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00:01:25.000It is amazing the contrast between what we are seeing right now from the Biden regime and very well what could have been a much more, let's just say, if those four years would have been allowed to play out, another four years just would have been so different.
00:01:47.000And it's interesting, you know, I wrote the book, The MAGA Doctrine, The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future, and went through in great detail the foreign policy perspective of President Trump, which was more than just peace through strength.
00:02:02.000It was peace through prudence and also was a willingness and a, let's say, capacity to hold our adversaries accountable and also to be in great alliance with the true partners that we have.
00:02:19.000It's a great honor to have with us right now the 45th president of the United States.
00:02:23.000And boy, do we miss him seeing what's happening in our country and across the world, President Donald Trump?
00:02:29.000Mr. President, welcome back to the program.
00:03:11.000And he wouldn't be making the profits on it, which is, you know, which is really funding his war machine.
00:03:16.000We would have been making the profits on a mistake that he would have made.
00:03:21.000I don't think, number one, it wouldn't have happened, but number two, we would have been, we were energy independent, as you know very well, and we would have been even beyond that.
00:03:30.000We would have been, this would have been one of the great things ever, ever devised.
00:03:35.000And now I watch these people, these green energy people, and I'm all for the environment.
00:04:45.000There's never been anything like that because if countries go to war, they kill a lot of people and they also lose a lot of money and a real bad thing, real bad combination.
00:04:55.000But here's a case where the worse the world becomes because they're such a big supplier and they become much bigger because of the United States not being essentially active in the business anymore, you know, relatively speaking.
00:08:22.000It was supposed to be painted, and it would have been, we would have had it finished in three to four weeks, completed, then gets painted, and it's rusting.
00:10:23.000You rarely see this kind of focus and commitment.
00:10:25.000They recently shared with me that they are doubling down and want to literally double their total number of happy customers in the next year.
00:10:33.000If you're struggling with back pain, neck pain, shoulder, hip, or knee pain, even general muscle aches and pain, then I'm suggesting you order their three-week quick start, still discounted, only $19.95.
00:11:34.000Now, cut two, it's not coming in the news cycle every single day, or it's not being shown on the news cycle every single day.
00:11:39.000There's a trucker convoy heading across America, and President Trump has now signaled total and complete endorsement and support of the American truckers.
00:11:50.000If he continues on this message of standing against medical fascism and medical totalitarianism, he's going to be very tough to beat in a general election.
00:12:01.000I think this is a bridge and unifying issue.
00:12:26.000I called President Trump the bodyguard of Western civilization back in my RNC speech that kicked off the Republican National Convention in the summer of 2024.
00:12:36.000The media collectively lost their mind, obviously.
00:12:42.000You can't defend Western civilization if you'd not be able to defend your own civilization.
00:12:47.000And that means we need borders that work, elections that are fair and free, and not rigged, and must be immediately stopped in our cities.
00:12:55.000So there are three ways the world can go.
00:12:58.000We can go the way of Russian Chinese authoritarianism.
00:13:02.000We can go the way of World Economic Forum woke unlimited genders, men can become pregnant, borderless, and American dollar currency collapse.
00:13:38.000You can't defend Western civilization if you would not be able to defend your own civilization.
00:13:46.000And that means we need borders that work, elections that are fair and free and not rigged, and crime that must be immediately stopped in our cities.
00:13:56.000The crime issue is an issue that we don't spend enough time on, to be perfectly honest.
00:14:00.000But the rise in crime rates, the deterioration of the American cities, the collapse of law and order.
00:14:08.000And just here in Arizona, I mean, I'm hearing stories of people getting mugged and cars being broken into.
00:14:13.000I don't know if crime is up or down in Arizona, but I do know anecdotally, it certainly there's more conversation and more chatter around crime than I've seen in any other time before.
00:14:24.000So Joe Biden is giving his State of the Union address tomorrow, and he's nowhere to be found, nowhere to be seen.
00:14:32.000Instead of trying to manage and broker peace in Europe, he's at his home in Delaware doing what I don't know.
00:16:24.000In the New York Times, they have this condescending article about why Vladimir Putin is awful because he has political prisoners like Aleski Navalani.
00:16:33.000I agree, political prisoners are awful.
00:16:35.000To put people in solitary confinement or kill people because they have differences of opinion is evil.
00:16:41.000But what if I told you our own government is doing that?
00:16:46.000While the entire world and nation is focused on a border dispute 5,000 miles away, Putin's war, which should not happen, and he should be held accountable for that, why aren't we concerned about the political prisoners in our prisons that are also taking their own lives?
00:17:01.000Julie Kelly is the author of a phenomenal book called January 6th: How the Democrats Use the Capitol Protest to Launch a War on Terror Against the Political Right.
00:17:14.000Hey, Charlie, thank you so much for having me.
00:17:16.000So, Julie, is it fair to say that these are political prisoners that are being held without bail?
00:17:25.000And just walk us through the update of that and then kind of give us the breaking news that happened the last 24 hours, one of the defendants committing suicide.
00:17:34.000So, Charlie, the Biden Justice Department has sought what's called pretrial detention for at least 100 people charged for any involvement in what happened on January 6th.
00:17:46.000What pretrial detention means is that they ask a judge to deny bail, to consider this suspect or this defendant so dangerous to the community or flight risk, they have to stay behind bars awaiting trial.
00:17:59.000So, in over 100 cases, they've sought this pretrial detention and they have gotten it for federal judges, all the way from Trump judges down to Reagan judges, if you can believe they're still on the bench.
00:18:10.000So, these people are being held simply because they protested Joe Biden's election.
00:18:15.000Some of them are charged with assaulting police officers, damaging property, but there are several who committed no violent crime.
00:18:22.000So, this is really unprecedented, Charlie.
00:18:25.000Furthermore, they've set aside a certain section of the DC jail system only to house January 6th defendants.
00:19:54.000He assaulted no one, vandalized no property.
00:19:56.000From that point on, his life turned into a living hell by this FBI, Justice Department, the national and local news media, and his own community all turned on him.
00:20:08.000Because as you know, Charlie, you have everyone from Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Chris Reag, FBI director, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and every mainstream journalist referring to these people as domestic terrorists, white supremacists, seditionists, insurrectionists, you name it.
00:20:28.000He was charged with one felony obstruction charge, a joke charge, and then three minor misdemeanors.
00:20:34.000This justice department tormented him.
00:20:38.000He finally pleaded guilty in December trying to just get this over with.
00:20:42.000He thought that he would be serving about six months to a year in prison.
00:20:46.000But Joe Biden's justice department, Matthew Graves, who is the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia handling all these cases, said, wait, we want to delay the sentencing hearing.
00:20:55.000We want to make sure that all the January 6th defendants are being charged equally, which means, Charlie, they were going to ask for a few years in prison for this man, Matthew Perna, who has no criminal record, never even a parking ticket, his family told me on the phone yesterday, committed no crime on January 6th, but nonetheless, this Justice Department wanted to throw him in jail for at least a few years just to prove a point and to criminalize political dissent in this country.
00:21:23.000So he unfortunately had had enough, and he hung himself tragically Friday night in the garage of his home.
00:21:34.000And we're going to see more stories like that, I'm afraid, if this continues.
00:21:37.000So how many people are still in pretrial detention right now?
00:21:42.000So right now, Charlie, there's about 70 in pretrial detention.
00:21:45.000There's around 40 in the DC jail right now.
00:21:49.000And so, but look, this is the second suicide related to a January 6th defendant.
00:21:54.000Another man who was charged died suddenly in September.
00:21:58.000His attorney said he died a wrongfully convicted man, which he actually was.
00:22:04.000It is just shameful, Charlie, how this prosecution is being used to destroy the lives of thousands of Americans who did nothing wrong that day, simply show up because they objected to the unlawful election of Joe Biden and were supporters of Donald Trump.
00:22:21.000And so when I use the term political prisoners, it is accurate.
00:22:24.000And some of them are prisoners in their own homes.
00:22:27.000They can't even go out to the community because they are shunned.
00:23:34.000The man whose trial started today, Charlie, has been incarcerated almost 14 months.
00:23:39.000He was arrested shortly after January 6th.
00:23:42.000What happens is a combination of factors.
00:23:44.000They had bad attorneys at the beginning who did not make an argument for them to get out of jail.
00:23:49.000A lot of cases, they couldn't even find good criminal defense attorneys.
00:23:53.000So they had public defenders in D.C., which of course did not share their political views.
00:23:57.000But more egregiously, Charlie, you have federal judges in the D.C. District Court.
00:24:01.000As I said, Trump judges like Judge Trevor McFadden, Dami Friedrich, all the way through Obama judges, down to Reagan judges, Tom Hogan, and Royce Lambert, who have signed on to these pretrial detention orders, going along with the idea that these people are insurrectionists, that they're domestic terrorists, that they are not safe to go home and live in their own community.
00:24:24.000So it's the Justice Department's fault, but it also is the fault of these federal judges who are going along with whatever this DOJ wants and continuing to torment these people as they continue, as they delay trials at the same time.
00:24:45.000And now we have the second suicide of an innocent young man who did nothing wrong.
00:24:50.000And now his family, who I spoke with yesterday, just you cannot even imagine how broken and outraged they are at what happened to their son and their nephew.
00:25:01.000Well, these prosecutors are all trying to look for career advancement and they see a 9-11 style opportunity where they could be known as, yeah, I worked the January 6th case and they can get promoted to become some DA or they could become some U.S. attorney from this.
00:25:16.000So you have these hyper-aggressive prosecutors that are going above and beyond.
00:25:23.000Talk for a second about the equal protection implications here.
00:25:26.000Are BLM and Antifa being treated with this sort of scrutiny?
00:25:30.000Well, of course, we know the answer to that, which is no.
00:25:34.000This is the same DOJ that is actively dropping cases.
00:25:38.000Here's a shocking figure that was confirmed by the FBI, Charlie.
00:25:42.000Federal prosecutors have charged more than three times as many people for what happened for four hours on January 6th and face federal charges for what happened for months the summer of 2020.
00:25:55.000This includes people who attacked federal officers, who defiled federal property, destroyed federal property.
00:26:01.000I'm sure you recall how the rioters in Lafayette Square tried to overtake the fence at the White House, causing the White House to go into lockdown that first weekend of June.
00:26:13.000All of those charges basically have been dropped.
00:26:15.000The charges against the Portland rioters, most of those cases also are being dismissed with prejudice, so they can't come back and charge them again.
00:26:27.000They just charged a Louisville police officer for violating the civil rights of a BLM activist who was committing all sorts of crimes.
00:26:34.000This officer allegedly hit him in the back of the head with a riot stick.
00:26:38.000They wanted four years in prison for this Louisville police officer for allegedly violating this BLM activist civil rights as he was engaged in criminal activity, but at the same time, refusing to even consider charging Lieutenant Michael Byrd, who shot at near point-blank rage, almost in the face, Ashley Babbitt, an unarmed Trump supporter in the Capitol building that day.
00:27:00.000So these double standards are everywhere.
00:27:02.000And Charlie, this is what the American people see.
00:27:26.000So first, I would ask people to purchase my book, January 6th.
00:27:30.000It explained all the background of how Democrats are weaponizing that day.
00:27:35.000I also am contributing part of my proceeds to the Patriot Freedom Project, PatriotFreedomProject.com.
00:27:42.000They are the only real organization out there raising money for defense attorneys and helping alleviate the financial burden that so many of these families are facing of this unjust, abusive prosecution.
00:27:53.000Buy the book and help if you can, everybody.
00:27:56.000This political prisoners, it's a big deal.
00:28:01.000And we are now wagging our finger at Putin for having political prisoners, which is bad, while we have 37 of our own.
00:28:08.000And there's more than that, by the way.
00:28:09.000But as you count all the different categories, just from January 6th, there's 37 pretrial detention political prisoners that are going to go into a rigged, I don't want to say it sounds so cynical, but if you're going to be tried in a DC court, give me a break.
00:28:24.000I mean, you're not going to get treated well at all.
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00:29:40.000The story is almost hard to believe from the Daily Mail.
00:29:44.000More evidence shows that COVID was tinkered in a lab.
00:29:48.000Now scientists find virus contains tiny chunks of DNA that match a sequence patented by Moderna three years before pandemic began.
00:29:58.000Fresh suspicion that COVID may have been tinkered within a lab emerged today after scientists found genetic material owned by Moderna in the virus's spike protein.
00:30:08.000They identified a small snippet of code that is identical to the part of gene patented by the vaccine maker three years before the pandemic.
00:30:16.000It was discovered in SARS-CoV-2's unique furin cleavage site, the part that makes it so good in infecting people and separating it from other coronaviruses.
00:30:26.000But there's some debate about whether its match is as rare as the study claims, others describing it as quirky coincidence rather than a smoking gun.
00:30:35.000How many quirky coincidences have we had?
00:30:38.000So basically, it's a study published by Frontiers in Virology.
00:30:42.000Researchers compared COVID's makeup to the millions of sequent protein on an online database.
00:30:49.000The virus has been made up of 30,000 letters of genetic code that carries the information it needs to spread, known as nucleotides.
00:30:58.000It is the only coronavirus to carry 12 unique letters that allows its spike protein to be activated by a common enzyme called furin, allowing it to spread between human cells with ease.
00:31:11.000Ties kind of into this question of Bill Gates and is he behind it.
00:31:15.000And kind of on a lighter note, Joe Rogan went after Bill Gates in the last week.
00:31:24.000And it's one of the funniest segments that you guys can hear.
00:31:32.000He keeps saying that we've got to eat less meat and, you know, we've got to cut our consumption of meat out to be healthy and that we're going to get used to these meat alternatives.
00:31:42.000How are you giving any health advice when you look like that?
00:31:50.000But when you've got man boobs and a gut and you're walking around, you have these like toothpick arms.
00:31:55.000I'm like, hey, buddy, you're not healthy.
00:32:01.000He's the one telling everyone to go get vaccinated.
00:32:03.000And by the way, he's worth like $100 billion trying to tell me he couldn't get himself in shape.
00:32:07.000Now, Jeff Bezos, he's in fair enough shape.
00:32:10.000Joe Rogan has come under massive attack, as you well know, for kind of challenging the World Economic Forum and challenging the medical fascist consensus.
00:32:26.000Another story here I want to get to, and it's not going to get headline news, but it could tie in tomorrow.
00:32:32.000Hunter Biden's ex-business partner and best friend was just sentenced in New York District Court, Devin Archer.
00:32:39.000Devin Archer is Hunter Biden's ex-business partner, was just sentenced in New York District Court to one year, one day in jail, plus a one-year parole and a $15 million forfeiture of defrauding a Native American tribe.
00:32:50.000Only a presidential pardon will save him.