Why is it that Baby Boomers are not as supportive of President Trump as Gen X or Millennials or Gen Z? We dive into that with Mark Mitchell, and then what do we have to do to reform the FBI? And then finally, the left's race obsession.
00:00:00.000Hey everybody, why is it that baby boomers are not as supportive of President Trump as Gen X or Millennials or Gen Z? We dive into that with Mark Mitchell.
00:00:11.000And then what do we have to do to reform the FBI? And then finally, the left's race obsession.
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00:02:37.000Well, I think what's happening is that we're entering the end of the fourth turning, and we're seeing what they talked about in that theory is rapid.
00:02:45.000Rapid political realignments, changes, massive changes in public opinion.
00:02:49.000And I'm here for it because I'm a public opinion professional.
00:02:52.000And I don't think we've even begun to see the way in which people's opinions are going to change.
00:02:56.000And 18 to 39-year-olds, perennially, you know, they approved of a Biden, Obama, a couple months into his first term.
00:04:10.000They're like, yeah, I voted for somebody to come in and uncover all this stuff.
00:04:14.000And even the 18 to 29-year-olds, they are a little lefter than the 30 to 39-year-olds.
00:04:20.000You know, those people are working, you know, peak career professionals, and they're also building families.
00:04:27.000But 18 to 29-year-olds, based on all of my February data, and so this is more data than any other pollster is going to have on this right now, 18 to 29-year-olds, 49% approve of Trump, 48% disapprove.
00:05:49.000That's basically used the intel operations to conduct the biggest gaslighting warfare, information warfare in history for decades, faking this Republican-Democrat paradigm of politics that everybody sees through now.
00:06:04.000We don't know what the Democrat and Republican parties are going to look like.
00:06:07.000Can you even imagine the Democrats coming up with some kind of coherent platform?
00:06:41.000Well, I think, you know, some of its brand, some of its news consumption, but to put a really sharp point on exactly what's going on with age brackets.
00:06:51.000Is that older voters above 65 are more opinionated, so they're more likely to strongly approve of Trump and strongly disapprove, but they only get to a 50% approval and a 49% disapproval, so they're net plus one, whereas, you know, the 18 to 39-year-olds are, what did we say, net plus 14. It's huge, right?
00:07:11.000Only 28% of 18 to 39-year-olds strongly disapprove of Trump.
00:07:15.000So what that tells me is that everybody who's said that this man is Orange Hitler...
00:09:24.000I mean, they have a whole lot of septuagenarians and a whole lot of former Republican neocons out there just histrionically, like, whinging is the word, I think.
00:09:35.000I don't know what else to say about it.
00:09:37.000And then you have, it looks like a race to the bottom, insanity, where AOC is like, oh, you want populism?
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00:11:37.000And so this is after people are watching USAID go in and get gutted.
00:11:42.000And that's really incredible because, you know, everybody's complaining about Trump's new president, Elon, you know, Hitler oath swearing Elon, and it didn't work.
00:11:52.000Elon Musk had a 52% favorability rating too.
00:11:55.000And that might not sound great, but Trump's the only person besides Elon that polls above 50% of everybody we test right now.
00:13:31.000I think that younger voters are being more objective about what they see around them and unwilling to just trust somebody because it's a human on a TV telling them stuff.
00:15:10.000But what is going on with Gen X? Well, I don't think all the chips have settled yet.
00:15:15.000When I said Revolution X, I'm talking like X the app.
00:15:18.000I think that the mainstream media can't even control the narrative anymore because they try and float.
00:15:23.000Listen, you could look at on Google Trends for the search term constitutional crisis and nobody was searching that and all of a sudden 8 to 10 X. Like any prior year's search volume in Google history in just two or three days.
00:15:39.000So they're still trying to jumpstart this rebellion, this resistance to Trump, and they're using all their old tricks.
00:15:44.000And everybody just goes to X and just ruthlessly dunks on these people.
00:15:48.000And I think all ages are kind of getting involved.
00:15:51.000And so I think what we're seeing is kind of a flattening across the age spectrum from a, like, how do I measure them from a political perspective?
00:16:01.000But I do think there is something about, you know, younger Gen X millennials and older Zoomers are going to step into the hero generation archetype of the fourth turning.
00:16:13.000And we got a crisis coming because, you know, we talked about on our channel about this.
00:16:20.000The fourth turning can be delineated by periods of high demand and supply of order.
00:16:27.000And then as the crisis passed, you have less demand for order, then less supply for order.
00:16:33.000And you are here, where we're at, is a super high demand for order and absolutely none to be found.
00:16:38.000All of our institutions are completely corrupt.
00:16:41.000And so what history tells us is that new leaders will step in and fill that vacuum.
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00:18:39.000As far as the book goes, I wrote the book so that people could understand how the FBI changed, how the FBI went off track, and how I feel the FBI can be put back on the right track to being that trusted and respected organization it once was in service of the American people.
00:18:57.000I wanted to give folks a bird's-eye view of my time with the FBI, spent nearly 25 years with the organization, and watched it evolve and change.
00:19:09.000Is it fair to say that after 9-11, the FBI largely changed its premise from being a law enforcement agency to an intelligence-gathering agency?
00:19:22.000And it was a very violent shift after 9-11 because there seemed to be many failures based upon the previous model of the FBI being a more reactive law enforcement organization and not a predictive and preventative intelligence-driven organization.
00:19:38.000So tell us more specifically, because the FBI director who did this was Bob Mueller, correct?
00:19:44.000He was the FBI director that helped orchestrate the details of...
00:20:23.000And it happened that way with the surveillance activities after 9-11.
00:20:28.000We were operating in a position of fear and anxiety of looking for the possible next attack.
00:20:35.000And those fears and that anxiety led to things such as the Patriot Act and other legal frameworks that gave us additional tools to combat the threat of terrorism.
00:20:48.000As what happens in the government, you have mission creep, you have that incrementalism of more, some is good, more is better, too much is just right.
00:20:57.000And then those tools are starting to be used in more domestic surveillance activities.
00:21:04.000And then we lacked the principal leadership over the past several years to keep that under control and to analyze what we were doing to the privacy and civil liberties of our own people.
00:21:18.000So, Kash Patel looks like today at 5.30 p.m.
00:21:21.000there is a cash procedural vote that will allow Thune to file cloture.
00:21:25.000A confirmation vote is likely on Thursday, so very excited about that.
00:21:33.000He gets sworn in, he goes in the motorcade, he enters the J. Edgar Hoover building, goes to, what is it, the seventh floor, gets the big desk.
00:21:47.000He's got to walk in and establish himself as the leader of the FBI.
00:21:52.000He's not there as a political operator or any other, I would say, less operational role.
00:22:00.000He's there as the leader of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
00:22:03.000He's got to look at three particular areas as he is the strategic leader of the organization.
00:22:08.000First, he's got to look at the culture of the organization.
00:22:11.000The culture has declined and eroded over time, and he's got to fix that and set new cultural norms and expectations.
00:22:20.000Second thing he has to do is look at the leadership environment that exists.
00:22:25.000I'd say 80 to 90% of all FBI challenges, especially over the past four years, are due to bad leadership, bad decisions, and just weak leadership culture.
00:22:36.000The third thing he's going to have to do is look at the operational practices that are prevailing in the FBI right now.
00:22:43.000I've heard discussions, people say we haven't changed our standards in the FBI, maybe not on paper.
00:22:49.000But what you've done and what they've done is change the way those standards are enforced, the way those standards are upheld and maintained and interpreted.
00:22:58.000I watched it happen when I was still there.
00:23:01.000Standards started sliding and it happened under Jim Comey up through Director Wray and the FBI no longer holds some of the same high standards it used to.
00:23:11.000So those are the three areas that I would say he has to do on day one.
00:23:15.000One more thing is that he has to form A senior leadership team around him that is going to help him execute the wishes of the chief executive, the attorney general, as well as his own vision as the FBI director.
00:23:31.000He's got to have that senior leadership team that is aligned with him to execute his wishes.
00:23:36.000So, Chris, I know this might be an unusual question, but there are real talks about the FBI just being eliminated and folded into other agencies.
00:23:47.000The FBI has to be part of our protective infrastructure.
00:23:52.000It's a primary part of what keeps our country safe and looks out for the interests of the American people and the US government.
00:23:59.000The moving off track that we saw over the last several years, it's not indicative of the work that the FBI does day to day on behalf of the American people.
00:24:11.000What we saw mostly was the result of Bad leadership, bad management, and the inability of FBI leaders to properly navigate the political and social operating environments and to maintain their apolitical and objective stance.
00:24:28.000I think the people of the FBI provide an essential service to the American people, and once given a proper leadership and operating environment, they will snap back into place quickly and do that again.
00:24:41.000The FBI It can't just be discarded because of what's happened in the past several years.
00:24:50.000There's a lot of good still that exists with the FBI. It has to be reforged, reset, and then refocused on serving the American people.
00:25:00.000The FBI provides national security protection as well as combating crime problems, complex crime problems in our communities.
00:25:08.000So it provides that essential service.
00:25:10.000It just has to be re- Yeah, so remind our audience about some of the good things that the FBI does.
00:25:19.000Well, on the national security side, the FBI is your primary domestic counter-espionage, counter-terrorism operation, protects our communities from harm and compromise from our international adversaries.
00:25:31.000On the criminal or crime problem side, the FBI is our public corruption.
00:25:58.000And one time when I was in charge of a field office, we talked to the community leaders and we explained to them that when the state arrests gang members, They can be back on the streets in months, if not weeks.
00:26:14.000When you let me do it from the enterprise gang theory, we take them, they go away for years and they're doing federal time.
00:26:23.000And we were able to pull together resources.
00:26:25.000The FBI has a lot of authority and statutory power to do things that other organizations cannot.
00:26:32.000And again, marshalling those people, resources and authorities is what makes the FBI very powerful and effective when, again, provided with proper leadership and proper mission focus.
00:26:45.000And so the with Kash Patel taking over, how much how many firings would you recommend that he does?
00:26:53.000I don't know of an exact number, Charlie, but I will tell you, when he arrives on scene and he takes inventory and he starts identifying the Areas in the organization that could still be subject to political or ideological decision-making, he's going to have to dismiss those people.
00:27:11.000They should be excused from FBI service.
00:27:13.000There is no place in our FBI for political or ideological-driven decision-making when enforcing the federal laws of our nation.
00:27:22.000So the FBI, in its previous iterations, Chris, please plug your book one more time, how people can find it, any other elements or details about the book you want our audience to be aware of.
00:27:47.000Again, my book, Wanted, the FBI I Once Knew.
00:27:50.000It is a bird's eye view of my 25 years with the FBI. It's available on Amazon and anywhere books are sold.
00:27:58.000And I wrote the book as a way to chronicle my...
00:28:03.000Time and how I learned how to be an FBI agent from the old breed of FBI special agents who built the reputation of the FBI. So I appreciate if anyone would read it and they could see where the FBI ran off track and how to get back on track.
00:28:20.000I look forward to any feedback people would have, and I look forward to having the next iteration of the FBI delivered by Kash Patel and his team to give us back that trustworthy, principled organization that we trusted and depended on for years.
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00:29:44.000So we've been saying for quite a while how the left is race-obsessed.
00:31:35.000And I don't think it's actually that controversial when, if you understand that segregation and integration weren't the only options.
00:31:45.000Like, those are, within those two options, it may seem like integration is the more progressive.
00:31:50.000Like, of course, we don't want segregation.
00:31:52.000But again, when you're being integrated into institutions, into a culture that's a supremacist culture, that's a culture that feeds off of hierarchy, that feeds off of insecurity, anxiety.
00:32:03.000Why are we being integrated into that?
00:32:05.000From the beginning, you could tell they believe there are good races and bad races.
00:32:11.000They believe in sorting people by race.
00:32:14.000It has always been America's view to treat people as individuals.
00:32:18.000Our movement is focused on character and meritocracy.
00:32:22.000In the end, you can tell they just don't like white people.