00:00:55.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:55.000Nothing about the raid of a president.
00:01:59.000To give an idea of how extraordinary this raid was, it was a nine and a half hour occupation, including over 30 agents, equivalent of 180 man hours where Trump's staff were literally kicked out of Mar-a-Lago.
00:02:19.000And now we're just waiting in anticipation.
00:03:06.000Just so everyone understands, a raid is only necessary if you believe a crime is currently being committed or property is about to be destructed.
00:03:15.000Donald Trump was not even at Mar-a-Lago.
00:03:18.000How could you believe that property was about to be destroyed?
00:03:21.000And the judge who signed off on it is a very corrupt, weird dude.
00:09:41.000Look, we talk about current events a lot on this show, but there's other things that are in life that are bigger than current events, bigger things.
00:09:47.000We try to do some shows every so often on these things.
00:09:50.000But look, what am I talking about when I say that?
00:09:54.000Prayer and the Bible or heaven and hell.
00:09:56.000So look, the great C.S. Lewis, who's one of the most amazing minds ever to exist, was a master at addressing these questions.
00:10:05.000And that is why Hillsdale College, the great college, the only college, in my opinion, wants you to learn more about him and his writings and their newest free online course, C.S. Lewis on Christianity.
00:10:17.000And it all starts with taking a short quiz to find out how much you already know about Lewis.
00:10:23.000He wrote more than the Narnia series, by the way.
00:11:35.000Going after child sex trafficking, going after interstate gang activity, cartel activity, but even that seems to have diminished in recent years to be more focused on moms and dads that show up at school board meetings.
00:11:47.000And this, the front page of the Justice Department website, while all this is happening, the first thing on their website is this.
00:11:55.000Justice Department files lawsuit and proposed consent decrees to end long-running conspiracy to suppress worker pay at poultry processing plants and address deceptive abuses against poultry growers.
00:12:10.000Look, this might be a major issue for some of you in the audience, the suppressed pay at poultry plants.
00:12:16.000Why is that exactly the focus of the Department of Justice?
00:12:40.000But isn't it interesting how quickly Merrick Garland and Joe Biden and all of them speak out when Roe versus Wade is repealed and they're silent when their own Stasi raids Mar-a-Lago?
00:12:58.000As I mentioned yesterday, Scott Perry is evidence to show that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is not done.
00:13:05.000Republican Representative Scott Perry said Tuesday the FBI had seized his phone.
00:13:09.000This morning while traveling with my family, three FBI agents visited me and seized my cell phone.
00:13:16.000The search is connected to an investigation being conducted by the Justice Department, Inspector General.
00:13:21.000While Perry has not said why his phone was seized, the watchdog is also investigating the actions of former Justice Department Jeffrey Clark and potentially others.
00:13:30.000So I guess you could just go and grab lawmakers' cell phones now.
00:13:34.000How is that not a violation of separation of powers?
00:13:38.000How is that not a violation of the executive branch and the legislative branch being co-equal branches?
00:13:46.000Under this precedent, why can't Congress, if we get back Congress in January, just walk into the FBI and go grab all of their cell phones?
00:13:57.000Why can't Scott Perry, as chairman of the Freedom Caucus, just walk into the FBI and IRS building and just go grab all their cell phones?
00:14:05.000Was Eric Swawell's cell phone ever confiscated for having an affair with a Chinese spy and lying about it and being a wholly owned and operated, let's just say, voluntary participant in Chinese intelligence with Fang Fang?
00:14:24.000Oh, no, we don't grab cell phones for that.
00:14:27.000Was Elon Omar's cell phone ever grabbed by the Department of Justice for likely committing marriage fraud and immigration fraud?
00:14:41.000Ever grabbed for a fake and fraudulent gun application that was filled out?
00:14:49.000Scott Perry said they made no attempt to contact my lawyer who should have made arrangements for them to have my phone if that was their wish.
00:15:00.000I was going to send Scott Perry a text message here.
00:15:02.000Scott Perry voted for that gay marriage awful bill a couple weeks ago.
00:15:06.000He's the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus.
00:15:07.000I'm very upset with him, but I'll hear him out.
00:15:10.000Scott Perry, the very same people you thought that you could get to stop hating you because you voted for that gay marriage bill just took your cell phone.
00:15:17.000Stop trying to make peace with these people.
00:15:20.000Lawmaker representing Pennsylvania's 10th District was cited more than 50 times in a Senate judiciary report outlining how Trump's effort to overturn his election defeat to Joe Biden brought the Justice Department to the brink of chaos and prompted top officials there and the White House officials to resign.
00:15:37.000Remember Roger Stone, Dinesh D'Souza, Steve Bannon just got convicted, Paul Manafort, James O'Keefe's apartment was raided as a journalist.
00:15:47.000Rudy Giuliani, the president's lawyer's apartment, was raided.
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00:17:49.000I bet Merrick Garland resigns before the end of the year.
00:17:54.000My guess is Merrick Garland will resign before the end of the year and go help his son-in-law push for critical race theory in classrooms and go make money at some high-priced law firm.
00:18:03.000My gut was right according to this story that just broke in the last couple of minutes.
00:18:08.000Remember, I said, why is Merrick Garland silent?
00:18:11.000Well, a new story, exclusive FBI informant has spoken to Newsweek.
00:18:18.000The raid on Mar-a-Lago was based largely on information from an FBI confidential human source who was able to identify what classified documents former Donald Trump was still hiding, even the location of those documents.
00:18:32.000The officials who have direct knowledge of the FBI's deliberations and were granted anonymity in order to discuss sensitive matters said the raid of Donald Trump's Florida residence was deliberately timed to occur when the former president was away.
00:18:46.000So either this right here, what I'm about to read, confirms my gut as to Merrick Garland's silence that there was a mistake made internally, which I think might be true, or this whole thing is an op that I'm about to read.
00:18:58.000I might just be reading a total op and these people might not be as dumb as they're admitting, but wait till you hear this.
00:19:03.000It's one of the, it's shockingly stupid.
00:19:07.000FBI decision makers in Washington and Miami thought that denying the former president a photo opportunity or a platform for which to grandstand would lower the profile of what they call the event.
00:19:22.000As if just raiding somebody's private home is, we have a right to your home.
00:19:45.000So there's only one or two explanations that Operation Melania's closet, which we're now going to call this Operation Crossdresser, is what we should call it, just kind of in the spirit of J. Edgar Hoover's degeneracy.
00:20:00.000They really are so insulated with people that hate Donald Trump, they don't believe anybody still supports this man, or this whole thing is a lie that I'm reading from Newsweek.
00:20:12.000This is what the Department of Justice official says.
00:20:15.000I know there is much speculation out there that this is political persecution, but it really is the best and worst of the bureaucracy in action, the Department of Justice official says.
00:20:26.000Look, the FBI wanted to punctuate the fact that this was a routine law enforcement action, stripped of any political overtones, and yet they got the exact opposite.
00:20:39.000You go raid the winter White House and you go raid Trump's home?
00:20:44.000Like, oh, no, no, this is not political, okay?
00:20:47.000No, trust us, this is a routine law enforcement action.
00:20:52.000Both senior government officials say the raid was scheduled with no political motive.
00:21:28.000It's theory, but according to this story, there is chaos within the DOJ right now.
00:21:34.000And we can't forget, by the way, Christopher Wray, who just testified in front of Congress.
00:21:41.000Now, this entire story I'm reading from Newsweek could all be a major op, but I'm going to keep reading it because even in the slightest chance it's true, it shows our gut instinct on this program.
00:22:05.000Preparations to conduct such an operation began weeks ago, but in planning the date and time, the FBI field office and Washington headquarters were focused on the former president's scheduled return to Florida from his residences in New York and New Jersey.
00:22:18.000Wait, if it's not political, then why are you worrying about Trump's visits?
00:22:25.000The second source who told Newsweek, a senior intelligence official, said, quote, they were seeking to avoid any media circus.
00:22:32.000So even though everything made sense bureaucratically and the FBI feared that the documents might be destroyed, they also created the very firestorm they sought to avoid in ignoring the fallout.
00:22:43.000I almost refuse to believe that our government is this stupid.
00:22:46.000If our government is this stupid, you are not safe.
00:22:50.000There will be a terrorist attack, a dirty bomb, another mass shooting sometime soon.
00:22:54.000If our government is this dumb, arm yourself because you are not in good hands.
00:23:01.000On about Monday, about 10 a.m. Eastern, two dozen FBI agents and technicians showed up at Donald Trump's Florida home.
00:23:08.000Documents that might be in possession of Trump under the provisions of the 1970 Presidential Records Act, which obviously came after Nixon.
00:23:15.000The act established the presidential records are the property of the U.S. government, not a president's private property, put in place after Watergate.
00:23:23.000The act concerns about illegal possession of classified national defense information.
00:23:28.000So what do I mean by an op, by the way?
00:23:30.000I might be this entire article I'm reading by Newsweek where they say, oh, it was a backfire.
00:23:34.000This might all be orchestrated by Garland to plant the story because there's been such backlash that he had nothing to do with it.
00:23:42.000So this whole Newsweek story very well might be an operation by the Bureau itself to plant a fake story as if we didn't know it was going to be this bad.
00:23:50.000It was just a routine law enforcement operation.
00:24:24.000This is what the federal bureau of investigation, the Department of Justice, as Donald Trump would say, they are not sending their best.
00:24:31.000Either these people are outright total liars or they really are this stupid.
00:24:36.000An unnamed Department of Justice official says, quote, I know there is much speculation out there that this is political persecution, but it really is the best and worst of the bureaucracy in action.
00:24:51.000The entire operation was conducted relatively stealthily.
00:24:54.000No FBI were seen in their iconic blue windbreakers announcing the presence of the Bureau.
00:25:00.000And though local law enforcement was present, the Palm Beach Police Department was careful to not tweet on Tuesday or to tweet on Tuesday they didn't know about a specific search warrant.
00:25:12.000Ah, but here is the end of the article.
00:25:15.000I just, again, this is breaking in real time.
00:25:18.000The senior Justice Department official says that Garland was regularly briefed on the Records Act investigation and that he knew about the grand jury and the material federal prosecutors were seeking.
00:25:29.000He insists, though, that Garland had no prior knowledge of the date and time and specific of the raid, nor was he asked to approve it.
00:25:36.000Quote, I know it's hard for people to believe, said the official, but this is a matter for the U.S. Attorney and the FBI.
00:25:41.000No, no, no, it's not a matter of hard to believe.
00:25:45.000FBI Director Christopher Wray ultimately gave his go-ahead to conduct the raid.
00:25:50.000It really is a case of the Bureau misreading the impact.
00:25:54.000You know why Christopher Wray misread the impact?
00:25:57.000Because Christopher Wray was probably partying with Peter Strzok and James Comey and Lisa Page and people that should be in leg irons and handcuffs serving decades in prison for doing this same sort of thing.
00:26:08.000And no one was held accountable from the Russia Gate investigation.
00:26:14.000According to this whistleblower, FBI Director Christopher Wray gave his go-ahead, and the senior justice official said it really is the case of the Bureau misreading the impact.
00:26:28.000Am I really supposed to believe the FBI is this stupid that somehow we were going to put up with this?
00:26:36.000That this is that the Rubicon being crossed of them raiding Trump's home, that we were going to tolerate this?
00:27:08.000If this story is true, this means that my gut instinct that Garland is worried and that's why he's not coming out and speaking, it shows that finally we now can play offense against the administrative state.
00:27:23.000We now have the opening where they admit they did something they should not have done.
00:27:28.000If this story is true, a blatant, transparent violation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution.
00:27:38.000Not to mention just going against a future political opponent.
00:27:43.000Donald Trump is going to run again in 2024.
00:27:47.000In the past week, the prosecutor in the case, as if we need a prosecutor in this case to prosecute national archives, and local assistant U.S. attorney went to local Florida judge magistrate Bruce Reinhart in West Palm Beach to seek approval for the search of Donald Trump's private residence.
00:28:04.000The affidavit is to obtain the search warrant, the intelligence source says, and to contain abundant and persuasive detail that Trump continued to possess the relevant records in violation of federal law and that investigators had sufficient information to prove those records were located at Mar-a-Lago.
00:28:20.000According to the DOJ source, according to Newsweek, in order for the investigators to convince the Florida judge to approve such an unprecedented raid, the information had to be solid, which the FBI claimed.
00:28:34.000And by the way, even though this confirms my original suspicions that there is something wrong with Garland's silence, I actually think that this whole thing is damage control.
00:30:24.000This entire article here, again, these people think we're so stupid.
00:30:28.000They think we're dumb in the media too, because they're like, oh, they wouldn't know we planted the story.
00:30:32.000How do you know this story was planted?
00:30:34.000Quote, the senior justice source says that Garland was, yes, regularly briefed on the Records Act investigation, but he insists, though, that Garland had no prior knowledge of the date and time and of the specific raid, nor who he is asked to approve it.
00:30:48.000I know it's hard for people to believe, but this is a matter of the U.S. attorney and the FBI.
00:31:14.000But there is now going to be a coming schism.
00:31:16.000Remember, they'll always fight among themselves between the FBI and the Department of Justice.
00:31:23.000This article right here is throwing the FBI under the bus.
00:31:27.000And so Garland is silent, I think, because there is friction and tension within the DOJ building right now.
00:31:33.000And if it is true, if this article is true and the FBI did jump the gun, if the FBI did cut in line, if the FBI did do this, then they're all going to leak on each other into oblivion.
00:31:46.000If they were not in lockstep, it's not that Garland didn't approve it.
00:31:49.000It's not that Garland wasn't aware of it.
00:32:16.000If this becomes a Presidential Records Act violation, not more.
00:32:20.000Do you think it is enough to warrant all of this?
00:32:22.000No, it's not enough to warrant all this.
00:32:24.000And this is a daring and dangerous move by the Department of Justice to serve a warrant on a former president and to raid his personal residence.
00:32:33.000Daring and dangerous move on somebody's personal residence.
00:32:39.000Now, even the most radical left-wing partisans are thinking to themselves, I don't know if we like this.
00:32:45.000Now, obviously, the ACLU is totally quiet.
00:32:49.000The ACLU and all these other civil rights, quote-unquote, civil liberty organizations are completely silent and quiet.
00:32:54.000We wouldn't expect anything out of them.
00:32:56.000But Andrew Yang, to Andrew Cuomo, to many people on the left are saying, hold on a second, I don't like this.
00:33:01.000And we're just supposed to believe this is the FBI doing their business.
00:33:05.000I don't buy it and you should not either.