In the wake of the Ukraine vote, the Deep State is trying to delegitimize the efforts of Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-GAetz) and Sen. Seth Moulton (D-VA) to get $40 billion in aid for Ukraine.
00:03:09.000We are at war with Russia and there is no off ramp.
00:03:16.000That is what the regime is telling you.
00:03:18.000And I think that's crazy and irresponsible and a terrible thing to do while the American people are essentially left in the dark.
00:03:26.000Didn't Joe Biden promise us that he was going to be like the presidency that returned everything to this like copacetic state of normal and we wouldn't have to get agitated anymore.
00:03:36.000Bring back the mean tweets and spare me the war with Russia that we are in, that we are unable to get out of.
00:03:44.000I've just stepped off the floor of the Congress.
00:04:56.000Is memory loss a consequence of the gerontocracy of Congress?
00:05:02.000Just a year ago, we lost a war against goat herders waving rifles.
00:05:06.000Now we're rushing to fight a nation that possesses 6,000 nuclear warheads?
00:05:12.000Representatives, now recklessly assert that we are at war.
00:05:16.000Congressman Moulton said last week, quote,
00:05:19.000We're not just at war to support the Ukrainians.
00:05:22.000We're fundamentally at war, although somewhat through a proxy, with Russia.
00:05:27.000The clandestine services are supposed to be the quiet professionals.
00:05:32.000Seems now they can't stop bragging to news outlets about how America helped Ukraine assassinate Russian generals and sink Russia's flagship.
00:06:33.000GOP's Putin wing balks at supplying weapons to Ukraine.
00:06:37.000So you're a supporter of Putin if you think it's a bad idea to give the White House blanket permission to send, quote,
00:06:46.000any weapon, weapon system, munition, aircraft, vessel, boat, or other implement of war to Ukraine while surrendering our rights to repayment.
00:06:55.000We are sending so many weapons to Ukraine that we're depleting our own stockpiles.
00:07:00.000And we aren't just sending bullets and rifles.
00:07:02.000Now we're sending howitzers that can fire up to 15 miles.
00:07:06.000This means weapons we supply and train Ukrainians to use could potentially strike Russian territory.
00:07:12.000And these weapons aren't just ending up in the hands of the Ukrainian military either.
00:07:16.000One official said weapons, quote, drop into a big black hole.
00:07:21.000Many of these are ending up in the hands of the Azov Battalion.
00:07:25.00040 House Democrats called them a neo-Nazi foreign terrorist organization just three years ago.
00:07:31.000Now that they're killing Russians, are these avowed ethno-nationalists apparently not so bad?
00:07:37.000Democrats go on a daily snipe hunt for white supremacy here in America, and yet they're fine giving rockets to actual white supremacists in Ukraine.
00:07:51.000Taking the position that we arm anyone to the teeth who will shoot at Russians has actually not always worked for America.
00:07:58.000It's javelins to neo-Nazis today, stinger missiles to the Mujahideen in Afghanistan yesterday.
00:08:05.000In Syria, another conflict that Washington had consensus on, we supplied jihadist terrorists in their fight against Assad.
00:08:13.000Assad, like Putin, is an evil man, but does that mean the American taxpayer must arm his enemies without any further inquiry?
00:08:21.000I don't think so. And I would imagine most Americans don't think so.
00:08:25.000But that's why we never have real debate on these issues.
00:08:28.000The swamp would rather talk about saving democracy than our actual dangerous reality.
00:08:34.000And if we are at war, like Congressman Moulton says, then why not vote on an authorization to use military force?
00:08:42.000Or are we just going to operate in Ukraine like we have in Yemen and throughout the world?
00:08:51.000I suspect many in this body won't want a vote or a debate because regime change in Russia is their actual objective, not defending Ukraine.
00:09:01.000And to achieve this goal, they're willing to send billions to Kyiv that will line the pockets of corrupt officials just like we did in Afghanistan.
00:09:09.000We are sleepwalking into a war and the American people are left in the dark.
00:09:18.000We're back live here in my house office building on Wednesday and the comment section fired up.
00:09:24.000Russ has been putting out a manuscript in the comment section on Facebook.
00:09:29.000I can't read it all, Russ, because there's a whole lot there.
00:09:32.000But I do appreciate your support for our military members, their families, our first responders.
00:09:38.000Got a lot to say about the woke corporations and the 2000 Mules documentary.
00:09:43.000We are going to have so much coverage coming up about election integrity and the way that geotracking and technology tools are actually showing you how just thorough the effort to steal the 2020 election was.
00:09:57.000We are talking about Ukraine, but I got to say, Ukraine is not the only country that is like the subject of a series of regime lies to the American people.
00:10:10.000This government, our government is lying to you about Saudi Arabia.
00:10:16.000Since September 11, 2001, there's been widespread speculation that Saudi Arabia had some involvement in planning, organizing, financing the terrorist attacks in New York City.
00:10:27.000We all know they were part of the execution.
00:10:29.00015 of the 19 hijackers were of Saudi nationality.
00:10:33.000The government of Saudi Arabia has staunchly claimed to be innocent, unattached, and otherwise rather offended at all the activity on 9-11.
00:10:46.000On September 3, 2021, Joe Biden issued an executive order directing declassification review of documents related to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, which I supported and that we talked about on Firebrand.
00:11:00.000The kingdom of Saudi Arabia deserves intense focus on this exact front.
00:11:07.000President Joe Biden recently ordered the declassification of documents evidencing Saudi Arabia's 9-11 connections.
00:11:15.000Though Biden did this under political pressure from 9-11 families who were going to exclude him from 9-11 ceremonies, we enthusiastically endorse this declassification.
00:11:33.000Five days after this executive order was administered, the Saudi Arabian embassy released a, quote, statement on the release of classified 9-11 documents, including the proclamation that, and I'm quoting directly here from the Saudis,
00:11:47.000No evidence has ever emerged to indicate that the Saudi government or its officials had previous knowledge of the terrorist attack or were in any way involved in its planning or execution.
00:11:57.000Any allegation that Saudi Arabia is complicit in the September 11 attacks is categorically false.
00:12:05.000That's what the Saudi Arabian embassy said in an official statement in response to this decision regarding the classification of the 9-11 documents.
00:12:25.000Check out this clip from that episode.
00:12:28.000Saudi Arabia's Los Angeles consulate was directly involved in assisting two 9-11 hijackers.
00:12:37.000Housing, bank accounts, logistics, their American experience coordinated and curated by Saudi government officials.
00:12:47.000So on May 5th, Insider published this article titled Declassified FBI Memo Confirms Direct Connection Between the Saudi Government and 9-11.
00:13:00.000This was spawned not by anything that the United States government released, but by newly released evidence from British intelligence, which further suggests that Omar al-Bayomi, who met two of the 9-11 hijackers and an imam with al-Qaeda ties before 9-11, that al-Bayomi was being paid by Saudi intelligence.
00:13:27.000There's certainly evidence that the Saudi government, al-Qaeda, and the plane hijackers were connected in the planning, preparation, and execution.
00:13:38.000If the U.S. intelligence agencies continue to open the seals of the existing evidence, the American public and the rest of the world will get answers.
00:13:47.000This is where Omar al-Bayomi resurfaces.
00:13:51.000Here's a Bayomi recap from Episode 8 of Firebrand.
00:13:56.000As you can see on this chart, Omar al-Bayomi and Fahad al-Tumari are top dogs in this uncovered, Saudi Arabia-supported, Los Angeles-based terror network.
00:14:33.000After meeting both of the terrorists at the Mediterranean Grill in 2000, al-Bayomi finds them an apartment in San Diego.
00:14:42.000He even signed financial documents to secure that apartment and bank accounts.
00:14:48.000On the record, Bayomi declares this a chance encounter.
00:14:52.000Now, I've had a lot of chance encounters in my life, and some of those I certainly regret.
00:14:57.000But chance encounters typically don't start with kebabs and hummus and end with opening bank accounts together.
00:15:05.000Or signing financial guarantees to lock in rent agreements.
00:15:09.000I wouldn't even co-sign a rent agreement for most of my friends, much less a chance encounter at a terrorist hangout.
00:15:16.000We are supposed to believe that the Saudi government officials who opened bank accounts with two terrorists and secured housing for terrorists were somehow not involved when those very jihadists flew planes into buildings.
00:15:32.000So it was obvious to me then, and it is even more evidenced now after the Brits released this information.
00:15:40.000But the FBI, they had memos on al-Bayomi and his involvement in 9-11.
00:15:47.000But it was a recent reveal of documents by the British government, not by their own volition, but as a consequence of litigation from the 9-11 victims' families.
00:15:57.000It was a civil suit, and it confirmed our beliefs.
00:16:00.000In a once-obtained document from al-Bayomi, British investigators discovered a drawing of a plane descending toward a target,
00:16:10.000including an equation that an FBI source said was used to calculate, quote,
00:16:16.000the height of an aircraft necessary to see a target.
00:16:20.000So the Insider article also reports that the evidence declassified by the British government also includes videos showing Bayomi filming himself and his circle during his time in San Diego.
00:16:34.000One of them shows him embracing a local imam who at the time had ties to al-Qaeda.
00:16:39.000Like al-Bayomi, al-Waqi was used by the hijackers.
00:16:44.000In 2011, he was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen.
00:16:47.000So this guy's hugging the people that are so bad, we're drone striking them in Yemen.
00:16:52.000He's providing the rent and material and logistical assistance to the hijackers.
00:16:58.000And now, because of what we learned on May 5th, we know he was getting paid by the Saudis.
00:17:03.000And we know that their denial was full of it.
00:17:06.000A second video shows Khalid al-Mindhar, one of the two San Diego hijackers in the kitchen of the apartment that Bayomi helped him rent.
00:17:14.000At one point, you can even see those like doubting Saudi Arabia's involvement in 9-11 coming to the conclusion here that there is clearly significant activity at play.
00:17:25.000So how many more diagrams, hugs with imams that are involved in terrorism, how many rent agreements, how much logistical support, how much video evidence do we need?
00:17:35.000Omar al-Bayomi has now returned to Saudi Arabia, of course.
00:17:39.000But the deposition he gave in the civil suit involving the families of 9-11 victims remains under seal.
00:17:46.000And it is time to release all the al-Bayomi files.
00:17:51.000It's time for the Saudi government to present this guy for questioning to our victims' families so that we can get to the bottom of it.
00:17:59.000And if they won't do that, what kind of friend are they?
00:18:02.000I've called for the Saudi consulate in Los Angeles to be closed.
00:18:06.000And now, as a result of information that 9-11 victim families got in litigation, not in our country, but in the UK, we know that al-Bayomi was getting paid by Saudi intelligence.
00:18:24.000And look, if the current leaders in Saudi Arabia want to move past this, if, like, we're supposed to believe that MBS is some new type of, you know, enlightened leader because he lets women drive, then he should prove it.
00:18:39.000He should expose the elements of the Saudi government, of the royal family who were involved in this, and he should help us bring them to justice.
00:18:46.000But if MBS is going to cover for these guys, if he's going to protect al-Bayomi, if his government entities are going to release these statements just repeating their denials, then it really calls into question what kind of friends they are.
00:19:01.000Now, we're still sending them all kind of military equipment.
00:19:05.000We especially send the Saudis some of the most elite fighter jets in the world.
00:19:10.000And part of them buying those jets isn't just buying the steel.
00:19:16.000They buy the work that is done to develop the capabilities and skills of the various pilots, technology, network communication, and the like.
00:19:27.000And oftentimes that training occurs in our country.
00:19:31.000Some of it occurs in my district in Pensacola.
00:19:34.000And on December 6th, 2019, a Saudi flight student opened fire on my constituents, killing three sailors, injuring many others, summoning as a response just tremendous effort and patriotism and bravery from uniformed military and from our local law enforcement.
00:19:55.000Now, we see that some folks are trying to determine the extent of Saudi's involvement in that activity.
00:20:09.000So just today, we had a hearing with the Secretary of the Navy.
00:20:14.000And it's my hope and it's my belief that the Navy is going to do more than they have done for the benefit of our sailors and our brave law enforcement.
00:20:27.000Admiral Gilday, I come from Pensacola, a proud Navy town, and our community was rocked December of 2019 when a Saudi student opened fire, killed three sailors, injured others, injured members of our law enforcement.
00:20:44.000And I've been to many briefings since then, in public and in private, and the picture emerges that definitely the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was not doing enough to send only their best people, as one might say.
00:20:58.000They were not doing enough to monitor potential radicalization.
00:21:02.000And frankly, we weren't doing enough to ensure that that was happening.
00:21:07.000What assurance can you give my constituents in Pensacola that we have improved?
00:21:12.000So, sir, since that incident, under then Secretary of Defense Esper, significant changes were made in the screening process for all foreign students from any military, including our NATO allies, that come to the United States to train with us.
00:21:29.000So, I met as recently as yesterday with a senior leader from a partner nation who expressed concern about the amount of time it's taking to get his sailors into our country to train.
00:21:44.000And I explained to him how important it was that we worked together to go through this process very deliberately and methodically so that we don't make any mistakes.
00:22:03.000And as much as we want to host these missions for the benefit of global security, we have to put the safety of our sailors, of our service members first.
00:22:13.000And, Admiral Gilday, there was in 2019 base-specific guidance for these Saudi students, wasn't there?
00:22:51.000And on January 13, 2020, there was a memorandum issued by the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence for continuous review for international military students, right?
00:23:31.000I know the social media tools and the technologies change.
00:23:34.000My one concern is that the first responders who were running in the direction of the bullets to save our sellers, they are in litigation now with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
00:23:45.000And I posit no perspective on how course we'll rule on those things.
00:23:49.000I'm certainly not asking you to do that.
00:23:51.000But they've made a FOIA request of the Navy for the things that I've just asked you to provide and that you said would not be all that difficult to put our hands on.
00:24:02.000And that FOIA request has been pending since March 23rd.
00:24:05.000And the correspondence from the Navy back sort of says, well, gosh, this is voluminous.
00:24:09.000You know, there may be other people who, you know, block our access to it.
00:24:12.000And I just think that the Navy ought to stand up for our sellers and their family members and the law enforcement that protects them.
00:24:20.000And I want your assurance that the Navy will do everything possible to provide the documentation and evidence.
00:24:26.000Because the way this has to work in court is that there's this JASTA law where there have to be specific elements pled and there has to be evidence for those elements to unlock discovery.
00:24:36.000And some of these documents that these litigants are asking to get from the Navy are necessary to sink jurisdiction in that matter.
00:24:44.000So, again, I won't ask you to opine on the status of litigation or the law, but just these things that seem pretty basic.
00:24:50.000I'm very grateful for your focus on it and for your willingness to facilitate the delivery of those records.
00:24:56.000Yes, sir. We'll find out what constraints might be in the way here that are causing – that are causing –
00:25:02.000We will, like, take a look at what constraints may be inhibiting the release of those documents under that FOIA request.
00:25:09.000But I owe you a more detailed answer in terms of the –
00:25:13.000I'm just used to this with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where they seem to have a lot of people sympathetic to their cause,
00:25:18.000wandering around the Justice Department and wandering around elsewhere.
00:25:21.000And I take your sincerity here that you're going to do everything possible to make sure that we resolve this and that we get better going forward.
00:25:30.000You notice how the tune changed when I mentioned that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was being sued.
00:25:36.000When I started by just asking, like, the basic questions, do you have these records,
00:25:40.000do these people that showed up on our military bases have packets that you could produce?
00:25:44.000The answer was, yes, we can get those. We'll provide them to you.
00:25:47.000And then when I explained that the reasoning is that we have Americans who are seeking redress,
00:25:52.000you automatically saw Admiral Gilday become far more reserved and say,
00:25:56.000well, I've got to take a look at what might be getting in the way.
00:25:59.000And it really brings us back to the point with Albiomi and 9-11.
00:26:03.000I mean, the American system ought to be better at generating the truth and the records and the evidence
00:26:11.000than the British system when it comes to the stuff happening in the United States of America,
00:26:16.000like 9-11, like my constituents getting shot by this terrorist who was working for the government of Saudi Arabia
00:26:23.000when he committed these murders in Northwest Florida.
00:26:26.000So I'm going to stay on this. I'm going to stay on the Navy.
00:26:28.000The Navy needs to be on the side of America's sailors and our law enforcement.
00:26:34.000They do not need to be acting as some proxy for Saudi Arabia,
00:26:37.000and they don't need to be out there whitewashing the activities of Saudi Arabia or standing in the way of evidence.
00:26:43.000Too many entities within our government are already standing in the way of the 9-11 evidence,
00:26:48.000and I am not going to allow this to happen to my constituents in Pensacola, Florida.
00:26:53.000It will not happen. We're getting to the bottom of it, and I will report further on Firebrand if necessary.
00:26:59.000We do see now a real confluence of events around the strategy of Democrats in the Congress and politically.
00:27:08.000You saw the Ministry of Truth set up by this Nina Jankiewicz lady under the authority of the Department of Homeland Security.
00:27:14.000We've covered that a lot on Firebrand.
00:27:17.000The January 6th committee is about to hold their hearings.
00:27:24.000Now they're talking about packing the court again.
00:27:26.000They're outside people's homes rallying up their armies.
00:27:30.000They're called to arms, as some might say.
00:27:33.000I think that was Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago.
00:27:37.000But there has always been, I think, an effort to take their disdain for Donald Trump and to turn that on the rest of us, a political movement that they fear.
00:27:50.000And we saw direct evidence of this from the President of the United States, Joe Biden.
00:27:56.000Senator Rick Scott of Florida, United States Senator, who's leading the Republican National Senatorial Campaign Committee, released what he calls the ultra MAGA agenda.
00:28:25.000By the way, I've looked at Senator Scott's plan, and I think it deserves debate, discussion.
00:28:30.000Of course, a lot of plans can be changed over time, but I'm grateful that Rick Scott, my senator, at least had the guts to put out an agenda and a plan.
00:28:38.000You know, too often, Mitch McConnell and other Republicans are just willing to be defined by what the Democrats say or do.
00:28:46.000And I think putting out an aggressive, bold plan, as Rick Scott did, is a sign of leadership, and it's something that more Republicans ought to be willing to do.
00:28:53.000That way the American people can bring into technicolor what we believe and how it will help them.
00:29:00.000What the Democrats are trying to bring into technicolor is fear.
00:29:04.000And you saw Joe Biden right there in that clip trying to stoke that fear.
00:29:09.000And what they believe is the great theater, is the great forum, is the great platform to really bring all this fear together and use it in the midterm elections, it's the January 6th committee.
00:29:23.000Now, a lot of folks say, ah, well, you know, the Democrats, they're screwed on this January 6th committee.
00:29:28.000And the American people have moved on. The American people are looking at grocery bills, gas prices, inflation, limited economic opportunities, crushing effects of the slowing growth that we've seen under President Biden.
00:29:43.000But here's what I'll tell you. You know, they get better at this every time.
00:29:48.000And Republicans might not want to hear that. Like, I remember being in grade school and like the North Korean missile program was always the butt of every joke.
00:29:56.000It was like synonymous with failure. If you were talking about the North Korean missile program, you were talking about something that wouldn't work, that was laughably bad.
00:30:05.000And now you should hear some of the briefings we get about that program and its capabilities and the real concern that Americans ought to have over it.
00:30:14.000And the reason is they tried and tried and failed and failed and they got better. Democrats have done the same when it comes to this impeachment strategy.
00:30:25.000The Russia hoax was a nightmare for them. The Mueller hearing was a disaster. We dispositively won that. Jim Jordan, myself, Ron DeSantis, Mark Meadows, Andy Biggs, Louie Gohmert.
00:30:38.000We won. They lost. And they got like a little bit better on the Ukraine impeachment. Right. Well, then they got they got actually to an impeachment rather than it fizzling out as a consequence of no evidence.
00:30:52.000And the reason is because their tactics changed. Right. In the Ukraine impeachment, you didn't see the Jerry Nadler strategy of the moment we get something, we're going to hold a hearing and put it out.
00:31:01.340That just became like a kaleidoscope of information that the American people never really saw drawn into a consistent frame or focus.
00:31:09.060But on Ukraine, Adam Schiff evolved the strategy. He changed the tactics. He brought Democrats down into the bunker and then they had secret depositions and selective leaks to try to frame up what didn't really exist.
00:31:25.940Now, President Trump blew a hole through that when he released the transcript, which they never thought he would do.
00:31:30.700And I would like to say my Republicans and I went down and we jail broke the truth out of that skiff by storming the skiff when they were engaged in improper activity down there that forced them to the surface.
00:31:42.960But they still, you know, didn't get a conviction, weren't successful.
00:31:45.880Then January 6 comes around. They built a multimedia plan. They get better storytellers. They get better venues.
00:31:55.940And in the January 6th impeachment of President Trump, you see they actually not only impeached him in the House, but they actually got Republicans, you know, more than just one or two to vote for that impeachment in the United States Senate.
00:32:09.340So each time a little better. And now what they're doing is not an impeachment of Trump, but the January 6th committee is an impeachment of MAGA.
00:32:18.140It's an impeachment of America first. And Joe Biden gaslights it himself right there.
00:32:23.520And what they're really looking forward to is that now they have a system where they don't have to tussle with me and with Jim Jordan.
00:32:32.720And you can hear him confessing it on MSNBC News.
00:32:36.120This is Jason Johnson's program on MSNBC, and he's interviewing one of these liberal commentators that are on. Take a listen.
00:32:42.900One of the things that's going to be very unique about these proceedings, that's going to be very, even from the Mueller proceedings, different from impeachment, there's not going to be the Jim Jordans, the Matt Gaetzes, the Louis Gohmerts, the Steve Kings, the clown show.
00:32:59.240They're not a part of this hearing because Kevin McCarthy made the ingenious decision not to put anybody forward that could actually defend the president.
00:33:06.480So this hearing, these proceedings, it's going to be wall-to-wall message disciplines.
00:33:10.600It's going to be wall-to-wall controlled by people who believe in the purpose of this committee.
00:33:14.520There's not going to be any filibustering of witnesses.
00:33:16.640There's not going to be any random redirects talking about things that have nothing to do with the topic like child pornography.
00:33:21.820It's not going to be a repeat of what we saw during the confirmation hearings.
00:33:24.360It's going to be straightforward, it's going to be direct, it's going to be on message, and Republicans will have no way to disrupt it.
00:33:30.880And I believe that as Donald Trump is watching, that he's going to lose his mind wondering, why isn't anybody out there defending me?
00:33:36.700It was a huge tactical mistake by Kevin McCarthy.
00:33:40.380I don't think it'll just be President Trump wondering why there aren't Republicans on that committee.
00:33:44.820I think it'll be a lot of our fellow Americans who are saying, wait a second, shouldn't you see a Mike Johnson, a Jim Jordan, a Matt Gaetz on that committee,
00:33:52.240providing, I think, appropriate context.