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Glenn and Stu are back talking about the new VP pick, the assassination attempt, and the Secret Service breaking into a hair salon because they needed a bathroom. Plus, a call-in question about gold and silver.
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We start with, well, I think Stu had about a week's worth pent up inside of him.
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We have Cheryl Atkinson on, who is talking about the government pharmaceutical insurance
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nastiness that is destroying all of us, health-wise and as a country.
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And we have Steve Friend on to talk about the assassination attempt.
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And a news story of the Secret Service, who picked a lock and broke into a hair salon
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I mean, I don't know if I can explain everything to you.
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I mean, if you don't know your money is at issue, I don't know if I can help you at all.
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We end up getting another four years of this, and we are not going to be able to stand as
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a country because our dollar will be wiped out.
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But the progressive left is destroying the dollar.
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And the only way to preserve that is to have something in its stead.
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Something that you can barter with, spend if you have to.
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Because as your dollar goes down, that price goes up.
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And if they weren't manipulating, not just the United States, but the central banks in
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Europe and the central bank in China, they're all manipulating the price of gold because
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Please put some of your money in that right now.
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They're going to give you $250 off when you open up an account.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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It is, we've got a stretch run here of three months or so, and it's going to be, what an
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Did she, had she had named Walls as her running mate yet?
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I've heard, this is what I've learned about Tim Walls, watching this coverage very closely.
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He's trying to carry out some sort of fish genocide because all the guy does is fish.
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Yeah, I've seen, I have seen more pictures of him with fish than, than the Seattle market
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they show every single time a football game is played in Seattle.
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I mean, sure, he happens to be the choice of every insane leftist on, on, uh, social
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media, but this guy, they did it because they thought he was so moderate.
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They, they just loved his moderate policies and that's why he was named.
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What an, another, another incredible rollout from the Democrats.
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There's not a lot of Marxists that like to fish.
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Yeah, he's Marxist, but he's out there fishing and hunting.
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And that is why he's now going to be the vice president of the United States.
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And then, you know what he's going to do while in office, Glenn?
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All he's going to do is fish and hunt because that is all we've learned about Tim
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Walls, not the fact that he has, that he completely botched the response to the George Floyd riots.
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No one's asked him one question about anything.
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They haven't even gotten mad at him because he's killing too many fish yet.
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It's just been nonstop praise about how he said weird once, and he's a big hunter.
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Well, they asked J.D. Vance about the weirdness.
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They can accuse me of whatever they want to accuse me of.
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As Harry S. Truman once said, if you can't take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
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And I'm doing this because I think that me being vice president will help improve people's lives.
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So I accept their attacks, but I think that it is a little bit of projection.
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Dana, if you think about, you know, just take a couple of days ago.
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And I remember when I had just been announced as the VP nominee, I gave my big speech,
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and I saw my wife, and I gave her a big hug and a kiss because I love my wife,
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Tim Waltz gave his wife a nice, firm Midwestern handshake and then tried to sort of awkwardly correct for it.
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So I think that what it is is two people, Kamala Harris and Tim Waltz,
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who aren't comfortable in their own skin because they aren't comfortable with their policy positions for the American people.
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And so they're name-calling instead of actually telling the American people how they're going to make their lives better.
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I think that's weird, Dana, but, like, they can call me whatever they want to.
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Here he is with Dana Bash schooling her just, I mean, just a little bit.
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And on the question of when he left the National Guard,
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he filed his election paperwork February 10, 2005.
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That was a month before the National Guard even announced that it was possible that they would deploy to Iraq,
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He retired two months before they actually got the paperwork.
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But on CNN last night, Dana, one of the people who was actually in charge of him
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said they knew they were going to deploy to Iraq in February of 2004, or fall of 2004.
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He decided to quit, to retire, whatever word you want to use.
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Because, whatever, because he wanted to run for Congress.
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He said that when he decided to retire, he did not know that he was going to Iraq.
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That is another untruth, as even his senior military officer said.
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Dishonesty spoken in favor and for the purpose of political benefit.
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And I think that the most important thing here, Dana, is it goes to Kamala Harris' judgment.
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Tim Waltz is ultimately going to be the vice president.
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I'm sure she's going to be president, if she wins, for four or maybe even eight years.
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Why did Kamala Harris choose a person who has lied about their military service?
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And I don't want to hear from a campaign spokesperson of Kamala Harris.
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I want to hear Kamala Harris herself address what I just said.
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You know, I've seen a lot of statements from veterans, including those you serve with,
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saying it's just untoward to be criticizing somebody who served for 24 years.
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I've heard from a lot of veterans groups who criticize Tim Waltz.
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The question is, he said he served in war, and he didn't.
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I really, I couldn't care less what one or the other person says about it.
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The truth is that Tim Waltz didn't tell the truth.
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And importantly, Dana, this is about Kamala Harris's judgment.
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Put him in these situations where he's going to be attacked constantly.
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Because the tone of every one of these interviews this weekend was that constant attack, constant attack.
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Now, again, neither the presidential candidate nor the vice presidential candidate have had one question asked to them on the other side of this.
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He's showing up to interview after interview after interview as the vice presidential candidate.
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At least they have somebody to ask questions to.
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Joe Biden is being asked all kinds of questions.
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If he wins this nomination, I mean, excuse me, this election, watch what happens.
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Now, I don't know what the setup question was to that.
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Most of the setup that I saw from that interview was, so your grandkids were hugging you the other day.
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Well, it was like the lightest touch interview I've ever seen in my life.
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But to Biden's credit, at least he's actually out there speaking to reporters.
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It was more of a, you know, like the type of interview you do with your grandpa with like a, you know, a memory service.
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Like where like they're like, oh, well, before he completely fades away, you should get him on camera telling you about him being a grandpa to you.
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Have you ever seen where they bring those old timey pictures back to life?
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Also, he has now confirmed the Democrats pushed him out of the race.
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You're at your home, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, late July with your family.
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The polls we had showed that it was a neck-and-neck race.
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But what happened was a number of my Democratic colleagues in the House and Senate thought that
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And I was concerned if I stayed in the race, that would be the topic.
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You'd be interviewing me about why did Nancy Pelosi say, why did someone.
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And I thought it would be a real distraction, number one.
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If he made an announcement that he cured cancer, which, by the way, I will remind you, he promised
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Last week, the president came out and said he has healed the economy and the environment.
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But I can tell you right now, I am on HasJoeBidenCuredCancer.com.
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So, but if he said it, he made an announcement from the Rose Garden.
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That's how you, the man was so embarrassed by his defeat at a debate and was so incoherent
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The whole, the whole tale is about how he can't remember anything.
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He doesn't know what the story was because he's incompetent and incoherent.
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And, and I will say actually truthful, this is a Nancy Pelosi coup.
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People kept saying, well, this is Barack Obama.
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And we went back and forth about this on the air as well.
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Obama's pick, as we talked about, Kelly and Shapiro.
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And probably either one of them would have been a better pick.
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And what's laughable about this entire thing is that he's like, well, a lot of them said
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they wanted me to leave because it would hurt their races.
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And, and what's so stupid is if he would have just held out for a couple more weeks, we would
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already be at the point of this story in which they've decided that actually he was sharp as
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They would have completely reversed this already because the convention is here and they got locked
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If he would have just held out, they would have all reversed themselves and said how
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And yet here he is, this sad, pathetic old man who was trying to get himself through this race,
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And they manipulated him into believing all of this nonsense.
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I'm sorry I'm up at the ranch, but I don't even know where to begin with you, but let's
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You have a new book coming out on the 3rd of September.
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Well, it's Follow the Science, How Big Pharma Misleads, Obscures and Prevails.
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And HarperCollins actually asked me to write it.
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First, I think they envisioned a book picking apart the COVID missteps and the COVID vaccine
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But we agreed that that's been pretty well done by the time this book would come out.
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But I said, what about a bigger look at why exactly we're spending more than we've ever
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spent on insurance and health care and medicine, but we're sicker, we're just growing sicker
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and sicker as a society with chronic disorders that our medical establishment seems not to
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You know, they're so busy getting us to the doctor to take pills.
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The idea that they're looking for the root causes and the things that are perhaps destroying
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us as a society has kind of gone by the wayside.
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So this examines the conflicts of interest that exist between news media, government,
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political figures, big pharma, your doctor, medical schools, medical journals in ways that
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actually lead to the destruction of our health.
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You know, I saw something on cholesterol medicine and they said, you know, Alzheimer's
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And as we started to lower our cholesterol in our bodies, Alzheimer's started.
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I mean, I do think, and I don't know about that, but I do think we are made sick.
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Some of our medicines and our cures are causing all kinds of problems and we don't recognize
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We just go try to find another cure for that one.
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And the doctors and the government aren't doing their due diligence.
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It wouldn't be hard to build databases and to find out what side effects are happening
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and what's, you know, on a population level going on.
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And one of the things I uncovered, besides the fact that, as you said, every cell in our
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body needs cholesterol and they're not sure at what level a particular person's cholesterol
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Your eyes need cholesterol, your brain needs cholesterol, and you can go too far.
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But even more interesting to me was the conflicts of interest when it comes to the studies that
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are relied upon, and the book does talk about this sort of thing, the studies that are relied
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upon that doctors look at as if they're solid and gold.
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And I couldn't find any of them that were conducted outside of the makers of statins.
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So I don't know if people understand, even when it's drug, even when it looks like it's
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coming from a university, these studies are paid for and controlled under contract by companies
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that don't allow the publication of negative material or, you know, can tweak the data and
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And I found one independent researcher in California, a woman, who had crunched data from the studies
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in ways that were not done in the studies, because the studies funded by the drug companies,
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you know, certainly they want to analyze the data a certain way to become positive.
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And she found all kinds of frightening things about what too many cholesterol drugs can do to the brain.
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They do lower your cholesterol, but that can be a bad thing for some people.
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Fewer people in some studies were shown to be dying of high cholesterol, and yet she said
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And that was not included in the study findings that were published because, you know, that
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So all the time when our doctors are relying on these gold standard studies they read in
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the medical journals, I think they're naive to not understand how manipulated they are.
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Or even by the medical journal editors' own admissions, they've said things such as half
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or more of the science in their journals can't be believed.
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I just did a podcast on Edward Bernays, who, as you know, was instrumental in, well, it was
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called propaganda at the time until the Nazis kind of took that.
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But the only reason why we have eggs and bacon and toast and hash browns for breakfast is
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And he was representing, I think it was the ham industry, and they needed to sell more
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And so he had the idea that, you know, Americans are just having toast and coffee for breakfast.
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He sent that around to all of the doctors in the country.
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And that's why we have that, because he said, do you think this would be good?
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And they would say, well, I guess, yeah, that sounds good.
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And so they would start recommending eggs and bacon and hash browns.
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It was an advertising campaign for a bacon company.
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And I'm not here to knock doctors for no reason.
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But as a profession, they've become wholly controlled by industries, starting in med school.
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For example, I think people should be shocked to learn that the most popular or referred
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to textbook in med school, according to many students, is the Merck Manuals.
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The Merck Manuals published by the drug company Merck.
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And as part of my research for the book, I looked up to see what Merck teaches doctors
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in this popular manual about its own drugs and scandals.
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And there's virtually nothing, as you can imagine, although they claim there's a firewall between
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their textbook editorial people and their corporation that sells the drugs.
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It continues because the medical associations that give licenses and make determinations,
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Too often, they're not doing their independent, original thinking.
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But did you find that, like everything else, it's a handful of people at the top or controlling
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interest or controlling money at the top, and it just keeps getting repackaged?
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And, you know, it's funny that I'm on here with you talking about follow the science and
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some of the money trails, because years ago, when you were on Fox News, my husband introduced
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me to the Glenn Beck show, and you were on TV with charts and graphs, and I wasn't...
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At CBS News, I was not covering politics or follow the money stories about this sort of
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So it looked like, you know, like, wow, this can't be true, because you were following
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the money with Soros, and you had all these crazy...
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My daughter calls them, you know, because I have them too now, like, there's like ropes
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And, you know, that stuff, as I ended up diving into that as part of my investigative reporting
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I mean, you knew that, but I confirmed through my own reporting as well, that the same players
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are funding a lot of initiatives that dominate media and medicine.
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And also, particularly when it comes to the science groups that do the health fact checks,
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which, as we know, typically dispense with factual information and call it, you know,
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untrue, and then push out their own misinformation under the guise of, hey, we're the fact checkers.
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Do you want me to read you like a little bit of the...
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I tell you, I had a friend, Richard Mellonskaife, he started the Heritage Foundation, and he
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called me when I was at Fox, and he said, oh my gosh, I thought we had beaten these guys.
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He said, the same people and the same organizations that I fought against in the 60s are doing it
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There's only a handful of these radicals that have so much power and money that are just
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Pointer Institute used to be this well-reputed journalism organization, you know, years and
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Like Duke Reporter's Lab, Pointer's funded by Google, Facebook, Craig Newmark, which is
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In 2015, Pointer got $1.38 million from Newmark and the Vaccine-Promoting Bill and Melinda Gates
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Foundation to influence news coverage of global health initiatives.
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Millions and millions more over the years from Google, George Soros, Open Society Foundations.
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Then you go to Columbia Journalism Review, which again used to conduct important watchdog
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reporting, very well-respected once upon a time, but it's turned into a, gosh, it leads
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like a typical left-leaning misinformation rag sometimes now.
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Well, in 2019, Columbia Journalism School accepted a $10 million gift from the Craig Newmark
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Philanthropies, and Newmark, Craig's list, also sits on the board of Columbia Journalism
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Review, and they have all these big initiatives to, you know, these people want to be resources
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They sound independent, and journalists like doctors too often don't scratch beneath the
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surface, and they refer to them as if they're an official resource on news and information,
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but all they are, are, you know, propaganda funded by these big groups, and then I'll
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just mention one more, but there's, you know, dozens and dozens.
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Health Policy Watch touts itself as a non-profit open access journal, but that's not what it
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It is, it's an activist website for issues like climate change and pro-pharma positions
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I don't know why those go hand in hand, but they always do.
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And they partner with journalists to spread propaganda about these issues that they want,
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and they're funded generously with Welcome Trust, left-leaning Welcome Trust, which frequently
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partners with the vaccine-promoting Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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The head of Health Policy Watch is a woman who's a left-leaning climate change activist who
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I mean, this goes on and on, but like you say, you come up with the same names and groups
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over and over again, billions upon billions of dollars around the globe, not just in the
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They're touching every small group that could influence our thought in these areas.
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You know, you asked why, I don't know how climate change and what did you say the other
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I think these people that are really driven by climate change, they're very anti, they're
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They're very population control, you know, we've got to get birth control in, we've got
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And it just is a, it's just a bad mix of ideology when it comes to medicine.
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To hear more of this interview, check out the full episode anywhere podcasts are found.
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A very brave man and a good friend of the program, Steve Friend is joining us.
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He is from the Center of Renewing America fellow, he's a fellow at the, sorry, at the Center
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He's also the FBI whistleblower that objected to being, you know, put on to duty to investigate
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He blew the whistle and the rest of it is history.
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So you were with, uh, the FBI, um, and, uh, I know it's not the same, but I think you probably
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I'm not hearing anything satisfying coming from the FBI or the secret service on the assassination
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There's three things, assassination attempt of Donald Trump, uh, the guy that they, they just
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let in, they knew he was on the terror list and they just let him in anyway.
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Who was coordinating an assassination on Donald Trump.
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And then the third comes out of Massachusetts this weekend where Kamala Harris was on stage
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someplace at an event and the secret service and local police needed a bathroom.
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So they covered up somebody's private security on their business and then pick the lock, went
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in, use their bathrooms, occupied the space for hours.
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The lady came on Monday and she's like, what the hell happened here?
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And I think if you or I were to engage in any sort of activity, that there would be criminal
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charges against us at the very least for some sort of trespass.
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But I think what these three elements that you're talking about expose more than anything
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else is what I'd like to dub the myth of competence that we all sort of have in our federal
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law enforcement agencies, because in pop culture, TVs and movies, shows that you consume, the
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characters in those shows and movies, they're really sophisticated and really great at their
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And they're hunting down the criminals and they're chasing them down the back alleys and
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But in reality, these agencies have now devolved into essentially DMVs with guns and badges.
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And that's why it comes to the Trump assassination attempt.
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You know, there's all these theories that are out there.
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And, you know, you can count me sort of in the in the clan of people that believe that
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And I think that there's one sort of presupposition that has gone into that, that so many people have
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But we are presupposing that the Secret Service is always great at its job.
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And yes, I think that these failures are happening at every single event.
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And it's just because of the providential nature of the country.
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And then also because of the myth of competence that nobody's really tried and tested them,
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which is why going forward, I think there's probably a heightened risk to Donald Trump for
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But to pivot to the second issue with the FBI and investigating this, this assassination
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attempt, I think one of the most disturbing elements and hasn't been picked up on was when
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the deputy director of the FBI, Paula Bate, said that they were going to investigate it as
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And that to me is to the layperson seems reasonable.
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But being a subject matter expert here, the FBI is now going to slap a classified label on
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this investigation and they're not going to be able to be transparent because you don't
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And then the last thing that I definitely want to get to is this Pakistani national.
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Now, this is what I like to call the playbook that the FBI has been running the last two and
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a half decades, particularly since 9-11, where essentially what they do to justify their
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existence as a bureaucracy, as a self-looking ice cream cone, they will identify a vulnerable
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person, an emotionally disturbed, maybe someone with radical intentions, but not capable of
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carrying forward an actual attack without the involvement of the FBI.
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They'll identify them, use confidential human sources, use undercovers, and then groom them
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for as long as it takes to engage or at least agree to engage in an activity that can be
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labeled as terrorism, and then they will arrest them.
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And the added wrinkle here was that they imported this Pakistani through the border.
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The FBI Dallas office actually was the signee on him arriving.
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They followed him and orchestrated this plot that could never have happened without the involvement
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of the government for three months, and then justify their existence with this big dismantlement
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This is just the FBI version of Fast and Furious.
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But with the exception of being guns with the ATF, we are now running terrorists so that we
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So, he was supposed to leave right after he had set something up, before the assassination.
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So, did they, because I don't even know if I've read what they had busted other than him.
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This is an individual who was essentially indigent, didn't have the finances, and were led to believe,
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from the FBI, that he arrived here and then just happened.
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The first person that he had a conversation with was an informant for the government about
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soliciting hitmen to carry forward not only assassinations, but he wanted dozens of people
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to have protests that were going to be covered while they did reconnaissance.
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He wanted to get people that were going to steal documents and thumb drives from government
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figures, and all for the low, low price of $5,000, which he didn't actually have.
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And he was doing things like asking the informant to put his phone in a drawer while they had
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These illusions of grandeur that he had, to me, indicate that he was a prime person that
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the FBI likes to target, the people who are vulnerable.
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And not for nothing, let's just say he's a bad guy.
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And he just says, you know, this plot that I have doesn't sound like it's going to be
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I'll just grab a butcher knife and stab the next infidel that I see.
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And then the FBI should be on the hook for that.
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So this is them believing in their own competence that certainly nothing bad will happen while
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We've been lucky that nothing worse has happened.
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But I think the bottom line is that the FBI is inventing these cases so that they can
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go to Congress and say, look, all the good work we have done here.
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Think of all the good work we could do like Lindsey Graham wants to do now.
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And that is giving the FBI backdoor access to encrypted communications.
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That way the FBI can circumvent the Fourth Amendment.
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Lindsey Graham, Lindsey Graham, Lindsey Graham.
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What was this, uh, guy that they picked up, uh, or, you know, um, finally arrested and
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Was this just a distraction from the assassination?
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I think the timetable works out to be that he was arrested on July 12th and the
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assassination 10th happened on the 13th, which to me certainly explains the, uh, the
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messaging that we got about this Iranian threat, uh, because the FBI was really super
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concerned about someone who they groomed to, uh, engage in a terrorism, which never was
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going to happen and really didn't have their eye on the ball.
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And then we can get into the speculation about a character like Crooks, who not for
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nothing kind of strikes me as sitting squarely within the profile of someone who would be
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recruited and targeted for grooming to engage in something that he was not predisposed to do.
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And then maybe did the thing that I just talked about, but instead of grabbing the butcher
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knife and stabbing an infidel, grabbed his dad's AR and said, I'm going to take a shot
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So who is, I mean, who should, uh, pay for, for this?
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I saw that the, I think it was the fire chief of, uh, Butler County just resigned over this
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I don't think it's the local law enforcement's place.
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I mean, you know, when the secret service come in, they usually just come in and just
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Um, uh, you know, who, whose fault really was this?
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There's going to be a lot of accountability, hot potato as it comes to this assassination
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attempt, because you could see Kimberly Cheeto get up there and say, the buck stopped with
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me, but you know, it was really local law enforcement's job and just having been at both levels, you
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could easily see that roof being something where the locals said, Hey, that should be
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And the secret service said, okay, we'll cover it.
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And then they're just looking back and forth at each other saying, Hey, that's your job.
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And then meanwhile, it doesn't get covered at all.
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But I think ultimately, because the secret service is supposed to be the chief agency there
00:37:37.220
It needs to be them who falls on this and there needs to be an independent investigation because
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The FBI has a track record for investigating assassination attempts, like the 2017 congressional
00:37:50.940
baseball shooting, where the shooter was a Bernie Sanders supporter showed up at the
00:37:54.800
ball field and asked where the Republicans were and then proceeded to shoot Steve Scalise.
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And the FBI said, that's not an assassination attempt.
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So there needs to be an independent investigation, maybe funded here, could be used in the congressional
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It could also be a request from the Pennsylvania State Police, because I know there's a federal
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And I don't see any reason why they couldn't conduct a thorough investigation.
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I would trust them far more than the FBI, which is going to say this was domestic terrorism,
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perhaps, or perhaps we already had a domestic terrorism case open on crooks.
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Either way, we can't talk about sources and methods.
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Maybe we'll give you something here in a decade when nobody's really paying attention.
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The woman in Massachusetts that had her business just taken over without her permission, without
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her even being there and knowing it, they covered the camera, they broke in, picked the lock,
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and went in and spent hours in there, just because I guess they could.
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But I, you know, I don't, you know, they have a job to do.
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If people don't stand up, I think that's a violation of the Third Amendment.
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I think that's the violation of the Third Amendment.
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And if people don't push back and say, no, I'm sorry, if that were anyone else, you'd
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But you cannot do that because it'll never stop.
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This is the natural downstream consequences of what we experienced in 2020 when we said
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you had to stay home and stay safe and shut down your non-essential business that you
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And I shared your sentiment about the Third Amendment.
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It would be interesting to see an heterogenic attorney take that up.
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But the government does not respect your civil liberties, does not respect the Bill of
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And this is just another example of the fact that they are willing to impede on those just
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Steve Friend, former and current whistleblower on the FBI.