What happened to the gold at Fort Knox? and what are we going to find? And what happens if we don't find it? We have Colin Plume, our gold expert, in to discuss that. And we bring in Jack Posobiec to discuss all the updates within the intel community.
00:00:06.000And what happens if we don't find the gold at Fort Knox?
00:00:09.000We have Colin Plume, our gold expert, in to discuss that.
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00:02:09.000We normally have you in studio when we do gold conversations or investment conversations or macroeconomic conversations, but we kind of had to rush this one because there's something else going on in the gold conversation that we just had to have you on and walk us through about this story.
00:03:48.000And I would say that is one of the greatest advantages that we've had since 1944 to be able to have this control over the world's currency and everyone's been using our currency.
00:04:03.000About 50% of our gold stored there, but they haven't done a full audit.
00:04:10.000The last they did a partial audit in 1974, they did about 5% audit.
00:04:14.000They've had people go in in the 80s, a few senators, and then in 2017, a few senators did a cursory look around, but they didn't do like a full audit.
00:04:23.000So this is really a sign that this administration believes in transparency, and also we want to know what we own.
00:04:31.000And so we're going to go in and do this audit, and we will see what we own there in the depository.
00:04:39.000But keep in mind, the gold that we own there is not what's typically traded today.
00:05:07.000So you're basically saying Fort Knox, you know, there's supposed to be 18,000 tons of gold during World War II. In 1971, it was down to 8,100 tons, and officially it's dropped to 4,583 tons.
00:05:41.000It would make more sense for them to revalue at $4,000 an ounce because if they do it at $4,000 and we have the actual goal that we say, that would be a trillion dollars.
00:05:50.000And so we would basically put a trillion dollars onto our balance sheet as opposed to what we have right now is it's valued at $11 billion.
00:06:08.000So let's go ahead and play cut 188. This was President Trump seated next to Emmanuel Macron from France, and he's just sort of speculating what we're going to find at Fort Knox, 188. We're actually going to Fort Knox to see if the gold is there, because maybe somebody stole the gold.
00:06:49.000Wouldn't that be terrible if we open up?
00:06:52.000He was about to say, wouldn't that be terrible if we open it up and it's all gone?
00:06:55.000So, I mean, you can see, even by the reaction of the crowd, Colin, this has captured the imagination of, you know, America, of the world, frankly.
00:07:05.000He's doing it right next to Emmanuel Macron.
00:07:07.000I want to, like, ask you a provocative question.
00:07:46.000It gives us a little bit more flexibility, and it sends a message to the world that we're strong.
00:07:50.000If we don't have it, then I think we'll see a precipitous drop in the US dollar.
00:07:57.000Even the idea of revaluing it from $11 billion to $750 billion, if history repeats itself and The times that we've done these audits, the dollar has lost significant value.
00:08:11.000And it goes back to what I've talked about a lot, is that owning assets right now in an inflationary environment is extremely important.
00:08:20.000And even though people say, well, gold's hit an all-time high, I don't know.
00:11:02.000It's a great time to get physical gold and silver.
00:11:05.000And so with everything happening in gold and all, you know, people have seen these stories where there's no gold in the exchange and they're trying to get their gold.
00:11:13.000You're going to get the real thing from us.
00:11:15.000You're not buying it on exchange, not an ETF. It's real gold and silver.
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00:13:10.000There's things we have going on right now.
00:13:12.000I know that Brooke Rollins addressed the media here earlier today about that, whether or not it's our military.
00:13:17.000And of course, Pete Heseth do an amazing job talking about going through and really looking at some of the failures of the withdrawal from Afghanistan and what we need to do with the people involved with that.
00:13:27.000And so across each department, you're just seeing accountability.
00:13:32.000You're seeing really, I would say, a certain of loyalty that they have to the president in terms of getting his agenda done and really what the American people want to do as well.
00:13:45.000So that was one of my biggest takeaways on that.
00:13:48.000And I love the fact that after it was over, President Trump, as he does, he takes power.
00:14:21.000And of course, Elon Musk, another big takeaway on that, looking very, very aware of the corruption and abuse of our government, the wasteful government that we have in each department.
00:14:33.000I think he's taking on a role, a certain role in that is important as well.
00:14:38.000Brian, when you see that great analysis, by the way, the leadership point is very well made.
00:14:45.000President Trump gives leadership, he gives coverage and cover to his cabinet secretaries.
00:14:52.000Haters in the media will be like, all they know how to do is kiss the shoes of the president and kiss the ring.
00:14:57.000No, it's like, listen, they want to follow this man.
00:15:02.000It would be dumb for them not to give a hat tip and say, listen, I'm here because the president told me to be here, and the American people vested, the vesting clause of the Constitution, their faith and trust in this man.
00:15:13.000So of course we're going to follow this man.
00:15:24.000But just talk to me, Brian, about this.
00:15:29.000This idea of this openness, this candor with the press, this graphic is already dated, but it was Joe Biden at this point in his presidency took 141 questions from the media and Trump was at 1009. That is now outdated.
00:16:06.000Doing far better than what anyone would expect for someone that young in that briefing room, such a very particular high-pressure briefing room.
00:16:15.000But the transparency for this president is incredible.
00:16:18.000The amount of questions he takes each and every time he steps in front of the microphone, he's open to do that, to criticism, and people that are simply, maybe people like me, that are bringing stuff to the news front that I know the other media outlets are not going to ask him about or even mention it.
00:16:36.000I think my job as a journalist is to let the American people know the good that's going on in this administration, not just focus on some of the things that they view as a failure, but the media is definitely...
00:16:52.000Quite a contrast difference than it was with Joe Biden, who basically didn't hold press conferences and certainly during the press briefings didn't really get a lot of information as well.
00:17:04.000And mind you, 2024 election, 85% of the coverage for President Trump was negative, but he won the People's Vote, won the Electoral College, and won big last election despite that.
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00:19:43.000It's 990 AM out there on the Salem Radio Network.
00:19:46.000And I just remember listening in the mornings and, you know, really credits listening to talk radio and then actually getting involved in talk radio myself as being one of the reasons that You know, I kind of turned out the way that I did.
00:20:02.000And I wouldn't say that I came to it when I was a kid.
00:20:41.000I mean, Tucker used to write in the magazine space a lot.
00:20:43.000I mean, the magazine space was huge, but talk radio made it accessible to millions of people.
00:20:47.000Rush Limbaugh, hat tip forever to the GOAT. And, you know, in Philadelphia, you've got Chris DeGall, who's now taking the national show with Salem in the mornings.
00:21:47.000I'm going to play cut 192. Got word of this Chris Rufo story about these NSA chats, and she's putting the kibosh to it right away, bringing accountability to the NSA and the Intel community.
00:22:00.000Cut 192. There are over 100 people from across the intelligence community that contributed to and participated in this, what is really just an egregious violation of trust.
00:22:12.000What to speak of, like, basic rules and standards around professionalism.
00:22:15.000I put out a directive today that they all will be terminated and their security clearances will be revoked.
00:22:25.000And Jack, she's got a whole, like, vision for accountability in the intel world.
00:22:30.000Cut 193. But the thing here, Jesse, is we've got to take a step back because this is just barely scratching the surface.
00:22:37.000When you see what these people were saying, and thanks to Chris Rufo for putting it all out online, they were brazen in using an NSA platform intended for professional use to conduct this kind of really, really horrific behavior.
00:22:54.000And they were brazen in doing this because when was the last time anyone was really held accountable?
00:23:02.000One more point, and I'm going to throw it to you.
00:23:04.000Now we're even looking at this new ruling out of the UK, which the UK is forcing Apple to create a backdoor into their platform.
00:23:14.000And there is concerns that this international espionage, you know, collaboration, we call it Five Eyes, or maybe there's other ways in, could use that as a backdoor into Americans' cell phones.
00:23:40.000What this piece that's coming down from D&I regarding the UK's backdoor into Apple, into your cloud system, obviously your data, that's where your messages are.
00:23:50.000That's where your phone calls can take place.
00:23:52.000If there's voicemail, voice messages, people are using that in transcription, so much more.
00:23:57.000Now, something that we saw in the Intel community, of course, people know about Five Eyes.
00:24:02.000And so, you know, working within the Five Eyes community, myself as an American intelligence officer, you could receive information from the...
00:24:12.000But remember, local laws, national laws in the United States and in the United Kingdom restrict you from using the intelligence services against your own citizens.
00:24:22.000So here in the United States, we have the NSA. Now, I'm not going to sit here and say that the NSA has never been used to spy on Americans, but I'll get there in a second.
00:24:30.000I'm just talking about the boilerplate.
00:24:32.000I'm talking about how it works on paper.
00:24:36.000Their version of the NSA is called GCHQ. And so GCHQ operates on government communications headquarters, and that operates under the same auspices.
00:24:44.000They're not supposed to go after U.S. citizens or actually, excuse me, U.K. citizens.
00:24:48.000Or in the U.S., it's actually broadened into U.S. persons.
00:24:51.000So that could include people with green cards.
00:24:53.000It can include business entities, all sorts of things.
00:24:56.000You know, so it's not just Charlie Kirk, but it's also Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action, all the different things that would still count as a U.S. person under the auspices of NSA authorities.
00:25:06.000Obviously, with the point being that you're not supposed to just be sucking down warrantless wiretapping of anyone in the United States.
00:25:13.000If you want to do that, open up a criminal investigation.
00:25:17.000Well, you use something called parallel reconstruction, whereby in someone, if you're a bad actor, you can go to, if you're in the NSA, you can go to the British and you can say, hey, we want to look up something that an American's doing.
00:25:30.000So we want you to actually go and collect the information, pull that out of their cell phone, use...
00:25:36.000And potentially this backdoor is one way that they're talking about it for the people at GCHQ. They can pull it out of the Apple iPhone, suck up all your data, bring it to the UK. Then the UK writes the report, shares that with the United States, so shares it with the NSA sitting there at Fort Meade.
00:25:51.000And then boom, now you've got the information on a US citizen without you collecting it yourself.
00:25:57.000And so there's all sorts of these backdoors.
00:26:00.000There's also ways to use the FISA warrant.
00:26:02.000This, of course, was done with General Flynn.
00:26:05.000people famously know that one, where they were spying on Sergei Kislyak, who was the Russian ambassador at the time.
00:26:10.000But General Flynn, in his capacity as the national security advisor to President Trump, was having phone conversations with him.
00:26:16.000Well, the NSA was spying on the Russian side.
00:26:19.000So they turned around and pulled up and said, oh, he's talking to an American, an American who seems like he's important.
00:26:34.000They leaked it to David Ignatius over at the Washington Post.
00:26:37.000Keep in mind, by the way, this is a crime.
00:26:38.000I'd love for Kash Patel, I know that he's going back to 2016 and looking at some of these crimes against the spying and the wiretapping of the Trump administration, as well as these honeypot operations.
00:26:49.000Obviously something that I would, I'd certainly encourage them to look into who unmasked General Flynn and then who leaked that highly classified transcript to the Washington Post.
00:26:59.000So not only, Andrew, are these things that...
00:27:02.000Tulsi Gabbard is getting proactive about and looking at ways to prevent future Americans from having to face the consequences of these abuses.
00:27:11.000But we've also got Kash Patel in place now where he can go after some of the people who were committing those abuses.
00:27:17.000Because, you know, for all we know, some of those individuals could be in these very same NSA chat rooms that Christian was telling us all about.
00:27:25.000Yeah, I can almost guarantee they are, Jack.
00:27:27.000But let's throw up, this is a letter written by Tulsi, basically saying that she's going to be probing this.
00:27:33.000So, she's probing the implications of the UK's alleged demand that Apple share users iCloud data by creating a backdoor.
00:27:41.000This would be a clear and egregious violation of Americans' privacy and civil liberties and open up a serious vulnerability for cyber exploitation by adversarial actors.
00:27:51.000Now, Jack, to your point about the FBI, we are getting, I would say, unconfirmed but very credible threats or accusations that content is being Well, Andrew, of course, I mean, we're hearing that as well.
00:28:18.000Spoke with some of the team that's going in there.
00:28:20.000But at the same time, this is a massive organization.
00:28:22.000If those guys know, and they have known for a while that Chris Ray was stepping down, the very first thing they would be doing is starting to cover up the paper trail.
00:28:30.000After all, it's the FBI. They are the king of cover-ups over there.
00:28:33.000Yeah, I mean, I think we would be naive to assume that that wasn't happening.
00:28:38.000But, I mean, frankly, if you're part of the FBI and you have been found to be doing bad things, and then you compound the crime or the wrongdoing, the misdeed, maybe it wasn't even criminal, but then all of a sudden you go to cover up the evidence by destroying documents.
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00:30:58.000Yeah, look, what I'm hearing is that there's more that's being uncovered.
00:31:03.000Obviously, what we heard is that there's an investigation into these chats, and Chris Rufo, of course, got that great leak that came out already, but at the same time, what we're hearing is that at the DNI, they're going and finding not only these chats, but more chat rooms that are of similar...
00:31:57.000The thing that I need to push back on, this notion that all of this is being done by accident, that all of this is just incompetence, or oh, I can't believe this has been...
00:32:08.000These types of people, and you can go and look at the NSAs and go look at the Biden administrations and the intel communities recruiting ads for the last couple of years.
00:32:16.000They were recruiting actively people to create these groups.
00:32:23.000In our final segment here, we've got about five minutes, but it's a really critical...
00:32:28.000You know, Trump went through, you know, the 50 spies that lie, 51 spies that lie, pulled their security clearances.
00:32:36.000He's been pulling security clearances, whether you're Joe Biden or these people, Jack Smith's security detail, security detail of his lawyers.
00:32:45.000I mean, he is not afraid to go sort of rip this root and stem out from our intel community, as well as our Justice Department, which includes the FBI. But Jack...
00:32:56.000The work that Brennan, Clapper, these people did, Burns, to fundamentally reshape the culture of the intel community, explain that.
00:33:55.000And then Tulsi Gabbard is someone who's actually been fighting for the American people for her entire career, regardless of what side of the aisle she's on, just an absolute champion for individual rights, for civil liberties.
00:34:07.000And so to go up against someone like Clapper and Brennan, people who have lied under oath about wiretapping congressmen, wiretapping senators, it's really night and day.
00:34:16.000But what they built, Andrew, was a completely politically radicalized institution under the intelligence community, and they went after the IC the same way that they've gone after the universities and every other institution in society.
00:34:29.000And Chris Ruffo, of course, has been someone who's targeted this.
00:34:32.000And I've been speaking about it, particularly in academia, as well as in the corporate world.
00:34:38.000But remember, academia and the intelligence community have a one-to-one handoff ratio.
00:34:48.000They work hand-in-glove with them over and over and over.
00:34:50.000So you see this revolving door between the IC and academia.
00:34:54.000And as academia became more radicalized...
00:34:57.000So, too, did the officials inside the intel community.
00:35:00.000And remember, you have to go back to what we called the communist playbook from our book on humans last year at the New York Times, that this was and is a deliberate playbook from the very start.
00:35:14.000They always do this when a radical regime, a radical group takes over a government apparatus.
00:35:20.000The first thing they do is take over controls of law enforcement, of the national security state, of the military.
00:35:27.000They then turn that over to ideological capture, and the ideological capture then becomes the people who get promoted, the people who get to higher office, and then what do they do?
00:35:37.000They turn those institutions against their political enemies.
00:35:41.000So when you've been sitting there saying, wait a minute, why is it that it feels like the intel community isn't going after our adversaries overseas?
00:35:49.000Why does it feel like they are purging patriots?
00:35:52.000They're getting rid of those in the ranks.
00:35:53.000They're persecuting patriots who have served in the intelligence community.
00:35:56.000And as a matter of fact, they then go a step further and they're starting to lock up Trump supporters, patriots.
00:36:04.000They're writing intelligence community documents about how traditional Catholics are actually domestic extremists.
00:36:11.000And suddenly, when you dig deeper and realize who they were in these chat groups, you say, oh, wait a minute.
00:36:16.000A chat group today is like a people's committee in the Jacobin Revolution or the Bolshevik Revolution.
00:36:22.000It's the exact same thing we've seen time and again.
00:36:26.000When you see this clip from Jasmine Crockett where she's talking about, I'm rooting for Mexico and I'm rooting for Canada in the hockey match.
00:36:34.000That is the exact POV. As a proud, red-blooded American man, I would never be caught dead.
00:36:41.000Rooting for Canada or Mexico in a sporting event.
00:36:44.000I'm sorry, but it may be funny, it may be light.
00:36:48.000That same, whatever that is, that is exactly what has worked itself into our federal bureaucracies and with the rank and file in our intel agencies.
00:36:56.000They assume that America is the bad guy.
00:37:06.000It's a heck of a job these guys got to do.
00:37:08.000I mean, everybody's got to keep their expectation balanced because this is a heck of a job rooting these people out, and the smart ones are going to be harder to catch.
00:37:15.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.