Rebel News Podcast - Off The Cuff Declassified - John Cardillo - June 6⧸2018

00:00:00.000 Today on Off the Cuff Declassified, disgraced former FBI Director Andrew McCabe

00:00:04.720 wants immunity in exchange for Senate testimony. I'm going to tell you why I think he should not

00:00:10.580 get it. Turns out Barack Obama misled America on Iran more than we ever thought.

00:00:17.060 Today marks the 74th anniversary of D-Day, the Normandy invasion. I'm going to read you some

00:00:22.080 incredible tweets from the 82nd Airborne Division as they reenact that morning. And the Virginia

00:00:28.340 State Police had what I think is probably their most unusual car chase in, maybe ever.

00:00:40.380 Now it seems like every day we're getting new information about Obamagate, Spygate,

00:00:44.440 call it what you will, this scandal where we now know, now we know that dubious things were done

00:00:50.820 by the FBI, by the Department of Justice, by John Brennan's CIA against the Trump campaign. They

00:00:56.300 it's been it all they want, but we know this went on. It's indisputable right now. We have a criminal

00:01:01.700 referral from the Department of Justice's Office of Inspector General against former FBI No. 2 Andrew

00:01:08.200 McCabe. We've got criminal referrals against a host of Obama administration officials, including

00:01:13.300 Hillary Clinton, including James Comey, by members of Congress. We might see criminal referrals on those

00:01:20.220 same people or a few of those people when the Inspector General report comes out. Although I don't

00:01:24.640 have a lot of faith in that, and I'm going to be discussing that a little bit later in this

00:01:27.520 segment. But now, the guy who I think is the worst of the worst, I've said on this show many,

00:01:33.020 many times, it all comes back to Andrew McCabe, and it always comes back to Andrew McCabe. You've

00:01:39.820 heard me say it. I've been proven right by items that broke in the media shortly thereafter. I've been

00:01:47.080 proven right by the fact that Andrew McCabe, as I just mentioned, has been criminally referred

00:01:50.920 to the Department of Justice for prosecution, not just by the Inspector General, but by a dozen

00:01:56.860 plus members of Congress. He's a bad, bad guy who violated his oath, who desecrated the mission

00:02:02.920 of the FBI. Well, now, Andrew McCabe is asking for immunity in exchange for his Senate testimony,

00:02:10.340 testimony to the United States Senate, a Daily Caller story, but it's been all over the media.

00:02:14.560 This is a statement from Michael Bromwich, McCabe's attorney. Bromwich says, quote,

00:02:22.480 this is a textbook case for granting use immunity. Mr. McCabe, he wrote this letter to

00:02:28.080 Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa. Mr. McCabe is willing to testify,

00:02:35.240 but because of the criminal referral, he must be afforded suitable legal protection.

00:02:40.360 Accordingly, we hereby request that the Judiciary Committee authorize a grant of use immunity

00:02:46.820 to Mr. McCabe. Now, McCabe, as you remember, was fired back in March for lying, lying about leaking

00:02:52.800 to the media. But really, McCabe was a bad, bad guy who had no place being in the FBI. The Inspector

00:02:58.520 General back then found that McCabe gave four misleading statements to investigators, three of

00:03:04.680 them while under oath. Now, he and Comey have also got into this back and forth over, well,

00:03:13.760 did Comey authorize him to speak to the media? McCabe says he did. Comey says he didn't. One of the two

00:03:18.800 is lying. One of the two is lying. Now, Bromwich, McCabe's attorney, goes on to say, quote,

00:03:25.680 even though McCabe committed no crime, which I don't believe, these leaks have forced us to

00:03:30.120 acknowledge the criminal referral. He said that he and McCabe were outraged by the leaks. He's

00:03:36.100 talking about leaks from what they claim are leaks from the Justice Department about McCabe's case

00:03:41.580 in his letter to Grassley. He said leaks Bromwich, the lawyer, that leaks from the agency revealed the

00:03:48.100 OIG made a criminal referral on McCabe to the U.S. Attorney's Office. Now, here's why I don't want

00:03:55.160 to see McCabe get immunity. Number one, I don't think he's earned immunity. It was never afforded to

00:03:59.060 General Flynn. It was never afforded to George Papadopoulos. It was never offered to anyone

00:04:03.120 else on the Trump campaign. People like Michael Caputo, who did nothing wrong, but were forced

00:04:09.240 to go essentially bankrupt, spend six figures on legal fees. Why should McCabe get it? McCabe

00:04:14.620 be given any immunity. He's a terrible, terrible guy, a terrible guy, a guy who ran this entire

00:04:20.820 operation, who weaponized the FBI on behalf of Hillary. McCabe can do if he's granted this use

00:04:26.060 immunities. He could sit in front of Congress, the U.S. Senate. He can say, I did it all. James

00:04:33.060 Comey did nothing. Loretta Lynch did nothing. John Brennan did nothing. Here is a list of everything

00:04:38.300 I did, every law I broke, every illegal order I gave. Here are the people I gave them to. They were

00:04:46.700 only carrying out those orders. I even lied to those people and generated documents that made it look as

00:04:53.680 if I got legal opinions, that these orders were legal. I have those documents in my safe at home.

00:04:58.360 I'll provide them to you at a later date. Then he goes home and he creates those documents,

00:05:01.720 backdates them. He takes responsibility for everything and he walks away because he got

00:05:07.460 immunity. He got use immunity for anything he testified to that day. And that means not only

00:05:14.000 won't he be charged, no one will be charged. There's a criminal referral on this guy to DOJ.

00:05:20.680 He walks in there and he confesses to everything. The DOJ is going to have an impossible time ever

00:05:25.600 prosecuting him. I think Chuck Grassley would be out of his mind to give McCabe immunity for his

00:05:32.380 testimony. It is a get out of jail free card for a guy like McCabe. Gangsters, mobsters have used this

00:05:38.600 tactic for years, right? I have some information and they walk in, they allocate, they confess to

00:05:42.760 everything and nothing can be done. They don't have a strong enough case on McCabe yet. They don't

00:05:48.360 have witnesses, they don't have bodied and they killed anybody. I'm saying that in a metaphorical 0.66

00:05:51.540 sense, but they don't have the hard evidence they need. They have it to an extent, but a lot of it's

00:05:56.620 he said, she said. So McCabe walks in and he says, yes, I, I did lie to the investigators and here's why

00:06:03.340 I was covering this, this and this up. And you try to prosecute him and his lawyers keep it in court

00:06:08.920 forever saying, oh, you can't prosecute this guy. He just, he just confessed to these things as part

00:06:15.160 and parcel to his testimony. These confessions are out. The evidence is out because he presented that

00:06:20.660 same evidence in the Senate hearing. It is the most dangerous crap. And McCabe is playing Chuck

00:06:27.020 Grassley. He's playing the Senate. The guy's been in the FBI for 22 years. He knows how this game works.

00:06:33.400 He knows how to manipulate it better than anybody. He almost was able to topple a presidency.

00:06:39.740 Don't trust this guy. Give him nothing. Now, Rudy Giuliani sees this. And by the way,

00:06:45.440 if McCabe is granted that limited use immunity, the fix is in the fix is in because I have problems.

00:06:51.500 I'm going to tell you my problems with Jeff Sessions in a moment, but the fix would most certainly be in

00:06:55.540 now. Giuliani has not been shy about calling out Robert Mueller. And now Giuliani

00:07:00.640 Giuliani is going for broke. He is saying that Trump's, that Mueller's team is trying to frame

00:07:09.080 president Trump. Giuliani is speaking. He's in Israel. He was speaking in Israel. And he said

00:07:15.060 this morning, actually in Israel, that Mueller's team includes quote, 13 highly partisan Democrats who

00:07:23.600 are trying very, very hard to frame him, meaning president Trump and get him in trouble when he hasn't

00:07:29.540 done anything wrong. Giuliani is over in Tel Aviv at the globe's capital market conference.

00:07:35.440 This is about the toughest rhetoric I've heard from Giuliani yet that Robert Mueller is trying to

00:07:40.440 frame the president of the United States. Heard a lot from Giuliani. Haven't heard frame yet,

00:07:46.640 but begs the question in all this, where is Jeff Sessions now? Please take those moronic,

00:07:53.980 idiotic, idiotic, 5D chess conspiracy theories and throw them out the window. Oh, Jeff Sessions is

00:08:01.160 being quiet and he's working behind the scenes with Trump and Mueller is a good guy and they're

00:08:05.840 all working to take down Hillary. But he needs you to think this because it's 5D chess and it's

00:08:10.840 Sun Tzu. It is so dumb. I don't know where to begin. That is not what is happening. What is happening

00:08:16.380 is that Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein do not want to deal with this nightmare. They want DOJ to go

00:08:21.900 back to enforcing criminal law and they want this to all go away. They want it to disappear. They

00:08:27.100 don't want to prosecute anybody. That's part of the deep state because they don't want to put

00:08:31.100 themselves, their future careers in jeopardy. That's what this is about. There is no white hat

00:08:36.480 secret meetings with Sessions and Trump and Mueller giving winks. No, it's not happening. Those are nuts.

00:08:43.040 Those people floating those theories. Those are conspiracy theories. And if they're not nuts,

00:08:46.860 it's just wishful thinking and naive optimism. All it is worked inside the process. I'm telling you.

00:08:54.620 Let me let me explain to you why it is so ridiculous. If you were to believe these 4D and 1.00

00:09:00.280 5D chess theories, then you have to believe that Donald Trump appointed Jeff Sessions,

00:09:05.920 knowing Jeff Sessions was going to recuse and Sessions recused. So that Rosenstein would appoint

00:09:11.800 Mueller so that Mueller would investigate the entire Trump campaign, jam up General Flynn,

00:09:16.800 jam up Papadopoulos, try to prosecute Manafort and Gates, indict 13 Russians that may not even be real

00:09:23.120 people. So he could say, look, Russians were involved. Also, that eventually. Trump could be

00:09:30.680 cleared by Mueller, who never had to be appointed in the first place if Sessions hadn't recused so that

00:09:35.460 the world could say, look, the Democrats were wrong. There was no collusion with Russia.

00:09:40.920 But had Sessions not recused or Trump picked an attorney general who didn't recuse, well,

00:09:47.300 that wouldn't have needed to happen. And oh, by the way, the other reason the 5D chess conspiracy

00:09:52.960 theorists believe this is going on is the second part of that is, and then when Mueller clears Trump,

00:09:56.920 they're all going to go after Kim Hillary. And that's what it's all going to be coming down. 0.66

00:10:00.960 Now, the newest conspiracy lunacy is, oh, Cardillo, you're an idiot. Didn't you see that DOJ

00:10:06.800 have hired 311 new assistant U.S. attorneys? That's to bring down Obamagate. They're going to

00:10:11.780 be pulling Team Hillary out of their house in the middle of the night, and they don't have enough

00:10:15.760 prosecutors now. Not at all. It was a standard hiring by the Department of Justice to fill the

00:10:21.420 ranks because of attrition. Prosecutors typically do not stay in government service that long,

00:10:26.860 whether they be federal prosecutors, local prosecutors, state prosecutors,

00:10:30.660 because they go out to make money. You don't make a lot of money as a government prosecutor,

00:10:34.260 and once you get a few years of experience under your belt, you go out and you work for a big

00:10:38.220 white-collar criminal law firm, or you go work for an investment banking firm on Wall Street,

00:10:43.320 if you, in the legal department, if you worked on those white-collar cases, and you go out and you

00:10:47.340 make some real money. Those 311 or 313, I forget the exact number, AUSAs that are being hired,

00:10:55.280 they're being hired to handle violent crime, the opioid crisis, drug cases, civil liberties,

00:11:02.940 civil rights cases, anti-terrorism cases, a lot of them on immigration and deportation cases. No,

00:11:11.460 they are not being hired as part of some 5D chess conspiracy. Not at all. People leave the

00:11:17.280 Department of Justice, a new class comes in. It's like a police academy. People retire. They

00:11:23.060 graduate a new police academy class to fill the ranks. Leave, they graduate a new police academy

00:11:26.960 class to fill the ranks. That's all it is. A standard Department of Justice hiring to fill the ranks

00:11:34.740 and replace those who are lost because of retirement or moving on to other jobs. All it is there

00:11:41.460 is no 5D chess. Mueller is not a white hat and Jeff Sessions is a white hat and Jeff Sessions and

00:11:47.480 Mueller speak on encrypted phones at night and say, okay, you've got them looking in the wrong

00:11:51.320 direction. We're going after Team Hillary. No, it has nothing to do with that. Mueller needs a scalp. 0.81

00:11:56.860 Mueller is part of the deep state. Mueller and John Kerry went to St. Paul's prep school together.

00:12:01.760 They've been friends for 60 plus years. They played hockey together, other sports together.

00:12:06.840 Mueller is part of that D.C. establishment institution. And that is the deep state. I always

00:12:12.780 tell you, it's not this dark conspiracy theory, this star chamber-like room with high-back chairs

00:12:19.400 and cigar smoke. No, it's nothing that sinister. It's just the same people who've worked in government

00:12:25.000 together for decade upon decade upon decade. They don't like change. Donald Trump represents change.

00:12:30.840 He disrupted the status quo. He cost their lobbyist friends and their lawyer friends and their consultant

00:12:36.560 friends a lot of money. He disrupted, he disrupted government ink by coming in as a turnaround guy,

00:12:45.180 a cleanup guy, like an investment bank would send in. And that's all deep state is. Deep state is just

00:12:49.820 government ink. It's just people who want the trains to run on the same schedule within government that

00:12:54.900 they've always run on. And a new guy coming in and disrupting it and making it more efficient

00:12:59.360 takes a lot of power and a lot of money out of their pockets, a lot of power out of their offices.

00:13:07.600 That's all it was ever about. And Mueller is one of them. Jeff Sessions is now a pathetic

00:13:12.080 embarrassment to the United States of America. I say that not as an on-air host. I say it as an American,

00:13:17.700 as an American voter, as an American taxpayer. Jeff Sessions is a pathetic embarrassment.

00:13:25.780 DOJ is leaderless. We have a Department of Justice that is leaderless. Jeff Sessions needs to stand on

00:13:32.580 a podium and say to Chuck Grassley, Chuck, you're the legislative. I'm part of the executive. We're old

00:13:39.940 colleagues from the Senate. I can't order you to do a damn thing. There's separation of powers.

00:13:44.180 But as the Attorney General of the United States, I am telling you that it is in the worst interest

00:13:50.420 of this nation for you to give Andrew McCabe immunity. Let us at the Justice Department do our

00:13:56.860 job. Let us decide if a prosecution is warranted before you, the legislature, go offering immunity

00:14:05.400 deals that would prevent us, the executive, charged with enforcing the laws from doing our job.

00:14:11.360 And that is what Jeff Sessions should be doing. That is what a real, strong, effective Attorney

00:14:18.500 General should be doing. Sadly, we do not have one. So I think Andrew McCabe should not be given

00:14:24.600 immunity. I think Giuliani is right. Mueller is trying to frame Donald Trump. And I think that it

00:14:29.620 is long past time for Jeff Sessions to do the right thing and step down.

00:14:45.800 Turns out the Obama administration lied to us about Iran worse than we ever thought. Now,

00:14:50.580 according to the Associated Press, I'm reading from a Detroit news story, but it's the Associated

00:14:53.920 Press story, simply recycled. Iran is informing the U.N. of its increase in nuclear material 0.78

00:15:02.760 enrichment. They're saying that they're doing it, that they're doing it within the limits set

00:15:07.260 by the 2015 agreement, the JCPOA, the Iran deal. And Iran never had any intention of stopping their

00:15:14.060 nuclear enrichment. Now, they're saying it's because the U.S. pulled out. Beruz Kamilvandi,

00:15:18.740 the spokesman for Iran's nuclear agency, was quoted by Iranian state TV on Tuesday as saying

00:15:23.600 a letter was submitted to the International Atomic Energy Agency, the IAEA, detailing the

00:15:29.260 move. Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had ordered the increase in a speech

00:15:34.820 Monday in which he vowed that the country would preserve its nuclear program despite, despite

00:15:41.240 the U.S. withdrawal from the landmark of 2015 accord. It wasn't a landmark. It was a terrible

00:15:46.880 deal. It wasn't a landmark accord. Iran has said it as the option of resuming industrial

00:15:50.940 scale enrichment now that the U.S. has withdrawn from the deal. So they're saying, oh, see,

00:15:55.640 the U.S. is out, so we're not going to play ball. But they were never playing ball. They

00:15:59.440 were always doing this. We know that from the Israeli intelligence. Now, of course, the

00:16:05.600 Associated Press is saying by the U.S. pulling out, now Iran can do whatever they want. But why?

00:16:10.040 Why wouldn't Iran still abide by the deal? Why isn't France and Germany putting sanctions

00:16:15.140 on Iran? Why isn't China? Best thing we ever did. Best thing we ever did was pull out of 1.00

00:16:20.040 the deal. Now, Obama, despite knowing that Iran was a state sponsor of terror, despite 0.61

00:16:25.200 it being a terrible deal, Obama was dropping billions in cash off on runways via pallets,

00:16:31.840 wood pallets, giving them long term another $150 billion. And he was doing all that despite

00:16:37.540 the deal. But he was actually doing something even worse that we're now finding out about.

00:16:42.180 A story that broke on Fox News this morning says Obama administration allegedly gave Iran

00:16:47.680 access to the U.S. financial system. It's a very interesting story. So what Iran did,

00:16:53.300 according to a report generated by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigation,

00:16:59.780 here's what that subcommittee run by Rob Portman of Ohio says, quote, on February 24th, 2016,

00:17:06.120 in the Treasury Department issued a specific license to Bank Muscat in Oman to authorize the

00:17:12.300 conversion of Iran's Omani reals. So they Iran had was holding Omani reals, Oman's currency.

00:17:20.240 So it issued a specific license to Bank Muscat in Oman to authorize the conversion of Iran's

00:17:25.960 reals to euros through any United States depository institution. Yeah. The Obama administration

00:17:32.440 was allowing Iran to wash their dirty money that was being held in Omani reals, allowing to wash it 0.90

00:17:38.300 into euros via U.S. banks. Even after the specific license was issued, U.S. government officials

00:17:47.320 maintained in congressional testimony that Iran would not be granted access to the U.S. financial

00:17:52.380 system. But they were. Obama and his administration lied again. Now, Senator Rob Portman of Ohio,

00:18:00.060 the subcommittee chairman, the investigations subcommittee chairman said, quote, the Obama

00:18:06.000 administration during the negotiation of the Iran deal misled the American people. They I think they

00:18:12.260 did so because they were desperate to get a deal. This was five point seven billion dollars in Omani

00:18:19.720 reals. They were going to let the Iranians wash the U.S. banks and convert to euros. Now, the report says

00:18:28.360 that Iran wanted access to that money and using the U.S. financial system to convert it, quote,

00:18:33.360 was the most efficient means, even though U.S. sanctions prohibited it. Obama never had any

00:18:39.820 intention of maintaining sanctions on Iran. He was going to give them whatever they wanted. 0.60

00:18:45.800 He was going to give them whatever they wanted. The deal was worthless paper.

00:18:49.300 Iran was still going to get every single thing they wanted. 0.99

00:18:51.940 Now, American banks, two American banks said no.

00:18:57.720 And without a compliant bank, a senior State Department official said he believed Bank

00:19:00.900 Muscat and Iran eventually used European banks. Now, a spokesman, not a spokesman, a former

00:19:07.860 official in the Obama administration flat out lied when they denied this. And Portman and the

00:19:13.100 investigation subcommittee began investigating that transaction when that former State Department

00:19:19.280 official said we couldn't get any American banks to do this. It happened. Portman said his subcommittee

00:19:24.140 began investigating the transaction last summer. In an interview with an unnamed senior State

00:19:29.020 Department official, the panel said the official acknowledged the Obama administration, quote,

00:19:33.040 exceeded our JCPOA commitments. The JCPOA is the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran,

00:19:39.440 more commonly known as the Iran deal, exceeded our JCPOA commitments because there was nothing in

00:19:44.140 the JCPOA that required the issuance of the specific license. In other words, the Obama

00:19:50.200 administration never had to agree to this. Obama went out of his way to be Iran's doormat or was

00:19:55.800 he Iran's ally against the United States, against the world? I don't know. I really don't know. 0.86

00:20:03.060 Now, a former Obama administration official is criticizing all this and disputing it, but

00:20:06.800 they're lying. I'm going to explain why. They're saying the Treasury Department never authorized

00:20:11.580 Iran to access U.S. investments or markets, conduct commercial transactions in the U.S.

00:20:17.920 in U.S. dollars or open correspondent accounts at U.S. banks. Here's what the former Obama administration

00:20:22.240 said. Quote, this specific license cannot be described as granting access to the U.S. financial

00:20:29.080 system. This specific license was in fulfillment of JCPOA commitments to give Iran access to pools

00:20:35.460 of its own money held overseas. But that's in direct contradiction to the State Department

00:20:40.600 official that Portman's committee spoke to who said it exceeded the license exceeded our JCPOA

00:20:46.780 commitments because there was nothing in the JCPOA that required the issuance of that specific

00:20:53.840 license. Line number one, the Obama administration official was caught in line number two. It was

00:21:00.120 aimed solely to allow the movement of Iran's own funds stranded at an Omani bank into euros at

00:21:06.240 a European bank where Iran could then make use of them. Another lie. It wanted U.S. banks to assist

00:21:13.980 in that transaction because if it was only about moving Omani money, Iran's money from Oman into a

00:21:20.200 European bank, there was no need for that money to come through a U.S. bank. I mean, the Obama 0.99

00:21:25.040 administration can't even come up with good lies. A child, my 13 year old nephew could look at this and

00:21:31.000 say, well, then why would they have had to be issued a license for a U.S. bank? Why didn't Oman just send 1.00

00:21:35.880 the money to Europe, which they eventually did? No, this was absolutely Obama bending over and

00:21:43.460 kissing Iran's boot. Don't worry. Don't worry. We're going to give you all the nukes you want. 0.99

00:21:48.640 We'll be clear. You want to use our banks, use them. Take a couple of billion. We've been horrible to

00:21:52.560 you. We've been. That was Obama. He wanted to always cut the U.S. down to size. He wanted to always

00:21:58.700 weaken this nation. That's all he ever cared about doing. That's all this was ever about.

00:22:04.280 Weakening the United States. Giving Iran everything. The Iran deal was always a scam. 0.93

00:22:11.180 It was always a racket designed to strengthen Iran, to give them nuclear capability so that 0.94

00:22:16.080 Obama and his regime could keep Israel and the rest of the world in check and have the mullahs in Iran 1.00

00:22:22.400 as an ally. Obama will go down in history not only as one of the worst presidents, but one of the most

00:22:28.420 disloyal and subversive presidents for U.S. interests. And this story, I mean, this story makes

00:22:36.220 it impossible. And I mean, impossible to see this any other way. The Obama administration was giving

00:22:43.220 Iran a license. They didn't have to give them. They essentially were lifting sanctions for no reason.

00:22:48.140 Iran. And they were helping Iran free up another $5.7 billion, knowing Iran was a global state 0.70

00:22:57.220 sponsor of terror. What do you make of that when you analyze it simply? Where were Obama's loyalties?

00:23:05.320 What did Obama really want? Why was he emboldening Iran to this degree? These are all questions that

00:23:12.400 need to be answered. But unfortunately, I fear they never will be.

00:23:27.560 Today, June 6th, 2018, marks the 74th anniversary of the invasion of Normandy, of D-Day. And there's,

00:23:36.080 you know, really interesting ways in which people commemorate D-Day. Every year, I put out a tweet,

00:23:41.260 I put out some photos. But the 82nd Airborne Division, the United States Army's historic 82nd

00:23:47.380 Airborne Division really took it all to a different level today. The 82nd Airborne Division tweeted

00:23:52.980 late yesterday, about 7 p.m. yesterday, hashtag AA, all American airborne, AAD, D-Day reenactment.

00:24:04.160 We're in it, folks. This is our D-Day reenactment. For the next 17 hours, we'll bring you in

00:24:08.540 as it happened play-by-play of the division's actions during D-Day. Follow along, ask questions,

00:24:15.060 comments. We're going to, we're typing this as we go because we want to interact with you.

00:24:18.340 And what the 82nd Airborne did here is outstanding. If you have not read it, I strongly urge you to go

00:24:24.220 to their Twitter feed at 82nd, 82nd, A-B-N-D-I-V. 82nd, A-B-N-D-I-V. Their Twitter name,

00:24:36.060 their profile name is All American Division. It's a verified profile. You know, it's the 82nd

00:24:39.920 Airborne. And they go through the 82nd Airborne's role. Literally, in some cases, minute by minute,

00:24:49.020 hour by hour, that morning, 74 years ago. It is absolutely fascinating. I cannot get off their

00:24:54.180 timeline. I'm reading it over and over again. And some of the historical takeaways, they say,

00:24:58.840 we start at Royal Air Force North Witham Airfield in Lincolnshire. They put up a picture of it.

00:25:03.960 The first group of paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division and the 101st, the Pathfinders,

00:25:08.240 were staged and prepared to don parachutes and equipment and load C-47s. I mean, it's so incredible,

00:25:15.040 the history. And some of the things you learn, things I didn't realize, is they dropped hundreds

00:25:20.560 of what were called Rupert dummies. These were canvas bags sewn to look like men. They were much

00:25:27.080 smaller than a man, but from the air, falling from parachutes, it looked like hundreds more soldiers

00:25:32.240 were landing. In some cases, it looked like thousands more under the cover of night to fool

00:25:37.160 the Germans into believing that the invasion force was larger than it was, and also to get them to turn

00:25:43.200 their guns onto the dummies so that the actual soldiers could hit them on the flank. I mean,

00:25:49.040 it was really, really fascinating stuff. They then show you the string of bombers on the runways at

00:25:56.980 Lincolnshire Air Force Base and other Air Force bases in Britain. The division's path, 8.04 PM,

00:26:05.080 the division's pathfire teams began to don parachutes, strap on weapons, equipment, radios,

00:26:09.720 and lights. They would be the first All-Americans to land in Normandy. So these were the pathfinders.

00:26:14.460 This was the tip of the spear of the 82nd Airborne Division. They then talk about how they encountered

00:26:20.660 some things they never expected. When they got into Normandy, when they finally landed, when they

00:26:25.160 got off, when they cleared through German gunfire, the hedgerows, the thorn bushes and hedgerows were

00:26:32.460 essentially like brick walls. They were so thick and impassable that they had to spend their time

00:26:38.140 clearing those. And this timeline goes on and on and on. 10.15 PM, German forces in and around

00:26:48.440 Normandy intercept messages from the Allies regarding the impending Allied invasion. Most

00:26:53.680 German leaders felt this was inaccurate and they ignored it. That's pretty fascinating.

00:27:02.780 Pretty fascinating. Now they go into talking about all the gliders, you know, that during D-Day,

00:27:07.100 we actually landed gliders. They just stayed there and our troops got out of the gliders.

00:27:12.300 It was, uh, they show us the different weapons used. The, uh, they had the 75 millimeter howitzer.

00:27:19.480 There could be airdropped. It was in pieces and they say it took four hours to put together

00:27:23.980 a 75 millimeter howitzer and put it into action after recovering it from the drop zone.

00:27:29.760 It's, uh, when you think it was 74 years ago and some of the technology was pretty, pretty

00:27:39.100 damn impressive. A total of 437 troopers would let load a total of 52 gliders. This was mission

00:27:48.320 Detroit. It was the only element of gliders that would land in D-Day on the morning of June

00:27:53.040 6th, 1944. The, they say, remember our 325th glider regiment would not go in until D-Day plus

00:28:02.040 one for mission Galveston. I mean, in the next day, they didn't go in until the morning of

00:28:07.520 June 7th, 19. And if you see, I'm glancing at the screen. I mean, this is like watching a

00:28:12.960 movie. The photos are just absolutely incredible and go on and on and on and on. And it is really

00:28:21.440 absolutely fascinating. And then the people that are commenting on this are people saying,

00:28:26.760 you know, my grandfather was in 325th glider regiment. Really just absolutely fascinating.

00:28:32.380 And the takeaway for me as I read this is we need to get America back to this. We need America to

00:28:39.140 become this patriotic again. We need America to become this, have this desire to win. Now the

00:28:46.120 right does. The right does. Now they also talk about radios. The division headquarters gets only

00:28:53.080 one of three SCR-193 radios operational. We never got the other two working. So their command HQ had

00:29:02.660 one radio for the Normandy invasion. Then they talk about the Rupert dummies. Hundreds were

00:29:09.020 dropped. Not sure how many. The doll was made from cloth and filled with sand. They go on to talk

00:29:14.840 about John Steele, an American paratrooper who was hanging from a church rooftop. His parachute got

00:29:22.880 stuck and he played dead for most of the morning. He was then taken in the German hands. He's a prisoner

00:29:27.220 of war. He died in 1969. They dropped thousands of Rupert dummy paratroopers that looked like men,

00:29:35.620 but they were packed with explosives. They were bombs. And they say that if you've ever seen the old movie

00:29:40.440 The Longest Day, the depiction of the Rupert dummy in that movie was pretty accurate. The Germans, they write 0.98

00:29:47.320 this. The Germans were just as confused. Our boys created chaos. They cut German comms wires and would quickly 0.94

00:29:53.020 in pairs, creating the impressions of impression of larger forces. And it was just such a chaotic

00:30:02.120 battle. I really suggest you go to this timeline. The photos of the hedgerows are really what struck me

00:30:08.340 as to how impassable these were. You hear about hedgerows, you think they're little tiny things. These aren't.

00:30:14.340 These are 25 feet tall and they're essentially so thick with thorn bushes and are weaving that it would have

00:30:20.680 made it impossible to get through. So they spent a good part of their days just cutting these down.

00:30:25.860 Cutting these down. Someone asked us about Mission Boston. Here's a little historic trivia for you.

00:30:32.740 Mission Boston was the entire Force A. Force B, so Force A was the parachute drop. Force B was the gliders.

00:30:40.000 And Force C were the seaborne elements that came into Utah Beach. Don't be confused by Mission Albany.

00:30:46.220 That was the 101st Airborne Division. So the 82nd and the 101st both had these massive, massive operations.

00:30:54.760 82nd with Mission Boston. 101st with Mission Albany that included airdrops, gliders, and sea forces.

00:31:02.980 All those famous photos you see of these people, these troops coming off the landing craft.

00:31:07.040 And then there are maps of the battles. It's really, really fascinating.

00:31:11.640 And I strongly, strongly encourage you to go to the 82nd Airborne Division's Twitter timeline

00:31:17.680 at 82nd, at 82nd, A-B-N-D-I-V. 0.98

00:31:23.540 But really, why June 6th, 1944, 74 years ago today, was so important is that it was really

00:31:29.540 the day that began the end of Nazi Germany.

00:31:33.420 This was the end of Adolf Hitler's reign. This was the end of the Third Reich. 0.61

00:31:38.980 This was the beginning of the end of the SS and the brutal death camps, the extermination

00:31:44.060 camps, obviously, Treblinka and Buchenwald and Auschwitz, all the places that were responsible 0.99

00:31:51.760 for the Holocaust.

00:31:53.180 This day, 74 years ago, marked the end of all of that.

00:31:57.340 It marked the beginning of the liberation of Europe, of the world, of those Jewish people

00:32:02.740 and the Christians and gays, even, that were brought into these concentration camps.

00:32:08.780 It was, America was really, really great then.

00:32:12.640 And America was proud to be great.

00:32:14.800 And for eight years under Obama, we weren't so proud anymore.

00:32:18.980 I think that's part of why I'm such a big Trump fan, is because we're proud to be Americans

00:32:22.720 again.

00:32:23.440 We're proud to be great again.

00:32:25.340 We're proud to be winners again.

00:32:28.200 D-Day, we were winners. 0.90

00:32:29.560 We were winners.

00:32:30.380 And we hadn't felt like winners for so many years.

00:32:34.160 Democrats and globalists and neocons.

00:32:37.340 They've just beaten down our national psyche.

00:32:41.020 And you go back, you go back to this time and our generals wanted to win.

00:32:46.340 And we're seeing that again.

00:32:47.980 Here's a letter that Ike wrote.

00:32:49.060 On July 5th, he drafted this speech in the event that the D-Day invasion failed, he did

00:32:55.120 magnificently.

00:32:56.700 He would have read, he would have had to say, quote, my decision to attack at this time

00:33:00.780 and place was based on the best information available.

00:33:03.460 The troops did all that bravery and all devotion to duty could do.

00:33:07.980 The troops did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do.

00:33:11.580 But he didn't have to give that speech, did he?

00:33:14.960 No, he wound up president of the United States.

00:33:16.380 For this incredibly successful invasion.

00:33:20.140 They said when day breaks, it is cold, gray, and rainy.

00:33:24.040 The sun begins to come up over Normandy.

00:33:26.340 Who signed up for this?

00:33:27.780 I can't believe we still have seven hours of this left.

00:33:31.480 Among those injured in the parachute landing was Lieutenant Colonel Ben Vandervoort,

00:33:34.900 commander of the 2nd, 505th, who started gathering his troops for movement.

00:33:39.600 The son Meriglays, despite a broken ankle.

00:33:41.980 And he was played by John Wayne in the longest day, that colonel was.

00:33:47.320 It's really fascinating just reading all this history.

00:33:50.260 And I love that America is getting back to this.

00:33:55.300 I love that America is getting back to this.

00:33:57.560 And I think we need to keep down this path.

00:33:59.960 We need to keep America great.

00:34:01.500 But we really, I often say, we need to get back into a World War II era mindset.

00:34:07.440 Because once we get back into a World War II era mindset, this country, this country recognizes its exceptionalism again.

00:34:15.200 And I really, really encourage you.

00:34:16.560 Go to the 82nd Airborne Division's Twitter feed.

00:34:19.140 Read all about the Normandy invasion.

00:34:20.560 And then just put that patriotism in perspective and apply it today.

00:34:27.060 Virginia State Troopers were in a car chase that they're going to be talking about probably forever.

00:34:43.940 If you haven't seen this video, it's absolutely fascinating.

00:34:46.300 This happened right outside Richmond, Virginia, where a soldier now known to be a lieutenant in the Army National Guard, Virginia Army National Guard.

00:34:54.560 His name hasn't been released, but he has been arrested.

00:34:56.360 He surrendered to police around 940 p.m.

00:34:59.240 Hook Virginia State Police on a high-speed car chase.

00:35:02.360 But it really wasn't a car that he was driving.

00:35:04.540 He was driving an M577 armored vehicle.

00:35:09.000 And it's a command post.

00:35:10.620 It's built on the M113.

00:35:12.720 And it's like a mobile command post.

00:35:15.220 It's impervious.

00:35:15.920 It's slightly armored, impervious to small arms fire.

00:35:18.420 High-speed.

00:35:19.020 It was about 40 miles per hour.

00:35:20.440 And you can see the Virginia State Police giving this thing a wide berth in the video, which is probably a really good idea.

00:35:25.720 But they say the soldier was from Fort Pickett in Blackstone, Virginia.

00:35:32.720 He then drove this thing at 40 miles an hour, being pursued by the Virginia State Police and eventually Richmond, city of Richmond, PD.

00:35:39.400 And he drove it into the city of Richmond.

00:35:42.260 And like I said, around 940 p.m., he just pulled over and gave himself up.

00:35:45.280 Now, he's an officer assigned to an engineering battalion.

00:35:48.720 He holds a rank of lieutenant.

00:35:50.120 We don't know anything else about the guy.

00:35:53.600 But, geez.

00:35:54.380 So, now, this is an older piece of equipment.

00:35:56.900 Equipment like this is being phased out for the regular army.

00:35:59.200 It's been in use since about the Vietnam War, which is typically the kind of equipment that National Guard troops get from WVTR, the CBS affiliate in the area.

00:36:10.660 He surrendered.

00:36:11.900 The vehicle stopped at East Broad Street and 11th Street in the city of Richmond.

00:36:16.280 He surrendered to the Virginia State Police when he pulled this armored personnel carrier over.

00:36:22.220 Now, it's important to note, this was not an armed vehicle.

00:36:25.340 The vehicle didn't have any guns on it.

00:36:26.680 It has no cannons, guns, anything like that.

00:36:29.760 So, short of him driving this vehicle, which weighs 11.6 tons, but 40 miles an hour is pretty fast.

00:36:36.120 There was never any other risk to the public of him firing any kind of weapon, heavier weapon, light weapon, anything like that.

00:36:43.240 But, again, they say he lives in the area.

00:36:45.800 He's a commander with an engineering battalion.

00:36:48.260 And the army has confirmed it was an M577, the National Guard.

00:36:52.960 People who saw this, I mean, the three tracks are pretty funny.

00:36:56.440 But a witness who saw it said, quote, a guy named Brian Wingard who lives in the area.

00:37:00.800 It just seemed like something out of a movie.

00:37:02.220 I heard a large vehicle.

00:37:03.040 It sounded like a tank, but it was moving pretty fast.

00:37:06.180 Now, charges are pending against the driver.

00:37:08.040 While the investigation continues, he's going to probably lose his commission.

00:37:11.460 He booted out of the army, and I'm sure it charged criminally for this.

00:37:14.440 Why he would do this is anybody's guess.

00:37:17.180 This is absolutely bizarre.

00:37:21.020 It's interesting.

00:37:21.840 I wish I had chased an armored personnel carrier and I was a cop.

00:37:24.340 I didn't.

00:37:24.800 The most unusual call I ever had, nonviolent call, was a horse got loose in the Bronx on

00:37:30.220 the Grand Concourse.

00:37:31.000 It was very busy.

00:37:32.080 A lot of the cops I worked with grew up in the city, and I had actually, I was familiar

00:37:35.580 with horses.

00:37:36.000 I always rode.

00:37:36.620 I have a horse now.

00:37:37.760 And was able to eventually calm the horse down, get him out of traffic with some food,

00:37:42.580 get his bridle, get him back in the horse carrier, me and the driver of the horse carrier.

00:37:46.380 But, yeah, that was about the most unusual, nonviolent crime call I had.

00:37:50.760 And police work, really for state troopers, is often hours and hours of boredom.

00:37:55.480 State troopers patrolling these rural roads and pulling people over.

00:37:58.700 And it's hours and hours of boredom some nights.

00:38:00.700 And then you get that moment of excitement.

00:38:02.860 Sometimes a moment of terror.

00:38:04.520 Sometimes a moment of sadness.

00:38:06.380 This was a moment of excitement and probably a what the?

00:38:09.320 Hmm.

00:38:09.760 Moment.

00:38:10.680 And believe me, these cops are going to be out drinking these troopers, laughing about

00:38:13.860 this for a long time to come.

00:38:15.340 Now, we can laugh about it because nobody got hurt.

00:38:17.640 But this was nearly a 12 ton, a 24,000 pound vehicle traveling at 40 miles an hour.

00:38:23.980 That's a lot of kinetic energy right there.

00:38:26.220 Thank God this thing didn't hit a home, hit a vehicle.

00:38:29.740 It would have killed anybody it came in contact with.

00:38:33.040 Had it hit a vehicle, it would have crushed the occupants.

00:38:35.140 Airbags wouldn't have mattered with a vehicle like this.

00:38:37.440 Had it crashed into a home or an open business, we'd have seen many, many casualties, most likely

00:38:41.760 serious injuries, fatalities.

00:38:44.120 So we could joke about it now that everybody was OK.

00:38:46.520 Great job by the Virginia State Police, local police in Richmond for giving this thing a

00:38:51.940 wide berth and getting the guy to slow down, pull over and surrender.

00:38:57.660 But, you know, I wish I had been able to chase an armored vehicle.

00:39:01.720 I think it would have been providing it ended like this with no injuries.

00:39:05.040 Would have been a lot of fun and a good war story to tell for a lot of years.

00:39:08.200 We'll be right back.

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Rebel News Podcast - June 06, 2018

Off The Cuff Declassified - John Cardillo - June 6⧸2018

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