Rebel News Podcast - Off The Cuff Declassified： Mark Meadows claims FBI lied, Immigration debate, and bio weapons

00:00:00.000 Today on Off the Cuff Declassified, more problems for the FBI as a Republican member of Congress

00:00:05.140 accuses them of evidence tampering and lying to the inspector general.

00:00:10.720 The immigration debate rages with the left now engaging in ridiculous stunts.

00:00:15.500 And if we didn't have enough to worry about, are synthetic bioweapons coming our way?

00:00:21.420 Also, disability claims drop as the economy surges.

00:00:26.300 But does that indicate prior fraud?

00:00:30.000 So much information coming out daily.

00:00:37.100 I always say it feels like every five minutes on what's going on with the FBI, DOJ, Obamagate, Spygate.

00:00:41.700 But let's focus today on just the FBI and some of the problems.

00:00:47.520 Now, one of the people that I have really admired for several, several years now in the United States Congress is Representative Mark Meadows.

00:00:55.120 He's a Republican from North Carolina.

00:00:57.080 He's the Freedom Caucus chair.

00:00:58.280 And I've met Meadows.

00:01:00.160 I don't know him, but we've spoken offline.

00:01:02.860 I've met him at various events.

00:01:04.900 He's a very nice guy, but a very serious guy.

00:01:07.660 And he is probably one of the most common sense people right now in the United States Congress.

00:01:14.420 Well, Representative Meadows is now accusing the FBI of doing what many of us feel they have been doing.

00:01:21.160 And he feels they may have modified the 302s.

00:01:24.820 The 302 is an FBI witness.

00:01:27.220 He also feels that the FBI may have misled the DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz's office with what Representative Meadows called false information.

00:01:37.640 This from a Fox News story, but it's being reported widely.

00:01:40.860 So the story says the FBI may have edited and changed key witness reports in the Hillary Clinton and Russia investigation, the top House Republican charged in a hearing into FBI and Justice Department misconduct Tuesday yesterday.

00:01:54.780 Now, of course, that hearing was the joint hearing of two very powerful committees in the House of Representatives, the Oversight and Judiciary Committee.

00:02:05.420 Mark Meadows also raised the chair that the FBI, as I said, misled the Inspector General.

00:02:11.120 Now, here's what Representative Mark Meadows said to Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General.

00:02:17.660 He said, quote, the other thing that I would ask you to look into, there is growing evidence that 302s were edited and changed.

00:02:26.180 Those 302s, it is suggested that they were changed to either prosecute or not prosecute individuals.

00:02:34.280 And that is very troubling.

00:02:35.920 Now, I suspect the 302s he was talking about, in particular, were those of General Michael Flynn and members of Hillary Clinton's team.

00:02:47.980 Not sure if Hillary herself is included in his supposition because, from what we're told, she was not put under oath.

00:02:54.420 There may not have been a 302 generated on Hillary. 0.98

00:02:57.020 I believe the fix was in.

00:02:58.340 I believe that they got Hillary in that building and they probably chatted about movies. 0.67

00:03:03.120 I don't believe Hillary was asked a question.

00:03:05.960 It was all just wink, wink, come sit in the room for a couple hours.

00:03:09.140 Got to make it look like you're doing something here, Hillary.

00:03:11.540 And that was that.

00:03:12.820 Now, just to re-explain, 302s are reports on witness interviews compiled by federal investigators.

00:03:21.340 Horowitz, and this is a bombshell that the mainstream media is not reporting.

00:03:27.860 Fox is a few others are.

00:03:29.000 I'm going to talk about it all day.

00:03:29.980 Horowitz said later he has additional information in the Fox News story suggesting that the witness reports were changed after the fact in both the Clinton and Russia probe.

00:03:48.920 Now, that is really, really troubling when you contrast that against Horowitz saying he found no bias in the FBI and DOJ's handling of these same investigations.

00:04:05.980 Both cannot be true.

00:04:09.080 Why would witness interviews be changed after the fact?

00:04:12.300 I've conducted witness interviews.

00:04:15.000 I've filled out the forms.

00:04:16.040 The witness says what the witness says.

00:04:19.280 There's another term for changing witness interviews or 302s, whatever you want to call it.

00:04:25.740 That term is called evidence tampering.

00:04:29.100 And it's a crime.

00:04:31.720 Evidence tampering.

00:04:33.200 Now, it was yesterday the day before here on the show, I said, Peter Stroke, we're going to get to Peter Stroke in just a second.

00:04:39.360 Well, he did some things that I think he should be fired for.

00:04:41.840 But I haven't seen any evidence of a crime committed by Peter Stroke.

00:04:44.840 However, if Peter Stroke changed these 302s, my whole perception changes.

00:04:51.480 I'm not saying he was the guy.

00:04:53.080 I don't know who the agent was who changed him.

00:04:55.160 Maybe it was McCabe, Comey, but it would have been Stroke.

00:04:57.280 We don't know.

00:04:58.640 Hopefully, we'll find out.

00:04:59.820 But if it were Peter Stroke, if we do find out Peter Stroke is the agent who changed the 302s, then to me, the whole game changes.

00:05:10.120 That's evidence tampering.

00:05:11.800 That is a crime.

00:05:13.840 That is a crime.

00:05:14.740 The only time, only time that's done is if the witness calls you back and says, hey, you know what?

00:05:23.320 I made a mistake.

00:05:24.080 I remembered something.

00:05:25.060 My wife just reminded me that I had made a note.

00:05:28.120 When I said I saw that car pulling away from the house where the guy was shot and I told you the car was red, I was wrong.

00:05:34.160 It was blue.

00:05:34.840 The red car was parked in front of the house.

00:05:36.520 My wife just reminded me of that. 0.98

00:05:38.240 And now thinking about it, she's right.

00:05:39.940 I had the cars mixed up.

00:05:41.040 It was the blue car that took off.

00:05:43.080 It was the red car that remained parked there.

00:05:45.540 Then it's OK.

00:05:46.440 Then you change it because you're getting updated, more accurate information.

00:05:49.880 But if it's not in that context, then it's a crime.

00:05:55.120 Then it's evidence tampering.

00:05:56.780 Then it's egregious, egregious investigative misconduct.

00:06:02.000 All kinds of crimes start perjury.

00:06:04.760 Evidence tampering.

00:06:06.160 Bad, bad stuff.

00:06:08.880 Now, Meadows also, also hammered, hammered DOJ and FBI.

00:06:15.720 Meadows asked Horowitz.

00:06:16.740 So you've been watching my show.

00:06:19.000 You've been watching others.

00:06:19.740 You know that in this Inspector General report, in addition to named individuals, Peter Stroke, Lisa Page, there are unnamed individuals who were very, very critical of Donald Trump.

00:06:30.800 Right?

00:06:31.320 We know this.

00:06:31.820 We know that there were many, many unnamed individuals who were critical of Donald Trump.

00:06:37.900 Well, Meadows wants them identified.

00:06:40.840 So again, from the Fox News piece, in a dramatic moment, Meadows then directly asked Horowitz whether two anonymous FBI employees identified as making anti-Trump statements in the IG's report were named Kevin Clinesmith and Sally Moyer.

00:06:59.020 However, Horowitz refused to confirm the employee's identity, which the FBI has declined also to publicly review, citing the supposed sensitivity of counterintelligence matters that they're working on.

00:07:11.500 However, however, however, however, however, however, Moab Meadows is saying that excuse is a sham.

00:07:20.180 Representative Mark Meadows said, quote, they don't work in counterintelligence.

00:07:25.000 And if that's the reason the FBI is giving, they're giving you false information because they work for the FBI's general counsel's office.

00:07:37.520 Wow.

00:07:38.780 Wow.

00:07:40.860 So let's break that down.

00:07:42.980 You've got a sitting member of the United States Congress saying that he has reason to believe, and I suspect, I really suspect, let me leave it at that, that there are many whistleblowers right now inside the FBI talking to members of Congress, people like Mark Meadows.

00:08:01.020 And I really don't want to go beyond saying, I strongly suspect that there are many whistleblowers in the FBI speaking to members of Congress, okay?

00:08:12.700 You've got a ranking member of the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus basically telling, not basically, telling, flat out telling, the Department of Justice Inspector General and the director of the FBI

00:08:27.600 that he believes 302s were changed.

00:08:32.020 Now, that's not a statement a congressman would make unless he had pretty solid evidence of that.

00:08:41.100 Bolstering my suspicion that he has whistleblowers, excuse me, or solid evidence is that Michael Horowitz, the inspector general, said, yeah, I've got some evidence of that myself.

00:08:52.620 Okay.

00:08:53.260 So we can pretty much bank on the fact that it happened, 302s were changed.

00:08:56.500 Now, I'll give you my scenario.

00:08:58.460 If the change is, the witness calls back and says, well, I remembered some information and I told you the car was blue and the car was red.

00:09:04.200 My wife reminded me she had made a note.

00:09:06.260 Well, that's okay.

00:09:07.520 But I don't think that's what happened here.

00:09:09.540 I don't think that's the kind of change they were talking about.

00:09:11.600 I think it was much more nefarious, much more improper, possibly illegal.

00:09:15.540 Then we find out that a couple of those anonymous agent number one or FBI employee number one or attorney number one, number two, number three, et cetera,

00:09:25.100 who wrote, texted things like, I am numb.

00:09:31.060 Well, one wrote on election day after Trump won other, a lawyer wrote viva la resistance, viva la resistance.

00:09:38.480 They're members of the resistance working inside the FBI, resisting the new president-elect at that point and now president of the United States, Donald Trump.

00:09:48.920 Now, this is as bad as it gets, or is it?

00:09:54.780 Because then you have the director of the FBI and the inspector general saying, well, we can't give you the names because they work in counterintelligence.

00:10:01.780 And Mark Minow saying, no, they don't.

00:10:04.840 And this is why I'm pretty sure he has sources inside the FBI.

00:10:08.300 They don't work in counterintelligence.

00:10:10.140 They work in the FBI general counsel's office.

00:10:12.500 They have nothing to do with counterintelligence.

00:10:14.660 That's a lie.

00:10:15.860 That excuse doesn't hold water.

00:10:17.280 The credibility of the FBI and DOJ is being crushed daily.

00:10:21.760 Now, Peter Stroke.

00:10:25.420 I used to say it all comes back to Andrew McCabe, right?

00:10:28.620 I said that on the show.

00:10:30.040 Excuse me.

00:10:30.740 About 15 times, 20, 50 times.

00:10:33.940 It all comes back to Andrew McCabe.

00:10:36.980 Well, Andrew McCabe's out.

00:10:38.040 McCabe is out.

00:10:38.960 He got fired.

00:10:39.620 He's probably going to face criminal charges, hopefully.

00:10:42.220 The new guy that it all comes back to, the new hub of corruption at the FBI, in my opinion, is Peter Stroke.

00:10:50.360 Well, yesterday, Peter Stroke's lawyer confirmed that he was escorted from the building.

00:10:59.180 Stroke's lawyer.

00:10:59.900 Again, he confirmed this to Fox News.

00:11:01.820 Stroke's lawyer, Aiton Goldman, has argued that even though his client has, quote, as a joke, played by the rules, he has been targeted by, quote, unfounded personal attacks, political games, and inappropriate information leaks.

00:11:17.460 Unfounded personal attacks.

00:11:19.760 The man, on 49, almost 50,000 text messages to his mistress, pretty much admitted he was trying to rig a presidential election, and this is great.

00:11:33.560 His lawyer, Goldman, also says, quote, all of this seriously calls into question the impartiality of the disciplinary process, which now appears to be tainted by political influence.

00:11:43.580 Oh, it's the disciplinary process, tainted by political influence, not your investigation, in which you said, we'll stop him.

00:11:53.360 I mean, these people are just caricatures of themselves.

00:12:01.220 His lawyer went on to say, quote, that Stroke has complied with every FBI procedure, including being escorted from the building as part of the ongoing internal proceedings.

00:12:11.680 The attorney did not say exactly when Stroke's lawyer, reported out of court.

00:12:16.000 The attorney went on with his comment.

00:12:18.460 His attorney really should just be quiet.

00:12:20.860 Here's what his attorney, Aiton Goldman, said.

00:12:23.720 Quote, instead of publicly calling for a long-serving FBI agent to be summarily fired.

00:12:31.420 No, they're not calling for him to be summarily fired.

00:12:33.720 They're calling for him to be fired after a months-long 1.2 million pages of evidence OIG report was released, indicating he did wrong.

00:12:45.000 That's kind of how it works.

00:12:47.260 Politicians should allow the disciplinary process to play out free from political pressure.

00:12:53.320 I disagree.

00:12:54.640 The House and Senate oversight committees oversee the FBI and other agencies.

00:13:02.460 It's their job to make recommendations, to comment on who they think should be fired because of the things they see. 0.98

00:13:10.960 This lawyer's statement is asinine. 0.91

00:13:13.560 Our leaders and the public should be very concerned with how readily such influence has been allowed to undermine due process 0.96

00:13:20.280 and the legal protections owed to someone who has served his country for so long.

00:13:26.420 Things undermining due process.

00:13:28.740 Peter Stroke was investigated.

00:13:30.060 He's now being administratively investigated by the FBI.

00:13:32.880 He will probably soon be fired.

00:13:34.320 And Peter Stroke is free to give his lawyer Aiton Goldman more money.

00:13:38.900 And Mr. Goldman can go and file an appeal in federal court.

00:13:43.760 Peter Stroke isn't being denied any due process.

00:13:46.140 It sure looks like Peter Stroke denied other people, like General Flynn, due process. 0.96

00:13:49.720 And if Peter Stroke was the guy who changed those 302s, well, damn, he did it illegally. 0.94

00:13:55.220 But nobody's denying him due process. 0.87

00:13:57.400 The courts are open.

00:13:58.880 His lawyer is free to file an appeal.

00:14:00.880 His lawyer is free to file grievances with the federal government if he's fired.

00:14:05.080 But Stroke wasn't fired.

00:14:06.660 Now, news of Stroke removal came after DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz confirmed during a congressional hearing earlier yesterday that his office was looking into whether Stroke's specific anti-Trump bias played a role in the launch of the Bureau's Russia probe.

00:14:26.480 And you know what that all stems from, those texts.

00:14:31.100 His mistress, Lisa Page, prior to Trump's win, said, quote, Trump's not ever going to become president, right?

00:14:37.880 Right.

00:14:38.880 And Stroke, of course, replied in the now famous reply, no, no, he won't.

00:14:43.960 We'll stop it.

00:14:46.260 Nearly 50,000, 50,000 text messages sent between Peter Stroke and Lisa Page.

00:14:53.460 50,000 text messages sent between this guy and his mistress.

00:15:00.280 Now, Representative Meadows, again, made a comment on that.

00:15:03.700 He told Fox News, quote, it's way past time for Peter Stroke to hopefully start to find a different career and restore some credibility to the FBI that most of us love and admire.

00:15:12.280 And certainly, Lady Justice has to be someone who wears a blindfold. 1.00

00:15:15.640 And with Peter Stroke, it was obvious with his text messages that that was not the case.

00:15:24.280 Other messages from Stroke showed an allegiance to Comey after his firing.

00:15:29.200 Look, Stroke was far too biased to remain on the FBI's investigation into Donald Trump on Mueller's team.

00:15:37.240 Remember, Stroke was only fired from Mueller's team when these text messages came to light.

00:15:42.100 Had they not come to light?

00:15:44.460 Had the OIG's office not started releasing them way back when?

00:15:48.360 We never would have known this.

00:15:49.960 God knows the damage he could have done.

00:15:51.700 Now, Stroke, as I sit here right now, and it can change by the time you watch this later today on Wednesday, Stroke right now is, in fact, is, in fact, still employed by the FBI.

00:16:06.060 He still has a gun.

00:16:06.640 He still has a badge.

00:16:07.860 He still has access.

00:16:08.820 And typically, because he's still an FBI agent with a gun and creds, he has his security clearance.

00:16:14.980 That alone is problematic.

00:16:17.400 But where is our Department of Justice?

00:16:22.220 Where is Attorney General Jeff Sessions?

00:16:25.900 The man is MIA.

00:16:27.600 The Department of Justice is rudderless and leaderless.

00:16:31.200 It has no direction anymore.

00:16:33.460 It has nobody at the helm.

00:16:36.080 Jeff Sessions is completely, has completely checked out.

00:16:40.980 Now, Donald Trump has pinged Jeff Sessions.

00:16:44.880 But I would argue that the most damning, damning call for Sessions firing have been many.

00:16:52.300 I've been one.

00:16:52.820 I don't believe in all this conspiracy nonsense, 5D, 6D, 427D chess, you and on this shadowy figure in the government telling you trust Jeff Sessions and Mueller's away.

00:17:05.440 Give me a break with all that conspiracy nonsense.

00:17:08.420 Sessions got there.

00:17:10.040 He wasn't the man for the job at these times.

00:17:12.300 This is the single most critical point in history for the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to have rigidly, rock-solid, iron-willed, strong leadership, clear direction, a sense of house clean, and restoration of integrity, honesty, the FBI's values, fidelity, bravery, integrity.

00:17:36.740 We don't have that.

00:17:37.720 We've got Jeff Sessions, who looks very weak, very frail, who has no desire to fight the swamp in these days.

00:17:43.840 None.

00:17:44.920 None.

00:17:46.060 Jeff Sessions is MIA.

00:17:47.480 So the most damning call for his firing, in my opinion, most damning one recently, is from Brad Parscale.

00:17:53.700 Brad Parscale, of course, was the data guru on Trump's 2016 campaign, elevated to campaign manager.

00:18:00.460 He's got Corey Lewandowski's older.

00:18:02.340 For the 2020 campaign.

00:18:03.980 And Brad Parscale put out a tweet yesterday, time to fire Sessions.

00:18:11.580 End the Mueller investigation.

00:18:13.940 You can't obstruct something that was phony against you.

00:18:18.560 The IG report gives Donald Trump the truth to end it all.

00:18:21.620 I said that the other day.

00:18:22.540 But for the campaign manager of Trump's 2020 campaign, to open a tweet in the middle of

00:18:32.820 the day, 12.25 p.m.

00:18:34.040 This wasn't some tired musing at 3 in the morning.

00:18:37.140 To open his tweet with, fire, time to fire Sessions.

00:18:42.460 That is a really, really loud and powerful statement.

00:18:47.280 I mean, it doesn't get any louder and any more powerful than that.

00:18:53.200 He's screaming from the rooftops with that one.

00:18:56.080 And believe me, Brad Parscale did not do that without the knowledge and consent of President

00:19:02.620 Donald Trump.

00:19:03.320 They're together all the time.

00:19:04.960 They're together all the time.

00:19:07.360 There's a rally in Duluth, Minnesota later today.

00:19:10.560 They're at 6.30 p.m.

00:19:11.460 A Trump rally.

00:19:12.160 A big one.

00:19:13.280 I'm sure Brad Parscale will be there.

00:19:15.160 I'm sure he'll be on Air Force One with the president.

00:19:17.180 Got to check the rules on that, though.

00:19:18.380 I don't know if campaign team can fly with him before official campaign season.

00:19:23.880 But I can bet he'll be in the VIP area at the rally if he wasn't allowed to be on the

00:19:27.980 plane.

00:19:28.240 It's a rule I need to check.

00:19:30.380 Something I'm interested in, or you're interested in.

00:19:32.420 I want to bring you.

00:19:33.560 But Brad Parscale would not have tweeted this without Donald Trump knowing.

00:19:38.200 And when the campaign manager for Trump's 2020 reelect is saying time to fire Sessions,

00:19:43.060 you know that all confidence inside the White House is lost in Jeff Sessions because the

00:19:49.300 campaign manager is going to make a policy statement like that on opinion that he's

00:19:54.420 not going to do it.

00:19:55.900 And so we need much more effective leadership at DOJ.

00:20:00.480 We need much more effective leadership at FBI.

00:20:03.080 Christopher Wray doesn't seem like the guy to do the job.

00:20:06.100 His style is apathetic.

00:20:07.880 He's rolling his eyes at people.

00:20:09.580 He thinks this is no big deal.

00:20:10.980 Make it go away.

00:20:11.780 Oh, I've seen this kind of thing at DOJ years.

00:20:14.220 Again, it goes back to DOJ lawyers humming a law enforcement.

00:20:16.820 I'm not a fan.

00:20:18.160 But one thing is clear.

00:20:19.680 One thing is clear.

00:20:21.960 We have only scratched the top of the scratch on the surface of just how corruptly the FBI

00:20:29.140 and DOJ were weaponized against the Trump campaign.

00:20:32.040 And because of this weak leadership in Jeff Sessions, because of this weak leadership in

00:20:36.100 Christopher Wray, I'm going to again say, I don't like, I don't like special counsels,

00:20:42.120 but the White House needs to appoint the president himself needs to appoint a second special counsel,

00:20:49.620 someone loyal to him, someone tough as nails, someone from the outside and someone who not

00:20:55.680 only is willing to take on the swamp, but is dying for that fight.

00:21:00.120 The whole immigration debate is getting very complex and sometimes strange.

00:21:16.480 Now, Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, not the actor from Psycho, is telling

00:21:22.360 people that apparently Attorney General Jeff Sessions related to him, to Perkins, that

00:21:27.740 Sessions wants to use DNA tests to confirm parentage of illegal immigrant adults.

00:21:35.760 In other words, if you're coming over with a kid and you say, it's my child, they want

00:21:39.020 to take a DNA swab, compare it and make sure you're a parent.

00:21:42.040 Now, I like that idea, but I don't know how accurate this is.

00:21:47.360 He interviewed Sessions on his radio show, The Daily Caller Report.

00:21:52.780 Sessions, he said Sessions is talking to members of Congress.

00:21:56.220 Let me read the quote.

00:21:57.860 Sessions is talking to congressional members and hoping for a legislative fix.

00:22:03.120 The AG wants an immigration policy that is just fair and enforceable.

00:22:07.560 They talked about making sure that these really are the parents of these kids.

00:22:11.360 They are looking at how to use DNA tests in the field to verify they are parents and

00:22:16.740 not traffickers.

00:22:17.620 Hey, I have no problem with that.

00:22:20.660 The reality is if American parents put their kids through what these immigrant parents have 1.00

00:22:24.380 done to their kids, they would be charged with child abuse.

00:22:27.680 I kind of agree.

00:22:29.920 I sincerely and truly kind of agree with that.

00:22:34.800 I think that's very, very true.

00:22:36.140 Now, we know the facts, right?

00:22:41.240 About 12,000 kids are coming in.

00:22:42.760 10,000 are unaccompanied minors.

00:22:46.940 They're being used, many of those as probes.

00:22:48.660 About 80% as probes by the cartels and the human smuggling rings.

00:22:53.380 So these are not good people pushing these kids.

00:22:56.120 And in many cases, the parents are complicit.

00:22:58.340 And here's what Sessions told Perkins on the radio show.

00:23:00.640 Well, we know for a fact that a lot of adults are taking children that who are not really

00:23:07.100 taking along children.

00:23:08.640 Let me let me see.

00:23:09.480 Let me reread this.

00:23:10.160 We know for a fact that a lot of adults taking children along are not related to them.

00:23:16.160 It could be muggers.

00:23:17.540 I think you meant to say smugglers.

00:23:18.880 It could be human traffickers.

00:23:20.420 It's a very unhealthy, dangerous thing.

00:23:22.600 And it needs to end.

00:23:23.160 I agree there.

00:23:23.780 I mean, I think Jeff Sessions needs to go as attorney general.

00:23:26.500 He needs to get the boot.

00:23:27.500 But I agree there.

00:23:29.920 We need to return to a good, lawful system.

00:23:36.800 And that's what Sessions told Tony Perkins on the radio show.

00:23:40.700 The Daily Caller sent an inquiry over to DOJ asking if the DNA test thing is accurate.

00:23:47.200 And they didn't respond.

00:23:48.640 Now, look, Trump wants his wall.

00:23:51.000 We've done this border thing ad nauseam.

00:23:52.740 The left is absolutely hysterical because we're enforcing the law.

00:23:59.500 I went through this yesterday.

00:24:00.840 I don't need to belabor the point.

00:24:02.340 You got 10,000 and accompanying kids.

00:24:04.040 Can't send them back across the border.

00:24:05.960 All right.

00:24:06.660 Can't hand them a bottle of water and say, see you later.

00:24:09.520 Have a great time back in the Gucci Galpa.

00:24:13.360 You just can't do that.

00:24:14.980 All righty.

00:24:15.720 You got to take the kids in.

00:24:17.040 We've got to put them in DHS shelters.

00:24:19.060 We got to do what we got to do.

00:24:20.540 We do it with American kids.

00:24:23.200 I told you that.

00:24:24.160 I'm not going to belabor that.

00:24:25.700 Every day in this country, kids are removed from adults for a host of reasons.

00:24:31.200 The adults committed crimes.

00:24:32.340 The kids are in danger.

00:24:33.720 The adult is an apparent illegal guardian.

00:24:36.260 There's a sign of abuse, of malnourishment.

00:24:38.840 The house is too dirty.

00:24:40.760 There's mold on the walls.

00:24:42.260 It's a for whatever reason.

00:24:45.500 And remove a kid if they're in a car and they're a baby without a car seat.

00:24:50.040 The police can remove them.

00:24:51.560 There's a lot of reasons why kids get removed.

00:24:55.140 And in every one of those instances, it's to protect the child.

00:24:59.860 Now, I could do 150 shows on the problems with Departments of Children and Family Services

00:25:06.700 and how the kids might not even be better off with them and in private foster care.

00:25:10.180 That's a whole nother issue.

00:25:12.600 But it just shows the unhinged nature of the left.

00:25:14.540 Now, new photos are surfacing from 2014.

00:25:18.500 Brandon Darby over at Breitbart did a great thread on Twitter.

00:25:21.080 I think I brought you there yesterday or the day before.

00:25:24.780 And the hypocrisy is that nobody said a word on the left.

00:25:29.180 You didn't have people like Representative Gerald Nadler and Hakeem Jeffries from New York

00:25:34.720 and Nadler from New York going in and basically barging in on an ICE detention facility in New Jersey

00:25:41.120 while Obama was doing it.

00:25:42.840 You didn't have that.

00:25:44.780 No, this is all political grandstanding.

00:25:46.660 They don't care about the kids any more than the anti-gun activists cared about the kids in Parkland

00:25:51.000 or at Sandy Hook.

00:25:53.300 I'm sure somewhere in their heart they see this and know it's a tragedy.

00:25:57.940 But that's not their real political agenda.

00:26:00.000 Their real political agenda is stepping over those kids, 1.00

00:26:02.900 stepping over the bodies in a school shooting to push their far-left political agendas,

00:26:08.860 their far-left political agenda.

00:26:12.840 Now, that all said, the left is going a step further. 0.99

00:26:18.000 They're acting like unhinged lunatics. 0.84

00:26:21.500 But the bias, the bias keeps on proving just how real deep state is. 0.52

00:26:29.780 And I always tell you, deep state is not guys in a darkly lit room, high-backed chairs,

00:26:36.660 and you only see the cigarette smoke in the back of their head.

00:26:38.520 No, it's nothing that's sinister and nefarious or conspiratorial.

00:26:41.980 It's just people who want government to stay the way it's always been.

00:26:47.220 Big, powerful, doing nothing.

00:26:51.140 Solutions means streamlining.

00:26:53.500 Streamlining means a loss of power, a loss of money, and a loss of jobs.

00:26:59.660 And the big government advocates on both the right and the left can't have that.

00:27:03.020 And that's the swamp.

00:27:04.980 That's the deep state.

00:27:06.720 All it is.

00:27:07.760 I mean, I wish I could make it as sexy as the guys in the high-backed chairs

00:27:10.900 in a dimly lit room and CIA and NSA and shadow government.

00:27:14.860 It's not that.

00:27:15.400 It's like, you know, the person who works mid-management at the State Department

00:27:18.960 or the person who's working upper-mid-management at the Office of Management and Budget.

00:27:23.620 That's deep state.

00:27:25.020 But it is.

00:27:26.320 Nothing.

00:27:27.080 Sure, you've got the CIA players and the FBI players, and that's the sexier part of the story.

00:27:31.680 But they're also just cogs in a wheel.

00:27:37.000 But it's starting to trickle down to even lower levels.

00:27:41.020 The President of the United States is in the Capitol.

00:27:43.820 The President of the United States of America is in the United States Capitol building.

00:27:52.100 Last night, going to meet with House Republicans, he's on his way to the office,

00:27:56.380 the Speaker of the House, and a congressional, now, a congressional intern yells across the Capitol

00:28:09.020 to the Capitol, Mr. President F., whole word, you, a congressional intern to the President of the United States.

00:28:22.480 Now, if you don't think this congressional intern was emboldened by the behavior of Peter Stroke and Lisa Page and James Comey

00:28:35.840 and all of the other Viva La Résistance players, I've got a bridge in Brooklyn to tell you.

00:28:43.460 Now, this is disgraceful, disgraceful, but this far-left staffer is eventually going to be, an intern,

00:28:55.440 is eventually going to become a far-left staffer, maybe a senior staffer,

00:29:00.300 maybe an agency head one day, or a deputy secretary, an undersecretary, maybe run for office.

00:29:07.300 That's deep state. That's how it starts. Institutionally left, hysterical, over-border security,

00:29:15.460 and thinking it's okay to scrap all decorum, all protocol, all professionalism, all appropriateness,

00:29:23.260 and say, Mr. President, F.U., in the Capitol rotunda.

00:29:29.360 Now, no report on whether that intern was discharged, no report on whether that intern was

00:29:38.060 reprimanded, shamed, should be blacklisted, because you know Democratic members of Congress

00:29:44.560 are going to salute this intern. And that, to me, is so disgusting. Members of the Congressional 0.99

00:29:52.180 Hispanic Caucus are predictably screaming and yelling, and Representative Michelle Lujan Grisham, 0.57

00:29:58.440 a Democrat from New Mexico, is calling the separation from families at the border,

00:30:02.420 the worst thing she has ever seen in her career, didn't care about it when Obama did it. 0.92

00:30:07.420 Couldn't have cared less when Obama did it. And we've got, you know, Congress people arguing

00:30:16.500 with each other. They're calling the situation humane, inhumane. But the reality is, this is,

00:30:24.400 here's where everybody's missing the boat. And I'm going to do something, I rarely do, I don't think

00:30:29.840 I've ever done it. I'm going to say Barack Obama did the right thing here, too. I didn't care when

00:30:36.180 Obama had to remove kids. I don't care when Trump has to remove kids. It's one of the few things I

00:30:41.800 think Obama did right. Because the Department of Homeland Security, via the Immigration and Customs

00:30:46.700 Adforcement people, via Customs and Border Protection, are giving recommendations to their bosses. And

00:30:55.340 their bosses are kicking those recommendations up to the Secretary of Homeland Security, who's kicking

00:30:59.780 those recommendations up to the White House Chief of Staff, who, alongside the Secretary of Homeland

00:31:04.760 Security, sit in the Oval Office and say to the President, Mr. President, these are the recommendations

00:31:09.400 from the people in the field. And Barack Obama took and enacted those regulations, acted on them.

00:31:15.720 And so is Donald Trump. And that's what you're supposed to do when you're the president. You

00:31:21.380 talk to your experts in the field, or you listen to your experts in the field. You talk to their

00:31:26.660 bosses who come into your office. They make the recommendations. You discuss it with your

00:31:31.880 advisors. And then you make a call. Obama did it. Trump did it. Bush did it. Clinton did it.

00:31:39.400 Bush 41 did it. Reagan did it. Carter did it. Every president does it. Every president does it.

00:31:49.500 Because that's what you're supposed to do. But these morons think that by screaming, 1.00

00:31:54.180 Mr. President, F.U. and basically causing a protest, members of Congress in the Capitol Rotunda, 1.00

00:32:00.200 they're going to change law enforcement policy. Want to change law enforcement policy? Change the law.

00:32:06.900 Right now, Donald Trump is doing what he's supposed to be doing as the nation's chief law enforcement

00:32:12.600 officer. He's enforcing the law. Now, other morons outside of government think they're going to make

00:32:23.240 a dent. Liberals are gloating. Oh, my God, they're gloating. I think it's the greatest thing they've ever 1.00

00:32:28.120 seen. That Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was basically forced to leave a Washington,

00:32:35.300 D.C. Mexican restaurant. How ironic. When a group from the Democratic Socialists of America

00:32:41.000 started protesting her and calling her names. He said, if kids don't eat in peace, you don't eat in

00:32:50.640 peace. Kirstjen Nielsen, you're a villain. Lock her up. Quote, how can you enjoy a Mexican dinner 0.98

00:32:56.680 as you're deporting and imprisoning tens of thousands of people that come here seeking asylum

00:33:01.060 in the United States? Apparently, you're not allowed to eat now if you're a law enforcement

00:33:05.020 party. You can't have dinner in a Mexican restaurant of all places. The effing gall of stupid. 1.00

00:33:10.300 So incredibly stupid. That you can't even go out and have dinner. If you're a government official 1.00

00:33:21.060 who's a law enforcement official enforcing the law. So Tyler Q. Holton, who's the Homeland Security

00:33:28.020 spokesperson, tweeted, quote, while having a work dinner tonight, the secretary and her staff heard

00:33:34.060 from a small group of protesters who share her concern with our current immigration laws that have

00:33:38.420 created a crisis on our southern border. Secretary Nielsen encourages all, including this group, 1.00

00:33:43.240 who want to see an immigration system that works, contribute to our economy, protects our security

00:33:48.440 and reflects our values, reach out to members, meaning members of Congress, and seek their support

00:33:53.560 to close immigration loopholes that made our system a mess. And I thought it was a classy response 1.00

00:33:59.900 from the Homeland Security Secretary. I think Kirstjen Nielsen's doing a good job.

00:34:04.480 She's carrying out the orders of the president. She's enforcing the law. 1.00

00:34:08.420 How do you make you feel? Do you hear the baby's crying? Look, I told you yesterday,

00:34:15.100 tell you this all the time, law enforcement never looks nice. OK, as an individual, as a human,

00:34:20.360 as an American, as an uncle, you know, it breaks my heart to hear little kids crying.

00:34:25.640 It does. Crying for mommy and daddy. They're innocent. They didn't do anything. They're victims.

00:34:30.120 But it's their parents' fault. I'm not saying that to be cruel. We can't just say to the parent,

00:34:38.000 OK, you can come in the country illegally despite your criminal warrants because you have your baby

00:34:41.920 with you. No. We need to de-incentivize this type of behavior. And it's the only way to do it.

00:34:49.560 This is the only way to do it. It's sad. It's hurtful. It's tough to watch. It's tough to listen

00:34:59.660 to. But it's really, really necessary because they're right. The president's right. The Homeland

00:35:05.660 Security Secretary is right. Our immigration system is a mess, a terrible, terrible, terrible mess. 1.00

00:35:10.700 Yes. Every other nation pretty much in this world has much stricter laws than we do Mexico, Canada,

00:35:17.580 Russia, the UK, Ireland, England. I mean, name them. UK and England are the same. But name them.

00:35:24.000 Impossible to get in there and work. I was talking to a friend of mine who was born in Montreal,

00:35:28.960 is a dual citizen of the US and Canada because she's lived in America her entire life.

00:35:32.960 She left Montreal at four months old. Her ability to work in Canada is about the same as any other

00:35:39.340 American. Her dual citizenship doesn't even matter. Canada's immigration laws are draconian 0.99

00:35:45.760 to non-Canadians. Mexico's are draconian to non-Mexicans. But we're supposed to just open

00:35:52.940 our borders and scrap our sovereignty. It's ludicrous. It's ludicrous. And the hypocrisy 0.74

00:36:00.320 coming from the countries telling us to do it is deafening.

00:36:04.660 Look, I think the president, I think the Homeland Security Secretary are doing exactly what they're

00:36:11.360 supposed to do. They have to ignore, they have to ignore opinions, follow the law. And if the

00:36:17.380 Democrats don't like it, and if some neocon Republicans don't like it, we'll get together

00:36:21.360 with a legislative solution and change the laws that they're required to enforce.

00:36:26.600 Well, you had to know this was coming if you read any science news, right? So a report out of the

00:36:42.400 Guardian is entitled, and it's pretty terrifying, synthetic biology raises risk of new bioweapons.

00:36:49.940 U.S. report warns. Wow. A report, a review on the field report published just yesterday by the U.S.

00:36:58.080 National Academy of Sciences, but at the request of our Department of Defense, is saying that these

00:37:04.140 weapons might very well be on the way. And really what it is, is an intelligence, it's a scientific

00:37:09.420 and an intelligence estimate of how new biotech research, biological research, would be weaponized.

00:37:17.620 And it's really sad that we live in a world where we have to look at all these angles, but we really

00:37:21.580 do, right? I mean, things that, you know, a few decades ago would have been easily obtainable by

00:37:27.160 a high school chemistry teacher, as they should have been, because people shouldn't act like murderous

00:37:32.000 terrorist savages. Well, now those things are highly, highly regulated. Well, Michael Imperiali,

00:37:38.920 chair of the report committee, said, quote, we can't say how likely any of these scenarios are,

00:37:43.620 but we can talk about how feasible they are. The scary thing when it comes to terror

00:37:48.200 and weaponization of things is that if they're feasible, we, well, I used to work, need to

00:37:57.280 take these threats as actionable intelligence to get in front of them. So let me read you the first

00:38:03.900 two paragraphs, because it's kind of scary. The rapid rise of synthetic biology, a futuristic field

00:38:08.540 of science that seeks to master the machinery of life has raised the risk of a new generation

00:38:14.100 of bioweapons. According to a major U.S. report into the state-of-the-art technology advances in the

00:38:20.500 area mean that scientists now have the capability to recreate dangerous viruses from scratch, make

00:38:28.860 harmful bacteria more deadly and modify common microbes so that they churn out lethal toxin once

00:38:38.160 they enter the body. These three scenarios are picked out as threats of highest concern,

00:38:44.400 the threats of highest concern in that report published by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

00:38:50.140 at the request of the DOD. This is going back, though, 20 years. And it says also more than 20

00:38:59.120 years ago, a guy named Eckhart Wimmer, just sounds like a smart guy, a geneticist at Stony Brook

00:39:04.080 University in New York highlighted the potential dangers of synthetic biology and dramatic style

00:39:09.260 when he recreated poliovirus in a test tube. Wow. Earlier this year, the University of the

00:39:17.780 team of Alberta in Canada built an infectious horsepox virus. And the virus is a close relative 0.95

00:39:24.840 of smallpox, which may have claimed half a billion lives in the 20th century. Today, the genetic code,

00:39:34.180 it says, of almost any mammalian virus, virus in mammals, can be found online and synthesized.

00:39:39.500 It says, quote, the technology to do this is available now. It requires, this is the same guy,

00:39:44.620 Imperiali, the chair of the committee. It requires some expertise, but it's something that's relatively

00:39:50.340 easy to do and why it tops the list. And if you don't think groups like ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Al-Nusra,

00:39:59.060 Al-Shabaab, Boko Haram, Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab are a little more primitive, but the big guys,

00:40:03.160 Hamas, Hezbollah, you don't think they have scientists capable of doing this. And governments

00:40:10.940 like Syria, Russia, North Korea, all of these nations that have no problem using weapons of mass

00:40:19.960 destruction, chemical, biological weapons on their people, if you don't think they've already 0.92

00:40:24.160 developed these, you're mistaken. You are mistaken. And when you read through this,

00:40:31.700 it really, what jumps off the page at me, and I'm not a particularly scientifically proficient guy,

00:40:39.000 but I'm interested in the weaponization of things as threats. This, I can understand this very easily.

00:40:45.140 It's very easy to understand. It also says, other fairly simple procedures can be used to tweak

00:40:50.360 genes of dangerous bacteria to make them resistant to antibiotics so that people infected with them

00:40:55.780 would be untreatable. A more exotic bioweapon might come in the form of a genetically altered 0.97

00:41:00.860 microbe that colonizes the gut and churns out poisons. While this is technically more difficult,

00:41:08.200 it's a concern because it may not look like anything you normally watch out for in public health,

00:41:13.940 the chair of the committee says. Now, here's what's really troubling about that for

00:41:17.180 those who have to interdict terror. The body is a very complex thing, right?

00:41:25.440 Thousands of nearly impossible for law enforcement. They're partners at places like the Center for

00:41:34.680 Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, National Academy of Sciences, NASA, PIA. They have

00:41:41.300 doctors there and things like the army, army units that work on infectious diseases. There aren't that

00:41:47.060 many people to get in front of all these threats. And the bad guys get smarter, right? This is

00:41:54.100 something we can't even be reactive to because there's so many ways to alter the microbe, things like

00:42:00.460 that. So now you're going to even build an antidote because that could take years and you're focusing on

00:42:04.560 one of thousands of scenarios. And so this is, when you look at a threat matrix, when a guy like me who

00:42:11.060 analyzes this, very interested in this, looks at a threat matrix that we as a nation, as a world face,

00:42:16.900 this becomes really, really scary stuff. Really scary stuff. And I'm very encouraged that

00:42:22.580 some very smart people are working on this. But man, man, it is terrifying to think of the world we live in

00:42:33.100 now. And the advances in technology essentially give the bad guys weapons. They can smuggle, look,

00:42:39.140 a vial with a virus in your pocket or went through airport metal detector. That's not going to set

00:42:44.540 anything. It's not going to set off the wand. If it looks like a cosmetics case, you put it in your

00:42:52.200 bag through the x-ray machine. Who's going to know? Who's going to know? This is really, really scary

00:43:00.220 stuff. You release this on a plane, a large plane. You infect people. And that plane is going to say

00:43:08.520 Atlanta, Hartsfield, Jackson airport. And the hundreds of people on your plane, 150 people to

00:43:14.600 several hundred people, depending on the size of the plane, then get on other planes and infect people

00:43:18.220 on those planes. And they go to the next hub and get another plane. And you see how this starts to

00:43:21.920 spread very, very quickly. Scary, scary stuff. And I'm glad we're researching it. But man, we live in

00:43:29.080 a very, very different world than we did even 20 years ago. A lot more dangerous. And really, we have

00:43:36.320 to be so hypervigilant about these threats. I'm glad that our government is up on this at least. I'm

00:43:41.680 critical of a lot of things they do with regards to privacy. But this is a threat you never see coming.

00:43:47.920 And let's hope that there are armies, literally, of very smart people figuring out ways to mitigate

00:43:54.100 this.

00:44:05.920 So some good news as our economy gets better. A story from the New York Times, disability applications

00:44:10.820 plunge as economy strengthens. The number of Americans seeking social security disability benefits is

00:44:17.100 plunging, startling reversal of a decades-old trend that threatened the program's solvency and the latest

00:44:22.220 evidence of a stronger economy, pulling people back into the job market, or preventing workers from being

00:44:27.940 sidelined in the first place. But when I see this, when I read this, and the spot here will analyze a little

00:44:33.180 bit, it tells me that there was rampant disability fraud going on when the economy wasn't so good. Thanks, Obama.

00:44:41.860 Because you didn't all of a sudden not become disabled if the economy did better. Granted, 0.68

00:44:47.480 more jobs mean companies can hire disabled people. If you don't have a limb, there are more technology 1.00

00:44:52.240 jobs for you where that doesn't matter. It's really all about intellect and proficiency with coding,

00:44:56.860 things like that. But it also, it also tells us there was rampant fraud. Now, in addition to stronger

00:45:06.540 economic growth, in addition to stronger economic growth, the story says, the drop reflects newly

00:45:11.340 tightened standards for eligibility and increasing the number of baby boomers who are leaving the

00:45:15.820 program because they become eligible for social security retirement benefits and Medicare. Good

00:45:20.660 news. Fewer than 1.5 million Americans applied to the Social Security Administration for disability

00:45:25.580 coverage last year, the lowest since 2002. Applications are running at an even lower rate

00:45:31.380 this year. Again, all good news, as long as it stays that way. And the numbers are this. All told,

00:45:39.500 8.63 million workers received disability benefits in May, down from a peak of 8.96 million in September

00:45:46.060 2014. About three, a little less than 300,000 left. Now, a drop of several hundred thousand at times

00:45:52.920 may not sound like much, but it's a sharp turnaround from what seemed to be an inexorable rise in which the

00:45:57.760 disability rolls more than double over the past 25 years. Thanks, Clinton, Bush, Obama. That increase

00:46:04.360 led some conservative lawmakers to describe the program as wasteful and riddled with fraud.

00:46:12.200 But again, it was riddled with fraud. It was. Now, I know people that are on it legitimately.

00:46:18.160 They're on it legitimately. They went through some horrible things in their lives. They want to work,

00:46:22.060 but they can't. And a friend of mine, uh, who in a very bad, bad place, terrible, terrible workplace

00:46:30.140 at, I drove him not long ago to a Social Security disability office in South Florida. And this is

00:46:37.340 a guy who worked his entire life, worked his entire life. He didn't even want the benefits,

00:46:41.960 embarrassed to have them, but he needs them, uh, for the, for the, uh, a little bit of income,

00:46:46.400 not so much, but the, uh, medical and the designation and other stuff.

00:46:52.060 And we looked around the room and there were perfectly able-bodied guys walking in and out

00:46:55.300 of there. And we were just shaking our heads at the rampant fraud. So I'm glad to see something

00:47:01.020 is being done about this because the people that need it are waiting four or five, six hours,

00:47:06.000 getting denied, having to go through the appeals process. And it seems that the people that don't,

00:47:10.920 especially when they're not white men, they're getting it very, very easily, very, very easily.

00:47:16.480 They're just getting these benefits. Nobody's really asking them any questions. It's terrible.

00:47:20.880 There's rampant fraud and abuse, but I'm encouraged by this story. Normally not my beat,

00:47:25.340 normally not what I bring you, but it shows you how, how the Trump administration is really

00:47:29.340 cream lining the process in every, in every agency and helping to cut fraud and abuse wherever they can.

00:47:36.500 Thank you.

00:47:39.100 Thank you.

00:47:40.640 Thank you.

00:47:41.820 Thank you.

00:47:42.540 Thank you.

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Rebel News Podcast - June 20, 2018

Off The Cuff Declassified： Mark Meadows claims FBI lied, Immigration debate, and bio weapons

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