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00:03:20.700 Fonnie Willis.

00:03:22.340 Oh, Fonnie.

00:03:24.140 Now, in case you don't remember, Fonnie Willis is the prosecutor.

00:03:27.200 She is the DA that is making this case about Donald Trump trying to steal the election, yada, yada, yada.

00:03:37.480 Well, there's a little problem there because somebody found out that she was paying one of the expert witnesses and investigators an awful lot of money.

00:03:50.300 He was making, like, I think almost twice as much, right?

00:03:54.500 As some of the other experts.

00:03:55.940 Yeah, some of the other people.

00:03:57.260 So people started looking into that.

00:03:59.700 And then the rumor came to this investigator that they were having an affair and they were going on lavish trips together.

00:04:07.780 And so they wondered, wow, hmm, I mean, is something going on here that, you know, might lack some professionalism?

00:04:18.000 Yes.

00:04:19.400 And then there became this little squabble of when did you hire him?

00:04:27.520 Did you hire him before or after this case?

00:04:31.100 What is it?

00:04:34.160 There was also a divorce going on.

00:04:38.060 And he was getting a divorce, this prosecutor.

00:04:40.760 He was getting a divorce.

00:04:42.240 And it came up in the divorce trial that those two were having an affair.

00:04:48.680 And he said, no, I've never had an affair in my marriage.

00:04:52.820 Okay.

00:04:53.360 Well, that wasn't true.

00:04:55.180 But he got on the stand and he said, well, it depends on, I'm not making this up.

00:05:00.120 Depends on how you define marriage.

00:05:02.300 In my head, we were divorced for a long time.

00:05:05.700 So, okay, not usually the way we do that, but okay, let's redefine some more things about marriage.

00:05:14.160 So, the problem is they swore under oath several times that they didn't have a relationship at all prior to 20.

00:05:30.300 Well, again, this was a big part of the testimony.

00:05:32.940 Do you mean romantic relationship?

00:05:35.020 Yes, I do.

00:05:35.860 Or do you mean relationship as if they had met each other?

00:05:39.020 Do we have any porn music?

00:05:40.880 You know, that kind of a relationship.

00:05:43.080 You know what I mean?

00:05:43.840 Okay.

00:05:45.840 They...

00:05:46.320 This guy.

00:05:49.240 Yeah, I could see this guy.

00:05:50.620 Ding dong.

00:05:51.180 Yeah.

00:05:51.680 Pizza delivery.

00:05:53.480 Okay.

00:05:54.060 All right.

00:05:55.520 So, they had a...

00:05:58.280 They admitted to the relationship after he was hired.

00:06:01.680 And I believe he was hired in November of 2021.

00:06:04.260 So, they, I think, said the relationship started in early 2022.

00:06:09.920 Right.

00:06:10.440 And so...

00:06:11.040 After he was hired.

00:06:11.780 Yeah, after he was hired.

00:06:12.860 And so, the...

00:06:14.600 Of course, you know, they went to work to say, wait a minute, this seems like it started way before that.

00:06:20.960 Right.

00:06:21.100 Including a testimony from someone, one of her best friends at the time.

00:06:24.840 And then somebody else that, you know, said attorney-to-client privilege.

00:06:29.040 Right.

00:06:29.280 Yes.

00:06:29.500 So, that's like, you know, fifth.

00:06:30.820 Okay, we know what you're saying.

00:06:32.020 Sit down.

00:06:32.380 Right.

00:06:32.760 They...

00:06:33.060 One of his attorneys was also asked about this.

00:06:36.160 And obviously, they wouldn't have asked him about this if they didn't know what the answer was.

00:06:39.440 But he couldn't...

00:06:41.000 He was able to get out of it with attorney-to-client privilege.

00:06:43.820 However, the other witness said they had been together since at least 2019.

00:06:49.000 Now, of course, this is important because the accusation here is that she's trying to extend this and do as much as they can to get as much money into this guy's pocket as possible.

00:07:00.440 In other words, her goal is not justice here.

00:07:03.260 Her goal is to enrich this guy who is, in turn, enriching her.

00:07:07.420 Right.

00:07:07.740 Now, if their answer was immediately, look, this guy's the best in the business.

00:07:12.820 Yeah, we had an affair.

00:07:14.000 It's got nothing to do with this.

00:07:15.600 We've been dating since 2019.

00:07:18.140 But it doesn't matter because, you know, I knew he did great work.

00:07:21.920 And that's why I brought him on this case.

00:07:23.060 It's got nothing to do with this case.

00:07:24.320 They probably skate scot-free on this.

00:07:26.940 But because of his divorce, they don't go down that road.

00:07:31.140 They decide instead to deny everything.

00:07:33.300 And that leads to some problems.

00:07:34.960 Some little problems.

00:07:36.220 Now, so it was really he said, she said kind of stuff.

00:07:41.920 And you didn't have any evidence except it seemed pretty obvious.

00:07:45.640 Nobody, nobody in their right mind could buy their excuses.

00:07:48.880 But if you want to have no shadow of a doubt, you don't really have any evidence.

00:07:54.560 Right.

00:07:55.260 Remember their excuses, too.

00:07:56.960 That they went on multiple expensive trips that he paid for on his business credit card.

00:08:03.860 Okay.

00:08:04.360 His business credit card.

00:08:07.140 He paid for those trips.

00:08:08.540 Then, their story is, after they returned, she took some amount, thousands and thousands of dollars, each time, out of her glob of cash she keeps at her house that there are no records of.

00:08:23.680 And she takes the thousands of dollars and gives it to him to pay back for her part of the travel.

00:08:29.260 Remember, they're dating at this point.

00:08:30.640 For her part of the travel, and then he takes it and then never deposits it into his bank account.

00:08:37.340 Right.

00:08:37.600 He just, I guess what, keeps it in his glove box and pays for gas every time in cash.

00:08:41.700 Well, I mean, it's his business credit card.

00:08:43.760 He went into the business and said, here, I owe you this, and just gave him lots of cash.

00:08:48.040 Well, there would be, of course, a record of that.

00:08:49.600 So, that's not what happened.

00:08:50.860 Well, unless the accountant at the business doesn't.

00:08:54.440 No.

00:08:54.800 We don't count cash coming in.

00:08:56.600 We just put it in, well, this drawer, you know, right here.

00:09:01.240 Oh, yeah.

00:09:01.900 Well, again, like, if you had, if he paid in cash for the trips, this might be kind of believable.

00:09:09.560 Even though it's never happened before.

00:09:12.080 This interaction between two people in a romantic relationship has never occurred.

00:09:18.220 Okay, so, now, apparently, there's something called phone records.

00:09:26.200 What?

00:09:26.920 Yes.

00:09:27.820 What does that mean?

00:09:28.420 Well, it means they can track your location by triangulating your location.

00:09:34.060 Now, this is, it's kind of interesting that the phone records show that they had a lot of late night, well, phone calls that kind of came in and, and ding dong, pizza, you know.

00:09:54.940 He was playing the pizza delivery.

00:09:56.500 He was.

00:09:57.200 I mean, you know, look, sometimes pizzas do get delivered late at night.

00:10:00.700 Yes, yes.

00:10:01.200 And then other times people look under the box.

00:10:03.800 So, they, hmm?

00:10:05.940 So, over 2,000 voice calls and just under 12,000 interactions were exchanged.

00:10:14.060 It's 12,000 text messages.

00:10:16.620 Yes, 12,000.

00:10:17.680 2,000 voice calls.

00:10:21.560 Can you think of anything more annoying than receiving 2,000 voice calls from anyone?

00:10:27.340 No.

00:10:27.600 Let alone Fonnie Willis.

00:10:28.900 Good God.

00:10:29.720 I wonder if Tony and I have.

00:10:31.160 This guy deserves hazard pay.

00:10:33.240 I wonder if Tony and I have had 2,000 calls back to each other and 12,000 text messages.

00:10:38.820 I mean, there.

00:10:39.760 There's no way.

00:10:40.240 What was the period again?

00:10:41.400 I mean, it's a year.

00:10:42.440 It was January to November.

00:10:44.160 Not a year.

00:10:44.940 10 months.

00:10:45.520 Okay.

00:10:45.740 10 months.

00:10:46.420 I mean, I talked to my wife on the phone.

00:10:49.760 I'm trying to think.

00:10:50.360 Let's go crazy and say twice a day.

00:10:54.820 I mean, I live with her, right?

00:10:56.740 Right.

00:10:56.840 Like, so I see her at home in the morning and I see her at night.

00:11:00.760 And then during the day, there's a couple times she might call or text.

00:11:04.180 I mean, you could probably, I could probably count up a month of our texts to see how many

00:11:07.760 were exchanged.

00:11:08.480 But there's no way.

00:11:09.760 It's 1,000.

00:11:10.820 So I don't carry a phone, but I have an iPad that I take texts.

00:11:15.300 And Tanya probably texts me two, three times a day.

00:11:18.580 Maximum.

00:11:19.120 Right.

00:11:19.600 Maximum.

00:11:20.120 That sounds about right.

00:11:21.360 I mean, again, I don't know.

00:11:23.820 Interactions.

00:11:24.440 It's a little bit.

00:11:25.720 It's a little bit.

00:11:26.600 Honestly, like the text messages.

00:11:28.760 Some people text a lot.

00:11:30.080 Some people write small text messages.

00:11:31.880 Some people give you the emoji reactions to them.

00:11:34.560 I don't know what counts in there.

00:11:35.880 So 12,000, maybe that's understandable.

00:11:38.860 2,000 voice calls in 10 months.

00:11:42.660 I bet I have not made 2,000 phone calls in 10 months.

00:11:46.640 If you combine every call I've made.

00:11:49.220 Now, even if, even if the 12,000 text messages were just doing the salsa dancer emoji, which

00:11:59.140 I don't.

00:12:00.020 Is there a salsa dancer emoji?

00:12:01.440 Yeah.

00:12:01.540 You've never seen that?

00:12:02.400 I have no idea what it's for.

00:12:03.820 I don't know.

00:12:04.180 I've never used an emoji.

00:12:05.240 So there's the salsa dancer.

00:12:07.820 And I don't know what the salsa dancer is supposed to represent.

00:12:11.420 I have no idea.

00:12:12.840 And so maybe that's the code salsa dancer.

00:12:16.380 You know what I mean?

00:12:16.780 It's like, hey, let's hook up.

00:12:18.160 Salsa dancer.

00:12:18.840 Right.

00:12:19.400 They have like their own code language.

00:12:20.900 If there's 12,000 salsa dancers, we know something's going on.

00:12:24.820 Because, I mean, what does that mean?

00:12:28.480 That's code.

00:12:29.540 Would you be surprised if we saw a lot of eggplants and peaches?

00:12:32.400 Okay.

00:12:32.880 I don't.

00:12:36.860 I don't know what those mean.

00:12:38.420 8,000 of the 12,000 were eggplants or peaches.

00:12:41.100 I don't.

00:12:41.900 I don't.

00:12:42.680 I guarantee they'd be like, look, have you ever had this authentic native dish that has

00:12:50.620 both peaches and eggplants? 0.99

00:12:52.680 We kept making it.

00:12:53.540 That's all.

00:12:54.080 That's it.

00:12:54.980 They will go to any length to lie about this at this point.

00:12:59.260 Oh, they are done.

00:12:59.980 Well, here's what she said.

00:13:01.480 Okay.

00:13:01.780 So just so you know, they have him how many times?

00:13:06.840 45 times?

00:13:08.180 35 occasions.

00:13:09.140 Yes.

00:13:09.500 At least.

00:13:09.920 At her.

00:13:10.540 And that was a conservative estimate.

00:13:12.340 35 was a conservative estimate about how many times she was there.

00:13:16.040 He was there.

00:13:16.340 So they have things like this, September 11th through the 12th, deeper analysis, we don't

00:13:22.620 need to say that, described the attached affidavit from the cell phone tracking.

00:13:27.900 He left the Doral area approximately 10.15 p.m., traveling directly to and arriving within

00:13:34.520 the geofence located on the Dogwood address to approximately 10.45.

00:13:39.760 He left the Dogwood address approximately 3.28 a.m.

00:13:44.200 What happens between 10.45 and 3.28 a.m.?

00:13:48.900 I mean, I'm just...

00:13:51.900 Okay, then he leaves there and he texts Fannie at 4.20.

00:14:01.320 Okay.

00:14:01.860 Can you please call her for the purposes of this?

00:14:03.880 Can you please refer to her as Fannie?

00:14:05.060 I'm having a hard time with your peaches remark.

00:14:08.160 Following a call from Fannie Willis at 11.32 p.m., which continues for 40 minutes, leaving

00:14:14.460 the tower is located near his resident in East Cobb at approximately 12.05 a.m.

00:14:18.940 ongoing call at 12.38.

00:14:22.880 So he leaves his house to drive to her house and is on the phone with her the whole way.

00:14:27.140 Right?

00:14:27.760 Okay.

00:14:28.340 Then he goes...

00:14:29.800 Just think about this.

00:14:30.640 Then he goes to this area, which includes her home, a very small area between two cell

00:14:36.600 phone towers.

00:14:38.520 And how long does he stay there till?

00:14:40.900 Until 4.45 a.m.

00:14:43.140 4.45 a.m.?

00:14:46.040 Yeah.

00:14:46.360 Is it really 4.45?

00:14:47.280 I didn't realize it was that long.

00:14:48.620 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:14:49.560 But he never spent the night, as they both testified.

00:14:52.060 No, he didn't.

00:14:52.160 He never spent the night.

00:14:53.340 Now, how would you justify this?

00:14:55.400 You know what makes sense now?

00:14:57.680 Why did the prosecution, when they were talking to him and her, why did they say, was he ever

00:15:08.160 at where you laid your head?

00:15:11.020 Yeah, that was the terminology.

00:15:12.160 Now, it was her... 0.94

00:15:12.860 She used that terminology first in the testimony.

00:15:15.240 Oh, she did?

00:15:15.780 Yeah, because she kept... 1.00

00:15:16.640 He kept...

00:15:17.540 They were trying to say, okay, what about at this condo?

00:15:19.480 She said, I don't even know.

00:15:20.540 I just kept the cash wherever I laid my head.

00:15:24.480 Now, of course, that's always what you do, right?

00:15:26.920 If you...

00:15:27.600 Let's say you go to a motel.

00:15:28.860 You bring their $50,000 in cash with you.

00:15:31.280 It just stays with you wherever you go.

00:15:32.840 I know a lot of people operate this way that are in the mob.

00:15:35.900 But other than that, I don't know of anyone who does.

00:15:39.560 So, here's what she has said since Friday, since his story broke.

00:15:44.420 Quote, the records do nothing more than demonstrate that a special prosecutor, Wade's telephone, was located somewhere...

00:15:52.840 Not him.

00:15:53.740 It was just his phone.

00:15:55.020 His phone could have been flying...

00:15:56.420 What if it has wings and it's flying around at night?

00:15:58.860 We have no idea.

00:15:59.820 He is...

00:16:00.780 He's a guy he loves to share.

00:16:03.300 He's...

00:16:03.560 Yeah, he's a big sharer.

00:16:04.380 I'm not going to use my phone between 10 o'clock at night and, let's say, 4.55 in the morning.

00:16:11.260 I've got unlimited minutes.

00:16:12.200 Yeah.

00:16:12.520 No one's using them.

00:16:13.400 Yeah.

00:16:13.600 Why don't you use my phone?

00:16:14.780 Use them.

00:16:15.380 So, records do nothing more than demonstrate that special prosecutor Wade's telephone was located somewhere within a densely populated multiple-mile radius where various residents, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, and other businesses are located.

00:16:30.780 How many of those are open at 4.20 a.m.?

00:16:32.900 Well, I'd also like to say, how many cases have you tried on cell phone location?

00:16:40.400 I know.

00:16:40.960 This is so bad.

00:16:41.780 What she is now arguing against is what's called cell hawk, and law enforcement and attorneys say, this is the system to triangulate phones.

00:16:55.500 So, everybody who is, like, you know, Googled in, how do I get rid of an 120-pound sack of meat and bones, and then, you know, the girlfriend is missing, they always like, yeah, but we have you going to the Home Depot, back to your house, then to the grave site.

00:17:17.740 I'm sorry, to that park you were visiting, you know what I mean?

00:17:22.640 This is the same thing.

00:17:24.500 So, if she discredits this, how many cases, I mean, because if I were a defense attorney and my client had gone to jail with this as the linchpin and she discredits, I'd be like,

00:17:38.160 even the district attorney says this isn't good, it's really bad.

00:17:43.220 And do you think she's the type of person who would risk multiple murder investigations just to protect herself, Glenn?

00:17:50.180 Yes.

00:17:50.420 Does she seem like that kind of person?

00:17:51.960 Yes, I do.

00:17:52.640 Wow, that's surprising.

00:17:52.940 Yes, I do, and so does he.

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00:19:12.000 You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck Program.

00:19:20.000 As always, Peter Switzer is with us.

00:19:22.340 Hello, Peter.

00:19:22.820 How are you?

00:19:24.140 Hey, I'm great, Glenn.

00:19:25.180 How are you?

00:19:25.780 Very good.

00:19:26.440 Very good.

00:19:27.040 Hey, I just got to ask you, were you anywhere near James Biden when he threw that really expensive diamond away?

00:19:34.500 No, but I think I'm going to go look through his tracks.

00:19:39.380 Yeah.

00:19:39.580 That's not the sort of thing I would throw away.

00:19:41.660 Yeah.

00:19:41.880 I mean, the excuses on all fronts between Fannie Willis and the Bidens, I mean, who believes this stuff at this point?

00:19:55.200 Yeah, no, I think that's right.

00:19:58.160 I mean, you've got a core of people who, you know, so hate Trump, so hate traditional conservatives that they are going to suspend any logic and reason and just follow blindly with the things that they're being told.

00:20:15.140 You know, we were told for a long time Joe Biden had no knowledge of any of his family's business dealings.

00:20:21.340 We now know that he does.

00:20:23.540 And he's reverted to, well, I didn't make any money off of it.

00:20:26.900 And that's not true either.

00:20:28.000 And so you see this pattern continuously.

00:20:30.560 But this is the onward march of the truth, Glenn.

00:20:33.520 You've been on this on so many fronts.

00:20:35.280 We've tried to be as well.

00:20:37.060 The truth is undeniable.

00:20:38.860 People will kind of pretend it's not there.

00:20:40.820 They'll obscure it.

00:20:41.700 They'll attack the messenger.

00:20:42.860 But I still believe truth wins out in the end.

00:20:46.280 And you're seeing, I think, the House of Cards starting to implode.

00:20:50.080 I think so, too.

00:20:51.500 Before we get into the new evidence, why do you say that?

00:20:55.440 What do you see?

00:20:57.220 What I see is I see the attitude and trends of the American people.

00:21:01.540 I mean, they were, you know, they were told repeatedly that Joe Biden was a centrist, that he was the adult authority.

00:21:08.120 And I think sort of the last vestiges of the mainstream media institutions were able to persuade a sizable portion of people to that fact.

00:21:19.600 I think a lot of people now feel betrayed.

00:21:22.140 I mean, I have friends who were, you know, Biden supporters in 2020 who said, this is not the guy that we elected.

00:21:28.540 Forget the cognitive stuff.

00:21:30.000 And this is the problem.

00:21:32.200 I think a lot of these institutions believe that they can continue to deceive and manipulate without a cost.

00:21:39.440 Well, it's costing them in terms of their credibility, and it's severely damaged.

00:21:43.840 And if you look at the polls just on the Biden corruption story, which we've been on, you know, since 2018, you've now got in the high 60 percent on all these surveys, Harvard, Harris, ABC News, et cetera, saying that the American people believing that Joe Biden either committed crimes or engaged in unethical behavior to help his family's business.

00:22:06.960 So that to me is an amazing number.

00:22:09.020 They haven't, though, connected it to the policies, for instance, the balloon, the Chinese balloon.

00:22:15.220 We had another one, you know, we thought, you know, this one is apparently a hobbyist.

00:22:19.160 I don't know if that's true or not.

00:22:21.060 But, you know, when you see things that are happening with China, you're like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

00:22:26.960 For instance, on the border, you have, I think, 46 questions.

00:22:30.700 If you're coming into the United States illegally, you have 46 questions you have to be asked. 0.98

00:22:35.940 But he told the Department of Homeland Security and Border Patrol they could only ask, what was it, seven or something like that?

00:22:43.800 Right.

00:22:44.040 If you're from China and nobody connects that.

00:22:47.300 Can you help make that connection here?

00:22:50.720 Yeah.

00:22:51.040 I mean, look, I think one of the things I talk about in the book is the whole issue of fentanyl.

00:22:56.780 Hang on just a second.

00:22:57.600 Hang on, hang on, hang on.

00:22:58.400 And I just want to teach you this, and I know you know this already, but stop referring to it as my book.

00:23:05.200 It's called Blood Money.

00:23:07.260 So every time, you know, it's like I talk about in Blood Money, just trying to help you sell.

00:23:12.200 Go ahead.

00:23:14.320 Thanks, Glenn.

00:23:15.760 You're welcome.

00:23:16.220 Yeah, no, it's in Blood Money, I talk about how, you know, I got a lot of documents leaked from Homeland Security, from other government agencies.

00:23:27.180 China's involvement in fentanyl is completely at every link in the chain, not just the precursors that everybody knows about.

00:23:34.860 The port that the precursors go into Mexico, that port is run by a Chinese company.

00:23:39.400 The precursors are sent to a small town in northern Mexico where 2,000 Chinese nationals happen to be living, helping the drug cartels turn the fentanyl into, you know, the precursors into fentanyl. 0.73

00:23:53.220 They use Chinese pill presses.

00:23:55.500 Homeland Security says Chinese companies sold those pill presses to the cartels at cost.

00:24:01.140 They're not even price gouging them.

00:24:03.060 They're selling them at cost to create this poison, which is poisoning Americans.

00:24:07.580 So, Peter, I've said for a long time that this is the drug war.

00:24:15.140 They learned this, you know, in the opium wars, what England did to them, they're doing to us. 0.66

00:24:21.660 Does that stand up?

00:24:23.760 Absolutely, 100%.

00:24:25.180 They talk about that.

00:24:27.420 And here's the thing.

00:24:28.740 I mean, they are involved in every level from the precursors to the money laundering.

00:24:32.900 The drug cartels used to launder their money in Latin American banks.

00:24:36.220 They now launder them in Chinese state-owned banks.

00:24:39.960 And they actually use some Chinese students that are here on education visas are the ones that are laundering the money for these cartels.

00:24:48.120 So here's the problem, Glenn.

00:24:50.760 That's what China is doing.

00:24:52.320 And to those of us who have studied China, to a certain extent, that's not surprising.

00:24:56.300 Here is the shocking, surprising part to me, which is our political class, many of them, will not talk about China's involvement.

00:25:06.100 And the reason is they are compromised.

00:25:09.460 You ask, connect the Biden flow of money to a particular policy.

00:25:13.640 I would say sentinel.

00:25:15.240 Think about this reality for a second.

00:25:17.040 I talk about this in Blood Money.

00:25:18.400 The guy that leads a Chinese criminal gang called UBG, this is the criminal gang that set up the Sinaloa cartel in the fentanyl trade and made them the kings of fentanyl. 0.95

00:25:31.740 Everybody acknowledges UBG did that.

00:25:34.300 The guy that heads it up is Zhang Anlo.

00:25:36.820 He goes by the name White Wolf.

00:25:39.180 White Wolf has a business partner who, as I document in the book, sent $5 million to the Biden family.

00:25:45.980 Now, does Joe Biden really want to have a conversation about Chinese involvement in the fentanyl trade?

00:25:52.520 No.

00:25:52.780 And that's why he won't do it.

00:25:54.400 That's why he won't confront them, even though it is now the leading cause of death for people under the age of 45 in the United States.

00:26:01.660 It's like a jetliner getting shot down every single day, 365 days a year.

00:26:07.360 That's what's happening to us.

00:26:09.180 Joe Biden won't talk about it because he's compromised.

00:26:11.400 And as I think I also show in the book, the same thing with Gavin Newsom, Mitch McConnell, Adam Schiff, and others.

00:26:18.580 They do not want to have this conversation because they have entanglements that are very, very embarrassing for them politically.

00:26:26.720 Talk a little bit about these people, Peter, because as you do in all of your books, this isn't a partisan attack.

00:26:32.380 You go after, you know, when Mitch McConnell is guilty, you go after him.

00:26:35.880 When Gavin Newsom is the target, you go after him.

00:26:38.580 So talk a little bit about some of these figures specifically, because it's hard for people to believe that when you're talking about the cost of life that is tied to the fentanyl situation, that people would be this, you know, this absent when talking about this.

00:26:56.320 But it seems like they are.

00:26:58.780 No, that's a great question.

00:27:00.180 I mean, I'll give the Gavin Newsom part to me was perhaps the most surprising.

00:27:04.580 You know, Governor of California obviously recently took a trip to China where he talked about how he just loves the Chinese government.

00:27:12.920 He talked to them about fentanyl, but emphasized it's not about finger pointing.

00:27:17.820 The one people he did point fingers at when he was in China was Republicans in the United States saying that they're too hard on on Beijing.

00:27:25.860 So, you know, in California, since 2016, you've had a twelve hundred percent increase in fentanyl deaths.

00:27:33.520 Gavin Newsom does not want to talk about China's role.

00:27:35.860 Why is that?

00:27:36.960 Well, when you look back into his history, beginning when he was mayor in San Francisco, he has a longtime relationship collaboration with figures that we know are involved in Chinese organized crime.

00:27:49.900 When he was mayor of San Francisco, he appointed a gentleman named Alan Long to head up redevelopment, economic redevelopment in Chinatown, San Francisco.

00:27:59.980 Turns out the guy was a dragon head in an organized crime syndicate, Chinese organized crime syndicate that was involved in the drug trade.

00:28:07.920 He had a gentleman on his transition team as mayor of San Francisco.

00:28:13.060 Turns out he was also involved in the organized crime efforts, Chinese organized crime involved in the drug trade.

00:28:21.040 Then when he set up as mayor of San Francisco, something called China SF, this was designed to get Chinese investments into San Francisco for economic growth.

00:28:32.460 He picks a guy named Vincent Lowe, a Chinese businessman who has already been reported has ties to Chinese organized crime.

00:28:39.960 But that's the one guy that Gavin Newsom signs a memorandum of understanding to with China SF.

00:28:46.260 And you have to ask yourself, why on earth is he doing that?

00:28:49.240 And as I also point out in Blood Money, that meant that triad or Chinese organized crime businesses that are tied to them now came into the Bay Area.

00:28:59.520 And they were actually brought into the Bay Area through this program Gavin Newsom set up called China SF.

00:29:04.980 Now, I'm not suggesting that Gavin Newsom is involved in the drug trade, but what I am saying is he made some really, really, really bad decisions.

00:29:14.300 And I think he knew he made decisions that he was doing business with because he thought it was politically expedient and that, you know, the history goes forward from there.

00:29:24.100 But my point is Gavin Newsom does not want to talk about China's involvement, Chinese organized crime involvement in the fentanyl trade, because that's going to open up lots of questions about him and the relationships that he has.

00:29:37.720 So he's making a politically expedient decision, even though Californians are dying every single day from this poisoning that's being engineered by China. 0.86

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00:31:57.120 So, David, how are you?

00:31:58.400 Good, man.

00:31:59.040 Good to be with you.

00:31:59.680 I am so excited for this book, because you guys tell really pithy stories, you cover a lot of ground,

00:32:08.580 it's easy to read, and they're fun, they're great stories.

00:32:13.300 The thing I learned when I began teaching at church is, the teacher thinks, when you're going in,

00:32:21.160 I'm going to teach these kids.

00:32:22.720 But if you really take it seriously, the teacher learns more than the kids do, usually.

00:32:28.740 So, you've been teaching American history forever.

00:32:31.840 Tim, you're teaching American history now.

00:32:34.280 What did you guys learn that maybe shocked you?

00:32:38.940 You know, I think I was shocked at the content, the amount of material that was brand new to me,

00:32:44.260 and I think I've been through tens of thousands of original documents.

00:32:48.100 I think I have a pretty good feel for the original content, and yet there was so much more that I had never been exposed to.

00:32:55.580 But anything that was beyond nuance, anything that was like, oh my gosh, this is, we have this wrong, are we?

00:33:02.060 Yeah.

00:33:03.060 And there definitely were things that were affirmations, we were going the right direction,

00:33:06.700 but then some were fun tidbits, like George Washington, we know he had teeth problems, right?

00:33:11.100 You know he had dentures, well, he lost his first tooth to rot and decay when he was 23 years old.

00:33:17.280 By the time he was president, he had one real tooth left, and he lost it as president.

00:33:22.040 So, our first president had no teeth, right?

00:33:24.880 I mean, kind of fun, nuanced things.

00:33:26.960 But then, when you go further, things that have shaped the landscape and judicial structure,

00:33:32.460 the precedent of Marbury v. Madison, judicial review, that you can come in and review and change things, and...

00:33:41.200 Explain, pretend I don't know what that case is.

00:33:44.540 Okay, so Marbury v. Madison, the way it's generally understood, and this is one of the changes,

00:33:48.960 when we did some research and realized that the way it's being used today is a misrepresentation of what it was.

00:33:55.000 But the way it's taught is...

00:33:56.720 No, no, wait, tell me what it is first.

00:33:59.340 What case, what is it?

00:34:01.620 So, Marbury v. Madison, it was a case where Marbury was initially serving under John Adams' presidency.

00:34:10.680 Jefferson becomes president, and there's multiple judicial appointments, last-minute midnight appointments.

00:34:17.360 Right.

00:34:17.900 And Marshall's the guy who is supposed to deliver all these appointments, get all these judges there,

00:34:23.480 and he has 24 hours to do it.

00:34:26.000 And they don't all get delivered in time.

00:34:27.920 Jefferson is in office the next day, and apparently, some of these appointments were left on a desk.

00:34:35.580 And Jefferson sees them, and he's like, yeah, we're not going to do that.

00:34:38.860 And so, they are not given, even though Adams made the appointment, they were not delivered.

00:34:44.000 So, are they actually judges or not?

00:34:46.500 Are they supposed to hold this position or not?

00:34:48.420 This is the case that goes before the Supreme Court.

00:34:51.700 Well, the Supreme Court then determines that, yeah, these guys really should have their positions,

00:34:57.740 because it was given an appointment.

00:34:59.580 Where it becomes fascinating is the Supreme Court justice that delivered the decision

00:35:03.280 was the same guy who failed to deliver those things in the first place.

00:35:11.120 Oh, my gosh.

00:35:11.880 He was one of the appointments that he made the Supreme Court.

00:35:15.440 Wow.

00:35:15.860 When the case gets to the Supreme Court, he's the one.

00:35:17.780 So, instead of recanting and saying, like, I shouldn't be here, well, then it gets even deeper,

00:35:22.180 and there's even more details.

00:35:23.100 So, what happens is this is really the first time you see pure departisanship among the Founding Fathers,

00:35:29.540 because John Adams is a hardcore Federalist.

00:35:32.120 Thomas Jefferson is nonpartisan.

00:35:34.020 He doesn't think you ought to have a party.

00:35:35.200 He thinks you ought to have principles, but he's running against Adams,

00:35:38.920 and Adams says, well, you're not a Federalist, so you're a bad guy.

00:35:41.520 So, it's a really vicious, vicious, vicious campaign.

00:35:45.360 This is the campaign where Adams says, oh, your daughter's heads will be on a pike after Jefferson is elected. 1.00

00:35:54.460 Your children will be raped and murdered. 0.99

00:35:56.620 Oh, the sermons that were preached by each side against the other. 1.00

00:35:59.820 We get sermons that it's just unbelievable.

00:36:01.660 And to clarify, it wasn't Adams saying that, but it was people on Adams' side that were saying that.

00:36:05.860 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right.

00:36:06.700 And Jefferson went back and said that Adams was a hermaphrodite figure, having neither the firmness of a man or the, what was it, the wisdom of a woman, something like that.

00:36:22.760 That's right.

00:36:23.520 And so, what happens with this thing is, this is where this actually led to a constitutional amendment.

00:36:29.400 Because it was back then that when you got elected president, it was four months until the next president took office.

00:36:34.980 So, you've got a four-month lame duck period.

00:36:37.400 And in that four months, John Adams, and he's got a Federalist Congress in the House and Senate, he said, all right,

00:36:42.320 let's do everything we can to put laws in place that Jefferson can't change.

00:36:46.760 And so, for four months, they're legislating like crazy, and that's where the Marbury Madison comes from.

00:36:51.100 Because what happens is, Jefferson is a, he is a nonpartisan guy, and he thinks the courts ought to be just read the Constitution.

00:36:59.520 And Adams is more, no, it needs to be the Federalist view of the Constitution.

00:37:02.960 That's amazing.

00:37:03.540 And so, Adams comes up with 58 judgeships.

00:37:07.520 The Congress created 58 new judgeships so he could stack the courts with his guys.

00:37:12.500 And then when Jefferson gets in, he's going to have these 58 new judges.

00:37:15.920 So, he gives all, they get the judicial commission, it's called signed, sealed, and delivered.

00:37:20.580 They make the commission, then John Adams signs it, then they put the seal of the United States on it,

00:37:24.820 and the Secretary of State delivers that to the judge, and that's signed, sealed, and delivered.

00:37:28.960 That's where the phrase comes from.

00:37:30.120 So, he did that for all these things, except, as Tim pointed out, your Secretary of State was John Marshall.

00:37:36.260 John Marshall.

00:37:36.860 And what Adams does, he says, well, to really reinforce the Supreme Court,

00:37:41.200 I'm going to put my Secretary of State as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

00:37:44.380 So, he points Marshall to be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

00:37:46.800 Holy cow. 0.89

00:37:47.680 This is what they're doing.

00:37:49.040 The left does now.

00:37:50.460 Exactly.

00:37:51.180 But what the argument is today is that, well, you're supposed to have judicial review,

00:37:55.020 that the Supreme Court can look, and they can't overturn things.

00:37:58.460 And from the very beginning, this was wrong.

00:38:01.340 And John Marshall shouldn't have been a part of this case to begin with,

00:38:04.120 because it was, he was the one supposed to deliver them as Secretary of State.

00:38:07.620 He did not.

00:38:08.600 So, there's so many things about this, but the way it was –

00:38:10.720 So, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

00:38:12.460 This is where judicial review comes?

00:38:13.700 This is where it comes from.

00:38:14.660 And this, it's on such a flawed historical basis.

00:38:17.520 This is – and I'll tell you, what's really interesting, too,

00:38:20.520 is if you'll look at judicial review, the right of the Supreme Court to review legislative actions

00:38:24.860 and strike them down, that's what's taught in every law book today.

00:38:27.680 You're not going to find that taught in the 1800s or the 1700s.

00:38:31.500 That's a 20th century thing that progressives picked up.

00:38:33.980 And so, what happened –

00:38:35.360 So, wait, wait, wait.

00:38:35.900 It didn't change things at the time.

00:38:37.860 No.

00:38:38.520 It was brought up by the progressives later?

00:38:41.320 Later.

00:38:41.780 As the example of how you should do it.

00:38:43.560 It's very similar to when the progressives brought up Jefferson's phrase,

00:38:48.060 separation of church and state, and used it right in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s to remove religion.

00:38:54.160 When if you go back and read Jefferson's letter, he's not talking about removing religion.

00:38:58.160 He's talking about protecting –

00:38:58.720 Protecting it.

00:38:59.300 Religion from the government, but this is what progressives did. 0.92

00:39:03.160 And in the midst of this, what's also – contrary to the way it's understood today

00:39:06.900 is that, well, Jefferson didn't deliver any of those.

00:39:09.780 No, Jefferson actually took what was left, and he actually reviewed and said,

00:39:13.060 you know, some of these people actually make sense to be judges.

00:39:15.440 But then there were some.

00:39:16.240 He's like, we don't need, like, dozens of judges in this one little area.

00:39:21.040 They had more than 20 judges just in Washington, D.C. alone, and that's a brand new city.

00:39:25.260 Why do you need 20 judges?

00:39:26.320 And so he says, we don't –

00:39:27.420 Because you can do what they're doing today.

00:39:29.560 That's right.

00:39:30.140 But literally, he says, we don't need all these judges.

00:39:32.000 So he made a very practical, pragmatic decision and said, we're not going to give all these out.

00:39:36.380 But Marbury was one of the guys who didn't get the appointment.

00:39:39.200 So it goes to the Supreme Court.

00:39:40.700 John Marshall's like, yeah, that really should have been delivered to you.

00:39:44.200 And it's a shame it wasn't.

00:39:45.340 We're going to uphold this position.

00:39:46.440 Well, he was the one that was supposed to deliver it.

00:39:48.780 Nonetheless, these are things as we – and right – I mean, I understand right now

00:39:52.600 we're getting into the weeds of some of these stories that for history people is fun.

00:39:56.260 That's not what the majority of the book is about.

00:39:58.980 Our premise with the book is that the majority of people would know the names of Washington,

00:40:05.660 Adams, Jefferson, Madison, right?

00:40:07.620 Maybe even an Andrew Jackson.

00:40:08.800 We know those names.

00:40:10.100 But if we were to ask people, can you tell me a story of James Madison?

00:40:12.580 And they might say, well, he wrote the Constitution.

00:40:15.020 And we'd say, well, that's a fact regarding – that's not a story about him.

00:40:18.540 We don't know their stories anymore.

00:40:19.940 And because we don't know their stories, we don't know the examples, we don't know

00:40:23.760 the lessons, the precedent, even the –

00:40:25.680 All we know are the weeds.

00:40:26.880 Right.

00:40:27.120 Yes, that's right.

00:40:27.900 And so often what we know is not actually correct about them.

00:40:32.200 Na-na-na-na.

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