Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Time to reflect on another big year： Thoughts from Rebel News’ world headquarters

00:00:00.000 Tonight, what an interesting week, what an interesting year.

00:00:03.760 Some thoughts from Rebel News World Headquarters.

00:00:06.600 It's December 22nd, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show. 0.95

00:00:12.420 Shame on you, you censorious thug. 0.84

00:00:24.080 Well, hello, and it's almost Christmas. It's incredible. 0.99

00:00:27.500 It's already Hanukkah. The two holidays are going to overlap this year, which they sometimes do.

00:00:32.840 You probably have noticed that we always publish this show on statutory holidays and over Christmas.

00:00:39.720 We typically pre-record a show.

00:00:42.080 We do a long-form interview or something that's a little bit more evergreen and won't go stale immediately.

00:00:47.140 We want to talk about general themes, but we like to do this show all year round.

00:00:53.100 And the company's taking a bit of a break over Christmas.

00:00:56.840 It's going to be my first time flying on a family vacation in three years, actually.

00:01:03.580 We're going to take a week off, but doing a bunch of shows in advance, those long-form interviews.

00:01:08.440 We've pre-recorded some great ones.

00:01:10.680 An amazing conversation about fossil fuel energy with Alex Epstein, who's so good.

00:01:16.080 Harmeet Dillon. You probably recognize her from TV.

00:01:19.620 She's that fighting Republican lawyer. 1.00

00:01:21.860 She was helping with the recount in Arizona.

00:01:25.900 Going to talk about the truckers, of course.

00:01:27.620 Going to talk about freedom.

00:01:29.100 Going to talk about lawyers for freedom.

00:01:31.280 We've got some amazing long-form interviews for you next week.

00:01:35.280 I'm proud of them.

00:01:36.500 And hopefully you'll have a chance to sit back with a cup of coffee or tea and watch those over your Christmas break.

00:01:41.920 There are exciting things afoot here at Rebel News.

00:01:45.320 A whole bunch of interesting and great things happen all at once.

00:01:48.420 I don't know what you thought about our RussianReports.com.

00:01:51.780 That was our special compilation page dedicated to Jeremy Lafredo's trip to Moscow.

00:01:57.500 Now, he's safely out of that country.

00:01:59.600 So we can tell you a few things we did to help with his security.

00:02:03.300 One of the things is we actually waited until he was safe and out of the country before we published them because we did not want to alert Russian authorities that he was there on the ground until he was beyond their reach.

00:02:15.520 We also made special arrangements in advance with a criminal lawyer in Moscow in case things went sideways.

00:02:23.080 We did one or two things that we're going to keep in our back pocket in case we have to do it again.

00:02:26.380 Very interesting reports from Jeremy, and it's not quite as black and white, this war with Ukraine, as either side's media would suggest.

00:02:33.840 I thought his reports were fairly nuanced, and most importantly, they just followed the facts.

00:02:38.500 So that was Jeremy in Moscow, and we'll talk to her in a moment later today.

00:02:43.360 But while Jeremy is interested in the border between Russia and Ukraine, Katie Davis-Gort, one of our newest reporters based in Seattle, is interested in the border between Texas and Mexico.

00:02:53.980 She is on a mission. We call it rebelborderreports.com.

00:02:58.800 That's just an amazing story of hundreds of thousands of migrants crossing the border.

00:03:04.580 Imagine Roxham Road times 10.

00:03:07.860 We have some other journeys coming up.

00:03:10.160 I will be going to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in less than a month.

00:03:16.960 Now, I'm not going to participate, obviously.

00:03:19.260 I'm going there to do journalism, to investigate, to see if I can pin down people who are there, including Canadians.

00:03:26.880 What are they doing there?

00:03:28.120 Why are they making policies for the whole world outside of our proper political legislatures?

00:03:33.800 Why do the oligarchs get to scheme and plan our lives away without ordinary people?

00:03:39.480 And, I don't know, it was a bit of a personal highlight for me, as you saw on yesterday's show, an interview with the Premier of Alberta.

00:03:48.020 She's been on the job only a couple of months.

00:03:50.200 I pressed her on questions I thought rebels would want to hear, not just what the standard media party questions are.

00:03:57.740 But I asked her a lot about freedom, if you recall.

00:03:59.520 Now, we work for our own conscience, and we work for your support.

00:04:05.680 But it's nice when our Rebel News journalism is recognized by leaders in the industry as outstanding.

00:04:12.280 And in just the last week, Jeremy Lafredo was on the largest cable show in America, Tucker Carlson Tonight.

00:04:18.580 Our friend Sheila Gunn-Reed, our chief reporter, was on both the Laura Ingram show on Fox and Glenn Beck's show, talking about assisted suicide in Canada, including the disgraceful government of Canada suggesting to veterans that they kill themselves.

00:04:34.300 David Menzies was on Fox talking about Busty Lemieux, that insane teacher in Ontario with the enormous prosthetic chest, just crazy, crazy stuff.

00:04:46.640 I want to show you just a little clip of each, not the whole thing, but to show you our journalists on the big stage.

00:04:54.660 Here's a quick clip of Jeremy and Tucker Carlson.

00:04:57.940 Coming on, I'm certain you will be attacked as a tool of Putin, but let's ignore that and get to what you saw there.

00:05:03.880 What would it look from the grocery store that sanctions are not hurting Moscow too badly?

00:05:08.860 Yeah, I was on my way to Russia, and I saw the New York Times said that there's Soviet-era shortages.

00:05:14.220 The Washington Post said something along the lines of that there's essential goods scarcity.

00:05:18.940 Foreign policy, they put out a report that said that the economy in Russia is in a black hole that's, you know, a proportion that's never been seen before.

00:05:27.760 And so, you know, I was a little nervous going there.

00:05:30.120 And, you know, I went to rural areas outside of Moscow, and I went to grocery stores like you just saw.

00:05:36.060 And, you know, things were cheap, and, you know, they had more things than, you know, the Whole Foods here in New York City.

00:05:43.700 And, you know, what is the goal?

00:05:46.540 What is the goal of these sanctions?

00:05:48.340 The goal is obviously to cause unrest, shortages, make people unhappy with the government.

00:05:56.700 Hopefully people will take to the streets.

00:05:58.640 And at the end of the day, we want regime change in Russia.

00:06:02.080 We want a different government.

00:06:03.180 We won't show you the whole thing.

00:06:04.880 I just want to give you a teaser.

00:06:06.040 Here is Sheila just doing great work, shining a light of scrutiny on the, I hate to say the word, medical assistance in dying. 0.98

00:06:14.080 It's euthanasia, people.

00:06:15.400 It's doctor suicide.

00:06:16.680 It's awful.

00:06:17.540 Here's Sheila. 0.98

00:06:18.220 Don Reed, editor-in-chief of Rebel News.

00:06:20.660 She's running a national campaign to force the government to end this practice. 1.00

00:06:25.280 Sheila, it seems to me that they're selling assisted suicide with a, you know, very sophisticated, fun, kind of adventurous message.

00:06:37.260 What the heck is going on up north?

00:06:39.180 Laura, I just want to thank you so much for your interest in this.

00:06:44.040 Unlike the corporate media here in Canada that's been tainted by Justin Trudeau's bailouts at Rebel News, we're one of the few independent outlets that can still speak about these issues freely, but also with a sense of horror the issue rightly deserves.

00:06:59.320 We see companies do this all the time.

00:07:01.440 We see them align themselves with government on issues like climate change and BLM and reproductive issues.

00:07:09.460 They go woke.

00:07:10.460 This is what it means to be woke in Canada now.

00:07:12.920 So why wouldn't corporations align themselves with this next anti-human, anti-life thing?

00:07:20.420 I just want to point out to you how extreme Canada is on this issue.

00:07:25.480 Justin Trudeau's government has removed the 10-day wait time from when you ask for medical assistance,

00:07:31.260 and suicide, and when you receive it.

00:07:33.340 And you don't have to do it in writing. 1.00

00:07:35.520 You can just verbally ask the state to kill you.

00:07:38.360 To put this all into context, we had about 16,000 deaths in Canada related to COVID.

00:07:44.060 Depends on how you count that, of COVID or with COVID.

00:07:47.320 But it was 16,000 deaths.

00:07:49.220 We know that there were 10,000 requests in writing for medically assisted suicide,

00:07:55.080 and that doesn't take into account the deaths that occurred because somebody just verbally asked for it

00:08:01.460 and received it on the very day that they asked for it.

00:08:04.560 I think it was his first time on a big American channel, but David Manzies,

00:08:09.560 he owns that story of the teacher with the prosthetic chest.

00:08:13.420 Here's David and Tucker having a chuckle.

00:08:16.180 It didn't seem like they got the joke when they sent the cop over to you.

00:08:19.500 Like they didn't think it was funny?

00:08:20.400 Oh, no, indeed, Tucker, and a pleasure to be with you.

00:08:24.280 Thank you so much for having me.

00:08:25.800 This is the thing about the uber-woke Halton District school board, Tucker,

00:08:30.300 is that they're all down with radical transgenderism,

00:08:34.800 including a teacher who dresses up as a grotesque caricature of a woman, 0.82

00:08:40.080 as if he's a drag queen, but only for the kids in shop class to see that,

00:08:45.540 not when it comes to their school board meeting.

00:08:49.460 So when I came there, what happened after that is we received a letter,

00:08:54.860 and Tucker, for asking insensitive questions,

00:08:58.600 I am banned for life at the Halton District school board head office,

00:09:03.380 all of its properties, and all of its schools.

00:09:05.560 I will be immediately arrested with trespass.

00:09:08.840 They've said that in writing, so you're absolutely right.

00:09:11.000 Canada is devolving into a police state with every passing week, my friend. 0.99

00:09:16.040 So it's okay to wag the pathetic breast in the face of children in your classroom, 0.99

00:09:20.860 but it's not okay to show up wearing them to a school board meeting. 0.99

00:09:23.620 Do they explain why?

00:09:25.680 Oh, no.

00:09:26.500 They don't explain.

00:09:27.420 They don't communicate.

00:09:28.960 They know better.

00:09:30.480 And we'll talk to her more today.

00:09:31.800 But Katie Davis-Court, I think this is her debut on Tucker Carlson with her reports from the El Paso border.

00:09:39.080 You know, 90% of our journalists, obviously, are here in Canada,

00:09:43.100 but we do have a couple of Americans, and it's interesting that the work is getting acknowledged.

00:09:47.760 Were those pictures from the airport, I mean, would any person who landed at El Paso Airport have seen that?

00:09:55.120 Why is this the first time we are seeing this?

00:09:57.320 I'm just amazed that no one said anything until you.

00:09:59.480 Right, Tucker, thank you so much for having me on.

00:10:05.280 Now, I will tell you right now that it's not going to make much of a difference if Title 42 is halted or not.

00:10:11.020 There is a clear invasion happening in El Paso, even with Title 42 in place, and it is shocking.

00:10:17.680 I hopped off the plane at the El Paso Airport, made my way to baggage claim,

00:10:22.960 and that's when I noticed more than 100 illegal immigrants sleeping on the ground with Red Cross blankets.

00:10:29.200 Now, the facilities here in El Paso, they're all at max capacity.

00:10:33.400 They cannot hold any more people, and so they are letting them out onto the street, 1.00

00:10:37.940 sleeping in freezing conditions with their babies, whole families.

00:10:41.560 This is a humanitarian crisis.

00:10:43.740 So the airport has turned a portion of the facility into a makeshift holding center.

00:10:51.100 And so I went around and I asked the people where they're from.

00:10:53.520 They told me the Dominican Republic, Peru, Colombia.

00:10:56.860 But what I found most shocking was one of them said to me,

00:11:00.620 who gave you the permission to film us?

00:11:03.220 And I thought to myself, who gave you guys the permission to enter into the United States illegally,

00:11:08.640 which is a crime.

00:11:09.700 But to them, to them, the borders are open.

00:11:13.560 The Biden administration, they need to be held accountable for dereliction of duty

00:11:16.840 and crimes against the American people.

00:11:19.700 And where's NBC News and the New York Times and the Washington Post?

00:11:22.680 Why is it left to a Canadian news site to bring this information to Americans?

00:11:28.320 I just, I don't understand.

00:11:29.860 I don't want to use the word cover-up, but I don't know another word to describe what we're seeing.

00:11:33.760 And I'm grateful to you for showing us what's actually happening.

00:11:37.860 Thank you.

00:11:38.460 Well, it's the year end.

00:11:40.600 So besides the week that just ended, it's a good time to review 2022 as a whole.

00:11:47.400 A year ago, I remember December of 2021.

00:11:52.200 Felt like there wasn't a lot of hope.

00:11:54.940 There was a flight ban.

00:11:56.400 I, like millions of Canadians, was not allowed on planes and trains and boats in my own country,

00:12:02.720 the second largest country in the world.

00:12:04.420 Vaccine passports turned ordinary citizens into little SS officers. 0.58

00:12:11.100 Your papers!

00:12:11.980 Show your papers!

00:12:13.360 Police brutality had just become acceptable.

00:12:16.380 The norm.

00:12:16.820 So-called conservatives like Jason Kenney and Aaron O'Toole and Doug Ford were enforcing

00:12:23.160 hardcore lockdowns and violating civil liberties.

00:12:26.700 There was no Ron DeSantis up here, was there?

00:12:29.840 And then in the midst of all this, Trudeau was re-elected, and not just re-elected, re-elected

00:12:35.620 specifically on a platform of demonizing and taking away equality and showing intolerance

00:12:44.580 towards those who made a different medical choice.

00:12:47.080 It was the worst campaign, and he won and felt vindicated.

00:12:51.060 It was dark times.

00:12:52.080 I remember our Christmas party, if you could call it like that, last year, it felt like

00:12:58.660 an underground resistance.

00:13:00.340 We found a restaurant in the greater Toronto area, a little conference center, that agreed

00:13:06.100 to allow us to have a Christmas party without vaccine passports.

00:13:11.940 And I had a heart-to-heart with the owner.

00:13:13.740 He said, well, I'm going to ask.

00:13:15.280 So I can say I ask, but you can answer.

00:13:17.760 No matter what you answer, you'll be allowed in.

00:13:19.700 There were lots of little acts of kindness like that.

00:13:22.960 It was weird.

00:13:23.820 It was like we were, I don't know, I won't say it was like we were hiding from the Nazis

00:13:27.860 because, of course, the consequences to us was not a death camp, but to hide from the

00:13:33.280 authorities, to hide from snitching neighbors.

00:13:35.900 That's what life was like just 12 months ago.

00:13:40.160 I love the feeling here at Rebel News.

00:13:42.280 It felt like we were fighting all battles at once.

00:13:45.480 It was, I imagine how it must have felt a little bit in the Battle of Britain.

00:13:49.220 Remember that?

00:13:50.540 In early in the war when a handful of British Spitfire fighter pilots staved off the Luftwaffe

00:13:57.960 and probably saved the UK.

00:14:00.000 What Churchill said was never had so much been owed by so many to so few.

00:14:06.380 I'm not saying that, again, I'm not comparing what we did to the heroism and the physical

00:14:11.600 courage of the Battle of Britain, but the odds, the long odds, fighting against the whole world

00:14:17.940 and the tremendous solidarity and team spirit that came from that.

00:14:22.880 That was exhilarating, even though we felt like we were surrounded.

00:14:26.920 It was amazing to watch our young team come together.

00:14:29.840 Alexa Lavoie and Lincoln Jay, two of our new reporters at the time, they worked 23 days straight

00:14:36.160 in Ottawa covering the trucker convoy.

00:14:39.480 Sid Fazard and Kian Simone went down to the Coutts blockade, were embedded with the truckers

00:14:44.720 for nine days straight, and they didn't pack their clothes on the way down.

00:14:48.800 They just went there to cover the story for one night and ended up staying for nine days.

00:14:53.360 Why would people work like that?

00:14:55.140 Well, like I say, they knew it was a heroic moment.

00:14:59.100 They knew history was in the making, and I think that rebel news helped to set Canada 0.61

00:15:05.960 free.

00:15:06.420 You know, there's that old Zen saying, if a tree falls in the forest and no one's around

00:15:11.260 to hear, does it make a sound?

00:15:13.320 Well, if you have a trucker convoy, if you have people standing up for freedom, but the

00:15:18.420 only reports of it are filtered through the haters in the media party and the propagandists

00:15:23.280 at the CBC who claim that these are foreign-funded, Vladimir Putin-organized,

00:15:28.460 bad actors with disinformation, my point is you could have had a wonderful trucker convoy,

00:15:34.340 but if the coverage of it had been directed by Trudeau and his henchmen, it would have

00:15:38.940 been a very different outcome than if there were citizen journalists, largely from Rebel

00:15:42.640 News.

00:15:43.020 There were a couple of others there too.

00:15:44.380 I'll give credit to people like Andrew Lawton and Rupa Subramania and Viva Fry to name

00:15:49.060 a few.

00:15:49.900 But Rebel News dominated the coverage, as you know.

00:15:52.740 In the month of February, we had 400 million views and impressions of our Rebel News stories,

00:16:00.040 more than in the entire previous year combined.

00:16:02.880 You've heard me tell you that statistic before.

00:16:04.840 It was a year's worth of eyeballs in one month.

00:16:07.180 And the reason is we were telling the truth about the freedom movement.

00:16:11.120 And they won.

00:16:12.860 They won.

00:16:14.380 The fever broke.

00:16:15.360 People realized that not everyone was in support of things.

00:16:18.140 Now we're back to freedom.

00:16:20.620 Here we are in December 2022.

00:16:23.320 How did it happen?

00:16:24.600 Well, it happened because of the truckers.

00:16:26.900 It was an organic, grassroots, populist uprising.

00:16:31.320 The elites did not help us.

00:16:32.860 They were all in lockstep together.

00:16:35.880 Conservatives are taking back their parties, at least in the province of Alberta and federally,

00:16:40.260 not yet in Ontario, although I hope that comes.

00:16:43.780 Rebel News had a role in all of these things.

00:16:45.620 We also, if you recall, created the Democracy Fund in 2021, and it really found its stride

00:16:53.540 in 2022.

00:16:54.980 Right now, the Democracy Fund has eight legal staff, four lawyers and four paralegals.

00:17:00.740 Just a reminder, the Democracy Fund came out of an idea that Rebel News started called

00:17:05.640 Fight the Fines, when we helped ordinary people fight tickets and charges and even criminal

00:17:11.220 cases.

00:17:11.540 Our very first client was Arthur Pawlowski, the Christian pastor from Calgary.

00:17:16.620 That was client number one.

00:17:18.780 There are now more than 2,100 cases across Canada, and it grew to be such a big project,

00:17:24.920 we spun it off.

00:17:25.880 It's no longer run by Rebel News, but rather by an independent CRA-compliant charity with

00:17:31.940 its own board of directors, its own staff, its own budget.

00:17:35.380 It's frankly one of the greatest things I've ever been involved with.

00:17:39.020 Of course, I'm a volunteer over there.

00:17:41.060 I work at the Rebel News side.

00:17:43.840 The Democracy Fund didn't just help 2,100 people, including spectacular cases like Arthur

00:17:49.160 Pawlowski's.

00:17:50.180 It received intervener status in various courts of law, both in Windsor, for example, in one

00:17:56.860 of the trucker cases and at the Emergencies Act inquiry in Ottawa.

00:18:00.740 Of course, Rebel News covered that inquiry very intensively with our pop-up studio Airbnb

00:18:07.340 in the city of Ottawa, where we were for more than a month giving intensive day-by-day coverage.

00:18:14.880 In 2022, Rebel News doubled in size.

00:18:19.720 It settled in at around 50 staff.

00:18:22.860 That's pretty big.

00:18:24.340 And the team was forged in the battle.

00:18:26.920 That feeling of solidarity for being working on the streets of Ottawa and the biting cold

00:18:33.400 for 23 days in a row.

00:18:35.200 Even those awful moments when our staff was attacked physically, in a way that forged a

00:18:41.320 team, a team of principled non-conformists.

00:18:46.180 What do I mean by that?

00:18:47.320 I think the number one characteristic for becoming a Rebel is not, did you get a journalism degree?

00:18:52.520 Or even do you have a certain ideology is, are you willing to tell the other side of

00:18:57.200 the story, even if the whole world is shouting at you to comply with them?

00:19:01.360 Can you have enough confidence in yourself and your conscience to know that you may be

00:19:06.720 right, even if the whole world tells you you're wrong?

00:19:09.920 It's like Kipling said in his famous poem, If, can you keep your mind while those around

00:19:15.900 you are losing theirs?

00:19:16.980 That's 2022.

00:19:20.380 What's 2023 looking like?

00:19:22.560 It's just a week or so away.

00:19:25.140 Well, it's always tough to predict, but I am, I think that there is trouble on the horizon.

00:19:31.040 I think the same forces of authoritarianism that were on the march with the lockdowns and

00:19:37.500 then with the Emergencies Act, I think they're coming back.

00:19:40.320 Why wouldn't they?

00:19:41.020 They were vindicated in their own minds.

00:19:42.920 I think that the Alberta election will be an early test of freedom.

00:19:47.900 I am worried.

00:19:48.740 I'm genuinely worried that Rachel Notley, the NDP premier who so devastated that province

00:19:54.720 that she'll be back.

00:19:56.740 And I think that Danielle Smith, who I interviewed just this week, I think she has a lot of strong

00:20:01.820 suits and she's a good communicator. 1.00

00:20:03.720 But I am worried that Rachel Notley and more importantly, the media party want to dethrone

00:20:10.200 Smith and they just might.

00:20:12.620 I think it's possible that we have another federal election in 2023.

00:20:17.000 Remember, we had one in 2019 and then one in 2021.

00:20:22.360 So why wouldn't there be one in 2023?

00:20:25.120 And Justin Trudeau could engineer it.

00:20:27.240 Of course, Jagmeet Singer, the NDP doesn't want one, but it may be in Trudeau's interest

00:20:31.540 to do so.

00:20:33.440 I think there's going to be a possible federal election.

00:20:35.400 And the media party, which is the most powerful political party in the country, well, they

00:20:40.600 are worse than ever.

00:20:42.480 I mean, just remember the other week there was this media party conference in Ottawa where

00:20:47.740 reporters were calling for police to silence their online critics.

00:20:53.240 Here's Rachel Gilmore and other media party insiders demanding that the cops arrest people 1.00

00:21:00.380 who do mean tweets to them.

00:21:02.280 We're not in a position to protect our journalists from this hate.

00:21:07.660 And that's why I think the conversation has to be a bigger conversation.

00:21:11.740 It has to be something that's talked about at a policy level, at a law enforcement level.

00:21:16.140 You know, we don't have the tools to actually, you know, go after these people.

00:21:20.720 It was gross how the public safety minister was there nodding along the whole time.

00:21:25.520 Of course, that's just individual journalists wanting their personal enemies silenced.

00:21:30.500 But Justin Trudeau has several censorship bills marching through Parliament very quickly

00:21:35.820 that will certainly become law in 2023.

00:21:40.760 Censorship bills are so bad that Facebook is even talking about turning off its news department,

00:21:48.840 stopping all news stories because the rules that Trudeau is foisting on them are so onerous.

00:21:54.200 Twitter has said that the rules that Trudeau is contemplating are the kind of rules

00:21:58.040 that you would expect to see in North Korea.

00:22:00.700 And that's what Twitter said even before Elon Musk bought the company.

00:22:04.540 I think that censorship is going to be the big battle of 2023.

00:22:09.540 And remember what I said about Rebel News covering the Trucker Convoy with 400 million views and

00:22:15.580 impressions.

00:22:16.020 If you were Justin Trudeau and you already control 99% of the newspapers, radio stations,

00:22:22.260 TV companies, and the digital news sites, the one or two that you don't control, that's

00:22:28.020 all you see.

00:22:28.880 You can't get them out of your mind because, you know, it's like having a dam with a single 1.00

00:22:35.160 hole in it.

00:22:36.200 The hole is all you think about.

00:22:37.880 And if there is a hole in the dam, the water gets through.

00:22:40.420 And that's my point.

00:22:41.680 As long as there is one media company in Canada that is telling the truth, you can have all

00:22:47.820 the TV stations and the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star telling the Trudeau line if

00:22:52.040 there is an alternative.

00:22:53.020 So Trudeau wants to snuff out those handful of independent journalists left.

00:22:57.440 And we are the biggest and the most influential of the independent journalists. 0.83

00:23:01.160 He is coming to kill us.

00:23:03.000 Well, he'll face every ounce of ingenuity and fight we have. 0.82

00:23:09.460 I promise you, we will not go easily.

00:23:12.580 Revoluz is traveling again, not for vacations, but for work.

00:23:16.480 You probably saw Drea Humphrey, Alexa Lavoie, and Tamara Ugolini, all of whom joined us during

00:23:21.560 the pandemic, recently in Berlin at the World Health Summit.

00:23:24.980 I mentioned that I'm going to the World Economic Forum in Davos looking for Klaus Schwab.

00:23:30.120 I'll be there with our chief reporter, Sheila Gunn-Reed, the great Avi Amini from Down Under.

00:23:34.720 So we are doing some judicious traveling around the world.

00:23:38.200 As you saw, Katie Davis Court is down in El Paso, and Jeremy Lafredo just got back from

00:23:42.820 Moscow.

00:23:43.420 In all these cases, we travel economy style.

00:23:47.380 We stay in Airbnbs or affordable hotels.

00:23:50.820 We are not going fancy.

00:23:52.280 And most importantly, even if we're in interesting places from a tourism point of view, we are not

00:23:57.460 there for tourism.

00:23:58.260 As you can see, Katie is looking at the migrants crossing the border.

00:24:02.040 Jeremy was interviewing people on the streets of Moscow.

00:24:04.860 And when we are in Davos, we have one mission, and that is to hold those oligarchs to account.

00:24:10.880 It's exciting, that's for sure, but I believe it's important journalism.

00:24:14.260 And when was the last time you saw a CBC journalist or a Globe and Mail journalist go to Davos to

00:24:19.400 actually ask a tough question?

00:24:22.140 So how do we measure success here at Rebel News?

00:24:24.640 Well, I told you one way already, by measuring the number of views and impressions that our

00:24:31.300 stories get.

00:24:32.600 And in February alone, we had 400 million.

00:24:35.560 Many of those were around the world.

00:24:36.960 We were showing the world what was going on in Canada because they weren't getting that

00:24:40.400 information from CNN or the CBC.

00:24:43.880 We don't just tell stories once in a while that can feel a bit voyeuristic.

00:24:49.000 You know what I mean?

00:24:49.620 If you're just watching something but not doing something about it, I remember the moment

00:24:53.940 I called up Arthur Pavlovsky when I saw him being abused by police for feeding the homeless.

00:24:59.280 And some switch was flipped in my mind.

00:25:03.100 And I moved from being a voyeur saying, look at this, and showing the picture to saying,

00:25:08.380 we bloody well have to do something.

00:25:11.100 And I called up Arthur and he agreed to accept our legal help.

00:25:14.440 That is, I think, one of the things that makes Rebel News special.

00:25:18.580 One of the ways we stand out in Canada is we have a video news gathering style.

00:25:24.000 We're not just commentators.

00:25:26.080 We are out there with the camera pointing at the story that was important for covering

00:25:30.640 the trucker convoy.

00:25:31.700 But I think the real special sauce at Rebel News is that every once in a while we say,

00:25:37.260 whoa, this is so wrong what's going on here.

00:25:40.660 And no one else seems to want to fix it.

00:25:43.600 We will fix it.

00:25:45.900 And we crowdfund for different causes.

00:25:47.820 And as you know, we're defending 2,100 people.

00:25:50.840 We spun that off in the Democracy Fund, for example.

00:25:54.600 We're breaking stories all the time.

00:25:56.660 Sheila Gunn-Reed does a lot of that through access to information requests. 0.74

00:26:00.640 We're holding conservatives to account.

00:26:03.320 Now, you know we hold liberals to account.

00:26:05.340 I've written a number of books about Trudeau alone.

00:26:07.620 But the reason we hold conservatives account is not just to show that we're independent

00:26:12.060 minded and that nobody controls us.

00:26:15.880 But it's so that conservatives know that if their party starts to deviate, we're going

00:26:21.700 to call them out.

00:26:22.340 And it's not going to be in bad faith.

00:26:24.120 And it's not going to be gotcha style journalism. 0.66

00:26:27.280 But there is no conservative party in this country that can call us up and say, shut up.

00:26:32.400 Oh, believe me, they have tried.

00:26:33.800 And I think that's one of the reasons why some conservatives are less comfortable talking

00:26:38.920 the rebel news than you might think.

00:26:40.720 Because they know if we criticize a conservative politician, it's going to be a good faith

00:26:46.560 criticism from the right.

00:26:48.120 It's not going to be the kind of gotcha criticism from the left that their own supporters will

00:26:52.060 ignore.

00:26:52.480 If we're criticizing a conservative politician, odds are it's because that conservative politician

00:26:57.600 is not very conservative anymore.

00:26:59.020 Case in point, the aforementioned Jason Kenney and Aaron O'Toole.

00:27:02.760 You know, I get a lot of positive feedback for the work we do here.

00:27:09.120 All of our reporters tell me they get the same thing on the streets at rebel news events.

00:27:14.200 As I mentioned, I've started flying again after being on the no fly list for being unjabbed. 0.91

00:27:19.120 And even on Air Canada, something happens because one of the cases that we took during the lockdowns

00:27:24.680 was the cases of the flight attendants who didn't want to get the jab and they wanted to grieve

00:27:29.580 the new rule, but their union refused.

00:27:32.520 So the Democracy Fund helped the flight attendants to take their union to the Industrial Relations

00:27:38.980 Board to force them to represent them.

00:27:41.340 It's called duty of fair representation.

00:27:43.140 And wouldn't you know it, CUPE, the union involves bent the knee.

00:27:47.240 And so I have to tell you that when I fly on Air Canada, I'd say about 50% or even more

00:27:52.980 of the flights I'm on, a flight attendant saw that story and someone who probably wouldn't

00:27:58.840 follow rebel news, but they knew that we were championing flight attendants as just one of

00:28:04.140 the many cases we took.

00:28:05.180 I really enjoy that feeling.

00:28:06.620 I think I told you a few weeks ago, I went to Melbourne, Australia for Avi Amini's wedding.

00:28:12.600 And it was a wonderful, it was actually my first foreign trip in three years.

00:28:18.800 This week, I'm finally going on a vacation with my family, but that was a half business

00:28:23.120 trip, half wedding trip, I suppose, to see Avi.

00:28:26.360 And the first place I went to when I got out of the cab looking for my hotel room, I just

00:28:31.660 popped into a bar asking for directions.

00:28:33.240 And the guy said, you're with Rebel News, I couldn't believe it, halfway around the

00:28:37.600 world, people knew.

00:28:39.140 That's a good feeling.

00:28:40.740 That's what I live for, more than the approval of a politician or another person in the

00:28:45.540 establishment.

00:28:46.000 If we are being viewed around the world by grassroots people, that tells me we're connecting.

00:28:52.480 But you know what?

00:28:54.780 Fans, they might be flatterers, right?

00:28:57.720 Everyone sees someone they recognize, maybe a minor celebrity, and say, oh, I'm such a big

00:29:01.720 fan.

00:29:02.100 Are you really?

00:29:02.620 Or are you just having a fun moment because you recognize someone?

00:29:06.420 I think just as important of how your fans treat you is how your foes treat you.

00:29:15.100 And the reason I know Rebel News is so important is not actually because a flight attendant says,

00:29:23.760 thanks for your help, or because some guy in a bar in Melbourne recognized me.

00:29:27.580 Now that, I mean, that feels good.

00:29:30.320 But what tells me that we are on the right track, what tells me everything, is how the

00:29:36.440 establishment treats us.

00:29:38.160 Not just the establishment conservatives, like Aaron O'Toole, but how the liberal government

00:29:43.220 and the parliament and all the institutions of power try to silence us.

00:29:48.300 The case in point, the QCJO news license, the qualified Canadian journalism organization.

00:29:55.680 You can remember that that's a new journalism regulation in Canada, where journalism companies

00:30:01.100 have to apply to the government to be approved.

00:30:03.160 And if you are approved, you get all sorts of perks, including free money.

00:30:07.540 If you are not approved, not only do you not get access to press conferences, but Trudeau's

00:30:12.380 plan is to have the search engines, YouTube, Google, Facebook, Instagram, downrank non-QCJO

00:30:20.820 news license companies and uprank or boost his trusted friends.

00:30:26.600 You could also call it the rebel news blacklist rule.

00:30:32.440 As you know, Trudeau and his friends denounce us.

00:30:35.800 They've been denouncing us for years.

00:30:37.200 Here's him and Ahmed Hassan reading word for word the same denunciation of us in parliament.

00:30:43.200 Remember this?

00:30:43.600 To see the conservatives engage in peddling rebel media conspiracy theories.

00:30:51.760 You don't have to go back that far.

00:30:53.620 Here is the disgraceful Justin Trudeau saying he simply will not answer any questions from

00:30:59.840 us, even hours after the federal court said we are journalists and we are allowed in.

00:31:04.720 Remember this and his treatment of Alexa LaVoie?

00:31:08.180 Ma question la suivante.

00:31:10.880 L'Israël est l'un des pays les plus vaccinés au monde.

00:31:15.180 Ils sont rendus maintenant à leur quatrième rappel de vaccin.

00:31:18.740 Ils ne considèrent plus que ceux qui ont reçu deux doses de vaccin sont pleinement vaccinés.

00:31:23.620 Ma question est, plusieurs Canadiens ne désirent pas avoir un rappel de vaccin.

00:31:34.040 Allez-vous leur enlever leurs privilèges reliés au vaccinal?

00:31:41.600 Et aurez-vous l'obligence de répondre à ma question en tant que premier ministre ou allez-vous

00:31:47.420 encore diaboliser mon média?

00:31:49.380 J'ai partagé ma perspective sur ton organisation hier soir.

00:31:54.740 J'ai plus rien à dire.

00:31:56.580 Ça demande bien qui vous vous êtes.

00:31:57.980 Merci.

00:31:58.260 Just a disgrace.

00:32:00.480 But it's one thing for them to rig the rules against us, as in this QCJO news license.

00:32:05.720 It's one thing for them to denounce us and be petty and not answer us.

00:32:09.280 But they physically attack us.

00:32:13.700 And our media party competition is silent about it.

00:32:16.620 Here's a clip that I've shown you before.

00:32:18.640 It's a partial, only a partial compilation of how Trudeau and his henchmen and his allies

00:32:25.920 physically attack Rebel News.

00:32:29.500 Not just with mean tweets that Rachel Gilmour wants arrested. 0.80

00:32:32.600 I'm talking about with fists and batons and even a gun.

00:32:37.400 Take a look at this. 0.71

00:33:07.400 Here are the thugs. 0.99

00:33:13.680 Shame. 0.99

00:33:14.820 Shame.

00:33:15.820 Shame.

00:33:16.820 Shame.

00:33:17.820 Shame.

00:33:18.820 Shame.

00:33:19.820 Shame.

00:33:20.820 Shame.

00:33:21.820 Shame.

00:33:22.820 Shame.

00:33:23.820 Shame.

00:33:24.820 Hey, this is assault.

00:33:26.820 I'm on a sidewalk.

00:33:27.820 What is this?

00:33:28.820 I'm on a sidewalk.

00:33:29.820 I'm on a sidewalk.

00:33:30.820 I'm on a sidewalk.

00:33:31.820 I'm on a sidewalk.

00:33:32.820 I'm on a sidewalk.

00:33:33.820 I'm on a sidewalk.

00:33:34.820 What is this?

00:33:35.820 You cannot push me.

00:33:36.820 I'm on a sidewalk.

00:33:37.820 No Russian word.

00:33:38.820 No Russian word.

00:33:39.820 It's me.

00:33:40.820 It's me.

00:33:41.820 Like, are you kidding?

00:33:44.820 Are you kidding?

00:33:45.820 Let's go.

00:33:47.820 Oh! 0.60

00:33:48.820 Oh! 0.60

00:33:49.820 Oh! 0.60

00:33:50.820 Oh! 0.60

00:33:51.820 Oh! 0.60

00:33:52.820 Oh! 0.60

00:33:53.820 Oh! 0.60

00:33:54.820 Oh! 0.60

00:33:55.820 Oh! 0.60

00:33:56.820 What?

00:33:57.820 I'm with Rebel News.

00:33:58.820 I'm not media Jewish.

00:34:06.820 So why are we getting such a tough time?

00:34:07.820 We've been through this so many times with you guys.

00:34:09.820 I need to hold my camera, man.

00:34:11.820 Hey, what's going on?

00:34:12.820 I need to hold my camera.

00:34:13.820 Hey.

00:34:14.820 The reality is organizations like yours, yours,

00:34:21.820 that continue to spread misinformation and disinformation

00:34:25.820 I won't call it a media organization.

00:34:27.820 Your group of individuals need to take accountability,

00:34:32.820 polarization that we're seeing in this country.

00:34:35.820 It's disappointing to see the conservatives engage in peddling

00:34:39.820 rebel media, conspiracy theories.

00:34:44.820 I share my perspective on your organization this evening.

00:34:47.820 There's nothing to say.

00:34:49.820 You're a censorious thud. 0.95

00:34:50.820 You've physically assaulted me. 0.98

00:34:52.820 And so did you.

00:34:53.820 And so did this guy.

00:34:55.820 The likes of CBC and the other members of the media party,

00:34:57.820 they're in there.

00:34:58.820 They're reporting in the warmth.

00:34:59.820 But they can't even give us the opportunity to ask one bloody

00:35:03.820 question on a public sidewalk.

00:35:05.820 Why the are you here?

00:35:07.820 We're working, sir.

00:35:08.820 Because you're shutting down the bridge.

00:35:09.820 We want to know why.

00:35:10.820 Why don't you off?

00:35:11.820 Here.

00:35:12.820 There's for your membership.

00:35:13.820 There's for your rebel news.

00:35:14.820 Go yourself, lady. 0.99

00:35:16.820 Go yourself.

00:35:17.820 Go yourself.

00:35:18.820 Would you like me to turn it up?

00:35:19.820 Here you go.

00:35:20.820 Go yourself.

00:35:21.820 You're no friend to native people. 0.99

00:35:23.820 Go off.

00:35:24.820 I am native.

00:35:25.820 Go off.

00:35:26.820 Go off playing that card.

00:35:27.820 You.

00:35:28.820 You.

00:35:29.820 You're telling me I'm playing a race card?

00:35:31.820 Yeah, you are.

00:35:32.820 Get the out of here. 1.00

00:35:33.820 Fuck off. 1.00

00:35:34.820 Oh no. 1.00

00:35:35.820 Oh no.

00:35:51.820 Are you playing hockey here?

00:35:53.820 No, I'm just coming to check in on our facility.

00:35:55.820 So I'm going to check.

00:35:56.820 You're not supposed to be here, actually.

00:35:58.820 Okay.

00:35:59.820 I'll arrest you.

00:36:00.820 Okay.

00:36:01.820 Can we get the presentation?

00:36:06.820 I have my...

00:36:07.820 I have my...

00:36:08.820 We already spoke to Darcy Henton.

00:36:09.820 Yeah.

00:36:10.820 He said there should be no problem to come in.

00:36:12.820 What?

00:36:13.820 Sorry, why is that?

00:36:14.820 I don't know.

00:36:15.820 Sorry, why?

00:36:16.820 Thank you.

00:36:17.820 Now this is an administrative penalty notice.

00:36:19.820 Oh, for what?

00:36:20.820 Yeah.

00:36:21.820 This is for shaking hands with the public.

00:36:23.820 No way.

00:36:24.820 To maintain a distance of at least two meters from another person.

00:36:27.820 I'm going to release you.

00:36:28.820 Mm-hmm.

00:36:29.820 You go back in the protest.

00:36:30.820 Mm-hmm.

00:36:31.820 You have to wear a mask.

00:36:32.820 If you don't, you're going to be detained.

00:36:33.820 You understand?

00:36:34.820 Again, like this?

00:36:35.820 No, you go to the police station.

00:36:36.820 To jail, basically.

00:36:37.820 To jail, yeah.

00:36:38.820 I hate watching that video.

00:36:39.820 You're probably asking why I showed it to you.

00:36:41.820 I show it because I find it's motivating.

00:36:44.820 It gives me a feeling of dedication to my staff who would suffer like that for the sake

00:36:48.820 of telling the truth.

00:36:50.820 Imagine the character of people who would endure that kind of violence and yet show up for

00:36:55.820 work the next day ready to go again.

00:36:57.820 Those are very, very impressive people who work with me here at Rebel News.

00:37:01.820 I'm delighted to be in their company.

00:37:04.820 We tell the other side of the story, something everyone used to believe in, but it's so rare

00:37:09.820 these days.

00:37:10.820 And every once in a while, we stop to try to make a difference.

00:37:16.820 And I think, well, my friends, I think we have.

00:37:21.820 You know, Rebel News turns eight years old in February.

00:37:24.820 I can't even believe it.

00:37:25.820 It's hard to imagine how far we've come since then.

00:37:29.820 Do you remember my very first video?

00:37:31.820 Here it is.

00:37:32.820 Sun TV faded to dark.

00:37:34.820 Sun News faded to black.

00:37:36.820 Faded to black, eh?

00:37:37.820 Well, you know the saying, you can curse the darkness or you can light a candle.

00:37:42.820 I am mourning the loss of the sun, best job I ever had, most amazing colleagues, most

00:37:47.820 passionate viewers, most loyal friends.

00:37:49.820 But now what?

00:37:50.820 I don't have tens of millions of dollars to start a new TV station.

00:37:54.820 I don't have political connections to the CRTC.

00:37:57.820 I don't have a billion dollars a year in corporate welfare bailouts like the CBC gets.

00:38:01.820 So what can I do?

00:38:02.820 I mean, I don't even have a studio.

00:38:04.820 I am literally standing in my house right now.

00:38:07.820 How pitiful is that?

00:38:09.820 Well, actually, it's not pitiful at all.

00:38:11.820 Actually, it's pretty exciting because while being an official TV channel has its perks,

00:38:15.820 it also has its drawbacks.

00:38:17.820 It's regulated by political hacks at the government CRTC.

00:38:21.820 It has bossy censors, politically collect wieners at the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council.

00:38:27.820 And, of course, you only get onto those TV sets that cable companies allow you to do.

00:38:32.820 And on the channel placement of their choosing and at the price they grudgingly agree to pay you.

00:38:38.820 All of those hurdles.

00:38:39.820 All of those barriers.

00:38:41.820 And for what?

00:38:42.820 For a medium that is quickly being eclipsed by the internet where you are seeing this now.

00:38:47.820 Ten years ago, YouTube didn't even exist.

00:38:50.820 It was literally invented in February of 2005.

00:38:54.820 Netflix used to mail you copies of DVDs in snail mail.

00:38:58.820 Imagine that.

00:38:59.820 Now it streams endless movies and TV shows direct to your home whenever you want them.

00:39:03.820 They're even making their own original movies now.

00:39:06.820 And there are countless competitors to YouTube and Netflix and Apple's iTunes.

00:39:11.820 All offering you the freedom and access and convenience that the traditional TV industry just doesn't have.

00:39:17.820 And that bureaucrats and politicians wouldn't allow anyways. 0.98

00:39:20.820 A TV camera used to cost more than $100,000.

00:39:23.820 There's still tens of thousands of dollars for the fancy ones.

00:39:27.820 But this high definition video is being shot on a camera that cost a couple of thousand dollars.

00:39:34.820 I'm looking forward to getting out of this living room, by the way.

00:39:36.820 That's code for my wife has given me a direct order to get out of here. 1.00

00:39:40.820 But seriously, how much does it cost to set up a small studio or to do a show even from the street?

00:39:45.820 Yeah, we're not in my living room anymore.

00:39:47.820 We're around the world.

00:39:49.820 Thanks to our team here at Rebel News.

00:39:53.820 50 strong.

00:39:54.820 Too many to name now.

00:39:55.820 But for every person you see on camera, there's two behind the scenes.

00:39:59.820 And most importantly, thanks to you.

00:40:03.820 Our viewers at home, as you know, the government would shut us down.

00:40:08.820 The big tech companies have demonetized us.

00:40:11.820 Activists on the left try and silence us and deplatform us.

00:40:15.820 But you, our viewers, make it possible.

00:40:18.820 Thanks for that.

00:40:20.820 And I promise you we will do everything we can to be successful in 2023,

00:40:24.820 to tell the other side of the story and maybe help fix the world.

00:40:28.820 Stay with us for more.

00:40:29.820 Well, as I mentioned in the past week, we have had so many rebels covering so many big stories.

00:40:44.820 And my barometer for how big our stories are is if we get invited to the largest cable news show in America,

00:40:55.820 namely Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News.

00:40:57.820 And I mention that because I know we've hit a big story hard.

00:41:01.820 If Tucker's team calls in from New York and says, hey, can we talk to one of those rebels?

00:41:06.820 Now we've had Sheila Gunn-Reed and David Menzies, two of our longest serving rebels, appear on Fox in the last week.

00:41:12.820 But we also had our two newest rebels on Tucker's show, Jeremy Lafredo, with his Russian reports.

00:41:19.820 And our next guest, Katie Davis-Corp, one of our newest rebels based in Seattle, Washington.

00:41:26.820 Well, she is actually down in El Paso, Texas.

00:41:31.820 What's she doing down there?

00:41:33.820 Well, she is covering what can only be called an invasion.

00:41:37.820 Hundreds of thousands of people pouring across an unguarded border.

00:41:42.820 You can see her reports at rebelborderreports.com.

00:41:47.820 Katie Davis-Corp joins us now via Skype.

00:41:50.820 Katie, great to see you.

00:41:51.820 I'm glad you're staying safe because it really is a kind of lawlessness there, isn't it?

00:41:56.820 It's almost like a battlefield of sorts.

00:41:59.820 Oh, yeah, no, you're absolutely right.

00:42:01.820 Sorry. So, Wendy, so I'm in El Paso and across is Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, which is actually the murder capital of the entire world.

00:42:11.820 So it is a lawless.

00:42:13.820 There is an invasion happening right now in the United States.

00:42:17.820 And President Biden, the lefty mayors seem to be doing absolutely nothing about it.

00:42:22.820 Well, let's put some numbers to that, because in Canada we have an open border called Roxham Road.

00:42:28.820 And every day dozens of people come over.

00:42:31.820 But at that border there near El Paso, it's not dozens.

00:42:35.820 It's hundreds, maybe even thousands a day.

00:42:38.820 Is that right?

00:42:39.820 You're absolutely right.

00:42:40.820 So thousands line up daily.

00:42:41.820 A few hundred have been actually entering into the US daily.

00:42:45.820 But more than 80,000 illegal immigrants have been released into the city of El Paso since late August.

00:42:51.820 So that is just a little bit over three and a half months.

00:42:54.820 80,000.

00:42:56.820 And the facilities are at max capacity.

00:42:59.820 So they are just all over the streets of downtown sleeping.

00:43:02.820 That's crazy.

00:43:03.820 I mean, the footage that I think got you the invite on Tucker Carlson's show was just when you arrived in El Paso.

00:43:09.820 You were just coming in from Seattle to El Paso to do the story.

00:43:12.820 You land at the airport.

00:43:13.820 And before you went looking for the story, the story came looking for you.

00:43:17.820 Hundreds and hundreds of people just lying on the floor.

00:43:20.820 These were not travelers.

00:43:22.820 Like, I've seen people sleep in airports because their flights are canceled because of the snow.

00:43:27.820 That's happening right now.

00:43:28.820 These were not travelers.

00:43:30.820 They were pedestrians who came across the border, had to sleep somewhere, and they just shoveled them into the airport. 0.98

00:43:38.820 Yeah.

00:43:39.820 Yeah.

00:43:40.820 So the holding centers are at full capacity and the airport has turned into a makeshift holding center.

00:43:45.820 And so I decided to go around and I asked people where they're from.

00:43:48.820 They said Colombia, Peru, Dominican Republic.

00:43:51.820 And one of them had the audacity to say to me, who gave you permission to film us?

00:43:57.820 And I said, who gave you permission to enter into the United States illegally, which is a crime?

00:44:03.820 Yeah.

00:44:04.820 Yeah.

00:44:05.820 You know what?

00:44:06.820 They're learning chutzpah right away.

00:44:09.820 They're learning, you know, audacity right away.

00:44:11.820 I guess they know how to operate in the United States.

00:44:16.820 Now, you were, so you're in El Paso, which is in the Texas side, but you cross over and you sort of in this wilderness area.

00:44:26.820 Is that how you would describe it?

00:44:27.820 And why don't you introduce this next clip of you discovering children?

00:44:31.820 And that's the part that breaks my heart because, you know, these children are being used.

00:44:36.820 Sometimes I hate to say it.

00:44:37.820 They're being trafficked sexually, especially young women.

00:44:40.820 The number of young women who are raped along the journey to get over the border is shocking.

00:44:47.820 Yeah.

00:44:48.820 There's all sorts of abuse.

00:44:50.820 The children are used as pawns because the traffickers who are called coyotes think, well, you have a kid, you're going to have special treatment when you're arrested.

00:45:00.820 Tell us, set up this next video clip and then throw to the clip.

00:45:04.820 Why don't you tell us what you saw and then we'll play the clip, Katie.

00:45:09.820 Yeah.

00:45:10.820 So I was driving down the highway of El Paso and along to the right is the U.S. southern border.

00:45:17.820 And I noticed a group of illegal immigrant children waiting on the side of the border.

00:45:21.820 So I got out and I started asking them, you know, where they're from.

00:45:25.820 So they had just illegally entered into a very accessible.

00:45:30.820 So the United States border, it is not secure.

00:45:33.820 And you can anyone can easily enter into this one part where they have removed a crate on the border side.

00:45:41.820 And so they just easily walk along this wall and then enter through a hole and boom, you're into the United States.

00:45:47.820 So I ran into a group of children.

00:45:49.820 There are about six of them.

00:45:50.820 But what a lot of people don't know and what you mentioned earlier is that only 30 percent of the immigrant children coming into the United States are with their birth parents or biological families.

00:46:01.820 Seventy percent are actually being trafficked and go missing.

00:46:05.820 They are unaccounted for once they enter into the United States.

00:46:09.820 So this is just the true definition of a humanitarian crisis.

00:46:12.820 This should be the biggest story in America right now.

00:46:16.820 And mainstream media refuses to cover it except Fox News.

00:46:19.820 Fox News.

00:46:20.820 Yeah.

00:46:21.820 Fox News.

00:46:22.820 And of course, Rebel News.

00:46:23.820 And we're so proud of what you're doing here.

00:46:24.820 Let's look at that clip right now.

00:46:26.820 12 folks.

00:46:27.820 Yeah.

00:46:28.820 Correct.

00:46:29.820 Yeah.

00:46:30.820 And there and I say for them there.

00:46:31.820 After the time this is the concept that goes back to here.

00:46:33.820 Okay, that is a little problem.

00:46:35.820 Are you talking to us about that?

00:46:36.820 Yeah, everything's happening.

00:46:37.820 Okay, so we're so XYZ.

00:46:38.820 All, I wrote the televisión.

00:46:39.820 These kids and these adults, men, women, children, people of all ages,

00:47:03.260 they get across the border and then it seems to me that they're not really

00:47:08.080 trying to be evasive because when they're picked up it's not like they're driven to

00:47:11.980 the border and booted out. At least, correct me if I'm wrong, it's just like

00:47:15.700 Roxham Road here in Canada. In fact, the crazy thing at Roxham Road is that the

00:47:20.140 Mounties, the police, are luggage boys. They will literally help illegal border 0.93

00:47:27.340 crossers carry their luggage if it's heavy. It's just so humiliating for the 1.00

00:47:32.800 Mounties who have a great history of upholding the law. Is it the same there

00:47:36.880 in the states that once they're across, they know they're not going to be booted

00:47:41.020 out and so they want to be found because they want to get food, clothing, shelter,

00:47:46.600 medicine. Is that an accurate statement? Very accurate. They actually wait for

00:47:52.280 Border Patrol to come get them because to them, once the Border Patrol gets them,

00:47:58.220 they are granted safety and pretty much asylum. So the United States government

00:48:03.360 and just other NGOs, nonprofit organizations, bring them food, new clothing, provide them blankets,

00:48:11.900 and they are treated actually better than the normal homeless person that you'd see on the

00:48:16.100 streets. But something to mention is I am specifically here because Title 42 was going

00:48:21.320 to expire except it was recently blocked by SCOTUS. The Biden administration wants to expire it,

00:48:27.880 which means that anyone that comes into the United States will get pretty much be granted amnesty.

00:48:34.880 And so the city of El Paso ended up declaring a state of emergency ahead of right before it was

00:48:41.020 halted. And they actually deployed the Texas National Guard on the border, on the El Paso side of the

00:48:48.400 border looking to see Udada Juarez, Mexico. And that did prevent a lot of the illegal immigrants from 0.93

00:48:54.540 lining up. But what the Texas National Guard did was they actually directed the illegal immigrants

00:49:00.320 to go down one mile and have Border Patrol pick them up, which they did, and then illegally brought

00:49:06.780 them into the United States. And it's just a matter of time, probably a few days before they're just

00:49:11.400 released into El Paso. You know, you said up to 80,000 of these migrants are in El Paso. I just

00:49:17.460 Googled it. And El Paso has about 700,000 people. So it's a, it's a full size city, but 80, but more

00:49:24.960 than 10% of the souls in that city right now are migrants. I don't, I don't know how that can even 1.00

00:49:30.900 work. Like just, just shelter, bathrooms, medicine. Yeah. Obviously there's no school. Like that's just

00:49:38.960 such a shocking number. I remember a few months ago when Ron DeSantis flew some border crossers to, 1.00

00:49:45.660 I think it was Martha's Vineyard or some really fancy schmancy, uh, East coast liberal elite

00:49:51.160 tourist hideaway. Like it may be a hundred and the whole Martha's Vineyard went into panic mode

00:49:56.420 and you know, they bust them out and they, you know, they gave them like a bowl of soup and then

00:50:01.220 kicked them out. How dare you come to our tourist haven? Um, it's shock 80,000 in a city of 700,000.

00:50:09.000 Uh, I can't believe other journalists are not there. I mean, that's one of the things that

00:50:14.300 Tucker said to you is you're seeing stunning things. It's not like, like you literally just

00:50:19.080 stepped off the plane. You didn't have to go hunting for it. The story came to you. I can't

00:50:23.520 believe that's not front page news and every newspaper across America. Yeah. Uh, me as well.

00:50:28.720 I mean, just my time being here, I've only been here for a few days and I've just had stories

00:50:33.540 fall into my lap left and right. I mean, I'm, I'm headed, I'm headed home tonight, but I'm

00:50:39.060 right before I leave, I'm going to go check out this spot where state troopers are actually

00:50:43.560 stopping semi trucks. They have about, um, a five mile line and they're checking for human

00:50:49.160 trafficking. So I'm going to go set up and see what I can find before that. But why isn't

00:50:53.240 that even on the news? They're just not, yeah, they're just not covering it as terrifying.

00:50:57.980 And by the way, some of those semis can be death traps. Obviously that's not, that's not a

00:51:02.420 way for humans to travel like, like cattle or cargo. Um, but that's how desperate these

00:51:08.140 folks are. And they've been given that hope by the Democrats just come across. Everything

00:51:12.400 will be fine. And, you know, on the one hand, you got to admire the determination of people

00:51:17.380 who want to come to America, but this is a lawless way. It's a dangerous way. It's a disorderly

00:51:22.660 way. It disrespects those who came in the country legally and properly. It's not sustainable.

00:51:27.480 And I believe the Democrats are doing it for one reason only. They believe that these people

00:51:31.640 will become democratic clients, you know, eventually be democratic party voters or they'll be part

00:51:37.460 of the democratic, you know, welfare state or whatever. I think that it is purely political

00:51:42.860 and it's, it, it's just shocking that the actual numbers now, Katie, we're so proud of the work

00:51:49.820 you've been doing there. We've set up a special compilation page. Uh, correct me if I'm wrong.

00:51:54.380 It's rebel border reports.com. Is that right? Yep. Rebel border reports.com. You guys can

00:52:00.680 go there and help donate to offset our travel costs because it's so important that independent

00:52:05.300 media is here on the ground showing you guys what the mainstream won't show you.

00:52:09.640 That's right. And in addition to your ticket, we brought a cameraman and I'm glad that the

00:52:13.660 cameraman's with you. Just an extra set of eyes because you're in sort of a wild place and just

00:52:18.680 have another person around gives me a degree of safety, feeling of safety. Katie, thanks for this

00:52:23.660 great work. And we'll keep watching your stuff, including your, your mission tonight to see those

00:52:28.800 semi-trailers. Uh, stay safe. Okay. Yep. Thank you, Ezra. We got about five more reports coming

00:52:34.140 out. Wow. I can hardly wait. Thank you. There she is. Katie Davis scored. You can see why Tucker

00:52:38.760 invited her on to tell this powerful story. Stay with us more ahead.

00:52:47.520 Hey, welcome back. Your letters to me, Hal Lisnick writes about my interview with Danielle Smith and

00:52:52.540 says, kaboom, you did it. Ezra, you broke the media party tonight with your Danielle Smith interview.

00:52:57.220 You're a class act. Danielle is the future to save Canada. Rebel is the real narrative. Thank you.

00:53:02.880 Well, I was grateful to have more than half an hour with her. And I, I asked some obvious

00:53:07.920 questions, but I also wanted to ask some questions that I knew only a freedom oriented journalism,

00:53:12.760 the journalist would ask. And I hope I did.

00:53:15.380 Bruce Atchison said, hi, Ezra. Thanks for interviewing Danielle Smith. Just having her on the

00:53:20.180 show proves she's willing to address the folks she once harmed in December, 2014. I helped on her

00:53:25.540 election campaign as the constituency secretary. During November, she got us delegates fired up

00:53:32.080 about her 500 day plan. All the while she plotted to cross the floor. I felt hugely betrayed and so

00:53:37.660 did our constituency. The only thing I disagree strongly about with Premier Smith is hydrogen.

00:53:42.840 It's inefficient to make it. Hydrogen is difficult to contain. It also makes steel brittle. Any leak would

00:53:48.140 cause an explosion hazard, much worse than natural gas. I wish she'd get off the green scam bandwagon. 0.99

00:53:53.920 I have to say I had the exact same reaction when she mentioned hydrogen, but I didn't want to take

00:53:59.680 up time debating her and giving my point of view. I can do that later. I can do that right now.

00:54:04.760 I knew I had only, actually, we were only scheduled for 20 minutes. I think we stretched it to 33 or

00:54:10.240 something. So I thought I'm not going to spar with her. I'm just going to try and get her to answer as

00:54:15.800 many questions as I can. And I'll analyze it and think about it afterwards. But yeah, you're right. I think,

00:54:20.880 I think she's buying into the narrative that we have to get past oil. We're not moving past oil and gas

00:54:26.060 and we shouldn't because it's, it's a bounty for the world. Nick Bonet, if I'm saying that right.

00:54:33.280 Hi, Ezra and Steph. I just finished listening to your interview with Danielle tonight and wanted to

00:54:37.720 thank you for taking the initiative and producing such a great interview with our Premier. I'm writing

00:54:41.560 tonight asking if you would consider making this content public. I know it is behind the paywall,

00:54:45.680 but I feel the more people can hear this interview and listen to her speak so candidly

00:54:49.120 and practically, always with the interests of Albertans in the forefront, the more momentum

00:54:53.120 she would build in her campaign and touch the hearts and minds of many more Albertans doing

00:54:57.520 a shift of dishwashing on New Year's Eve. That was priceless. When was the last time you heard a

00:55:02.400 politician premier at that talk like this? Cheers. And thank you for the enormous amount of work

00:55:06.420 you and your team do in bringing us the real news. Much appreciated. Merry Christmas,

00:55:10.620 happy holidays and all the best in 2023 to everyone there. That's a very nice letter.

00:55:15.540 The answer is yes. I wanted to give that interview first to our paywall people, to you,

00:55:21.680 because you're spending eight bucks a month and I want to, you know, treat you as priority

00:55:25.820 people because you, you pay the bills. We are, however, releasing it. I think a different clip

00:55:32.380 a day for three or four days and we've already put some of it up on Twitter. So we will put

00:55:36.140 the entire video up in its, you know, the full interview. It's more than 30 minutes,

00:55:41.340 but you got the, it was like a sneak preview that you got. Yeah, obviously we want it out

00:55:47.180 and soon people are going to be focused on Christmas anyway, so we want it out pretty quick.

00:55:52.800 But thank you for your kind words. Well, that's the show for today. Until tomorrow,

00:55:58.320 on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters, you at home. Good night. Keep fighting for freedom.

00:56:03.420 Good night.

00:56:04.420 Good night.

Rebel News Podcast - December 23, 2022

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Time to reflect on another big year： Thoughts from Rebel News’ world headquarters

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