Declassified LIVEļ¼ Peter Strzokās testimony - PLUS viewers questions
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What happened yesterday with Peter Strock, the disgraced ex-counterintelligence agent who served as a counterintelligence agent at the Federal Bureau of Intelligence and Security (Fbi) in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
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welcome to declassified live good morning guys a lot and when i tell you a lot going on i mean
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this is out of control what happened yesterday with peter strock this this is beyond bad
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beyond terrible i don't even know where to start all right i don't even know where to start so
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let's let's start at the beginning now peter strock of course a little backstory peter strock
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was the assistant assistant director uh in charge or yeah he was like assistant deputy director
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uh in short well i shouldn't say in charge of but in charge of certain counterintelligence
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investigations but his title was assistant deputy director for counterintelligence simply meaning
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he was a pretty high ranking guy a senior guy still in the gs15 pay scale we spoke about
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you know ses not being a secret society and all that stuff but uh he was an influential enough
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guy 22 years in the fbi it's just big agency but it's not a huge agency john zealand powerwolves
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morning both of you thanks for being here and so strock obviously and then of course you know the
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story uh was discovered exchanged 50 000 or so text messages with his mistress lisa page lisa page
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was a very senior fbi lawyer she reported to jim comey he reported to andrew mccabe get a lot of
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power a lot of internal knowledge about things happening at the fbi they began to have an affair
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he was on and she was on the muller a special counsel team and when the bias began to come to light
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and department of justice began to dig into who the members of this team were it was revealed that
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peter strock and lisa page had sent about 50 000 text messages to one another a good portion of which
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contained damning comments about donald trump the most damning of course came as a byproduct of the
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inspector general's recent investigation when lisa page said basically that couldn't believe donald trump
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could actually be elected president but it really was really going to happen and stroke said no we'll
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stop it and that's where our little story begins so peter strock yesterday was pulled into a joint
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committee of the united states house of representatives oversight and judiciary committee
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and uh he uh so that's that in and of itself is unusual enough it happens but typically for very very
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serious events like this the takeaway yesterday the takeaway yes was that brock is a democratic
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operative now i've been covering politics a long time been around the law enforcement world
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even longer i've never seen democrats run interference like that they didn't run interference like that for
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hillary clinton and the benghazi here in the benghazi here benghazi hearing greg burke one of the first
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and financial supporters of the rebel well thank you greg thank you very much and sorry guys you know
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some days we have these buffering issues it's uh unfortunately not much we can do about it that's
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on youtube's end of the world not on our end of the world and so i hate it i hate that it happens i hate
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that we have to deal with it but i'm looking at our stream over here everything's looking pretty good
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and there's something falling down on their end so i hate when that happens to it kills the momentum
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of the show so strock is then called to congress and i thought the testimony yesterday proved two things
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as i was saying strock is a democratic operative he's a democratic operative not a doubt in my mind about
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that but the democrats were terrified absolutely and i mean terrified i've not seen fear i've not seen
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fear come out of a political party like that in years i've not seen fear come out of a political party
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like that in years they didn't want to let him talk they didn't want to let him testify every time the
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republicans were over the target the democrats ran insane interference and the question is why
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why wouldn't democrats elected representatives of the united states people they represent republicans
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in their district they represent people in their district who wanted to know what peter strock had to
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say they didn't care about that they had one job protecting other democrats and taking down trump
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now if you're unbiased why don't you want an fbi agent to tell the truth under oath why
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why wouldn't you want him to testify about the goings-on at the fbi
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morning gail uh but it was uh so i couldn't figure that out
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now strock got off to a very arrogant start an incredibly arrogant start by basically
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implying that he had damning information on donald trump
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but he didn't release it during the 2016 election ergo he's not biased he then went on throughout
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the entire hearing to say my texts are personal they're not biased and that was the funnier part
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of the whole thing that he didn't think his texts were biased that he thought his texts were merely
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personal communications between him and lisa page that's not true they were conducted the texts were
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exchanged over fbi devices many times while he was in his fbi office being paid by you the taxpayer
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that is a problem that's a problem now the bigger part of this problem the much bigger part of this
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problem is attorney general jeff sessions and fbi director christopher ray they both when i say
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thoroughly they both were thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly embarrassed yesterday
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that jeff sessions yesterday it was proving yesterday to america that jeff sessions has zero
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control over the department of justice he needs to go away he needs to go away
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but one of the most telling moments in the entire hearing one of the most telling moments in the
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entire hearing i'm going to go through the three that stood out to me was in the beginning when bob
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goodlatte said to peter strock you can't consult with fbi counsel you're not here on behalf of the
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i'm paraphrasing with chairman bob goodlatte of the house judiciary committee you're you're not here
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under you're not here as a representative of the fbi you're here as peter strock who sent these text
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messages the guy behind you is an fbi lawyer he's not your lawyer so no you can't consult with him
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as a as a matter of uh of of your rights because you're here as peter strock not as a representative
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of the fbi but i'm going to let you talk to him the strock turned around and said well because of an
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ongoing investigation and special counsel all over blah blah i can't answer that question and goodlatte
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said you absolutely can answer that question you're under subpoena rock said i'm not under
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subpoena now rock said i'm here voluntarily goodlatte's like i don't care if you've walked
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in voluntarily we sent a subpoena you're under subpoena the way you act in this committee the
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rules of this committee are are today with a witness under subpoena you have to answer so think
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about what strock was saying brock was saying that because he wasn't hauled in there by u.s marshals
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that he was he was there voluntarily that's the problem that's the bigger problem
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now i think we're having a bit of a live stream problem we're being told we're not getting stream
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and i want to see if we're getting are we getting uh
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and do we have our stream back so i restarted the stream sorry guys wanted to see if maybe
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that would fix the problem having a lot of problems today with uh on youtube's end for
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this stream so i i really apologize we're going to try to make this work
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uh okay so strock was treating it as if he wasn't under subpoena that was what he was doing
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the committee was saying we don't care if you don't feel you're under subpoena we don't care if
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you walked in here on your own just because we didn't have to send u.s marshals out to put you
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in handcuffs and bring you here doesn't mean you're not under subpoena but you've got to answer the
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question that's when representative gerald nadler of new york disgraced himself disgraced the
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democratic party absolutely disgraced himself and the democratic party it was absolutely terrible
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absolutely terrible and believe me guys we know i'm getting all this advice and i appreciate it
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on what we need to do to make the stream we've got we've got it perfected with with transfer rate
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with frame rates it has nothing to do with any of that jester i appreciate the advice
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but we've got this tweak to perfection on both on our machine on this end we just some days have
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this problem with youtube on the receiving end and so there's no settings over here that need to be
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changed it's been a chronic problem not just for us but for others and it's it's really uh it's
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really unfortunately uh the the what you deal with we've got a a great uh we're dealing with a with a
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great um uh connection here i've got one of the highest speed connections offered it's it's
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something on the receiving end because i've got nothing but green lights for the stream on my end
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unfortunate that uh we're dealing with this but not much we can do about it unfortunately i wish i wish
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there was more we could do but uh youtube is youtube anyway going back to the matter at hand so so
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gerald nadler the ranking member of the house judiciary committee decides to get into a fight
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with bob goodlap the chairman of the committee on behalf of peter stroke essentially gerald nadler
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sitting united states congressman who's the ranking member of the committee ranking democrat on the
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committee tells america tells the chairman of the committee tells the witness congressional subpoenas
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mean nothing and that's really what he did congressional subpoenas mean nothing you don't have to do
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anything you don't have to answer questions you don't have to cooperate with congress you don't
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have to do anything you don't want to do it was it was absolutely ridiculous peter strock was being
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obstructionist and david siciline from rhode island another democrat he became obstructionist it was one
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of the most disgraceful displays of partisanship i've ever seen that was great moment number one
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great moment number two came at the end of the first session of the hearing before they went to
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that first break around 2 p.m eastern i'm sorry 1 p.m eastern 1 15 when peter strock who had been saying
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i can't answer questions because the information is privileged due to the ongoing investigations of
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both the doj fbi inspector general and special counsel decided that he would answer questions
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posed about those things when they were asked by democrat sheila jackson lee
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now i was basically pounding my fist on the table hey wait a second he just opened the door he just
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answered the questions i hope goodlat calls him on this bob goodlat the chairman of the committee
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well thankfully right before they went to break goodlat said well you just answered those
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questions and now you're going to answer our questions so they come back from the break
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trey gowdy begins to ask crock questions about which strock answers again he can't answer the
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question then trey gowdy says oh no yes you can because i spoke to the fbi and you absolutely are
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allowed to answer these questions and strock says i don't know i don't know the information in front of
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me i can't remember and gowdy says we waited four hours for this or three hours for this
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you really can't remember and strock arrogantly and defiantly says yeah like i'm not going to
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answer you i'll just say i don't remember now i believe strock lied under oath because i caught
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him a couple of times saying things that made no sense one of the things strock said was he had
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no knowledge that he was under investigation really you're sitting under oath in a chair because
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you're under investigation by congress you were under investigation by the inspector general
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and doj inspector general michael horowitz said to congress and the senate under oath that he's
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got another investigation into you as to whether or not you altered the 302s you tampered with the
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witness reports to me that was a material lie under oath to congress by peter strock because if he
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doesn't know he's under investigation he's the only person in america that doesn't know
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the inspector general said so on national television under oath i would imagine peter strock's lawyers
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gave him a call and said hey by the way did you see that they're looking at you for the 302s so he
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and by the way he was sitting there under investigation and i forget who asked him the
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question but they answered incredulously you're under investigation right now to me that was a
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material lie under oath by peter strock material lie under oath by peter strock gesture three says you
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got kicked out of the fbi's truck no he didn't peter strock still works at the fbi as an assistant
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deputy director he has a badge of gun and we found out yesterday i'm going to get into this in a
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moment a top secret sci clearance he didn't get kicked out of the fbi now rock became defiant
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and still stonewalled and refused to answer questions but i thought the most the most incredible
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question the kill shot the one that really shook rock up was by louis gomere i've gotten to know louis
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a little bit he's a bulldog i think he's awesome i was so glad he went where no one else wanted to go
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when he said to strock you're basically and we know what he said you're lying i'll paraphrase
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you're lying and this is the same smirk you gave your wife when you were lying next to her at night
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you know he was saying as you were cheating with lisa page and democrats went nuts this is ridiculous
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you can't talk about stuff like this you can't talk about his personal life personal lives are off
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limits really is donald trump's personal life off limits democrats is donald trump's family's
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personal life off limits what about stormy daniels stormy daniels being used as a pawn by robert
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muller there seems to me like the personal lives of of elected officials government officials appointed
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officials there seems like their personal lives are fair games the democrats want it both ways
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they want it both ways they don't want transparency they don't want strock's personal life brought in
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but i didn't find louis gomere's question out of line i didn't find louis gomere's question
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distasteful his statement i thought louis gomere was spot on if peter strock is going to crawl on a bed
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and lie to his wife every night how can america trust him to you all america more than he owes his
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family no peter strock simply isn't a believable man i didn't believe a word he said and i was really
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good uh glad was really glad that louis gomere called him a liar in front of america because
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i think most of america believes peter strock lied and remember something peter strock spent the bulk
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of his career in counterintelligence he could literally teach classes in deception manipulation
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and beating polygraphs also remember that robert hansen one of the worst traitors in american history
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essentially had peter strock's job in fbi counter intel his breaches of intelligence
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the foreign actors the chinese and others were one of the or some of the worst and most dangerous
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most damaging intelligence breaches in history robert hansen got away with it for many years
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because he was trained like peter strock then the fbi tried to cover it up to save themselves
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embarrassment starting to see a pattern here starting to see a pattern
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but the democrats didn't care about any of that the democrats couldn't have cared less the democrats
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were in full court defense mode peter strock could have killed a baby in times square on new year's eve
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and the democrats would have defended it and called the republicans partisan hacks and said you shouldn't
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be talking about him killing baby uh there is 777 there is a ton of evidence that page and strock
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were lovers a ton of evidence no more conspiracy theories that's the last conspiracy theory i'm ever
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this is my promise to you guys i've addressed them for the first week and a half the last conspiracy
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theory we ever address here on declassified live he's he and the page were lovers many many many many
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many many many many many texts if you dig into the ig report about their relationship it's it's not even
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worth you know no more when they're never again talking about conspiracy theories and alex jones
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and q anon i'm never going to give it them after i finish this sentence another second of attention
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on this show i do agree with 777 we need to see all the text and that's i'm glad you brought that up
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that's exactly where i was going this is why jeff sessions is useless and steel anvil says layer when
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donald trump uh i believe purposefully misspelled lawyer at the layers it was great peter strock
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yesterday was asked if he'll provide all the texts and he said no only the ones that are work related
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which is all he gave the oig that's nonsense that's bs and here's why he used fbi devices
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those texts they belong to us the american people they belong to doj jeff sessions should have been on a
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podium immediately ordering the release of those text messages to congress and firing peter strock
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but he's not because jeff sessions is the most useless good morning robert jackson is the most
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useless attorney general in u.s history yesterday proved it jeff sessions has completely completely
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lost control of doj he has completely and utterly lost control of the department of justice we we do
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not have an attorney general we have rod rosenstein we have rod rosenstein running doj who is not an
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ally not an honest actor he's a democrat shill peter strock though yesterday was working in concert
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with the democrats he was their operative john zealand says who was it that attacked strock's
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fidelity louis gomere representative louis gomere from texas he is uh gomere or gomere however you
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pronounce it uh louis is a great guy and i've had a uh a good fortune to spend some time with louis
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one-on-one time and just a nice nice guy uh very committed an american patriot deeply cares about this
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country one of the smartest guys you'll run into and i thought his line of questioning was
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outstanding outstanding and i'm biased i'm a big fan i like louis gomere a lot i'm a big fan of him
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as a united states congressman i like him as a man as a person really good guy but um yeah gomert is
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how you pronounce it but i've always pronounced it gomere he even made fun of me last time i saw him
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i had a coffee with him he said you know you never pronounced my name right but it's okay
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but uh but he's a really good guy good sense of humor just a really nice guy but man don't with
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louis gomere don't gomert let me say it right don't mistake kindness for weakness because he goes in for
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the kill and uh he's been one of the greatest allies of conservatism gomert was was brutal during
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the obama administration he's not a guy who's simply doing this for donald trump he was one of
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the greatest allies of real conservatives of of uh tea party movement of the freedom caucus
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louis has been one of the uh best advocates for the right one of the most articulate one of the
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most powerful i would love to see him as speaker
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but he's uh he's not that degree of political player now robert jackson says something that's very
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true very true in fact one of the most accurate comments we've gotten on the site to date i didn't
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see very much oversight being done from the democratic members of that meeting no in fact
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robert uh they were trying to obfuscate they were trying to conceal they were trying to kill
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transparency if anything what they were doing was the other extreme it wasn't about oversight it was
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about crushing oversight eliminating oversight it was terrible it was terrible it was one of the worst
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things i've seen but i believe the last night i had a dinner every quarter i do a dinner with a group
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of guys i've known for years and uh political leaders there are former members of congress uh
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former members of the florida state florida state legislature and uh some very affluent business
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leaders who are very politically active very politically active and a few guys at the table their
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companies are so big one is a multi-billion dollar uh international company he found that he's the
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ceo uh that he has to donate to both sides of the aisle it's just the nature of the game and i've known
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these guys for a long time we do these dinners do a private dinner in a private room secret society
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kind of thing now and uh i i i get their perspective because quite often they'll say well you know you
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need it would by and large the group is conservative and votes republican but they say well you need the
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dems for certain things in certain states where our businesses operate i've never seen that group
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there's about 15 of us and we get together once a quarter for a dinner at a steakhouse uh and we get
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a private room we have the same waiter so we know him for years so that nothing we say in the room
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comes out of the room because i'm there as media and like i said there are a couple of elected people
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in the room at any given time a couple of former elected people but to a person last night
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even the business guys who are they've got to kind of straddle the fence because of their business
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interest to a person they said this was a disgrace for the democrats one of them said that one of the
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democrats who was doing the obstructing is somebody that he needs for an issue but that he can't in
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good conscience work with that person anymore that's how bad that i've got a guy at the table
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and a very very wealthy guy so by not working with this democrat his company will take a hit in the
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hundreds of thousands to a couple of million bucks
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that didn't matter to him he said we make a lot of money i'd rather give up that money he said i would
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honestly rather donate that money to charity the equal amount that we lose in business donate it to
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charity take the tax write-off that i would give this particular democratic congressperson
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a 2700 donation he said i'm not going to do it i'd rather lose the six to seven figures
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it when somebody's saying that and that is a true story when somebody's saying that
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you know the democrats screwed themselves yesterday they're in a lot of trouble they're in a lot of
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londero says cardello is a slimmed down version of frank lentz of the florida focus group man no
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it's not a florida focus group believe me you'd uh you guys would like these guys you guys would
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like these guys now uh claire peters raises a very very important point roxtel has his security
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clearance yeah he testified to that under oath more importantly he still has his tssci
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clearance more importantly more importantly he has his tssci and he admitted testified under oath
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that he used it to obtain information to prepare for the hearing well sure is different than what
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jeff sessions told us back in june isn't it that rocks clearance had been pulled so what's happening
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what's happening over at doj at fbi what's happening over there do we have anybody in control on our
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side anybody is there anyone on our side in control of doj and fbi i don't know i don't know
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now 777 asshole page show if not what congress jailer well they can't just jailer uh they've got
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to um they've got to uh it can't she can't just be summarily jailed they've got to go to a federal
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judge as the federal judge to enforce the subpoena then send out the united states marshals
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so we got to see what um we've got to see what that uh how that all shakes out but i do believe
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she'll show this morning now i believe the sergeant arm is still endless right sergeant arms can hold
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her in contempt but ryan needs to give the order but even then you still need the u.s marshals to
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go get her and that that the procedure for that is a federal judge has to order that a federal judge
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has to rule the sergeant of arms can hold her in contempt ryan gives the order goes to a federal
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judge a federal judge makes the ruling and then the federal judge can then ask the u.s marshals
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to go get her it's not it can't congress isn't law enforcement or prosecutorial they don't have the
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authority to send the marshals to get anybody it has to be a federal judge that does it but um
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let's see hangman john ruth says why does david cisley and where congress pin on right side all of
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this on left lapel it's not means nothing it's probably just because on the blazer he has
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some custom blazers have the uh buttonhole for lapel pins on the right side others on the left
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i wouldn't read too much into that uh but but um the uh the bigger problem we have here
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is the defiance the absolute defiance and that peter strock still has his security clearance
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he still has his security clearance now trey gowdy did an amazing job trey gowdy's a lot of bark but
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however yesterday he got it on the record and that's really all i cared about i wanted to see
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what we saw yesterday on the record we needed peter strock embarrassed in front of america
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we needed that we needed peter strock embarrassed in front of america and he was embarrassed in front
00:27:10.980
of america now the big question the big big question is what will jeff sessions and christopher
00:27:19.500
ray do if jeff sessions and christopher ray don't act today if they don't act today
00:27:27.780
and they don't fire jeff sessions uh and christopher ray rod rosenstein well what i'm trying to say is
00:27:38.280
if jeff sessions and christopher ray don't fire peter strock and trump needs to fire jeff sessions
00:27:44.340
rod rosenstein and christopher ray and when everybody goes hysterical and says you just
00:27:48.300
purge the fbi and they shut down muller trump needs to say too bad trump is polling at around
00:27:52.840
90 something percent among republicans he'll survive it politically he's getting terrible advice from his
00:27:57.640
white house counsel now terrible terrible advice from his white house counsel and it's time for the
00:28:05.380
president of the united states to push back it's time for the president of the united states to push back
00:28:11.420
now uh we we just this case has me infuriated because number one it disgraces the hard-working
00:28:22.060
men and women of the fbi number two it completely destroys americans confidence in their federal law
00:28:30.280
enforcement why would you why would you why would any american respect the authority of the fbi if the fbi
00:28:38.740
doesn't respect the authority of the constitution when a senior fbi agent sits up there and lies for
00:28:45.380
hour upon hour upon hour and i believe he lied we caught him in lies saying he didn't know he was
00:28:49.220
under investigation we caught him in lies when he said oh his texts weren't biased they were hyperbole
00:28:53.440
he's insulting the intelligence of americans telling you don't believe what you read don't believe what
00:29:00.020
my texts say oh my bias didn't creep 50 000 text messages sent on fbi devices my bias didn't creep
00:29:07.540
in oh give me a break give me a break i've got no bias bias i've got no bias where is the attorney
00:29:16.280
general of the united states and what is happening over at the fbi today what are they doing over at
00:29:21.640
the fbi now brandy hamilson says more bread and circus nobody going to jail we bet we should find
00:29:27.280
better things to do planetary or something well you gotta understand peter strock we were never looking
00:29:31.820
at peter strock in a criminal capacity we're just trying to find out how deeply things go now
00:29:36.100
if the inspector general finds out that he tampered with the 302s the witness reports that's criminal
00:29:40.700
but sending texts to your mistress is not criminal having a mistress doesn't even violate fbi guidelines
00:29:47.320
that we're having a mistress for an fbi agent encounter intelligence any fbi agent is dangerous
00:29:51.960
is blackmail hey we've got photos of you and your mistress we're going to give them to your wife
00:29:56.840
drop the investigation or give us information that's the problem that's the problem that is the problem
00:30:08.140
right there the uh the um disgraceful disgraceful uh uh breach of ethics and protocol that compromised him
00:30:20.380
that compromised his job that compromised the entire fbi and i apologize guys i i know the stream the feed is
00:30:31.180
now now steel defeat is terrible steel anvil says something john i was texting six cops we knew he was
00:30:35.640
lying brother feel i was doing the same i was texting with a guy in military intelligence a good buddy of mine
00:30:41.560
who was actually an interrogator at guantanamo for a while and uh it was it was um a disgraceful display
00:30:51.860
he was lying to america's face lying to america's face and we knew it and everybody knew it and my uh
00:30:59.180
very good friend is a forensic psychologist he's worked uh god he's testified in uh he told me over the years
00:31:06.860
into the thousands of court cases and on anger and a violent crime and deception and he said
00:31:15.180
that he found nothing nothing truthful in observing strock about strock's behavior demeanor etc
00:31:22.000
uh and i don't know c bateman is saying he's serious about her arrest though
00:31:27.520
the officers under a club owner must be trump support uh oh stormy daniels no i that's what you're
00:31:32.960
talking about no it was just that was probably a regular old public morals unit uh sting and she
00:31:39.120
got jammed up they probably had heard what she was doing they went in they got a minor arrest the
00:31:43.720
charges were dropped happens all the time it's not some grand believe me if people that were close or
00:31:48.920
wanted to help the president we're going to jam up stormy daniels it wouldn't be on a minor violation
00:31:53.280
akin to a speeding ticket yeah no but uh i i'm i'm so the thing that bothers me the most is as i'm
00:32:02.200
talking to you guys and i'm bringing you the show i'm checking news reports and i'm looking at
00:32:06.220
doj's website and i just can't find anything anything anything that indicates the doj even cares
00:32:20.320
i can't find anything that indicated jeff sessions is awake i don't even know if he's awake the jeff
00:32:25.540
sessions washed his hearing yesterday does he know what went on rudy giuliani was about the only one
00:32:31.240
out there beating up peter strock giuliani said that's a disgrace special counsel robert muller
00:32:36.880
should be ashamed of himself those democrats trying to protect that liar strock should be ashamed of
00:32:42.580
themselves and every fbi i every fbi agent i know wants to see this guy drummed out of the bureau
00:32:50.440
giuliani went on to say so how much of it is infecting the investigation today we may never know
00:32:55.000
which is why i think the investigation is totally phony look there isn't an attorney in america
00:33:03.460
a lawyer in america a reasonable prosecutor as james comey loves to say a reasonable person in america
00:33:10.360
that thinks muller's investigation is on the level and is not tainted and is not tainted
00:33:18.480
let's see let's see what else we got here in terms of comments uh debatement forces nope it almost
00:33:27.480
never happens they didn't do it with for anyone just because they wanted to trip her up about
00:33:30.940
stormy daniels that's not true it's not true we used to back up the new york city public morals
00:33:35.180
division all the time when they would go into strip clubs and do stings for prostitution uh other
00:33:40.920
things so that's debatement respectfully that's simply not true cops police departments do stings like
00:33:46.720
that all the time there are units dedicated it was not some lot to tell trump by getting stormy
00:33:54.100
daniels a minor summons that's not the way he yeah steel anvil's right about jeff sessions he's worried
00:34:00.040
about friggin weed i say that all the time jeff sessions pops up he's a groundhog from groundhog's
00:34:06.140
day punks of tawny phil every six weeks jeff session pops out of his hole says legal weed ms 13
00:34:11.740
immigration did i say legal weed asset seizure and then he goes back into his hole like a little
00:34:18.840
groundhog and then he comes out six weeks later he has completely completely checked out
00:34:24.760
completely checked out gail cochran cochran says something interesting how did that democrat read
00:34:31.960
republican emails or texts about jason chavez they weren't emails in text so what gail is referring to
00:34:36.720
is that uh his name is um oh it'll come to me i forget he's the guy with the glasses a weird weird
00:34:43.500
little guy and he was reading comments made to the media or given to the media by never trumpers
00:34:51.140
during the election and saying you didn't say this did you know oh you're right it was republican ben
00:34:56.580
sass it was jason chavez by the way he pronounced everybody's name wrong but he proved he proved
00:35:02.780
trump's point that even republicans were against trump and he still won he was proving that trump
00:35:10.420
was innocent this guy it was it was the dumbest display the dumbest display i've ever seen the
00:35:20.060
dumbest display i've ever seen it really really was ridiculous really was ridiculous and if anything
00:35:26.640
all he did was say those in the republican party who were against trump are now with him like jason
00:35:32.660
chavez who's on fox all the time defending trump and out there at pro-trump events as keynote speaker
00:35:42.620
fiel anvil says sass was involved in the yeah he was he was with denny haster i can't stand ben sass i
00:35:49.640
think he's a sanctimonious oh this guy just gets on my nerves you know when he did that little stunt
00:35:55.400
and drove the garbage truck and drove the uber that's what he should be doing he should be driving
00:35:59.680
garbage trucks and ubers here's what i don't want to get into steel they're all pedos they're all
00:36:04.920
pedophiles i don't like this line i you know i know man you come out of law enforcement but we use that
00:36:10.100
too gratuitously i worked those cases for a little while we we it's it's been too easy we throw it
00:36:15.180
around oh pedophile pedophile democrat pedophile we forget about the victims and the real cost of
00:36:19.280
those crimes no not i don't think everybody's a pedophile but i think that danny haster certainly
00:36:25.040
was and i think ben sass knew about it then way i believe joe paterno knew everything and i was glad
00:36:30.700
to see joe paterno die in disgrace i believe joe paterno knew everything and he covered it up i
00:36:36.620
believe that i firmly believe that i believe he put the football program way ahead way ahead of what
00:36:42.920
he did but still i see what you're saying it always seems to shake out that there that it comes
00:36:47.620
back to some prominent people and they're very forgiving of pedophilia let's see 30 000 sealed
00:36:56.600
indictments says jeff sessions has been busy oh that's another conspiracy theory people don't
00:37:01.040
realize that that other people in this country are being investigated and prosecuted and jeff sessions
00:37:06.960
is not the guy doing the indictment we have thousands of assistant u.s attorneys out there prosecuting
00:37:13.780
people around the country for various things it is mind-blowing that americans read or listen to
00:37:21.200
these conspiracy sites and think that every sealed indictment in the united states has to do with
00:37:24.960
hillary clinton and and team clinton no it doesn't it's probably the drug dealer and the texas border or the
00:37:31.260
mob guys in new york it's a lot of crime out there nothing to do with jeff sessions jeff sessions
00:37:37.100
is doing absolutely nothing absolutely nothing nothing it's uh it's really really funny
00:37:46.420
that that people believe this stuff without doing research on it's actually pretty tragic i wish
00:37:52.180
people would watch shows like this more and and factual outlets and less conspiracy stuff
00:37:58.440
gomeritt's bombshell about the clinton server phoning emails to a foreign entity was a bit weird
00:38:02.840
uh go married well we know which entities it was we we know that foreign actors were able to breach
00:38:07.920
the clinton email server we know that the clinton foundation was dealing with many many foreign
00:38:12.680
yep still anvil says what write a warrant application see how long it takes no time at all they're lazy
00:38:20.560
you can get them in hours in hours you can i've watched i've watched warrants come through for
00:38:26.840
social media to grab images we knew there was child porn or something like that i've watched them come
00:38:32.260
through in under a half hour but you're right and you're right it's about laziness and now the
00:38:38.600
process is automated in many it's automated mad uh magitastic says why hasn't trump removed jeff
00:38:47.160
sessions i explained it yesterday he hasn't removed jeff sessions because trump needs to get a supreme
00:38:50.960
court nominee through and jeff sessions and mitch mcconnell the senate majority leader have been
00:38:54.840
friends a very long time mitch mcconnell and other powerful senators made it very clear to jeff
00:38:59.080
sessions to donald trump that they're not going to have their buddy jeff sessions fired in disgrace
00:39:04.640
so if trump does it they're not going to approve confirm whomever he appoints and they're going to
00:39:10.620
stall other nominees that's called politics that's why it's not because jeff sessions is some
00:39:16.220
violent assassin behind the scenes it's because his buddies in in the senate don't want him to be
00:39:22.540
fired in disgrace they're helping their friend out that's the only reason jeff sessions still has a job
00:39:32.020
lee newton road says good morning robert jackson says our stream is really laggy today i know it is
00:39:39.400
terrible today and i apologize not on our end i've got all green lights on our end there's something on
00:39:44.120
something on youtube's receiving end that's really screwing us up robert it's uh frustrating to me as
00:39:50.820
well i'm you notice i'm poking around here as i bring you guys the show i'm monitoring it
00:39:54.920
yo coachman says mitch is playing dirty man mitch mcconnell i will say this i'm no fan of mitch
00:40:01.580
mcconnell on many many many many things but mitch mcconnell saved america he saved america
00:40:11.120
by not appointing by blocking the confirmation of merrick garland
00:40:16.200
so hate mitch mcconnell all you want but you got to give credit where due
00:40:22.560
showed so much spine and backbone on obama's appointment of merrick garland
00:40:32.040
picked by obama on the court that you got to give mitch mcconnell credit for that one
00:40:37.700
and quite frankly that was a transformative moment for america a transformative moment for america
00:40:46.640
look at the decisions that came down about unions look at the decisions that have come down about
00:40:53.500
religious freedom that wouldn't have happened with merrick garland on the supreme court what would
00:40:58.320
have gone the other way what would have gone the other way we would not have had the majority we're
00:41:04.640
about to have with the appointment with the appointment of brett kavanaugh
00:41:09.780
and and i don't care what mcconnell does going forward i'll criticize him but to the end of time
00:41:17.340
i'll give mitch mcconnell a tremendous amount of credit for his fortitude on that one it was i'm
00:41:21.920
going to say it again it was a transformative moment for the united states we were on a blint we were
00:41:26.480
on a brink here we're on a cliff had hillary gotten merrick garland we were going left
00:41:30.020
but instead chip was righted and now the court is moving to the right he really deserves credit
00:41:37.440
for that and listen if you watch this show you watch my uh shorter segments you watch my old show
00:41:42.680
here the hour long declassified mitch mcconnell i criticize mitch mcconnell i beat up mitch mcconnell
00:41:49.280
i don't like what he's doing with jeff sessions but i will say this i think after yesterday
00:41:54.040
donald trump political capital rose and jeff sessions and christopher ray and the fbi and the
00:42:01.260
doj the corrupt individuals within they're sank trump right now has the political capital to start
00:42:08.800
making moves hangman john ruth says uh you predict trump will have three scotus appointments i think
00:42:14.600
he definitely gets three so i agree with you he might get four fryer is getting up there he might
00:42:20.060
get four and i'll tell you something else he might get five he might get five and i'll tell you why
00:42:25.000
you're going to probably replace ginsburg briar depends how healthy he is by uh 2024 the end of
00:42:34.360
trump's second term because i believe barring anything trump will uh retire uh uh trump will
00:42:40.340
easily win a second term briar probably retired during that term trump replaces him i believe clarence
00:42:46.480
thomas will step down will retire that trump can replace someone as conservative as thomas
00:42:52.380
who's younger and then we're going to have a very very conservative court for decades trump might
00:42:57.820
arguably just due to the way the math works out in the ages of the justices he might get five
00:43:03.000
status appointments and so he's definitely i believe i'm with you getting three possibly four
00:43:09.640
i think if briar goes thomas definitely goes definitely goes and trump gets five young
00:43:16.340
conservative appointments on the court and that that is just earth-shatteringly good alito's still
00:43:25.140
relatively young so uh we um yeah meditex says yep hard to believe we could have ended up with hillary
00:43:33.060
man i thank my lucky stars every single day every single day imagine imagine what would have happened
00:43:41.460
to this country because you can bet your bottom dollar if hillary was in the oval office briar and
00:43:46.940
ginsburg would have retired already so she would have been replacing well they would have gotten
00:43:52.860
merrick garland she would have been replacing uh kennedy who probably would have retired briar uh and
00:44:00.420
ginsburg probably would have retired hillary would have had four young just the court would
00:44:03.460
have been left for years because kagan and sotomayor are relatively young
00:44:06.760
they're relatively young robert jackson says who do i think is running against trump in 2020 i think
00:44:15.920
hillary thinks she's running against trump in 2020 i think elizabeth warren wants to run against trump
00:44:20.540
in 2020 andrew cuomo from new york's definitely running in 2020 so biden will probably throw his hat in
00:44:26.280
the ring in 2020 and cory booker i think is running so right now those five i think you can take to the
00:44:32.500
bank hillary elizabeth warren joe biden andrew cuomo uh governor of new york and cory booker
00:44:38.440
senator from new jersey those five definitely uh definitely others will throw their hats in the ring
00:44:43.960
we got to see who up and comers in the party are but uh those five have yeah booker is a nut
00:44:50.480
robert jackson says cory booker he's a looney tune but uh those five i think you could take to the
00:44:55.540
bank they've got they've got war chest they've got some money they've got the brand recognition
00:44:59.680
so they're going to give it a shot uh i don't think any of them could be trump in a general
00:45:04.840
that's the problem i don't think anybody uh what about the governor of colorado running for president
00:45:10.400
it'd be hard for him to raise money you mean hickenlooper be hard for him to raise money he
00:45:14.700
doesn't have enough national name recognition uh you see the metatex is the problem for biden is that
00:45:19.800
everyone sees obama's mistakes now yeah but biden can very easily say i was the vp i disagreed with
00:45:23.980
him on this i would have done it this way biden is name recognition don't underestimate name
00:45:28.840
recognition brady hamilton says same criminals different election yeah good way to put it
00:45:32.700
uh lee newton rhodes is organizing a mutiny within the corrupt misguided liberal democratic party i was
00:45:38.160
talking about this last night there are really two democratic parties right now you've got the far
00:45:42.440
left radically far left party of tom perez and alexandria ocasio cortez the new york socialist
00:45:49.980
you've got that democratic party and then you got the democratic party connor lamb
00:45:55.280
in pennsylvania the the conservative moderate democratic party the patriotic working class
00:46:03.180
democratic party unfortunately that that's a bit shorter lisa leto says did we discuss lisa page
00:46:09.880
testimony i just got here we did we don't know much about it yet it's going to be behind closed doors
00:46:13.340
today last we heard she's going and i think that's why the democrats and peter strock were so
00:46:19.240
hell-bent yesterday on getting the transcripts of strock's private testimony released something the
00:46:25.800
republicans blocked if you don't understand what was happening there and why they wanted that
00:46:29.180
it was because uh it was because they wanted to give lisa page a cheat sheet or a testimony today if
00:46:37.140
they had released rock's testimony his private testimony yesterday lisa strock's lawyers would have spent the
00:46:42.180
whole night using it to prepare her for this morning that's what they were doing with that
00:46:47.640
if you didn't understand the game with that that's what that game was about it was all about lisa page
00:46:53.380
getting her cliff notes for this morning's testimony to congress today's testimony behind closed doors
00:46:59.100
to congress because what they're very nervous about now is that lisa page and peter strock are going
00:47:06.720
to say two different things under oath about the same issues that's what they're very very nervous about
00:47:12.180
because remember peter strock may have said things yesterday that he didn't say under oath and vice
00:47:18.040
versa uh meditech says i don't think we will get anything from page she will take the fifth
00:47:23.680
everywhere maybe maybe i mean she's an attorney and there's nothing they can really do to her
00:47:29.480
she walked in there and takes the fifth there's nothing they can do to her
00:47:35.160
because she's not accused of doing anything criminal if i were her i'd take the fifth
00:47:40.180
uh and and so hold her the hill to take the fifth so what so what can't do anything to it
00:47:47.520
texting your mistress isn't illegal or your your your your boyfriend isn't illegal
00:47:52.120
saying you hate donald trump isn't illegal it's improper it should be fireable she's already quit
00:48:00.160
the fbi there's absolutely let me make it clear to you there is absolutely nothing nothing that can
00:48:08.240
be done lisa page john zealand says stroke had to take an internal fbi polygraph that he didn't fully
00:48:13.300
pass yet he was allowed to retain access to sci so he could maintain control of hillary's espionage
00:48:17.500
investigation i've seen reports on that none confirmed i haven't seen that reported really
00:48:21.920
with any confirmation on it he never lost his he never lost his security clearance apparently
00:48:30.580
uh jeff sessions misled us it was only suspended for one day he didn't lose it yeah meditech it
00:48:37.260
was smart she quit the fbi very smart lisa page could walk in there today and said well i'll let you
00:48:43.500
know i'm taking the fifth on every question they could question her spend 10 hours she could walk
00:48:47.380
out never answer a question and there isn't a damn thing anyone can do to her nothing nothing
00:48:54.320
not short of anything criminal not suspected of anything criminal and it is her constitutional right
00:48:58.700
to plead the fifth i were her i would do that i would do that absolutely now let's hope she's
00:49:04.380
nervous and she answers questions but she is a lawyer so she knows what she's doing when she goes
00:49:09.280
in there but hell if i were her if i were her attorney why wouldn't she nothing that we shouldn't say a
00:49:15.440
word well stroke testimony was textbook rehearsed deal anvil says yeah yeah but very deceptive very
00:49:21.900
deceptive and i do think that he was a weak witness i do think that if jeff session right if uh
00:49:27.440
well that's such another story he's got it on my mind if uh congress could only allow republicans on
00:49:35.560
the committee to interview him he would have cracked the stroke is so used to being on the other side of
00:49:39.660
that table he doesn't have to be a witness only an interrogator louis gomere was shaking him up
00:49:43.640
uh md is saying breitbart and rep the sanas are saying this morning that stroke at his tsi restored
00:49:51.260
temporarily for purposes of preparing yesterday yeah i've heard that shouldn't have been restored
00:49:54.880
at all shouldn't have been restored at all but i think the fbi is playing games i think they're
00:50:01.360
playing a lot of games because i don't believe they were only letting him look at old information
00:50:05.800
still anvil says he and i could have cracked him in an hour probably probably the guy was really
00:50:14.900
getting worked up he was ready to go man he was ready to go i know you saw it too he was this guy
00:50:20.000
was ready to go go mayor could have broke him and then a jim jordan or gowdy could have come in or a
00:50:25.660
desantis or matt gates they could have come in and asked some kill shot questions and i think
00:50:29.640
stroke would have cracked but unfortunately the democrats get their questions after five minutes
00:50:35.640
and they were giving him breathers they were calming him down they were helping him out
00:50:39.740
it was unfortunately uh tragic to be quite honest with you it was absolutely absolutely tragic hey
00:50:50.040
guys i'm gonna end the show a little bit early today because i'm starting to get more notifications
00:50:52.960
here that our stream is bad what i don't want to have happen is for the stream to go down at the
00:50:57.360
end of the show we only had about nine minutes left anyway we're gonna work on this and it happened to
00:51:03.040
us right there that's why i'm gonna wrap it up a bit early but i will be back with you monday
00:51:08.720
morning live at 7 30 a.m we're gonna work on these stream issues over the weekend see if there's
00:51:12.220
anything we're not seeing that we can do to fix them we're gonna do that for you because i really
00:51:17.740
hate the delays and bringing you the show like this very distracting for me for you and i will be back
00:51:24.140
with you on monday you have an amazing amazing weekend