Rebel News Podcast - Good news： CN is suing the railway blockaders

00:00:00.000 Oh, hi there. Today, my Rebel fans, I'm taking a break from the virus to talk about something

00:00:05.020 before the virus that seems so long ago, a lawsuit filed by CN Rail against eco-terrorists

00:00:11.520 who were blockading their railway tracks in British Columbia. I have the 10-page statement

00:00:16.280 of claim from the B.C. courts, and I'll walk through it with you. Very interesting. Before

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00:00:31.280 Please do. Okay, here's the podcast.

00:00:48.120 Tonight, the first piece of good news I've seen in a long time. CN Rail is suing the blockaders. 0.95

00:00:54.320 It's May 1st, and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.

00:00:59.140 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?

00:01:02.800 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.

00:01:06.880 The only thing I have to say to the government, the wire publisher, is because it's my bloody

00:01:11.740 right to do so.

00:01:12.720 Remember the railway blockades that paralyzed Canada for months? Seems like a lifetime ago

00:01:23.000 before the Chinese virus crisis. This video clip here was one of the craziest images from that

00:01:27.920 time. This is from Ontario trying to derail a train for political purposes. That's, I'm sorry,

00:01:32.620 that's dictionary definition terrorism, by the way. It was in Ontario, though the purported

00:01:37.220 justification was solidarity with Indian bands in northern BC to oppose a $6 billion natural

00:01:43.780 gas pipeline there called Coastal Gas Link. Except that when we sent our reporter, Key and

00:01:48.820 Bextie, up to northern BC to visit the protesters, they weren't aboriginal. They weren't even from

00:01:53.980 BC. They were white anarchists, eco-terrorists brought in from Ontario. They were play-acting 0.97

00:02:00.760 that they were locals. They were impersonating Indians, sort of Elizabeth Warren-type protesters

00:02:05.840 when you think about it. It was foreign-funded white eco-protesters, you know, Gerald Butts

00:02:10.240 kind of people, Elizabeth Mays kind of people. And in fact, every single one of the Indian

00:02:15.560 bands along the route support the pipeline. Aboriginal businessmen and political leaders

00:02:20.220 filed affidavits with the courts saying how this pipeline is absolutely critical to their

00:02:24.840 communities. It's going to be a source of jobs and security for them. They hate these eco-interlopers,

00:02:30.880 these fakers. The media party, especially Trudeau's odious CBC state broadcaster, they obviously 0.92

00:02:36.680 sided with the white anarchists and ignored the local aboriginal support. The CBC pretends to like

00:02:41.680 indigenous people, but it's like the media party in the United States and blacks. They only like black 1.00

00:02:46.420 people when they follow a stereotype, namely that they support the Democrats and big government. 0.98

00:02:50.900 You've never seen anyone more vicious and more racist than a liberal journalist confronting a black 0.93

00:02:55.980 conservative. Except a CBC journalist confronting a pro-oil and gas Indian. Anyways, the media is 0.97

00:03:03.760 obviously a big problem here, but the bigger problem, frankly, was the police. They just stood by as these

00:03:08.720 blockades happened. As you know, Trudeau handpicked the new RCMP commissioner, Brenda Lucky, and she

00:03:13.740 literally does whatever Trudeau says. She's why Trudeau never had to worry about an investigation into his

00:03:18.440 corruptions in the SNC-Lavalin matter. That hug I just showed you, extremely unprofessional, which is

00:03:24.380 Trudeau's way of handling women. Every woman in his cabinet has to physically hug him. Right during

00:03:30.020 that, in the middle of the corruption scandal, Trudeau did that hug. It's like a hug between two

00:03:35.420 mafia bosses, a pact of solidarity. Trudeau's a disgrace, but Brenda Lucky is worse because she's 1.00

00:03:42.020 supposed to be a cop. And so her police, and to be fair, pretty much every other police force in the 0.95

00:03:48.560 country just absolutely bent the knee to these criminal blockaders. They just stood there and

00:03:53.520 washed. Until one sunny day, a group of unemployed Alberta oil men just went to one blockade and just

00:03:58.660 removed the junk from the railroad tracks put in the back of a dump truck. Just did what the cops and

00:04:03.020 the politicians and the media wouldn't do, couldn't do. They were citizens. And of course, cleaning up

00:04:07.040 junk is actually what environmentalism looked like. So those lads just did it. Of course, they were

00:04:12.800 smeared as racists and vigilantes by the liberal McLean's magazine. Chase Chomey, the oil worker who was

00:04:18.320 smeared, is suing McLean's now with our help. It's a bit of justice. And it proves we can fight back.

00:04:23.120 And that brings me to the news today. CN Rail is suing the blockade terrorists. That's what you are

00:04:29.060 if you use violence, threats of violence to achieve political aims. It's terrorism. Here's some of the

00:04:33.720 more dangerous eco-terrorists in Ontario literally pushing things onto the rails, burning debris,

00:04:38.220 throwing rocks at the window of the train engineer. They want to stop the train, to derail it,

00:04:42.980 to damage it, maybe to burn it, maybe to injure or, God forbid, even kill the conductor. So CN is suing,

00:04:48.100 I'm so delighted to say. They're suing in British Columbia. And here's the news story about it.

00:04:53.120 CN lawsuit alleges $270 million in freight was hit by rail blockade in Northern BC.

00:04:59.440 A major rail line blockaded by protesters in lawn chairs in support of anti-pipeline movement.

00:05:06.620 Yeah, a bit more than lawn chairs there, mate. Let me read a bit.

00:05:10.780 CN Rail has filed a lawsuit against protesters who allegedly, what? Allegedly? Blocked trains,

00:05:16.460 dozens of restraints in Northern BC in February in support of it to attain First Nation. Okay,

00:05:21.180 so that's a sentence there. I count it. I think there's 27 words there. And there's only 20 words

00:05:25.820 if you take out little words like the and of. So it's a very short sentence, and yet there are two

00:05:30.440 falsehoods in it, or at least misdirections. Protesters who allegedly blocked the trains.

00:05:36.360 Allegedly? What? There's a picture right there of them blocking the trains. It's right there.

00:05:41.540 Do I have to call that an alleged picture? An alleged picture in an alleged website by Justin Trudeau's

00:05:46.640 alleged state broadcaster. The alleged Queen of England today said, no, no, no, no, no. It's not

00:05:51.860 alleged. It happened. I mean, there may be a question of whether or not it was a crime,

00:05:57.200 but it happened. They blocked the trains. Again, remember what the CBC wrote just earlier this

00:06:00.840 week? They were talking about the persecution of the Falun Gong religious group in China.

00:06:04.680 It's completely documented. It's undisputed. It's as true as the Tiananmen Square massacre.

00:06:10.080 I mean, the only people in the world who deny it are the Chinese Communist Party, but the CBC wrote

00:06:16.760 of their persecution, they said, its followers say the Chinese government persecutes them and

00:06:22.520 oppresses their religious rights. Okay, got it. So global warming is caused by your SUV. That's a

00:06:27.900 fact. Russia rigged the U.S. election. That's a fact. Carbon tax changes the weather. That's a fact.

00:06:35.200 Gun control stops criminals. All these things are facts, but it's only an allegation that the

00:06:42.820 Falun Gong are oppressed. Its followers say the Chinese government persecutes them. Jews say that

00:06:50.240 the Nazis killed them in what some call the... Jews say. That's the CBC. An alleged train... There

00:06:57.700 was allegedly people... That's true. That was a CBC state broadcaster. Never trust them, ever.

00:07:02.620 And that second part of the same sentence, in support of the Watuaten First Nation, that's a

00:07:07.240 lie, too. The truth is that every single Watuaten band along the route supports the pipeline. They

00:07:12.200 do. They want to work on it. They are working on it. They're going to get jobs and wealth and

00:07:15.920 security from it. Training, too. A chance to have jobs for their young people in their own

00:07:19.660 communities so they don't have to head down to Vancouver to make it in life. It's foreign-funded

00:07:24.000 eco-terrorists who are against it, but the CBC says that no, no, no, no, no, no, no. The Watuaten band is

00:07:29.780 against us. They're lying to you. They're liars. So let's stop reading their lies, and

00:07:33.800 let's look at the lawsuit itself. And so I had our lawyers call up the lawsuit, and you

00:07:38.420 can see the first thing is it was filed on February 10th. Well, it's May already, so it's

00:07:43.040 more than two months ago. Isn't that interesting that it only makes news now, which tells you

00:07:47.360 something. The bad guys, the eco-terrorists, they don't want this news out there. Far from

00:07:52.180 companies having to be afraid of bad PR. It's the opposite. The green pieces of the world

00:07:55.900 are afraid of bad PR, are afraid of other people maybe getting courage and suing, too.

00:08:00.040 They're afraid that ordinary people were turning against the lawbreakers. Isn't that

00:08:03.180 interesting? I bet they were nervous Nellies at CN that didn't want to sue. Oh, we'll be 1.00

00:08:07.380 eating live in the media. Well, obviously the CBC is going to hate you, but ordinary Canadians

00:08:11.980 are on your side. These eco-terrorists are the ones who should worry. So look at it. As you

00:08:17.220 can see in the document, the plaintiff is CN Rail. The defendants, for now, are named as

00:08:21.360 Joe and Jane Doe. Those are just dummy names, placeholders, until the actual identity of the

00:08:26.780 criminals can be found. And I hope they will be found. I'm sure they will be found. The

00:08:31.000 rest of the first page is just administrative details on the lawsuit. This whole thing is

00:08:35.160 only 10 pages long. It's very short. Let's go to page two. Statement of facts. Paragraph

00:08:40.080 one. CN introduces itself. Paragraph two. It describes the criminals as engaged in blockading

00:08:46.920 CN operations and obstructing, or otherwise impeding, counseling others to obstruct and

00:08:52.380 impede the movement or operation of CN's trains. I like that. So it's not just those who did

00:08:56.560 it, but those who counseled others to do it. The ringleaders. I wonder if it's a poor

00:09:00.680 Berman or Gerald Butz are amongst them. Paragraphs three to six just describe what CN's operations

00:09:06.620 are like. They ship important goods of every description all around North America, but there's

00:09:10.480 focus on Canada and BC. If you go to the next page, the third page, you'll see more descriptions.

00:09:15.580 Let me just read paragraph 10 just because it's interesting. CN operates an average of

00:09:20.600 18 commodity, passenger, mixed freight, and container freight trains daily over the BCN

00:09:25.940 North line. These trains are on average 10,000 feet long with 160 cars, and each may carry freight

00:09:32.080 from multiple customers. 10,000 feet long. That's almost two miles. Imagine that train trying

00:09:40.240 to stop on a dime because some thug is trying to derail it on the track. That's what happened

00:09:44.300 there. Stopping a train that long, it's like stopping a ship. It doesn't happen immediately.

00:09:49.440 By the way, you'll see the underlying paragraphs 12, 13, 14, etc. That just means that those paragraphs

00:09:54.660 were added in an amended version of the lawsuit. That's to show the judge what's new in the amended

00:09:59.820 lawsuit. In particular, such as paragraph 16, you can see they were putting in the dollar amount

00:10:04.600 in question. CN moves over $100 million a day along the whole BC South line. So, okay, next page,

00:10:10.080 we're halfway through. It's a description of the blockade. It's a short lawsuit. Starting on or

00:10:14.820 about February 8th, 2020, protesters blockaded, obstructed, or otherwise impeded or counseled

00:10:19.540 others to obstruct or impede the movement of CN's trains. 18, the protesters purportedly

00:10:26.500 in support of the Wetsuotan Nation. I like that, purportedly. That's the word I use because,

00:10:30.800 as we've told you before, the Wetsuotan First Nation supports the pipeline, probably supports

00:10:35.380 CN Rail 2. So, it's interesting. This lawsuit was filed almost immediately, right? Protests started

00:10:40.300 in earnest on Feb 8. The lawsuit was filed and amended, again, Feb 10. That's very fast.

00:10:47.200 Paragraph 20. Between February 8th and February 9th, 2020, approximately 31 freight trains have been

00:10:53.220 stopped through the blockade. You can see they added more details about the damages and the danger.

00:10:58.160 I posted this entire 10-page lawsuit on our website if you want to read it in full. It's interesting

00:11:02.400 reading. You don't have to be a lawyer to understand it. It's pretty well written and clear.

00:11:07.020 Paragraph 25. As a result of the blockade, CN has suffered and will continue to suffer

00:11:11.380 significant economic damages. Of course they will, and of course they have. 28. CN will provide

00:11:17.300 full particulars of damages prior to trial. Yeah, so they'll just gather all their facts. Okay.

00:11:23.940 Paragraph 29. It gets into the relief sought. That's what they're going to ask the court to do for

00:11:29.640 them, including 29A. They're asking for a restraining order. I won't read the whole thing.

00:11:34.220 It's pretty detailed. I'll summarize it. Stop trespassing on their train tracks and their right

00:11:38.280 of way. Stop obstructing and stop telling people to obstruct. Look at subparagraph V there. Stop

00:11:45.340 people who are physically preventing, interfering, restricting, or in any way physically interfering

00:11:50.120 with the removal of any objects from the line. I guess those eco-terrorists were harassing the

00:11:55.840 maintenance crews that were clearing the tracks. Lots more details. Ordering police to assist with

00:12:01.200 enforcement. Yeah, good luck with that. Brenda Luckey knows who she obeys. By the way, the police

00:12:06.820 are too busy patrolling playgrounds and park benches to help. And then paragraph C. Damages. That means

00:12:12.600 money. So that's good to see, and I hope they proceed. But I note again that this lawsuit was filed

00:12:17.400 back in February when the blockades were raging before the virus froze the whole country. It's pitiful

00:12:22.440 that they had to file this at all. You normally don't have to go to civil court to ask a judge

00:12:26.540 to write to the police to ask them to, you know, be police. But I like the lawsuit. I don't know if

00:12:31.700 it's up to date. I've had our lawyers reach out to the court to check the case file, see if anything's

00:12:36.460 moving on it. But I can't help but note again that this was filed in February, and yet the CBC's

00:12:41.120 crack reporter in northern B.C. says, quote, in a claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court this week.

00:12:47.620 No, no, no. It wasn't this week. It was this year, sister. So here's what I take away from this.

00:12:53.380 One, you can't trust Trudeau's politicized RCMP to help you when it's a left-wing criminal. You

00:12:59.980 have to go to court yourself and hope for the best. Number two, CN Rail finally did that. They

00:13:05.180 were in such jeopardy. They stopped being afraid of the bad press. And guess what? Bad press didn't

00:13:09.680 really come. Three, as usual, you can't trust the CBC. In fact, whatever they say, the opposite is

00:13:16.060 likely true. Here they didn't even get the date of the lawsuit right. They were weird. Four, and finally,

00:13:21.760 I think Canadians are sick of all this bad behavior and eco-terrorists maybe are sensing

00:13:28.220 it. Normally you sue leftists and they squawk, oh, you're shutting us down but not here. They're

00:13:32.980 being quiet because I think maybe they know the mood in the country is turning against them.

00:13:36.480 Good, good. I'll dig more into this to see if the lawsuit is actually proceeding or if it's just

00:13:40.880 stopped because of the virus shutting down the courts. I'm glad that finally job creators in Canada

00:13:45.620 like CN Rail are fighting back against foreign-funded eco-terrorists. So while there are a few asterisks

00:13:50.900 here, a few caveats, would you agree? It's great to see someone, anyone, finally fighting back.

00:13:57.540 You said that Michael Flynn would come back even bigger and better. So are you going to pardon him? And if so,

00:14:16.500 are you considering to bring him back into your administration?

00:14:18.880 It looks to me like Michael Flynn would be exonerated based on everything I see. I'm not

00:14:25.040 the judge, but I have a different type of power. But I don't know that anybody would have to use

00:14:31.040 that power. I think he's exonerated everything. I've never seen anything like it. What they did,

00:14:35.920 what they wrote, you see this general, you wouldn't want this happening to you, what they did to

00:14:39.760 General Flynn. That is U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday talking about bringing back General Flynn,

00:14:46.560 who was the target of an FBI sting operation to knock him out of Trump's office and perhaps bring

00:14:56.240 down Trump himself. But new evidence has emerged that he was set up deliberately by the FBI. Joining

00:15:02.800 us now from the Los Angeles area via Skype is our friend Joel Pollack, senior editor at large

00:15:08.000 breitbart.com. Help explain this, Joel. Hi, great to see you. Not all Canadians and even not all 1.00

00:15:15.600 Americans know who General Flynn is. Tell us who he is and tell us how he got thrown out of the Trump

00:15:20.960 administration and why he might be coming back. Well, first of all, General Michael Flynn is a military

00:15:30.080 veteran career officer over three decades of experience. He actually served in the Obama administration

00:15:36.400 before having something of a falling out with them. And he joined the Trump campaign. And for the last

00:15:43.680 several months of the Trump campaign in 2016, he was the warm up speaker. Whenever you saw Michael

00:15:50.240 Flynn come to the stage, you knew Trump was coming next. And Trump liked being introduced by a retired

00:15:55.280 general. And then once Trump won, General Flynn became the architect of Trump's national security policy.

00:16:02.640 And he took a lot of the policies that he had supported during the Obama years, which Obama had not

00:16:09.520 supported. And he used his views to shape President Trump's national security agenda.

00:16:15.840 And he was in the process of implementing all of his policies in early January 2017, just after President

00:16:23.680 Trump took office, when the FBI conducted what amounts to a sting operation against him. But they were

00:16:30.720 investigating something that isn't really a crime. They set up a meeting with him at the White House

00:16:35.280 without warning him that they were investigating him. And they brought senior officials in. They

00:16:39.680 schmoozed with him. He gave them a tour of his new offices in the West Wing and so forth. It was

00:16:44.240 a friendly visit. They never told him, as they're required to do by their own policy, that he was a

00:16:48.560 target of investigation. And their whole purpose now, it appears, was to try to get him to lie about

00:16:54.720 something or to get him to claim to them that he had not spoken to the Russian ambassador when,

00:17:02.080 in fact, he had. When he was preparing to come into office with President Trump, he had calls with world

00:17:09.360 leaders. He spoke to policymakers, all that sort of thing. And it just so happened that there was an

00:17:14.720 intercept, a wiretap on the phone calls with the Russian ambassador, a guy named Sergey Kislyak.

00:17:21.760 And Flynn spoke twice to Kislyak. In one instance, he mentioned sanctions. The Obama administration,

00:17:27.760 attempting, in a sense, to shut the door after the horse had bolted, they tried to accuse Russia

00:17:33.440 of interfering in the election. And they slapped sanctions on some Russians living in the United

00:17:38.560 States. They closed a Russian facility of some sort. And Flynn called the Russian ambassador to

00:17:43.520 say, let's not escalate this. Let's just start fresh in the new administration, more or less.

00:17:47.600 That was later described as Flynn telling them not to sweat the new sanctions, which isn't quite what

00:17:52.800 he said. But in any case, he had this conversation with the Russian ambassador. The FBI picked it up,

00:17:58.240 and it was leaked illegally to The Washington Post, which published the fact that he had this

00:18:03.840 conversation. That created embarrassment for Flynn because he told the vice president, apparently,

00:18:08.240 that he hadn't discussed sanctions with Kislyak. And maybe he just hadn't remembered. Maybe the word

00:18:13.520 sanctions hadn't been used. Maybe he simply said, let's not get into a tit-for-tat. I think the phrase

00:18:17.680 tit-for-tat was used. But in any case, the FBI then tried to meet with Flynn, and they were investigating

00:18:24.560 him under something called the Logan Act of 1799. The Logan Act prevents private citizens from conducting

00:18:30.160 diplomacy. The charge would be that Flynn, before he became national security advisor, was not entitled to

00:18:36.720 to talk to the Russian ambassador about American foreign policy. But a national security advisor,

00:18:42.320 even one who's just coming in and hasn't taken office, is arguably entitled to conduct diplomacy

00:18:48.000 because they're preparing a transition to a new administration. And also, no one is ever prosecuted

00:18:52.640 over the Logan Act. Yes, we want to discourage private individuals from conducting diplomacy,

00:18:57.360 like John Kerry, retired Secretary of State, going to Iran and telling them to wait out the Trump

00:19:02.240 administration. Trump now calls that a violation of the Logan Act. He wouldn't have said that until they

00:19:06.080 went after Flynn. But anyway, Trump now says that's a violation of the Logan Act. And Trump's right.

00:19:10.320 That's the kind of thing the Logan Act is intended to discourage. But it's never been criminally

00:19:14.160 prosecuted, or maybe once or twice, very, very rarely. And anyway, they cooked up this idea of going

00:19:19.760 after Flynn on the basis of the Logan Act. They used that to try to entrap him in what they call

00:19:25.200 a process crime, where he misstates something or misremembers something. You can be prosecuted for lying

00:19:29.840 to the FBI if you simply misremember something. So they got him to misremember or misstate something.

00:19:35.200 He, of course, didn't know he was being interviewed. He was just talking to senior officials in law

00:19:38.960 enforcement, welcoming the new administration, as far as he thought. And in any case, they then

00:19:45.200 charged him with lying to the FBI. They forced him, in a sense, to plead guilty and strike a plea bargain

00:19:51.600 because they alleged or they allegedly were going to go after Flynn's son, who apparently worked for

00:19:57.520 a company Flynn ran that did lobbying. And the son hadn't properly disclosed something about contacts

00:20:04.000 with Turkey. Some nonsense, basically. But they threatened to go after his son. And so Flynn finally

00:20:08.320 said, OK, I'll plead guilty. And he resigned from the administration. He was actually asked to resign

00:20:14.320 because they said he had lied to the vice president about this discussion of sanctions. But of course,

00:20:17.600 the Trump administration didn't know what was going on. They just knew what the media were saying.

00:20:21.440 They knew what the FBI was saying. They knew what they'd been told internally, but very hard in this

00:20:25.600 fog of war to understand exactly what had happened. The movement behind Trump was outraged that this

00:20:31.680 had happened to Flynn. And they feel he was and still feel that they felt and feel that he was being

00:20:36.720 set up. And now the new evidence emerged this week that, in fact, he was being set up, that the FBI

00:20:41.600 knew what they were doing. They knew they hadn't warned him that they were going to be investigating

00:20:46.640 him. They also tried to close the case. There were normal career officials at the FBI who said,

00:20:51.280 there's nothing to investigate here. We can't find anything, quote unquote, derogatory about him.

00:20:55.520 And then senior officials in the FBI, including Peter Strzok, but also acting on the orders

00:20:59.840 of the chief executive offices in the FBI, they kept the case open. It's clear that they were trying

00:21:06.400 to use Flynn to get at bigger fish, to get at Trump, and maybe simply just to disrupt the new

00:21:12.720 administration because they were talking in notes that have emerged this week, talking about trying

00:21:18.000 to get him to lie or getting him fired. Yeah. So here's one of those handwritten notes, just

00:21:24.000 incredible, where one cop says to another, what's the goal here? Is it to get him to lie so we can

00:21:32.400 prosecute him? Is it to get him fired? So is the goal truth or an admission or to get him to...

00:21:39.840 Imagine a cop and his goal is to trick you specifically. I know you've got to go in a

00:21:47.040 second, Joel, but tell us what it means when we now have proof that was a transcript, but the actual

00:21:53.360 handwritten note was disclosed as well. The cops actually made a note saying, let's basically trick

00:22:00.400 and trap this guy to embarrass... Like, how is that not... How is that cop not being prosecuted? It's one

00:22:07.760 thing to exonerate Flynn, but shouldn't that cop be prosecuted? Well, it's a little bit more

00:22:14.800 complicated, no less sinister, but a little more complicated. They weren't memorializing a decision

00:22:22.720 to go after him. The notes, as far as we know, simply document a discussion where this was raised.

00:22:29.600 Are we going after some form of truth or are we simply going to entrap him? Now, the FBI does use

00:22:38.880 these process crimes to break open difficult cases. Law enforcement in this country actually does not

00:22:44.000 have that many tools to conduct investigations. And so you might say if they were investigating a

00:22:49.600 legitimate criminal case, let's say involving the mafia or something like that, you might use a small crime,

00:22:56.320 like lying to the FBI to put pressure on a member of a conspiracy to plead and implicate everybody else

00:23:02.400 in what you know must be happening, but you can't prove. What they wanted to do was use Flynn and

00:23:08.720 specifically Robert Mueller, the guy who ran the Russia investigation, they wanted to use Flynn to

00:23:12.320 try to get him to turn against Trump. They thought, well, we haven't come up with anything, but maybe if

00:23:16.560 we turn the screws on Flynn, maybe if we prosecute him, he'll turn against Trump, he'll provide

00:23:21.920 information. The problem was there was no information to provide. He did actually cooperate with the

00:23:26.240 Mueller investigation. That's what we were told for months. He was being cooperative and so forth.

00:23:29.600 There was nothing to say. But the real problem that comes out of these notes, this new evidence

00:23:34.080 that's been turned over under a rule called the Brady Rule, where the prosecutors have to provide

00:23:38.080 the defense with all potentially exculpatory information, they turned over these notes. What's

00:23:42.320 really there, not just in the notes, but also the notes plus the emails, you have to read them in

00:23:46.320 concert because there's also text messages. What they established is they weren't investigating Flynn

00:23:53.200 for anything. In other words, they were going to meet with him. They had started an earlier

00:23:58.800 investigation for the Logan Act, which is bogus to begin with. It's like me investigating you for

00:24:03.680 being left-handed or something. It's just not done. It created a pretext for an investigation,

00:24:08.800 but even after that, they found nothing incriminating. Instead of closing the case, they decided to keep

00:24:14.560 it open and then have this meeting with him. You can indict someone for a process crime if you're

00:24:20.080 actually investigating them for doing something wrong. They went in there knowing he had done

00:24:25.920 nothing wrong. That's what's outrageous about this, that the whole investigation was based on an archaic law

00:24:32.480 that's never enforced, that he hadn't violated anyway, and they had already tried to use it to find evidence

00:24:38.320 of some other wrongdoing and had come up empty. They were going to close the case. The ordinary career

00:24:43.760 investigators if the FBI would have closed the case, but the senior brass needed this case open

00:24:49.200 to try to get at Trump. And so they set up this meeting with Flynn. This is what emerges out of

00:24:53.680 all of these documents that have come out. They set up Flynn with a meeting trying to get him to lie

00:25:00.320 or, as the notes suggest, maybe trying to get him to tell the truth, but they already knew the truth.

00:25:06.080 They knew he had spoken to the Russian ambassador and there was nothing to it. So they were asking him

00:25:10.160 essentially about lawful activities, trying to get him to lie about lawful activities.

00:25:15.040 If he lied about the lawful activities, they could prosecute him for lying. And that's really the

00:25:20.640 outrage here, is that they went in knowing this was an innocent man and they knew he might lie about

00:25:26.400 something that was lawful, but it's illegal to lie to the FBI. He didn't lie or he may have lied. We don't

00:25:32.000 know. He may have simply have misremembered. They didn't take very good notes about what they spoke to

00:25:35.680 Flynn about. And he doesn't remember. And remember, he didn't go in there with a pen and pad. He didn't

00:25:40.320 go in there with a lawyer. He didn't think he was being investigated. They didn't tell him. That's the

00:25:43.920 other part of this. They did not give him notice he was under investigation. They didn't give him the

00:25:47.840 warning that you're talking to the FBI now and anything you say could be used against you and you

00:25:51.840 have to be truthful and accurate. They didn't say any of that. So they set this guy up. And it's outrageous that in a

00:26:01.680 democracy with a bill of rights and a fervent belief in individual liberty, that you could have

00:26:08.480 this happen. The corruption is not just with the guy who took the notes and the FBI agent who wrote

00:26:14.320 all this down. The corruption starts at the top. It starts in what they call the seventh floor. It's

00:26:19.360 in the executive suite at the FBI. Those were the people who kept this case open. James Comey was the

00:26:24.720 director. And if you're looking for someone to investigate, it's probably James Comey.

00:26:29.520 We need to know more about this. We need to know more about the people who helped him. We need to

00:26:33.600 know more from Peter Strzok, etc. And we may find out more because Attorney General William Barr has

00:26:39.520 this prosecutor, John Dunham or Durham, on the case. He's the Connecticut U.S. Attorney. And he's the guy

00:26:49.360 who's got this grand jury investigated or impaneled. Durham's got this grand jury to look into

00:26:56.480 criminal, potential criminal violations by the FBI in the investigation of Trump and his campaign. So

00:27:03.520 we may see some criminal indictments coming because what it looks like they did here was they violated

00:27:10.240 this guy's rights and lied about it, basically. So if there's not a criminal indictment, there should

00:27:16.160 at least be some sort of career consequences, maybe disbarment for those of the FBI agents who are

00:27:21.600 attorneys. This is very serious. It's about as bad as it gets. That's incredible. Well,

00:27:25.920 Joel Pollack, thank you for helping us understand it. My own emotional reaction is that Donald Trump

00:27:33.200 should not only pardon General Flynn, but appoint him to be the next director of the FBI. Joel,

00:27:40.080 great to see you again. Take care. Have a great weekend. Thanks for taking the time with us, my friend.

00:27:44.640 Yeah, no problem. All right. There you have it. Joel Pollack, senior editor at large of Breitbart.com.

00:27:49.600 General Michael Flynn, what do you think? Let me know. Send me an email at ezra at rebelnews.com. Stay with us. More ahead.

00:28:05.360 On my monologue yesterday about temporary foreign workers being modern day slavery, Willow writes,

00:28:10.240 my daughter worked for a grape farm and apple farm that mostly had foreign workers. The conditions

00:28:14.960 were deplorable. They didn't even have the right or the facility to go to the bathroom. The labor laws 0.93

00:28:19.200 don't seem to apply to these businesses. Yeah, I tell you, I've received a couple of letters from

00:28:23.440 farmers who are mad that I'm implying they're like slave plantation owners. Well, it's not the same,

00:28:28.560 obviously. You don't physically own the person. There's no violence on them. But I'm sorry,

00:28:33.280 it's cheap labor. And you know, I think Canadians would pay an extra 10 cents an apple.

00:28:40.160 Knowing it was picked by a Canadian worker. And you had labor standards and wage standards,

00:28:47.120 and we weren't importing hundreds of cases of the virus. And it's not even about the virus anymore.

00:28:51.840 We got 20% unemployment. So yeah, I think that Canadians like to eat for, you know, a century or 1.00

00:29:01.360 two. We've done farming on our own. I think we can do it again. It's something for which you need some

00:29:08.800 training and some skills. But you don't need like a seven year medical degree to do it. I think we can

00:29:13.680 train Canadians to do these jobs. Patrick writes, I own a landscape construction company. The workers

00:29:19.680 of the plant material suppliers are all temporary foreign workers from Jamaica. They come here to 0.99

00:29:23.760 work minimum wage and live in bunks without electricity at the back of their property. Modern

00:29:28.080 slavery is finest. Isn't that incredible? You know, and again, obviously those Jamaican temporary 1.00

00:29:33.760 foreign workers must think it's better than not coming here and living in bunk beds without 1.00

00:29:38.240 electricity. But I tell you again, I mean, I'm, I was deeply moved by when I went to the

00:29:44.480 Lincoln Memorial, I read all those things engraved on the wall. And he really did want to stop the war.

00:29:50.240 I think he did. He wanted to keep the union together at any cost. In fact, I won't go into his letter

00:29:58.880 where he went, it described how far he would go. But there's something powerful and biblical saying

00:30:04.800 the great waste and the great death and the great cost of the Civil War was like a moral

00:30:12.240 equilibrium for the cost of slavery itself. And I don't think that temporary foreign workers and 0.94

00:30:22.800 that whole program is as immoral by any stretch as slavery. But if we're looking for a cheap shortcut

00:30:31.440 to save a few pennies on your apples and, and your other, you know, fish or other places where

00:30:39.520 temporary foreign workers work, Tim Horton's drive through, I'm sorry, I just don't accept that moral 1.00

00:30:44.320 trade off anymore. I just don't. Dylan writes, I worked as an employment consultant from 2005 to 2010.

00:30:51.360 When I called HR people to place Albertans, I was consistently told when we fill our foreign

00:30:56.000 workers quota, we will let you know what positions are left. Yeah. You know what? I'm just not interested

00:31:00.480 in telling Canadians, sorry, we're undercutting you because we found some foreigners who are so 1.00

00:31:06.320 desperate for work, we'll fly them in and they'll work in bad. You know what? If those laws, if our

00:31:13.120 workplace laws are correct, let's enforce them. If they're wrong, let's remove them. But you literally

00:31:20.240 are creating an underclass, a working caste, a deplorable, no, that's the, what's the word? The 1.00

00:31:27.440 untouchables. That's the word I was looking for. An untouchables class. That's what they call it in

00:31:31.680 India. People who are beneath the law, beneath contempt. No, no, no, no, no. I don't accept 1.00

00:31:37.440 that. I don't accept that. And two million Canadians. Yeah, I think you could find a few dozen or a few

00:31:42.720 hundred to work on a farm, don't you? Let me know if you think I'm wrong. I got a few viewers paying

00:31:48.480 premium subscribers who were mad at me because they, one lady I didn't, maybe we should run her 1.00

00:31:53.280 letter next week said, you're implying I'm a slave owner. Not really. But I'm saying having an

00:31:58.720 underclass of low wage, low everything, foreign workers treated lowly, I'm sorry, that's not the

00:32:05.600 way. That's not the way. And will your costs go up by hiring Canadians? Yes, they will. And should 1.00

00:32:11.280 Canadians get used to paying those prices an extra dime for an apple? Yes, they should.

00:32:15.760 Let me know what you think. That's our show for today. Until Monday, on behalf of all of us here

00:32:23.200 at Rebel World Headquarters, to you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.

Rebel News Podcast - May 02, 2020

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