI has a different administrative process for firing than other agencies under DOJ.
00:05:59.500 The DEA, the Drug Enforcement Administration, for example, there's an administrative process
00:06:04.160 to fire a DEA agent.
00:06:05.800 The FBI treats their agents more like private sector employees.
00:06:10.160 You're essentially, they used to call it an at-will employee.
00:06:13.420 You can be fired at any time for cause.
00:06:15.320 Well, I would say, while you're on the taxpayer clock, sending your mistress 50,000 biased text
00:06:22.540 messages against an investigative subject over your government phones, that's cause to be fired.
00:06:29.100 I would assume, on any planet, as the FBI, James Comey, former FBI Director James Comey likes to say,
00:06:36.560 any reasonable prosecutor, any reasonable person, any reasonable.
00:06:43.820 And so we now have Lisa Page and Peter Strzok being incredibly defiant.
00:06:51.040 Now, let's be realistic.
00:06:52.200 Lisa Page, in all probability, isn't defying the subpoena because she doesn't have some records.
00:06:57.720 She's defying the subpoena because she's screwed.
00:07:01.540 If she flees the fifth, she looks ridiculously guilty.
00:07:05.840 If she tells the truth, she sinks a lot, a lot of people and probably exposes Mueller.
00:07:12.440 And you could bet your bottom dollar that right now, Lisa Page, Lisa Page is being pressured
00:07:18.340 from all sides, from all sides.
00:07:23.600 And MD Meditech, I'm going to read one comment right now because it's pertinent.
00:07:29.260 So Rosenstein probably gave all the documents the committee didn't ask for by last try and
00:07:33.420 meeting them out as slow as they can.
00:07:35.740 Oh, OK, she's saying that they didn't, that Rosenstein didn't provide documents.
00:07:39.780 No, I don't think they're going to even slow drip the documents out.
00:07:42.580 I think whatever the FBI and DOJ has is so damning, so damning that too many heads would
00:07:49.700 roll and they are terrified doing damage control.
00:07:52.380 But again, Lisa Page refusing to testify, Peter Strzok being this smug dick, to be quite
00:08:00.800 honest.
00:08:02.080 They are they are proving, proving that Jeff Sessions is completely, completely checked out,
00:08:10.700 completely powerless, powerless, terrible, terrible, terrible.
00:08:16.720 We have zero leadership at the Department of Justice.
00:08:19.800 The FBI is a subordinate agency to the Department of Justice.
00:08:22.460 The FBI director reports to the United States Attorney General.
00:08:26.260 The United States Attorney General is doing nothing.
00:08:30.020 This this ridiculous dog and pony show appointing John Huber, the U.S. attorney in Utah, a special
00:08:35.720 prosecutor.
00:08:36.340 Now, understand something.
00:08:37.300 There's a big difference between a special prosecutor and a special counsel, a special
00:08:42.400 counsel acts, as you see with Mueller, as its own sort of independent mini Department
00:08:47.920 of Justice, a tremendous power, too much power, unconstitutional.
00:08:53.320 Many argue that I now am convinced it's unconstitutional.
00:08:58.180 But critically, though, I wouldn't mind seeing a second special counsel because the first special
00:09:03.900 counsel is so corrupt.
00:09:04.960 So I think we need a second special counsel to investigate the first special counsel, and
00:09:08.600 then let's put special counsels to bed.
00:09:10.560 If DOJ is too incompetent or too powerless to do the job, then let's change the top of
00:09:14.660 DOJ.
00:09:15.860 All right.
00:09:16.800 That's a special counsel.
00:09:17.820 They run like a mini DOJ, a lot of power, a lot of power, their own budget, autonomous.
00:09:22.880 A special prosecutor that Huber is, is merely a United States attorney from one district
00:09:28.380 with an extended geographical mandate to work in a different district.
00:09:32.160 The problem there is Huber still reports to Rosenstein, who's the number two man at DOJ.
00:09:38.020 So nothing's going to get done with Huber.
00:09:40.340 Sessions doesn't want to do anything.
00:09:42.600 Rosenstein doesn't want to do anything.
00:09:44.780 But Huber is not going to do anything.
00:09:47.020 Well, Brendan Hall, you don't need to impeach Jeff Sessions.
00:09:49.300 He serves at the leisure of the president of the United States.
00:09:51.800 The president can fire the attorney general because it's a rainy Tuesday and the president
00:09:55.420 doesn't like rainy Tuesdays.
00:09:57.060 The executive branch, the president of the United States, doesn't need any reason to
00:10:02.160 fire either his FBI director.
00:10:04.800 He doesn't need any reason to fire his attorney general.
00:10:08.380 He doesn't need any reason to fire any cabinet secretary, administrator, anybody under his
00:10:14.180 control.
00:10:15.880 Now, Meditech also just referenced the book, Alan Dershowitz's new book, The Case Against
00:10:20.500 Impeaching Trump, the last sane Democrat in the U.S.
00:10:22.720 I've spoken to Alan Dershowitz several times over the last couple of weeks on this, and
00:10:27.980 he thinks that Robert Mueller's investigation is patently unconstitutional.
00:10:32.700 He believes special counsels are unconstitutional.
00:10:35.680 He believed Ken Starr was.
00:10:37.900 Under Bill Clinton, he believed that Fitzgerald was during George W. Bush, and he believes
00:10:41.640 Robert Mueller is now.
00:10:43.580 And Alan Dershowitz is being excoriated for this.
00:10:46.940 A longtime friend of his up on Martha's Vineyard said she wanted to dab him in the chest.
00:10:51.900 To dab him in the chest because of his support for Trump.
00:10:58.160 Gail Cochman is asking me, do I think Jeff Sessions is doing nothing because he knows
00:11:01.560 more?
00:11:02.480 He has no, he has reasons for his silence.
00:11:04.500 No, that's one of those conspiracy theories.
00:11:06.480 No, no.
00:11:08.200 A leader leads.
00:11:09.600 Jeff Sessions needs to be up on a podium saying, I realize there are issues.
00:11:13.680 We're getting to the bottom of it.
00:11:14.760 Jeff Sessions, I will tell you this from my sources in D.C., he is completely checked out.
00:11:19.380 I was asked by people about a month and a half ago, very close to the White House, to
00:11:23.740 go easy on Jeff Sessions.
00:11:25.120 They said there may be more going on behind the scenes.
00:11:27.560 We were just read into something.
00:11:28.780 There may be more.
00:11:29.280 Go easy on Sessions.
00:11:30.300 You might see something you like very soon.
00:11:32.640 About a week and a half after that, they said, nope, false alarm.
00:11:35.500 He's completely useless.
00:11:37.320 He's doing nothing.
00:11:38.600 I had somebody very, very close to the president of the United States say to me, Jeff Sessions
00:11:43.680 was the biggest mistake we ever made.
00:11:46.580 Don't believe, again, I tell you every day, don't believe these QAnon conspiracies and
00:11:50.900 Jeff Sessions, his stealthy assassin behind the scenes, taking down the deep state.
00:11:55.800 Jeff Sessions was the deep state for decades in the Senate.
00:11:59.040 He's not taking anybody down.
00:12:01.040 Jeff Sessions thought he was going to go out there, prosecute legal weed, do some civil
00:12:04.140 asset seizure, go after immigration and have an easy run as a criminally centric attorney
00:12:08.780 general.
00:12:09.420 He never thought he was going to have to deal with massive, massive institutional government
00:12:14.060 corruption.
00:12:15.620 Jeff Sessions, maybe he knows more than he's letting on, but he ain't going to do anything
00:12:19.120 about it.
00:12:20.000 Okay, Jeff Sessions is not this stealthy, silent assassin in the background.
00:12:23.040 Believe me.
00:12:24.320 Believe me.
00:12:25.600 James Farmer asks, why was Rod Rosenstein and Giuliani smiling at each other like they're
00:12:29.400 buddies?
00:12:29.740 Well, they know each other for a long time.
00:12:31.320 They both worked in the Department of Justice for many, many, many years.
00:12:35.200 That doesn't mean that they won't be adversarial.
00:12:38.840 Giuliani is on the offensive.
00:12:40.900 Rosenstein is on the defensive.
00:12:42.580 Look, they're friends or colleagues.
00:12:46.180 They walk into a room with each other.
00:12:47.700 They can smile, say hello.
00:12:48.820 I'm sure over the years, their families have gotten to know each other.
00:12:51.720 They've gone to the same parties.
00:12:53.160 Never easy.
00:12:54.040 People don't live in a bubble.
00:12:55.780 They don't live.
00:12:56.380 We don't live in this insulated bubble.
00:13:00.220 Giuliani's career began in the Department of Justice.
00:13:03.240 He was the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
00:13:05.640 He was a very well-known federal prosecutor prior to that appointment.
00:13:09.840 And so he and Rod Rosenstein know each other.
00:13:11.760 He and James Comey know each other.
00:13:12.980 He and Bob Mueller know each other.
00:13:14.340 For years, these guys were senior DOJ people and colleagues.
00:13:17.800 But it doesn't mean that all that doesn't change.
00:13:20.500 That dynamic doesn't change.
00:13:21.960 And now they're adversaries.
00:13:23.620 Because at the end of the day, I think Rudy Giuliani is perplexed by all this.
00:13:27.820 And if you remember, you probably don't.
00:13:31.360 But Rudy Giuliani's mayoralty in New York back in the 1990s from 1994, he actually was
00:13:39.400 elected in 93, took office in January of 94.
00:13:42.220 In New York City, he has mayor elections on off years.
00:13:45.680 And his tenure ran through to 2001.
00:13:50.220 Rudy Giuliani was up for re-election two months after 9-11.
00:13:54.880 And he was termed out.
00:13:56.440 I'm sorry, my mistake.
00:13:57.480 He wasn't up for re-election.
00:13:58.340 Michael Bloomberg gave himself a third term.
00:14:01.060 Rudy Giuliani was termed out.
00:14:03.080 They wanted to extend his term.
00:14:05.100 But the city commission, the city council didn't want to do it.
00:14:08.100 A whole long story.
00:14:08.940 They did it then for Bloomberg because he paid for it.
00:14:10.820 But a whole other show.
00:14:12.920 But Giuliani ran New York City through the 1990s.
00:14:15.980 And if you remember anything about it, that's when I was with the police department.
00:14:19.820 Giuliani's mayoralty was really a microcosm of Trump's presidency.
00:14:23.320 He treated the media the same way as very hostile.
00:14:26.400 He ran the city, ran as a Republican.
00:14:28.320 People said he's too conservative.
00:14:29.740 But he actually ran as a Republican liberal, interestingly enough.
00:14:33.900 Giuliani was pretty open-minded on social issues.
00:14:35.760 But he was a doer.
00:14:36.880 He was a results-oriented guy.
00:14:38.880 He just wanted to get from A to B in the most efficient way possible and make B a success.
00:14:42.600 So that's how Giuliani is now treating his role as Trump's attorney.
00:14:46.100 And Lisa Page, back to the topic at hand, the FBI lawyer who's now defying a congressional subpoena, is giving him even more ammunition.
00:14:54.660 Much more ammunition.
00:14:59.120 777 is saying,
00:15:00.220 After the Seth Rich disclosure yesterday, Rosenstein is implicated as one of the most crooked of the crux.
00:15:04.500 I don't believe it.
00:15:05.240 I don't believe that a DEA and an ATF agent killed Seth Rich.
00:15:08.840 Sorry.
00:15:09.240 I know Jack Berkman, the radio host, the TV host, behind this.
00:15:14.740 I know Jack.
00:15:15.360 I happen to like Jack.
00:15:16.680 I think Jack's a really good guy and he's a really smart guy.
00:15:19.080 I think Jack is way off on this one.
00:15:21.360 And I think that they are putting together very loosely collected investigative evidence to come up with a theory that'll get them some media attention.
00:15:31.280 I'm sorry.
00:15:32.180 I don't buy it.
00:15:33.060 And I don't buy it.
00:15:34.040 And I say that.
00:15:35.060 And I consider Jack a colleague and an ally.
00:15:37.800 And I think he's a good guy.
00:15:38.760 And I like the guy.
00:15:39.720 I think this is just way out there.
00:15:42.120 And they're spreading dangerously close to implicating law enforcement people in something they didn't do.
00:15:47.900 It's not good for the country.
00:15:49.080 It's not good for the rich family.
00:15:52.220 But what's worse is that we have Lisa Page defying a congressional subpoena.
00:15:57.300 We have Peter Strzok defying.
00:16:00.080 He's going to show up.
00:16:02.020 But Peter Strzok is going to show up and he's going to do what we expect him to do, right?
00:16:06.080 He's going to blow it off.
00:16:07.880 He's going to make a mockery of it.
00:16:09.920 He's going to treat it as unimportant.
00:16:12.500 He's going to treat it as his little playground.
00:16:16.280 Why wouldn't he?
00:16:17.120 Why wouldn't he?
00:16:17.980 Andrew McCabe was criminally referred.
00:16:20.060 He's not been charged.
00:16:21.960 James Comey was criminally referred to DOJ by Congress.
00:16:24.760 He's not been charged.
00:16:26.140 Peter Strzok gets to go to work every day in the FBI with a badge and a gun, right?
00:16:30.060 He was escorted out of the building that one time probably because they were searching his office.
00:16:34.440 Last I heard, he's back in the building if he so wishes.
00:16:37.740 Lisa Strzok was able to voluntarily leave the FBI.
00:16:40.480 We know that these agencies were weaponized against Donald Trump.
00:16:44.340 We know that now.
00:16:45.520 There's no mystery.
00:16:46.360 We know that the FISA warrant was obtained under false pretenses.
00:16:50.000 None of this is a secret anymore.
00:16:52.800 None of this is a secret anymore.
00:16:54.040 David Biles, I'm going to get to Sacha Baron Cohen in a moment.
00:16:55.960 But none of this is a secret.
00:17:00.100 Nobody wants to do anything.
00:17:03.140 So MD asks, fair statement, Ari Sessions, but what's next?
00:17:06.260 Why doesn't Trump eject the useless son of a gun and replace with somebody who will actually act?
00:17:09.840 So let me address that.
00:17:10.980 Very pertinent to what we're talking about.
00:17:13.500 Jeff Sessions got there and he thought it was going to be a typical attorney general run.
00:17:19.020 Prosecute some crimes, have a couple of high profile cases.
00:17:21.660 He never thought he had to take on the entire U.S. government's defense.
00:17:24.940 Many of those people, colleagues of his for decades, all right?
00:17:28.680 An older man, he simply didn't want to do it.
00:17:32.180 He didn't want to do it.
00:17:33.080 He wants all this to go away.
00:17:34.660 The reason Trump can't just replace him is Mitch McConnell.
00:17:38.200 They're old friends he and Jeff Sessions.
00:17:40.300 Mitch McConnell has made it clear to the president.
00:17:41.860 I've been told this by many, many sources in D.C., very close to the White House.
00:17:46.200 And it comports, I was even told this by the chief of staff, to a sitting U.S. senator who disagrees with this.
00:17:54.660 Mitch McConnell basically went to the president and said, Jeff's our guy.
00:17:57.140 Leave him alone.
00:17:58.120 We will never confirm anybody if you fire him.
00:18:00.800 If Jeff gets tired and he steps down on his own, do what you want to do.
00:18:05.380 But until then, he's staying attorney general if you want to get your judges.
00:18:09.140 And other appointments through.
00:18:11.120 And that's what it's all about.
00:18:13.260 Mitch McConnell and the other old guard senators want their buddy Jeff Sessions as AG.
00:18:17.600 And they don't want him to be embarrassed with the firing.
00:18:20.100 The help of the country and the confidence in federal law enforcement be damned.
00:18:24.440 And that's why.
00:18:25.820 And that's why Jeff Sessions is still there.
00:18:28.440 And it's kind of deep statey, right?
00:18:31.000 Institutional senators, not as sexy or conspiratorial as you think.
00:18:35.240 Secret information.
00:18:36.420 Nah, it's just that his buddies in the Senate don't want to see him fired in disgrace.
00:18:40.240 So they're playing a political game and saying, hey, look, you fired Jeff Sessions.
00:18:44.420 We're not going to confirm anybody else.
00:18:46.260 And then what happens?
00:18:47.520 Well, then you're stuck with Rod Rosenstein really running the Department of Justice.
00:18:52.380 That one's a lose-lose for Trump.
00:18:54.220 He never should have appointed Sessions.
00:18:57.000 He never should have appointed Sessions.
00:18:59.320 Con David says it's official then.
00:19:00.560 It's all been a toothless dog and pony show.
00:19:02.080 Yeah, it has.
00:19:02.980 It really, really has.
00:19:03.900 The IG report, if you really dig into the IG report, the IG report really only finds administrative
00:19:10.680 run.
00:19:11.460 When you understand how to read these things, and you've dealt with them over the years,
00:19:15.900 it doesn't indicate criminality.
00:19:19.840 Nothing prosecutable in the IG report.
00:19:22.860 Now, with regards to Peter Strzok, nothing he's done to date appears to be prosecutable.
00:19:29.840 Sending text messages should be fireable, but it's not criminal.
00:19:34.300 However, if we find out that he altered the 302s, the witness report, and those alterations
00:19:42.320 resulted in charges against people like General Flynn and George Papadopoulos, well, then we're
00:19:47.500 talking about obstruction of justice.
00:19:49.120 Then we're talking about abuse of authority.
00:19:50.680 Then we're talking about criminal charges, evidence tampering, big ones.
00:19:55.840 Then we're talking about something else.
00:19:57.760 The OIG is looking into that now.
00:19:59.740 Do you have a lot of confidence?
00:20:00.940 I don't.
00:20:01.620 But if we had an ethical and honest system and an investigative process and infrastructure,
00:20:06.580 then we'd probably see criminal charges if, big if, they could prove they had probable
00:20:15.160 cause that he altered the 302s.
00:20:17.620 That's a big if right now when you look at the totality of everything else going on, the
00:20:24.900 totality of everything else going on.
00:20:26.900 MD says, so put the bloody arm on McConnell to convince Sessions to move out.
00:20:30.660 How?
00:20:31.600 He's the Senate majority leader.
00:20:33.280 Right now, we've got a Supreme Court judge to get through and about 100 other appointments
00:20:38.400 to fill that need confirmation by the Senate.
00:20:40.420 Politics being what they are, right now McConnell's holding the cards on that sort of thing.
00:20:45.440 So you've got to play his game.
00:20:47.220 You'll eventually have leverage on McConnell.
00:20:49.600 Trump will, but that's just the ebb and flow nature of politics.
00:20:53.620 Right now, he doesn't.
00:20:55.040 Now, if more damning information surfaces that really put Sessions in a negative light,
00:21:01.220 well, then you have leverage on McConnell, right?
00:21:02.820 Then you go to McConnell and you say, OK, Mitch, you're going to convince him to step down
00:21:07.360 or we're going to bring this to light and we're going to go to the American people and
00:21:10.200 tell them that you're the reason he's staying as attorney general, that you will not confirm
00:21:15.520 anyone else.
00:21:16.440 Trump goes out there and he says, hey, Rosenstein's worse.
00:21:19.760 He's worse.
00:21:20.880 Mitch McConnell won't confirm anybody.
00:21:23.040 America, what are you going to do about it?
00:21:24.560 But there's a time to do that.
00:21:26.820 There's a time to do that.
00:21:28.260 But Gail Kochman brings up an interesting point or Kochman, Gail.
00:21:31.060 Sorry if I said your name incorrectly.
00:21:33.260 Or what about the FISA?
00:21:34.280 Well, you talked about the FISA warrant application that Rosenstein said.
00:21:37.700 Well, he didn't even read.
00:21:38.460 He just signed it.
00:21:39.140 Terrible.
00:21:39.920 He's getting away with it.
00:21:40.880 At any other point in history, he'd be called to task on that.
00:21:44.560 But again, Jeff Sessions is his boss.
00:21:48.960 That's the guy who should be calling him out.
00:21:51.300 And he won't.
00:21:53.060 He won't.
00:21:55.120 What are you going to do?
00:21:56.000 When you've got these DOJ, former employees.
00:22:00.100 And mind you, Peter Strzok and Lisa Page are not really senior people.
00:22:04.300 They're not really senior people.
00:22:06.080 They're middle to upper level management.
00:22:09.620 But they're not people that made policy.
00:22:11.700 Strzok was a senior investigator.
00:22:13.320 Page was a lawyer reporting to senior people.
00:22:15.120 She wasn't an agent.
00:22:16.540 She wasn't a gun and badge carrying sworn FBI agent.
00:22:20.520 She was merely a lawyer for the agency.
00:22:24.220 And she, Cheesy45, says, thanks for the stream.
00:22:28.020 Thanks for watching.
00:22:29.740 Sorry you had to leave so quickly.
00:22:31.440 I know we're doing these early now.
00:22:34.220 But Lisa Page wasn't even an agent.
00:22:37.120 She was a lawyer who happened to start sleeping with an agent who was in the know.
00:22:42.100 They both hated Trump.
00:22:43.000 What you find is that many, many government agencies are institutionally Democrat.
00:22:47.840 Why?
00:22:48.100 Because Democrats like big government.
00:22:49.720 Government employees who like power like big government.
00:22:52.140 They like to be your ruling overlords.
00:22:54.340 Don't they?
00:22:55.600 CIA is institutionally left.
00:22:57.160 Forget the State Department.
00:22:58.140 I don't think you could ever clean that out.
00:23:00.240 You're never going to be able to clean that out.
00:23:02.480 MD says, makes sense, John.
00:23:03.820 Here's hoping.
00:23:04.400 I've always liked Sessions, but this has really scummed him up.
00:23:07.580 Never thought Sessions was a coward, but that's the only word for this.
00:23:09.960 I have to agree.
00:23:10.560 I think Jeff Sessions is a nice man.
00:23:12.960 I think he's an honorable man, but he was a senator a lot of years.
00:23:18.320 And when you're one of 100, it's very hard to be the top guy.
00:23:22.120 When you're one of 100 and you were never the leader, you were never leadership, majority
00:23:26.260 leader, the leader, you weren't a governor, you weren't in an executive position, very
00:23:33.220 hard to then take the reins of an executive level agency and not manage by consensus.
00:23:39.600 And that appears to be what Jeff Sessions did.
00:23:42.040 He fell back on his Senate experience and he managed by consensus, consulting with Rosenstein
00:23:48.040 and Bruce Ohr and James Comey at the time, all people working against Donald Trump.
00:23:54.440 Sessions was advised to recuse.
00:23:56.060 He was advised to do many, many things to weaken him at DOJ.
00:23:59.260 And he did them.
00:24:00.320 Because again, he was so used to being a senator, one of 100, that he didn't know how to step
00:24:04.860 in and say, no, no, no, I want everything on my desk by 730 tomorrow morning.
00:24:09.260 I'm going to go through it.
00:24:10.740 I'm going to see what the hell went on here.
00:24:12.400 I'm going to make a decision.
00:24:13.580 And if I determine heads are going to roll, they're going to roll.
00:24:17.120 That's what a leader would have done.
00:24:19.700 But Jeff Sessions wasn't in that role for 30 some odd years.
00:24:22.920 He was one of 100 senators who had to go along to get along, to cut deals, to get stuff done.
00:24:28.400 He was the wrong guy.
00:24:30.020 Rudy Giuliani was mayor of New York City.
00:24:32.500 Many people call it the second most difficult political job in the country after president.
00:24:36.680 Giuliani would have gone in and said exactly that.
00:24:39.120 On my desk, I want to know what the hell is going on.
00:24:41.500 I'm going to make decisions and heads are going to roll.
00:24:43.220 And I'm going to decide who those heads are.
00:24:45.860 We appointed the wrong guy, attorney general.
00:24:48.600 We appointed the wrong guy.
00:24:52.660 777 is asking them, why are the upper echelon stalling and slow walking all the documents,
00:24:57.820 possibly jeopardizing themselves in the process?
00:25:00.640 Jeopardizing themselves with whom?
00:25:04.640 They're the people who have to make the call to prosecute themselves.
00:25:07.400 Robert Mueller is their ally.
00:25:09.000 Trump is being advised by lawyers inside the White House to not appoint a second special counsel to go easy.
00:25:15.400 Being given very bad advice.
00:25:17.760 That's why I keep saying Trump needs a second.
00:25:20.120 I hate special counsels.
00:25:22.160 I hate them.
00:25:22.700 But he needs a second special counsel to investigate the first special counsel on the Department of Justice.
00:25:27.880 Because the Office of Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, the inspector general, still reports to Jeff Sessions.
00:25:33.560 And as a result, Rod Rosenstein.
00:25:35.700 The whole thing is corrupt.
00:25:37.520 Can't investigate yourself when there's extensive wrongdoing in your ranks.
00:25:41.920 Can't investigate yourself.
00:25:43.540 Just can't do it.
00:25:44.340 That's why we need a second special counsel.
00:25:49.000 Or we need the Office of Inspector General to no longer fall under the Department of Justice.
00:25:55.620 The OIG, after this, might need to be an independent entity who reports only to the President of the United States.
00:26:03.540 It's a lateral agency to DOJ, equal in power, where its agency head is cabinet level.
00:26:11.080 And they report to the President, the Chief of Staff of the White House.
00:26:15.120 But I would even want them to report only to the President, bypassing the Chief of Staff.
00:26:21.120 That's what I think we need.
00:26:23.400 Now, on to this story about Sacha Baron Cohen.
00:26:26.120 How disgusting.
00:26:28.000 But you remember this guy.
00:26:29.340 He did the Ali G show.
00:26:30.540 And it's really disappointing.
00:26:31.320 I thought he was pretty damn funny when he did it.
00:26:33.100 His interviews were great.
00:26:34.120 Well, got a new show for Showtime.
00:26:37.520 And the show is called, what's this show called?
00:26:40.980 Who, what's the name of the show?
00:26:43.120 Who is America?
00:26:44.480 Well, in it, Cohen and his European frailty, you know, the little beta boy,
00:26:50.960 decides to mock Americans.
00:26:52.520 Conservative American.
00:26:53.880 Goes after Dick Cheney.
00:26:55.680 But the really bad one is Sarah Palin.
00:26:57.100 Now, full disclosure, I've gotten to know Sarah Palin.
00:26:58.760 I really like her.
00:26:59.340 She's a really nice woman.
00:27:00.720 Great family.
00:27:01.360 Really nice, good people.
00:27:03.620 They did nothing to deserve their attacks when they ran.
00:27:06.360 And when she ran as VP in 2008 alongside Don McCain.
00:27:10.980 Sarah Palin's a good person.
00:27:12.380 Very down to earth.
00:27:13.180 Very nice.
00:27:14.360 Like I said, I've gotten to know her.
00:27:15.360 Spent a lot of time with her in D.C.
00:27:16.780 A month, month and a half ago.
00:27:17.980 We sort of put together the same event where she was the keynote speaker.
00:27:23.020 And we have a mutual colleague, a very close friend of mine, is a close friend of hers.
00:27:26.680 And we got to know each other professionally.
00:27:29.500 And actually spent a really interesting day with Sarah Palin at the Smithsonian when I was in D.C.
00:27:35.400 We got a private tour of the Smithsonian's gun collection.
00:27:38.920 Awesome.
00:27:39.640 It was awesome.
00:27:41.600 That's a whole other story for another show.
00:27:43.600 Anyway, Sarah Palin was asked by Sacha Baron Cohen to travel across the country to be interviewed.
00:27:50.660 Didn't know it was him.
00:27:52.200 She thought she was being asked to travel across the country.
00:27:54.780 Went with one of her daughters.
00:27:55.700 She often travels with one of her daughters.
00:27:57.600 She thought she was going across the country to be interviewed by a disabled veteran.
00:28:01.660 She thought she was helping out a veterans charity.
00:28:04.000 When she got there, it was Cohen disguised as a disabled veteran, mocking her, mocking Americans.
00:28:12.260 And in effect, mocking disabled veterans.
00:28:16.140 Let me read you Sarah Palin's quote.
00:28:19.700 It quote, out of respect for what I was led to believe would be a straight, would be a thoughtful discussion with someone who had served in uniform.
00:28:25.340 I sat through a long interview full of Hollywoodisms, disrespect, and sarcasm.
00:28:31.660 But finally had enough, and literally, physically removed my mic and walked out, much to Cohen's chagrin.
00:28:38.060 The disrespect of our U.S. military and middle class Americans via Cohen's foreign commentaries under the guise of interview questions was perverse.
00:28:48.320 He went on to say, mock politicians and innocent public personalities all you want, if that lets you sleep at night.
00:28:54.220 But, how dare you mock those who have fought in Sarah Dara country?
00:29:00.240 Truly sick.
00:29:02.040 Now, Sarah Palin's son served in combat in Iraq.
00:29:05.980 He's a combat veteran.
00:29:07.520 Her daughter Bristol's had a baby.
00:29:09.720 Sarah Palin has a grandchild.
00:29:10.700 The father of which is Dakota Meyer, the Medal of Honor recipient.
00:29:15.040 This is a military family that sacrificed.
00:29:17.220 But even if they weren't, how disgraceful, how disgraceful of Sacha Baron Cohen to mock disabled veterans.
00:29:26.420 Look, I'm all for controversial comedy.
00:29:28.160 I am.
00:29:28.880 I'm a First Amendment guy.
00:29:31.120 But I've got my First Amendment rights, too.
00:29:34.080 And I think Sacha Baron Cohen is a reprehensible, sick piece of trash to use a disabled veteran persona.
00:29:42.160 Somebody that was blown up in combat.
00:29:45.640 Somebody in their 20s that might have lost limbs.
00:29:48.160 How sick do you have to be to impersonate one of these American heroes so you can mock somebody and degrade them and insult them?
00:29:56.480 What kind of empty, sick person does that?
00:30:01.080 Hollywood is really devoid of morals and values and ethics.
00:30:05.240 They are disgusting.
00:30:06.940 They are disgraceful.
00:30:08.140 They are absolutely, absolutely disgraceful.
00:30:13.040 And we'll take some comments on that.
00:30:14.220 But I want to go back to some of your comments on Mueller.
00:30:17.220 You guys are fast and furious here.
00:30:19.340 And remember, you could super chat.
00:30:20.320 You could donate a couple of bucks.
00:30:21.260 It'll pop up.
00:30:23.100 Let's see.
00:30:24.060 Just saw a good one that I like.
00:30:25.180 We have so many comments on here.
00:30:28.200 Well, Con David said he hoped for a Mueller-style investigation that investigated Hillary and her gang.
00:30:32.080 Good luck.
00:30:32.520 That's not going to happen.
00:30:33.640 I want it, too.
00:30:34.400 But no faith.
00:30:36.080 Oh, here's the one.
00:30:36.700 And Morgana Dundee said, if I told government auditors at the bank where I work, sorry, but I defy you.
00:30:42.000 Ah.
00:30:42.460 Oh, exactly.
00:30:43.460 If any other American, Jim Jordan was right.
00:30:45.580 There's a different set of rules.
00:30:46.800 If any other American, any other person in the world defied the law as much as people in this Department of Justice and FBI, they'd be in prison already.
00:30:56.320 Oh, wait.
00:30:57.580 General Flynn has already had already plead guilty for a bogus charge of misstatements.
00:31:02.660 So it's not just any American.
00:31:03.800 If you're a conservative, if you're not aligned with Hillary Clinton's cabal, you get criminally charged.
00:31:09.940 If you are, you get immunity.
00:31:11.640 You get immunity.
00:31:12.780 John Zeland says, and presumably Jeff Sessions, little possum let down Trump.
00:31:18.500 Trump felt obliged to give him the job.
00:31:20.800 Trump will replace him after the Russia witch hunt is over.
00:31:24.020 Yeah, I agree.
00:31:24.860 I agree.
00:31:25.320 He'll replace him.
00:31:26.000 And yeah, he was pressured to give him the job.
00:31:27.360 He was really pressured.
00:31:29.120 Hi from Cardiff, UK.
00:31:30.600 Gouldy 400.
00:31:31.480 Well, how you doing?
00:31:33.360 How are you doing?
00:31:35.040 Love that we have our international audience.
00:31:37.940 Brian London says, I'm going to have to wait till I see what Sasha actually puts out.
00:31:41.360 But sure, but you know what?
00:31:43.300 I don't need to, Brian.
00:31:44.620 I respect that.
00:31:45.660 It's probably the better way to go.
00:31:48.140 But I know Governor Palin.
00:31:51.120 I know she wouldn't lie about this because of her family's military sacrifices.
00:31:55.600 Her word is good enough for me on this.
00:31:57.220 But you know what?
00:31:57.600 I encourage people, watch it.
00:31:59.180 Let me know what you think.
00:32:00.360 I do think, however, there are certain things that could be off limits.
00:32:04.940 Impersonating disabled veterans to mock conservatives should be one of them.
00:32:09.520 And again, you know what?
00:32:12.340 Everybody's entitled to their opinion.
00:32:14.240 I'm entitled to mine, thinking anybody that would do it is a reprehensible piece of trash.
00:32:19.540 Let's see what else we have.
00:32:20.660 A lot on Jeff Sessions.
00:32:22.300 A lot on Jeff Sessions.
00:32:24.880 But you know, it goes to the, I want to go back to Brian's point about seeing what he puts out.
00:32:30.200 Doesn't that enable, if we, if we on the right say, well, we want to see what he puts out.
00:32:38.660 Doesn't that encourage Showtime to air it and them to profit off of it?
00:32:43.180 And by the way, Sarah Palin wants Showtime not to air it.
00:32:45.720 But if they do air it, he said, and I agree with her, they should donate all the proceeds to a veterans charity, all the profits, the veterans charity.
00:32:52.740 And I agree.
00:32:54.080 They should.
00:32:54.720 They won't.
00:32:55.620 They won't.
00:32:56.320 They're the far left.
00:32:57.200 They hate stuff like that.
00:32:59.020 They won't.
00:33:01.160 But they should, they should donate all the, all the proteins, veteran charities.
00:33:06.160 But to Brian, your point, if we say, well, let's be more open-minded.
00:33:09.400 Let's be better than the left.
00:33:10.420 Let's, let's see what they put out.
00:33:11.960 It makes them money.
00:33:13.420 Doesn't that encourage them to just keep doing it?
00:33:15.580 Look, this other moron, Michelle Wolf, that idiot who performed at the White House Correspondents Dinner, who, who, uh, insulted Sarah Huckabee Sanders for no reason.
00:33:24.960 Her appearance, by the way, Michelle Wolf is, is gross.
00:33:27.340 She's insulting Sarah Huckabee Sanders, like, honey, look in the mirror.
00:33:31.420 Now she had a special on Showtime where she was doing a salute to abortion for Independence Day here in the U.S.
00:33:38.420 That's sick.
00:33:39.820 That's sick.
00:33:40.840 I don't care what your view is on abortion.
00:33:43.200 Doing a salute to the termination of, of life.
00:33:48.120 That's sick.
00:33:49.480 The left is sick.
00:33:51.120 It's reprehensible.
00:33:52.520 Female white conservative says, I love Sarah Palin.
00:33:54.460 Yeah, she's very cool, actually.
00:33:55.820 I think they're a very cool person.
00:33:57.340 She's fun to hang out with as well.
00:33:59.460 Gail Cottman says, like, filthy Peter Fonda and disgusting De Niro.
00:34:02.500 Well, exactly.
00:34:03.780 Exactly, Gail.
00:34:04.900 Exactly.
00:34:06.080 Hollywood, the Hollywood elites, they hate us normal Americans.
00:34:09.960 They hate us.
00:34:11.380 They hate our guts.
00:34:15.220 They find us beneath them.
00:34:17.000 They find us low rent.
00:34:18.760 They find us uncouth.
00:34:22.620 No, they're better in their little elite bubble.
00:34:25.480 They're better in their little elite bubble.
00:34:29.280 Let's see.
00:34:30.820 I wonder why he never considered Giuliani for AJ before he hired Sessions.
00:34:34.820 Anthony Emmerich asks.
00:34:35.980 He did.
00:34:37.360 Trump wanted Giuliani as the attorney general.
00:34:39.500 Rudy Giuliani wanted to be secretary of state.
00:34:41.940 And Trump just didn't think he was the right guy for secretary of state.
00:34:44.760 And that's why Giuliani was not appointed attorney general.
00:34:47.720 He said no.
00:34:48.760 Turned it down.
00:34:49.380 He didn't want it.
00:34:50.260 He said to Trump, look, I don't want to be attorney general.
00:34:52.820 I've been a DOJ.
00:34:53.700 I want secretary of state or nothing at all.
00:34:55.680 We'll be friends.
00:34:56.460 And I'll help you out and advise you from time to time.
00:34:59.400 So he was the first pick.
00:35:01.760 Rudy Giuliani.
00:35:02.300 That's some inside D.C. baseball.
00:35:04.320 Rudy Giuliani wanted to be secretary of state.
00:35:06.380 What I was told is Rudy Giuliani had prostate cancer back in the day.
00:35:09.740 And it weakened him.
00:35:10.840 And he's dealt with some health issues.
00:35:13.040 And he's a bit older.
00:35:14.320 And Trump just didn't feel that he had the, as Trump says, stamina to be secretary of state.
00:35:19.680 That offended Rudy a bit.
00:35:21.540 And I think he was a little insulted by that.
00:35:25.040 Decided to not take a job with the administration at all.
00:35:27.760 I think in retrospect, he realizes it was a bad move.
00:35:29.860 He should have taken the attorney general spot.
00:35:32.300 The country would be in a much better place.
00:35:35.740 Yeah.
00:35:35.920 And Moondoggle says, Michelle Wolf said, says, God bless abortion.
00:35:41.260 And she was, she was gross.
00:35:43.120 I'm going to address Robert Clute.
00:35:44.380 Supposedly there's a witness to the Seth Rich murder.
00:35:46.040 I don't believe it.
00:35:47.720 I know the guy doing this, Jack Perkman.
00:35:49.560 He's a nice guy, but he's a bit of a showman.
00:35:51.960 This is a very shoddy investigation, a very loose fact pattern.
00:35:56.120 I'm not giving this any credibility whatsoever.
00:36:00.180 I think this is just more crazy conspiracy nonsense.
00:36:02.300 To put certain people in the limelight.
00:36:04.760 I like Jack.
00:36:05.900 I think he's a good guy.
00:36:07.020 We're colleagues on another thing I work on.
00:36:10.220 I think he's off base on this.
00:36:11.800 And that's what I'll say on that.
00:36:13.240 I don't want to give it too much attention.
00:36:16.200 Goldie 400 says, what's my view on Britain overall?
00:36:18.840 Great people, dysfunctional leadership right now.
00:36:22.140 That's my view on Britain overall.
00:36:24.260 I love my friends from the UK.
00:36:26.180 They're great.
00:36:26.980 They're witty and they're funny and they're cool.
00:36:28.580 And they're, you know, many of them are as conservative as we are here in the U.S.
00:36:31.800 Unfortunately, they're just burdened by dysfunctional leadership, especially in London.
00:36:36.320 With Sadiq Khan as mayor.
00:36:37.440 That's my view on Britain.
00:36:39.960 And it's often the case around the world.
00:36:42.920 People are great.
00:36:44.060 Their government sucks.
00:36:44.980 Let's see.
00:36:46.860 What do we got here?
00:36:48.500 I heard Rudy Giuliani stated they regretted that decision, Gail says, about not taking AG's job.
00:36:52.740 Yeah, that's true.
00:36:53.900 That's true.
00:36:55.540 You know, I worked with many people who know Rudy very well back in New York.
00:37:01.100 And I know him, but not well.
00:37:04.540 Extended.
00:37:05.360 We're in a room together.
00:37:06.240 It's how are you?
00:37:07.080 But not the person I interact with.
00:37:10.080 Yes, he regrets the decision.
00:37:11.500 I can tell you that from somebody I worked with in the police department, who's a good friend, who's very close to Rudy.
00:37:17.980 Very, very close.
00:37:18.580 They actually work together now.
00:37:20.400 And he does regret it.
00:37:21.820 He does regret it.
00:37:22.940 Anthony Emmerich says, Trump sort of dissed Chris Christie, too.
00:37:25.200 Well, he really didn't.
00:37:26.700 That was Jared Kushner.
00:37:27.720 Trump couldn't have Chris Christie in the administration.
00:37:29.400 I don't know if you guys know this, but Chris Christie was the U.S. attorney in New Jersey who prosecuted and put Jared Kushner's dad in prison.
00:37:36.740 And that would have been a little awkward.
00:37:38.160 I've heard having those two guys in the White House together or in the administration together.
00:37:43.200 Yeah, that's why Christie didn't come in.
00:37:45.160 Jared Kushner and Chris Christie cannot stand each other.
00:37:48.160 Christie prosecuted and imprisoned Jared Kushner's dad.
00:37:53.140 Yeah.
00:37:55.160 Mashika says, nice forgotten man painting.
00:37:57.480 Oh, oh, oh, right behind me.
00:37:59.380 Yeah, that was given to me.
00:38:00.920 Here's an interesting story about that.
00:38:02.620 It's a print, actually.
00:38:03.780 It's not the painting.
00:38:04.320 It was given to me by my former neighbor, my former neighbor when I lived in Miami.
00:38:12.240 They owned a couple of art galleries.
00:38:14.480 They were in their 80s and they were a Cuban couple.
00:38:17.820 And he was a member of Task Force 2506 that was the pro-freedom rebels fighting Castro at the Bay of Pigs.
00:38:28.680 And so I would go to their house.
00:38:29.960 He would tell me these amazing stories, show me these amazing photos.
00:38:33.060 John F. Kennedy, of course, left him on the beach to die.
00:38:35.080 The Democrats were even dysfunctional back then.
00:38:36.760 But he was a really fascinating guy.
00:38:39.160 And when I moved out of the neighborhood, he gave me that.
00:38:42.360 They gave me that as a going away gift.
00:38:44.740 So I really love it.
00:38:45.540 And the backstory behind it is pretty damn cool.
00:38:48.020 They were really, really nice people.
00:38:49.220 And in their late 80s now and still kicking, still doing really well.
00:38:53.660 Excuse me.
00:38:55.460 My allergies are terrible.
00:38:56.600 And having a talk for an hour straight exacerbates it.
00:39:02.660 But yeah, they were their own greatest generation.
00:39:05.680 So thanks for asking about the print.
00:39:07.540 That's a cool story behind it.
00:39:08.940 Yeah, Anthony Emmerich says, oh, yeah, real awkward.
00:39:12.640 Yeah, it would have been pretty awkward having Jared Kushner, senior advisor to the president,
00:39:16.260 having to sit in meetings with the guy who put his dad in prison.
00:39:18.560 So, it's, yeah, that would have been a little odd.
00:39:27.420 Eli Guy says, asking for Jerusalem, any, and by the way, thanks for tuning in.
00:39:31.880 Love having my international audience.
00:39:33.400 Any hope for cleansing the USA from its Sodom and Gomorrah corruption?
00:39:39.180 Going to take a lot.
00:39:40.620 It's going to take a lot to clean out the deep state.
00:39:43.840 Are you ever going to get them all out?
00:39:45.160 No, because there's no political test for a government job.
00:39:50.200 And so, is there a chance of reducing it?
00:39:53.980 Yes.
00:39:54.860 Is there a chance of reducing it significantly?
00:39:57.020 No.
00:39:57.860 Is there a chance of cleaning it out totally?
00:39:59.940 Never.
00:40:00.680 Never.
00:40:01.300 I don't want to lie to you.
00:40:02.320 It's not going to happen.
00:40:05.600 Not going to happen.
00:40:08.660 Yeah.
00:40:09.900 And Anthony Emmerich says about Jared Kushner and Chris Christie, oh, yeah, technical knockout.
00:40:15.880 That's a good way to phrase that.
00:40:17.180 I might have to steal that from you and use it.
00:40:18.980 No, but you're right.
00:40:19.440 It is.
00:40:19.740 It was a technical knockout.
00:40:21.700 Absolutely.
00:40:23.500 It really was.
00:40:24.420 There wasn't much.
00:40:26.260 It wasn't much.
00:40:29.440 It wasn't much there yet.
00:40:31.260 Sean Rufus says, Sarah Palin is the kind of woman I'm looking to marry.
00:40:34.200 A bad choice.
00:40:35.600 Still pretty attractive in her 50s.
00:40:38.200 And a lot of fun.
00:40:39.860 Funny.
00:40:41.060 Let's see what else you guys have for me.
00:40:45.720 You're sad about Britain.
00:40:47.580 As I am a Brit, I cannot believe how bad it has become.
00:40:51.640 That's how America felt for eight years under Barack Obama.
00:40:54.620 But take a look at where we are now.
00:40:56.320 There is a light at the end of the tunnel.
00:40:58.340 People, you're starting to hear whispers about TM Boris Johnson, aren't you?
00:41:03.940 So, look, everything is cyclical, right?
00:41:06.000 Without Jimmy Carter, look at the U.S.
00:41:08.560 Without Jimmy Carter, we wouldn't have had Ronald Reagan.
00:41:10.360 Without Barack Obama, we wouldn't have had Donald Trump.
00:41:14.940 It really needs to get pretty dark before people see the light and do the right thing
00:41:20.200 when elections come around.
00:41:23.460 So, don't get discouraged.
00:41:25.800 There's hope.
00:41:28.740 There's hope.
00:41:29.880 Bass Chica says, I just wish we'd see some equal justice to make an example of some of
00:41:34.300 the worst ones.
00:41:35.620 All of America does.
00:41:36.580 Well, all of normal America does.
00:41:39.540 All of normal conservative America does.
00:41:42.940 Liberal America, not so much.
00:41:45.380 Not so much.
00:41:46.080 They love corruption and they love obstruction of justice as long as it suits their agenda.
00:41:50.740 But here's the more important part of your point, Bass Chica.
00:41:55.520 We need to see some equal justice right now.
00:41:58.580 We need it.
00:41:59.360 There's a tremendous crisis of confidence.
00:42:03.180 Tremendous crisis of confidence in federal law enforcement.
00:42:07.000 And if we can't trust the FBI, if we can't trust the DOJ, well, who do we trust?
00:42:12.900 Our entire system falls down.
00:42:15.040 I'm not saying trust government, but we have to at least know that investigations are being
00:42:18.560 handled, excuse me, investigations and prosecutions are being handled fairly, ethically, impartially.
00:42:27.580 Right now, we don't know.
00:42:29.040 John Zeland says, U.S. Ambassador is talking up Trump-Boris Johnson meeting further below to
00:42:33.440 and battle Theresa May.
00:42:34.440 Yeah.
00:42:34.960 The other day I said to you guys, by the skin of her teeth, Theresa May might survive this.
00:42:39.420 I'm not so sure right now.
00:42:41.160 I am not so, not so sure.
00:42:44.740 And at this point, it's looking like she shouldn't.
00:42:49.160 Outdaft UK says, and you're right, it could still get worse in the UK.
00:42:55.020 We could still get socialist Corbyn.
00:42:56.520 God help you if that happens.
00:42:58.380 God help you if that happens.
00:43:00.740 will be 400 says, will Britain become great again?
00:43:03.940 I'm 16 and I don't have hope.
00:43:05.020 Well, first of all, you're 16.
00:43:05.860 I love that you're watching.
00:43:06.860 Second of all, at 16, have hope.
00:43:10.560 Have hope.
00:43:13.020 I was 11 years old when Ronald Reagan was in office.
00:43:17.560 I was going in the high school when he left.
00:43:20.600 And I'll tell you this.
00:43:23.040 Have hope.
00:43:23.900 It gets better.
00:43:25.160 It gets better.
00:43:25.880 And now I watched Barack Obama nearly destroy this country, Goldie, and throw it off a cliff.
00:43:32.680 Goldie, as Anthony Emmerich says, it will keep your head high.
00:43:36.680 And then we got Donald Trump and Donald Trump righted the ship, pun intended.
00:43:41.100 He undid eight years of Obama disaster, Goldie, in like a year, 18 months now.
00:43:47.700 Hang in there.
00:43:48.420 You're 16.
00:43:49.060 It's going to get a lot better.
00:43:50.060 It's going to get better because you see it.
00:43:52.060 You're the future of your country.
00:43:54.160 You're the future of Great Britain.
00:43:56.340 You're informed.
00:43:57.340 You're learning.
00:43:57.840 You're tuning in here.
00:43:58.840 You're consuming content.
00:44:00.920 You're doing your own research.
00:44:03.020 You're going to be the informed voter who pushes socialism out.
00:44:08.740 Don't get discouraged.
00:44:10.340 You're the front line of this.
00:44:11.500 You're the tip of the spear.
00:44:12.800 You're the one who's got to be out there driving the charge.
00:44:14.800 I hope you run for office.
00:44:18.020 That's what you need to do.
00:44:19.120 Or guys and girls like you need to do that.
00:44:22.040 You need to change things from the inside.
00:44:24.700 Christopher Elliott says, greetings from the Mountain State, West Virginia.
00:44:29.280 One of the most beautiful places I have ever been.
00:44:34.340 West Virginia is absolutely beautiful.
00:44:36.340 One of the places on my short list to buy some property.
00:44:39.160 You guys have an absolutely beautiful, beautiful state up there.
00:44:42.840 A very good friend of mine.
00:44:44.160 Went to high school with.
00:44:44.920 Then he became a Marine JAG officer.
00:44:47.020 Now lives.
00:44:47.920 He's a lawyer in Charleston.
00:44:49.160 He fell in love with your state.
00:44:51.200 Moved his family there and set up his law practice there.
00:44:53.700 Fell in absolute love with it.
00:44:54.860 Beautiful, beautiful place.
00:44:56.980 Allie Klein is telling Gouldie, don't ever lose hope.
00:44:59.240 They win if you lose.
00:45:00.160 Stay strong.
00:45:01.120 Absolutely.
00:45:03.720 777, talking about DOJ and FBI.
00:45:06.900 Says, foundations of truth and justice has crumbled.
00:45:09.020 How can it be rebuilt without transparency?
00:45:10.740 Great question.
00:45:11.340 It cannot.
00:45:12.560 We need full transparency.
00:45:15.360 Full, full, full transparency.
00:45:17.840 MD says, yeah, my first legal vote was for Ronald Reagan as president.
00:45:20.760 John, wish it could have been mine.
00:45:23.160 I was too young.
00:45:24.680 Wish it could have been mine.
00:45:29.480 But it couldn't.
00:45:31.400 I was a little kid.
00:45:34.460 Let's see.
00:45:35.640 What else we got here?
00:45:36.720 Wow, we're getting more comments now.
00:45:39.460 Let's see.
00:45:40.040 Let's see.
00:45:40.460 Let's see.
00:45:40.880 Merkel might be getting the boot.
00:45:41.940 Oh, God.
00:45:42.280 I hope so.
00:45:43.700 I hope so.
00:45:45.580 That is long overdue.
00:45:47.140 She's absolutely terrible.
00:45:48.180 And I love that Trump is calling her an ally of Russia.
00:45:50.280 We're going to do NATO tomorrow because I'm sure there are going to be some many, many
00:45:53.040 more good comments.
00:45:55.860 David Blythe says, anyone else think the baby Trump balloon is cute?
00:46:00.280 If they are trying to make fun of him with that, they failed.
00:46:03.040 Oh, it was an epic fail.
00:46:04.300 And Trump's going to have some funny comment about it.
00:46:06.100 And people here in the U.S. are laughing at it and think Sadiq Khan is an absolute moron.
00:46:11.160 There might be an asked question about that.
00:46:12.540 I see Corbyn put Naj Shah on his front bench.
00:46:15.380 I really didn't.
00:46:16.420 I did not.
00:46:17.060 I haven't.
00:46:17.440 I did not see that.
00:46:21.140 This is interesting.
00:46:22.100 MD says to David Blythe, did you see where a GoFundMe was set up and almost instantly
00:46:25.860 fully funded for a Sadiq Khan baby balloon?
00:46:28.320 I wonder if they'll get that permitted.
00:46:30.100 I didn't see that, but it's interesting.
00:46:31.660 And you know what?
00:46:32.360 We're going to follow that, MD.
00:46:34.080 Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
00:46:35.200 We're going to see if that thing gets going and if they pull the permit on that.
00:46:39.740 Christopher Elliott says, we hate Joe Bama.
00:46:42.260 Joe Mancini.
00:46:43.120 Mancini.
00:46:43.840 Yes.
00:46:44.700 And that is Joe Manchin's real name, Mancini.
00:46:46.600 He shortened that he was Italian.
00:46:47.720 I don't know why he did it.
00:46:48.360 I didn't short mine.
00:46:50.560 Manchin is really all over the map, isn't he?
00:46:52.440 Now I'm hearing on very good authority that Joe Manchin is going to be a yes vote on Kavanaugh
00:46:57.760 to save his skin when he needs to run for re-election.
00:47:01.740 So Christopher Elliott, let me ask you an honest question and I hope you respond to me here.
00:47:05.520 What is the real sentiment toward Joe Manchin in West Virginia?
00:47:09.880 Because the guy keeps getting elected.
00:47:12.000 I keep hearing you guys are over him.
00:47:13.480 You want to go with a Republican.
00:47:14.960 Why does he keep getting re-elected?
00:47:18.220 That's the part I don't get.
00:47:20.060 And why does he have support?
00:47:22.160 All right.
00:47:22.420 So you're telling me that Christopher Elliott saying again, Joe Manchin.
00:47:25.160 And for those that don't know, Joe Manchin was governor of West Virginia.
00:47:27.920 He's now a U.S. senator from West Virginia.
00:47:30.680 He's a conservative Democrat.
00:47:33.080 But then he'll caucus with Democrats and disappoint the more conservative base.
00:47:37.120 So Christopher Elliott is saying Joe Manchin walked through a parade last year and was booed
00:47:40.520 continuously.
00:47:41.640 The second largest parade in West Virginia.
00:47:44.540 Well, he's got to either switch parties and become a conservative or he's got to go.
00:47:50.360 So what do you think, Christopher, the chances of West Virginians voting him out when he's
00:47:53.840 up for re-election are if he doesn't switch over to the Republican Party.
00:47:57.080 And move hard right.
00:47:59.400 What do you think?
00:48:01.160 Let's see.
00:48:03.180 Red Sox says someone needs to take an air rifle to that Trump balloon.
00:48:06.860 Well, in England, you'd probably go to jail for like 2,000 years for merely possessing
00:48:11.160 an air rifle, I think.
00:48:12.360 Don't advise that.
00:48:13.680 Don't advise that.
00:48:14.840 Christopher Elliott says southern West Virginia loves Joe Manchin.
00:48:17.760 Why?
00:48:18.740 Why do they love him?
00:48:19.680 Is it more liberal down there?
00:48:21.420 Like I said, I think you have an absolutely beautiful state.
00:48:23.240 I just don't understand the political breakdown of your state geographically all that well.
00:48:28.880 OK, so explain why northern West Virginia loves Joe Manchin and southern northern West
00:48:32.720 Virginia hates him.
00:48:33.900 Southern loves him.
00:48:35.320 Rich Abe says Joe Jeff Sessions is a swamp creature.
00:48:40.420 I think he's just really, really beaten down by the swamp.
00:48:43.040 Meditech says they'll presumably meaning the conservative Democrats will vote yes on Kavanaugh
00:48:47.620 because they know he lost already.
00:48:48.780 So what I was told yesterday by someone in Alabama who's got someone in Doug Jones, the
00:48:55.400 Democratic senator's office, the guy who was just elected because Roy Moore was a terrible
00:48:58.460 candidate, Jones and Manchin are yes votes.
00:49:01.300 They're working on Donnelly from Indiana because they know their constituency will not tolerate.
00:49:06.720 They're both in pretty conservative states now, and their constituencies will not tolerate
00:49:10.840 them being no votes, being obstructionist.
00:49:12.820 But I think that Kavanaugh passes easily.
00:49:17.660 He's confirmed easily.
00:49:18.840 Excuse me, easily.
00:49:19.880 John Zeland says you can't be a flip flopper forever.
00:49:23.260 Well, that's true.
00:49:24.620 That's true.
00:49:25.560 Christopher Elliott, coal union loves Democrats.
00:49:27.960 It's a cult.
00:49:28.660 But why?
00:49:30.840 Why?
00:49:31.820 The Democrats want to destroy the coal industry.
00:49:34.000 This is what I don't understand.
00:49:36.860 Or they want to privatize.
00:49:38.600 Well, they want to make it public.
00:49:39.500 Rather, they want to socialize it under the Bureau of Land Management, which generates
00:49:42.600 about $2 billion a year off coal while regulating the private coal industry out of existence.
00:49:47.400 I'll never understand it.
00:49:50.140 Gouldy says, my dad, my father gave me the views I have today.
00:49:53.660 He is right-minded and hates labor.
00:49:55.280 Your dad sounds like an awesome guy.
00:49:57.400 You can have him watch the show and chat with us.
00:49:59.260 We'd love to chat with him.
00:50:00.660 He's setting a great example for you.
00:50:02.940 So, Gouldy, you keep it up.
00:50:04.260 You keep it up.
00:50:04.780 At 16, be so informed, man.
00:50:07.340 Or I don't know if you're a man or a woman.
00:50:10.200 I'm an entire girl, but I'm going to say man.
00:50:13.320 Your father, oh, well, there you go, Gouldy.
00:50:15.500 Your dad was a Royal Marine.
00:50:16.720 Well, that is badass.
00:50:18.260 Please thank your dad for his service.
00:50:20.880 Now, I really want to have him on the show.
00:50:22.760 Christopher says, neither does he.
00:50:24.740 Can't understand why the coal unions vote for Democrats.
00:50:28.440 I don't understand why any industry would vote for Democrats.
00:50:31.400 They want to crush private industry.
00:50:33.440 They hate the private sector.
00:50:35.260 Left to their own devices, Democrats would destroy the private sector.
00:50:40.160 Private sector is evil to them.
00:50:42.800 Evil to them.
00:50:44.060 Especially the coal industry.
00:50:45.700 The environmental lobbies want to regulate it out of existence.
00:50:47.980 They want to put coal miners out of work.
00:50:49.280 They want to make their families starve.
00:50:51.120 And have them go to work on wind farms.
00:50:53.900 It's bizarre to me.
00:50:55.560 Help the Grain asks, are assault knives available in the UK?
00:51:03.820 Might be a market for an entrepreneur.
00:51:06.500 Gouldy is a guy.
00:51:07.160 Okay, Gouldy, go ahead.
00:51:07.920 Now I don't feel bad that I called you man.
00:51:10.360 I wouldn't talk about any knives in the UK.
00:51:12.200 They want to ban kitchen knives.
00:51:13.600 Soon you're not going to be able to butter your bread in the UK.
00:51:16.200 You're going to have to use a spoon.
00:51:17.520 Until somebody gets cut with a spoon, they're going to ban those.
00:51:19.500 And then you're going to use your finger.
00:51:21.620 That's how you're going to have to cut your steak.
00:51:23.440 Terrible.
00:51:23.720 Terrible.
00:51:25.560 Good Bell Garner says, why does no one talk about Northern Ireland
00:51:28.960 when it comes to how wrong gun control can be?
00:51:32.140 Got to talk about the whole world where guns have been seized by oppressive governments.
00:51:39.980 Terrible, terrible, terrible thing.
00:51:43.620 What do you mean, Anthony?
00:51:44.620 I'm going to campaign against Article 13.
00:51:46.800 Please explain.
00:51:47.720 I'm not seeing campaigning.
00:51:48.980 I'm not.
00:51:50.020 Oh, oh, oh.
00:51:51.160 This is in the EU.
00:51:52.840 I thought you were talking about something here.
00:51:54.300 Okay.
00:51:55.560 Let's see.
00:51:56.260 Someone was arrested for carrying a potato peeler in the UK.
00:51:59.420 Is that true?
00:52:01.280 If that's true, that is really sad.
00:52:03.940 Oh, my God.
00:52:05.860 Oh, my God.
00:52:08.600 Felix Coates says, I do have a question concerning coal, if I may.
00:52:11.440 Assuming the trade war with China keeps on going and China's economy implodes
00:52:14.580 from population problems and built-in economic rackets.
00:52:19.880 What's the question?
00:52:21.020 Won't that hurt the coal industry?
00:52:22.300 No, no, no.
00:52:24.520 A lot of uses for clean coal here in the U.S.
00:52:26.760 A lot of uses.
00:52:29.520 I think in the U.S. is going to become the largest producer and exporter of oil by 2023.
00:52:35.600 I saw a story that that timeline might even be accelerated.
00:52:38.820 I think the U.S.
00:52:40.020 energy industry is going to be doing just fine.
00:52:44.940 Goldie says, this is an interesting comment.
00:52:46.940 There's a lot of tension in my school between Muslims and white boys.
00:52:51.260 They are always fighting.
00:52:52.420 Yeah.
00:52:52.780 You guys have a problem with that over in the U.K.
00:52:54.700 Keep the faith, man.
00:52:56.280 Keep the faith.
00:52:56.820 And your dad is a Royal Marine.
00:52:57.940 I'm sure he, you said he was a Royal Marine.
00:53:00.640 Nah.
00:53:02.040 Once you're in one of those special units, you're always in one of those special units.
00:53:06.360 I was out.
00:53:06.880 I had a drink last night with a buddy of mine.
00:53:09.500 He was SEAL Team 6 for five years.
00:53:12.260 14 years in the Navy.
00:53:14.340 12 of those with the SEALs.
00:53:17.100 SEAL Team 4 and then over to SEAL Team 6 for his last five years.
00:53:21.540 Two full years of combat deployments.
00:53:25.380 These guys are always SEALs or Royal Marines or U.S. Marines.
00:53:30.240 Credit to your dad again.
00:53:31.180 Thank him for his outstanding, outstanding service.
00:53:34.000 Yeah, look, Christopher's talking about Democrats in West Virginia.
00:53:40.600 We have a lot of comments coming in about that.
00:53:43.200 Look, Democrats are, Christopher Stein can be forgetting his name correct.
00:53:47.580 I'm guessing it's the Elliott.
00:53:49.180 Christopher's easy.
00:53:49.900 It's my brother's name and common name.
00:53:52.060 Elliott.
00:53:53.200 Well, I grew up in New York City.
00:53:56.440 A lot of different names.
00:53:57.620 Got to learn how to pronounce them.
00:54:00.580 But yeah, the Democrats here.
00:54:02.300 Well, I think they're in major trouble during the midterms.
00:54:04.540 And the Supreme Court, speaking of unions, the Supreme Court just ruled against, well,
00:54:08.340 a couple of weeks ago, before the end of the term, ruled against public sector unions.
00:54:12.160 They can no longer charge dues to those who don't want to be members.
00:54:15.480 But those non-members can still benefit from the collective bargaining.
00:54:19.080 So I think you're going to see more and more people drop out of the union.
00:54:21.860 Why be part of the union?
00:54:23.160 Why deal with their socialism and their dictatorial style if you don't have to?
00:54:27.080 And you can still benefit from the collective bargaining.
00:54:31.220 I think that there's going to be a tremendous exodus from unions, people left to their own devices.
00:54:38.260 And there should be.
00:54:39.640 There should be.
00:54:40.440 Unions are, I think unions are useless.
00:54:43.280 I think they were necessary at a time when we didn't have cell phone cameras and regulatory agencies
00:54:47.240 making sure that factories and dangerous workplaces were safe.
00:54:50.600 But now they simply exist as an arm of the Democratic Party, as a shadow form of socialist institution.
00:54:57.400 And they donate most of their money to Democrats.
00:55:00.420 I don't think there's any reason for unions anymore.
00:55:03.880 Good Bye Garner says, did you hear about the guy in the UK that defended himself from a robbery in his home
00:55:08.480 and is now being charged with a racial hate crime?
00:55:11.020 I've seen many, many of these stories.
00:55:13.000 I shouldn't say many, but I've seen several of these come out of the UK.
00:55:15.800 They blow my mind.
00:55:17.140 Like, living in the US, living in Florida, a state with a castle doctrine where we can use deadly force to stop home invasion.
00:55:24.760 This is insane to me.
00:55:28.480 This is insane to me.
00:55:30.440 Goulby says, I met a British veteran the other day, fought in World War II.
00:55:33.060 He spotted me wearing a Royal Marine shirt and said, thanks for supporting and keeping support alive.
00:55:37.480 The different breed back then, those guys.
00:55:39.760 Different breed.
00:55:41.260 Outstanding.
00:55:41.760 Glad he's still alive.
00:55:43.240 Glad he's still alive.
00:55:44.060 Even with our own problem, some of what passes for law enforcement and justice in the UK, seen on this side of the pond, is downright terrifying.
00:55:50.800 MD said that.
00:55:51.460 I agree.
00:55:52.440 And again, I know many police officers from the UK.
00:55:56.220 I'm in groups with them.
00:55:57.580 Law enforcement groups.
00:55:59.000 Haven't been in YPD.
00:56:00.040 I speak to them.
00:56:00.880 They're not happy about this.
00:56:02.780 Remember something.
00:56:03.260 Don't blame the police.
00:56:04.140 The police are instruments of domestic policy.
00:56:07.600 Far left politicians set domestic policy.
00:56:10.900 The police would love to do their job.
00:56:12.380 English cops, British cops, some of the most hardcore cops I ever met.
00:56:16.780 But they are handcuffed, unintended, by liberal politicians.
00:56:23.140 Amendment to the Constitution.
00:56:24.660 Nationwide castle doctrine and stand-your-ground laws.
00:56:26.780 Yeah, we'd love to see it.
00:56:28.460 But then again, it infringes on states' rights.
00:56:31.880 It infringes on states' rights.
00:56:35.400 It's unfortunate, but it does.
00:56:38.000 Anyway, guys, it's been another awesome, awesome show with you today.
00:56:41.160 Anyway, I'll be back here tomorrow morning with you at 7.30 a.m.
00:56:46.420 Ease, tune in, get your questions ready.
00:56:48.800 Pretty sure we're going to be doing NATO tomorrow.
00:56:50.460 And we'll pick another topic.
00:56:52.060 We'll see what's happening.
00:56:52.880 We'll see what's timely, what breaks overnight.
00:56:55.460 Until then, you guys have a great one.
00:56:56.500 I'll see you tomorrow.
00:56:56.960 We'll see you tomorrow.
00:57:16.580 We'll see you tomorrow.
00:57:19.040 You