Bill Burr is angry at me again. He can t get over the fact that I called him woke. Plus, Kamala Harris is making the rounds about her brand new book, and a smoking gun on Russiagate that directly implicates Hillary Clinton.
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00:00:48.000So, Bill Burr, you know, the comedian or maybe now ex-comedian is pretty angry at me still.
00:00:54.000Like, he's still angry at me because all the way back in February, if you recall, I said that he had gone woke and he got really sad.
00:01:01.000That was after he said that the healthcare CEOs of America might deserve to be murdered.
00:01:06.000So, apparently, yesterday he did an interview with Vulture, which is a publication that allegedly still exists.
00:01:11.000And here is what Bill Burr had to say: Ben Shapiro talked about going to one of your shows and complaining about you becoming woke, which sort of then crazy.
00:01:21.000He doesn't even know what that word means.
00:01:24.000His definition of woke is white liberals' definition of woke, and they didn't even know what it was.
00:01:28.000They just took the word from black people.
00:01:30.000That's the worst thing about our people: not only do we take from other cultures, we don't even take the time to understand the definition.
00:01:37.000Yeah, he went there to be annoyed so he can then have something to talk about, and then he can make money off of dividing his own country.
00:01:47.000Yeah, those people that it's treasonous, but they do.
00:01:50.000Yes, but and it, but to be fair, or not to be fair, to uh, the fact is that it worked for what his goal is, which is then he became a thing online where then a certain portion of the right complain about how you're woke racists and were racist.
00:02:47.000First, I don't need to pay to go to your comedy show to be annoyed.
00:02:50.000There's a lot of stuff in the world that annoys me.
00:02:52.000And typically, I don't shell out hundreds of bucks and then take my wife and my friends to a show in order to be annoyed.
00:02:58.000I'm sorry, you did a show and a bunch of people didn't laugh in Florida, and then you fussed like a child, and then you walked off the stage.
00:03:05.000It was really ridiculous, and that's on you, my dude.
00:03:07.000You probably should give the people refunds because they paid for Bill Burr at Red Rock and they got Joy Behar at the dive bar.
00:03:13.000I mean, you used to do jokes like this.
00:03:16.000Look at the WNBA, they have been playing in front of three to 400 people a night for a quarter of a century.
00:03:25.000Not to mention, it's a male-subsidized league.
00:03:33.000That place should be packed with feminists wearing jerseys, slashing their going nuts like the guys do in the upper deck with their big beards.
00:04:21.000And now your latest material is like this.
00:04:25.000They're talking about looting, but CNN and Fox News are not going to bring up the insurance companies that are just going to keep everybody's premiums and still give themselves a bonus.
00:05:54.000It's the definition that Richard Delgado and Gene Stefanchik, who literally wrote a book on critical race theory, laid out and explaining their basic principles, which match up with wokeness.
00:06:03.000One, racism is ordinary, not aberrant.
00:06:06.000And second, our system of white over color ascendancy serves important purposes, both psychic and material.
00:06:13.000And what that means is that the system of America, in short, is designed to create racially disparate outcomes.
00:06:19.000Any proof of racially disparate outcomes is evidence of the malignancy of the system.
00:06:24.000Now, there's another element of wokeness that is self-contradictory here: that there is a racial essentialism that Stops you from criticizing as unfactual the viewpoints of others.
00:06:34.000You don't understand because you're not black, or you can't understand because you're not gay.
00:06:39.000And it contradicts the fundamental basis of wokeness because the basis of wokeness is that everybody is basically the same, which means all group outcomes should be the same, which means any inequality of group outcome is evidence of systemic inequity.
00:06:51.000But then also, wokeness will posit that racial groups are so different that you can't even talk to one another.
00:06:56.000You can't even criticize the viewpoints of members of another racial group.
00:08:04.000Okay, so now Bill Burr would presumably call that Bill Burr insensitive and unresponsive to the needs and definitions of black people, which all this amazing guys, because Bill Burr is whiter than a painting of a polar bear in snow on a white canvas.
00:08:18.000So he's actually the most annoying form of a woke person.
00:08:21.000A white lib, the kind he likes to criticize.
00:08:23.000The white person who apologizes for being white by pretending that he can speak on behalf of black people about the systemic privileges of being white.
00:08:31.000Oh, yeah, while pulling down millions of dollars to be an angry thumb of a human.
00:08:35.000So Baldrumpel Stiltskin over here, who gets mad when you call him by his real name, is still pissed off.
00:08:40.000I didn't enjoy his comedy show last year and he thinks that I and my friends and my wife, we all paid to attend his show just so that I could criticize him.
00:08:49.000On a random weekday night, if I'm going to a comedy show, I'm going because I want to laugh.
00:08:54.000We paid to attend your show because you used to be funny.
00:08:57.000And then you trans yourself and turned into a white, bald, allegedly male version of Sonny Hawson on the view, screeching at me about income inequality and racism.
00:09:06.000There is some irony to the fact that as you lost your nuts, you morphed into a shriveled nutsack of a human.
00:09:11.000And now you've decided that you're a victim and that everyone you know is a victim and that America is cruel and nasty and such and you're deliberately misunderstood just because you won't put on a great show anymore, which makes me sad because I enjoyed watching Bill Burr.
00:09:23.000But now watching you is like watching Robin D'Angelo, but even whiter and even faker and less funny and with a screechy Boston accent to boot.
00:09:29.000You turn into Billy, the pissed drunk woke leprechaun.
00:09:35.000I really do because the world needs better comedians.
00:09:37.000And I like a lot of comedians who disagree with me, Luis C.K., Dave Chappelle.
00:09:41.000But, you know, we don't need 57-year-old men trying to earn street cred with the fellow kids by turning into a human embodiment of those retarded in this house lawn signs.
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00:12:05.000Okay, meanwhile, it seems that there is, in fact, a smoking gun in the Russia Gate scandal.
00:12:09.000So one of the big allegations of the Russia Gate scandal is that the whole thing basically was cooked up by the Hillary Clinton campaign.
00:12:15.000You'll recall there was a firm called Fusion GPS, and it worked with Hillary Clinton's campaign to concoct the steel dossier.
00:12:22.000And then somehow, magically, that steel dossier ended up in the hands of the American intelligence agencies, where it became the basis for things like the Carter Page FISA warrant, may have become the basis for the entire RussiaGate scandal in the first place.
00:12:34.000And this whole thing was whipped into a frenzy by Barack Obama's FBI, CIA, and DOJ.
00:12:39.000But there's never been really kind of a smoking gun that said that Hillary knew that was going to happen.
00:12:43.000Like that, that was a thing that Hillary knew.
00:12:45.000Well, now we actually kind of have the smoking gun.
00:12:48.000According to the New York Post, Hillary Clinton signed off on a plan hatched by a top campaign advisor to smear then-candidate Donald Trump with false claims of Russian collusion and distract from her own mounting email scandal during the 2016 campaign, According to explosive intelligence files declassified on Thursday, the 24-page intelligence annex was compiled from memos and emails obtained by the Obama administration in the lead up to Election Day that laid out confidential conversations between leaders of the DNC and liberal billionaire George Soros' Open Society Foundations.
00:13:16.000The plot, the brainchild of Clinton's campaign, then foreign policy advisor Julianne Smith, included raising the theme of Putin's support for Trump and subsequently steering public opinion toward the notion that it needs to equate the Russian leader's political influence campaign with actual hacking of election infrastructure.
00:13:34.000Smith then went on to serve as former President Joe Biden's ambassador to NATO.
00:13:38.000Open Society Senior Vice President Leonard Bernardo was looped in on the scheme and laid out its intended effect in a series of emails in late July 2016.
00:13:49.000Quote, Julie says it will be a long-term affair to demonize Putin and Trump.
00:13:54.000There's an email July 25th, 2016, right before the election.
00:13:59.000Now it is good for a post-convention bounce.
00:14:01.000Later, the FBI will put more oil into the fire.
00:14:05.000That's an explicit statement that they're going to start retailing this line.
00:14:08.000And then the FBI, he knew, how do you know that?
00:14:10.000How do you know the FBI was going to put more flame on the fire?
00:14:16.000And then two days later, Bernardo wrote, quote, HRC, there'd be Hillary Rodham Clinton, approved Julia's idea about Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections.
00:14:27.000That should distract people from her own missing email, especially if the affair goes to the Olympic level.
00:14:34.000Bernardo also stated: the point is making the Russian play a U.S. domestic issue.
00:14:38.000In the absence of direct evidence, CrowdStrike and Threat Connect will supply the media, and GRU will hopefully carry on to give more facts.
00:15:19.000Because remember, one of the big campaign issues in 2016 was that Hillary Clinton had her private servers in a bathroom at her house in which she was storing classified information.
00:15:27.000A lot of people were pretty upset about that because it exposed America's classified information to hack.
00:15:32.000And then James Comey of the FBI changed the law in order to let her off the hook, you'll recall.
00:15:38.000And so now you have people associated with the Hillary Clinton campaign openly saying that Hillary concocted an entire scheme to focus on Trump-Russia as a distraction from email gate.
00:15:50.000John Durham consulted the FBI, which assessed the information was likely authentic, but couldn't corroborate exact copies of the Bernardo emails with Open Society Foundations.
00:15:58.000The CIA also determined the intelligence was not the product of Russian fabrications.
00:16:02.000Durham said Smith was at minimum playing a role in the Clinton campaign's efforts to tie Trump to Russia.
00:16:07.000Now, again, what does that mean that they knew the FBI was going to put oil on the fire?
00:16:12.000How would they know that if there was no coordination?
00:16:15.000Where is that information coming from?
00:16:19.000The Trump-Russia investigation, according to the New York Post, was part of what a March 2016 memo included in the annex described as a two-pronged Democratic Party opposition that is focused on discrediting Trump.
00:16:28.000Among other things, the Clinton staff, with support from special services, is preparing scandalous revelations of business relations between Trump and the so-called Russian mafia.
00:16:38.000The special services cited in one of the memos referred to intelligence activities of Obama's CIA and FBI, which may have included the work of Trump dossi author Christopher Steele.
00:16:48.000The memos also claim that then President Barack Obama was putting pressure on FBI Director James Comey through AG Loretta Lynch to wrap up the probe of Clinton's use of a private email server to receive highly classified information while Secretary of State.
00:17:01.000The March 2016 memo claimed the 44th president had, quote, sanctioned the use of all administrative levers to remove possibly negative effects from the FBI investigation of cases related to the Clinton Foundation and the email correspondence in the State Department.
00:17:15.000Honestly, it's rare that you get like an actual smoking gun in public life.
00:17:19.000Most people are smart enough to sort of hide the goods or they don't express it in the first place because they know that everything eventually will be discovered.
00:17:30.000A.G. Pambondi, FBI Director Cash Patel, other members of U.S. intelligence declassified the Durham annex at the request of Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa.
00:17:39.000Grassley said, based on the Durham annex, the Obama FBI failed to adequately review and investigate intelligence reports showing the Clinton campaign may have been ginning up the fake Trump-Russia narrative for Clinton's political gain, which was ultimately done through the Steele dossier and other means.
00:17:52.000These intelligence reports and related records, whether true or false, were buried for years.
00:17:56.000History will show that the Obama and Biden administration's law enforcement and intelligence agencies were weaponized against President Trump.
00:18:04.000John Ratcliffe, the head of the CIA, said that the files showed, quote, a coordinated plan to prevent and destroy Donald Trump's presidency.
00:18:12.000A spokesperson for the Open Society Foundation said in a statement, quote, the claim that the Open Society Foundations helped orchestrate an FBI investigation is an outrageous falsehood.
00:18:20.000It is grounded in malicious disinformation traced to Russian intelligence and now weaponized as part of a politically motivated attack to campaign.
00:18:28.000A spokesperson for the Open Society Foundation said in a statement, quote, the claim that the Open Society Foundations helped orchestrate an FBI investigation is an outrageous falsehood.
00:18:38.000It is grounded in malicious disinformation traced to Russian intelligence and now weaponized as part of a politically motivated campaign to attack our leadership and our work to promote human rights.
00:18:48.000The Durham report found no wrongdoing by our staff.
00:18:51.000Now, they're not saying the emails are fake, you noticed.
00:18:53.000They're not saying that the emails from this fellow Bernardo are actually fake.
00:18:58.000And it is those emails that are particularly damning.
00:19:02.000It's those emails that just spell out in full detail what exactly was going on.
00:19:08.000That is an insane, insane smoking gun, truly crazy.
00:19:37.000And the FBI and the CIA were both weaponized to, as our director of CIA has said, accelerate this hoax against then candidates and former President Trump.
00:19:49.000Senator Chuck Grassley, who is the person who requested the declassification of the Durham Report Annex, he explained why this is a big deal.
00:19:57.000I think it's evidence of the great depth that the deep state will go to to cover up weaponization that was going on in the FBI and the executive branch of government generally under the Obama administration.
00:20:25.000And my goodness, my goodness, Hillary Clinton should be brought to testify in front of Congress at the very least, knowingly promulgating false information about Trump-Russia to distract from her own email scandal and then coordinating with the FBI.
00:20:40.000If that's not some form of obstruction of justice, I'm not sure exactly what is, really.
00:20:54.000John Brennan has been accused of perjury for years based on things not related to Russia Gate, but he may have opened himself up to a perjury problem, given new revelations from all these documents.
00:21:07.000That's a point that's made by Miranda Devine over at the New York Post.
00:21:10.000Apparently, he said to be under renewed scrutiny by authorities over discrepancies between his sworn testimony to federal investigations and his written orders to underlings conducting the intelligence community assessment commissioned by Barack Obama in December of 2016 that found Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Donald Trump.
00:21:26.000That review found that Brennan insisted on the inclusion of the steel dossier over the strong objections of the CIA's two most senior Russia experts who said it did not meet even the most basic tradecraft standards.
00:21:36.000And then, of course, he suggested in his testimony that he did not push forward the steel dossier.
00:21:42.000Here's John Brennan trying to claim that he did everything right.
00:21:46.000Well, if the director of CIA and the director of national intelligence make referrals to the Department of Justice, I think the Department of Justice has to do something to respond to it.
00:21:54.000So putting together an internal strike force, whatever, to take a look at this information, is certainly, I think, understandable.
00:22:00.000But also, I'd like to think that professionals in the Department of Justice will dismiss any of these referrals because they're baseless.
00:22:08.000So again, I stand ready to continue to talk about the assessment and what we did during that period of time.
00:22:14.000There was absolutely no conspiracy, and we continue to stand behind what it is that we have said publicly.
00:22:20.000But do you worry at all that the Trump loyalists who are installed in those key positions could find a way, would find a way to punish you, regardless of what the evidence reveals?
00:22:32.000Well, I guess they're going to do what they were going to do, Anna.
00:22:35.000I just feel as though what we did was right.
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00:25:00.000One of the people who's been on top of this the entire time is journalist Matt Taibi.
00:25:03.000He joins us on the line now to explain.
00:25:05.000He, of course, is an independent journalist and author, best known for his hard-hitting reporting on censorship, corruption, and political polarization over at Racket News on Substack.
00:25:14.000He has been an absolute force regarding RussiaGate and covering it.
00:25:23.000So, Matt, let's talk about what the Durham Annex just released shows.
00:25:27.000I mean, when I look at that just on a raw level, it does look like the closest thing I've seen to a smoking gun.
00:25:32.000You have an email from a member of the Open Society Foundation, allegedly, that openly says Hillary Rodham Clinton agrees with the idea of misdirecting away from her email campaign and toward Trump-Russia collusion.
00:25:42.000And oh, by the way, the FBI is going to put oil on the fire.
00:25:55.000Hillary Clinton had a lot of problems early in 2016.
00:26:01.000There obviously is some discussion about whether or not those emails are real.
00:26:06.000But what's undeniably real is that the Russians had an enormous amount of material and analysis and that the FBI was aware of this as early as March of 2016.
00:26:19.000They knew about these rumors that Hillary Clinton was going to cook up a plan to frame Donald Trump, essentially.
00:26:53.000The New York Times had a big article this morning disputing the authenticity of some of those emails.
00:27:01.000And some of the principals have used language like, I don't recall saying that, or that doesn't sound like me.
00:27:09.000There is a very amusing passage where Jake Sullivan is asked if there was a plan to distract from the campaign's problems by vilifying Donald Trump.
00:27:21.000And then later he says, but that he can't completely rule it out either.
00:27:26.000So, you know, these all sound like non-denial denials.
00:27:30.000And also, we know that the FBI and CIA took this materials very seriously in previous instances.
00:27:42.000James Coming was actually motivated to release word of ending the email investigation early because of the existence of this material.
00:27:51.000So they clearly put some stock into it, whether they're saying so now or not.
00:27:58.000So let's talk now about the intelligence community's internal debates and manipulations with regard to RussiaGate.
00:28:07.000So there's an editorial that came out from John Brennan and James Clapper, who, of course, were both in the Obama IC at the time.
00:28:15.000And they're claiming that basically they did everything right.
00:28:18.000You read their piece, I'm sure, in the New York Times, claiming that everything was right, that all the reports basically exonerate them for any attempt to turn and twist information.
00:28:30.000So first of all, the 2017 intelligence community assessment that was released on January 6th of 2017, which concluded that Russia aspired to help Donald Trump out of a quote-unquote clear preference for him, was based on four pieces of intelligence, one of which was the steel dossier.
00:28:53.000Three others were fragments previously discarded and rejected by the CIA, including by his own handpicked team.
00:29:02.000The only thing that I can get out of that editorial by Brennan and Clapper is that they're throwing the FBI under the bus because there's a key line in there which says we only included the steel dossier at the behest of the FBI, which isn't true.
00:29:23.000Every time these guys say anything, it takes us a little while.
00:29:26.000We knock it down and they come up with something else.
00:29:31.000So obviously the Trump administration has really been pushing a lot of these revelations with regard to RussiaGate.
00:29:36.000The DNI Tulsi Gabbard had her sort of revelation of that House Intel report that uncovered what you're talking about, all the details suggesting that essentially the conclusion that Russia definitely wanted Trump was gamed and it wasn't true and that it was fostered by an intelligence community and perhaps Barack Obama directly that wanted that conclusion.
00:29:58.000Because we've known a lot of this for a long time.
00:30:00.000You've been on this for a very long time.
00:30:01.000RussiaGate is, of course, nothing new.
00:30:03.000Some people like you were on it very early, but I think it's been pretty well accepted over the course of the last several years that there was an attempt to undermine the Trump presidency and the Trump campaign by pushing this sort of information.
00:30:20.000And as somebody who worked for a long time, I spent a month and a half last year on, for instance, that House intelligence report that just came out last week.
00:30:31.000What's new about all this is that the shift in public attention is going to go from a flawed investigation into Donald Trump into a manipulated investigation.
00:30:46.000And now it's abundantly clear from all these details that it wasn't even really an investigation of Donald Trump.
00:30:52.000It was a setup designed to distract from an internal scandal involving Hillary Clinton.
00:30:59.000The whole thing was fraudulent from the very beginning.
00:31:02.000It wasn't just thin or badly sourced or incompetent.
00:31:09.000And if you go back and look, you will find countless examples of essentially an effort to set up members of the Trump campaign, offering them dirt on Hillary Clinton through FBI informants, that sort of thing.
00:31:26.000This was a hit job by the intelligence services on behalf of the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton.
00:31:34.000So what do you think the next steps are?
00:31:36.000Obviously, it's great that the American people are seeing more of this stuff.
00:31:38.000There's been talk by Daniel Gabber that there might be prosecutions, that the FBI ought to look into it.
00:31:43.000It's unclear to me what sort of statutes could be called in in terms of a criminal investigation.
00:31:48.000Certainly Congress has the ability to subpoena and put under penalty of perjury people who are going to come and testify.
00:31:54.000What do you think needs to be done next?
00:31:57.000Well, I think you're correct to identify that this is the big unknown at the moment.
00:32:03.000I've been told from the start that they're looking at various forms of conspiracy charges.
00:32:10.000I don't think they're aiming for perjury.
00:32:12.000I think they're aiming for something higher than that.
00:32:15.000But what exactly that is is not clear.
00:32:18.000I've been told pretty conclusively that they're looking at conduct that isn't just rooted in 2016 and 2017 that extends all the way through the Biden administration And things that happened at the very least early in the Biden term.
00:32:35.000They're looking at patterns of conduct.
00:32:38.000So they're talking a big game about making court cases.
00:32:42.000And I think at this point, it's not a hearts and minds thing anymore.
00:32:46.000The media is obviously not going to cover it in the way that we would have hoped years ago.
00:32:52.000This has to end in prosecutions for it to be effective.
00:33:13.000Meanwhile, the Trump administration, you know, it is their job to ensure that people who are complicit in the Russia hoax, who are working on the Russia hoax, don't actually work for the administration.
00:33:22.000And thankfully, that is now happening.
00:33:24.000It took a little while and a little investigative reporting by our own Luke Roziak over at the Daily Wire.
00:33:29.000There's a woman named April Doss, who is working as the top NSA lawyer.
00:33:33.000And it turns out that her background was that she had worked for Senator Mark Warner of Virginia when he was serving as the top Democrat on the Senate intelligence panel.
00:33:41.000And she was basically serving in order to tie Trump to Russia.
00:33:44.000Well, the Trump administration found out about it.
00:34:01.000And when I say who was she, it's because she's now been fired.
00:34:03.000What was the story surrounding April Doss?
00:34:06.000She worked for Mark Warner on the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating Donald Trump, trying to tie him to Russia.
00:34:14.000And then she went on to become the general counsel of the National Security Agency, which is in charge of cybersecurity, very much along the lines of investigating the DNC hack and everything that precipitated Russia Gate.
00:34:28.000And so after she worked for the Democrats, she went to become general counsel of the NSA in the Biden administration in 2022.
00:34:38.000Now, the Democrats concealed her hire at that time because they had actually blocked a Republican with a very similar background from having that position during the Trump administration.
00:34:48.000They said it would be inappropriate to have somebody who had previously worked for Republicans being in this position.
00:34:53.000But somehow, when the shoe's on the other foot, it's all well and good.
00:34:56.000You can hire a former Democrat operative into this position.
00:35:00.000So she's now been fired, not just because she worked for Democrats, but because, you know, the Russiagate investigation was profoundly unethical.
00:35:08.000It wasn't like they were just trying to get Trump and Trump doesn't like that.
00:35:10.000They were trying to get him through extremely Machiavellian and dishonest maneuvers that were totally in violation of what we would expect from unbiased investigators.
00:35:23.000And on top of that, she's done a lot of writing talking about how Trump is an insurrectionist, which, by the way, nobody was ever charged with insurrection in January 6th, but somehow Trump is an insurrectionist.
00:35:35.000She's talked about, she's really advocated for the weight of the intelligence state to clamp down on people for wrongthink, even though now with a couple of years of hindsight, when we look back at her writing, we can see that she was very much the one who was wrong.
00:35:50.000Talking about COVID vaccines, talking about the garm censorship stuff that you've been involved in, you know, corporations need to be censoring people because of all these reasons that turn out to be fake.
00:36:02.000The Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping, she said, we got to crack down on QAnon because of that.
00:36:08.000Well, it turns out her buddies in the FBI probably entrapped those people.
00:36:13.000So this is a lady that not just is a Democrat operative, although she is that, she's also a lady who's been wrong again and again, who's invoked a vicious clampdown on free speech because she doesn't like what people are saying.
00:36:28.000And, you know, it's totally out of step with the Trump policies.
00:36:31.000And so unsurprisingly, she's now fired.
00:36:35.000So, Luke, obviously, the media have now jumped into action, claiming that she was fired wrongly.
00:36:41.000The media have suggested that the real reason that she was fired is because Laura Loomer put out a post in which she quoted your original Daily Wire story.
00:36:48.000And then the media completely ignored the actual allegations in the Daily Wire story, basically suggesting that Laura Loomer did a loyalty test for Trump.
00:36:55.000She didn't fulfill the loyalty test and thus she has been fired while noting any of the actual details in your story.
00:37:03.000The Times adopted this idea that Laura Loom, and it's funny because they're writing about a retweet.
00:37:09.000Like I did this story, and I think they were already working on firing her when I initially contacted this agency, brought her to their attention.
00:37:16.000After the story comes out, Laura Loomer retweets it, which is great.
00:37:20.000But the New York Times decides to focus the whole story on the fact that Laura Loomer retweeted something.
00:37:25.000She had this prestigious paper of record writing about literally somebody clicking the retweet button on their phone, but they can't say it that way.
00:37:33.000So they call it like a far-right conspiracist echoed calls.
00:37:37.000But what they mean when they say echoed calls, because it sounds like such dramatic language, is literally just clicking a retweet button.
00:37:43.000But you're right, they needed that because they had to redirect the focus from the facts, which are this woman's long record of things that are really objectionable, not just the fact that she's a Democrat to a far-right conspiracy.
00:37:58.000So then you have Mark Warner, the Democrat who hired her to begin with, lashing out and saying, how dare you fire her, which only affirms the fact that she's very close to these Democrats.
00:38:09.000But yeah, it's funny, once the New York Times adopted this, you know, basically they just kind of made up out of thin air that Laura Loomer was responsible for all this.
00:38:19.000Then all the other media adopted the exact same framing.
00:38:23.000So it is fascinating how they just kind of invent these narratives.
00:38:26.000And again, no disrespect to Laura Loomer.
00:38:28.000It's just the New York Times kind of was like, they wanted to give her the credit because it helped them paint a certain narrative.
00:38:38.000Well, that's Luke Roziak, investigative reporter over at the Daily Wire, doing solid work.
00:38:50.000She said just yesterday that she didn't want to run for governor of California, which of course is a wise move because if she were to run for governor Calvin, I'm not sure she wins a primary.
00:38:57.000She's just not very popular among Democrats, But she has announced that she has a brand new book coming out, and it is exciting, exciting stuff.
00:39:14.000So I trust, my listeners, that when her book comes out, we will elevate lines and scavengers above her book on the bestseller charts just to dunk on her once more.
00:39:25.000Just over a year ago, I launched my campaign for president of the United States.
00:39:29.000107 Days, traveling the country, fighting for our future.
00:39:35.000The shortest presidential campaign in modern history.
00:39:38.000It was intense, high stakes, and deeply personal for me and for so many of you.
00:39:46.000Since leaving office, I've spent a lot of time reflecting on those days, talking with my team, my family, my friends, and pulling my thoughts together.
00:39:56.000In essence, writing a journal that is this book, 107 Days.
00:40:06.000Sure to be a bestseller, but if she can't make it a bestseller by telling you about it, perhaps she can make it a bestseller by doing a TikTok trend about it, because there is nothing that more says you're in touch with the kids than being, you know, a 60-year-old person who is doing TikTok trends.
00:40:23.000Everyone thinks you've been kicking back, drinking margaritas on the beach, but really you've been hard at work writing a book, meeting with leaders, thinking about the future of our country.
00:41:02.000Well, if you're trying to sell your book, obviously the place to go is Stephen Colbert, who is another comedian who is no longer a comedian.
00:41:13.000And by the way, he doesn't have that many viewers.
00:41:15.000So I asked our sponsors over a comment that is Perplexity's brand new web browser what Stephen Colbert's ratings look like versus, say, Greg Gutfeld.
00:41:23.000Greg Gutfeld's show, Gutfeld, currently averages more viewers than Stephen Colbert's late show, with Guttfeld drawing about 3.29 million viewers versus Colbert's recent average of 3.06 million at his own ratings peak, but typically more around 2.42 million in recent months.
00:41:36.000Guttfeld's average in the second quarter of 2025 was 3.289 million total viewers, making it the biggest late night ratings winner, even though it also airs at 10 p.m. with less direct competition from the other network late night shows.
00:41:48.000By comparison, the late show with Stephen Colbert averaged 2.417 million total viewers for the first run episodes during the same period.
00:41:56.000So he's gotten like a brief surge because it's basically a dead cat bounce.
00:42:00.000But suffice it to say, he is an unsuccessful host and he's unsuccessful because he's not very good at his job, because he brings you humor like this.
00:42:07.000Here he was with Kamala Harris last night.
00:42:12.000You know, when I was young in my career, I had to defend my decision to become a prosecutor with my family.
00:42:20.000And one of the points that I made is: why is it then when we think we want to improve the system or change it, that we're always on the outside on bended knee or trying to break down the door?
00:42:32.000Shouldn't we also be inside the system?
00:43:37.000I have an incredible amount of respect for him.
00:43:40.000And I think that the way that we should be thinking about where we are right now is to remember that we had a president of the United States who believed in the rule of law, who believed in the importance of aspiring to have integrity and to do the work on behalf of the people.
00:44:09.000Vogelgrind and also Joe Biden was dead.
00:44:15.000No follow-ups there from Colbert, by the way.
00:44:17.000She's just completely misdirects to Joe Biden.
00:44:19.000It was a wonderful, wonderful man who was so wonderful for the country.
00:44:22.000And yeah, she was asked who the Democratic leader is.
00:44:26.000And of course, she has no answer to that because the answer to that is they don't really have a leader other than the kind of wild insanity of Bernie Sanders' arm on Donnie and AOC.
00:44:46.000I think there are a lot of, I'm not going to go through names because then I'm going to leave somebody out and then I'm going to hear about it.
00:44:55.000I think it is a mistake for us who want to figure out how to get out and through this and get out of it to put it on the shoulders of any one person.
00:46:08.000Even Stephen Colbert is like, that's the big secret you're going to drop in 107 days is that Dougie didn't do an amazing job for your birthday.
00:46:15.000I mean, like, a really amazing spoiler would be like a secret would be like, where Dougie's living now, which is kind of far away from Kamala Harris, if the rumors are true.
00:46:30.000And they are in even more serious trouble, given the fact that the Republicans in Texas are likely going to gerrymander the map.
00:46:37.000Now, gerrymandering is a normal part of politics.
00:46:39.000State legislators typically draw the congressional lines for various elections.
00:46:44.000And the Supreme Court does have the capacity under one man, one vote to say that those lines are absurd, that they are leaving people out, that they are doing a bad job representing the public.
00:46:52.000You can't draw kind of snake-like districts that encompass certain populations in order to minimize their impact.
00:46:57.000The Supreme Court will step in under that doctrine.
00:47:00.000But typically speaking, it has been the long-standing policy in the United States that the various state legislatures draw the congressional district.
00:47:06.000That is particularly true right now when, as it turns out, the last census, I've talked about this extensively on the show, the last census was just wrong.
00:47:14.000The Census Bureau admitted this in 2021.
00:47:17.000It undercounted people living in places like Texas and Florida and Arizona, and it overcounted people living in California and New York.
00:47:24.000So that meant that actual congressional allocation, as well as electoral college allocation, was just wrong.
00:47:30.000If the census had been done right and actually reflected the population of the various states, Donald Trump could have won the last presidential election without winning any of Wisconsin, Michigan, or Pennsylvania.
00:47:40.000That's how badly the census got it wrong.
00:47:42.000And so Ron DeSantis, he's been calling for a redo of the census.
00:47:49.000They should do it and count people that are legally allowed to be here.
00:47:54.000How many seats would California lose if you only counted lawful people, us citizens?
00:48:01.000They would lose a lot of seats because they're a sanctuary state.
00:48:05.000For us, you know, we would stand to gain because we did not spend money to try to try to count illegals because I don't think that that's constitutionally proper.
00:48:16.000The analysis that even Biden's people had to put out showed without question that we should have a different count.
00:48:26.000Okay, well, the Democrats are now complaining about the congressional gerrymandering in the state of Texas.
00:48:31.000Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, who could theoretically be deprived of the House majority, he's pissed about it, obviously.
00:48:40.000Donald Trump has ordered Greg Abbott and compliant Texas Republicans to race back to Austin, have a special session in order to rig the congressional map and undermine the ability of Texans to have a free and fair midterm election.
00:49:05.000Okay, but at the same exact time that Hakeem Jeffries is complaining about that, J.D. Vance is quite properly complaining about the fact that California Governor Gavin Newsom is also attempting to radically gerrymander California.
00:49:14.000He points out of their 52 congressional districts, nine are Republican.
00:49:18.000That means 17% of their delegation is Republican when Republicans regularly win 40% of the vote in that state.
00:49:25.000So in other words, this is the way the system works.
00:49:27.000The system is frequently used by the party in power in order to increase their vote share in terms of Congress.
00:49:36.000Harry Enton over at CNN, he points out this could make actually a relatively large difference in the Congress.
00:49:42.000He says that if Texas redistricts the way that they're talking about right now, Texas could actually increase its seat difference by five.
00:49:50.000Yeah, it could make a huge difference.
00:49:52.000This, in fact, could win or maintain control for the Republicans in the House of Representatives.
00:50:07.000That's one, two, three, four, five, five potential pickup opportunities for the Republican Party.
00:50:13.000They are playing hardball at this particular point.
00:50:16.000And right now, it seems to me that Democrats are actually playing close to the Little League peewee.
00:50:22.000Okay, well, California, they're going to try the same thing.
00:50:24.000The problem is they've so radically redistricted over and over and over in California, there aren't that many more seats that they can gain through redistricting in California.
00:50:32.000So again, the way that this tends to work is Democrats redistrict like mad, and then they complain when Republicans do the same thing.
00:50:37.000Well, it's good for the goose is good for the gander.
00:50:40.000One of the people hardest hit here is Jasmine Crockett, the new hot, fresh face, so fresh, so face, even more fresh in face than AOC.
00:50:47.000She says they're trying to dilute the voices of the majority in Texas, by which she means that she could theoretically lose her congressional seat or have to run inside a district where she doesn't actually live.
00:50:58.000They want you to say, oh, it's all about partisan politics.
00:51:01.000Texas is a majority minority state and they are trying to dilute the voices of the majority in this state.
00:51:12.000Well, hard to say that they're trying to dilute the voice of the majority in the state when Trump won it by 10 and has a Republican legislature and a Republican governor and two Republican senators.
00:51:20.000So you're actually in the minority politically in your state representative.
00:51:24.000Meanwhile, Democratic hopes seem to be fading, but they have one hope, and I've been saying this for a long time.
00:51:29.000Their only hope is that the economy weakens under President Trump.
00:51:48.000What he means is that if you increase taxes, for example, that might increase pricing temporarily, but then demand goes down and then the pricing goes back down.
00:51:55.000So you can do things that temporarily increase prices, like, for example, tariffs.
00:51:59.000But what happens is that as the prices go up, then demand goes down and the prices come down.
00:52:05.000That is a normal working of the economy.
00:52:07.000Bad policy can kill demand because it's basically an interference in the economy, but it's not going to lead to long-lasting inflation.
00:52:15.000Well, at least a long-lasting inflation is what Joe Biden did, which is just hose money, fire hose money all over the American public.
00:52:20.000If you do that, if you treat it as though it's a game show and everybody's stuck inside the phone booth and we're just going to drop money on them, then the prices go up because you just have a higher supply of money and a higher supply of money with the same amount of goods means higher prices for everybody.
00:52:33.000So that is why Donald Trump is calling for Jerome Powell to lower those interest rates.
00:52:37.000But lowering the interest rates isn't going to solve the problem of what actually pushes an economy forward.
00:52:42.000What pushes an economy forward is not continued consumption.
00:52:45.000What pushes an economy forward is, in fact, innovation, investment, smart investment.
00:52:52.000And what you're seeing right now is that the economy is, in fact, slowing in certain ways.
00:52:56.000So we talked about that GDP report that came out yesterday.
00:52:59.000That GDP report that came out was a 3% GDP growth.
00:53:04.000But a large chunk of that GDP growth was in exports over imports.
00:53:08.000So exports minus imports is one way of measuring your gross domestic product, the stuff you produce inside the United States.
00:53:14.000So if you just cut off the imports and you leave the exports the same, you're going to get GDP growth.
00:53:19.000That's just a weird thing about the stats.
00:53:21.000It's something pointed out by the Wall Street Journal yesterday.
00:53:23.000Well, if you start to kill demand, if you start to create bumps in the economy, what you're going to get is lower investment and lower job growth.
00:53:32.000And you're starting to see that materialize.
00:53:34.000According to the U.S. Labor Department, the U.S. added just 73,000 jobs in July.
00:53:41.000Not only that, there was also a major downward revision in May and June.
00:53:46.000So there were some reports that came out in May and June that suggested that there was fairly substantial job growth.
00:53:50.000Apparently, employers added 258,000 fewer jobs in those months than previously estimated, which is not exactly great.
00:53:59.000Again, one of the things that's happening here is that the fundamentals of the economy could be fine if you just remove the shackles.
00:54:04.000And in some areas, Trump is removing the shackles, deregulation, particularly with energy.
00:54:09.000We talked about that just earlier this week with the Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright.
00:54:13.000In other areas, he is revising the rules of the road to make it easier to invest.
00:54:17.000He just did this with the Genius Act with regard to stablecoin, for example.
00:54:20.000AI companies are booming under President Trump.
00:54:23.000The problem is that, on the other hand, you have things like, for example, a gigantic tariff war with the rest of the world, which is in fact going to limit supply coming into the country, sending prices up temporarily.
00:54:35.000Demand will go down and then the prices will come down.
00:54:38.000And you can say, okay, well, we'll artificially stimulate demand by essentially firehosing money into the economy.
00:54:45.000But that leads again to more of an inflationary bubble.
00:54:48.000That is the game that's being played right now.
00:54:50.000It is why I'm not a big fan of artificially induced bumps and hiccups in the economy.
00:54:56.000Now, as I've said before, President Trump does stick and move with the economic news.
00:55:01.000So yesterday, for example, President Trump on Truth Social announced that he had extended his deadline for Mexico and the United States to reach some sort of trade deal for 90 days.
00:55:11.000And he's doing that because he understands that if there were to be a radical increase in the tariff on Mexico, that would, in fact, have a negative downward impact on demand in the United States.
00:55:19.000It could create economic stagnation or the conditions therefore.
00:55:22.000Again, one of the things that's happening here, globally speaking, is that America still remains the best bet on the block, but you don't want people to invest in America just because it's better than the other countries.
00:55:31.000You want them to invest in America because it's actually an amazing place to invest.
00:55:35.000Because if they're just doing it because right now we're the best, some other country could come in and drink our milkshake.
00:55:41.000President Trump put out a statement: quote, I've just concluded a telephone conversation with the president of Mexico, Claudia Scheinbaum, which was very successful in that more and more we are getting to know and understand each other.
00:55:52.000The complexities of a deal with Mexico are somewhat different than other nations because of both problems and assets of the border.
00:55:58.000We've agreed to extend for a 90-day period the exact same deal we had as for the last short period of time.
00:56:03.000Namely, Mexico will continue to pay a 25% fentanyl tariff, 25% tariff on cars, and 50% tariff on steel, aluminum, and copper.
00:56:10.000Additionally, Mexico has agreed to immediately terminate its non-tariff trade barriers, of which there were many.
00:56:15.000We'll be talking to Mexico over the next 90 days with the goal of signing a trade deal somewhere within the 90-day period of time or longer.
00:56:21.000Present at the meeting with Vice President J.D. Van, Secretary of Treasury Scott Besant, Rubio, Lutnick, the whole team.
00:56:27.000There will be continued cooperation on the border as it relates to all aspects of security, including drugs, drug distribution, and illegal immigration into the United States.
00:56:34.000Thank you for this attention to this matter.
00:56:36.000So, again, that is President Trump pushing the can down the road to try and reach an off-ramp with Mexico.
00:56:41.000However, to pretend that there is going to be no economic impact by multiplying the tariffs that American citizens effectively have to pay for in temporarily increased pricing and domestic manufacture, to pretend that's going to have no impact if you quadruple or quintuple those things, it's going to have some impact, obviously.
00:57:00.000Now, I think that many of the economically sophisticated players are hoping that President Trump, again, finds more off-ramps, that as we move forward, as it becomes clear that the economy is stagnating more than it otherwise would, he's going to look for an off-ramp, presumably provided by the Treasury Secretary, Scott Besant.
00:57:15.000Jamie Dimon, who's recently in good standing with President Trump, he's been praising President Trump for the thoughtful tariff policy.
00:58:02.000And in fact, what it leads to is a crimp in the supply, which artificially ends up boosting the price.
00:58:08.000Again, the notion that the government can sort of willy-nilly interfere in free trade and private property and pricing, centralized government power here does not achieve its sought-after goal.
00:58:21.000And yet there is the White House trying to promote the notion that it could unilaterally lower prescription drug prices by diktot.
00:58:27.000There's Caroline Levitt at the White House saying so.
00:58:30.000The president is determined to solve this problem and took further action today.
00:58:35.000He has signed 17 letters to pharmaceutical companies' CEOs.
00:58:39.000And I would like to read you one of these letters to the CEO of Eli Lilly.
00:58:43.000On May 12th, 2025, I signed an executive order delivering most favored nation prescription drug pricing to American patients to stop global fleet freeloading and guarantee that Americans pay the same prices enjoyed by other developed nations.
00:58:58.000I'm calling on Eli Lilly and company and every manufacturer doing business in our great country to take the following actions within the next 60 days.
00:59:06.000Extend the most favored nation pricing to Medicaid, guarantee most favored nation pricing for newly launched drugs, return increased revenues abroad to American patients and taxpayers, provide for direct purchasing at most favored nation pricing.
00:59:21.000But if you refuse to step up, we will deploy every tool in our arsenal to protect American families from continued abusive drug pricing practices.
00:59:33.000Now, again, I wouldn't like this from Barack Obama or Joe Biden.
00:59:35.000I don't like it from the Trump administration.
00:59:36.000You cannot tell companies what they can price their product at because you do not have that information.
00:59:42.000Not only do you not have that information, if you try to dictate prices, what you end up doing is crimping RD.
00:59:47.000There's a reason the vast majority of pharmaceutical patents happen right here in the United States, and that is because the United States is absorbing the cost from all the other countries in terms of its pricing mechanism.
00:59:58.000The actual solution here would be for President Trump to make pharmaceutical pricing a piece of his tariff war.
01:00:03.000He should be using the tariff wars in order to force other countries to open their markets to American drugs at free market prices.
01:00:12.000It shouldn't be most favored nation status, meaning like Americans pay what Canadians pay.
01:00:16.000It should be Canadians pay what Americans pay.
01:00:19.000Because if you have a broader group of consumers who are now having to pay fair market prices, like free market prices, as opposed to using government cramdowns in these various countries and then essentially pushing all of the pricing into the American bubble, if you do that, you will get lower prices for Americans.
01:00:35.000The price distribution mechanism on drugs is totally unfair because other countries actually are screwing Americans.
01:00:41.000And this is where President Trump should actually be using tariff policy and trade policy to force other countries to pay their fair share when it comes to prescription drug pricing, for example.
01:00:50.000But just telling these companies they have to lower their prices arbitrarily, that is not going to work.
01:00:55.000Now, there are some things, again, there are many things that the Trump administration is doing well when it comes to the economy.
01:01:00.000One of those is something called the Trump accounts.
01:01:03.000This is the $1,000 accounts that have been created by the one big beautiful bill.
01:01:08.000Those accounts essentially are a basic form of a health savings account or a social security account, but tied to the market, which means people will actually be invested in the market.
01:01:18.000Now, you can make the case as on a very free market approach.
01:01:21.000It is a more free market approach than just giving people welfare.
01:01:24.000It is a way of getting people to understand that as the markets go, very often so goes their quality of life.
01:01:31.000So, Altimeter Capital CEO Brad Gerzner, who's been a big moving force behind the so-called Trump accounts, he explained on June 9th exactly what these are supposed to be.
01:01:42.000And the Trump accounts, right, that everybody in this room are here and we've been working so hard on, but would never come to fruition without your leadership.
01:01:54.000It makes America an ownership society again.
01:01:57.000You are giving the shot for every American to feel like they're in the game again.
01:02:02.000Part of America with that economic mobility, that dream that led Michael Dell to start Dell Computer in his dorm room, Dara to feel like he had a shot after coming here from Iran, and a couple poor kids from Missouri and Indiana to make it to where we are today.
01:02:20.000And again, this seems to me like a, if you're going to have the federal government involved in this sort of policy at all, it seems like a pretty salutary piece of policy.
01:02:27.000Scott Besson, the Treasury Secretary, got himself into a little bit of hot water the other day because he said this is basically almost like a replacement for Social Security, meaning you put money in right now, it garners a return on the SP 500.
01:02:38.000And then 50 years later, it's worth a lot more money than it originally was.
01:02:42.000He wasn't saying Social Security is going away.
01:02:44.000He's saying that if you were to have a privatized version of Social Security, it would outperform, which obviously is true.
01:02:52.000Also, at the end of the day, that I'm not sure when the distribution level date should be, whether should it be 30 and you can buy a house, should it be 60.
01:03:04.000But in a way, it is a back door for privatizing Social Security.
01:03:09.000Like Social Security is a defined benefit plan paid out that to the extent that if all of a sudden these accounts grow and you have in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for your retirement, then that's a game changer, too.
01:03:28.000He got all sorts of flack for this comment.
01:04:37.000If people would actually talk about that, that would be a much better solution to our systemic debt problems than what we are currently talking about.
01:04:45.000And again, the third rail of American politics remains extremely electrified.
01:04:49.000But also at some point, Americans are going to have to grab that third rail because otherwise you're going to hit by the train.
01:04:54.000That really is, those are the only two choices.
01:04:56.000Well, meanwhile, it is a Friday, and that means it's time to do a little bit of lighter cultural news.
01:05:00.000Joining us on the line to discuss is Emily Austin.
01:05:02.000She's a journalist, TV host, and political commentator who, of course, began her career in sports media, hosting for MTV, Sports Illustrated, DAZN.
01:05:09.000She's contributed to Newsweek and all the rest.
01:05:11.000Well, she's here to inform me what is going on in the world of culture, because as you know, I tend to cover the serious news.
01:05:17.000So, Emily, thanks for taking the time.
01:05:44.000So, rest assured, they have serious jealousy problems.
01:05:46.000On a serious note, though, I think not to make everything political, but they are.
01:05:51.000Look, Sidney Sweeney being hot is now Nazism.
01:05:53.000Everything under Biden's administration rewarded victimhood, rewarded being always a minority, always, you know, if you're trans, you're better than straight people.
01:06:02.000And if you're a minority, feel bad for yourself instead of promoting winning and being successful and getting out of that, you know, woes-me mentality.
01:06:10.000So, with that, people really have to make everything about themselves.
01:06:14.000It's like they look at they looked at Sydney's picture, they squinted a little bit too hard and they said, How do I make this about me?
01:06:20.000Well, I'm a person of color and she's white, so that's racist now.
01:06:24.000And it really comes from a point of narcissism.
01:06:27.000How do you make everything about putting yourself in the victim seat?
01:06:50.000So, this victimhood mentality is starting to evolve into a winning mentality.
01:06:56.000By the way, it is kind of fascinating because American Eagle, like virtually all of the clothing manufacturers, is going to have to deal with higher tariffs.
01:07:37.000Because we've seen a lot of these sorts of cases.
01:07:40.000Obviously, there was a very controversial video of Shannon Sharp where he was on his phone went live while he was engaged in some untoward activity at one point, I believe.
01:07:48.000But what is the actual story surrounding Shannon Sharp here?
01:07:51.000So, Shannon was with a much younger woman who, you know, towards the end or after the relationship decided to come out with a sexual allegation charge against him.
01:08:05.000She retired from her very prestigious OnlyFans career and is carrying on with her now wealthy life from squeezing the money out of this man.
01:08:15.000Now, I won't comment on whether or not the man's innocent.
01:08:18.000I don't care about him enough to try to speculate, but I just find it ironic that after Shannon Sharp was with the woke mob, the mob that was quick to cancel people, now he's on the other side of it.
01:08:30.000And it just shows you that no matter how much you preach social justice and, like I said, go into that victim mentality and paint the I'm a black man picture, you are still not safe from that woke mob of cancellation.
01:08:43.000And what's the reality is that this is a hit for ESPN.
01:08:46.000You love the guy, you hate the guy, you believe it, you don't.
01:09:43.000When it comes to a lot of these cases, if you're a very rich and famous person, you will settle these things out of court without an admission of guilt, specifically in order so that you can move on with your life.
01:09:53.000And so if the new system is basically that an allegation and settlement is tantamount to guilt, such the network is going to fire you, a lot of people are going to get fired over to ESPN in the future.
01:10:05.000I think it sets a really bad precedent.
01:10:07.000And what likely will happen is Shannon's going to go and start his own show that might get more viewers than it did on ESPN because anyway, traditional television is starting to die down and digital media is picking up.
01:10:18.000So if he wants to get his dream revenge plan, he should definitely go start a podcast.
01:10:23.000Like Stephen A. Smith has a podcast and he's an on-air personality, but Shannon would crush it because again, personal business aside, when I'm watching TV, I really do very little care about what that person does at home, what he does with women, if he's gay, if he's straight.