On today's show, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GA) talks about why he thinks he's being targeted by the Deep State, why he believes he's the target of political smear campaigns, and why he doesn't have many friends in Washington, D.C.
00:01:53.000He's not going to find any sort of safe harbor where people are going to say, this is totally nonsense and we believe you, Matt.
00:01:59.000And so I think that's a little bit of what you're seeing here with Matt Gaetz, where the overwhelming majority of Republicans are happy to just let him twist in the wind and see where this all goes.
00:02:09.000And would be, I think, just as happy to see him gone without them having to lift a single finger.
00:02:15.000This is the reporting from Crystal Ball on the Hill Show Rising back in April.
00:02:22.000No fun dinner parties with the Beltway elite.
00:02:24.000Ms. Ball was weighing my claims of extortion against the false claims being made about me seven months ago.
00:02:31.000On Monday, this man, Stephen Alford, pled guilty to wire fraud for trying to extort my family.
00:02:38.000I'll have my reaction and context for how we should think about the Alford guilty plea in a few moments.
00:02:44.000It may surprise you, but there is a very clear pattern to identify.
00:02:51.000While much of Crystal Ball's reporting about me has been poorly sourced and dependent on now-devanted rumors, on the question of Washington friendship, I cannot quarrel with her take.
00:03:02.000This is what I had to say about DC friends in my book, Firebrand.
00:03:07.000Once you're in a position of prominence and power, there are always parties you can attend where you'll rub elbows with movers and shakers from various industries and pressure groups.
00:03:18.000But I don't know that I'd call those parties themselves much of a temptation for me.
00:03:23.000More like a very awkward and phony speed-dating session, tedious and boring for most people, these events become the great aspiration for certain Washingtonians.
00:03:34.000I hold that view even more stridently today.
00:03:43.000Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Andy Biggs, Mark Meadows.
00:03:46.000But I will confess I don't have many friends, so you'll see some repeat guests.
00:03:52.000Based on the hundreds of thousands of you who've downloaded and watched these episodes, I suspect you won't mind hearing from the firebrands frequently.
00:04:01.000Now, the Washington Post recently reported on My Friend Group.
00:04:06.000MAGA squad of loyalists see its influence rise, reads the major Sunday headline.
00:04:13.000The Washington Post is uncharacteristically correct about this.
00:04:18.000WAPO profiles three dynamic freshmen, two lawmakers expelled from committees, and one guy, unfairly smeared by the Department of Justice leaks and lies, as the ascendant force among Congressional Republicans and the political right.
00:04:37.000The show of force from Donald Trump's staunchest congressional allies began almost immediately after 13 House Republicans voted this month in favor of a massive infrastructure bill that handed President Biden one of the biggest victories of his tenure.
00:04:52.000Traitor Republicans, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia declared.
00:04:56.000Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado tweeted,
00:04:59.000It was time to take names and hold these fake Republicans accountable.
00:05:02.000In this past week, Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida told a pro-Trump podcast that there was never a situation the infrastructure debate should result in Republicans working with Democrats.
00:05:12.000They were going to win it all, or we were going to win it all.
00:05:16.000The continuing turmoil in the House GOP conference over how and whether to punish members who back anything supported by Democrats shows how an emboldened group of far-right House members is gaining influence over the Republican Party in Congress.
00:05:31.000These representatives are positioning themselves to further purify the House GOP conference as a branch of Trump's Make America Great Again movement.
00:06:19.000Instead, we attack this job with advocacy, inspiration, and as Steve Bannon would say, action, action, action.
00:06:29.000You can check out my Under Fire episode for a deep dive into how we are being hunted by Pelosi and the Cheneistas on the January 6th committee.
00:06:40.000We are the ones they hate most, target most, fear most.
00:06:45.000We are a fortress fighting for our constituents who elected us.
00:06:51.000Unlike the hundreds of former members of Congress who now get paid to influence the federal government, as lobbyists, we actually fight for the people.
00:07:00.000From the previous 116th Congress alone, I found 28 members of Congress who retired and then went right to work for lobbying firms already, just from the last Congress.
00:07:11.000Some were Democrats, others were Republicans.
00:07:14.000Now, they're all members of the same K Street Uniparty.
00:07:19.000Michael Capuano, Democrat from Massachusetts.
00:07:23.000Barbara Comstock, Republican from Virginia, if you could ever call Barbara Comstock a Republican.
00:07:28.000Joseph Crowley, the one AOC beat, from New York, now a very well-paid lobbyist on K Street.
00:07:35.000The Washington Post isn't dedicating time to the MAGA influence in their signature Sunday edition because the lobbyists love us.
00:07:45.000Most refuse to donate to any of our campaigns, and I've refused lobbyists and PAC checks as a matter of policy for years.
00:07:53.000The MAGA squad, that's what they call us.
00:07:56.000We aren't rising because we have the friends in Washington that Crystal Ball would value.
00:08:02.000As Marjorie Taylor Greene put it in the WAPO piece, quote,
00:08:06.000I think I have the support nationally, and it's because I speak what regular people say.
00:08:12.000I speak what Republicans say at home and, you know, at dinner.
00:08:16.000I'm saying what they say in their breakfast meetings before work.
00:08:20.000I'm saying what they're saying at church and saying what they're saying in their Bible studies.
00:08:25.000I'm saying what these parents are saying when they go to the school boards.
00:08:29.000Earlier, I spoke to the great firebrand, Marjorie Taylor Greene, about our plan to operationalize our rising role in the Republican conference.
00:08:42.000Here we are huddled up in the judiciary library, and you have been taking the action right to the minority leader on some of these critical issues that define how the Republicans fight.
00:08:54.000Give everybody an update on the expectations that you have laid out for leader McCarthy and how he's reacted to that.
00:09:02.000Well, thank you, Matt, and you've done such a good job pointing out the things, the failures that we've seen in leadership.
00:09:08.000Number one, everyone saw me get stripped of committees as a brand-new member of Congress, robbing my district of the ability to have representation working on committees.
00:09:17.000There was no action taken, as a matter of fact.
00:09:21.000Our leader did nothing to defend me, did nothing to stop it.
00:09:25.000Then we saw today Paul Gosar censured, and then we saw him lose a committee, and this is another failure.
00:09:42.000I think we feel confident that in 22 we're going to take back the House, but we have to take back the House with the Republicans with a plan that are actually going to put it into action instead of talk about it on Fox News.
00:09:53.000And that is what I want to see happen.
00:09:55.000So here's what leadership is going to have to do.
00:09:58.000Right now, we know that Kevin McCarthy has a problem in our conference.
00:10:02.000He doesn't have the full support to be speaker.
00:10:05.000He doesn't have the votes that are there, because there's many of us that are very unhappy about the failure to hold Republicans accountable, while conservatives like me, Paul Gosar, and many others just constantly take the abuse by the Democrats.
00:10:19.000The American people aren't going to have it.
00:10:22.000Do you think that what happened to Paul Gosar happened because there wasn't a strong enough Republican rebuke of the way they treated you?
00:10:31.000Well, let's get real and let's talk about it.
00:10:33.000So here we have Adam Kinzinger and we have Liz Cheney taking a committee assignment from Nancy Pelosi, the whole fake January 6th committee.
00:10:43.000It is such a failure of our leadership to hold them off of that.
00:10:48.000But they're traitors and they went over there to Nancy Pelosi and they're going on their we hate Trump mission.
00:10:53.000And we want to destroy Trump Republicans like you and I.
00:11:31.000Liz Cheney was essentially stripped of her membership in the Republican Party because Republicans in Wyoming are so offended that she would even have the nerve to call herself a Republican.
00:11:42.000So we're in this bizarre circumstance where in the district Liz Cheney represents she's not a Republican, but in the district in which she actually lives here in northern Virginia in the Washington, D.C. area, she's she's deemed a Republican.
00:11:56.000And I think that the majority that a lot of people are anticipating for Republicans is dependent on a lot of the decisions that we are making now.
00:12:06.000And you are making things uncomfortable for the leadership because you are being very public about what your expectations are.
00:12:13.000What is your expectation regarding the treatment of John Katko after he voted for the ban and contempt measure?
00:12:20.000He voted to strip you from committees.
00:13:03.000They actually reward them and they move them on the steering committee where they're involved in all kinds of decision making, all kinds of roles and leadership.
00:14:23.000One, immediately they should be stripped of any positions of leadership that they hold on any committees where they serve as a consequence of our conference.
00:14:33.000And that's something you could do right now.
00:14:35.000That would make them far less attractive as lobbyists one day.
00:14:39.000Second thing, we should have an ethic around here that selling out our team, selling out our country, our economy, our constituents means that you don't get to come back making millions of dollars as lobbyists and enjoy the privileges of former membership and floor privileges and coming to people's offices and having meetings to promote an agenda that they're paid to promote.
00:15:01.000How would you treat the retiring members who are already picking out their offices on K Street and have already forgotten about their districts?
00:15:08.000Well, all I can think about is when you told me that is that's all about writing checks, isn't it?
00:15:28.000They're making this apology for these members who, once they retire and are going to become lobbyists, they don't want to hurt their feelings because they really want their checks.
00:15:37.000That's really what that's all about, Matt.
00:15:39.000And they want the money from the companies and the people that these members now but future lobbyists will bring to them.
00:16:51.000I can't respect leadership that doesn't hold people accountable, but yet allows people like me and Paul Gosar to be constantly trampled and abused.
00:17:00.000And then we'll throw us under the bus at the first given chance.
00:18:45.000We must act in accordance with it for it to have meaning in our lives.
00:18:50.000When we repel an assault with force, the law should be on our side.
00:18:54.000The Kyle Rittenhouse verdict reaffirms the commitment of the American jury system to the doctrine and principles of self-defense.
00:19:02.000But attacks on self-defense as a concept have been amplified from the actual courtroom to the courtroom of public opinion on Twitter.
00:19:13.000Others like NBA woke mobster LeBron James also mocked Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:19:19.000LeBron has many bad takes, but this might be his worst.
00:19:24.000It's worth mentioning that LeBron is anti-Kyle Rittenhouse probably because he's pro-rioter.
00:19:29.000But the insane irony here is that LeBron loves China and apologizes for anyone in the NBA who dares to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party.
00:19:39.000I don't want to get into a word or sentence feud with Darryl Morey, but I believe he wasn't educated on the situation at hand.
00:19:53.000And so many people could have been harmed, not only financially, but physically, emotionally, spiritually.
00:20:01.000So just be careful what we tweet and we say and what we do, even though, yes, we do have freedom of speech.
00:20:07.000But there can be a lot of negative that comes with that, too.
00:20:10.000Does LeBron realize that if anybody protests in China, they get killed?
00:20:16.000While LeBron remains busy kneeling for Xi Jinping, stuffing his pockets at the expense of slave labor, elbowing people in the face and getting ejected from NBA games,
00:20:28.000some people living out here in reality face circumstances where we must defend our livelihood.
00:20:35.000Not from millionaires' elbows and fists in the Little Caesars arena, but from guns and weapons and dangerous and lawless riots.
00:20:46.000And by the way, what are the odds that the people attacking Kyle were otherwise criminals?
00:20:52.000What does it say about the people rioting in the streets in the name of BLM or social justice and equality?
00:20:59.000The left would have you believe that people in the streets are just ordinary citizens protesting or even rioting genuinely in the name of social justice.
00:21:09.000The truth is that the people menacing our communities in these riots are the same people that have always menaced communities.
00:21:18.000But now they have a free pass, an endorsement from every leftist institution, from the media to even local and federal governments.
00:21:29.000The reality is these rioters are nothing more than criminals and anarchists.
00:22:10.000If you're the one who is threatening others, you lose the right to claim self-defense.
00:22:16.000You cannot hide behind self-defense if you provoked the incident.
00:22:22.000If you created the danger, you forfeit the right to self-defense.
00:22:26.000He doesn't get a pass by pulling the trigger fast.
00:22:31.000So if Joseph Rosenbaum is running at him, Joseph Rosenbaum is no threat to his life.
00:22:37.000And not only is the defendant expected to run, he's expected to yell, push, shove that ragdoll around, run back for help, call 911, call for help, do all sorts of other things besides just turn and fire.
00:22:53.000Nobody has to take a beating in America.
00:22:56.000The government doesn't get to presume us guilty because we exercise our Second Amendment rights.
00:23:01.000It's scary to think that some prosecutors would actually observe otherwise.
00:23:06.000Wokeness shouldn't append indictment authority with prosecutors at any level.
00:23:12.000The prosecution in the Rittenhouse case was not acting in good faith.
00:23:16.000And of course, neither is the mainstream media.
00:23:19.000The mainstream media has repeatedly called Kyle a white supremacist.
00:23:24.000I hope he gets Nick Sandman money in all of the lawsuits he's going to likely be filing.
00:23:28.000Joe Biden even called him a white supremacist on Twitter.
00:23:33.000There's absolutely zero evidence of the sort.
00:23:36.000The woke media, well, they've run out of cards to play and so they just have to call and label everyone a white supremacist.
00:23:42.000Last year, when Kyle had to post a $2 million bail for his release, it was nearly impossible to crowdfund for him.
00:23:50.000Not only was the mainstream media doxing people who tried to fund his legitimate defense, ultimately a successful defense.
00:23:57.000But big tech was also deplatforming any attempt to do so.
00:24:02.000Never forget that the media doxed, vilified and got people fired from their jobs just for donating to the legal defense of an innocent teenager.
00:24:14.000Meanwhile, the Soros funded district attorneys in major cities across the United States dropped charge after charge.
00:24:21.000Kamala Harris, Democrat politicians, celebrities, they all advertised and donated to bail funds for rioters.
00:24:29.000These violent criminals ended up back on our streets.
00:24:34.000Streets where some committed even more violent crimes.
00:24:40.000Another interesting irony in this whole case is that Democrats want self-styled smart justice reforms to our criminal justice system.
00:24:48.000But only sometimes when it benefits their politics and conforms to their narrative.
00:24:54.000As Glenn Greenwald of Substack put it so eloquently, Democrats are profoundly committed to criminal justice reform for everyone but their enemies.
00:25:05.000Principles of rehabilitative justice, reform of the incarceration state and liberalized criminal justice evaporate when Democrats demand harsh prison for their political adversaries.
00:25:19.000If you think Kyle was guilty, you're either willfully ignorant or politically motivated.
00:25:24.000If this is not self-defense, then nothing is self-defense.
00:25:28.000This case shouldn't even have been brought to trial.
00:25:31.000This shouldn't have been a charge in the first place.
00:25:33.000It was done solely for optics and to send a message.
00:25:37.000Not only does this leftist government want you to remain powerless to stop the mob from burning your cities to the ground, destroying your businesses, but it wants you to know that you aren't allowed to defend yourself if that happens either.
00:25:51.000Even if you're justified, they want you afraid, knowing that they could ruin your life if you don't play for what they designate as the right team.
00:26:01.000The left has sent their message, so let's let Kyle's acquittal serve as ours, acquitted and equipped by the law and our choices to fortify the defense of our families and communities.
00:26:16.000Thinking beyond Rittenhouse, what should trigger the doctrine of self-defense and should law-abiding people have different legal duties depending on where they are attacked?
00:26:29.000Now, according to Alexander Shloshkin in his favorite book known as Gulag Archipelago, which exposed the atrocities and absurdities of the Soviet Union,
00:26:38.000the Soviet Union system went so far as to criminalize self-defense, spinelessness even became a national characteristic.
00:26:47.000The Soviet Criminal Code of 1926, Article 139 stated that you only had the right to unsheathe your knife when the criminal's knife was already hovering over you.
00:26:59.000They then tell the story of a Red Army soldier named Alexander Zakrov.
00:27:05.000He was assaulted outside a club by a criminal.
00:27:08.000Alexander eventually pulled out a folding pen knife and he killed his assailant.
00:27:14.000He was promptly charged with murder and received 10 years in prison.
00:27:19.000When he asked the prosecutor, and what was I supposed to do?
00:27:23.000The prosecutor replied, quote, you should have fled.
00:27:28.000Is this really the reality that you want to live in, not in the Soviet Union but in the United States of America?
00:27:35.000There's a reason our ideas won out over theirs.
00:27:39.000Well, you may be surprised to find out that this Soviet system isn't far away from what some states observe in the present in our country.
00:27:50.000Different states have different perspectives concerning self-defense.
00:27:54.000While nearly every state has adopted a form of the Castle Doctrine, which gives homeowners the presumption of self-defense when inside their home,
00:28:03.00015 states like New York, Massachusetts, and Hawaii impose a legal duty on the person who is attacked to retreat when they're not in their home, when they're out in public.
00:28:16.000Recently, in Hawaii, there was the case of Lu Zhang.
00:28:20.000He was confronted by a burglar with a knife trespassing on his property.
00:28:25.000When the burglar didn't drop the knife, Lu shot him.
00:28:32.000See, he was outside the threshold of his house on his property and thus didn't have the protection of any Castle Doctrine or Stand Your Ground law.
00:28:42.000So the Castle Doctrine presumes that our home is our castle and that if someone enters the home with the intent to commit a felony against us, we can shoot to kill.
00:28:52.000No duty to retreat from your own home.
00:29:00.000There is no reason protections for a victim should end at the threshold or the doorstep.
00:29:06.000Law-abiding people shouldn't have the duty to retreat from anywhere that they are legally allowed to be if someone is trying to commit a felony against them.
00:29:16.000Why should the home be different than the public park or the beach or even the grocery store?
00:29:22.000If a reasonable person would believe someone is about to kill or violently beat or rape them, the victim should be able to respond with lethal force.
00:29:32.000It's called the Stand Your Ground law.
00:29:35.000It takes the legal principles of the Castle Doctrine that protects you in your home and it allows those to travel with you during your law-abiding activities, regardless of where you are.
00:29:46.000Florida has adopted the Stand Your Ground law and after the 2012 killing of Trayvon Martin, many wanted to repeal it.
00:29:55.000Like the earlier struggles, the battle to change Stand Your Ground, Sharpton said, is a civil rights issue.
00:30:00.000The history of the civil rights movement has been state law versus national federal law.
00:30:07.000Trayvon Martin had the federal right to go home.
00:30:12.000Jordan Davis had the right under federal law to drive with his friends.
00:30:18.000Representative Matt Gaetz, a Republican and chairman of the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee, said rallies don't accomplish much.
00:30:25.000Well, I think that the votes tell us a lot more than the rallies do.
00:30:28.000We had a vote in the Criminal Justice Subcommittee on whether or not to repeal the Stand Your Ground law.
00:30:33.000Every Republican voted against repeal and a majority of Democrats on the Criminal Justice Subcommittee voted against repealing the law.
00:30:40.000And I think that that illustrates the fact that most Floridians support the Stand Your Ground law.
00:30:44.000Gates says he'll fight any efforts to water down the law, including a bill currently being considered in Florida's Senate.
00:30:51.000See, Al Sharpton didn't like me before I came to Congress and it did improve from there.
00:30:56.000Here I questioned him before the House Judiciary Committee.
00:30:59.000When you call Greek homos, when you talk about white crackers, those are bigoted statements.
00:31:04.000I think I made it clear that I was quoting what somebody said.
00:31:08.000Yelling and getting upset is beneath your office. You should calm down.
00:31:12.000You're welcome to answer them. How about-
00:31:14.000Well, then let me answer, sir. Let me answer, because I'm enjoying this.
00:31:28.000I think that I'm trying to answer your last question.
00:31:32.000The gentleman will be permitted. The time of the gentleman has expired. The witness may answer the question.
00:31:37.000The one about offing the pigs. Answer that one.
00:31:39.000If I appeared loaded for bear for Al Sharpton, I was.
00:31:44.000It was deeply offensive to me and to my constituents that Al Sharpton was invited by House Democrats as an expert witness on the matter of policing.
00:31:57.000Of all things, given what this guy said about cops.
00:32:00.000It was like an SNL episode had come to life.
00:32:03.000Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, see many others of their ilk, they wanted Stand Your Ground repealed in Florida.
00:32:11.000It was the cause du jour for all the race baiters.
00:32:45.000And as certain as we are here, right now, there's a young woman on a college campus at night, walking home from the library to her college dormitory.
00:32:58.000She's probably looking down, checking Facebook as she's doing it.
00:33:02.000As we're here today, there's also probably a senior in our state, in a parking lot, in a Walmart or a Publix.
00:33:11.000She's probably in her pocketbook, saving a receipt.
00:33:18.000And we're here to answer one question.
00:33:21.000If either are surprised by an attack, should they have a legal duty to turn their back and run and hope that they won't be overcome and raped or killed?
00:33:36.000And when they have to make that split-second decision, should the government come in behind them and second-guess them and say,
00:33:44.000you should have chosen flight over fight.
00:33:48.000Stand Your Ground simply says that if you're not breaking the law and you have a right to be where you are, you don't have a duty to turn your back and run.
00:33:59.000The sponsor of this bill has agreed and committed that he doesn't believe that when you're in your home you should have to run.
00:34:07.000And so I'm left with the question, when you walk out of your home onto your street corner, why should you have less rights?
00:34:15.000Why should you all of a sudden have a duty to turn your back and run?
00:36:45.000The FBI was just trying to make sure Donald Trump wasn't breaking any law colluding with Russians.
00:36:50.000And now, lo and behold, the Russians were not telling the truth.
00:36:56.000That frame that we see in the Durham indictments is nonsense.
00:37:00.000The FBI and DOJ weren't victimized by the lies of the Russians.
00:37:04.000They started the lie of the Russia hoax, and then they got these rubes to repeat them to Christopher Steele.
00:37:11.000That was then the basis of this dossier and the continuation of the absurd investigation into President Trump.
00:37:19.000The whole time, the FBI knew Christopher Steele, the dossier's author, was a known liar with a political axe to grind, a foreign intelligence officer at that.
00:37:34.000The willing hosts to repeat the lie were in the foreign intelligence apparatus from Christopher Steele to the very Russians getting indicted now.
00:37:43.000The goal was to get the predicate to spy on Carter Page in a secret FISA court and to ensnare President Trump in a process crime like obstruction of justice, as if.
00:38:07.000The lie is that parents are somehow a domestic terrorism threat.
00:38:12.000We know now that the White House was seeding this lie in the National School Boards Association in this now infamous and debunked letter that the National School Board Association sent to the Biden regime.
00:38:26.000We must designate terrorism as the threat emerging from parents who hate critical race theory and love their kids.
00:38:35.000Step two is getting someone else to repeat the lie.
00:38:39.000And the National School Board Association was willing to oblige, at least at first.
00:38:45.000Step three is the threat tag that we now know the DOJ placed on parents.
00:38:51.000Here's what I had to say about it in the House Judiciary Committee.
00:38:55.000But we must address a searing matter before the Judiciary Committee and before the country.
00:39:02.000To label parents domestic terrorists for showing up at school board meetings and caring about their kids is abhorrent, unpatriotic and un-American.
00:39:16.000But to lie about doing so is even worse.
00:39:20.000And somebody knew as the Attorney General is testifying before this committee saying he couldn't imagine ever appending a label to a parent of domestic terrorism.
00:39:31.000Someone was watching at the FBI and they understood that that was dishonest, that that did not paint a clear picture of what was actually happening because there were threat labels that were being put on folks who love their kids and who showed up.
00:39:50.000How many Americans right now that went to a school board meeting, that emailed a parent, that confronted a principal, that reached out to their school board members, that ran into a superintendent at the supermarket and expressed their view.
00:40:03.000How many of those Americans right now are carrying a threat label with them?
00:40:07.000What's next? Can't fly on airplanes? Can't access the U.S. financial system, get doxxed at their job, get deplatformed online?
00:40:17.000The Department of Justice has been politicized, weaponized and turned against our fellow Americans.
00:40:26.000The DOJ used the lie that parents were domestic terrorists to justify their otherwise repugnant plan, to tag and trace people they fear.
00:40:37.000Not because of violence, but because of politics.
00:40:41.000These folks were organizing. They were effective.
00:40:58.000They came up with the lie that I was some sort of monster.
00:41:02.000They got Alford, the useful idiot, to repeat that lie.
00:41:06.000Alford conspired with former intelligence official Bob Kent, who's like the Christopher Steele archetype in my story, and former DOJ official David McGee to destroy me on falsehoods.
00:41:19.000You can revisit that in our first episode, Open Gates.
00:41:23.000Now, they've used these false and salacious allegations to justify what they really want, trying to take me out of the national fight.
00:41:32.000I'm glad Stephen Alford is now deemed guilty of crimes against my family.
00:41:38.000But he was not acting alone, any more than the National School Boards Association was acting alone.
00:41:43.000Russians didn't victimize the very FBI that was feeding them lies to tell in the Russia hoax.
00:41:49.000The Russians Durham has charged weren't the masterminds of the Russia hoax.
00:41:53.000That was the DNC, Hillary, the folks that were engaging with the deep state.
00:41:58.000Stephen Alford, similarly, is a guilty criminal, but he is no mastermind.
00:42:22.000Now that Alford is convicted, I renew my demand that the Department of Justice release the tapes wherein Alford implicates a number of other very powerful people.
00:45:10.000You know, the majority of people that we talked to earlier tonight in downtown Pensacola said the congressman's comments were inappropriate.
00:45:19.000We have a poll on Twitter about the congressman's remarks.
00:45:23.000Three-quarters of the people who have weighed in so far as of right now do not support the congressman comments he made in that live television interview earlier this week.
00:46:58.000The high roads of journalistic ethics are left vacant by the likes of John Rapolo.
00:47:04.000We pointed this out and of course have called on WEAR to issue a correction acknowledging the falsity of their initial reporting.
00:47:14.000They have not as of the filming of this episode.
00:47:17.000I don't know if it's laziness or recalcitrance, but it sure looks pathetic for WEAR to not go back on air and acknowledge that they essentially lied to their viewers.
00:47:29.000So if you go to WEAR's digital story, it says, I'm not making this up.