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00:02:33.000Then you look into the details of this indictment and I'll just be really honest Rahim, it doesn't make sense.
00:02:39.000So for our audience, lay out what they're alleging happened and the supposed influence that it had.
00:02:46.000Yeah, look, and if the Chinese take the microphone out again, you'll let me know.
00:02:49.000The crux of it is, and to pick up on something you just said, it does feel like 2016 all over again, in a lot of ways.
00:03:01.000And in one particular way, the Russia collusion, the Russian interference stuff, Has kind of loomed little in the background, but for those that don't know, those that don't work day-to-day in politics and the media, some of us have known for quite some time now that this has been on the agenda of the political establishment.
00:03:26.000I also see that there's some gremlins in the system regarding the camera here as well at the moment, so you just let me know if that all stays Stays level, Andrew.
00:03:39.000Look, the long and short of it is this.
00:03:43.000government at this point in time appears to be that some foreign nationals funneled money via a Canadian couple that then contracted with a number of external Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, a couple of others are named, or at least implied that they were part of some scheme.
00:04:09.000but what it actually says is that they were kind of unwitting, unwilling participants in said scheme,
00:04:15.000that this operation that they claim existed was not known to anybody,
00:04:21.000that actually ended up being either a target or a recipient of this influence operation,
00:04:27.000and that this Canadian couple were really the go-between for a lot of this stuff.
00:04:35.000Now, it's really interesting to me, having looked at this and having studied this,
00:04:38.000that this person that they have alleged is involved in this, Lauren Chen, who I personally don't know, and I'm not
00:04:47.000trying to malign anyone here, but that has been quite anti-Trump in her rhetoric over the
00:04:53.000last couple of months on social media.
00:04:56.000A lot of people have been pointing that out, yet that somehow this was a Pro-Trump, a pro-MAGA operation designed to peddle Russian favourable narratives, peddle Russian talking points, especially pertaining to the war in Ukraine and so on and so forth.
00:05:15.000But again, It smacks of 2016 because if you actually read through this thing, you go by line by line, the smoking gun doesn't appear to be anywhere near MAGA World.
00:05:26.000It doesn't appear to be anywhere near these conservative American influencers, reporters, YouTubers, whatever.
00:05:33.000It appears to be And I want to talk about this in a second.
00:05:37.000It appears to be this kind of orchestrated long-running conflation between people who take certain positions, for instance, on the war, that perhaps America shouldn't have an oversized role in that war.
00:05:52.000Perhaps Americans should be spending money in the United States trying to repair American cities, crazy as that may sound.
00:06:00.000And then, of course, you have this, you know, this grand backdrop to all of this, which is that, of course, so many people on the political left have been implicated in FARA, Foreign Agent Registration, violations.
00:06:16.000The Democrat senator from New Jersey, Bob Menendez, was recently convicted of taking money in gold bars from the Egyptian authorities.
00:06:26.000You've had Hunter Biden implicated in Ukraine, Burisma.
00:06:29.000You've had Joe Biden and his family implicated in China.
00:06:33.000And one of the things that really stood out to me about this story as it was released was,
00:06:40.000you know, we have banged on at the national polls for about four, four and a half years now
00:06:46.000media outlets, their journalists and their executives have often visited with the Chinese Communist Party, think tanks, organizations, pressure groups, not just in the United States, but actually in mainland China as well.
00:07:00.000So going so far as to participate in what they called Marxist journalist training schemes That actually what this feels like at this point is a long-confected narrative that is trying to undermine the fact that the left has been at this with China, with Ukraine, even with Russia and a lot of others for a long time, Andrew.
00:07:27.000Yeah, you know, this is, when I say it doesn't make any sense to me, is you essentially, you know, we know some of the players involved, Tim Poole, Dave Rubin, Benny Johnson, all friends of ours, all friends of the show, and they basically were getting paid to post content that they were already You know, posting.
00:08:15.000The most impressive aspect of the story is not that Russia attempted to influence an influence operation, but rather that the operation totally flopped.
00:08:25.000It doesn't seem like if they were trying to influence the American public that there was actually any influence really happening because it sort of existed in a vacuum of people that already sort of believed this way or thought this a certain way.
00:08:39.000If anything, it succeeded in essentially smearing conservatives and giving the left a talking point that says we're in cahoots with the Kremlin somehow.
00:08:52.000You made a brilliant point, Rahim, and I want to pick this up on the other side of the break.
00:08:56.000We totally ignore the vast sums of money that are filtering through Democrat politics.
00:09:03.000And by the way, there is foreign money flowing in right now and being concealed that is influencing... By the way, this is $10 million?
00:11:11.000So Rahim, you know, it strikes me as a bit of hypocrisy out of the DOJ, right?
00:11:18.000They make this big song and dance, Russian interference, 2016 again, conservatives are bad, Putin, Putin, Putin.
00:11:24.000Meanwhile, you've got the NFL playing a game in free speech-hating Brazil tonight, profiting off the back of a nation that is actively at war with free speech, arguably the most American of values.
00:11:37.000You've got the NBA that is actively getting influence by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:11:43.000Hollywood's been taken over in large part by the Chinese Communist Party.
00:11:47.000They change whole storylines to make the Chinese look like heroes in Hollywood, and yet we don't hear about Chinese influence.
00:11:54.000More, almost to the point, you have foreign money flowing in.
00:12:00.000In the open, for this election in November, tell us a little bit about how foreign influence actually does come in and affect our elections.
00:12:11.000Ways that we're not hearing about from the DOJ.
00:12:14.000Yeah, and look, as it pertains to media especially, it's a very, very murky area because so many of these companies, you think of the likes of News Corp, Fox, CNN, all of these, Bloomberg, all of these guys not only have vast, vast international operations, they also have vast, vast amounts A foreign cash sloshing around, foreign board members that sit at the tops of their companies that have an influence over what the news looks like and what you get to hear in your homes every single day.
00:12:49.000We're pleased to say, delighted, certainly against the backdrop of all of this, that the National Pulse is 100% member funded.
00:12:58.000I think it's $1.73 a week that it costs the ordinary American to join up to the national pulse and support Real News.
00:13:08.000We did that because once you start to fundraise as a media organization, suddenly all these interested foreign actors start coming out of the woodwork.
00:13:17.000And we just didn't want to have to deal with any of that.
00:13:18.000Frankly, I didn't really want to have to deal with any big money people in the U.S.
00:13:22.000to From the very top, right down to the kind of very, very basic reporting level, it's a massive pay-for-play scheme.
00:13:48.000It's a massive Ponzi scheme that you're seeing taking place.
00:13:51.000And what they're laundering is not just money into the American political and media processes, they're laundering information.
00:13:58.000They're laundering falsehoods a lot of the time.
00:14:42.000They peddle propaganda, they peddle falsehoods.
00:14:44.000And what comes in exchange for those things?
00:14:46.000Oh, that's right. It's cold, hard cash.
00:14:49.000And yet none of those people involved in those schemes are ever indicted.
00:14:52.000None of those people in those schemes, knowingly, by the way,
00:14:55.000knowingly involved in those schemes, are ever held to account.
00:14:58.000No, Rahim, this is why something just doesn't make sense.
00:15:01.000Something smells fishy to me about this.
00:15:04.000And I'm not, you know, yes, these allegations are against, you know,
00:15:09.000people that seemingly knew that money was coming from Russia.
00:15:12.000But here's the thing that doesn't make sense, is it didn't have much influence.
00:15:17.000I mean, just by way of contrast, this is just Charlie Kirk, our team here, within this office that I'm currently sitting, we almost did 200 million views on TikTok and YouTube in the last 60 days.
00:15:39.000But they're always obsessed, always, with Russia, Russia, Russia.
00:15:44.000And that should be a big red flag to everybody in the audience.
00:15:48.000Rahim, one more time, how do people follow you?
00:15:50.000How do they support what you're doing?
00:15:51.000The amazing work at the National Polls.
00:15:53.000Yeah, and look, I want to commend everybody to go and look at this video I did for PragerU a couple of years ago about Al Jazeera and the Qatari money influence that flows into the United States, too.
00:16:02.000And this is an organization, by the way, that is accredited to go in rapport in the White House, in Congress.
00:20:15.000Do we, we need you to nominate every assistant, A director in the agency, across the entire agency, needs to nominate someone for this conference that's going to be held at Disney World from October 3rd to October 7th.
00:20:32.000And just, I mean, I think that people at the rank and file are tired of the DEI policies that have not put them in good standing in terms of, you know, especially in the wake of the assassination attempt.
00:20:45.000And all of these shortages, they are working so hard, these agents, at the peak of the campaign season right now.
00:20:53.000I mean, they're stretched so thin that they're bringing in the military, yet we have enough manpower to go ahead and send people to Disneyland?
00:21:02.000So I really think that this just did not sit well with the people I was speaking to, people who have their overtime limits already.
00:21:11.000Yeah, and Susan, you know, this overlaps with some of the whistleblowers that have been speaking to Senator Hawley, who we had on the show earlier this week, saying that, you know, he's now uncovered that from these whistleblowers that there were DHS agents protecting President Trump in Pennsylvania.
00:21:32.000They weren't even Secret Service agents, and they had a two-hour, like, web seminar where the audio wasn't even working to train them to protect President Trump from a would-be assassin that unfortunately did end up happening that day.
00:21:45.000I don't understand who is overseeing this Office of Diversity, or it's actually, they changed the order, it's the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Office, EDI, and they say in this email they're responsible for implementing internal and external strategies to maximize the potential of a diverse workforce. To further our diversity initiatives, the Secret
00:22:07.000Service annually participates in various minority training conferences, which are sponsored
00:22:12.000by national organizations. How this furthers the core mission of the United States Secret
00:22:19.000Service is a complete mystery to me, but it's also, to your point, it makes a mockery of
00:22:24.000the very important work that these men and women are supposed to be doing day in and day
00:22:27.000out in the, as you mentioned, height of the election season.
00:22:30.000Tell our audience, what is this doing to morale?
00:22:34.000I mean, this is already an overworked agency.
00:23:21.000The incident was in April, where you had a Secret Service agent, a woman agent, have
00:23:26.000a complete mental breakdown at Joint Base Andrews.
00:23:30.000Come to find out, I did a little digging, and this woman, her name is Michelle Herzig, she was flagged by many people, many of her peers, as having mental problems during her training at the Rally Training Center.
00:23:55.000She was obviously the one that oversaw this whole, we're not going to beef up security for Donald Trump.
00:24:02.000We're going to deny, deny, and deny security requests for increased assets from his detail.
00:24:09.000The head of the Trump detail themselves were requesting this, not just the campaign.
00:24:15.000They were also requesting it for Mar-a-Lago, and I reported on Friday that there was a breach last year in December, and Mar-a-Lago, a juvenile, got in, did a cannonball, or jumped in the pool, and was there for about an hour.
00:24:30.000And the actual, the leaders of the Donald Trump detail had requested more security assets for Mar-a-Lago, and were denied.
00:24:39.000They finally got $4 million worth, but at that time only had a fraction of that implemented.
00:24:45.000The Secret Service has been raising cane about the need for greater protection.
00:24:50.000They've also told me, you know, Senator Hawley, as you mentioned, said that news to me, that what was news to me was the glitching on the webinar that they received.
00:24:59.000But yes, I had reported that a majority of the poststanders, they're called, the people that just do the basic role of Secret Service, stand there and watch for bad guys.
00:26:18.000But I mean, these guys are keeping up this ferocious pace.
00:26:22.000And people don't think about the Secret Service agents that have to keep up, do advance on that work.
00:26:27.000I mean, it is a tremendous job that requires a lot of manpower.
00:26:31.000And I think this is why your reporting is so important, Susan, is because you're getting at the point that Behind the scenes, there is this pernicious DEI initiative that does not further the goals or the main mission objective of the Secret Service, and it's been going on for some time.
00:26:49.000I think it's really telling, as you said, that this incident happened in April.
00:26:52.000This is before the July assassination attempt, and agents were already blowing the whistle on this.
00:26:59.000Your story was out in May that this has been going on behind the scenes and you have, I mean, I think there was the 30 by 2030 initiative, if I'm not mistaken, right?
00:27:08.000So it's basically 5% of applicants to the United States Secret Service are female.
00:27:13.000But under Cheadle's leadership, they were trying to increase the rank and file to 30% female by 2030.
00:27:20.000How does that make sense and how does that communicate to the rank-and-file that they have a serious job with a no-fail policy or we lose the potential leader of the free world, in this case Donald Trump, who is in many ways favored to win in November?
00:27:36.000I just think this whole thing stinks of institutional rot, and my heart goes out to the rank and file of the Secret Service, because I've seen them in person.
00:28:07.000That they wanted more emphasis on DEI and she was following through because she was handpicked by Jill Biden because she was close to them during the presidential detail when Biden was vice president.
00:28:18.000This is the problem at the Secret Service.
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00:31:22.000So, Steven Crowder came out with this this morning, and the subject, for those of you who don't know, when Project Veritas kind of went away, O'Keefe Media Group popped up, James is a good friend of the show, he's still doing amazing work, some of the other journalists went over to be with Steven Crowder.
00:31:43.000So, he's now doing hidden videos, these sort of, you know, clandestine reporting.
00:31:49.000And this time they targeted a guy named Nicholas Beaz.