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Glenn and Stu discuss the latest in the Trump administration, the Mar-a-Lago scandal, and the latest on the Ukraine crisis. They also discuss what the FBI should do now that the judge has ordered them to release all of the evidence from a grand jury investigation into the Trump's alleged affair with a Russian woman.
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Hi. What a great Monday. What a great Monday podcast we had for people today.
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We have the New York Times talking about getting away from the old Constitution.
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In fact, we really should just legislate everything and get rid of the whole judicial process.
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Everything we've accused them of over the years, they're now admitting.
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Yeah. We also had John Solomon on to talk to us a little bit about what was happening at Mar-a-Lago and what the president is going to do now that the judge said they have to release all of the warrant.
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Will the DOJ do it? We have that answer for you. And what is going to be the response?
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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I want to start with something that I think you need to understand.
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When you look at the world, you know, Stu and I were just talking about Alexander Dugan.
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And I don't think people have gotten the message yet on Alexander Dugan.
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I've been talking about him for, what, four years, five years?
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And what he's been trying to do, not only in Russia, but all over the world.
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He's a guy who's seen as someone who's on the right, a figure of the right.
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I've heard everyone calling him a figure of the right.
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Certainly not in the American understanding of the right.
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But he is a capital T traditionalist, which is an actual movement.
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And it is based on, strangely, strong man and chaos.
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He believes that chaos is the way to be able to have Russia rule the world.
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And he is currently working and pouring money all over the world, including here in America.
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If you ever hear him on the air with a host, you should question what you believe about that host.
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This man is, I believe, one of the most dangerous men, if not the most dangerous men in the world.
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He believes he has to bring on Armageddon to be able to have Russia become the global leader.
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He is also looking for the collapse and the destruction of America as we know it.
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He believes the only thing that Hitler did wrong was he didn't go far enough.
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So anyway, they killed his daughter, um, yesterday and they're blaming it on Ukraine, which is very,
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very convenient seeing that he's the guy who designed the Ukrainian policy.
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Uh, the government is, I think that, um, they are playing a very dangerous game.
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I think they're most likely screwing us, but we're helping them do that.
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Uh, but they are not stupid enough to go into the heart of Russia and kill Alexander Dugan's
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Dugan or his daughter as it happened in this case.
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Yeah, because they supposedly swapped cars at the last moment, which is another bizarre
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I think what's interesting too, is that, you know, there's a lot of people in this audience
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that heard you talk about Dugan and understand the warnings that you were giving about him.
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But what's, what was kind of interesting about how all this played out is that when the Ukraine
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Russia conflict sort of hit that peak and Russia went in, there was a, I think a generally
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speaking and understandable response by many on the right who, you know, Biden and the
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It's understandable to see it with a lot of suspicion.
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We've, we've looked at Ukraine and we've seen a lot of corruption.
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Uh, you know, Zelensky being kind of propped up as this ultimate hero that was going to
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save the universe and all of this, I think elicits an immediate and understandable piece
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of, of skepticism, particularly from a conservative audience that's seen this play out so many
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Um, and all of that may be very well true, right?
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Like where you have this situation where there is real corruption in Ukraine and there is, uh,
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all sorts of problems with the media narratives about it.
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And the fact that we're sending $60 billion over there and the people who are involved in
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sending that money, uh, are we going to waste a lot of it?
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Are we going, is there, are there other things playing out?
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All of that can be true at the same time that what you talked about with Alexander Dugan
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I think where, where we as a country have gone wrong here is we have assigned, uh, the
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And it's really not, it's more like, uh, instead of black and white, it's more like black and
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It's, there is a difference there, but, uh, not, not an awful lot.
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And there's been a lot of kind of immediate skepticism of, of the, of this whole situation.
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Um, and some on the right have taken immediately the side of Russia, which I, uh, you know, I
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don't hear that a lot from the, from our audience, but I do see it a lot on social media and some,
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And it's, what's interesting about that is that this is exactly what you were talking
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about when you were talking about Alexander Dugan initially, his, his philosophy had
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a lot to do with Russia and had a lot to do with Russia's position in the world, but it
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also had a direct path of attack on the American right to try to plant ideas on the American
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right to tie into what we do have in common with big T traditionalism, traditional
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values, but encapsulating his entire worldview on the back of traditional values, which is
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not something the American people believe in because people will only hear I'm for religion.
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I'm, I'm for, uh, you know, traditional values.
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Uh, you know, you forget about those things and you don't look at those things, especially
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when there is an emergency or you're looking for team members.
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He is a very dangerous team member, team member, but I, I don't fear it because of this audience.
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I have said really right after September 11th, I said this, I was overwhelmed with the feeling
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and I have had this feeling time and time again.
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And I really wondered what it meant, but I said it because I knew it to be true.
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And what I said was this audience will turn a corner.
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This audience will be responsible in the end for saving America or saving at least remnants
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But you are going to play a big role in a positive way.
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Well, it dawned on me Friday when something happened.
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And then I started thinking about it and I started piecing together.
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I was like, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
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There was a story that was out from the New York Times, the overturning of Roe versus Wade.
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If you want to understand it, you need to understand the 2010 election.
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The 2010 election was the Tea Party movement, the Tea Party movement.
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When we started going to Washington in droves and demanding change inside the Republican
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That's what set up the the political landscape that gave us the the members of the court that
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Wasn't that the year of the Tea Party movement that started and had the first big march?
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You remember it where the streets of Washington, D.C.
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were packed with people just packed with people.
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The right had never done anything like this before.
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That march happened on that day because six months before that, I had gotten on television
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and I had said, gather around and gather all your friends because there's something we have
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And I launched the 912 project and I said, I'll tell you in six months what I'm going
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You show me in six months what you're going to do.
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And you showed America what you were going to do.
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If you read Barack Obama's latest book, he talks about how the Tea Party movement was the
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He said it was he he was thwarted every step of the way because of the Tea Party movement.
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Do you remember we were facing the goals, the Agenda 21 goals?
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And then it was like, oh, no, wait, it's on the websites for the United Nations.
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And it came back as the sustainability goals of 2030.
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This audience, because you paid attention to Agenda 21 and spoke out, this audience bought
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Imagine how demoralizing things would have been when we pulled out of Afghanistan, had
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you not been there to save 20,000 people and bring them across the border.
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How demoralizing if no one would have banded together, worked together and got those people
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Now, here's what happened on Friday that made me realize you already have changed the course.
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There was a story in in many of the financial papers.
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That reported that pushback is getting so intense on ESG that, quote, proponents are pushing
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And this audience spread the word and stopped Common Core.
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I have such great faith in not only God, but you.
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What I have said for a very long time, this audience is going to play a really big role.
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And not understanding it while I said it, I understood it Friday right at the end of this
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I have been waiting all week, all weekend, to tell you this.
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You've already bought us enormous amounts of time.
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Did you did you ever really believe that it would ever get like this?
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I mean, we've had this great American experience for 246 years.
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And I think back to that speech he gave at CPAC in February.
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And I think all the things you said, somewhere along the way, we jumped out of the roots
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And we're in a place now that doesn't resemble the America that we all grew up in.
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So I think a lot of people in the last couple of weeks have learned a lot about what to do
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and what to expect when you're served a warrant at your house.
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It's God's way of teaching us the Constitution, I think.
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What happened with Donald Trump is, again, I believe, a horror show.
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There's no way he's selling secrets, you know, nuclear secrets to Finland.
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It does now seem to appear to be a shot across the bow because he was trying to release documents
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that showed who was involved in the Russia hoax.
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Well, listen, there is this long six-year battle between the FBI and Donald Trump.
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And, of course, it starts with Russia collusion, which we now know is a completely contrived
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and political investigation that had no predicate, no merit whatsoever.
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As the presidency is coming to an end, as Donald Trump's leaving office on January 19th, 2021,
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he declassifies the documents the FBI never wanted out in public.
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These are the way they handled their informants, what they knew before they signed the FISA warms,
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what they were telling the court versus what they knew internally.
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And for the last year, as I've reported, the FBI secretly grabbed those documents.
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In the last hour of the Trump presidency, I'm told, at 11 o'clock on January 20th, 2021,
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the FBI and the Justice Department grabbed those documents.
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They made up an excuse, hey, we left a couple of Privacy Act pieces of information in there
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They've kept them from the American public, despite a lawful order of a sitting president.
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So he had the documents, but they hadn't been redacted?
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They had been declassified, all the declassified markings.
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At the last minute, the Justice Department raised an issue that maybe there was a piece
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of information there still covered by the Privacy Act.
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It looks like it was really just an excuse to grab the document.
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I haven't found anyone who told me he had the documents here.
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And of course, I've asked the president, do you have the documents?
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So that's why he gave me permission as a journalist to go to the non-public section of the National
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That's what led us to the discovery just three weeks ago that these documents had been grabbed
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by the Justice Department and a secret hand grabbed them and put them into the Justice
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There's a classified set at the National Archives.
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I can't see those because I don't have a security clearance, nor does anyone else in normal America.
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And then the second part is there is a set at the Justice Department, and I'm taking
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multiple actions to try to force the Justice Department.
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And I hope to have some really good news later this week.
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They've been working with the Justice Department.
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I have a sense, an inkling that we might get these documents in the near future.
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So what was it that the FBI, do you think, was looking for?
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The first possibility is maybe what they said is all that it is, right?
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This is a dispute between the archives and former President Donald Trump, and they actually
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went to this unprecedented means to go get documents back by raiding his home.
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I haven't found any other great explanation for people, and I think that when history looks
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back, if that's all this was, if this was a dispute over documents, there is a civil
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process that could have been followed, and that means they will have criminalized a dispute
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over paper, and with some serious issues involved.
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And I think there's another part of this, Glenn, that we haven't been able to dig into, and
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It is impossible for this sort of a dispute to go on and become criminalized without the
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There's just no way the way the system of government works.
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So what was the Biden White House's role in these conversations?
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I don't know what it is yet, but I'm determined to find out what it is, because the way government
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works, you've got these issues of privilege, you've got these issues of a dispute between
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the current administration and the past administration.
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The Biden White House had to be in the loop, and I don't think their story yet adds up.
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I have to tell you, just on common sense and the way the world has traditionally worked
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in America, there's no way a decision that large that would come back to the White House
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eventually and affect the presidency, not just Biden and Trump, but the entire presidency.
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There's no way the Justice Department doesn't call and at least give a heads up.
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I'm 100% with you, and there's, I think, another issue here.
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Remember that the grand jury subpoena, which I broke the story a couple weeks ago, was
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executed on June 3rd in a collaborative way, by the way.
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That didn't address the issue of executive privilege.
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It means somewhere earlier in the process, somebody had to waive executive privilege in
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order for a grand jury subpoena to be issued for presidential documents.
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The only, Donald Trump isn't going to be waiving it.
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I think we're going to find out that the Biden administration waived executive privilege for
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Trump and that they were deeply involved in the set.
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That just is the only plausible explanation for why there wouldn't have been a privilege
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claim back in June when the grand jury first showed, you know, for the subpoena was first
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So, John, I'm doing a special on Wednesday on the history of the FBI and how corrupt it has
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I mean, it really was corrupt from the very beginning.
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You know, we had Hoover doing all kinds of stuff that was really, really dark and bad.
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Well, listen, one of the big stories I did when I was at the Washington Post and I worked
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They would go into a case and say, that guy on trial for murder, I can assure you that
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the bullets we found in his bedroom drawer matches the bullets that were shot out of
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And for 40 years, they testified that hundreds upon hundreds upon hundreds of murder defendants
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The story I broke in 2007 showed the FBI knew all along that that science was junk science.
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It wasn't true, that they couldn't make such a representation.
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And yet they continue to do it well past the, well, they did during the Hoover years, well
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Um, so the history of the FBI, whether it's the church hearings, which really went into
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the Hoover era or what we've learned, uh, 9-11, uh, the, uh, uh, mistakes in the Oklahoma
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This is an agency that has a very, uh, big reputation, but it also has a very big history
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You know, some of the policymakers I've been talking to in Congress for the first time
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I've heard Republicans tell me privately, you know what, it's time to break up the FBI,
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maybe have, have, uh, make them like Scotland Yard and put the domestic intelligence into
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Uh, there is clearly a moment of reckoning for the FBI and the, on the immediate, immediate
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The real question is if you just take the counterintelligence division out, you put it somewhere else, the
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mentality still exists that there's not a regard for the constitution.
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And that's the part, whether it's inside the FBI or outside of it, the, the lack of
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regard for the fourth amendment, for our liberties in the face of a big government, that's the
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Uh, especially if the intelligence arm, the intelligence agencies are completely out of
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control, the things I've read about the intelligence agencies and I've heard from people on Capitol
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Hill is they really don't answer to anybody right now.
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They have their own mindset, their own mentality.
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They feel, and because so much of what they do can stay secret, no matter what, as, as we're
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seeing in this search warrant today, um, we never get a visibility to know what the, if
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what they're telling us, the excuse they're giving us is real.
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And it's only years later, usually through lawsuits and FOIAs that we find out, well,
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the official story of the intelligence community didn't match what we were told at the time.
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It's that secrecy that I think creates so much concern.
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There was an opportunity in the middle of Russia collusion while Republicans were still
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in control of both to do something, to create a permanent advocate so that all intelligence
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cases that occurred in secret, there would be someone advocating on behalf of the American
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But I think there are a lot of people today that would go back and say, you know, if I
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had a do over, I'd probably create that public advocate who goes into the court and argues
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So, um, John, what do you think Donald Trump is talking about when he says that, you know,
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he said over the weekend, it might be within hours, it might be Monday, uh, that I'm going
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My reporting indicates that the president is considering, uh, filing a motion to remove,
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uh, a magistrate judge, Bruce Reinhardt, who, by the way, just a few minutes ago, ruled
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that the entire affidavit cannot be kept sealed.
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I'm glad he recognizes what he approved is unprecedented.
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Uh, but he is rejecting the justice department's request to keep the affidavit secret.
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But I believe the, wait, wait, wait, wait, he rejected the, the, the department of justice.
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Judge Reinhardt this morning, uh, said the justice department's request to keep the entire
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affidavit for the search warrant, uh, under seal is rejected that this is an unprecedented
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So people can understand why the FBI was authorized to raid a former president's own.
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That's a, uh, something that the president was cheering on.
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Either they have to deliver the unredacted version of the, um, affidavit on Thursday,
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or a more likely scenario is the justice department will slow walk this, go to a district judge,
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then go to an appeals court, maybe even go to the Supreme court.
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But meanwhile, the president, to answer your question, I think the president is going to
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ask that a special master be appointed, a court appointed independent person, take the documents
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from the FBI and go through them and say, these are privileged.
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They shouldn't have been collected like your passports and res and not leave the FBI on an
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So I think that's what we're going to see the president do.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Thank you so much for joining us on a short notice as, uh, as yesterday, there was a car
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Uh, do you agree with me that it was clearly meant for Alexander Dugan and not his daughter?
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Well, uh, Hey Glenn, it's such a pleasure to be back on your show with you and your audience.
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Um, yes, that is the conventional, uh, wisdom that it is the father Alexander Dugan and the
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mastermind of the ideology of Eurasianism that underpins Putin's entire doctrine and strategy,
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However, there's also an alternative, uh, hypothesis is that both of them were targeted because
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originally they were supposed to be driving in one car from the, uh, lecture and the, um,
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And it is at the last moment that the father Alexander Dugan switched cars.
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So, and because his daughter was just as vocal in the anti-West, you know, narrative that underpins
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Russia's current, uh, anti-U.S. policy, she possibly was also the target.
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Cause she's also in the media, but, but he is the leader of, of this.
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Uh, I just think it's a cult all around the world.
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He is infecting, um, even America with some of his, uh, capital T traditionalism and people
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Do you believe that, that it would be in the best interest of Ukraine to try to pull this off?
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So it is hard to tell on the one hand, Ukrainians could perfectly be justified, um, to target
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And, uh, Dugan has advocated for the destruction of Ukraine.
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He's actually calling, if I'm not mistaken, he's actually calling for, um, the, the elimination
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I don't remember the word he used, but it was, it seemed like a death, uh, Holocaust kind
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of, uh, thing, but he's calling for more than just occupying.
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And he is also the, the idea planter or the seed behind, um, Crimea.
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So yes, it is possible that there's motive, um, why Ukrainians would want to target now
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to pull something off like that is not a slam dunk.
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So a lot of the resources and planning must have gone into this operation.
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But, uh, let me tell you, um, uh, about Dugan a little more because he's not only anti-Ukraine,
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I have a whole chapter in my book dedicated to Alexander Dugan because he's considered to
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His writings, he's a political philosopher, ultra-nationalist.
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He was the thought leader behind Eurasianism, as I said, with, which underpinned Putin's
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And I would like to give you some quotes about Dugan who called on Russia to counteract
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U.S. policy at all levels in all regions of the world.
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And specifically, he said that Russia, and I quote, must weaken, demoralize, and deceive
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It is especially important to introduce geopolitical order into America's internal reality, to encourage
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separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts.
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activists actively support dissident movements and extremist racist groups and sects, and
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You know, it's a mastermind of a very dangerous ideology, and now his daughter is gone, and
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The Russian media erupted over the weekend, blaming the United States and blaming Ukraine
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for what they characterized as a terrorist attack.
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It is, it's interesting to me that his plan on how to destabilize America, while they say
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the right is in bed with Putin, the plan that Dugan gave to Putin, it would be everything
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And I don't mean necessarily Democrats, I mean the left of, you know, racial, racial division,
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I don't know if we have any credibility to be able to say we didn't do this.
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So when the Russians blamed the United States first, they're not saying that we directly
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actually orchestrated this, but what they are implying, given our support to Ukraine and
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the fact that we admitted that we provide targeting information to Ukraine so that they could
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effectively defend their country against the Russian invaders, they, in the same manner,
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So the response is going to be, I'm concerned, is further escalation because, again, Dugan is
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And his daughter has turned into a martyr right now, or has been turned by the Russian media.
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And remember, this attack and the explosion, basically the way that this was done is the
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explosive device was put under the seat of Hukkan, was remotely detonated.
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So this explosion comes on the heel of a series of attacks in Crimea.
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And remember, the Russians believe Crimea is the red line for Ukraine, despite the fact that
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Crimea is Ukrainian territory, but because the Russians annexed it in 2014, and they consider
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So in combination, all of this, you know, escalation is going to put pressure on Putin to ratchet
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And in fact, President Zelensky himself warned yesterday that around Wednesday, this coming
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Wednesday, in two days, he's concerned about the Russian staging, something really nasty,
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some provocations, because on Wednesday, it's Ukraine's Independence Day, when Ukraine became
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So I share that concern, whether it's on Wednesday or shortly after.
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We know that there are plenty of opportunities, specifically one of the extreme, you know, risks,
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moderate probability, but extremely high risk of a disaster that exists right now.
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It's related to the nuclear power plant in Zaporozhye, that both sides are accusing each other of shelling.
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And that is at the risk of erupting in, you know, in possible, hopefully not soon, but there's definitely that risk.
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You actually lived in the Soviet Union, if I remember right.
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I came to the United States in 89 as already as a young adult.
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So I went through the whole, you know, indoctrination system and everything.
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So she is the author of Putin's playbook and a U.S. intelligence expert.
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The the idea that we had anything to do with it or that Ukraine did, I find hard to believe because both sides would have to be insane to do it.
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But Ukraine pulling it off, I think, would be very, very difficult.
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The idea that this was some anti-ultranationalist group trying to kill him seems difficult because it would only make him into a martyr.
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But who would have in Russia who would have the ability and the desire to do this?
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OK, so I personally don't find the reports that it's, you know, the National Republican Army, which is supposedly an anti-Putin partisan organization that staged this.
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And the intelligence is inconclusive as far as who specifically did this, because it's very, very fresh right now.
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I am almost certain that the United States has absolutely nothing to do with this.
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The FSB, which is the domestic security services in Russia, has attributed this already to a Ukrainian woman named Natalia Vosk, who apparently, according to the FSB, that is.
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Now, you know, remember, FSB cannot be trusted, but that doesn't mean that their analysis and their preliminary investigation isn't correct.
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But this is what they have assessed, is that Natalia Vosk entered Russia on July 23rd with her 12-year-old daughter, Sofia Shaban, and reportedly rented an apartment in the same building as Daria Dugin's daughter that was killed.
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And so and then apparently Natalia fled to Estonia.
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I'm certain that U.S. intelligence is involved in the analysis and in the investigation on our own, you know, here, obviously not, you know, in Russia.
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But at this point, it's very difficult to tell.
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Yes, Ukrainians, you know, do claim that there's an anti-Putin movement going in Russia.
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But remember, Ukrainians are just as adept as the disinformation as the Russians are.
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And they're fully invested in waging this disinformation in order to dislodge Putin psychologically.
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In the meantime, you know, Glenn, we keep pumping in our weaponry into Ukraine.
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We just announced another $775 million of assistance.
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We're hoping that it will help Ukraine to change the battlefield conditions.
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But, again, they're fighting a highly, you know, a much more superior, you know, adversary.
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I'd like to stay in touch with this this week as this story develops.
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And we'll check back with you tomorrow if there's any developments.
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And Americans need to understand who Alexander Dugan is because his tentacles are in America.
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And he is also he has fans on the right in America.
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And I think he's an extraordinarily dangerous man.