Russell Brand is joined by Mike Benz to discuss the resignation of CIA Director Kimberley Cheadle, and the assassination attempt on the offices of the Joint Improving Relationships Unit (JIED Unit) on January 13th, 2019, which may or may not have been the work of a group within the Secret Service known as the "Joint command team" or "J13" as it is colloquially known in the conspiracy circles, to investigate the events surrounding the assassination of a member of the JIED Unit on the 13th floor of a building in Los Angeles, California, on the day of the 9/11 attacks, and whether or not it was an inside job or an assassination attempt by a group of disgruntled employees, or was there something more to it than what was publicly known? Join the conversation by using the hashtag and on social media and the in the chat, and let us know what you thought of this! if you re watching this on Rumble, and if you're on Awakening Wonder, let me know what your thoughts are on this, and what you think of our interview with Candice Owens. Thank you so much for joining me today, you're going to see the future, Awakening Wanderers! - you're gonna see the Future, you re gonna see The Future. - and remember, remember, it's going to be a wild one! -- you're not going to want to be on Rumble? on the Rumble chat? - get your questions on Rumble on there as well, as well! If you're watching the Rumble Chat, get on there, and get on the chat! . - as well remember it's gonna be a good one! - remember, and remember it s going to get fast, so remember, so well, so get on The Rumble Chat! by getting your questions, on there on there too! so well remember, get your chat, get fast with us on there! and so on! ! get fast and fast! on The Awakening Wanderer by The Rumble chat -- get fast. . . - The Reverends. -- , The Reverend & The Reverend Bill And so on Rumble Chat -- The Reverend John Mclean -- And so much more! , and much more -- So much love, Love Birds
00:03:12.000In this video, you're going to see the future.
00:03:24.000Awakening Wanderers, thanks for joining me today for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
00:03:28.000An extraordinary array of subjects for us to discuss, but of course we'll have to start with the resignation of Kimberley Cheatle, who if any of you watched that hearings was under considerable and embarrassing pressure to the point where I...
00:03:42.000Humanist, the empath that I am, began to feel rather sorry for her when Marjorie Taylor Greene and Macy and McLean and all of the assorted interlocutors rounded upon her.
00:04:01.000I was watching her, I don't know about you, let me know in the chat if you're watching this on Rumble, and if you're on Awakened Wonder, let me know what you thought, by the way, of our Candice Owens interview.
00:04:09.000Like, I felt just actually quite You know, like, she's a human being.
00:04:14.000She's about to have got ready for work that day, and I know someone died that day as a result of that assassination attempt, and it's pretty clear that some extraordinary stuff was going on.
00:04:23.000Some of the main questions are, what was the reason that the police were, or law enforcement, were taken off that hot, hot roof?
00:04:30.000It's too hot, it's too hot on this slopey roof.
00:05:25.000It's a very dangerous and hot-off-the-press fantastic new virus that we should all be concerned about.
00:05:30.000Mike, you're already doing such fantastic work when it comes to sorting out the conspiracy theories from the conspiracy facts when it comes to this assassination attempt on J13 and we'll be talking about it at length later but we'll just give us a quick reaction to the resignation of Kimberly Cheadle.
00:05:51.000Does this mean she's a person that can now in a sense be safely parked out of sight and out of mind or receive the repository of significant information?
00:06:02.000I think it's the first one that you laid out there.
00:06:05.000I'm not rejoicing at Kim Cheadle resigning.
00:06:08.000In a sense, I'm glad because it shows some accountability and sends a message to other government officials that you can't simply stonewall your way through a congressional investigation after such a colossal failure and still keep your job.
00:06:24.000And the other, having her in her official duties actually allows you to sort of access certain information that a new director can plead ignorant to.
00:06:33.000And I don't think that this situation, whatever the full story and ultimate truth is on this, necessarily goes up to Kim Cheadle as any kind of architect or mastermind.
00:06:46.000I think, if anything, Yeah, it would relate to some sort of cell within the Secret Service and then Kim Cheadle being told, hey, don't touch this, just kick it to the FBI.
00:06:56.000So there's a lot more here and I'm not, I think it's an interesting development, but much more at play.
00:07:04.000Now, if you're watching us on Locals as an Awakened Wonder, then post your questions there, and I will personally ensure that good, sensible, intelligent questions about what appears to be, well, There's certainly more to the assassination attempt than meets the eye.
00:07:22.000Put your questions to Mike by becoming an awakened wonder like Michael L. Ross, or Claude, or Synchronicity525, or many of our friends over there.
00:07:30.000If you're watching us on the Rumble Chat, get your questions on there as well.
00:07:34.000But remember, it's going so fast with Shawkeen, and Slim Freezy, and the Spoonie.
00:07:40.000It whistles by with extraordinary conspiracy theories and invective raining down Like heavenly lava, it can be difficult to pull the stuff.
00:07:53.000Of course, if you're watching this on YouTube, you're eventually going to have to click that link in the description and come on over to Rumble.
00:07:58.000Not just for me, but for you, because you deserve freedom, you deserve a free dialectic, you deserve a free and open conversation.
00:08:06.000And in the case of Mike Benz, the opportunity to learn from someone who understands this To a degree that is almost, I think, unequalled, unmatched.
00:08:13.000Certainly Dan Bongino, who I had the good fortune to chat with for a significant time over the course of the RNC, THAT WAS A MINDFUCK BABY, says that Mike Benz is one of the most significant voices in the space and I think pretty much everyone agrees with that.
00:08:30.000Before we go back to Mike, let's cover this important story.
00:08:56.000Will Kamala Harris have an untrammeled and untroubled ascendancy Or is it likely that gruesome Gavin Newsom, the nuisance, will at some point veer into view?
00:09:08.000Is it likely that Michelle Obama or Hillary Clinton will suddenly be in the mix?
00:09:13.000Hey, you know that gender swap reboots are all the rage in Disney.
00:10:46.000In this moment Kamala Harris appears to come, I would say, tantalizingly close to using the word recording to describe Joe Biden.
00:10:56.000Although a moment later he does say something like the feelings mutual.
00:11:00.000But with AI as it is these days, are any of us convinced that Joe Biden is still in the realm of the living, or has he transcended into an even more ethereal form?
00:11:11.000Because he was pretty ethereal for the last couple of years.
00:11:14.000I mean, that was a pretty ethereal performance.
00:11:16.000I mean, if that had been Julian of Norwich in that debate against Trump, or some other enlightened saint, John of the Cross just sort of gnostically talking about, you know, we beat Medicare and odd, peculiar speaking in tongues.
00:12:21.000I would say that this is an attempt now to kind of repackage this in a kind of friendly and familial framing to kind of subvert the conclusion that you might otherwise draw that this is an et tu Joe Biden et tu Kamala moment where we're forced to confront the reality that politics is a nefarious and dark world of infighting, backbiting and backstabbery and tomfoolery and that Joe Biden, having served his purpose, has been dispatched to the world where only laptops go to die.
00:12:55.000He'll be found eventually in a laptop repair shop in Delaware.
00:13:09.000Well, I think he is going to a variety of places, possibly, you know, to the ultimate destination of the afterlife, to live in eternity with Jesus Christ.
00:13:19.000Or, you know, wherever else people that are no longer of use to the system go.
00:13:25.000And of this I can speak with some experience, because even when you're just a commercial commodity, let alone a political one, when the system can enjoy you and deploy you, you are the darling.
00:13:44.000But they cannot but leave paper trails of their deception and duplicity, and all their harbingers and liars, and the choristers of the establishment that will come out grinning Nosferatu teeth, dripping with the blood of rectums that they sup upon.
00:14:35.000The sort of scope of conspiracy theory because it's like, whoa, Has there just been an assassination attempt on the life of Donald Trump?
00:14:41.000And the Secret Service and the FBI appear to have been involved or inept in ways that are confusing and baffling.
00:14:47.000And then it comes down to, wait a minute, that's not Joe Biden's signature.
00:14:51.000Joe Biden can't have a signature, can he?
00:14:53.000At this stage, I mean, the things his hand must be doing.
00:14:55.000I don't want to ridicule a person who's plainly ill, who's clearly had to resign because, like many of us, he's served his function now within the establishment and he's crossed over the line.
00:15:05.000He's, you know, but it's funny when it comes down to, like, he's dead.
00:15:10.000That's what they're saying in the rumble chat.
00:16:32.000But have a listen to the analysis, baby.
00:16:35.000Have a listen to his analysis of the situation.
00:16:38.000And let me know in the Awake and Wonder chat Over there on YouTube, and particularly you beauties in the rumble chat, what do you disagree with?
00:16:44.000What do you disagree with with this analysis from Chris Hedges?
00:16:48.000Joe Biden was discarded by the same billionaire class he assiduously served throughout his political career.
00:16:55.000Mike Benz is going to agree with that.
00:16:57.000Barely able to stumble his way through the words on a teleprompter and not always cognizant of what is happening around him.
00:17:04.000His billionaire supporters pulled the plug.
00:17:08.000He's been in federal office for 47 years from start to finish.
00:17:11.000He was used as a foil to defeat Bernie Sanders in the 2020 primaries.
00:17:15.000And was anointed as the candidate in 2024 in a Soviet-style primary campaign, i.e.
00:17:20.000he didn't stand up against the other candidates.
00:17:22.000They booted RFK out, they didn't listen to Marianne Williamson, and whatever you think about those people, those are the kind of voices, I believe, that are vital if you want to have an ongoing political discourse from across the political spectrum.
00:17:35.000And by the way, it's still a pretty narrow political spectrum.
00:17:38.000The billionaire class will now anoint someone else.
00:17:41.000Looks like some of the billionaire class are going to anoint Kamala Harris.
00:17:54.000There's probably people we don't know yet that could come out of the shadows.
00:17:58.000The billionaire class will anoint someone else.
00:18:00.000Democratic party voters are stage props in this political farce.
00:18:03.000Donald Trump, unlike Kamala Harris, remember this guy is left, he's left, he's left of me, he's left of you, he's left, left, left.
00:18:10.000Unlike Kamala Harris or any other, a paracheek, the billionaire class selects as presidential candidate, has a genuine and committed base, however fascistic.
00:18:19.000Now Chris Hedges is a man of the left, he regards a populist and nation-first candidate like Trump as a fascist.
00:18:27.000You might disagree with his analysis, but try not to dismiss everything else he's saying on the basis of that word, because you're going to learn a lot from this.
00:18:39.000I don't know what goes on in your mind.
00:18:40.000In Hitler and the Germans, the political philosopher Erich Vogelin dismisses the idea that Hitler, gifted in oratory and political opportunism, but poorly educated and vulgar, mesmerized and seduced the German people.
00:18:53.000The Germans, he writes, supported Hitler and the grotesque marginal figures surrounding him Because he embodied the pathologies of a diseased society, one beset by economic collapse and hopelessness.
00:19:05.000Vogelin defines stupidity as a loss of reality.
00:19:09.000The loss of reality means a stupid person cannot rightly orient his actions in the world in which he lives.
00:19:15.000The demagogue, who is always an idiot, or idiota, I'm not sure if that's a typo or not, is not a freak or social mutation.
00:19:22.000The demagogue expresses the society's zeitgeist.
00:19:25.000Haven't you thought that before when you watch Hitler?
00:19:29.000It's like, God, this peculiar dude, how is he...
00:19:32.000Elevated to this position, isn't it that he is somehow a vassal of the collective will of the German people after the economic collapse and spiritual collapse in the aftermath of the First World War and the punitive conditions of the Treaty of Versailles?
00:19:45.000Didn't they want some sort of oddly priapic, mustachioed, lunatic figure, part chaplain, part, uh, Bavarian god, part Nietzschean orator, to somehow escalate their will back into a state of potency.
00:20:02.000What I suppose Hedges is offering, and it's hardly new to compare Trump to Hitler, is that if there is a
00:20:09.000comparison to be made, and it's certainly not a comparison I would make, I recognise,
00:20:12.000is that Trump is embodying something pathological, profound and deep.
00:20:17.000Do you remember when Marianne Williamson said, if you are going to beat Donald Trump, it's not going to be with these sort of wonkish bureaucrat people.
00:20:27.000Now, particularly post shooting, there's going to be a kind of a hagiographical perspective on Trump as an elevated leader.
00:20:35.000And I don't think anyone the Dems are going to be able to prop up in front of him.
00:20:40.000Gruesome Newsome, the reboot gender swap candidates, or Kamala Harris, who is clearly, as Hedges says here, just a candidate that has the billionaire class behind her now, is going to be able to take off a person with that degree of power and potency behind them.
00:20:58.000So, Biden and the Democratic Party are responsible for this zeitgeist, for this time, for this mood.
00:21:03.000They orchestrated the de-industrialization of the United States, ensuring that 30 million workers lost their jobs in mass layoffs.
00:21:11.000The Democratic Party refuses to accept its responsibility for the capture of democratic institutions by rapacious oligarchy.
00:21:17.000This is what is important, because hedges would use the phrase rapacious oligarchy.
00:21:21.000We might say globalist elites, globalist establishment figures.
00:21:27.000There are various ways of describing an elite that control true power.
00:21:30.000Think of the wealth transfer that takes place during the pandemic.
00:21:35.000The grotesque social inequality, the cruelty of predatory corporations, and an unchecked militarism.
00:21:41.000The Democrats will anoint another amoral politician, potentially Kamala Harris, it looks like.
00:21:46.000Probably Harris, he says, to use as a mask for outsized corporate greed, the folly of endless war, the facilitation of genocide, And the assault on our most basic civil liberties.
00:21:57.000The Democrats, tools of Wall Street, gave us Trump and the 74 million who voted for him in 2020.
00:22:06.000Now, of course, I know that you love Donald Trump and I know that you believe in Donald Trump, a good many of you do, but you know that I question these institutions themselves.
00:22:17.000And believe in the need for deep change.
00:22:20.000I am so over the neoliberal establishment that I believe we require change at any cost.
00:22:35.000If indeed the FBI and Secret Services are collaborating in some sort of deep state lone gunman assassination, and if they were, it would Wouldn't be the first time, baby!
00:22:48.000Now, before we go to my friend, Mike Benz, let's just have a look at the legacy media getting behind Kamala Harris as they plainly already are, saying, look, young people are into her.
00:23:00.000She's cool, actually, thinking about it now.
00:23:02.000She's not the person that says unburdened by the future of what might have been.
00:23:37.000So, for the record, I was tipped off about this, what I'm about to share with our voters, our viewers rather, by my 16-year-old daughter, who is an actual member of Gen Z. Kamala Harris appears to be leaning into this.
00:23:51.000The singer, Charli XCX, tweeted last night, Kamala is brats.
00:23:57.000Uh, and this is in reference to... Wait a minute!
00:24:34.000Who can blame the young person who, of course I've not heard of because I'm not young no more, but the actual campaign has rebranded according to it.
00:24:43.000Cool people are actually into this like youngsters and stuff who you
00:24:47.000know we pay tiktokers as well you're aware of that right that is part of the deal here and you know
00:24:50.000that we're going to ban tiktok unless tiktok becomes more compliant i'm not suggesting any of
00:24:54.000that's going on but i am saying do you do you really want a presidential candidate that immediately
00:24:59.000rebrands on the basis of like and the word brat on tiktok uh special gen z correspondent jamie
00:25:07.000what can you tell us about So first of all, just for my producer Elizabeth Stewart, who will spit out her coffee as I say this, I am supposed to say, that's brat.
00:25:47.000Listen guys, if you're watching this on YouTube, we are leaving now, but you're going to want to join us because the questions for Mike Benz are already coming through thick and fast from my awakened wonders there on Locals.
00:25:59.000So, let me know what you think about the Joe Biden resignation.
00:26:06.000And is switching Biden out for another establishment-owned candidate gonna make any difference?
00:26:11.000I don't think so, but that's just what I think.
00:26:13.000Let me know what you think in the comments in the chat.
00:26:14.000Remember, even if you're watching this on YouTube, give us a like, subscribe, but more important than that, get on over to Rumble right now for Mike Benz, who is going to change your life, baby, the way he changed mine.
00:26:25.000We're gonna be talking to Mike Benz right away, but first, a quick word from our partners, without whom We would not be able to bring you the free word.
00:26:34.000Back with Mike Benz in just a few seconds.
00:27:53.000Mike Benz, thank you so much for your patience.
00:27:56.000Mike, let's get straight into the questions.
00:28:00.000Firstly, I'd like to ask you, above all else, do you believe that the FBI and Secret Service are somehow concealing information that would cause us to lose our trust in the current administration?
00:28:33.000You know, I've been talking a lot about this one-two punch of the FBI and the Secret Service.
00:28:38.000I mean, to answer your question directly, it's yes, 10 out of 10.
00:28:41.000You have the Fox defending the hen house here.
00:28:45.000You have the people who should be investigated themselves conducting the investigation.
00:28:51.000But, you know, to sort of sketch this out, I think you need to really draw a through line between the J6 pipe bomber and the J13 Trump assassination attempt.
00:29:01.000If you can allow me to sort of sketch some of this out, I think it'll be kind of illustrative.
00:29:07.000I spent a lot of time analyzing the January 6th pipe bomber situation from the very week that it happened.
00:29:15.000This should be the Osama Bin Laden of the modern age.
00:29:19.000This person planted a, we were told, a live explosive device at the party headquarters of both the RNC and the DNC.
00:29:27.000So, a mass casualty event blowing up the party elites of both major political parties in the United States of America.
00:29:34.000This person walked on foot around the home turf of the national security state, Capitol Hill, Washington DC, for 90 minutes, on foot, using his cell phone device, touching surfaces, Sitting on a park bench and texting from it, then planting a live pipe bomb device at the DNC party headquarters, 17 hours before it was found.
00:29:58.000And then for an entire year, Kamala Harris told the Justice Department, the Justice Department put in indictments, that she was at the Capitol while the riot broke out.
00:30:12.000But we only learned, I think, nine months later, in December of 2021, that Kamala Harris was actually at the exact site where the DNC pipe bomb was discovered.
00:30:26.000And because she was under Secret Service protection, That means the Secret Service actually was in charge of defending the DNC building against the pipe bomb.
00:30:36.000It took an entire year for that information to come out.
00:30:39.000Then you had the strange fact that once that information came out, the Secret Service wiped all of their cell phones.
00:30:46.000Meaning there was no way to find out what the Secret Service was actually communicating to itself about the advance team, about sweeping the area.
00:30:56.000Now that pipe bomb was left on the front leg of the park bench at the entrance to the building for 17 hours.
00:31:04.000Then you have this one-two punch with the FBI, where the FBI took all the cameras.
00:31:10.000They have 39,000 video files of the January 6th pipe bomber.
00:31:13.000They've not disclosed a single one since September 2021, so that's three years.
00:31:18.000Now they have a video directly overlooking the park bench where the pipe bomber planted
00:31:25.000the device, we were told at 8pm on July 5th, but they cut the tape before he takes the
00:32:05.000The stationary camera, unless the dog ate it or it was struck by lightning, but you have this same thing happening here.
00:32:12.000Now, the other part of it is we're learning now that this July 13th Trump rally murder and would-be assassin had evidently, may or may not have had explosive devices in his car.
00:32:25.000This is one of these things that Kim Cheadle stonewalled Congress about.
00:32:49.000We don't have a single hair cell, skin follicle, nothing from touching surfaces all over Washington D.C.
00:32:56.000for 90 minutes at 8 p.m., almost broad daylight for the first portion of this.
00:33:05.000But the FBI can stonewall by perpetually keeping open an ongoing investigation and therefore never having to turn over evidence.
00:33:13.000Now the FBI has a very nasty history, a very special set of skills of teaching people how to make explosive devices.
00:33:20.000You don't learn how to make explosives in a school library.
00:33:23.000You either have to look on the internet or from somebody who knows.
00:33:26.000Three months before January 6th, the FBI taught the Whitmer Fednappers how to make explosive devices.
00:33:32.000The thing they nabbed them for was the FBI selling them explosives materials and coming to their training meetings to teach them how to make pipe bombs.
00:33:41.000They've been doing this since effectively time immemorial.
00:33:44.000The fact that this kid was evidently making explosive devices Means he had to have learned it from somewhere.
00:33:51.000And if they have his Google searches, since they have his IP address on the router in his home, but they're not telling us any of his communications, it would not surprise me if there was a federal agent who was teaching or training this kid how to make that.
00:34:05.000They had it on the radar and there was some communication between either someone at the FBI or someone in Homeland Security Investigations at DHS Who simply told someone within the Secret Service to stand down from the roof that day.
00:34:18.000And there's a lot more there, but I'll just... I'll pause.
00:34:20.000I know that you said that one of the most significant leads is that law enforcement stood down from that roof, possibly because it was so slopey, but I wonder what you make, too, of Kim Cheadle's refusal to answer the question about shell cases.
00:34:35.000I wonder what you think, too, about many of the other questions, the drone being seen overhead, The Ladder.
00:34:41.000There are so many peculiar anomalies in this case that it's very difficult for us to maintain our trust.
00:34:49.000Do you feel that hearings of the nature that have led to the resignation of the head of
00:34:54.000the secret service can ever lead to the genuine discovery of important information and the
00:35:00.000reckoning that that would likely lead to?
00:35:03.000Or might you consider them to some degree be a type of theatre, a kind of performance
00:35:09.000and the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene and the various rather effective interlocutors
00:35:15.000who were giving Kim hell out there are ultimately creating a sort of purge and a valve for all
00:35:22.000of the feelings of doubt and concern and consternation that at least 50% of America have, while the
00:35:28.000other 50% have suddenly become very open to the idea of conspiracies and false flag events
00:35:35.000You've surely seen that piece where loads of people in California are like, I think the Trump campaign did it themselves.
00:35:48.000One is, do these hearings ever lead to, and will they lead in the case of Cheat Altar, some kind of true revelation and reckoning, or are they performative?
00:35:58.000And, how will this affect the country's temperature when it comes to who believes in conspiracies and who doesn't?
00:36:07.000So, first on the shell casings that you brought up, I thought that was a really interesting moment from the hearing, which is that Kim Cheadle, the Secret Service Director, knows how many shell casings the FBI told her there were, but told Congress that she couldn't tell them.
00:36:21.000Now, what that suggests to me is that they're keeping that not disclosed to the public, because they may need to amend that answer later in time, depending on What information ends up having to be turned over to the public through subpoenas and hearings and a separate independent congressional investigation and even this new investigation from the Heritage Foundation, which just turned up some very interesting parallel facts.
00:36:47.000But by not telling us how many shell casings there were, they can effectively tell us later to fit whatever narrative later in time might be necessary to rescue them from some other facts.
00:36:58.000So I think if they had a hard commit to it now, they would be boxed in and lose some flexibility to reshape the narrative later in time.
00:37:07.000But then, on the topic of hearings, I think hearings are very important.
00:37:12.000They're never as satisfactory as you want them to be, but you do get answers slowly.
00:37:17.000The only question is whether you ever get the final answer or whether you get enough answers in time.
00:37:23.000The fact is these statements are under oath.
00:37:27.000There are motions for perjury if the GOP can ever or if Congress can ever get together the coalition to enforce that.
00:37:39.000In particular, being forced by Congress to tell the American people that they're not going to tell them something is a data point by itself.
00:37:47.000The fact is, This information that you just put on your X-Timeline from the interrogation this morning, the fact that the Secret Service knows about whether or not there were explosives in the vehicle but won't tell us, the fact that they know, that in itself says something.
00:38:04.000But again, this all comes back to this sort of Strait of Gibraltar here, this narrow passage that every investigation has to pass through, which is that the FBI has this special trick called an ongoing investigation where they can jump on their grenade.
00:38:18.000Again, it's been three years and we still don't know about the modern-day Osama Bin Laden.
00:38:24.000And it took 30 years, mind you, for the JFK assassination records review board to be established.
00:38:30.000And that was only because most of the people, the CIA, involved were dead by that time.
00:38:35.000And Oliver Stone put out a movie in the early 1990s About JFK assassination theories and that led people within the Democrat Party to stand up a declassification bureau that ended up getting so many details available that we now know about the JFK assassination.
00:38:51.000But because that was an ongoing investigation for decades, the American people were stonewalled for decades and still frankly are.
00:38:59.000I've got some really great questions from our AwakendWonder community in locals, I really have.
00:39:06.000But before we move into some of the questions of our community, do you think that there is significant evidence that there was a second shooter on that water tower?
00:39:18.000And as soon as you start to acknowledge that possibility, We're once again in that condition where the reckoning would mean a kind of unravelling of power that's probably unsustainable.
00:39:33.000Given that you've said the removal of the police because of the law enforcement from the roof immediately prior is the most important revelation, are you saying that any information pertaining to a second shooter is too dubious for inclusion in legitimate hypothesising?
00:39:51.000I'm waiting for more information about that.
00:39:54.000I thought it was very concerning that the Secret Service Director did not rule it out and appeared to know more than she was saying at the hearing yesterday, but I'm waiting for a little bit more confirmation, a little bit more meat on the bone with respect to a second shooter before really dedicating my resources to looking into that.
00:40:16.000But, you know, the main thing that I'm concerned about, if you just play out the logistics of this, first of all, we now know that the Secret Service detail was dramatically reduced and instead the people who were staffed primarily around Trump that day were people from a unit within DHS called Homeland Security Investigations, HSI.
00:40:36.000Now this is very, very curious from anyone who's studied the January 6th fed-surrection elements. HSI, the DHS's investigations unit,
00:40:47.000actually had more federal officers infiltrating the January 6th protests than
00:40:51.000HSI, there was a very peculiar indictment of an oath keeper named Jeremy Brown who
00:40:58.000was recruited. He actually posted his recruitment tape from DHS's HSI to
00:41:04.000Two federal officials knocked on his door two months before the January 6th rally and recruited him to infiltrate Trump groups ahead of Trump protests.
00:41:14.000They even called him on his cell phone the morning of January 6th to see what position he was in.
00:41:21.000He posted a 45-minute audio of them recruiting him and basically threatening him with carrots and sticks that they would go away if he became an informant and his life would become hell if he didn't.
00:41:34.000They would later indict him, by the way, after he refused about a year after the event they indicted him.
00:41:41.000But what was really amazing is HSI sent agents to recruit and potentially radicalize Trump
00:41:49.000rallies right before January 6th, and then suddenly ahead of this Trump shooting, you
00:41:54.000have Secret Service agents being replaced by this same secretive federal informant incubating
00:42:02.000infiltration unit of DHS for security detail around the president.
00:42:07.000What if it was a similar situation on July 13th?
00:42:11.000Now, when you play out the logistics of this, how could this have happened?
00:42:15.000We're told that this lone gunman happened to be able to get a direct line of sight from
00:42:21.000the nearest elevated surface to the podium itself, and that they knew about it for 10
00:42:28.000minutes beforehand, didn't take the President offstage.
00:42:51.000And again, this entire rally was not announced until only a week earlier.
00:42:56.000So they only had a week advance notice that this rally was even going to happen.
00:43:00.000So this plot was hatched together very, very quickly.
00:43:04.000And yet it still involved a drone and a ladder and a rifle and all this.
00:43:07.000And then you would need somebody within the Secret Service being told to stand down or simply not be at that post.
00:43:14.000And the fact that you had, we now know from Representative Dan Bishop, there was a SWAT team with line of sight directly to the roof, but they abandoned their post.
00:43:24.000There was at least one member of law enforcement who was assigned to the roof, but he abandoned his post.
00:43:30.000We need to know the timeline of when those posts were abandoned.
00:43:35.000And we need the radio communications or the cell phone communications of the Secret Service about what prompted them to abandon the post.
00:43:42.000Because that will narrow down the list of potential agents who could have gone rogue and allowed this to happen.
00:43:48.000I'm sure you saw Marjorie Taylor Greene talking to Kim Cheadle.
00:43:52.000She like actually timelines one of the areas where Kim is not strong.
00:43:56.000She says something like, I've got a loose timeline.
00:44:56.000They did occasionally throughout the presidency, but then there became this sort of new code of journalism about not telling both sides of the story because that normalizes, you know, the dictatorial despotism of tyrant Trump.
00:45:11.000Trump had just beaten the immunity cases.
00:45:19.000He was not allowed to do Trump rallies for several months because he was sitting in a New York trial.
00:45:26.000If you remember, Alvin bragged the district attorney, they raked him over the coals for a 2016
00:45:31.000business record paperwork, and then hit him with 20 felony indictments on that.
00:45:37.000And because he was tied down to the court and required to physically be in court,
00:46:09.000We endured one of the strangest two-week media spectacles I've ever seen in my life.
00:46:14.000I don't think I've ever had two weeks of the media sort of...
00:46:19.000Saying things that seem somewhat fair about the Biden administration in my life, but they seem to be just as critical as members of the far right for two weeks, apparently in an effort to knock him out of office, which happened quite successfully.
00:46:36.000But I could see them doing that to show the momentum of Donald Trump and how he is ascendant and he's packing these rallies to send a message to the DNC that they need to get Biden out fast.
00:46:49.000It is curious, but I don't know that it's a red flag without additional information.
00:46:55.000Before we move on to Biden and that peculiar resignation and the potential new elevation of a new leader to the Democratic Party, I'd love to I'll just pass on this question from our community.
00:47:11.000It's a tangent but it's a curious one because I've noticed again in legacy media circles a lot of people talking about Silicon Valley is supporting Trump now and obviously if they're saying that in the pejorative sense then we have to assume that their former support of the Democratic Party was similarly malign.
00:47:32.000Surely because if it's bad now it was bad then.
00:47:34.000We all saw Zuckerberg say, you know, Trump's a badass.
00:47:38.000And now this question from Lily Girl Farm Girl.
00:47:40.000One of my curious highlights of the RNC, Mike, was running into JD Vance quite by coincidence on the street, which was weird because he was right at the epicenter in that moment and I'd like been out to a 12-step thing in the morning and I was just walking back through the hard perimeter when I saw, walking along with Secret Service holding his kid, J.D.
00:48:03.000I was looking down at my phone thinking of a title actually for a video, a clickbait style title you know us for and like about J.D.
00:48:10.000Vance and I heard hey Russell and it was J.D.
00:48:12.000Vance and Lily girl, farm girl, my friend from the chat asks is the pick of J.D.
00:48:18.000Vance a sort of insurance policy for Trump to protect him from the CIA?
00:48:23.000Do you agree that Vance does have at least second-hand links to CIA companies and what do you make of his connection to say Peter Teal, who is a person whose name is starting to get sort of talked about, I think, as the neoliberal establishment starts to prepare narratives for the ascendant Republican and Conservative fraction of government.
00:48:46.000Yeah, it's a fascinating pick that he went with.
00:48:49.000You know, I see Vance as sort of sitting in between the Vivek and the Doug Burgum type in the sense that, you know, Doug Burgum was this governor who was very gung-ho about permanent war.
00:49:03.000And very much in the pocket of the foreign policy establishment, the blob, whereas Vivek has been spitting fire about the need for a sort of populist reform of all those institutions.
00:49:16.000Vance as sitting sort of in between those two nodes.
00:49:20.000Certainly, you know, the talk of him being, of Vance being an assassination insurance pick, I think there is some Intrigued to that notion in the sense that the main thing I think that Trump would be assassinated over, and this is one of these curious links about this Crooks assassination that maybe we can talk about a little bit later, is that the main thing I've said in a month before the shooting I posted
00:49:47.000You know, a video saying that the thing they'd assassinate Trump over was him trying to change the seize Eurasia foreign policy.
00:49:54.000You know, this in process play by the State Department, the Pentagon, the CIA, BlackRock, and all the major corporate and financial firms to seize the 75 trillion dollars in natural resources that lay in Eurasia, that basically that stretch of land from Siberia into, you know, Turkey and Central and Eastern Europe.
00:50:13.000That great landmass, which has been the main project of NATO acquisition.
00:50:18.000This is why Biden was Mr. Foreign Policy, Mr. NATO expansion, and they loved him.
00:50:23.000And the thing they tried to take down Trump over, that he was, remember Russiagate, was trying to Frame him for being a Russian asset and being neutral on Russia.
00:50:35.000Again, interfering with the Seize Eurasia play.
00:50:37.000The Trump impeachment in 2019 was done by the military through Vindman and the CIA through Eric C. Amorella, which again was over the Ukraine call, which was a threat to withhold military aid to Ukraine against Russia.
00:50:51.000So once again, you know, that was a Seize Eurasia play.
00:50:55.000And when you listen to John Brennan or James Clapper or any of these, Michael V. Hayden, any of these CIA four-star general bigwigs talk, that when they start talking about Trump rotting in prison for the rest of his life, it's always connected to this plan that they have to seize Eurasia and those 75 trillion.
00:51:13.000But I think that the main thing I want to sort of I guess drill down on is in J.D.
00:51:19.000Vance's situation he is hostile to Ukraine aid and Mitt Romney actually said there is no one that he disrespects more than J.D.
00:52:03.000So that is a sort of counter-CIA point.
00:52:05.000Now, on the other hand is the point you mentioned about Peter Thiel, which is, and J.D. Vance
00:52:11.000Vance being backed by Thiel, and obviously Palantir is reportedly half of Peter Thiel's net worth.
00:52:18.000Palantir is the CIA's data mining operation.
00:52:22.000They are a military contractor through and through.
00:52:25.000All their money effectively comes from the CIA or the Pentagon.
00:52:28.000or the State Department, they have the contracts to sift through all the big data
00:52:33.000so that the CIA and the Pentagon and the State Department can micro-target populations
00:52:38.000and regions for everything from regime change to domestic political control.
00:52:42.000Palantir even went after Glenn Greenwald. There's an incredible memo
00:52:46.000around the WikiLeaks period and folks can look this up.
00:52:49.000Palantir wrote a whole playbook for effectively how the CIA could neutralize Wikileaks.
00:52:56.000This is right after the Vault 7 leaks.
00:52:59.000And in there, they even sketched out all the employees and amplifiers of Wikileaks information.
00:53:05.000And they put effectively Glenn Greenwald on a hit list about how they might be able to force him To make a choice between his professional livelihood and throwing WikiLeaks under the bus.
00:53:18.000So, you know, Palantir has a lot of dark cloak-and-dagger CIA work around it.
00:53:25.000Remember, the GOP still has a lot of CIA operations with respect to regime change in China.
00:53:30.000I'm not even saying I'm opposed to that, but the fact is, and also in Iran.
00:53:36.000So, you know, there are different factions within the CIA.
00:53:38.000I think you would have with JD Vance a more anti-China, anti-Iran CIA faction rise to
00:53:45.000power rather than the more anti-Russia one.
00:53:48.000God, it's a real extraordinary tangle that we have to pick our way through, Mike.
00:53:53.000There's another great question from the chat from Brittany Kemper, still before we get to the peculiar Biden resignation where we've not seen him, he's resigning as a disembodied voice.
00:54:09.000This is Brittany Kemper, a friend from the Awaken Wonder Chat asks, what does Mike know, or what do you know, because you are Mike, about Trump's billion dollar debt to BlackRock and the rumours of Trump appointing Larry Fink and Jamie Dimond within cabinet positions?
00:54:24.000Before we answer, or before you answer that, Mike, we have a quick word from one of our partners who support our show.
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00:56:09.000One of those men is of course Mike Benz and before we passed on Brittany Kemper's question, what does Mike know about Trump's billion dollar debt to BlackRock and the rumours of Trump appointing Larry Fink and Jamie Dimond with cabinet positions and when generally Mike we have this anti-establishment
00:56:24.000perspective which these days of course because they're in government means
00:56:27.000anti-democratic party but generally speaking there's a uniparty narrative that lots of people in this space used to talk
00:56:34.000about but it appears to becoming more partisan as the kind of ascendancy of
00:56:38.000Trump sometimes in a kind of almost resurrectionist way after the events on J13 takes
00:56:45.000true hold To sort of forget that both of these political movements have historically been corrupted by very comparable interests.
00:56:51.000What do you make specifically of Brittany Kemper's excellent question and about the power of groups like Black Rock, Vanguard, et al, generally?
00:57:00.000BlackRock hangs over this as a sort of proxy for not just the banking financial class but also the corporate class in the sense that BlackRock has effectively a Almost majority interest in, or at least the major pluralistic interest in almost every publicly traded company on the Nasdaq.
00:57:25.000They're almost like an exchange representing the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq, the Dow, and so they've got $10 trillion under assets.
00:57:38.000I've talked a lot about the role of Joe Biden in BlackRock because Joe Biden, if you recall, did not want to run for president initially in 2020.
00:57:47.000He entered very, very late in the game, only after everyone else was sort of deemed an unsuitable host.
00:57:54.000For the DC parasite to occupy and what the New York Times reported that he greenlit his campaign after a direct meeting with Larry Fink, the head of BlackRock at BlackRock headquarters in January 2019.
00:58:06.000The other thing that's very interesting about Joe Biden and BlackRock, and I'll get to the Trump BlackRock story ahead of this, but this is useful backstories.
00:58:15.000Remember, Joe Biden is a creature of this foreign policy establishment.
00:58:19.000He's a creature of Washington for over half a century.
00:58:41.000Well, Mike Donilon is also now the main advisor, the main senior White House advisor in the current White House.
00:58:48.000But what's interesting about Mike Donilon is he has a brother named Tom Donilon.
00:58:53.000Tom Donilon hit the hat trick of being involved as a National Security Advisor, that's the Intelligence Committee, being, I think, the Chief of Staff for the Pentagon, that's the gatekeeper to the U.S.
00:59:04.000military, as well as being at the State Department.
00:59:11.000He's the chairman of the BlackRock Investment Institute.
00:59:14.000So that's the person who makes effectively the determination about where BlackRock's $10 trillion worth of assets get allocated to the various portfolio companies.
00:59:24.000So you have the political groomer of Joe Biden and the top White House senior advisor His brother is in control of the $10 trillion worth of asset allocations for BlackRock.
00:59:37.000I mean, that's probably the most grotesque example of insider trading on the largest human scale that history has ever recorded.
00:59:47.000But getting back to the sort of Trump BlackRock story, it's useful to remember that Trump has long done battle with and been at the behest of banks, which is to say that folks know that Trump was a real estate mogul in the 70s and the 80s.
01:00:04.000Then he got in a lot of trouble in the 1980s when the casino started to go bankrupt.
01:00:09.000You can read a book by him, it's called Think Big and Kick Ass in Life, and there's a fantastic passage in it.
01:00:15.000I read it in 2015 while he was doing his initial campaign, and he describes a meeting with a dozen different banks that he owed money to.
01:00:22.000He was $900 million in debt, Donald Trump was, in the 1980s.
01:00:27.000And he describes walking past a homeless person on the way to this banker's meeting and he said, I looked at that guy on the street and I said, wow, that guy is $900 million richer than me.
01:00:39.000And then he goes up to the top floor of the Citibank building.
01:00:43.000But, you know, Trump basically negotiated with the banks on the basis that he was more... because they wanted to carve up his whole empire, force him to liquidate everything, and he basically convinced them that he was more useful to them alive than dead.
01:00:55.000That the only way they could get their debts repaid is by Trump essentially having a resurrection of his businesses in order to pay off the debt and go through a restructuring rather than a
01:01:28.000It's been reported by the New York Post that Trump has had his own personal investments managed by a BlackRock advisory fund for almost his entire career.
01:01:37.000But again, this is one of the things about BlackRock where you sort of have to be careful.
01:01:41.000It's because they are everything, they can sort of be anything.
01:01:45.000And so I don't think that Larry Fink would take the job of being the head of the Treasury.
01:01:52.000I think that job is, frankly, beneath him.
01:01:55.000He has a sort of godlike power over something like a seventh of the entire world economy.
01:02:02.000So I think stepping down to a $300,000 a year job as the head of the U.S.
01:02:07.000Treasury would be A bit of a demotion if you will, but I could see a Jamie Dimon type doing it in the sense that it still pays off a lot of your business interests when you happen to be in the business that is regulating your other businesses.
01:02:25.000We saw this with Michael Chertoff, for example, when he was the head of DHS.
01:02:29.000Michael Chertoff was the first full-term head of DHS from 2005 to 2009.
01:02:32.000He's the one who installed the entire panopticon of surveillance at U.S.
01:02:39.000As soon as he left office, what did he do?
01:02:41.000He started an airport security business selling airport security machines to comply with the new laws that he had just put in place at DHS.
01:02:51.000So I would expect to see something similar from that were a Jamie Dimon type put in charge of the U.S.
01:02:58.000Mike, another question from our community, Kellyanne, Kat's in the chat, and many many more people want to ask you if you think the recent Microsoft outage was a deliberate deletion of evidence?
01:03:09.000Was it a preemptory November elections download or preparatory event?
01:03:16.000Was it event 201 or 210 for whatever might happen between now and the election?
01:03:22.000And to just give this question some additional framing, With the kind of escalation of peculiar events, the debate performance, the shooting, the resignation, the automatic Alexa resignation.
01:03:36.000What can we anticipate in this period?
01:03:38.000But you could perhaps start by telling us what you think's going on with the cyber attacks in particular, which we appear to be being primed, prepped and groomed for.
01:03:48.000CrowdStrike is one of the most ominous, if you've ever seen Mr. Robot, that series about cyber hackers, and there's a company there called EvilCorp, effectively, and I look at CrowdStrike as being EvilCorp.
01:04:03.000It's this very, very strange cyber political hatchet firm that has somehow acquired almost godlike control over our entire grid in a very, very short period of time.
01:04:15.000CrowdStrike was founded by Dmitry Alperovitch, who's a director at the Atlanta Council.
01:04:20.000The Atlanta Council has seven CIA directors on its board, gets annual funding from the Pentagon, the State Department, and CIA cutouts like the National Endowment for Democracy.
01:04:28.000It was the Atlanta Council who came up with the plan to create the domestic censorship apparatus within the Department of Homeland Security, which works closely with CrowdStrike.
01:04:38.000Folks, remember the origins of Russiagate run through CrowdStrike.
01:04:43.000You had this very bizarre situation with Seth Rich being killed in the dead of night after Julian Assange sort of vaguely insinuating that he may have been the source of a leak of Wikileaks emails and then a John Podesta email that we need to make an example of whoever the leaker was and then you had this Situation with CrowdStrike magically popping in to kill the Seth Rich Wikileaks rumors because the FBI claimed that Russia actually hacked the DNC server and that is how Wikileaks got the emails, not by some sort of disk or drive handed over by someone like
01:05:30.000So the FBI says Russia did it, and Congress asks the FBI, how do you know Russia did it?
01:05:35.000And they said, well we heard it from this obscure private cyber firm that none of you guys have heard of.
01:05:42.000It's called CrowdStrike, which again is deeply connected to the CIA insiders and the same sort of never-Trump cabal responsible for Russiagate and the censorship industry and the Ukraine impeachment.
01:05:55.000But then CrowdStrike ended up getting put under the gun effectively in the form of being forced to testify under oath in a public hearing.
01:06:06.000Two years after the fact, CrowdStrike comes out and says, actually we had no direct evidence that it was Russia who did it.
01:06:12.000So they allowed the entirety of Russiagate to play out using a hoax.
01:06:19.000Now, in terms of whether or not that outage, you know, has any weird hair on it, you know, I'm reminded of SolarWinds, which was another one of these big Microsoft hacks in 2020, right around the time of the U.S.
01:06:34.000This was the, you know, this happened right around November 2020.
01:06:38.000It was the largest hack in American history.
01:06:40.000The entity that was supposed to stop it was CISA, DHS, the very black ops agency responsible for creating the censorship industry here in the U.S.
01:06:51.000By the way, who was running CISA at the time?
01:06:54.000It was Chris Krebs, who formerly got that job directly from Microsoft.
01:06:59.000Well, Microsoft had been working through this whole network through their Protecting Democracy program, which is extremely ominous.
01:07:06.000That was what incubated NewsGuard and the whole censorship industrial news rating agency there.
01:07:12.000But the fact is, since it was supposed to stop CrowdStrike, And then the head of CISA, Chris Krebs, formed a two-man consultancy with Alex Deimos, the former top advisor to DHS's censorship operation, the head of the Election Integrity Partnership.
01:07:28.000They formed a two-person consultancy right after Chris Krebs got kicked out of office.
01:07:35.000It was the very cyber firm that CISA was supposed to stop the hacking on.
01:07:41.000So, in an indirect way, the people who were supposed to stop the greatest cyber attack in American history directly profited from their own failure.
01:07:52.000Now, so whether or not you have a similar situation here in CrowdStrike remains to be seen.
01:07:57.000I think the most interesting data point is that it showed that Arizona voting machines are connected to the internet.
01:08:03.000You know, just dispelling this notion that there could not have been any tomfoolery in the 2020 election cycle because they were not connected to the internet, so they couldn't be hacked remotely as is so easy to do.
01:08:16.000But I think this CrowdStrike Breakdown reveals that.
01:08:20.000Of course, there is some tail chance that there's something going on in the early voting in Arizona.
01:08:25.000Some totals that maybe some folks want to reset, but I think there's too scant evidence to really make that case in a compelling way at this point.
01:08:33.000This is one of those questions I feel strange asking you.
01:08:36.000With the shooter, Thomas Crooks, appearing in the Black Rock commercial, that just seems like such an odd, extraordinary, unnecessary detail.
01:08:58.000You know, it's one of these things where, you know, everybody who's got a cell phone gets cold calls from random corporations.
01:09:06.000You know, everyone's sort of seen retail companies, you know, do promotions and you end up a sort of weird extra in some bubblegum commercial and you had no idea.
01:09:17.000I've never run into BlackRock personally in my affairs.
01:09:30.000It's weird that there would even be sort of like a financial firm of that stature, which again is this sort of Financial octopus over the entire international financial system deciding to shoot a commercial in Butler.
01:09:49.000Butler is one of the most, you know, it's a very very rural place.
01:09:54.000This is not like, you know, you're Super close to a big city.
01:09:58.000It's kind of the middle of nowhere, and frankly, I don't mean that to be offensive.
01:10:02.000You know, rural Pennsylvania is very beautiful, but weird place for the largest financial firm in the world to sort of get the only publicly disclosed footage of the guy who shot the President of the United States in the face in broad daylight.
01:10:16.000You know, the other thing I think was interesting that appears to have come out is a tape of Thomas Crooks from the same high school.
01:10:25.000Evidently trying to make a Raspberry Pi, which is a way to basically try to make your electronic communications more resilient to monitoring of routers.
01:10:38.000It's a very strange, weird, cyber... it's a very sophisticated cyber device that is, you know, people who are paranoiac try to install to stop the NSA from spying on them.
01:10:50.000The fact that someone As an 18-year-old high school student would be doing that?
01:10:56.000I mean, that to me begs the question of who the heck was in this guy's network that he believed something like this was necessary?
01:11:07.000We're told that he had three communications devices with offshore encrypted apps or told strange things about Iran, which I don't believe for a second, but the fact is We don't know if there were feds in this guy's group chat who were telling him to take certain activities with respect to encrypting his communications, using a VPN or a Raspberry Pi, and therefore shielding the ability for Congress or the press
01:11:37.000To get information about an upcoming assassination attempt.
01:11:42.000That no social links, no emails, no text messages, and no tweets, no nothing has been disclosed in two weeks since they took a shot at the President of the United States.
01:11:54.000I'd love to know, finally, what your thoughts are on the extraordinary circumstances of Biden's resignation, why we are seeing this happen in such an extraordinary, clandestine and remote way.
01:12:07.000I understand the official story is that he has COVID, and God, just recently when there were the peculiar Stories and rumours around the Princess of Wales and it came out subsequently that she had cancer made me realise that sort of conjecture around such matters ought be undertaken cautiously but it's just such a short period of time since Trump was condemned for using Twitter to sort of direct policy and engage in public discourse and even international diplomacy to go to the point where Joe Biden resigns on Twitter and endorses Kamala Harris
01:12:44.000remotely in a way that seems sort of extraordinary and sort of odd and she appears to nearly say the word recording and stuff.
01:12:52.000I just wonder what you feel is going on there, Mike, particularly given the sort of overall context of these extraordinary events.
01:13:04.000You know, I've been sort of framing this for the past month as, you know, the blob parasite is looking for a new host body after Joe Biden has been such a faithful servant host for 50 years.
01:13:16.000Again, having spent 40 years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 20 years as the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, eight years running Barack Obama's foreign policy on Ukraine, four years as president giving the blob everything they want.
01:13:31.000You know all the contemporaneous news coverage and 2020 election cycle was calling Joe Biden's candidate run the revenge of the blob.
01:13:40.000So they were really getting pretty much everything they wanted out of him and then they discarded him like a lifeless corpse and we don't yet No, if that's an analogy.
01:13:50.000Look, I think that he's probably, they announced he's going to make a public appearance at some point this week, which the fact that that's being reported, I think, you know, signals that there's at least a pulse there, which is very, it's been six days since anyone has seen You know, the President of the United States, this is a very strange time to be taking a semi-permanent vacation.
01:14:12.000But I think part of this has to do with the backroom dealings about who is going to take the throne and making sure that everyone is vetted and the consensus is on board before they give Biden his full innuendo.
01:14:26.000But I've been saying for about a month before this that I thought the final The final signal that the regime was going to be getting rid of Biden would be a signal from the intelligence community, a letter similar to what they did with the Hunter Biden laptop disinfo letter by 40 or 50 members of the CIA and Pentagon and State Department
01:14:49.000Calling for Biden to step down and lo and behold, just 48 hours before Biden announced his resignation, there was that letter from 48 different members of the intelligence community, the Pentagon and the State Department, all calling for him to step down.
01:15:05.000Now that happened the same day That a sort of rent-a-riot, AstroTurf protest mob movement called Pass the Torch Joe descended on the White House.
01:15:31.000Biden's own power base was doing that to himself in the waning hours of his term.
01:15:37.000And the fact is, just yesterday it was announced that Biden actually started to delegate portions
01:15:41.000of Ukraine policy directly to the State Department from the presidency.
01:15:46.000That to me is an interesting question.
01:15:48.000Did Biden have a falling out with his own State Department about policy on Ukraine?
01:15:53.000What specifically might that have related to?
01:15:56.000Or is the State Department just effectively taking over that presidential role because Biden is no longer able to perform those functions?
01:16:03.000They're all interesting questions but quite intriguing.
01:16:06.000Mike Benz, as usual you have delivered.
01:16:08.000I'd love you to come over here to the UK for a special week in residency where we do shows together and potentially, I don't know, go on sort of paddleboard rides, flirt, maybe even eat raspberry pie, which has caused the chat to really light up.
01:16:23.000A lot of people have got doubts about raspberry pie's efficacy and ability and It's one of the areas of the chat that's caused a lot of conversation that, frankly, I don't understand and I'm glad that you do, Mike.