Rebel News Podcast - April 28, 2021


Justin Trudeau’s smear merchants issue a rare apology for lying about Rebel News


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Elizabeth Simons apologizes. She admits she lied. But who paid for her to lie? And why did she lie about it? And who paid her to make it up in the first place? Ezra LeVant explains.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, my rebels. Today, I want to read to you a very short apology that I received from a liar,
00:00:06.820 really. I mean, that's part of her apology is she confesses she lied. It's unusual for a liar to
00:00:13.180 admit it until they're absolutely painted into a corner, but I want to share it with you.
00:00:18.300 I'm glad I got this apology, even though, frankly, it's worthless because it's from a liar. She was
00:00:23.380 probably lying when she gave it to me, but I learned a lot about why she was lying and who 0.99
00:00:29.760 paid for her to lie. I think you'll find that very interesting. Before I get to that, let me invite
00:00:36.560 you to get to the video version of this podcast. You can get that by going to rebelnews.com and
00:00:42.760 just clicking subscribe. It's eight bucks a month. Get the video version of this show. Every week,
00:00:48.000 Sheila Gunn-Reed has a show. David Menzies has a show. Andrew Chapados has a show. And of course,
00:00:52.760 the eight bucks a month goes to pay our bills, which we need help because unlike this liar,
00:00:58.440 we don't get paid by the federal government. All right, here's today's show.
00:01:08.720 Tonight, Justin Trudeau's smear merchants issue a rare apology for a lot of the
00:01:22.740 lying about rebel news, but that doesn't mean they're going to stop. It's April 27th,
00:01:27.900 and this is the Ezra LeVant Show.
00:01:31.740 Why should others go to jail when you're a biggest carbon consumer I know?
00:01:35.360 There's 8,500 customers here, and you won't give them an answer.
00:01:39.420 The only thing I have to say to the government about why I'm publishing it is because it's my
00:01:44.020 bloody right to do so.
00:01:50.300 Yesterday, I received an apology from someone named Elizabeth Simons. It's very short. Let me read it
00:01:58.200 to you. She says, I've deleted a tweet that suggested the Christchurch terrorist was incited
00:02:06.040 by Rebel News to commit violence. I did not have evidence to support that and apologize to Rebel News.
00:02:15.280 That apology went up on Twitter yesterday. She had made those disgraceful, defamatory accusations 0.95
00:02:21.980 against us back in December, more than four months ago. I'm not going to read her original smear. It
00:02:28.140 was so gross. And as you can see, even she admits she just made the whole thing up. There's a word
00:02:34.340 for someone like that. She's a liar. I asked her to apologize and correct it months ago. She refused.
00:02:42.880 It was only after I sued her that she grudgingly admitted that she lied about the whole thing.
00:02:48.980 She simply made it up. She didn't have any evidence other than her own hatred. What a hateful
00:02:56.780 little woman. And she only gave up that hate when she realized that if she didn't admit she's a liar
00:03:02.500 now, a judge would probably come to that conclusion a year from now, and that would be worse. She was
00:03:09.940 holding onto her hatred for me, and Rebel News so tightly, it was only that fear that made her apologize,
00:03:17.060 fear and hatred. And I tell you that because you're not going to believe this.
00:03:22.280 She's the deputy director of the Canadian anti-hate network. I know you think I must be kidding.
00:03:29.100 Someone so full of hatred, like Elizabeth Simons, that she would baselessly accuse someone of being
00:03:35.340 a terrorist. I mean, someone who hates so deeply that she hangs onto a lie for four months,
00:03:42.680 knowing she made it up. That's the deputy director of something called the Canadian
00:03:47.940 anti-hate network. Surely that's got to be an ironic joke. Well, it's not a joke, but it is
00:03:54.600 deliberately deceptive. Just like the phrase Antifa, you know, that's actually short for anti-fascist.
00:04:01.420 But we've all watched how Antifa, in fact, are the new fascists. They dress in black. They go out at
00:04:08.160 night and burn and riot and loot. That's fascism, because they do it for their hard left-wing
00:04:14.980 politics. But it's not a joke that they call themselves Antifa. It's disinformation. It's
00:04:21.500 misdirection. It's to throw their critics off balance. So that when you say, wow, look at those
00:04:26.700 fascist street thugs, they say, well, you must be wrong, because we call ourselves Antifa. We can't
00:04:32.700 be fascist. No, you are. You're just lying about your name. Same thing here. Some of Canada's most
00:04:39.220 hateful extremists on the left have created this lobby group called the Canadian Anti-Hate Network
00:04:44.720 in precisely the same manner. Their name is false advertising. Even the word Canadian in their name
00:04:51.460 is false. There is no real Canadian support for these smear merchants. People don't like liars much.
00:04:56.980 They were literally started with a grant from a U.S. smear group that specializes in accusing
00:05:03.740 conservatives of being racist. Here's the TVO story about how they were starting. Let me quote.
00:05:10.240 While they're still fundraising for a set of permanent research staff, they've received a
00:05:15.160 startup grant from the SPLC. That's the Southern Poverty Law Center. It's an American political war room
00:05:22.080 with a sordid history of just making up smears too. For example, there's this wonderful progressive
00:05:29.200 Muslim broadcaster and activist in the United Kingdom named Majid Nawaz. I've mentioned him before,
00:05:35.340 especially on my noon hour live show. He's very pro-Western, very fair-minded. He's against radical
00:05:42.240 Islam. I really like him. Well, the SPLC smeared him and they called him, you guessed it, a terrorist.
00:05:49.960 They're a little bit Islamophobic over there at the SPLC. Well, he sued them and they were stubborn
00:05:56.460 at first, just like their Canadian branch plant was. But then the SPLC gave him a groveling apology
00:06:03.320 and one of the largest defamation settlements I've ever seen. Let me quote from the SPLC's website.
00:06:09.600 As part of our settlement, we have paid $3.375 million to Mr. Nawaz and Quilliam to fund their work
00:06:20.680 to fight anti-Muslim bigotry and extremism. It looks like the SPLC and their Canadian branch plant
00:06:27.840 still haven't learned. So who is this Canadian anti-hate network that is actually an American
00:06:35.100 hate network? Who is this Elizabeth Simons who smeared us? I should tell you that she isn't just 1.00
00:06:44.200 full of hatred and she isn't just a deep-seated liar. I think she's a bit of a coward too. She hid 0.55
00:06:50.380 from us when we tried to sue her. And when we found her, she put up that apology tweet very briefly,
00:06:56.600 just long enough to take a screenshot of it for later use. And then she deleted it and shut down
00:07:01.640 her whole Twitter account from which she had smeared us. What a weird little coward. What a weird thing 1.00
00:07:06.860 to do. I demanded that she put the account on Twitter back up and republish that apology and 0.73
00:07:13.800 keep it up for at least 90 days. I'm pleased to say that in the last 24 hours since she did
00:07:20.400 acquiesce to my demands, according to Twitter analytics, my tweets about her grudging apology
00:07:27.380 had been seen more than 1 million times. So her attempt to hide her disgrace was foiled. But look,
00:07:35.620 it's not illegal for Elizabeth Simons to be a coward or to be full of hatred, although she argues for 0.85
00:07:42.320 people to be jailed for their hatred. Look, those are human emotions and they shouldn't be criminalized.
00:07:48.300 But what Elizabeth Simons tried to do to me in Rebel News, she's done time and again to any 1.00
00:07:54.400 conservative in Canada that she hates. And by that, I mean, she smears them as extremist or violent or
00:08:02.520 racist. She'll even suggest terrorism if she thinks she can get away with it. For example, 1.00
00:08:09.920 those gentle souls at Grace Life Church out in Edmonton. I don't think Elizabeth Simons has
00:08:15.460 ever been there. I'm pretty sure she hasn't. But she said that people who support them are extremists
00:08:22.860 and racists. Here's an example in an Airdrie newspaper, but I've seen this elsewhere.
00:08:28.240 She said, it would be accurate to say that the event attracted far right and right wing conspiracy
00:08:36.320 minded individuals for sure, said Elizabeth Simons, the deputy director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network,
00:08:42.900 who was monitoring the crowd. I actually think that's a lie, too. I don't think she was even there to
00:08:50.200 monitor the crowd. The thing is, now that we know she's a confessed liar, you really can't trust
00:08:55.640 anything she says, even basic facts, can you? I'll quote some more. Two months ago, hundreds of
00:09:02.240 anti-mask and lockdown protesters marched the streets of Edmonton and chanted, no more fake news
00:09:07.760 and no more fake science, Simon said. Hang on. You, Elizabeth, just admitted to creating a fake news
00:09:17.380 story about Rebel News. You just admitted to making it all up. And you wonder, you wonder why people call
00:09:23.480 you fake news? I guess it stings, right? Or look at this. She also smeared the pro oil patch folks at 0.83
00:09:30.960 United We Roll. And look at this. She smeared the Wexit folks as racist. She said people who are
00:09:39.400 against lockdowns and extreme pandemic measures are racist. I get the feeling she calls anyone she
00:09:47.360 doesn't like a racist. Let me quote. According to Simons, far right and white nationalist groups
00:09:53.220 and supporters are directly involved in organizing many similar rallies across Canada. It's hugely
00:10:00.460 concerning seeing this trend right across the country, she said. She just calls everyone
00:10:06.320 racist. And she even says that there are plans to have a terrorist-style attack on Parliament,
00:10:14.820 not by Muslim terrorists who actually did attack Parliament, you might recall a few years back,
00:10:20.200 but by conservatives. Are you noticing a trend here? Ever since that U.S. hate group, the SPLC,
00:10:28.480 set up this ironically named Canadian Anti-Hate Network, they've been smearing Canadian Conservatives
00:10:35.220 as racist and violent. Here they are smearing the Manning Foundation. That's Preston Manning's group.
00:10:43.380 It's hardly right-wing, really. And here they are attacking the Conservative Party of Canada
00:10:49.920 itself. Look, I haven't read every word on their hate site, but they only seem to accuse Conservatives
00:10:57.780 and Christians of hate, and me too, I'm Jewish, but never leftists, including the troubling wave of 0.70
00:11:06.020 anti-Semitic hate on the left. And in terms of extremism, they don't have a lot to say about extremist
00:11:14.360 Islamic-inspired terrorism, or even Sikh extremists, or Tamil Tiger extremists, none of that.
00:11:21.420 It's almost as if they only exist to smear, you know, Justin Trudeau's enemies and no one else.
00:11:31.160 And it appears that way because they signed a contract with Trudeau to do so. And I have a copy
00:11:40.560 of that contract right here for $268,000 of your tax money. Trudeau's Heritage Department, that's the
00:11:50.100 one run by Stephen Gilbeau, the convicted criminal, the would-be censor. He gave these little haters,
00:11:57.020 including Elizabeth Simons, $268,000 explicitly to smear Trudeau's enemies. I'll take you through the
00:12:05.680 contract. You can see right there at the top, it's a contract between the Government of Canada
00:12:10.300 and the Canadian Anti-Hate Network. And if you look at paragraph two, you can see the amount,
00:12:15.800 $268,000, $400. And the purposes are described in Annex A of the contract, so it's an attachment.
00:12:23.940 Let's go there now. The Canadian Anti-Hate Network, this is what they're being paid to do,
00:12:30.480 will increase the organization's capacity to counter online hate by hiring 14 members to carry
00:12:38.520 out the monitoring of extreme right groups, report on their activities, and file complaints with law
00:12:45.980 enforcement? It'll educate the public as to these groups and the damage they create?
00:12:53.940 So the Government of Canada, Justin Trudeau and Stephen Gilbeau, are using tax dollars to
00:13:00.420 pay this anti-hate group to spy on people? Because that's what they are doing. I just quoted
00:13:10.500 from Elizabeth Simons, the Confessed Liar. She wasn't monitoring the Grace Life Church online.
00:13:19.220 She was spying on what people who actually went to the church in support of the church were doing. See,
00:13:24.140 that's not an extreme right group. They're a church. People of all political stripes are there. I went to
00:13:31.640 that church. Lots of hugs. No one actually talked politics at all when I was there. There was certainly
00:13:36.820 no hate, except for the Canadian Anti-Hate Network and Elizabeth Simons hating the church. But you saw the
00:13:45.300 contract. It wasn't just to spy on their fellow citizens. It was to gin up fake complaints to police
00:13:55.380 against the church, against oil patch supporters in the United We Roll, against Wexit supporters.
00:14:02.660 Justin Trudeau is literally paying private operatives with tax dollars to spy on his political enemies
00:14:10.940 and to smear them in the media and to interfere in the legal and police processes to gin up complaints
00:14:19.560 and stir up strife. Justin Trudeau is paying dirty tricksters like the confessed liar Elizabeth Simons 0.79
00:14:27.340 to smear his political enemies. She tried to do it to me and I fought back and they all admitted
00:14:34.780 they're a bunch of character assassins who just made it all up. But you saw who else they're smearing.
00:14:40.940 who haven't fought back. This is not my theory. This is in the contract. And you paid for this
00:14:48.460 through more than a quarter million of your tax dollars. I'll read some more. Description of
00:14:54.920 activities proposed by the recipient. Monitoring members, supporters, and activities of hate groups.
00:15:02.680 Reporting findings through networks and 10,000 Facebook and Twitter groups. What does that mean?
00:15:08.860 Preparing and publishing profiles on hate groups and important influencers and holding three workshops
00:15:16.880 in Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia carried out online. So they're going to smear important
00:15:22.620 influencers, eh? You bet they are. Just type in any conservative leader into their website and you'll
00:15:28.960 see that if it's someone that Justin Trudeau hates, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network is going to call
00:15:35.420 them racist. That's what they're hired to do. Can you imagine if Stephen Harper or Jason Kenney
00:15:42.300 gave a quarter million tax dollars to some unaccountable lobby group to smear his enemies?
00:15:49.900 To stir up strife? To file spurious police reports? To go around demonizing Harper's enemies or
00:15:56.300 Kenney's enemies as racists or terrorists? That's what happened to me. Elizabeth Simons,
00:16:04.240 the deputy director, who personally profited from this $268,000 grant, she knew exactly what her
00:16:12.080 masters wanted from her. They wanted her to lie and smear and defame and discredit me and Rebel News. 1.00
00:16:19.060 Read the contract. It's all in there. And so she did. And when faced with the prospect of being sued and
00:16:26.000 going to trial, only then did she admit that she just lied and made the whole thing up all along. She knew
00:16:35.600 she had no evidence, but she was paid to lie. That really is her job. Now, someone here at Rebel News had
00:16:48.020 made such a staggering and malicious smear against someone, knowing they had no evidence, calling
00:16:54.340 someone a terrorist, and then hid from accountability for months. I really think we'd have to fire that
00:17:01.200 person. But of course, that's because we don't call people terrorists unless we have evidence they're
00:17:05.860 terrorists. We're pretty careful with that. And if someone brings it to our attention that we're wrong,
00:17:10.880 we look at it immediately and correct it immediately if we're wrong, but the reason why the confessed liar
00:17:17.180 Elizabeth Simons has not in fact been fired from the Canadian Anti-Hate Network is that she did nothing
00:17:26.060 wrong other than she got caught. I mean, look at this notorious board of directors of the Canadian Anti-Hate
00:17:34.360 Network, including Richard Warman, the disgraced censor, who turned the Canadian Human Rights
00:17:41.660 Commission into his own personal piggy bank by prosecuting his personal enemies for profit.
00:17:47.440 His misconduct is why Parliament actually voted to remove the censorship power from the Canadian
00:17:53.480 Human Rights Commission. There's Kurt Phillips, who we at Rebel News exposed as an Antifa supporter. He's a
00:17:59.580 coward too. He was doing it in a hidden capacity. We revealed him. This is a group of
00:18:04.340 haters who started their little corporation with American money and now keep it going with Trudeau's
00:18:10.880 money. That is, with your money. So that's why Elizabeth Simons hasn't been fired for lying. 1.00
00:18:18.560 That's their business. Justin Trudeau isn't against hate. He's a financier of hate. Ask Elizabeth Simons,
00:18:28.940 ask this board of directors. They're not against disinformation. They're a producer of disinformation.
00:18:36.700 And Elizabeth Simons, the confessed liar, still has her job there with the support of that entire
00:18:43.980 rotten board. And you bet they'll get their government grant against next year. They'll get
00:18:49.280 their grant and probably even more. There's no money for our Canadian Armed Forces veterans, by the way.
00:18:56.600 My name is Brock Blaszczuk. I'm a retired corporal with the Princess Patrista Canadian Light Infantry
00:19:01.680 out of here in Edmonton, 1st Battalion. I served in the Canadian Armed Forces for seven years.
00:19:13.040 I deployed in Afghanistan back in 2009 until April 3rd, where I was obviously severely wounded by a roadside
00:19:23.860 bomb or an improvised explosive. As you can see, I've lost my left leg. I have 58% soft tissue loss and 88% nerve damage
00:19:36.340 on my right leg. Back in August 24th, 2015, you made the promise, and I'll quote it here,
00:19:47.940 no veteran will be forced to fight their own government for the support and compensation
00:19:52.740 they have earned. Yet, you are still currently in a legal battle with veterans regarding equal
00:20:02.580 support and compensation to their peers. You have ISIL or ISIS members coming into a reintegration program.
00:20:12.300 You did a backdoor deal with Omar Qadar, with not even stepping into the courtroom.
00:20:18.620 Because honestly, Mr. Prime Minister, I was prepared to be injured in the line of duty when I joined the military.
00:20:26.360 Nobody forced me to join the military. I was prepared to be killed in action.
00:20:31.880 What I wasn't prepared for, Mr. Prime Minister, is Canada turning its back on me.
00:20:44.200 On a couple of elements you brought up. First of all, why are we still fighting against certain
00:20:51.020 veterans groups in court? Because they're asking for more than we are able to give right now.
00:20:57.300 Yeah, you see, our veterans are asking for more than Trudeau will give them, but confessed liars
00:21:03.940 like Elizabeth Simons and the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, who falsely smear Trudeau's personal enemies,
00:21:12.060 oh, Trudeau has plenty of taxpayers' cash for them. Stay with us for more.
00:21:27.300 They had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads.
00:21:36.440 The accusations that John Kerry made against the veterans who served in Vietnam was just devastating.
00:21:44.060 Randomly shot at civilians.
00:21:45.940 And it hurt me more than any physical wounds I had.
00:21:48.700 Cut off limbs, blown up bodies.
00:21:51.860 That was part of the torture, was to sign a statement that you had committed war crimes.
00:21:56.000 Raised villages in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan. 1.00
00:22:00.260 John Kerry gave the enemy for free what I and many of my comrades in North Vietnam in the prison
00:22:07.420 camps took torture to avoid saying. It demoralized us.
00:22:11.700 Crimes committed on a day-to-day basis.
00:22:14.200 He betrayed us in the past. How could we be loyal to him now?
00:22:17.860 Ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam.
00:22:20.100 He dishonored his country and, more importantly, the people he served with.
00:22:24.520 He just sold them out.
00:22:26.000 Swift Boat Veterans for Truth is responsible for the content of this advertisement.
00:22:30.820 Well, that was a devastating ad run almost 20 years ago by John Kerry's colleagues,
00:22:38.720 the men who served with him in Vietnam.
00:22:42.600 Every one of them calling him a disloyal man and a liar.
00:22:47.500 A devastating ad that undid his attempt to run as a patriotic veteran.
00:22:55.240 Of course, John Kerry denounced the United States many times during the Vietnam War and made a big show of throwing away his medals in disgrace.
00:23:04.260 It should, therefore, come as no surprise, this story, which I'm reading from Breitbart.com,
00:23:11.080 Republicans demand investigation, resignation of John Kerry for allegedly leaking secrets to Iran.
00:23:18.600 And that's such a shocking allegation that it would almost be incredible were it not for the fact that that is exactly what John Kerry has done for 50 years of his career.
00:23:29.760 And, more importantly, there is audio tape obtained by the New York Times that seems to corroborate it.
00:23:36.580 Joining us now via Skype from the Los Angeles area is our friend Joel Pollack of Breitbart.com.
00:23:42.020 Joel, great to see you again.
00:23:43.020 I see two different responses by Joel, by John Kerry.
00:23:50.080 One is to deny it, as he does on Twitter.
00:23:53.540 The other is a State Department spokesman, Ned Price, saying,
00:23:57.420 oh, no, no, this is all publicly known.
00:23:59.560 There's no secrets here.
00:24:01.080 You're trying to blow up a nothing story.
00:24:02.760 So which is it?
00:24:03.940 Is he denying it?
00:24:05.260 Or is Ned Price of the State Department says, oh, this is all old, old hats?
00:24:09.980 Well, the fundamental problem of this story is that John Kerry was meeting with Javad Zarif et al.
00:24:19.860 And this has been controversial going back several years.
00:24:23.780 President Donald Trump at the time said that Kerry should be investigated under the Logan Act.
00:24:28.820 The Logan Act is an archaic law that prevents private citizens from conducting diplomacy.
00:24:34.560 It's never really enforced.
00:24:36.440 However, the Department of Justice did enforce it when they investigated National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
00:24:44.580 So it was good enough to use against Michael Flynn to undermine the Trump administration.
00:24:49.560 And it is certainly then applicable to John Kerry's flirtations with the Iranian foreign minister.
00:24:56.380 This happened, these conversations, at a time when Kerry was no longer Secretary of State,
00:25:01.000 and he was reassuring the Iranian regime that they should hang in there, wait out the four years of Donald Trump,
00:25:07.100 and they would get a more sympathetic Democratic administration after 2020.
00:25:11.740 So those conversations never should have been happening.
00:25:14.740 Now we hear through this leaked audio recording of an interview between Javad Zarif and an Iranian economist
00:25:20.680 about what was actually said in those meetings.
00:25:24.780 And according to Zarif, Kerry revealed that there had been 200 covert Israeli operations inside Syria.
00:25:33.380 Now, I'm not sure that the Iranian regime didn't know that,
00:25:36.700 because the targets of Israel's covert operations would certainly have been Iranian troops or advisors
00:25:41.840 or Iranian-backed militias in Syria.
00:25:44.880 So I'm not sure it came as news to the Iranian regime.
00:25:47.760 The State Department is also apparently relying on the fact that some of these covert operations were made public.
00:25:54.360 In fact, they have cited, or Kerry has cited, some newswire reports in his own defense,
00:26:00.620 saying that Israel had made these covert operations known or they had been reported by news agencies.
00:26:05.720 But that doesn't answer the question for us of timing.
00:26:10.340 When did these news reports come out?
00:26:12.640 Did they come out after Kerry spoke to Zarif or before?
00:26:15.920 If they came out before Kerry spoke to Zarif, well, then Zarif just doesn't read the news enough,
00:26:20.660 because if he had just read the news, he would have known this information.
00:26:23.180 But if these reports came out after Kerry spoke to Zarif,
00:26:26.920 then we have to ask a very serious question about whether Kerry was leaking classified information
00:26:30.900 or, at the very least, betraying an ally to one of our most determined enemies, to the Iranian regime.
00:26:38.760 And that's why Republicans are calling for Kerry's resignation.
00:26:42.980 We've never really had a satisfactory answer from John Kerry as to what he was doing,
00:26:46.760 canoodling with the Iranian regime, which is still shouting death to America, 0.97
00:26:51.420 at a time when his party happened to be out of power.
00:26:54.980 But that does not give him an excuse.
00:26:57.500 And Kerry now is the climate czar going around the world, flying around the world on private planes,
00:27:02.920 trying to tell everybody else how to live their lives.
00:27:04.560 But this is an example of him, again, being willing to sell out the national interest
00:27:10.800 for the sake of his party and really for his own vanity.
00:27:15.420 Yeah, I think there's a lot of all of those things there.
00:27:17.840 And I say again, the accusations that he made against America in Vietnam,
00:27:24.300 the smears against America in Vietnam,
00:27:26.300 all of which were refuted by the men who served with him on his very boat.
00:27:31.960 I think the reason that ad 20 years ago was so effective is because it was so convincing.
00:27:38.420 John Kerry can't be trusted was one of the taglines of those ads.
00:27:42.520 I think the same character flaws he showed in Vietnam, he showed in dealing with Iran. 0.98
00:27:50.040 You use the word leak, leaking the info about Israeli special operations.
00:27:55.220 The word leak feels fairly passive.
00:27:58.880 Oh, he leaked it to a journalist to get some press.
00:28:02.200 But to actually leak that information to an enemy, to the target of Israel's operations,
00:28:08.960 to the threatener of America, Israel, and all the moderate Sunni Gulf nations, 1.00
00:28:13.980 seems much more than a leak.
00:28:16.540 It almost rises to the level of, I don't even want to say the word espionage,
00:28:21.740 but when you're telling your enemy about secret operations that your side has done,
00:28:27.920 that's far worse than a leak.
00:28:29.860 I think it's astonishing.
00:28:31.800 Has Joe Biden or the White House weighed in on this in any way,
00:28:35.100 or are they just staying quiet on it?
00:28:37.680 They're staying quiet.
00:28:39.160 They have said they're not going to comment on leaks.
00:28:42.800 But you raise an interesting point, and you reminded me about something else.
00:28:45.880 If you have access to classified information, if you have security clearance,
00:28:49.680 you're not allowed to comment on something even after it becomes public.
00:28:52.860 As long as the information in that public disclosure is still considered classified,
00:28:57.000 you can't comment on it.
00:28:58.000 You're not home free just because it was reported in a newspaper somewhere.
00:29:01.340 So the questions need to be asked and answered,
00:29:04.740 and they can't just dismiss it by saying we're not interested in leaks.
00:29:07.740 All the media go on are leaks.
00:29:09.220 That's what journalism is about, is leaks.
00:29:11.020 So if you can't answer questions based on leaks, you're not answering any questions.
00:29:14.360 This is a very serious problem.
00:29:17.340 We have John Kerry, who has been playing footsie with the Iranian regime.
00:29:22.220 And this is a regime bent on the destruction of Israel.
00:29:25.020 They're developing ballistic missiles to threaten our allies in Europe and perhaps to threaten us.
00:29:29.740 They have attacked Americans in the past.
00:29:32.300 They've been responsible for the roadside bombs that killed hundreds of Americans in Afghanistan and Iraq and other places.
00:29:38.580 So this is a very serious problem.
00:29:41.180 And the State Department is not going to be able to duck it forever.
00:29:45.460 I mean, they can try, but there will be one or two reporters who stick it out, we hope.
00:29:49.780 Maybe Matt Lee of the Associated Press and, of course, those of us at Breitbart.
00:29:53.240 Matt Lee, of course, notorious for asking very pointed questions from administration to administration in the State Department briefings.
00:29:59.800 I think he's going to come back to this question quite frequently.
00:30:03.500 It's just not good enough to tell us that the information is leaks or some of what was leaked was classified.
00:30:09.640 It's not good enough.
00:30:10.500 Why is John Kerry talking about an ally to our enemy?
00:30:14.680 Yeah, that's just so shocking.
00:30:17.040 You know, it makes me think, I mean, John Kerry is in the twilight of his life.
00:30:21.620 I was slightly surprised when he got the post considering his age.
00:30:25.740 But heck, if Joe Biden can be president, anyone can be his climate envoy.
00:30:30.980 I think so much of it is he's trying to rewrite the final headlines of his legacy.
00:30:36.980 So much of Donald Trump's foreign policy was a rebuke to and a correction of John Kerry.
00:30:44.280 China being a huge part of that, global warming a huge part.
00:30:47.020 And Iran and the Middle East, perhaps most triumphantly for Trump, I think if any other president had presided over the Abraham Accords, 0.51
00:30:56.140 that's what was called the peace deals between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Israel and Bahrain, Israel and Sudan, Israel and Morocco, Israel and all these.
00:31:05.840 Like it's any one of those peace deals would have been a Nobel Peace Prize, let alone three, four, five.
00:31:11.400 And it's a warm peace.
00:31:12.560 Let me play for you a clip of John Kerry about a decade ago saying,
00:31:17.660 if Israel didn't give in to Palestinian totalist demands, peace in the Middle East was impossible.
00:31:25.340 Here, take a look at this.
00:31:27.460 There will be no separate peace between Israel and the Arab world.
00:31:32.300 I want to make that very clear to all of you.
00:31:34.440 I've heard several prominent politicians in Israel sometimes saying, well, the Arab world's in a different place now.
00:31:43.080 We just have to reach out to them and we can work some things with the Arab world and we'll deal with the Palestinians. 1.00
00:31:48.580 No, no, no, and no.
00:31:50.860 I can tell you that reaffirmed even in the last week as I have talked to leaders of the Arab community.
00:31:58.360 There will be no advance and separate peace with the Arab world without the Palestinian process and Palestinian peace. 0.68
00:32:06.800 Everybody needs to understand that.
00:32:09.400 That is a hard reality.
00:32:10.860 So I think, Joel, that some of what John Kerry does, he believes in.
00:32:17.220 But a lot of what he does, I think, is in the twilight of his life, trying to correct how history views him,
00:32:23.980 even though he was so clearly rebuked on just about every issue, most painfully for him by Trump,
00:32:31.140 who did better than him on all these issues.
00:32:33.880 I think that that's what part of this Iran obsession by him is.
00:32:38.160 He wants to deal with Iran to scupper Trump's foreign policy.
00:32:46.600 I don't know.
00:32:47.040 Maybe I'm getting too psychoanalytic here.
00:32:49.660 But I think that's how you got to be with someone as weird as John Kerry.
00:32:54.080 I think John Kerry has always viewed himself as better than other Americans.
00:32:57.940 So that's why he was able to criticize the Vietnam War, even though he had been decorated during that war.
00:33:03.720 Or that's why he goes and talks to other countries about climate change and how America needs to change its policy,
00:33:10.460 even while he rides around on a private jet.
00:33:12.640 And he tells us that the jobs Americans lose because of Biden's climate change policies are going to be replaced by other jobs.
00:33:19.080 He doesn't know and he doesn't care.
00:33:20.560 He just likes to feel better.
00:33:21.960 And it's the same thing with the Iranian negotiations, the Iran deal and so forth.
00:33:26.060 And that Israel example you point out, I mean, John Kerry said that there would be no separate peace between Israel and the Arab states and that those suggesting that Israel could make such peace agreements without the Palestinians being involved were just flat out wrong.
00:33:40.360 And it does bother him that Trump came along a complete political outsider and changed some of the approaches and changed some of the assumptions and went for those peace deals and succeeded.
00:33:50.260 And, yeah, he just can't stand the idea that somebody might be more successful than he is.
00:33:55.180 He has a very high opinion of himself and it's reflected in everything he does.
00:33:59.180 Well, I think he's a great danger.
00:34:02.540 I actually thought putting him in the climate change file was a good way of getting him out of the country and just he can hang out in five star hotels and fly first class, private jets, just get him out of America and shut him up.
00:34:13.460 But obviously it looks like he's going to continue to work on other files that he regards himself as some sort of messiah.
00:34:20.520 Joel, it's great to catch up with you.
00:34:22.040 Thanks for taking the time today.
00:34:23.960 Thank you.
00:34:24.320 All right, there you have it, Joel Pollack, Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart.com.
00:34:28.300 Stay with us.
00:34:29.140 More ahead.
00:34:40.860 Welcome back to my show last night.
00:34:42.420 Veranda writes, even they consider themselves non-essentials.
00:34:47.080 You're talking about the courts saying we've got to gear down.
00:34:49.660 14 months into this pandemic, you haven't still figured out how to do it.
00:34:54.320 And by the way, in America, most states are either fully or completely, sorry, fully or largely back online.
00:35:02.240 It's very strange to me.
00:35:03.800 Judy writes, in other words, Canada has no justice system, no government, just criminals allowed to roam free.
00:35:09.900 With help from police who are working for criminals, judges aren't holding accountable.
00:35:14.280 Well, that's a crazy thing.
00:35:15.820 I noticed this when I looked at the case of Pastor James Coates out there at Grace Life Church in Edmonton.
00:35:20.980 He was put in the Edmonton Remand Center, maximum security detention facility, very large, one of the largest prisons in Canada.
00:35:27.280 It's in Edmonton.
00:35:28.060 And so he was put in there.
00:35:30.240 But when I was researching that prison, I learned that they released about 400 dangerous, violent, accused criminals, convicted criminals.
00:35:40.520 They released 400 bad guys because of the virus.
00:35:46.100 But they put the pastor in.
00:35:48.960 So, yeah, I think we are in an upside-down moral inversion, aren't we?
00:35:52.640 Well, that's our show for today.
00:35:54.380 Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us here at Rebel World Headquarters,
00:35:57.780 to you at home, good night, and keep fighting for freedom.