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00:01:39.000For the record, the new Matrix is terrible and the Wachowski brothers are now transgender.
00:02:52.000Well, it's because you got two men that are trying to cope with their serious mental problems because they're women.
00:02:58.000Now, that's basically what the whole movie is about, even though it comes down to a binary choice, either take the blue pill or the red pill.
00:03:09.000I will say the best part of the movie and I I am a fan of, Of His, even though he's a left-winger, Neil Patrick Harris, he's a phenomenal actor.
00:04:00.000Look, we've been trying to get part of service is to go out and tell the American people what you did when you were serving, especially if the actions of you and your and your affiliates were called into question.
00:04:11.000We've been trying for a year to get out the facts that President Trump authorized 10 to 20,000 National Guards men and women two days before the January 6th First Amendment movements across the country.
00:04:25.000And why is that important to me as a former chief of staff for the Department of Defense?
00:04:29.000Because we, the military, cannot move National Guard troops without a presidential authorization.
00:04:37.000Step two, the law mandates, even if you get that authorization, unless there is a request by the mayor, by a federal law enforcement agency, i.e., the Capitol Police, that they need assistance from the National Guard, even though you have a presidential authorization, you cannot, by law, employ and deploy the National Guard.
00:04:57.000And after we got it from President Trump on January, I think it was the 4th, it was two days before, in the Oval Office with the SECDAF, myself, and the chairman and others.
00:05:07.000We went to Mayor Bowser, who controls Washington, D.C. She's essentially the governor.
00:05:27.000Do you want more than the 250 that we've already given you and that you requested?
00:05:32.000And Mayor Bowser, in writing, and that letter is available in the DOD Inspector General report that was created by Biden's DOD, flat out refused, said, absolutely not.
00:05:44.000The United States Capitol Police told the Secretary of the Army, who represents the National Guard posture: no, we also don't want your National Guard here on the Capitol grounds or around it or assisting in traffic matters, which is basically their job.
00:05:59.000And so January 6th happens, and then what happens?
00:06:04.000And then everybody in Capitol Hill started calling us and saying, where's the uniformed military?
00:06:09.000Well, the National Guard, for most of your audience who might not know, is they're doctors, they're lawyers, they're teachers, they're cops.
00:06:19.000They're not everyday uniformed officers.
00:06:21.000We have to go get them, pull them out of their daily lives, move them into the region, employ them, deploy them, train them up, kit them out, give them authorizations and instructions, and then move them out.
00:06:31.000People think that like we have these guys sitting around on buses to just deploy at the drop of a hat.
00:06:36.000And we moved expeditiously as the Biden DOD found out.
00:06:39.000The Biden Inspector General, excuse me, found the Trump administration did not delay or obstruct its National Guard response on January 6th, which to me says it all.
00:06:50.000And so where does the Nancy Pelosi kind of component play into this, right?
00:07:12.000So if we were talking about New York, we'd go to the governor of New York.
00:07:15.000But since we're talking about Washington, D.C., and there is no governor, there's only a mayor, it's Mayor Bowser who runs the show and whose request we need for National Guard under the law.
00:07:23.000Separately, we are talking about the United States Capitol, which is a function that's supposed to be protected by law enforcement, but sometimes law enforcement needs assistance.
00:07:32.000So they, the United States Capitol Police, whose chain of command reports to the Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, would have had conversations that we had with them and saying, DOD came over to us.
00:07:45.000They've said we've got 10 to 20,000 National Guards, but we, the Capitol Police, have to make a request.
00:07:50.000Does our chain of command support that?
00:07:52.000And what we were told in writing and in direct communications with the Secretary of the Army and others, no, we don't.
00:08:00.000So we could not employ these folks ahead of time as we had asked them to do so.
00:08:07.000Yeah, I mean, it's an extraordinary revelation.
00:08:09.000And it does beg the question, and this is speculation.
00:08:13.000Do you think they wanted there to be a thin force that day?
00:08:20.000Did they want it to be intentionally sparringly staffed?
00:08:26.000Yeah, I mean, look, here's the thing about that.
00:08:29.000You know, unfortunately, there probably are one or two folks out there who would want some kind of criminality, some kind of riot to occur, and, you know, unfortunately, some tragic incidents such as deaths to occur.
00:08:45.000Chris Ray and the FBI and the Department of Justice, who are the lead government agency for the whole January 6th period, could have put a thousand FBI agents around the Capitol.
00:08:55.000You know what else they could have done?
00:08:57.000You've seen it in DC, the no-climb black fence that you can't get over.
00:09:01.000They could have fortified the place and built a perimeter fencing around the United States Capitol, and then no one could have gotten anywhere.
00:09:09.000I, at the Department of Defense, went out in the middle of the night, bought no climb fencing, and had my National Guard put it up on the night of January 6th because no one else would step up to the plate and do it.
00:09:20.000So these are things that they could have proactively done.
00:09:23.000And this is the best example I think that you and so many others in America can relate to.
00:09:28.000The Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks around the United States Capitol had been boarded up for a week.
00:09:33.000Are we to believe that they had better intelligence than the Federal Bureau of Investigation?
00:09:40.000And yeah, and it really does beg the question, was this an intelligence failure or an intelligence operation?
00:09:46.000And, you know, there's increasing evidence with Ray Epps and the revolver.news stories and the lack of the justice towards the pipe bomb, you know, that there's this is this is an unfolding drama that the other side is telling a completely different story intentionally.
00:10:04.000And your firsthand perspective from the Department of Defense is critical to this because President Trump's instincts were, no, let's deploy as many people as we possibly can to protect the entire city of D.C.
00:10:18.000I mean, and I've been, I'm into the Capitol many times, so have you.
00:10:22.000I was shocked that on that day it was so thinly staffed.
00:10:28.000Not to mention the people that were staffed there, they were propelling flash bang grenades into the crowds, almost trying to provoke them and agitate them.
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00:11:45.000Cash, you've worked all throughout our government in a variety of different roles.
00:11:49.000You were a partner with Devin Nunez in uncovering the unmasking.
00:11:53.000And later, I want to ask you about our friend Durham and how that entire project is progressing, in your opinion.
00:12:02.000But I just want to ask you kind of more broadly: can you talk about the threat that the United States security state, the whole security apparatus poses against either conservative Americans or Christian Americans, or what would be considered disagreeable political opinions, and tie that together with what you uncovered in the Russia investigation with Donald Trump and how they entrap Donald Trump and they use the FISA court surveillance.
00:12:32.000Look, it's all interconnected, as you were alluding to right there.
00:12:36.000Basically, the sum and substance is what we are seeing is the politicization of the national security apparatus in the United States.
00:12:44.000The one apparatus that is supposed to be apolitical, the one apparatus when Donald Trump came in and said to me when I was running his counterterrorism programs or was his deputy director of national intelligence or later over at DOD, was this is what we're doing.
00:12:58.000We're going to wipe out Al-Qaeda senior leadership.
00:13:00.000We're going to kill the emirs of ISIS, take out Soleimani, return American hostages, seal our southern border, prohibit Chinese fentanyl and opiates from pouring in and killing our youth.
00:13:09.000These are things that are apolitical and that you would think all Americans would want, especially Americans who have children, would want for their youth.
00:13:17.000And when Donald Trump got elected, that narrative got blown up.
00:13:20.000And it started with the Russiagate narrative, which I was fortunate enough to be the chief investigator on for Chairman Nunes.
00:13:26.000We wrote a report and we basically showed the largest criminal enterprise perpetuated by the Democratic Party and the Hillary Clinton campaign and intentionally faulty actors in Andrew McCabe and James Comey and Clapper over in the FBI and IC to go to an intelligence court and say lying to an intelligence court just to surveil their opponent because they didn't like the guy.
00:13:47.000That trend, unfortunately, has tragically continued the politicization of the national security apparatus throughout Donald Trump's presidency and now into Joe Biden's presidency for the next one year that he's been in power.
00:13:58.000And it's permeated the domestic aspects of our lives, which I think was one of the points you hit on in talking about January 6th or domestic extremism or looking for white rage in the DOD, all these fictions that don't occur.
00:14:10.000But when you have the fake news media perpetuating them, repeating them over and over and over again, people think it's a reality.
00:14:16.000And that's terrible for our institutions.
00:14:22.000And I say this as someone who I was very young and naive.
00:14:26.000I used to kind of be sympathetic and defensive of saying, yeah, we need to give all this power to the federal government to go spy on Al-Qaeda.
00:14:35.000Like, I'm not libertarian on many things, but my goodness, has Rand Paul won me over on the potential abuses of how FISA could be used to go against political opponents.
00:14:46.000There's a lot of different aspects and dynamics of this, please.
00:14:52.000The fact that so many, and you, who are one of the most dialed-in people in all of America, if not the world, on our national security apparatus and our politics, the fact that you've lost faith shows to me that we have failed you.
00:15:04.000That is, the American people have been failed by leadership because of things like RussiaGate and the FISA abuse scandal.
00:15:10.000Look, I was a former terrorism prosecutor.
00:15:12.000I used FISA process all the time, but we did it the right way.
00:15:15.000I prevented guys from blowing up shopping malls in Houston, from blowing up the state capitol in Sacramento.
00:15:20.000Those guys are sitting in prison because we used the FISA process appropriately and righteously, but it was destroyed and the faith in our system was destroyed by the James Comey's of the world.
00:15:30.000And that juxtaposition is what we need to talk about in depth because the fact that guys like you have lost faith in it, and I think rightly so, because you've been betrayed, we need to restore that faith.
00:15:41.000And the only way to do that is we got to put us back in power.
00:15:43.000No, I think that that's an important point.
00:15:45.000It sobers me a little bit, to be honest, and it calms me down because you just cited a couple examples.
00:15:50.000I'm sure there's dozens of others where that did thwart the bad guys, right?
00:15:55.000And that did thwart the people that, you know, were playing games and in the shadows of trying to legitimately harm the American people.
00:16:05.000Showing up to a school board meeting, I don't think fits you in the category as Ted Kaczynski or Timothy McVay or Eric Rudolph or ISIS or al-Qaeda.
00:16:16.000And there is this intentional conflation.
00:16:22.000And the cooler heads did not prevail within the left where they said, hey, this might get out of hand eventually, you know, calling Donald Trump a KGB agent.
00:16:32.000He shouldn't have won in the first place.
00:16:34.000And you're starting to see the very, very serious ramifications of that.
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00:18:58.000You have a really good perspective here because you just mentioned that you used the FISA court process correctly to go after legitimate bad people and people that wanted to commit massive crimes.
00:19:09.000Can you I'm not sure where you're going to land on this.
00:19:12.000How important is the distinction, terrorism versus crime?
00:19:18.000Because there was a little bit of a controversy last week with that with Senator Ted Cruz, of whom I have a lot of respect for, and he's a friend of mine.
00:19:24.000Is it important that term, or is it just kind of, you know, kind of just word games?
00:19:30.000Is it important when they start to categorize us as terrorists?
00:19:34.000Look, as a former federal prosecutor and a public defender before that, those words have meaning under the federal statutes.
00:19:41.000And when the media starts grabbing hold of these terms, and you've seen it with the quote-unquote insurrection, that's a crime tantamount to treason.
00:19:48.000Those things have, and the reason you haven't seen this Department of Justice issue any insurrectionist indictments on January 6th is because it was not an insurrection.
00:19:56.000But that doesn't stop the media from grabbing onto it.
00:20:07.000It's reserved for people who commit crimes against the national security interest of America and its citizens and who kill them and attack us.
00:20:16.000Then for the media to go out and hijack that term and say, okay, well, we have domestic, quote-unquote, domestic terrorists in America.
00:20:23.000And the domestic terrorists or anyone that supported Donald Trump and or who was around January, the Capitol on January 6th or protesting for the rights of freedom and Second Amendment, what have you.
00:20:33.000When you bandy about terms like that, it hurts our national security apparatus immensely.
00:20:40.000And that's why I think the distinction is so important.
00:20:42.000I'm glad you highlighted it because the words terrorism, domestic terrorism versus criminality or criminal conduct should and are rightfully so separated in the federal statute because the crime and the terrorism aspect of it is so different and so egregious in nature and the punishment is so different that there has to be a distinction.
00:22:18.000And that's something that the media will carry on for another six months till we run into the midterm because they don't have anything to run on.
00:22:25.000All they have is to run against Trump in January 6th.
00:22:28.000They just want new inflammatory terminology that doesn't mean anything under the law.
00:22:32.000So they have a massive issue with the insurrectionists because they have a supply and demand problem, right?
00:22:38.000So they have no supply of insurrectionists, but they have a demand to find them.
00:22:43.000And so that's part of the reason why they've expanded their definition of a terrorist to include moms and dads who show up to school board meetings and complain about their children's curriculum.
00:22:54.000The Department of Justice announced today that they have a whole new division dedicated to this.
00:23:00.000As a former federal prosecutor, you are in charge of counterterrorism.
00:23:05.000What's to prevent them from using this in a way where they could be infiltrating school board meetings or things like that?
00:23:12.000Tragically, I don't think there is one anymore.
00:23:15.000And that's why I've lost such confidence as so many Americans have in the leadership cycle at these institutions like DOJ and FBI because they continue to politicize our national security apparatus.
00:23:24.000And here's the thing: as a federal prosecutor, I'm offended when they say we need a special unit so prosecutors can do the jobs they were already doing.
00:23:32.000That's what you hire 10,000 federal prosecutors to do and spread them out across the country and have 150,000 people working in the FBI and DOJ.
00:23:41.000Another unit is established to satisfy a media narrative.
00:23:44.000So they can go out there and say, we're taking this matter so seriously because it's so detrimental to the national security interests of America that we've created a whole new unit.
00:23:53.000Where are the facts that show domestic terrorism and the like are on the rise?
00:24:33.000So the CNBC writes that the Department of Justice on Tuesday announced forming a new unit to combat domestic terrorism as officials warn a persistent and evolving threat of violent extremism.
00:24:55.000You can't charge someone with the crime of domestic terrorism unlike you can charge someone with the crime of international terrorism because that is an actual crime.
00:25:04.000Domestic terrorism only comes into play after a conviction for a crime for what we call a sentencing enhancement.
00:25:11.000What we do is we walk in and we say, hey, this guy committed, remember the guys out in Oregon and Washington State that sort of took over this property and they were labeled funding, right?
00:25:20.000They weren't charged as domestic terrorists, but at the end of the case, they were tried to enhance their sentence, meaning you go to prison for longer because the law doesn't allow you to charge us as domestic terrorists, but there's these things called sentencing enhancements, which guide a sentence.
00:25:33.000But this is where America loses its faith in its institutions.
00:25:37.000Now, all of a sudden, you have most of America, because they read the New York Times or whatever, believing you can charge people with domestic terrorists.
00:25:56.000You wouldn't know it based on just kind of a regular reading of the media or any of the coverage.
00:26:04.000They could find some other technical problems, obviously, which is why they're trying to expand the entire umbrella of what they're looking into.
00:26:15.000But most of these charges are trespassing charges, right?
00:26:18.000Most of them are, they're, or they're just typical violence charges in order to get into, you know, the, you know, the technical aspects of it.
00:26:31.000So you're saying like Timothy McVay was charged with murder and then sentencing said, oh, by the way, he's also a domestic terrorist or technical.
00:26:48.000I want to get to something that is bothering me, Cash, a lot.
00:26:51.000And you're the only one that really shoots straight on this topic, is the two standard of justice.
00:26:56.000I'm so tired of seeing James O'Keefe's apartment rated, Rudy Giuliani's apartment rated, while I just don't see that kind of push for justice.
00:27:33.000I think Andy McCabe is John Durham's target, and I think that's a righteous target if we can hit it.
00:27:37.000And the reason I think that the Hillary Clinton campaign is being investigated is because John Durham indicted the lawyer for the Hillary Clinton campaign and spent 40 pages telling the American public why the Hillary Clinton campaign was so involved in the Russia Gate criminal conspiracy.
00:27:52.000And I don't know if you saw this pleading, but a week or two ago, John Durham issued a pleading for Danchenko.
00:27:58.000And he said, Do you know who's representing Igor Danchenko, the number one source for the steel dossier?
00:28:07.000So there's this thing called a conflict of interest, where you cannot be represented by someone if that other someone represents a target of an investigation.
00:28:16.000That was a glaring, glaring production by John Durham that almost everybody overlooked, which tells me that he's not only looking at the Hillary Clinton campaign, but investigating people in it because he notified a federal judge that there's a conflict of interest in the representation against one of the defendants.
00:28:32.000It was a striking move from anyone, but it's not shocking that the Hillary Clinton campaign has nested themselves into the middle of the John Durham investigation so they can acquire information to protect the campaign.
00:28:46.000And what's so unprecedented about this is how you had the political campaign that just kind of had unfettered access into these very same domestic agencies that we're looking at.
00:28:56.000What other updates have we seen recently out of Durham that might be of note, if any at all?
00:29:03.000I think that's it because the last time we talked was just before the holiday.
00:29:05.000And I think right now that that conflict of interest one was a big, big piece of information for the public because it shows us where he's going.
00:29:12.000If he didn't care about the Hillary Clinton campaign, it wouldn't matter to him.
00:29:16.000If the Hillary Clinton campaign, to me as a prosecutor, were not a target of investigation, it doesn't matter that her campaign represents someone who's charged.
00:29:23.000But the fact that he did that means not only are they a target of the investigation, here's what he's telling the American people: I, John Durham, are probably going to call witnesses from the Hillary Clinton campaign in my prosecutions.
00:29:35.000There's so much work that has to be done by John Durham that I think it was only a two-page pleading, but I think it's immensely substantial.
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00:31:09.000And it's extremely frustrating, especially as a former national security prosecutor who's in those shoes to say, well, I'm going to go after everybody else, but not.
00:31:18.000I'm not going to go after the individuals in charge of the agencies, the enemy caves of the world that lied to the American public, was caught by the DOG Inspector IG, and was fired.
00:31:27.000What do I say to them is that John Durham has a separate mission that is thankfully outside of basically the rest of the Department of Justice.
00:31:34.000And there's no way that he can get fired or shut down because he has brought already three major criminal indictments.
00:31:45.000It can only end when he, John Durham, says it's going to be over.
00:31:48.000And what I remind people is I used to bring these complex national security cases that I spent three, four, five years on before we got to an indictment.
00:31:57.000And John Durham's investigating the largest criminal conspiracy in United States history when it comes to a presidential election and a sitting president.
00:32:04.000I can't even begin to imagine the stuff he's got to go through and how long it takes.
00:33:35.000Charlie, you know what that's like, but it's horrible to be defamed and lied about and have your name and family name dragged through the mud when it's totally false.
00:33:43.000So I sued the New York Times, CNN Political.
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