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00:00:36.000 But there's something else.

00:00:37.000 A new danger that is also accelerating.

00:00:39.000 That people see and I've actually heard people talk about.

00:00:42.000 But I haven't heard anybody really put it into perspective.

00:00:46.000 And explain what it means.

00:00:50.000 Also, we're going to talk about what happened with the transgender killer in Canada. 1.00

00:00:57.000 What's really happening in Canada.

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00:03:53.000 Let's go to Cosman Georgia.

00:03:58.000 She is a journalist with the Juno News.

00:04:02.000 She's the managing editor.

00:04:04.000 And and he I'm sorry, he is Cosman. 0.99

00:04:08.000 And Cosman, you are the guys who first broke the story about the the the stupid inability to even say who the shooter was. 0.98

00:04:21.000 Correct. 1.00

00:04:22.000 Correct.

00:04:23.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:04:24.000 So we got a positive identity on the shooter that would have been Tuesday night, pretty late, like two or three in the morning.

00:04:33.000 Essentially, I was able to get in touch with Jesse Strang.

00:04:38.000 He's now been identified with his legal name, Jesse Van Rootseller.

00:04:43.000 But I got in touch with his uncle, Russell, and his uncle Russell confirmed to me three basic facts.

00:04:51.000 First, that Jesse was, in fact, the shooter that he was Jesse's uncle and the brother of Jennifer Strang, who was Jesse's mother.

00:05:03.000 And she was also killed alongside her son, which was Jesse's stepbrother, who Jesse seemed to have murdered in their residence in Tumblr Ridge.

00:05:14.000 And then the third fact that he confirmed to me was that Jesse was transgender.

00:05:19.000 Let me play.

00:05:22.000 Let me play how the Canadian press and the police did everything they they could to not truly identify this this shooter.

00:05:33.000 Listen to this.

00:05:34.000 Cut one.

00:05:35.000 That includes the deceased gun person.

00:05:37.000 OK.

00:05:38.000 And separately, do you know the gun person's relationship to the gun person?

00:05:44.000 I've never heard that term before.

00:05:46.000 The gun person.

00:05:47.000 And then once somebody said, excuse me, in this transgender, they turned the press conference into this nightmare of we identify people the way they want to be identified. 0.95

00:06:05.000 And, you know, we don't we don't take to this bigotry in so many words here in Canada.

00:06:11.000 And it's it's like, wait, that that's not what this story is about.

00:06:14.000 This this story is not about guns or anything else.

00:06:17.000 It's about somebody who is mentally unwell and that may have played a role.

00:06:24.000 Cosman, tell me about the atmosphere that you live in, where.

00:06:31.000 Nobody seems to think this is a problem or had anything to do with the shooting.

00:06:36.000 Yeah.

00:06:37.000 So it seems.

00:06:39.000 That the media and the police have bent themselves into pretzels trying to avoid the most obvious fact that this individual was sick, had a lot of mental issues, but also was very heavily into the transgender movement. 0.86

00:06:56.000 So now the picture is emerging that Jesse had all sorts of, you know, social media activity involved in all sorts of communities where he discussed his transition at a very young age.

00:07:09.000 I believe he he started his transition when he was around 12 years old.

00:07:15.000 So he was also seeking hormone treatment.

00:07:18.000 So like changing his his hormones to represent to present more female, you know, prevent puberty, et cetera. 0.60

00:07:28.000 So there was definitely an involvement in like pharmaceuticals.

00:07:32.000 He was seeking out therapy and the police knew about Jesse because he had a troubling background.

00:07:40.000 He incidents of violence.

00:07:43.000 The police showed up, you know, there was weapons on the premises.

00:07:46.000 They took those weapons.

00:07:47.000 They returned the weapons at some point, but it's all over the place.

00:07:51.000 You look online, Jesse's the picture that's emerging of Jesse is a very troubled kid who was also into this transgender community and spent a lot of time online discussing these things.

00:08:07.000 And like I said, the media and the police have bent themselves backwards trying to avoid talking about this.

00:08:14.000 And the reason is because in Canada, we actually added human rights protections to our Human Rights Act, essentially protecting gender expression.

00:08:25.000 So the police, the media required to, you know, address even killers by their preferred pronouns.

00:08:36.000 And you see it in these press conferences, the commissioner, the deputy commissioner of the RCMP, the RCMP is the federal police force in Canada, essentially like the FBI in the United States, is insisting that people use Jesse's female pronouns.

00:08:53.000 You look at headlines all over the place are calling him a female shooter.

00:08:58.000 It's outrageous, Glenn.

00:09:01.000 So let me just read something that he posted in 2023 on Reddit.

00:09:07.000 Hi, I kind of need help.

00:09:09.000 Suicidal thoughts.

00:09:10.000 I guess I'm 15 years old trying to get HRT for my transition.

00:09:14.000 As of right now, I've been on a six month wait list for visiting a specialist in Prince George for a month.

00:09:19.000 Now I'm from British Columbia and I live in a very rural area.

00:09:22.000 I'm noticing heavy changes in my appearance every month.

00:09:25.000 By the time I'm actually able to visit, I may have severe damage from testosterone changing my body.

00:09:30.000 This is extremely stressful.

00:09:33.000 The weight alone makes me want to die.

00:09:35.000 The uncertainty, not knowing how the HRT will even affect me, not knowing if I'll ever be me, but add to it the slow degradation of my body in front of my very eyes, awaiting this appointment.

00:09:47.000 It hurts.

00:09:48.000 I'm genuinely considering taking my own life.

00:09:51.000 Is there any way, literally any way possible?

00:09:53.000 I can speed this process up.

00:09:54.000 I think another reason why your press doesn't want to talk about this and your government doesn't want to talk about this is this again is a failure of the Canadian healthcare system.

00:10:04.000 Here's a guy clearly needing help and can't get in to see a doctor.

00:10:10.000 So, I mean, you have, nobody wants to talk about the ideological issues because you can't anymore because of speech control.

00:10:17.000 Nobody wants to talk about the corruption of medicine and this, this gender dysphoria nonsense that we have trapped people into where you can't say it's all affirmative. 0.97

00:10:29.000 It's got to all be affirmative.

00:10:30.000 And you've got the failure of healthcare and what are they going to do?

00:10:34.000 They're going to turn this into a gun thing instead of actually looking at the real problem.

00:10:39.000 Is there any of that that makes sense to you, Cosman, as a Canadian?

00:10:44.000 Well, it doesn't make sense, no.

00:10:46.000 And it's troubling watching this.

00:10:49.000 I mean, we at Juneau News report on this stuff all of the time, but the legacy media decides to completely ignore it, to call all this stuff like hoaxes and disinformation, disinformation, misinformation.

00:11:03.000 You have to realize, Glenn, that Canadians at large, the ones who are tuned into the establishment media, are fed a constant stream of pro-gender ideology propaganda, pro-liberal government messaging all of the time.

00:11:21.000 That's why we see, you know, Prime Minister Mark Carney have huge amounts of support among the Canadian public.

00:11:29.000 According to recent polls, Canadians are fed this diet of propaganda and do not have access to, you know, alternative or independent media coverage like they do in the United States, unfortunately, at least to the same extent.

00:11:45.000 So, yeah, you really see this.

00:11:48.000 And I would like to mention that British Columbia is really ground zero for a lot of this transgender stuff. 1.00

00:11:54.000 It was a few years ago that they actually they actually threw a father in jail because he objected to his child's, his daughter's medical gender transition, putting her on puberty blockers.

00:12:08.560 And they threw him in jail for contempt of court because he continued to refer to his daughter as a she as his daughter.

00:12:16.060 Right. Is there any talk about SSRIs or hallucinogens or anything else that this kid was taught is, I mean, is anybody talking about the possibility of even that playing a role?

00:12:32.220 Yes, absolutely.

00:12:33.740 So in the social media posts that are emerging, Jesse experimented with drugs.

00:12:40.260 You know, he talks about using psilocybin mushrooms.

00:12:44.900 He talks about using DMT, dimethyltryptamine.

00:12:49.760 He talks about about using other drugs and seeking medical concoctions to treat all of his various psychological issues.

00:12:59.260 So it definitely played a role.

00:13:01.820 Now, was he on drugs at the time of the shooting?

00:13:05.680 We were not sure we haven't seen a toxicology report or anything indicate that.

00:13:13.140 How is this going to end?

00:13:14.920 I mean, how do you see this?

00:13:17.400 Is there is anybody going to wake up to anything in Canada because of this?

00:13:24.600 Unfortunately, the way I think this is going to go is because of the way the media and the police have bungled this issue

00:13:31.940 and have completely made fools of themselves to the general public and I think to the world,

00:13:37.000 they're going to try to forget about this and bury this story as quickly as possible and move on.

00:13:43.980 Secondly, I think the liberal government, based on past decisions and behaviors,

00:13:48.420 are going to use this to further clamp down on law-abiding citizens who own firearms.

00:13:57.340 So essentially, the former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau introduced what's called an order in council,

00:14:04.300 which is a form of executive order in the parliamentary system.

00:14:10.160 It's a little bit different, but he banned about 1,000 different types of firearms.

00:14:15.420 Now, these firearms aren't generally used in crimes.

00:14:19.720 A lot of them are just used for sports shooting, hunting, et cetera.

00:14:23.320 But he just did this blanket ban, and they're in the process of enforcing a federal gun grab,

00:14:31.180 although I will say that police throughout the country are refusing to do the dirty work for the government.

00:14:39.100 But they're essentially doing what they call a buyback program.

00:14:43.000 But it's a federally enforced gun grab, and they have a grace period.

00:14:49.300 And once that grace period ends, if you own any of these 1,000 firearms,

00:14:54.140 which you actually purchased legally and owned legally and used responsibly,

00:15:00.120 you can be considered a criminal, and they can pursue charges against you for owning these guns.

00:15:05.960 So I think based on the weapons that were used, we know there was a modified handgun.

00:15:12.080 I'm not sure what the modifications were or whether those actually were already illegal.

00:15:17.940 We know there were some rifles used as well.

00:15:21.460 I think they're going to push to ban things like the SKS, which is, I believe, in consultation for a ban.

00:15:29.060 And then they're going to go further with their clampdown on people's rights to own guns in Canada,

00:15:36.860 as limited as they are already.

00:15:41.840 Cosmin, I look at the world, I look at America, and I think we are on the edge.

00:15:48.760 And we're in real trouble.

00:15:50.280 Freedom is on the ropes.

00:15:52.480 But then I look to Europe and England and, frankly, Canada,

00:15:56.820 Canada, and I see you guys just on the very edge.

00:16:01.100 Do the Canadian people feel that way at all?

00:16:04.200 Is anybody really awake there?

00:16:08.740 Yeah, Glenn, I definitely think there are people who are awake and who are aware of what's going on and the direction.

00:16:18.260 Yeah, but like I said, it is the constant stream of propaganda that most people are fed.

00:16:26.260 And it's quite complicated because a lot of this has to do with the way the media is funded.

00:16:32.560 So a vast majority of the main media companies in Canada take government subsidies.

00:16:39.500 So in the last decade, the federal government has created all these plans, all these schemes to fund the media directly,

00:16:49.340 which creates a huge problem of transparency and accountability and the ability for the media to actually remain objective as they claim to be when they're accepting federal money to ensure their existence.

00:17:03.260 Because on their own, they can't survive.

00:17:05.960 These legacy media companies are going under.

00:17:08.320 Their stocks are plunging.

00:17:09.580 And the only lifeline they have is the government redistributing taxpayer money.

00:17:16.560 And on top of that, we have the CBC.

00:17:19.300 We fund, taxpayers fund the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Public Broadcaster,

00:17:25.580 which is a crown corporation, meaning a federal government organization, to the tune of $1.4 billion every year.

00:17:34.360 And they couldn't even get this story right.

00:17:37.080 It took, you know, at least 24 hours for them to come out with the name of the shooter, to identify the shooter,

00:17:45.880 when independent media like us, we were already on top of it like the night before.

00:17:53.400 Unbelievable.

00:17:54.840 Cosman, thank you for everything that you do.

00:17:56.920 You're one of the great journalists and journalism outlets in Canada.

00:18:02.180 Anything we can ever do to help you continue to stand, you just let us know.

00:18:05.900 Thank you.

00:18:07.140 Thanks, Gwen.

00:18:08.080 Appreciate it.

00:18:08.740 You bet.

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00:19:44.080 Okay, so accelerationism, the belief that everything needs to be burned down, that nothing is worth saving.

00:19:54.600 And I told you that the key change in the last several years is that this is more connected than it ever has been.

00:20:04.600 Okay.

00:20:05.000 It's not more disciplined.

00:20:06.580 It's not necessarily bigger in raw numbers.

00:20:09.740 Okay.

00:20:10.600 But it is more connected.

00:20:12.360 It's quickly mobilized now.

00:20:15.180 It's well-financed, more capable of spreading tactics and targets and narratives.

00:20:21.020 Accelerationism.

00:20:22.320 It's mainstream.

00:20:24.320 And that changes the risk profile.

00:20:28.020 The second fact of this, the line between protest and insurgent behavior is now being tested.

00:20:35.120 I see up on the screen Tom Homan is now speaking.

00:20:38.380 I think he's in Minneapolis.

00:20:39.420 This is the administration understanding perception versus reality, correcting it, telling Tom Homan, you know, put the giant stick in your back pocket for a minute, walk in and get this thing done.

00:20:52.840 And he did.

00:20:53.780 And he's changing perception, but he's still holding the line and getting it done.

00:21:01.260 Protests are protected, even loud offensive protests that make you furious, but not violent ones, not ones where you're attacking.

00:21:09.600 Now, let me add on to this, a new set of facts, because for years we have told ourselves political violence was the danger.

00:21:20.000 Molotov cocktails, riots, burning down cities, broken windows, et cetera, et cetera.

00:21:24.780 And we've told ourselves that we can just stop the street chaos.

00:21:28.040 The republic would be safe.

00:21:29.740 That's a mistake.

00:21:30.600 Because before violence really becomes common, something else has to happen first.

00:21:38.100 Law has to be redefined, not as a neutral constraint, but as a weapon to be aimed.

00:21:46.500 And you're seeing it happen now.

00:21:48.500 That's why you can't get people to be prosecuted in some states.

00:21:52.840 They're using the law as a weapon.

00:21:54.460 But it has gotten much worse than that.

00:21:58.960 And you're hearing this, but I want to shape this here so you really hear what's going on.

00:22:04.460 This week, a sitting member of Congress, Sri Thandar, he leaned forward in a hearing and he told a federal law enforcement official,

00:22:15.840 you better hope you get pardoned.

00:22:19.480 Wow.

00:22:22.120 That's a threat.

00:22:24.460 Not, he didn't say, not, you know, you violated the law and you should be investigated.

00:22:31.180 What he said was, when power changes hands, we're going to punish you for enforcing the law.

00:22:38.600 That distinction is everything.

00:22:42.040 The moment the enforcement itself becomes criminalized retroactively, the rule of law does not merely weaken, it completely flips.

00:22:53.060 The message is no longer follow the law.

00:22:55.980 The message becomes, guess who's going to be in charge later?

00:23:00.080 You better act accordingly.

00:23:01.380 That is not a democracy.

00:23:05.500 That's a legitimacy war.

00:23:07.800 And this is how accelerationism migrates from the streets into the state.

00:23:14.980 Okay.

00:23:15.800 It's no longer just mass protesters or, you know, some sort of anarchist group with a bunch of slogans.

00:23:23.520 It's the core belief that is simpler and far more dangerous.

00:23:28.000 The institutions are irredeemably corrupt.

00:23:31.120 Therefore, breaking these institutions is justified in the streets.

00:23:36.340 That always turns into burn it down.

00:23:38.840 But inside the government, and you're beginning to hear it now, it starts to sound like, and we'll deal with you later.

00:23:50.000 That is nothing I have ever heard ever in my lifetime in America.

00:23:57.200 And it should chill all of us to the bone.

00:23:59.220 When lawmakers openly promise prosecutions after elections, they're not talking about justice.

00:24:07.700 They're signaling veto power, the rule by anticipation of punishment.

00:24:13.720 Now, let's just say, let's call a spade a spade.

00:24:17.740 Donald Trump said this, I'm going to put her in jail, lock her up, lock her up, lock her up. 1.00

00:24:22.400 And everybody at that time took him seriously.

00:24:25.700 And we told you, don't take him, don't take him literally, take him seriously.

00:24:31.120 He'll be a law and order guy, but he's not going to lock her up.

00:24:34.680 Okay.

00:24:35.460 Some people believed he would.

00:24:37.220 He didn't.

00:24:38.620 He didn't.

00:24:43.340 They do believe it.

00:24:45.380 Okay.

00:24:45.980 You notice what follows because voices echo the same logic warnings that statutes of limitation

00:24:54.260 are going to be used as countdown clocks, public speculation about resurrecting prosecutions.

00:25:02.220 Once political protection ends, you better be careful.

00:25:07.320 You better hope the casual talk now.

00:25:11.140 And this is happening of Nuremberg style trials for domestic opponents, Nuremberg trials,

00:25:19.120 applause for the idea of prosecuting the former regime at every level.

00:25:23.820 And anyone who was participating, that means you, that means me, anybody who was on the side

00:25:32.680 of the right, you better look out because when we get power.

00:25:38.980 This is not about one person.

00:25:43.880 This is not about left versus right.

00:25:46.260 This is about something far more corrosive.

00:25:49.320 The normalization of the idea that power exists to punish the previous holder of power.

00:25:57.140 You're a banana republic. 0.97

00:26:00.680 History is really clear.

00:26:03.080 Okay.

00:26:03.500 In functioning republics, elections decide who governs.

00:26:07.460 In failing republics, elections decide who gets immunity.

00:26:13.620 Once that line is crossed, enforcement stops being about lawfulness and becomes about survival.

00:26:21.680 Ask yourself what happens next.

00:26:24.360 If you're a federal agent, do you enforce the law or do you hesitate?

00:26:30.400 I mean, you have to calculate now who's in control of the DOJ in three years.

00:26:35.420 I don't know what to do.

00:26:37.000 This is what's happening.

00:26:38.040 Listen to this.

00:26:39.100 This is what is happening in Iran.

00:26:42.020 As the regime is collapsing, everybody who is working with the regime, all the police now have to decide,

00:26:49.020 am I going to enforce what the regime says or am I going to do the opposite because a new regime is coming in?

00:26:55.680 Some of them don't want to be killed themselves but are brave enough to say, I'm not going to do that.

00:27:02.460 But this is an actual state that is rounding people up and killing them.

00:27:09.120 When you kill 35,000 people in two weeks, that's a state where you should be saying, 1.00

00:27:17.380 you better watch out because when we get in, we will find you and there will be Nuremberg trials.

00:27:24.020 Not this.

00:27:27.120 Let me ask you, if you're a prosecutor, do you apply statutes evenly?

00:27:32.220 Or do you quietly protect yourself from future retaliation?

00:27:36.860 If you're a citizen, do you trust the investigations?

00:27:39.580 Or do you now assume that every indictment is political theater and that's it?

00:27:44.780 This, we're in the laboratory phase right now.

00:27:47.440 There's no tanks.

00:27:48.160 There's no coups.

00:27:49.400 Just hesitation.

00:27:51.620 There's going to be growing fear and selective action.

00:27:56.440 Once selective enforcement takes root,

00:27:58.980 the street movements learn super fast.

00:28:02.800 They already have.

00:28:04.300 I'm not going to be prosecuted. 0.89

00:28:05.940 I can burn this city down.

00:28:06.920 I'm not going to be prosecuted.

00:28:09.680 And then they begin to realize, I don't need majority support.

00:28:13.280 I don't even need persuasion.

00:28:16.380 I only need to make enforcement so dangerous legally, politically, reputationally, physically.

00:28:23.120 I just need to make it so dangerous that if officers actually enforce the law,

00:28:30.660 they risk getting killed by a mob in the streets.

00:28:34.080 Or if prosecutors act, they risk career death and actual death.

00:28:40.500 If judges rule, you're going to be delegitimized.

00:28:44.700 So the enforcement slows down.

00:28:46.980 Then it fragments.

00:28:48.020 Then it becomes discretionary.

00:28:49.780 Isn't our law really quite discretionary right now?

00:28:53.260 You're not a country if you have discretionary laws.

00:28:56.960 And when the law becomes optional, intimidation becomes rational.

00:29:03.380 And this is how republics fall in a quiet recalibration of fear.

00:29:09.480 And at that point, violence doesn't need to be widespread.

00:29:14.400 It only needs to be understandable.

00:29:17.000 That, that is the most dangerous word in politics.

00:29:27.080 Listen, have you heard this?

00:29:30.900 Well, I don't like it.

00:29:32.760 But I understand why they're doing it.

00:29:35.160 Just make it understandable.

00:29:37.280 Well, I don't support threats.

00:29:39.200 But look at what the other side is doing.

00:29:41.220 It's understandable.

00:29:43.680 Well, this is what happens when institutions fail.

00:29:47.480 It's understandable.

00:29:51.480 Understandable is the permission slip.

00:29:55.320 And history teaches that early phases, the one we're in right now, is the decisive one.

00:30:01.180 No, they are in the streets.

00:30:05.220 I can understand why they are angry, but that does not excuse them of this behavior.

00:30:12.880 And they must pay the price.

00:30:15.360 Okay?

00:30:16.340 Right now, that's not what's being said.

00:30:18.540 It's just understandable.

00:30:19.720 And when prosecutions are still selective, but being promised, it begins to sound like a threat.

00:30:31.420 When threats are still rhetorical, are they being normalized?

00:30:38.020 Yes.

00:30:39.580 And that's when recruitment accelerates.

00:30:42.820 That's when copycats appear everywhere.

00:30:45.120 That's when everyone starts preparing for the worst, and the preparation itself becomes the engine of collapse.

00:30:55.120 This has to be dismantled.

00:30:56.500 This has to stop.

00:30:58.920 Because you're not going to get freedom.

00:31:00.460 You're going to get fractional justice.

00:31:02.040 And it's going to flip until, as I told you, we will swing so wildly back and forth until the real authoritarian steps up and says,

00:31:15.120 this is going to stop.

00:31:16.920 And they grab power.

00:31:18.640 And when they grab power, they stop the vote from counting.

00:31:25.960 We're there.

00:31:29.220 Understand the SAVE Act?

00:31:32.420 You're going to get cycles of revenge dressed up as accountability.

00:31:37.260 You're going to get bureaucrats who answer, not to the law, but to future protection.

00:31:43.280 You get citizens that withdraw because speaking the truth is too dangerous.

00:31:48.140 Silence is much easier and much safer.

00:31:50.100 Just go along to get along.

00:31:51.160 Don't say anything.

00:31:52.640 And eventually, you get a country where elections no longer settle disputes.

00:31:57.300 They just decide who gets prosecuted next.

00:32:01.420 That's not America.

00:32:06.040 And I don't think that's an America that the people I know who vote differently than me, that they want that either.

00:32:13.900 But it will be America if we keep pretending that this is normal.

00:32:19.140 It is not normal.

00:32:20.520 The antidote is not rage.

00:32:22.800 It's not denial either.

00:32:25.120 It's not cheering when your enemies are threatened.

00:32:28.040 The antidote is one standard applied to everyone in daylight.

00:32:34.540 No retroactive criminalization of lawful enforcement.

00:32:38.220 No moral licensing for intimidation.

00:32:40.560 No euphemisms when power is being wielded through fear.

00:32:44.700 Because the only thing stronger than anger on the street, stronger than an activist mob, stronger than politicized bureaucracy,

00:32:52.460 is a public that believes the law is still real.

00:32:56.500 I believe it's still real.

00:33:01.860 Fight for that, America.

00:33:04.960 Wake up.

00:33:06.620 And don't let others slumber.

00:33:08.700 The republic is indeed at stake.

00:33:13.580 This is the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:33:16.500 Okay, so this 250-page report has come out from Election Oversight Group.

00:33:23.480 The reason why I want to talk to you about this today is because of what happened with Pam Bondi yesterday.

00:33:31.580 And I, honestly, I need some new insight on this because I just don't know where to go with this Pam Bondi thing.

00:33:37.780 Because I thought it was not good yesterday.

00:33:41.700 I just don't think she's capable of fixing the errors that have just piled up.

00:33:50.140 And we have to fix the DOJ.

00:33:52.540 It must be fixed.

00:33:53.880 Because there's too many important things that are riding on it.

00:33:56.600 One thing that they are doing that is right is the Fulton County, Georgia situation with the election of 2020.

00:34:05.300 The morning after the election, that's just to remind you, Georgia's Secretary of State went on national television and said 4.7 million votes had been cast.

00:34:14.640 He said only about 2% remain to be counted, which is roughly 94,000 ballots.

00:34:21.500 And he said at this moment, the margin is decisive.

00:34:26.020 He even suggested if one candidate won 100% of all of the outstanding votes, it's not going to change the outcome.

00:34:33.860 But when the final tally first came in, the total wasn't 4.7 million votes that had been cast.

00:34:41.840 It was 5.023 million.

00:34:46.880 Okay, wait, wait, what?

00:34:50.260 And in Fulton County alone, the absentee ballots reportedly rose from 74,000 to more than 148,000 between election night and final certification.

00:35:02.480 Where did that come from?

00:35:03.900 And that's why this shift happened, it reversed the apparent outcome of the state, and that's why Donald Trump was like, wait a minute, cheating is going on.

00:35:18.260 The report now states, no known explanation has been provided to justify the surge.

00:35:25.900 If the numbers change by that magnitude, after officials publicly declare with near-final certainty, then again, we've got to get it right.

00:35:42.820 Not almost right, we need it right.

00:35:46.260 We don't need defensiveness, dismissal, we need clarity.

00:35:50.940 The report then goes into the chain of custody.

00:35:56.640 Okay, listen to this.

00:35:58.300 Investigators found that 148,000 absentee ballots were accepted and counted without first performing mandatory signature verification.

00:36:09.940 Tens of thousands allegedly arrived at State Farm Arena in unsecured mail carts.

00:36:16.880 Wait, what?

00:36:17.520 Do you know what chain of custody is?

00:36:21.780 Chain of custody is really important.

00:36:24.000 It's not a partisan phrase.

00:36:25.260 It is a basic legal principle.

00:36:28.740 Chain of custody comes into play a lot of times in criminal trials, also financial audits.

00:36:35.100 When you gather evidence, you have to know who had that evidence.

00:36:40.660 That's one of the problems with the Epstein files.

00:36:44.160 What's the chain of custody?

00:36:45.500 You had all the evidence whose hands were on that.

00:36:49.220 You have to know.

00:36:50.400 And if the chain of custody breaks, then you can't rely on that being reliable anymore.

00:36:56.260 You can't count that as reliable information because you don't know how it got from this place to the next place.

00:37:03.180 The next thing they found was the missing tabulator tapes.

00:37:09.440 This is really important because election law requires daily zero tapes.

00:37:16.040 What that means is it is it's a check to prove the machine starts at zero.

00:37:23.420 It requires closing tapes to document the total at the day's end.

00:37:28.820 So it proved it was at zero, and then it proves that this is the number of votes that came in.

00:37:36.360 According to testimony cited in the report, more than 100 required tabulator tapes representing about 315,000 early votes weren't signed or weren't signed properly.

00:37:50.540 State investigators say they couldn't locate the required zero tapes for early voting on many machines.

00:37:59.100 What? You can't what?

00:38:00.080 Now, the report concludes that the statute requires accounting and chain of custody records, but they don't exist in the entirety of early voting.

00:38:15.840 Okay, well, that's a really big failure.

00:38:21.720 Then the last problem is the math problem.

00:38:25.480 The math problem, the county records reportedly show 148,318 absentee ballots counted.

00:38:35.760 Yet, again, this is going to be hard to do.

00:38:39.540 I'm going to give you time so you can work out the math on this.

00:38:43.580 You had only 125,785 voters.

00:38:52.280 148,000 voters, the votes cast, but only 125,000 people showed up to vote.

00:39:01.680 So, what?

00:39:04.260 That's a pretty big gap.

00:39:06.300 More than 22,000 ballots in a race that was decided by 11,779 votes.

00:39:14.600 After multiple certifications, the counts didn't match one another.

00:39:22.280 Now, here's where this becomes serious, way beyond politics.

00:39:28.240 Philip Stark, he does stats.

00:39:31.200 He's from Berkeley.

00:39:33.180 So, I would say he's probably not a conservative.

00:39:39.820 He came in and he reviewed all of the aspects of the process.

00:39:43.520 Here's what he didn't do.

00:39:46.100 He didn't say this is widespread fraud.

00:39:48.980 But he did say there are real reasons to distrust the election outcome.

00:39:55.440 He found machine counts and audit tallies disagreed substantially, even about the number of ballots that were cast.

00:40:03.620 He wrote that some ballots, listen to this, appeared to be included at least twice in the original counts and multiple times in recounts.

00:40:14.080 He warned that unreliable ballot marking devices could make recounts a little more than security theater.

00:40:22.140 Those are his words.

00:40:23.040 Security theater.

00:40:24.300 That's a little devastating to the trust in the republic and our vote.

00:40:31.600 Because here's the truth.

00:40:34.620 Republics don't crash when one side loses.

00:40:38.060 Republics collapse when half the country believes the referee is unreliable.

00:40:44.480 And that's what's happening.

00:40:46.260 We don't believe the referee.

00:40:48.100 This is why the position of Pam Bondi is so important.

00:40:52.600 And she seems to be doing a good job on this one.

00:40:57.140 Because historically, 1876, this, I mean, we just recovered from the Civil War and we almost lost the Union post-Civil War in 1876.

00:41:09.880 Tammany Hall, New York.

00:41:11.220 It operated on ballot manipulation. 0.99

00:41:15.220 Reformers came in and they forced structural transparency because it was all garbage, all of it. 0.99

00:41:24.680 And everybody knew it. 0.95

00:41:26.580 Nations in Latin America, Eastern Europe, why do they spiral out of control? 0.77

00:41:32.260 Because their ballot was imperfect?

00:41:34.640 No.

00:41:35.060 They spiral out of control because the citizens lose faith and trust that ballots even mattered.

00:41:45.080 The flame of liberty.

00:41:47.480 To have a flame, you need oxygen.

00:41:51.760 Confidence is the oxygen that brings the flame of liberty to life.

00:41:56.860 Without it, everything suffocates.

00:42:00.840 This is why the Fulton County thing matters so much.

00:42:03.780 It's not about proving somebody right or proving somebody wrong.

00:42:06.600 It's not about re-litigating personalities.

00:42:08.800 I mean, they actually said to Donald Trump, what difference does it make?

00:42:12.040 It's not going to change the election.

00:42:13.560 No, it's not.

00:42:15.240 But we must know what happens so it doesn't happen again. 1.00

00:42:19.980 Are people this stupid? 1.00

00:42:22.360 I think not. 1.00

00:42:24.000 And then I go out and I talk to some people and I'm like, oh my gosh, they are this stupid. 0.99

00:42:27.160 This is about answering questions completely, transparently, and publicly. 1.00

00:42:35.980 If the system is sound, it needs to be proven in daylight.

00:42:41.180 If procedures failed, they have to be fixed openly.

00:42:45.480 If records are missing, we need to know why they're missing and then correct the structure or arrest the people so it can't happen again.

00:42:56.240 Because if Americans conclude that outcomes can shift without clear documentation, if chain of custody is just shrugged off on, I don't know, this paperwork, what difference does it matter?

00:43:10.400 If audits contradict themselves and then we're told don't dwell on that.

00:43:16.080 It's an audit.

00:43:17.120 What do you mean don't dwell on that?

00:43:20.920 Of course I dwell on that.

00:43:22.420 I have to dwell on that.

00:43:23.860 It's an audit.

00:43:25.520 Imagine going into the IRS and they audit you and they come back and they say your numbers aren't right.

00:43:31.300 And you're like, don't dwell on that.

00:43:32.940 Don't dwell on those numbers.

00:43:34.320 Of course they're going to dwell on that.

00:43:36.040 It's the numbers and math is math.

00:43:39.340 And if you can't fix those things, then elections stop being the peaceful transfer of power.

00:43:45.540 And isn't that what we're all afraid of?

00:43:48.620 Isn't the left afraid of that?

00:43:50.880 And isn't the right afraid of that?

00:43:52.580 That one time somebody's not going to believe the election and they're going to seize power.

00:43:57.360 You want to stop that, then you must have an accounting on what happened in Fulton County.

00:44:05.680 Because if you don't, it's permanent suspicion.

00:44:09.520 And once suspicion replaces consent, we're no longer a self-governing republic.

00:44:15.540 However, our founders were so super smart.

00:44:20.460 They did not design a system based on blind trust of officials or the government.

00:44:26.380 They, in fact, developed a system that had checks and balances everywhere.

00:44:30.580 And the last check and balance is in your First Amendment.

00:44:33.660 I have a right to protest.

00:44:35.440 I have a right to question the government.

00:44:37.320 I have a right to demand answers from the government.

00:44:40.140 It's my right.

00:44:41.140 It's the first right.

00:44:42.900 And on top of that, my religion can compel me to answer those questions.

00:44:48.740 And I have a press that can ask those questions.

00:44:52.780 The press is meant to question the government, not the people.

00:44:57.160 Well, all of it has to be a verifiable process, paper trails, public counts, checks and balances.

00:45:06.040 I wanted you to hear this from me because this report came out, 250-page report from the election oversight group, and I didn't hear an awful lot.

00:45:15.400 And I don't know if people understand why this is so important.

00:45:22.220 If we don't restore confidence one way or another, then every single future election is going to be fought not just at the ballot box, but in the mind of the citizens who no longer believe that the box is even secure or valid.

00:45:35.960 And that is a far more dangerous place for a nation to be than anything we're in right now.

00:45:42.420 So if I hear one more person say, what difference does it make?

00:45:45.620 It's not going to change the election.

00:45:51.220 Here's the difference.

00:45:52.860 The question is whether Americans can trust how we decide.

00:45:58.040 And if we can't answer that clearly, convincingly, and with records that we can show one another, then the damage does not belong to the Republicans.

00:46:09.320 The damage does not belong to the Democrats or the Independents.

00:46:12.720 It belongs to the Republic itself.

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