00:03:38.940you're listening to the best of the blend back program all right welcome to the
00:03:52.900blend back program i'm glad you're here there's a lot going on today um i wish i had two hours
00:03:59.940uh with uh tim burchett he is um the congressman from tennessee um so many things to talk about
00:04:07.900This guy tends to just say things, which I wildly appreciate, because none of the stories that are in the news today are really about the story.
00:04:17.400I mean, this thing with Swalwell, it's not about him being a dirtbag.
00:08:57.500I'm sure somebody is going to get a real stern letter written to him and somebody is going to wag their finger at somebody and not a dadgum thing will happen to anybody.
00:09:07.560That is just the way this town is, because everybody's compromised, Mr. Beck.
00:09:11.600everybody's got dirt in their background when you get to these higher levels and they're afraid to
00:09:16.960do anything and the gloves need to come off america needs to see somebody in chains let out of the
00:09:22.760capitol building and it's gone on long enough i agree with you that go ahead that that's that i'm
00:09:30.980sorry to interrupt i'll call you tim if you'll call me glenn um the sorry to interrupt but that's
00:09:36.160the lesson that that the republicans need to learn from hungary over the weekend they didn't
00:09:42.380it wasn't they didn't get off the bandwagon of being conservatives they said the conservatives
00:09:48.260that are in power will not stop the corruption we need to stand for the corruption if it's in
00:09:55.440our house or somebody else's house it's got to be exposed and people have to go they believe
00:10:01.840the Republicans now have stopped serving the people. The minute you are, the minute people
00:10:08.880think you serve yourself and not the people that voted you in, you're done. And that's where the
00:10:14.660people are. 100%. I couldn't have said it better. This message approved by a budget for Congress.
00:10:23.340Look, we have got to call it out in our own house because if we don't, we become the Democrats.
00:10:30.500we become something of convenience and if it costs us the majority for for a short amount of time
00:10:37.860do it i think america is ready for it and that's why one of the reasons america doesn't trust
00:10:43.200congress you know i always say everybody both parties are crooked theirs are just a little
00:10:49.040more crooked than ours and and i think that's the case unless we show america otherwise and by doing
00:10:55.480So we've got to go after our own members and take the gloves off.
00:14:02.620So, and then lo and behold, they're moving up the leadership chart.
00:14:09.560And then all of a sudden, they're a chairman.
00:14:11.040I remember when I first got to Congress, our then leader, who's no longer in Congress, said, hey, man, I sometimes will mentor some people.
00:16:50.820You said you've seen classified information that, quote, would set the earth on fire and leave the public up at night.
00:16:59.740Anna Paulina Luna is is asking for the release of a bunch of videos today.
00:17:08.160Is this is this a distraction or is this real?
00:17:12.260It's real. It's real. We just there's two it goes too deep.
00:17:16.820And when I sit in a classified briefing and some little punk with a man bun bureaucrat in the Biden administration tells me that that the president is on a need to know basis, that that to me is that should tell you all you need to know right there.
00:17:31.860They need to rip the cover off this thing and expose it because it's not about little green men and flying saucers.
00:17:38.260I have my own theories on that. It's about what are we spending tens of millions of dollars on that they tell us do not exist.
00:17:44.280like may i have you back you're so hard to book may i may i ask you to come back and spend some
00:17:52.100time with me i'm gonna tell will will in my office to to call you back and and to call you today and
00:17:59.320set something up brother thank you thank you thank you very much and it is a huge huge honor
00:18:04.620for me because i i don't want to make you feel old but i grew up watching and listening to you
00:18:10.080it. And my mom and dad are both in heaven. They loved you and you're a straight shooter. And we
00:18:15.020dig that. So thank you, brother. I appreciate it. Thank you very much. I appreciate it. Thanks
00:18:20.320Congressman. Let me tell you about relief factor. How many days a week do you wake up feeling like,
00:18:25.460you know, somebody stuck a brick in a sock and went to work on you overnight? How many times
00:18:30.040during the day do you bend down, pick something up and make that decision? Like, well, that was
00:18:33.900a really bad decision to make right there. Now the floor just, you know, whatever's on the floor
00:18:37.360just lives on the floor right now. That's why I have to have a dog because they'll just usually
00:18:41.820eat it, whatever I've dropped. Anyway, relief factor is there. It's better than a dog.
00:18:47.360It's 100% drug-free research-based supplement designed to help your body fight inflammation
00:18:53.480at the source. So you're not just pushing through it. You're actively doing something about it.
00:18:57.140Look, I'm really black-pilled on, oh, it's all natural. Yeah, whatever. Because you just never
00:19:05.420know. My wife makes me take stuff every day. It's all natural. It's going to be good for you.
00:19:10.940This, I can tell you, I have evidence. I know. I had pain that I just could not break the back of.
00:19:17.480Pain in my hands that I just couldn't do. I tried everything. Nothing. Started taking this because
00:19:23.280honestly, my wife forced me. And she said, just take it as directed. Do exactly what it says.
00:19:28.580Try it for three weeks. If you don't see anything, fine. Then you can check that box. And so I did.
00:22:15.360You suggested that if Kavanaugh were innocent, we should bring in all of the victims, all of them, to be questioned, because that would just clear his name.
00:32:12.980and those who discard it when it is inconvenient should not be surprised
00:32:20.060when they find themselves without it when it matters most.
00:32:31.340All right, welcome Sean Davis from the Federalist CEO and co-founder
00:32:36.060and a guy who has, I mean, really, Sean, you and your team have done more for this story.
00:32:42.060we did uh a i did the i think i did the biggest chalkboard i've ever done on the impeachment and
00:32:49.280we did six months of research and i had enough evidence at the time to i said at the time i
00:32:56.300think i could go to a grand jury and just present this case and you could get indictments on this
00:33:01.960you have taken this story and now pushed and pushed and pushed and now with the revelations
00:33:07.560that i want you to talk about now you could take this to a court of law and you can get
00:33:11.420convictions. So A, thank you. B, what has been revealed now? Tell us the story in a way for
00:33:21.220people who have not been following it. Well, Glenn, you are very generous. Thank you for that.
00:33:26.320Thank you for having me on. Yesterday was a big day. So after six and a half, nearly seven years,
00:33:32.360we finally got the transcripts of testimony from the intelligence community inspector general.
00:33:38.860And for those who may not recall, this was the guy who took possession of that infamous so-called whistleblower complaint in 29 that blew up and ended up turning into the first Trump impeachment.
00:33:51.280And I think a lot of us at the time, even though this was kind of our first little foray into the impeachment nonsense, we're all wise and veterans of that now.
00:34:22.540They were leaking and they were lying.
00:34:24.340All so that they could overthrow a president because he, the man who was elected by the people, didn't like the foreign policy that had been chosen by a bunch of unelected, faithless bureaucrats in Washington.
00:34:50.340So we learned a couple of things that we had always suspected.
00:34:53.660And the first was that, and this was something we reported on very early on, which was that the inspector general actually changed their internal rules for how you could file whistleblower complaints.
00:35:07.140Before this, this so-called whistleblower, I call them axe grinders, came in and decided he was going to try and overthrow the president.
00:35:14.240The intelligence community had certain rules about what you had to have in a complaint in order for it to be valid.
00:35:20.040And one of those rules was you had to have first-hand evidence of criminal wrongdoing.
00:35:26.760And at the time, they never, ever had it.
00:35:29.360This guy had a call transcript that he read, and he didn't like things that the president said in the call transcript.
00:35:36.140And then so he went and talked to other people and put down their recollections and kind of his own third-hand view of things and said,
00:35:44.340this is a criminal thing and they need to look into campaign finance and all these other criminal
00:35:49.500violations. And it turns out in order for that thing to have even been accepted under the previous
00:35:54.280rules, it would have to have had firsthand evidence, which he never, ever had. It was all
00:35:59.640hearsay. It was all second and third hand evidence. And you had the inspector general secretly change
00:36:06.080the rules, backdate the forms, mislead about what the intention was so that he could make this
00:36:14.280thing, which never would have been valid, somehow magically valid so Schiff could go run against
00:36:19.900Trump on it. And then the second thing he did is we learned all of the behind the scenes Democrat
00:36:26.700collusion that was going on. You had this inspector general that was breaking rule after rule after
00:36:32.280rule in order to release this complaint. You had DOJ saying nothing's wrong here. You had the FBI
00:36:38.340look at it and kind of scoff. You had the DNI at the time who said, no, there's no urgent concern
00:36:43.460here there's no valid basis for a complaint and instead you had atkinson and this whistleblower
00:36:48.480the whistleblower at the time this blows my mind he went to democrats on shift staff and was working
00:36:55.220with them before ever putting this whistleblower complaint together so is this is this vinman
00:36:59.980do we do we know who the whistleblower was now everyone has said for years that they believe it
00:37:06.700to be eric chiramella vinman we believe based on the transcript was not the so-called whistleblower
00:37:13.140um it looks like he was one of the witnesses so-called witnesses i believe witness one
00:37:19.400um but i'm not positive uh mentioned in the whistleblower complaint he was one of the people
00:37:25.060who the so-called whistleblower relied on to put together his third hand hearsay uh uh testimony or
00:37:33.600or or complaint does this inspector general still have his job no thank goodness he doesn't um he
00:37:42.720he was an absolute disaster. And, you know, a lot of us wondered at the time, was this guy kind of
00:37:48.220just an idiot who got buffeted by the winds and didn't really know how to control the process and
00:37:53.340just ended up in a situation out of his control? Or was he someone who was actively working behind
00:38:00.000the scenes to make this thing into a bigger deal than it should have been in order to take down
00:38:03.920the president? And after reading through, there are two separate testimonies from September and
00:38:09.280October of 2019. After reading through them, I am utterly convinced that he was an active
00:38:15.780and willing participant and plotter in the coup and conspiracy to take down Trump in 2019.
00:38:24.660What have we found out about Schiff? Anything?
00:38:28.800No, there wasn't much about Schiff in there. We knew at the time that he had been or he and his
00:38:34.300staff had been colluding with this so-called whistleblower before the complaint had ever
00:38:39.420been filed. That was something that didn't come out until the impeachment thing was in full swing.
00:38:46.540The person we've learned a lot about rather hilariously is not so much Schiff, who I think
00:38:53.140everyone has known is just a dishonest dirtbag, but another key player at the time was one Eric
00:38:58.500swalwell and i think we've learned a lot about all eric well he i mean do we learn anything other
00:39:07.280than he's a dirtbag allegedly wait what we learned he's a real hands-on guy but apparently not on
00:39:14.220the intel matters that we actually care about so um uh i saw oh what's his name um oh the famous
00:39:24.880lawyer from Boston. Help me out, anybody on the show. Lawyer from Boston, Harvard.
00:39:33.120Dershowitz. Professor Emeritus. Yeah, Dershowitz. Dershowitz said, thank you. Dershowitz said
00:39:38.660yesterday that he thinks this whole thing could be expunged. And he said never before in history
00:39:43.900could that have happened before. He said, but this is so rotten to the core,
00:39:48.680it could be expunged. Which leads me to the question, is anything going to happen?
00:39:54.880my you know i've i've become a little bit fatalist and cynical having watched all this
00:40:00.520stuff you know i hear is something going to happen and my brain translates this to
00:40:04.840is anyone going to go to prison you know that consent going to go to jail are people going
00:40:08.920to go to prison for lying it's been almost seven years my gut tells me no and i know that can be
00:40:17.760like really disheartening for people to hear i i it certainly is frustrating when you do all this
00:40:22.720work and you see all this criminality and nobody goes to jail um and so people can tend to throw
00:40:28.480up their hands and say well what's what's even the point what's what's the use and i would say
00:40:33.320the truth is its own point the truth is its own end and its own purpose and you know a lot of us
00:40:40.560can't control what happens to bad guys whether they go to prison whether they're brought to
00:40:44.440justice but we do have a large ability to control what we consume what we hear and what we know
00:40:51.180And so I would say maybe this is just a cope.
00:46:22.960even small coordinated groups can now launder their propaganda through reddit and their upvote
00:46:30.180system and it gets baked straight into ai that millions of people all over the world are using
00:46:36.940every single day for truth to help find the truth and it's not just influencing what your neighbor
00:46:42.540sees on their feed this is shaping what the machines tell the next generation is consensus
00:46:49.440Again, full credit where credit is due. Great investigation. You should read the whole thing
00:46:56.040by the team at Pirate Wires. The reporting and the research laid out in this are laid out in
00:47:02.840great detail. They have been doing all of the hard work documenting how these manipulation
00:47:08.700campaigns actually operate in the wild. And they have exposed two major examples in just the last
00:47:15.780year. First, large-scale propaganda network tied to U.S.-designated terror organizations.
00:47:23.560So Hamas and Hezbollah, the Houthis, are deeply embedded in Reddit. At the center was
00:47:32.200rPalestine. It's got 300,000 members, and they are coordinating through Discord servers.
00:47:38.900They are not just posting these things in little niche political corners.
00:47:44.980They are infiltrating massive, high-engagement subreddits, like reddits about documentaries or lifestyle, any of these things.
00:47:57.760And they are laundered, translated battlefield messages from Hamas's own Al-Aqsa brigade that were celebrating the attacks on the Zionist enemy.
00:48:16.360They are pushing Houthi propaganda as if it were neutral reporting.
00:48:20.800So what happens is, they will take something, literally, propaganda from the terrorist organizations, they will repackage it, and they will put it out onto Reddit.
00:48:34.420And if it gets some upvotes, it goes right into the system of AI.
00:48:39.580Reddit's own internal review tried to downplay all of this, claiming it found four pieces of problematic content.
00:48:47.400but reporters went back and found dozens that still live on the site and then there's the
00:48:54.600coordinated campaign targeting elon musk and x.com this one is a great example of how this works
00:49:01.160suddenly across dozens of major sports subreddits liverpool football club the nfl teams nba
00:49:10.700Major League Baseball, nearly identical posts
00:49:14.100appearing calling for bans on all links to X.
00:53:06.280We are entering a very new and scary world.
00:53:11.500Here is the warning to you and even to me.
00:53:15.880Every time a tweet, a post, a headline, even a podcast, yes, including my podcast,
00:53:24.120if it makes your blood boil, stop, take a breath, check the sources.
00:53:32.300Is it important that your blood is boiling?
00:53:35.220That's why I started the show today. My blood was boiling. I was so mad. And I said, I shouldn't be on the air today. I shouldn't be. Because I'm really mad, and that's not helpful.
00:53:46.960Then you have to ask yourself, where did this actually originate? Where is that person that I'm listening to, where are they getting this from?
00:53:55.340Who benefits from me being angry and joining into this anger?
00:54:02.100Because some people are doing this intentionally.
00:54:05.200They know exactly how emotional triggers work and how to hijack our attention and our algorithms.
00:54:11.460Because they want to be famous, they want to be rich, or they have an agenda.
00:54:15.320But there's a lot of us that get it wrong as well, unintentionally.
00:54:19.580I know I have done things unintentionally thinking I was doing the right thing, but then later look
00:54:27.140back on it and go, wow, that was wrong. That was distorted. That was incomplete. It was just wrong.
00:54:32.920Whatever it was. Here's what I want you to remember. Don't trust algorithms. Don't trust AI.