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00:02:45.000A development in the saga of Merrick Garland.
00:02:51.000Now, we have been covering this story more extensively and more thoroughly than I believe than almost any other show of what was on the National School Board Association of America's letter to the White House that was actually concocted in collusion with the Biden White House that was then used as a basis for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice to launch a task force against moms and dads that show up at school boards across the country.
00:03:18.000Now, you might remember a couple weeks ago, Merrick Garland testified in front of Congress, and Merrick Garland downplayed the entire situation.
00:03:28.000When pressed, Merrick Garland said he could not imagine any circumstance that parents complaining about their school boards would be labeled as domestic terrorism.
00:03:36.000You see, Merrick Garland has the Bob Mueller thing going.
00:03:39.000Merrick Garland either doesn't know or is lying under oath to Congress willingly to cover up for a craven, radical, insidious, malevolent, and dangerous domestic agenda.
00:03:55.000Now now that the war in Afghanistan is over, it is becoming more and more clear that the new war that the regime wants to conduct, the war that they want to wage, is a war on you.
00:04:08.000The National School Board Association letter, otherwise known as the letter that broke the entire educational world, led to the memo, the memo from Merrick Garland that inexplicably called for the defense apparatus to use potentially the Patriot Act and Department of Homeland Security to go after moms and dads.
00:04:32.000This is a legitimate scandal that is heating up, which we will now call MemoGate.
00:04:39.000Cut 58, Merrick Garland in front of Congress said that he could not imagine any circumstance that parents complaining about their school boards would be labeled as domestic terrorism.
00:04:51.000Like you, I can't imagine any circumstance in which the Patriot Act would be used in the circumstances of parents complaining about their children, nor can I imagine a circumstance where they would be labeled as domestic terrorism.
00:05:06.000New whistleblower last night shows that Merrick Garland lied under oath in front of Congress, as all of these deep state unelected operatives do.
00:05:17.000Merrick Garland is an unelected Plato guardian type that wants to usher in a globalist, internationalist, borderless society while he does not actually have to live under those same rules and measures.
00:05:33.000The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, created a threat tag to track allegedly menacing statements against school boards and their members after Attorney General Merrick Garland directed the Bureau to take the lead on hyper-local disputes.
00:05:51.000The email dated October 20th, about a month ago, released Tuesday by House Judiciary Republicans, who said this was proof that the federal counterterrorism was being deployed against parents at school board meetings.
00:06:07.000I want you to soak in what I just told you.
00:06:10.000We now have definitive proof that the federal Bureau of Investigation has a task force and is domestically spying and surveilling on moms and dads that show up and complain about what's happening in their local school district.
00:06:29.000The email, which House Republicans said come from a whistleblower, shows the creation of the tag, EDU officials, to track related threats.
00:06:39.000The counterterrorism division says, quote, we ask that your offices apply the threat tag to investigations and assessments of threats specifically directed against school board administrators, board members, teachers, and staff.
00:06:51.000The Criminal Investigative and Counterterrorism Division says.
00:06:54.000The purpose of the threat tag is to help scope this threat on a national level and provide an opportunity for comprehensive analysis of this threat picture, for an effective engagement with law enforcement partners at all levels.
00:07:06.000This was a message sent by the deputy assistant director of the FBI Criminal Investigative Division.
00:07:13.000So if you're a mom or dad listening to this, and maybe you showed up at the Scottsdale Unified School District recently, maybe you showed up at the Loudoun County School District recently, maybe you showed up San Bernardino, maybe District 214 or District 211 for all my friends listening on AM560, the answer.
00:07:27.000We now have proof, according to a whistleblower, you're likely in a database from the FBI.
00:07:33.000This database is supposed to be used against people like al-Qaeda members or ISIS that try to bring dirty bombs into downtown Houston.
00:07:41.000Not moms and dads that show up to meetings and say, I don't like what you're teaching my kid.
00:07:48.000On October 4th, this all comes back to the October 4th memo from Merrick Garland, who outlawed the federal law enforcement taking the lead about a disturbing spike in harassment.
00:07:57.000And Merrick Garland lied in front of Congress.
00:08:03.000These are the things that we used to do against people that we wanted to put in Gitmo.
00:08:07.000PlayCut 59, Fox reports on how an FBI whistleblower warned Congress that the Bureau is indeed tracking parents who protest their school boards.
00:08:17.000Breaking tonight, we're getting new information about federal authorities tracking parents upset over their children's education.
00:08:24.000Information from a whistleblower that GOP lawmakers say seems to directly contradict what the Attorney General told them.
00:08:31.000The top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, Jim Jordan of Ohio, wrote to Garland about the whistleblower.
00:08:37.000He says that the email provides evidence that the feds again used counterterrorism tools against parents.
00:08:45.000Now, what about the cartel that is trafficking children across the southern border, bringing guns into the inner city of our country?
00:08:52.000What about the violence in Chicago that the FBI is seemingly okay with?
00:08:58.000So far in Chicago, 718 people have been shot and killed, 3,375 people shot and wounded, 4,093 people total shot for 763 total homicides so far this week in, not this week, this year in Chicago.
00:09:14.000No, but the enemy according to the Biden regime and Merrick Garland is you.
00:09:22.000And what's so amazing is this email dated October 20th is this is after the cross-examination on Capitol Hill occurred, where Merrick Garland was asked to explain himself.
00:09:35.000Why is it that you are using the Patriot Act that's supposed to be used against people that are trying to blow up buildings against moms that are concerned about their children?
00:09:50.000The real threat to society is the police state that is now being headed by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
00:09:56.000Everyone that is listening to my voice right now, you have never lived through something like this.
00:10:01.000I do not want, I hear this sometimes from people.
00:10:45.000They were too busy applauding Joe Biden's infrastructure package the other day at the White House.
00:10:51.000Will Merrick Garland be arrested for lying to Congress like Steve Bannon?
00:10:55.000And by the way, Bannon didn't even lie to Congress.
00:10:57.000He just was under contempt of Congress, which was such a preemptive indictment.
00:11:02.000Well, probably not, because Merrick Garland would have to indict himself and sign his own arrest warrant.
00:11:06.000We need a special counsel, a Ken Star, Robert Mueller, immediately to investigate Merrick Garland and the Attorney General's office using the FBI to go after parents.
00:11:22.000Did you know that if you shop at Nike, they turn around and give your hard-earned dollars to pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood and the Population Council?
00:11:29.000Did you know that Airbnb gave $500,000 to the Marxist Black Lives Matter organization?
00:11:35.000Your first vote is at the ballot box, but that isn't enough to defend our traditional Judeo-Christian values.
00:11:41.000Left-wing corporations are subverting our democracy by taking money from conservative customers and giving it to radical organizations that support abortion, gun control, and critical race theory.
00:11:52.000You have another vote, a second vote at the checkout line.
00:11:55.000And that is where massively important organizations called Second Vote come in.
00:12:00.000The courageous people at Second Vote are exposing corporations for how they spend your money.
00:13:46.000So hesitant to want to get involved that you just allow the regime to do whatever they want.
00:13:54.000According to a whistleblower from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI is now compiling information under the tag EDU officials to track parents that communicate complaints to school boards, administrators, teachers, and staff.
00:14:19.000Directly at odds to Merrick Garland's testimony, sworn testimony under oath to lawmakers.
00:14:25.000Now, Senate Republicans, instead of actually doing their job, they're too busy passing $1.2 trillion infrastructure packages.
00:14:33.000$2.5 billion, by the way, of the infrastructure package put money towards tree equity.
00:14:47.000Because your Senate Republicans that voted for that infrastructure package, they've been too busy working the deal, doing the process, glad-handing fellow Democrat senators, while the FBI now has Patriot X-style tags on you.
00:15:08.000Why would you even negotiate with this regime?
00:15:10.000Why would you vote for any bill that they put up while this is even remotely happening and it is happening?
00:15:18.000FBI creates threat tag to track alleged harassment of educators.
00:15:23.000They're never going to stop doing this until they realize that there's a legitimate opposition party in this country.
00:15:31.000And as we've said before, the new war is not going to be won in Taiwan.
00:15:55.000Anyone who willfully and contrary to such oath, states, or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true is guilty of perjury and shall be fined or imprisoned up to five years or both.
00:16:06.000How is Merrick Garland not guilty of lying under Congress?
00:16:10.000The same way Loretta Lynch was and Eric Holder was and Clapper and Brennan and Comey.
00:16:17.000But oh, by the way, if Roger Stone lies in front of Congress, send him to jail.
00:16:24.000This pales in comparison, by the way, to Watergate, because millions of parents and their ability to raise their children are now under attack by their own government.
00:16:47.000This provides specific evidence that law enforcement operationalized counterterrorism tools at the behest of left-wing special interest groups against concerned parents.
00:16:58.000We've gone through this in great detail.
00:17:00.000In great detail, we've explained the difference between leftists and liberals.
00:17:10.000Liberals and I will disagree vehemently on social policy, obviously.
00:17:16.000But they would never put up with this.
00:17:17.000Our government has been taken over by collectivists and totalitarians.
00:17:24.000When you see a mom show up at a school board meeting, and if you have seen a mom show up at a school board meeting or if you've showed up at a school board meeting, your government now views you in the same vein as Osama bin Laden.
00:17:39.000Your government now views you in the same vein as a 9-11 hijacker.
00:17:43.000The Biden regime is treating moms and dads that show up and go into the conversation about textbooks as domestic violent extremists.
00:17:57.000In New America, 20 years after 9-11, the FBI is using the tools that we gave them, Republicans gave them, as a way to say, you know who the real hijackers are?
00:18:09.000It's that 37-year-old mom with three kids who shows up and complains.
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00:20:16.000That's something that Nicholas Sandman, who's become a very wealthy man, thanks to the media, has said he wrote, The media came for me like they came for Rittenhouse, but should he sue?
00:20:26.000And he says, The corrupt liberal media came for me just like they came for Kyle Rittenhouse.
00:20:30.000And if he decides to sue, I say go for it and hold the media accountable.
00:20:36.000I want to close out with kind of reiterating this story from Merrick Garland.
00:20:41.000We need a special prosecutor to look into MemoGate immediately.
00:20:44.000But remember, it goes deeper than this.
00:20:46.000Merrick Garland is financially incentivized to crush political dissent against critical race theory.
00:20:53.000His son-in-law is a co-owner of the company that has been implementing diversity, equity, inclusion, and CRT all throughout the curriculum, all throughout schools, I should say, across the country.
00:21:05.000As we went through earlier this hour, the FBI has created a threat tag.
00:21:11.000They have created a special coding system to profile parents that might become too disagreeable or that might speak out against the regime.
00:21:23.000Garland testified and he said that this would never happen.
00:21:28.000He could not imagine any circumstance that parents would be spied on upon this.
00:21:32.000So either Merrick Garland is not running the Department of Justice or he lied under oath.
00:21:36.000Either way, Merrick Garland must resign.
00:21:39.000Garland came under fire last month during congressional testimony where he denied weaponizing the FBI against parents opposed to critical race theory and vaccine-related mandates.
00:21:49.000The controversy began on October 4th when he announced a concentrated effort.
00:22:16.000Instead, Merrick Garland from the Department of Justice announces a priority that the biggest concern, the biggest thing that he wants to focus on that his regime needs to curtail is parents.
00:22:35.000And remember, his son-in-law, Zan Terror, is married to Rebecca Garland and is the co-founder of the controversial education service, Panorama Education, which is a social learning resource material provided to school districts that teach teachers how to teach critical race theory.
00:23:00.000So you have the Attorney General of the United States who uses police power that politically intervenes to try and push back against parents so his family can continue to become rich.
00:23:30.000And by the way, Democrats should be concerned about this as well.
00:23:35.000Democrats should be concerned that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is now being used to go after political opponents that they deem to be a threat to their power.
00:23:52.000All scandals currently lead back to Attorney General Garland.
00:23:56.000Merrick Garland will go down as the most craven, corrupt, disingenuous, and dangerous Attorney General in American history.
00:24:05.000He makes Eric Colder look like child's play.
00:24:08.000Merrick Garland is a scorned man because he wanted to be on the Supreme Court.
00:24:13.000Signing arrest warrants to go after James O'Keefe, not arrest warrants, but search warrants to go after James O'Keefe in the Southern District of New York and just confiscating his devices and putting him in handcuffs.
00:24:25.000Signing arrest warrants going after Steve Bannon.
00:24:27.000And now the FBI, the FBI is really worried, everybody.
00:24:33.000No, they're not worried about the fact that the cartels are bringing in children against their will, that women are being raped in record numbers across the southern border.
00:24:41.000The FBI couldn't care less that violent crime is up.
00:24:44.000The FBI couldn't care less that we are experiencing jury intimidation in Wisconsin.
00:24:50.000No, The FBI, their priority is parents, shutting them up and treating them like ISIS.
00:25:03.000Look, everybody, the country's falling apart.
00:27:32.000Opioids continue to be the driving cause of drug overdose deaths.
00:27:36.000Maybe the FBI should be worried about the flow of drugs in our country and where opioids are going, not moms and dads showing up at school board meetings as exhibited in MemoGate with Merrick Garland.
00:27:46.000Synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl, cause nearly two-thirds, 64% of all drug overdose deaths in a 12-month period ending in April of 2021, up 49% the year before.
00:28:01.000And yet we have this endless conversation about systemic racism and about things that are really difficult to pinpoint or explain, but something that's super simple to explain, such as, I don't know, 100,000 of our fellow citizens are overdosing on drugs.
00:28:23.000The person who's in charge of public health, Anthony Fauci, he doesn't even talk about drug overdoses.
00:28:30.000He's too worried about vaccinating your children, despite the fact that 100,000 people are dying every single year of drug overdose deaths.
00:29:04.000I'm still surprised that some people were surprised when I pointed to the fact that if a highway was built for the purpose of dividing a white and a black neighborhood, or if an underpass was constructed such that a bus carrying mostly black and Puerto Rican kids to a beach, or that would have been, in New York, was designed too low for it to pass by.
00:29:26.000But that obviously reflects racism that went into those design choices.
00:29:35.000Meanwhile, drug overdoses are one of the leading causes of death.
00:29:42.000We are on pace to have more people die of drug overdoses than Alzheimer's.
00:29:49.000According to the data, it says that COVID-19 killed 509,000 people in that same timeframe between May 2020, April 2021.
00:29:58.000And some of those are still being adjusted, by the way, some of those death tallies, because dying from COVID or with COVID.
00:30:05.000But because of the lockdowns and because of the self-inflicted trying to kill a mouse with a Tomahawk missile, the lockdowns then increase the rice and the use of fentanyl and being key contributors in the rising overall death toll, overdose death toll.
00:30:20.000Synthetic opioids account for 64% of all drug overdoses.
00:30:24.000I know just in my own personal circle, I know a couple of people that have overdosed from drugs, not people I know personally, but friends of friends and people that went to high school with whatever.
00:30:34.000The regime couldn't care less about this.
00:30:36.000They do some sort of task force and all this.
00:30:40.000This is happening because we decided to send all of our manufacturing over to mainland China.
00:30:45.000So the inland of our country, Appalachia, West Virginia, Ohio, they no longer have muscular work or purposeful work.
00:30:53.000We have our borders wide open so fentanyl and opioids can fly into our country.
00:30:57.000And we have an overly motivated professional medical class of doctors that prescribe painkillers via opioids when other natural supplements very well could have done.
00:31:09.000I had a phenomenal dentist when I got my wisdom teeth removed.
00:31:13.000And I talked to her and she says, look, I don't like prescribing opioids.
00:31:40.000Not to say that you're necessarily going to be addicted, but a large percentage of people that end up getting addicted to opioids is because of an injury, work-related or otherwise, they get prescribed opioids.
00:31:51.000And the Sackler family, who was behind all of this, they just got exonerated in court, basically, and they say you don't have to pay the fine anymore.
00:32:01.000Wouldn't this be something that we should have our leaders focus on that is just minorly more important than the current chattering class that we see?
00:32:10.000I wonder where all those drugs are coming from, by the way.
00:32:14.000And what the pandemic has also done is that it's exposed the utter corruption in the pharmaceutical and medical industry.
00:32:25.000Surge in fentanyl seizures show cartels taking advantage of lax border policies.
00:32:30.000Department of Homeland Security shows.
00:32:33.000The Customs and Border Patrols fentanyl seizures skyrocketed by over 40% in the month of October as drug traffickers and cartels take advantage of the border crisis.
00:32:43.000Officials within Border Patrol and DHS disputed the characterization at the White House, saying that we really, there's not much we can do.
00:32:54.000Fentanyl is flying into our country at a record level.
00:32:58.000The lockdowns and the lowering of expectations, the damaging of America has turned into this.
00:33:36.000I would like to see our leaders actually take that seriously.
00:33:39.000And also to the drug dealers themselves.
00:33:42.000No, no, no, we're too busy trying to lock up 17-year-olds in Kenosha, Wisconsin, who defend themselves against child rapists that try to kill them.
00:33:54.000We're going to look back at the lockdowns.
00:33:56.000We tried to warn people, but of course, we don't have the platform, the influence that we hope one day to have, that the lockdowns will go down as one of the worst mistakes in American history.
00:34:04.000No epidemiological advantage, a structural disadvantage for drug addiction, alcohol addiction, depression, suicide.
00:34:12.000You have a generation, the most miserable generation brought to you by the lockdowns, the tech companies, pharmaceutical companies.
00:34:19.000But don't, no, no, don't worry, buddy.
00:34:21.000We're addressing racist roads and bridges.
00:34:23.000Yesterday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mayorkis was grilled in front of the Senate.
00:36:30.000Senator, I believe in the policies that we are putting forward, and I condemn a number of the policies that were promulgated in the prior administration.
00:36:37.000So you think we have more control over the border now than we did under Trump?
00:36:41.000Senator, we're very focused on the national.
00:38:22.000My question is, are you conducting the standard security procedure is the standard screening procedure for refugees is they are conducted, they are given an in-person interview to find out, for example, if they're a terrorist.
00:38:36.000So you said 100% of these evacuees are screened.
00:38:40.000Have they all been given in-person interviews per the normal process?