Rebel News Podcast - Off The Cuff Declassified April 30 2018

00:00:00.000 Today on Off the Cuff Declassified, we discuss that vital routine at the White House Correspondents

00:00:06.020 Dinner. Robert Spencer from Jihad Watch joins me to discuss the history of jihad from Muhammad

00:00:11.940 to ISIS. Masculinity is now considered a mental disorder at the University of Texas.

00:00:18.940 I'm going to tell you all about this ridiculousness. And James Comey is downplaying, 0.92

00:00:24.600 actually criticizing the House Intel report. I'll tell you why I believe he is very,

00:00:29.440 very nervous about his future. The White House Correspondents Dinner was an epic disaster.

00:00:41.120 I'm sure you've seen the news on it by now, but man, did they pick the wrong person to emcee that

00:00:46.820 night's events. Well, it was a woman named Michelle Wolfe. Apparently she used to be a, or still is, 0.90

00:00:51.600 I don't watch Comedy Central, but she was a correspondent on Comedy Central's The Daily

00:00:55.240 Show. Now, Trevor Noah is an unhinged leftist. I don't find him funny. I used to disagree with

00:01:01.080 Jon Stewart. Jon Stewart, at least, is very, very talented. Michelle Wolfe took to the stage

00:01:06.360 an angry, mean, miserable woman and proceeded to insult Sarah Huckabee Sanders' appearance. Now, 1.00

00:01:15.220 Sarah Huckabee Sanders is one of my favorite press secretaries, not because I'm a Trump supporter,

00:01:18.920 but because I think she's incredibly quick on her feet, very smart, very witty, and she very

00:01:24.180 effectively controls an incredibly hostile White House press corps. She does a masterful job. The 0.99

00:01:30.260 other thing I like about Sanders is that she never tries to make herself seem like some other press

00:01:34.760 secretaries did, like she's more in the loop on certain information than she is. When she's asked 0.84

00:01:39.920 about the president's personal life or things that are very classified, highly top secret, she says,

00:01:44.040 say, look, I don't know. I wasn't read into that. I don't know what happened in the residence. I don't

00:01:48.840 know what happened between the president and his family. None of my business, none of your business.

00:01:52.940 I also love the way she spanks down Jim Acosta from CNN pretty much daily. You would think the 1.00

00:01:57.320 side of his face is sore by now from getting those whacks from Sarah from the podium. But what happened

00:02:02.440 to her was disgraceful. Now, I don't know Sarah Huckabee Sanders, but I do have very close friends that

00:02:07.740 are very close with her. And to a person, they tell me the same things about her, same adjectives,

00:02:11.620 witty, funny, warm, engaging. I have had the pleasure of meeting her parents several times,

00:02:17.440 Governor Huckabee and his wife, and just very, very nice people. Quick side story. I was at a

00:02:23.940 high-dollar fundraiser down here in South Florida. The governor was keynoting, and it was a very large

00:02:29.500 house in a state, basically. And it was midday, late day, so people brought their kids. Now,

00:02:35.140 predictably, the younger kids are bored out of their minds at this political fundraiser with their

00:02:39.040 parents. And nobody could find the governor and his wife. And people started to get concerned.

00:02:43.780 Where's the governor and his wife? They thought maybe they got sick, and they went home. Well,

00:02:46.940 we finally found them. They were sitting in the living room, and he was playing guitar for the kids.

00:02:51.160 And his wife was, like, reading to them. They didn't care about the high-net-worth donors outside.

00:02:55.900 They were just grandparents. Really, really nice people. A friend of mine, a very good friend of mine,

00:03:01.360 has traveled to Israel with Governor Huckabee. And he's just a warm, engaging, good guy,

00:03:06.460 as I hear as Sarah Huckabee's daughter, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. And it's very, very sad that

00:03:13.340 she had to endure these vile, vicious attacks. Now, the president wants to see an end to the

00:03:18.640 White House Correspondents' Dinner. So does the left. The left wants to see an end to it because

00:03:22.440 they say journalism is compromised with the White House Correspondents' Dinner. They should never be

00:03:27.120 seen hobnobbing and socializing with those in politics they're supposed to cover. But that's not

00:03:33.000 the real reason, right? Because when Obama was president, they never wanted to end the WHCD.

00:03:37.240 They loved it. It was an A-list event. Obama would show up, and George Clooney would show up,

00:03:41.160 and Steven Spielberg would show up. And it was the hottest ticket in D.C. Now it's a D-list ticket.

00:03:46.460 Literally, Kathy Griffin was the only celebrity of note there, and she had to show my life on the D-list.

00:03:52.740 It's a horrible event. I'd never even heard of Michelle Wolf. So this is what I mean. Like,

00:03:57.620 liberals in D.C., Michelle Wolf was hilarious. And normal America's like, 1.00

00:04:01.100 who the hell is Michelle Wolf? Nobody even knew who she was. I'd never heard of this woman 1.00

00:04:05.540 before the White House Correspondents' Dinner. But she got up there with a very vile and personal 0.89

00:04:10.100 agenda. Now, the left wants it ended, and I'll read you some excerpts from the Washington Post

00:04:14.640 piece. The left wants it ended because it supposedly compromises their ethics. In reality,

00:04:22.000 it's because it's become nothing. And now they're being beaten down by America. Their credibility is

00:04:26.960 further impeached. People trust them now even less. It's really, really bad for the American

00:04:32.460 left at this point. Well, it should be, though. They're very hateful people. Donald Trump and

00:04:38.580 those on the right want it ended because Trump calls it embarrassing, and he wants it put to rest.

00:04:44.760 Trump called it, quote, an embarrassment to everyone associated with it. He tweeted this,

00:04:49.460 quote, the filthy comedian, totally bombed, put dinner to rest, dinner to rest, or start over. 0.66

00:04:56.600 Now, that tweet from Trump came right after the organizers of the event. The White House 0.74

00:05:02.200 Correspondents Association released a statement. This is from an NBC News story. Let me read you

00:05:06.800 with Margaret Taleb. I guess she's one of the people who runs the association, maybe the president.

00:05:12.380 Yeah, I guess she's the current president. I'll read you her statement, and I'll tell you why I

00:05:19.520 think it's disingenuous, and I don't believe it for a second. Dear members, I want to tell you how

00:05:24.000 much your kind words meant to me following my personal remarks at last night's White House

00:05:28.320 Correspondents Dinner about the roots of my belief in journalism's essential role. I also have heard

00:05:34.660 from members expressing dismay with the entertainer's monologue and concerns about how it reflects on our

00:05:40.980 mission. Oliver Knox, who will take over this summer as our president, and I recognize these

00:05:46.900 concerns and are committed to hearing from members on your views on the format of the dinner going

00:05:52.860 forward. Last night's program was meant to offer a unifying message about our common commitment to

00:05:58.160 a vigorous and free press while honoring civility, great reporting, and scholarship winners, not to

00:06:05.240 divide people. Unfortunately, the entertainer's monologue was not in the spirit of that mission.

00:06:11.560 Every day, we are working hard to advocate for our members and ensure coverage that benefits the

00:06:15.960 public, and the dinner is an important opportunity to highlight and maintain our essential work.

00:06:20.580 The White House Correspondents Association remains dedicated to that mission, Margaret Taleb. Now,

00:06:26.120 I don't believe it. I don't buy it. I do not buy for one single solitary millisecond that Margaret

00:06:31.620 Taleb and the rest of the people who run the White House Correspondents Dinner didn't have a chance to vet

00:06:36.040 Michelle Wolf's comments in advance. I do not believe the White House Correspondents Association

00:06:40.700 lets somebody walk up to a podium without knowing the sum and substance of what they're going to say.

00:06:44.960 I just don't buy it, especially when there are people from the White House in the room, especially

00:06:48.800 when international television cameras are in the room, and it's a room full of reporters.

00:06:54.160 It's a room full of reporters, most press-heavy event in the world, literally. I don't believe for

00:07:00.800 one second they didn't know. This, to me, is backpedaling after backlash. Now, even members

00:07:06.580 of the media that have not been friendly to the Trump administration criticized Michelle Wolf,

00:07:11.680 Maggie Haberman from the New York Times, possibly the harshest critic of the administration,

00:07:15.920 that at PressSec, this is a tweet, obviously at PressSec of Sarah Huckabee Sanders, sat and absorbed

00:07:21.840 intense criticism of her physical appearance, her job performance, and so forth, instead of walking

00:07:26.960 out on national television, was impressive. Now, Michelle Wolf's response to that explains very

00:07:33.000 clearly why she never would have been selected. She wrote, hey, Mags, all these jokes were about her

00:07:37.540 despicable behavior. Sounds like you have some thoughts about her looks, though, with an emoji that 0.98

00:07:42.440 kisses. Now, think about that. The entertainer, who's supposed to come up there and jab and pun, 0.98

00:07:48.940 finds Sarah Huckabee Sanders' behavior in doing her job despicable. You're not going to tell me 0.68

00:07:56.100 that the White House Correspondents Association didn't know they were hiring somebody who personally

00:08:00.460 hated the Trump administration. Now, look, I'm all for comedy. I think Saturday Night Live became way

00:08:06.400 too political. When something's funny, it's funny. I don't care if they're poking fun at Trump or me.

00:08:10.140 I don't watch late night TV. Number one, because it's not the format I enjoy. Number two, because

00:08:15.660 I do this show early, so I'm typically not up that late. But I will admit who's funny and who has

00:08:20.620 talent. I find Jimmy Fallon a funny guy. I find him a talented guy. And Jimmy Fallon's jabs at Trump

00:08:26.540 and some of the little skits he does in videos they ended up are really, really funny. Look, I don't

00:08:31.020 want to live in a country where we can't criticize our president. The founding fathers wanted us to

00:08:35.840 satirize and criticize our elected officials. So Jimmy Fallon, to me, is actually a talented guy.

00:08:41.760 He's a funny guy. Is he a little bit left? Yeah, he is. But are his parodies of Trump,

00:08:47.560 his impersonations, the things that Trump says that Jimmy Fallon, you know, chooses to

00:08:52.640 mock or make jokes, are they funny? Yeah, they're really damn funny. It's funny stuff. I find myself

00:08:57.980 laughing at it when I watch it. He's talented. That's comedy. Is it controversial? Yeah. Is it a little

00:09:03.500 cutting edge? Yeah. Sometimes a little biting? Yeah. But it's funny. It's creative. It's clever.

00:09:07.960 It's witty. And it's delivered in a way that's not mean-spirited. This, what Michelle Wolfe did,

00:09:15.620 was mean-spirited. This wasn't meant to be comedy. Jimmy Fallon's is meant to be comedy. And sure,

00:09:21.500 every comedian crosses the line. That's what comedy is. You want comedians to be social satirists

00:09:26.280 and cross the line. But by the same token, know your audience, know your venue. Don't sit there,

00:09:32.280 hone in on one person, and then try to degrade them that entire night because you have a visceral

00:09:36.460 hatred of that person. That's what Michelle Wolfe did. Now, Matt and Mercedes Schlapp. Matt Schlapp

00:09:43.520 is the president of the American Conservative Union. They run CPAC. He tweeted that he and his wife

00:09:48.960 got up and left the dinner. They were so offended that he and his wife left. He said,

00:09:56.340 enough of the elites mocking us all. But this is where I think the media has a fundamental

00:10:06.260 disconnect with America. They cry and they whine and they complain that America distrusts them.

00:10:11.560 CNN got an award, got an award at the White House Correspondent Dinner for a story they completely

00:10:18.120 botched. They completely botched the story. It was all fake news, anonymous sources. Most of the

00:10:23.780 story turned out to be false. It was about Comey and Russiagate and all that stuff. And they still

00:10:27.580 got an award for the story. That's why America doesn't trust the mainstream media. They get awards

00:10:32.980 for getting it wrong from their own who then pat each other on the back. And we all know Dan and

00:10:38.960 got the award, not for journalism, but for going out of their way to try to take down Donald Trump.

00:10:45.560 It's not why you should get awards. Now, Trump is calling for an end to the embarrassing dinner.

00:10:50.460 However, the Washington Post had an editorial written by a woman named Margaret Sullivan

00:10:56.560 for an opinion piece. And she wrote, the White House Correspondent's Dinner should be the last.

00:11:02.960 Now, this was never said during the Obama years. Let me read you from the Washington Post piece.

00:11:07.940 It never has been a particularly good idea for journalists to don their fanciest clothes and

00:11:12.400 cozy up to the people they cover, alongside Hollywood celebrities who have ventured the wonky

00:11:17.600 Washington to join the fund. But in the current era, it's become close to suicidal for the press's

00:11:22.800 credibility. So it's not because it's skewed and one-sided and mean-spirited and maybe it needs to

00:11:29.360 be force-corrected and be more objective. No, it's because the press is now worried about their own

00:11:33.420 survival. Trust in the mainstream media is low. A new populism has caught fire all over the Western

00:11:39.260 world. And President Trump constantly pounds the news media as a bunch of out-of-touch elites who

00:11:44.480 don't represent the interests of real Americans. The annual dinner, or at least the optics of the

00:11:48.920 dinner, seem to back him up. I agree with that. I completely agree with that. But it's not Donald

00:11:54.420 Trump creating distrust in the media. The media is creating distrust in the media. When CNN and the

00:12:03.100 New York Times and the Washington Post are using anonymous sources and are constantly having to correct

00:12:08.780 themselves or being debunked by other smaller outlets who are using on-the-record sources and

00:12:14.420 vetting their stories and adhering to the editorial process, it's the media debunking themselves. It's

00:12:20.120 not Donald Trump doing any damage to the media. And I was surprised that Margaret Sullivan said this.

00:12:28.000 And while Trump rarely sets a good example for anyone, his decision to hold a campaign-style

00:12:31.780 rally in Michigan on Saturday night might be an exception. I agree with her 100%. Trump got to look like a

00:12:37.880 man of the people. A guy who talks the language of auto workers and waitresses. Journalists whose

00:12:42.780 purported mission it is to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted were meanwhile partying

00:12:48.400 with their sources at the Washington Hilton in black tie. And it's true. So Donald Trump's out

00:12:52.960 there in Michigan telling steel workers, I love putting you back to work. I want your families

00:12:56.640 to have even more money. I want you to make more per hour. I want you to get a bigger bonus. I'm here

00:13:00.900 with you. Screw those fake news elites in D.C. Where are the people? Ah, they're out-of-touch

00:13:06.140 elitists. And the people in the crowd are cheering and they love Trump. In Michigan,

00:13:10.000 by the way, where Hillary ignored that Trump was never supposed to win and won. Very smart of him

00:13:14.080 to go there. Kick off the 2020 campaign in the states that delivered him 2016. While the other

00:13:20.140 optic is the media elites mocking Sarah Huckabee Sanders to sit there poised and gracefully

00:13:25.360 in tuxedos eating very expensive dinners in the Washington Hilton. So Trump also said, quote,

00:13:31.900 why would I want to be stuck in a room with a bunch of fake news liberals who hate me?

00:13:35.840 I mean, you know, that's exactly why he won. Exactly why he won. And this is something the

00:13:41.760 mainstream media will never understand. Trump is there. Trump is there at, on a podium with

00:13:49.260 blue collar Americans and the mainstream media who's created their hatred towards themselves on

00:13:55.320 their own. Had nothing to do with Trump. All Trump's doing is saying, you're here standing at the

00:13:59.040 rally. I'm here with you at the rally. We're talking about your families and a bunch of media

00:14:03.740 people from the New York Times, the Washington Post to CNN and CNN are in tuxedos right now,

00:14:08.140 eating dinner, looking down on you and mocking you. Now, somebody, Michael Calderon from Politico

00:14:15.120 wrote, what was one of the most prestigious gigs in journalism has become a daily slog,

00:14:21.480 meaning a White House correspondent. They're saying that really, though, because Trump gives them no

00:14:26.280 quarter. Gone are the days of the Carter and Reagan and Clinton and Bush administrations,

00:14:30.540 the Obama administration, when the media was either hostile and media was either hostile and

00:14:34.940 got away with it, or it was a love fest under Obama where the media got there and patted on the head

00:14:39.860 and they got their prescribed questions and they acted like good lapdogs and they did what they were

00:14:44.240 told and they got invited to these parties. And whoever was the most complimentary of the Obama

00:14:49.500 administration got a table closest to the front, more face time with Obama and his immediate staff.

00:14:54.080 Now, Margaret Taleb, the comment I read you earlier, was, is, is the current president of the

00:15:00.580 organization, also works with Bloomberg News, and she's outgoing and new guys coming in. She wrote,

00:15:06.980 quote, our dinner honors the First Amendment and strong independent journalism.

00:15:11.520 And she praised the comedian, Wolf, her Pennsylvania roots and her truth to power style. But that's not what

00:15:19.900 happened. And as you read, he had to walk that back. And one of the other things that Wolf said

00:15:26.060 about Sarah Huckabee Sanders, quote, she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create a perfect 0.79

00:15:30.440 smoky eye. Maybe she's born with it. Maybe it's lies. It's probably lies. No one was laughing. No one was

00:15:37.020 laughing. No one was laughing. And the optics of it were terrible. Now, Peter Baker, chief White House

00:15:44.000 correspondent, the New York Times said, quote, unfortunately, I don't think we advance the cause of

00:15:48.680 journalism. Now, end quote. If it took Michelle Wolf making a fool of herself at the White House 1.00

00:15:55.500 cards bonnet dinner for the New York Times and Bloomberg and others to realize that journalists

00:16:02.300 stopped advancing the cause of journalism several years ago, really decades ago, then they're never

00:16:08.780 going to get it. If that's what it took for them to see the backlash of someone being vile and hateful

00:16:13.860 and nasty and angry against Republicans, if that's what it took for them to see this, then they've got

00:16:20.360 a bigger problem. Would a conservative comedian have been allowed on stage? Would a conservative

00:16:27.480 have been allowed or even a moderate have been allowed to attack Obama like that? No. If Obama had

00:16:32.920 been attacked like that by a conservative comedian, the dinner would have been shut down.

00:16:36.820 So both sides want the dinner shut down for different reasons. I say no. I say no. Let the

00:16:44.900 dinner go on. Let the media continue to do this to themselves. Literally, every minute it feels like

00:16:53.460 there's a new content platform springing up. Outlets like The Rebel didn't exist during the Obama

00:17:00.120 administration. At the end of it, they did. But in the heyday of it from 08 to 2012, outlets like The

00:17:06.800 Rebel didn't exist. You were still somewhat limited in where you got your news. Fox News was the only

00:17:11.520 kid on the block, really. And you had Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck on radio and some

00:17:16.560 other conservative hosts. And fortunately, Glenn Beck has dwindled after his never-Trumpism. But

00:17:21.620 you had some outlets. But now we've got all of these conservative digital outlets where we can

00:17:27.580 then distribute this content on more mainstream platforms. And so outlets like The Rebel inform you,

00:17:33.260 you don't need The New York Times anymore. You don't need to be held hostage by a liberal press

00:17:38.080 and only three or four conservative options. Now you've got many. And that's what makes the

00:17:43.340 mainstream media so unhinged. They don't want you to have many outlets. They want you to have one.

00:17:49.060 They want, if they could have their way, they'd want state-controlled media. And we saw it in the

00:17:53.000 WikiLeaks emails, how Politico and The New York Times and all the other liberal outlets, The Hill,

00:17:57.940 were coordinating with the Clinton campaign, making sure that what they were saying was okay.

00:18:01.980 They got their pat on the head. Because Hillary was elected. Queen Hillary was supposed to be 1.00

00:18:06.860 coronated. They wanted those front tables at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. They wanted to

00:18:11.300 make sure they didn't offend. So journalism is only supposed to be objective. The optics of

00:18:16.060 journalism are only supposed to be we don't hang out with the subjects we cover when it's conservatives,

00:18:21.880 when it's liberals. They clear their stories through them. So I say, let's keep the White House

00:18:26.940 Correspondents' Dinner going. Let's keep people like Joy Ann Reed, homophobic, hateful, 1.00

00:18:30.640 Joy Ann Reed from MSNBC. We'll be talking about her later in the week. Let's keep people like her 1.00

00:18:35.520 on the air. Let's keep the White House Correspondents' Dinner going. Let's let the

00:18:39.820 liberal media do what it's been doing and continue to expose itself.

00:18:44.740 We live in a pretty dangerous world. And due to my law enforcement background, I often bring you

00:19:00.440 stories about radical Islamic terror. And there are a few people that are my go-to resources. One of 0.80

00:19:07.080 them is joining me now. Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch. And he has a new book

00:19:12.540 called The History of Jihad, From Muhammad to ISIS. Robert joins me now. And it's such a pleasure to

00:19:19.220 have you on the show. I've been meaning to talk to you. We actually have a couple of really good

00:19:22.120 personal mutual friends, and it's taken way too long to have you on. Tell me a little bit about

00:19:28.100 the book. And then I want to get into some of the work Jihad Watch has been doing, because

00:19:31.200 you guys are an absolute go-to resource for me as I produce the show every day. So let's talk about

00:19:36.820 the upcoming book first, because it seems incredibly interesting. And I think a must-read for

00:19:40.780 anybody that's interested in this subject matter, I would even encourage everybody in law enforcement

00:19:45.000 and the military to grab a copy. They really need to understand the enemy.

00:19:49.340 Yeah, absolutely, John. Thank you. This book is unique. There is actually no other book like it.

00:19:55.280 People might say that about every book that comes out, but it's really true about this one.

00:19:59.920 This is the first time in the English language that there has been a comprehensive history of

00:20:05.000 jihad activity from the beginning, from Muhammad, right up to the present day, including not just

00:20:10.520 the jihad against Europe, which people have written about, but the jihad against India, which is an

00:20:14.940 incredibly bloody, horrible story that people need to know in the West and don't know. And yes,

00:20:20.380 I think this is a book that is going to be necessary for legislators and policymakers to read,

00:20:27.780 because it puts everything in context. People know there are problematic passages in the Quran.

00:20:32.840 People know there are problematic things that Muhammad did, but then they think, well,

00:20:37.240 you know, Spain was a paradise of multiculturalism, and there were periods of tolerance and peace when

00:20:43.740 Jews, Christians, and Muslims lived together. I explode all those historical myths in this book,

00:20:49.180 relying on chroniclers who were there, eyewitnesses, and people who were contemporaries of what happened,

00:20:54.840 and show that this is an astonishingly consistent history all through from the beginning.

00:21:01.540 Muslims have waged jihad against unbelievers. They're still doing it. The doctrines haven't 1.00

00:21:06.080 changed, and people need to know this history because there is no indication now that anything

00:21:10.800 is going to be different in the encounters of Muslims and non-Muslims today.

00:21:14.940 Robert, you raise a really, really interesting point. When, in your opinion, you're a scholar of

00:21:20.160 this subject matter, one of the most renowned, I would argue. When do you think the sanitization of

00:21:27.320 history with regards to the way Muslims have treated Christians, Jews, atheists, Hindus, etc.,

00:21:31.500 and it's interesting you bring up India. Quick digression. A few years back, I was involved in

00:21:35.100 a deal, and two of the investors were Indian, one Hindu, one Christian, and they would rant about 0.62

00:21:41.480 this. They would rant. It was right after 9-11, actually. This went down more than a few years ago,

00:21:45.400 and they would rant that no one was talking about what Muslims have done in India, and if people only

00:21:50.020 knew, the liberals in America would have a much different view of it, and I don't know if

00:21:53.560 we'd ever convince the left in America to have a different view, but when do you think the

00:21:57.380 sanitization of history started with regards to Islam, and this false narrative crept in that

00:22:02.420 it's a religion of peace, that they've lived in tolerance with Jews and Christians and all other

00:22:06.960 faiths? How far does that go back? John, you know, I actually have this in the book. It goes back about

00:22:12.860 500 years, when Martin Luther, the founder of the Protestant understanding of Christianity,

00:22:19.580 Christianity. He was engaged, of course, in a lot of attacks on the Pope and the Catholic Church,

00:22:25.960 and at that time, in 1517, the Ottoman Empire, the last caliphate, was encroaching upon Europe from

00:22:33.980 the east, and was actually in Eastern Europe, and was advancing, and Martin Luther actually said,

00:22:39.900 don't go and fight the Ottomans. The Pope is even worse, and it's no good to ally with the Pope

00:22:47.160 against the Ottomans. He was just engaging in intra-Christian polemic, and I think he was

00:22:52.420 exaggerating a little bit, because later on he did agree that, yes, we need to fight and resist

00:22:57.140 the Ottomans, and there were Lutherans who joined in that, but he is the beginning of the idea that

00:23:03.260 Islam is really peaceful and nothing to worry about. That wasn't his intention, but it kept going.

00:23:08.140 The British then spread this same idea when they allied with the Ottomans in the middle of the 19th

00:23:13.240 century. To try to sell it to their people, they started to spread the idea that Islam was a

00:23:18.420 religion of peace, and then, of course, we have to mention George W. Bush right after 9-11, and I

00:23:23.620 think there's a real wallop in this book. After you read about 14 centuries of unbroken, consistent,

00:23:30.980 bloody jihad warfare, then you have George W. Bush after 9-11 going into the mosque and saying,

00:23:36.440 Islam is a religion of peace. It puts it in a context that makes it really jolting that he would

00:23:41.160 have been so detached from reality. Yeah, and what's always bothered me about that, Robert, is that

00:23:45.560 Islam, until, at least in my lifetime, unless I wasn't paying close enough attention, until George

00:23:52.500 W. Bush started coining that phrase, religion of peace, Islam never sold itself as a religion of

00:23:57.520 peace. If you go back to Malcolm X, Malcolm X sold it as a religion of discipline, a stern religion,

00:24:03.660 a religion where violence, in many respects, should be used, even on their own, but I never heard Islam

00:24:10.480 sold as a religion of peace, until George W. Bush started pushing that. I've never understood it.

00:24:15.980 Was there ever a time in history where Islam pushed that narrative?

00:24:19.180 No, actually, only now, and it's just a matter of deception in the West that it makes people put

00:24:24.520 their guard down and think that the real problem is so-called Islamophobia, but no, actually, you know,

00:24:30.620 it's funny how, John, the people would say, you're going to have Spencer on your show, and he's very

00:24:35.480 controversial. Nothing I say was ever controversial until the 1970s. All I'm saying is things that every

00:24:42.920 observer of Islam, Muslim and non-Muslim, agreed upon until the 1970s, and it was then that it became

00:24:49.940 dogmatically accepted in the West that Islam is peaceful, and if you say otherwise, then you're a

00:24:55.420 hateful, bigoted, racist, and then everybody's experience, everybody's knowledge, and even Muslims

00:25:01.600 who acknowledged that it was a religion of warfare and conquest, everybody's understanding was thrown 0.99

00:25:08.420 out that had gone before, but it's really ridiculous. Islam has not changed. Its doctrines 1.00

00:25:13.740 are the same as they've always been. It's only in the West we've now become afraid of telling the

00:25:18.140 truth about it.

00:25:19.120 You know, Robert, it's, like I said earlier, and when I introed you, it's a travesty that I

00:25:24.680 haven't had you on earlier. We haven't spoken earlier because just ideologically aligned, but

00:25:29.200 I suffered as well, right? I come out of NYPD, and I built my brand on law enforcement, and when I

00:25:34.200 went after groups like Black Lives Matter, and what I tell you, using nothing other than FBI and U.S.

00:25:40.660 census data crime statistics, I've been suspended from Twitter. I've been called a racist. I've been

00:25:46.260 called a xenophobe. I mean, I have been, I'm a robe-wearing member of the Klan. I mean, literally for

00:25:52.020 posting graphics of the FBI UCR reconciled against U.S. census data and certain census tracts in Chicago

00:25:58.560 outlining black-on-black crime, the things I've been called the death threats I've received. So

00:26:03.160 those of us who use data and historical reference points somehow in the last 20 years have become

00:26:12.340 the fringe. Data and science is now the fringe. Emotional knee-jerk rhetoric is now mainstream,

00:26:18.080 apparently.

00:26:18.900 Yeah, absolutely. As Pamela Geller says, truth is the new hate speech. 0.99

00:26:22.000 Right, exactly.

00:26:22.740 So, you know, I'm listening to what you're saying, and I think, yeah, welcome to my world. All I've

00:26:28.580 done is quote the Koran, quote Muhammad, outline what they say about Muhammad in the earliest Islamic

00:26:34.020 texts, and now it's laid out the Islamic history, and all of these things become hateful when I say

00:26:40.080 them. You know, it's a funny thing. The Organization of Islamic Cooperation is 57 Muslim governments, and

00:26:45.800 they are obviously committed to Islam. And when somebody quotes the Koran who's an imam saying,

00:26:52.020 kill them wherever you find them, that's fine. But if I quote the imam saying, look, he said, 0.98

00:26:56.220 kill them wherever you find them, then the OIC will put that on its hate list and say it's 0.97

00:27:00.640 Islamophobia, when it's the same thing that the imam said. But it's no good for non-Muslims to notice 0.99

00:27:06.440 that these things are being said in mosques in the West.

00:27:09.480 You know, one of my biggest regrets in life is that I haven't yet made the Southern Poverty Law

00:27:13.060 Center's hate list, because I really respect and admire so many people on that list. I just,

00:27:18.180 I feel like I haven't, but you know, we can joke about it. But the reality is the people that are

00:27:22.620 placed on these lists are outstanding go-to sources. I mean, sure, there are some real hate

00:27:28.540 mongers on those lists, but many of those names are people who simply do exactly what you say.

00:27:32.660 They literally excerpt a passage from the Koran verbatim. They put it into a tweet, a Facebook post,

00:27:38.040 or in a book where they, where they, you know, write some context around it. And that's somehow

00:27:43.920 now hateful. But what do we do? What do we do? You've been in this fight a long time. You're one

00:27:48.500 of the early guys calling attention to this long before many other people were even aware it was

00:27:53.640 going on. How do we change the hearts and minds of Americans to show them that there actually is a

00:27:59.060 threat from Islam, not just radical Islam, but that left to their own devices, mosques around this 1.00

00:28:04.780 country. Look, quick digression before you answer. As I dig into this, we had an immediate situation

00:28:10.320 down here in Broward County, Florida, obviously the Parkland tragedy. I've been looking at Nizar

00:28:15.180 Hamza, one of Scott Israel's deputies for a long time. This guy has ties to all kinds of bad guy groups.

00:28:22.340 Joe Kaufman is on the ground down here in South Florida. I have him on the show often. He gives me a

00:28:26.860 lot of detail into what's going on. But if we dare talk about that, we dare talk about that we're

00:28:32.040 vilified. I've been vilified by conservatives in the Broward County Sheriff's Office saying you've

00:28:37.060 got it all wrong. They've been snowed. What do we do here, Robert? How do we start changing hearts

00:28:42.740 and minds to show people that that mosque that propped them in a house on the corner has some 0.54

00:28:47.920 pretty nefarious tides? It's not just people going to worship in the afternoon.

00:28:52.680 Well, I have every confidence, actually, John, that the tide is turning. All we have to do is keep

00:28:57.080 telling the truth, because the truth is just reality. And reality is ultimately going to be

00:29:01.640 obvious to everyone. You cannot deny it forever. And the thing about this Islam is a religion of 1.00

00:29:06.780 peace business, and we have nothing to worry about from these mosques, and care has no links to Hamas

00:29:11.560 and the Muslim Brotherhood and all the other things that people take for granted nowadays. The thing is,

00:29:15.980 they're so contrary to fact that they're refuted every day by the day's headlines, by people who are

00:29:21.720 just, if people are just being alert to what's going on in the world, they will, it will dawn upon

00:29:27.180 them that there is a really big problem with Islam that needs to be addressed. And so I think that the 1.00

00:29:33.240 reason why we keep hearing this Islam is a religion of peace business is because that's the only way 0.99

00:29:37.700 that propaganda succeeds. That's the only way the big lie is ever accepted by people, by constant

00:29:43.340 repetition. They keep having to tell us that Islam is a religion of peace because it so obviously isn't. 1.00

00:29:48.200 And so all we have to do is continue to hold fast to reality, continue to stand fast and tell the

00:29:54.420 truth. And there's no way we can lose. The truth will always be victorious in the end.

00:29:59.560 Right. But you'll keep saying it, and I'll keep saying it, and outlets like The Rebel and other

00:30:04.280 similar outlets, our colleagues, our competitors will keep saying it. But what do you think the tipping

00:30:09.460 point is for the mainstream media to do a story? Because look, I'm an evidence-based guy,

00:30:14.300 right? I was an investigator. When I look at care, one of the things that's

00:30:18.200 strikes me isn't their affiliations. I expect their affiliations. It's how easy it is to make

00:30:24.540 those connections. It's how easy it is to put up a chart on a wall, literally, and show

00:30:28.980 CARES direct links to some pretty violent actors, some pretty radical actors. The mainstream media

00:30:35.000 can easily do this. An outlet like CNN, even Fox News is reluctant to do this to the degree they

00:30:40.260 should. They've got the staffs. They've got the resources. What is going to be the tipping

00:30:44.620 point, in your opinion, for the mainstream media to finally say, okay, and put up those

00:30:48.940 same charts for the group like here and their connections as we're doing?

00:30:53.200 I don't know that there'll ever be one, John. They're ideologically committed. They get a lot

00:30:57.580 of money from people like Albalib bin Talal, the multi-billionaire Saudi investor who has a

00:31:03.320 percentage of Fox, a percentage of many American universities. They're never going to acknowledge

00:31:09.480 what their paymaster wants them to ignore. But the thing is, is that their credibility is being so

00:31:15.340 widely challenged nowadays. And people, more and more people every day are waking up to the fact

00:31:20.540 that from the establishment media, you're just not getting the whole truth. And they're turning it off,

00:31:25.700 going to the internet, finding the rebel, finding other sources where they can find the truth.

00:31:30.940 And so I don't, you know, I'm not waiting for CNN to start telling the truth about the jihad threat. 0.95

00:31:37.080 I'm just watching as people, more and more people realize that CNN is not telling you the truth.

00:31:43.220 I, you know, I travel all the time. Every week, practically, I'm in an airport. And for years,

00:31:48.360 every time I would see a TV in the airports, they would be tuned to CNN. And increasingly,

00:31:54.800 they are on Fox or other networks. And CNN has lost the aura it had of being an accurate news source.

00:32:02.460 And that's going to happen to all of them. It's already happened.

00:32:04.420 You know, Robert, one of the things I wish could happen, and I'm the, I'm the world's biggest

00:32:08.520 proponent of operational security, but one of the most effective programs, I'm sure you know

00:32:13.000 all about it more than most, that was ended to a degree was the confidential mosque informing

00:32:18.100 program in the NYPD. It yielded treasure troves of actionable intelligence. Very good friend of

00:32:23.480 mine was one of the supervisors on the program. And I had the good fortune of working with it a little

00:32:27.980 bit. I wish some of that could be declassified. So the general public could see just how many

00:32:34.480 threats the NYPD alone received that were valid and actionable. I think that would change would

00:32:42.080 start to change a lot of minds. Oh, yeah, absolutely. And that's the reason why Bill de Blasio,

00:32:46.800 who owes a great deal of his support to the Muslim communities in New York City,

00:32:52.340 is keeping it secret. He doesn't want these things out. And probably as long as he's the mayor,

00:32:57.680 they're not going to come out. Because he, after all, is responsible for halting that program,

00:33:02.480 which was highly effective, under pressure from those same Islamic advocacy groups.

00:33:07.080 So if he lets that out, it's he who's going to look the worst. So once we get a new mayor there,

00:33:12.180 I think then we might see some things starting to change.

00:33:14.700 No, I agree. And one of the biggest PR faux pas in the history of the NYPD, when they were defending

00:33:20.500 that program is, most people don't realize this, that program didn't have a religious test.

00:33:25.200 We were looking for people from certain nations. Their religious affiliation wasn't even known

00:33:31.880 until after they were interviewed. And there were plenty of Christians. There were plenty of

00:33:36.100 non-denominationals from those nations who had actionable intelligence on what was going on

00:33:41.440 in the Muslim community. But they were living in the same community as a matter of nationality.

00:33:45.480 There was no religious test on that. And it yielded such incredible, actionable intelligence.

00:33:49.540 We saw this with the Brooklyn College incident. We have that cop who was able to infiltrate a cell

00:33:55.520 in Brooklyn College. And I'm sure you're familiar with it. And she was vilified for doing so.

00:34:01.200 Even though she put two people in jail that wanted to bomb New York City, 0.97

00:34:04.140 she was still vilified for daring to actually enforce the law.

00:34:08.520 It's always the same, John. Islamophobia is the big problem. And the foes of jihad terror

00:34:15.000 are the enemy. This is the mainstream media view. They don't enunciate it explicitly,

00:34:21.880 but they always act upon it. This is the prevailing view in the nation's universities.

00:34:26.160 Whenever I speak at a college or university, it's as if Jack the Ripper is coming to campus.

00:34:30.820 There are protests and petitions and calls for me to be canceled and all sorts of uproar.

00:34:36.080 But I guarantee you that in those same universities, if a Guantanamo inmate showed up and started

00:34:41.660 screaming death to America in the middle of campus, it'd be celebrated as a hero. And so 0.67

00:34:46.080 what happened to her doesn't surprise me at all. It happens to everyone across the board

00:34:50.120 who dares to stand up against this threat. Well, no, look, listen, and what you're saying

00:34:54.160 isn't a hypothetical. Linda Sarsour literally has the red carpet rolled out. If you or Ben Shapiro

00:34:58.840 show up, there are SWAT teams. Yes. It's ridiculous. And Linda Sarsour, 1.00

00:35:03.120 we now know, was instrumental in crafting Bill de Blasio and the NYPD's new policy on the enforcement

00:35:11.060 of radical Islam. Linda Sarsour, a lot of people don't know this, was instrumental in crafting NYPD

00:35:16.760 policy. Robert, some days I ask, what planet do we live on? Yeah, absolutely. Because this is

00:35:22.280 somebody who's openly pro-Sharia, who has said that, who has excused jihad terrorists, who has ties to

00:35:30.000 Hamas, which is a jihad terror group. And she is working closely with de Blasio and the New York

00:35:36.320 City authorities to make sure that Muslim communities aren't discriminated against, by which she means

00:35:42.040 that they are not examined for any ties to terrorism. This is a pro, this is a policy,

00:35:48.600 this is an activity that is literally going to blow up in their faces.

00:35:52.100 Okay, last question for you. I was running out of time. If the president called you into the Oval

00:35:57.420 Office tomorrow and asked you a solution for Syria, what would you tell him?

00:36:00.680 I would tell him, get out and contain the problem that don't let the jihadis from there spread out 0.63

00:36:06.700 to other parts of the world, including and especially the United States. But there are no good guys there.

00:36:12.500 To take out Assad is to aid the Muslim Brotherhood. And to leave Assad there is to aid Iran. And so there's 0.96

00:36:20.980 no solution. What we should just be trying to do is protect our allies and protect American interests

00:36:27.840 in the region. But we don't need to be engaging in any more of this feudal nation building that was

00:36:33.680 so spectacularly a failure in Iraq and Afghanistan.

00:36:36.640 I can't, I can't disagree with you. The book is The History of Jihad from Muhammad to ISIS. 0.83

00:36:41.700 When can we get it?

00:36:42.900 It's going to be out in July and it's available now for pre-order at amazon.com.

00:36:47.840 Outstanding. Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, author of The History of Jihad from

00:36:52.820 Muhammad to ISIS. Like I said, been way too long. Should have had you on much, much sooner. 0.99

00:36:57.300 I hope you come back with me often.

00:36:58.840 Anytime, John. Thanks very much.

00:37:00.380 Thanks, Robert. 0.81

00:37:00.760 Just when you think liberals and academia could not become any more ridiculous, along comes

00:37:18.480 this, I don't even know what to call it, opinion piece study suggestion from the University of 0.67

00:37:25.780 Texas' Division of Student Affairs Counseling and Mental Health Center. An article, I guess

00:37:31.820 we'll call it, entitled, What is Restrictive Masculinity? Yes. According to the University

00:37:38.240 of Texas Counseling and Mental Health Center, masculinity is now some kind of either psychological

00:37:46.400 or personality disorder. It is one of the most bizarre things I've ever read in my life.

00:37:53.260 You can see the graphics on the screen here during the segment. Let me read you some excerpts

00:37:58.520 from this because it really is that good. What is restrictive masculinity? Voices against

00:38:04.960 violence. Now, there's a lot on this page. So it's University of Texas at Austin Counseling

00:38:09.580 and Mental Health Center. The top of the page says Division of Student Affairs. And there's

00:38:14.140 a group called Voices Against Violence at the University of Texas, which is part of the Counseling

00:38:20.460 and Mental Health Center. What is restrictive masculinity? Now, Voices Against Violence is

00:38:25.940 called VAV. VAV imagines a campus where compassion, understanding, empathy, inclusion, and respect are

00:38:33.960 guiding values for students to develop their own sense of masculine identity. Healthy masculinities

00:38:41.560 include many behaviors rather than one singular idea of masculinity. The masculine man in me already

00:38:50.080 wants to punch somebody in the face for this article. However, the reality many young men on campus

00:38:57.120 face is to act like a man as if there was only one true way. For example, restrictive notions of

00:39:05.280 masculinity, imagine a single rigid identity that emphasizes aggression, competition with men,

00:39:11.900 devaluation of women. No, that's wrong. In no definition of masculinity is devaluation of women 0.97

00:39:19.140 an element. In fact, it's to protect women, to provide for women, to care for women, to provide food and

00:39:27.800 shelter for women. The devaluation of women throughout. And a few tools and few tools to 1.00

00:39:34.940 develop communication skills or emotional maturity. Well, I don't know. I make a pretty decent living

00:39:40.420 communicating on air every day. And I think I'm a pretty mature guy. I was entrusted with a gun and a

00:39:46.800 badge and the ability to take people's freedoms away. If I applied the law in a capricious manner at a

00:39:52.800 pretty young age, I think I was pretty mature. And my lack of complaints and history of commendations

00:39:58.220 by the NYPD sort of reinforces that, that I was mature and responsible as a man. So I don't know

00:40:06.560 where they're getting this. Some guy named Paul Kival, an educator and an activist, developed the act

00:40:13.940 like a man box. This is great. And you can see the, you're seeing the graphic now. The act like a man

00:40:20.200 box, which illustrates how traditional ideas of masculinity. And normally I don't read you word

00:40:25.860 for word from an article, but this is so good. I have to, uh, into how, which illustrates that

00:40:31.760 traditional ideas of masculinity place men into rigid or restrictive boxes that pressure men and

00:40:38.420 masculine identified individuals. So it's not just men. Now, if you're transgender, but identify as a man

00:40:44.500 and want to act like a traditional man, they also don't like you. If that didn't confuse you,

00:40:49.260 I don't know what will. Masculine identified individuals to emulate this ideal and prevent

00:40:54.680 them from developing their own emotional maturity. He says, men are. This is what, this is what beta

00:41:02.480 male Paul Kival thinks a man who acts like a man thinks a man should be. He couldn't be wrong,

00:41:09.000 wrong, more wrong. Let me tell you where he's right. Let me tell you where he's wrong. Men are

00:41:11.860 breadwinners. Yes. Violent. No. Mean. No. Bullies. No. Tough. Could be. Angry. I'm a pretty happy guy.

00:41:21.460 Active. Yes. Strong. Yes. Successful. You should be. In control. Could be. Over women. Well, no. 1.00

00:41:28.980 I love women. Most men do. You protect them and take care of them. Men. I'll go through the feelings

00:41:39.160 in the middle second, but men have no emotion. No. Stand up for themselves. Yes. Yell at people.

00:41:45.640 If warranted, can take it. Absolutely. Don't make mistakes. Absolutely not. I make a million mistakes.

00:41:52.500 You don't know how many times I fumble on air and my editors have to correct it

00:41:55.380 and edit the show to bring you a seamless product. We all make mistakes in life. We're human.

00:42:00.880 Don't cry. Look, I've never been a real crier. I did cry when my dog died. I love animals. So,

00:42:07.280 yeah, that, I was pretty broken up over that. Take charge. Yeah, men should take charge. Push 0.99

00:42:12.200 people around. No. In fact, men will stand up to those who push people around. Men will stand up to

00:42:17.740 violent, mean, angry bullies. This is a weird one. Know about sex. Know about

00:42:25.380 sex. Well, I hope if you're over like 15 or 14 or whatever, kind of know a little something about

00:42:30.700 the birds and the bees. I don't even understand what that guy's talking about. Men don't back

00:42:36.060 down. I agree. Men take care of people. Absolutely. Why is that a negative? Feelings. I don't even

00:42:42.700 understand how this fits in. Confused, angry, scared, ashamed, alone, stupid, powerless, vulnerable, 1.00

00:42:48.200 revenge, hopeless, worthless. What I really think is going on here is Paul Kival developed a box 1.00

00:42:54.220 that essentially outlined his own conflicted self because I don't know any guy that would fit into

00:43:01.500 this box. Seriously. Some of my friends are the most sensitive people you will meet who,

00:43:08.500 if they look at a pic of their own kids today, love their children so much they'll break down in tears,

00:43:12.720 but made millions on Wall Street. They were absolute sharks in business, but to their wife and children,

00:43:19.720 they are the most gentle, soft-spoken, overcome with emotion person to their family.

00:43:26.220 I don't know the weirdos he's talking about. I have no idea. In fact, my friends, the men I know,

00:43:33.660 I mean, there's exceptions in every rule, but many of them are family men who adore their families,

00:43:37.200 who their wives are equal partners in everything. In fact, one of my friends' wife rules the ruse. 1.00

00:43:44.240 They have one of the best relationships I've ever seen. They butt heads. They're both very strong

00:43:47.600 personalities. They're like this. They get along, but then they butt heads and they argue.

00:43:52.260 I don't know what this guy's talking about. Patterns of restrictive masculinity. Let's read a

00:44:00.420 copy. Unhealthy masculinity can restrict the emotional development of students. I'm just

00:44:05.480 reading through these at random. Oh, oh, yes. Unhealthy masculinity, restrictive masculinity will lead 0.93

00:44:12.000 to sexual assault and other forms of abuse and violence. And it's often ignored or condoned by

00:44:17.980 believing that boys will be boys. Really? I arrested plenty of men for sexually abusing women. And

00:44:24.520 few criminals made me happier to slap handcuffs on them, except the sexual abuses of children. Those 0.99

00:44:31.020 were the only ones who edged out those who sexually abuse women. Yeah. And both were just as vile. 0.86

00:44:36.280 But I had a special place in my heart for pedophiles. It was a special place in hell for them 0.99

00:44:42.040 with adult rapists coming in a tick, tick behind. Believe me, they got no, they got no quarter from 0.96

00:44:50.700 me. Unhealthy masculinity works by excluding students who are judged not to measure up the

00:44:55.860 values of real men. No, Kival, that's the animal kingdom. That's what we are as creatures on this

00:45:03.760 earth. The big lion gets to take over the pride. Okay. The craftier fox gets the food for the pups

00:45:12.740 in the den. If you're bigger, stronger, or smarter, you'll win. The more competitive, you're more

00:45:19.020 competitive, you'll win. To prove who is a real man means proving who is not a real man. I just think

00:45:24.660 this guy was bullied and picked last for dodgeball. Unhealthy masculinity works to exclude any femininity 1.00

00:45:30.500 from a masculine identity. It'd be excluded anyway. I'm a traditional guy. Emotion is not

00:45:37.420 femininity. Having a woman go get the car for you in the rain or hold the umbrella and the door for 1.00

00:45:43.320 you when it's pouring. Yeah, that's femininity and it shouldn't happen. In other words, man up, 1.00

00:45:48.600 despite what this moron tells you. Now we go through some myths. This is great. Myth. Men have 1.00

00:45:53.900 uncontrollable sexuality. No man has ever said that. Yes, it is a myth. But only this weirdo freak

00:46:00.640 would think that men would believe that. Myth. Men should be fiercely independent. Well, a man should 0.99

00:46:07.600 be independent. A man should be able to go out there and without help from anyone else, provide for

00:46:13.640 himself and the people he cares about. That's the definition of a man. That's how we've evolved.

00:46:19.540 That's how we were created. That's in our DNA. Myth. Men are naturally aggressive because emotions

00:46:25.320 are restricted. No. Men are naturally aggressive because we're the species that's supposed to

00:46:29.780 protect women and children. Masculinity is only heterosexual. Now this one, very confusing. Let me 0.69

00:46:36.500 read you the whole thing. Often, masculinity has to be proven through heterosexual relationships. 0.55

00:46:42.020 It may create pressure in men to have a heterosexual relationship and create anxiety if this is not the

00:46:46.440 case. This marginalizes male students who are a part of the LGBT community as well as female students

00:46:52.600 who wish to identify as masculine. That's kind of dumb because I have a couple of gay friends. 0.98

00:46:59.960 One was a cop. One was in the military. And you wouldn't even know they were gay. It's not an affront to 0.99

00:47:05.500 the LGBT communities of masculine guys who put themselves in harm's way, who just happen to be

00:47:10.220 attracted to the same sex. So wrong again, Paul. Masculinity is the opposite of femininity.

00:47:17.820 It's not a myth. That is a factually and scientifically accurate statement that this

00:47:23.760 moron is calling a myth. Now, it goes on and on and on. And then there's a whole gender and 0.99

00:47:30.320 sexuality chart with rainbows and different color hearts and mitochondrial DNA strands. And oh, it'll

00:47:37.920 make your head hurt. But let it suffice to say that the University of Texas just contorted itself

00:47:44.760 to prove that men shouldn't act like men. This further goes to the feminization of men and really

00:47:51.120 the downfall of society if we let this happen. I encourage you to read this. I encourage you to

00:47:56.860 read it. You'll be able to get the URL in this segment. We'll put it up. If not,

00:48:01.020 I'm going to put this out on my Twitter at John Cardillo. And I encourage you to mock this as

00:48:06.280 relentlessly as possible and share that mockery far and wide.

00:48:10.960 So it's not enough that James Comey is embarrassing himself more and more in each

00:48:27.560 interview. It's not enough that he's been criminally referred to the Department of

00:48:31.960 Justice for prosecution for, of course, leaking classified FBI information to his friend,

00:48:37.040 a Columbia professor who we found out was also a special government employee on the FBI payroll,

00:48:43.200 35,000 employees at the FBI. They couldn't find somebody to do a job that Comey's friend couldn't

00:48:48.320 do. So his buddy got special status. So he's been criminally referred by 11 members of Congress for

00:48:54.480 leaking classified information. He's under investigation by the Department of Justice,

00:48:58.880 Officer Inspector General, Officer Inspector General. We fully expect another criminal referral on that.

00:49:03.880 He's making a fool out of himself night and day, has painted himself as a horrible liar, 0.99

00:49:08.300 contradicted his own statements. And now Washington Examiner story here. James Comey calls 1.00

00:49:14.260 House Intel report clearing Trump in Russian election meddling, quote, a political document.

00:49:20.600 Hearing James Comey, who admitted while on his book tour on multiple media outlets that the reason

00:49:26.940 he chose not to send Hillary's case to the DOJ for grand jury referral was because it was a

00:49:34.040 politically charged case. And if Loretta Lynch didn't send it to a grand jury, she would be 1.00

00:49:40.080 irreparably damaged. Everything he did was through the lens of politics. The irony in him saying that

00:49:46.260 the House Intel Committee is acting politically. So he says he calls it a political document. And he says,

00:49:52.920 quote, about the report, that is not my understanding of what the facts are, meaning no collusion with

00:49:57.840 Russia. That is not my understanding of what the facts were before I left the FBI. And I think the

00:50:03.280 most important piece of work is the one the special counsel is doing now, end quote. Now we know that

00:50:08.220 Comey leaked these documents. We know that Comey leaked information about the dossier to, as the catalyst

00:50:15.440 for a special counsel. This is a do over for Comey. He's a disgruntled fired guy who's making a fool of

00:50:20.640 himself. Now, the House Intel Committee wrote an exhaustive 250 or 250 pages, give or take about 0.90

00:50:29.220 15, 20 pages. I forget the exact numbers in the 240s and 260s. Very comprehensive report on the

00:50:36.440 investigation into Russian interference in the election. We know they meddled. Russians meddle in

00:50:43.480 elections. Meddling is not collusion. It's not collusion. Why rob a bank? It doesn't mean the bank

00:50:49.680 manager was in on it with me. Two separate issues. Russia stepped into our election. Too many people 0.54

00:50:54.660 are confusing that with them being in cahoots with the Trump campaign when they did it. That's not been

00:51:00.500 proven. In fact, it's been disproven. Mueller's now over a year hasn't been able to prove a thing. So that

00:51:06.540 tells me one of two things. There was no collusion, which is what I firmly 110% believe, where Mueller has the

00:51:12.340 worst investigators in the history of law enforcement, which I don't believe because he's got some very

00:51:16.260 talented people on his team, albeit very biased people. So you've got very talented and biased

00:51:21.240 people who still can't find anything on Trump because there's nothing there. So Comey is, of

00:51:27.160 course, you know, out there ranting and raving and acting like a little baby, a crybaby. And he says

00:51:33.260 that politicization has, quote, wrecked the committee and it damaged relationships of the FISA court,

00:51:38.980 the intelligence communities. It's just a wreck, end quote. No, Comey, you did that. Your bias did that.

00:51:44.700 Andrew McCabe's bias did that. Loretta Lynch's bias did that. Eric Holder's bias did that.

00:51:48.840 John Brennan's bias did that. Peter Stroke's bias did that. Lisa Page's bias did that.

00:51:53.040 Should I keep going? Hillary Clinton's bias did that. Not wrecked the relationship with the FISA

00:51:58.520 court. The House Intel Committee has acted honorably and comprehensively. Now, you could say, well,

00:52:04.680 Cardillo, you're a partisan. You're not objective. You're a partisan. But it's not me saying it.

00:52:09.300 Because when a Republican-run House Oversight Committee cleared Hillary Clinton of wrongdoing 0.89

00:52:15.980 in Benghazi, the left, James Comey's allies, were out there saying, Republicans in Congress

00:52:22.040 on a Republican-led committee cleared Hillary of wrongdoing in Benghazi. That's the final word.

00:52:27.860 That was an honorable committee that did its job honorably, that did its job comprehensively.

00:52:32.360 There's nothing there, conservatives. Even Republicans in the House cleared Hillary. 1.00

00:52:36.880 But when many of those same Republicans cleared Donald Trump of Russia collusion,

00:52:42.540 now all of a sudden, Republicans in the House are tarnished and tainted and they've

00:52:46.620 wrecked the committee and it's politicized. Comey and the left sound like absolute morons. 1.00

00:52:52.720 They sound like absolute morons. Look, this is all complete hysteria, fear, 1.00

00:52:58.200 because their House of Cards is crumbling. Their House of Cards is crumbling and it's going to come

00:53:03.600 crashing down on top of them. I predict, when I look at all of this, I am going to start

00:53:09.480 easing back from my criticisms of Attorney General Jeff Sessions. I'm hearing some rumblings.

00:53:17.560 I'm watching the recommendations by OIG for Andrew McCabe's prosecution. I'm watching OIG investigate

00:53:24.640 James Comey and many others. I'm starting to put some puzzle pieces together, but I haven't vetted

00:53:33.440 them and I don't have sources that I can bring you yet. So I'm not even going to tell you my

00:53:37.860 speculation except to say I'm easing up on my criticism of Jeff Sessions and I'm becoming

00:53:43.760 and I'll bring you more as I get more. I don't want to bring you something that I'm not a hundred

00:53:48.300 percent convinced of, that I can't vet, that my editors can't vet. But just my own personal opinion

00:53:56.260 from what I'm seeing, what I'm piecing together, what I'm hearing through the lens of experience,

00:54:00.720 I'm becoming slightly cautiously optimistic that some very bad actors might actually face justice for

00:54:11.120 what they've done. And of course, I will bring you those stories as soon as more information,

00:54:17.160 more valid sources, more information becomes available. But one thing is sure now, James Comey

00:54:22.400 is on a backpedaling. He's trying to protect himself, trying to cover his own ass because 1.00

00:54:27.140 he does not want to be prosecuted for what appears to be highly illegal leaks. Even Trey Gowdy has said 0.98

00:54:34.060 that James Comey's definition of a leak is everyone else's definition of a felony. I rarely agree with

00:54:40.740 Trey Gowdy these days, but I'll tell you what, on this one, I do. I think James Comey broke the law

00:54:45.520 and I think James Comey needs to be prosecuted. Same time, General Flynn's plea is vacated. His

00:54:52.640 charge is dismissed with prejudice. James Comey took FBI work product, smuggled it out of the FBI,

00:54:59.200 leaked it to an uncleared person who leaked it to the New York Times. That is the very definition

00:55:04.040 of a crime and James Comey. That case to be placed before a grand jury and James Comey prosecuted

00:55:11.680 like any other American movie.

Rebel News Podcast - April 30, 2018

Off The Cuff Declassified April 30 2018

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