The Great America Show - August 17, 2026


AG Blanche Makes HUGE REVELATION as Trump DEMANDS Answers!


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00:00:00.000 Quiet, quiet, quiet. You're very disrespectful in front of this young man, okay? Don't you find
00:00:11.340 her disrespectful? He understands. Quiet. Who are you with? I'm with CNN. Fake news. You're fake news.
00:00:19.780 You're a loud, you're a loud, boisterous person. You're fake news. Be quiet. Be quiet. Be quiet. 0.91
00:00:26.500 you're a fake reporter and you report fake news go ahead mr president is there enough 0.84
00:00:33.240 is there enough food on the uss lincoln yeah it is that was a that was a cnn fake report
00:00:38.900 hello everybody and welcome to the great america show it's great to have you with us a beautiful
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00:01:23.180 So eventful day, as you just heard there at President Trump at the White House this afternoon.
00:01:28.620 President Trump honoring that 16-year-old lifeguard, Ryder Williams.
00:01:34.900 For those of you who don't remember the story or don't remember seeing it, 16-year-old lifeguard.
00:01:40.100 Hey, there's a video up there for you on the screen.
00:01:44.560 That 10-year-old boy a couple of weeks ago down in Florida from Ripcord actually saving his life.
00:01:52.440 If any of you folks who have been down in Florida or been in a rip current before know it ain't easy to get out of one, especially not a 10-year-old child.
00:02:02.440 So President Trump honoring that fellow there at the White House for his brave and honorable duty, saving that young boy's life.
00:02:15.640 President Trump had some real nice things to say before we get into the news.
00:02:18.300 So we want to start out Monday a little bit on the lighter side of things.
00:02:21.340 And, you know, honor this gentleman who did a heck of a duty to which the media, of course, didn't respect.
00:02:30.360 I'm honored to be with Ryder Williams, who is a 16-year-old lifeguard in California, the Santa Cruz area.
00:02:41.760 And I understand he was a winner right from the time they first saw him as a lifeguard.
00:02:46.380 a lot of training a lot of work and he saved this young gentleman who i had a long talk with i said
00:02:53.020 would you have made it without him and he said not really right not really it was trouble so you're
00:02:58.940 gonna have a long and beautiful life and i just thought it was we were all watching everybody
00:03:03.900 watched and uh got a lot of publicity because of the ferocity of the waves i've never seen waves
00:03:10.940 I mean, that was sort of violent.
00:03:13.180 We were just discussing and at certain times of the year,
00:03:17.040 mostly like right around now, the waves get very rough
00:03:19.520 in that area and they're swirling.
00:03:21.720 And if you don't know what you're doing,
00:03:22.920 it's going to be tough or if you're small, if you're young.
00:03:26.960 So I just want to congratulate Nathaniel Ray
00:03:30.960 for coming through an ordeal.
00:03:34.640 That means you're going to have good luck in life.
00:03:36.700 You know, that's called good luck.
00:03:38.040 I want to say hello to your father and came along for that.
00:03:41.740 We invited them to the Oval Office and to the White House.
00:03:46.880 After this, if you'd like, we're going to have brought up to the Lincoln bedroom where you see the room of Abraham Lincoln.
00:03:54.620 That's pretty good. Right. And also your sister.
00:03:57.560 It's really nice.
00:04:01.620 That's just different acts of kindness you didn't see.
00:04:05.500 When you had Joe Biden as president.
00:04:07.460 And this is why I think people love President Trump.
00:04:09.860 It's why I love him so much, because he can relate to the American person, to the everyday life struggles.
00:04:20.260 That people go through.
00:04:23.460 Like I said, I think it's the reason why so many people love President Trump.
00:04:28.560 It's the reason why the American people adore him so much.
00:04:32.880 For his acts of kindness.
00:04:36.080 And showing compassion.
00:04:37.460 for uh for for people who aren't elitists by the way who aren't politicians so i just want to start
00:04:48.980 off monday a little bit on the lighter side of things brush off some dust and and get to uh some
00:04:54.400 good stories because there's a lot to talk about today and i mean a lot todd blanche absolutely
00:05:00.680 levering the mainstream corrupt media 0.94
00:05:04.500 over the weekend. Total opposite of Merrick Garland,
00:05:08.660 by the way. Total, total
00:05:12.460 opposite of Merrick Garland. Asked a few
00:05:16.520 questions by Kristen Welker, and I like that these people don't run
00:05:20.760 from the left mainstream
00:05:24.540 media. I like that they go on these shows and make them look like total buffoons. 0.98
00:05:28.120 I mean, you go on Fox News, they're going to stab you in the back. 0.98
00:05:31.580 You might as well go on the left mainstream media scum so that all the leftists who are watching could see how corrupt their media that they praise, that they get on their hands and knees for and beg for forgiveness from to see exactly what they are doing. 0.95
00:05:51.640 So it's nice that that Todd Blanche isn't only just making his rounds on Fox News. 1.00
00:05:57.960 He's making his rounds on CNN to show Kristen Welker that she does indeed have a double digit IQ and that she is borderline mentally retarded with her stupid questions. 1.00
00:06:09.580 So Welker gets on there and she starts asking Blanche, are you going to take President Trump's orders? 1.00
00:06:14.480 Are you going to listen to what he has to tell you?
00:06:16.800 and his answer i think says it all
00:06:21.680 on just what kind of an attorney general i think we're going to get
00:06:27.440 from todd blenish do the president have a voice in individual prosecution decisions at all
00:06:33.600 every american has a voice in prosecutions i mean we hear from from americans all the time as a
00:06:38.580 matter of fact many of our investigations start with with an american citizen coming forward and
00:06:43.860 saying they saw something and so whether president trump should have a quote voice it depends would
00:06:48.540 you take his opinions into consideration when he says i think this case should be revived will you
00:06:53.220 take that into consideration when so hold on will i take um the president of the united states's
00:06:59.840 view on something into consideration yes of course and i hope every attorney general in history would
00:07:07.640 not answer that question differently just just let's play that out the president of the united
00:07:12.880 states the elected president of the united states says something to me and i'm supposed to say to
00:07:17.600 you i would say nope i mean that's not the way it works now let's do a pause right there because 1.00
00:07:23.980 that's todd blanch using his brain to kill her with intelligence to her stupidity 1.00
00:07:34.600 boiling straight down to am i going to take the president of the united states 1.00
00:07:40.000 opinion on things well i don't know if a plumber comes to your house and
00:07:45.200 tells you you need a new plumbing system is going to cost you 30 grand
00:07:49.300 do you take his word for it
00:07:51.300 or if you go to the car mechanic and the guy tells you your transmission's blown 0.99
00:07:57.280 do you take his opinion for it kristin you buffoon the president is is um is is extraordinarily 0.97
00:08:07.980 extraordinarily um every day he wakes up with one mission which is making this country better 0.95
00:08:13.400 and as it relates to me making this country safer so if he has a view on that he talks about it on
00:08:19.260 social media he talks about it when he speaks to the american people that's certainly something
00:08:23.220 that i listen to i'm asking in part because we did see this clash play out in his first term
00:08:28.100 bill barr the attorney general during president trump's first term did push back against president
00:08:34.020 Trump in 2020, as you recall, he told him his election claims were detached from reality.
00:08:39.560 If you were faced with a similar situation, something that you did not think actually
00:08:44.480 met the standard, the legal standard in your mind, would you stand up to the president?
00:08:50.840 I mean, I'm sorry.
00:08:52.440 I just had to pause it again right there to fact check the city of Welker.
00:08:55.220 William Barr did absolutely no due diligence, no investigation on any election fraud case.
00:09:08.120 That is a fact.
00:09:10.240 We've had Tony Schaefer on the show many times.
00:09:14.840 Tony Schaefer had said to me many times in person.
00:09:19.360 how corrupt and complicit William Barr was in obfuscating and hiding the crimes of the 2020
00:09:29.520 election. So let's hear what Blanche have to say. So I will I will always stand up for what's right
00:09:36.320 and and I do not the president does not expect any of his leaders including me to just say yes
00:09:41.660 to him no matter what he says and so of course there's there's there's vigorous back and forth
00:09:46.420 With every cabinet member in the president of the United States, which is exactly what President Trump expects.
00:09:51.080 And there again, there is this extraordinarily false narrative that the president wakes up in the morning and calls me and says, Todd, go prosecute X or Y.
00:09:58.600 He does not do that. He has never done that. He will never do that.
00:10:02.040 And so if there's something that he wants to do, but he needs to know that there's a challenge or that we can't do it, of course I will tell him.
00:10:08.720 It happens all the time with all of his leaders, and that's what he expects.
00:10:12.000 You know, it would be normal for Walker to ask those questions if she asked the same questions of Joe Biden's Justice Department.
00:10:27.840 remember Merrick Garland sending the machine gun toting federal agents to
00:10:38.740 Mar-a-Lago to do Joe Biden's bidding to ensure President Trump never saw the
00:10:45.920 Oval Office again do we remember Merrick Garland who ignored every single
00:10:56.320 criminal referral of James Comer. Now, I know a lot of people out there give Comer and Jordan
00:11:03.880 a hard time, and, you know, rightfully so. But I've known Comer. I've known Comer for a few years.
00:11:11.680 I've sat down and spoke with him both on this show, and I've sat down and spoken with him,
00:11:16.120 just he and I in a room with nobody else around off the record.
00:11:21.040 And I've gotten to know the kind of man that Comer was and the work that Comer did.
00:11:29.680 And without revealing any details about what he and I had spoken about in confidence, take my word for it, as a man who probably hates every single politician there is, that Comer did his job to the best of his abilities and that he's not to be blamed.
00:11:51.040 for the lack of prosecutions.
00:11:56.180 The lack thereof, I should say, of prosecutions
00:11:58.780 that were supposed to take place. 0.99
00:12:02.680 But Merrick Garland is so damn corrupt 1.00
00:12:05.040 and Joe Biden was so damn corrupt. 0.99
00:12:07.060 So it's laughable for all of us to sit out here 0.99
00:12:09.720 and watch Kristen Welker question motives
00:12:14.520 about what Blanche is to do and what Blanche is not to do. 1.00
00:12:18.840 when we literally had the most corrupt attorney general and president 0.60
00:12:24.840 this country had ever seen.
00:12:29.140 So, just my two cents.
00:12:30.840 We're taking a quick break here, folks.
00:12:32.000 We're live tonight, so as always, let us know where you're tuned in from.
00:12:35.220 Chris Holmes, always a delight to have you with us here on the Great America Show.
00:12:40.100 Roxanne, RBKK, thanks for joining us tonight.
00:12:44.440 Jim Saylor, always a delight to have you.
00:12:45.980 Shout-out to Southeast Texas.
00:12:49.680 We love Texas.
00:12:51.340 By the way, I hear DFW, Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, 0.57
00:12:54.780 is not building those Muslim foot-washing machines anymore.
00:12:58.720 We've got a little bit of blowback.
00:12:59.920 Fall girl, delight to have you with us here tonight.
00:13:03.300 Barbara from Virginia Beach, Virginia.
00:13:06.300 We're going to get to more of your shout-outs, your questions,
00:13:08.260 all that good stuff.
00:13:09.000 We're taking a quick break.
00:13:09.860 We're going to be back in less than 60 seconds. 1.00
00:13:11.720 The conversation continues because Kristen Welker didn't just stop 1.00
00:13:14.360 with that stupid question. 1.00
00:13:15.280 And she had plenty more. 1.00
00:13:16.680 President Trump also offering some words today about an update in Iran, also an update in South Korea.
00:13:23.320 President Trump has had a tough time with South Korea.
00:13:26.180 And we're going to tell you about it on the other side of this quick break.
00:13:28.680 And also, Eric Fang Fang Swalwell.
00:13:32.000 Just when you thought his troubles couldn't get any worse, they get worse.
00:13:34.880 We're going to tell you about it.
00:13:35.680 So please stay with us.
00:13:36.800 Come right back in less than 60 seconds.
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00:13:55.360 missouri in the house thanks for joining us tonight pecker potato um always a delight having
00:14:02.180 you guys here live so getting back to kristin welker and the brain she has or i should say 0.99
00:14:08.200 the lack thereof, the brain she has. President Trump has been fighting for years for states to
00:14:16.060 release their voter rolls. Pretty fair thing, I think, to ask for, because what's on those voter
00:14:22.540 rolls? Well, we know who's a citizen. We can reference who's alive, who's deceased, who's not
00:14:31.020 a citizen who's allowed to vote, who's not allowed to vote, and he's been going to war.
00:14:37.700 Tom Fitton over a judicial watch has been fighting for years, released the voter rolls
00:14:41.240 because there's millions, if not tens of millions of people probably on these rolls
00:14:45.500 who don't belong on them, who can go to the voting booth and go vote in our elections
00:14:51.440 illegally. So Walker wants to know if Todd Blanch is going to put an end
00:14:58.160 to President Trump challenging these voter rolls.
00:15:02.760 Why would she want to do that?
00:15:04.520 Issues that he really cares about the midterms.
00:15:07.740 And there's been a lot of focus on the midterms
00:15:10.180 as it relates to the Justice Department,
00:15:11.880 which has lost 22 cases trying to force states
00:15:15.080 to turn over their voter rolls.
00:15:17.220 State officials have pushed back against those moves.
00:15:20.940 They say states dictate how elections are run,
00:15:24.000 not the federal government.
00:15:25.640 Is it time for the DOJ to drop this fight?
00:15:28.160 And will you do it?
00:15:29.400 Well, just I mean, we're relying on a statute, a statute passed by Congress that allows us in the right circumstances to review and get those voter rolls.
00:15:38.360 And so, yes, no, we're not going to stop doing what I think every American should expect us to do, which is make sure that we have elections that are fair.
00:15:46.940 And as that relates to the Department of Justice, that means making sure that that there are no constitutional legal violations, even at the state level.
00:15:54.540 So, yes, President Trump, this administration knows and, of course, understands that states administer elections and that will always be the case.
00:16:02.920 But it doesn't mean the federal government should play no role.
00:16:05.640 And so the tension there is, of course, whether we should be playing the role that we're playing.
00:16:10.120 And that's really what we're litigating.
00:16:11.800 How far are you willing to take this fight? Because you've been ruled against now 22 times.
00:16:16.060 Are you going to take this all the way to the Supreme Court? Do you anticipate?
00:16:19.800 We'll see. We'll see what happens. We're trying to work it out with states.
00:16:23.140 Of course. Yes, absolutely. It's a possibility. Election integrity is something that President Trump ran on and the American people elected him. It's something that every American should care about. And so the idea that the Department of Justice is trying to investigate issues around elections to make sure they're fair and make sure they're conducted the right way is not something that we should be running away from. That's something we should be running right towards.
00:16:44.360 imagine that welker's more worried about if trump and the doj are going to keep fighting
00:16:54.980 for voter rolls than she is about what can be hidden in those voter rolls so let's talk about
00:17:04.940 the states that won't turn over those voter rolls what they have in common washington state oregon
00:17:13.960 California, Nevada, Idaho
00:17:17.200 Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Oklahoma
00:17:20.880 Minnesota
00:17:25.000 Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky, Georgia
00:17:30.640 District of Columbia, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont
00:17:36.360 New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Delaware
00:17:40.180 and New Jersey
00:17:42.840 nine out of ten of those run by marxist dems who don't care about election integrity as a matter
00:17:54.460 of fact they don't want election integrity because it means they can't vote and we all 0.85
00:17:59.260 know that's how the democrats win in elections they lie they cheat and they steal
00:18:04.060 just like they did in 2020 and have seemingly got away with it
00:18:12.840 so welker wants to know if trump's going to continue his fight
00:18:17.820 to try and save our elections if he's going to continue his fight
00:18:24.700 to the supreme court who by the way has been nothing but a disappointment by the way
00:18:31.800 massive disappointment from the supreme court amy coney barrett
00:18:37.880 it's like amy khan artist barrett because she fooled everyone
00:18:43.540 or kavanaugh who's sometimes there when you need him most of the time not there when you need him 0.83
00:18:51.960 now speaking of the supreme court which is by the way ridiculous they rejected president
00:18:59.820 trump's petition once again asking them to reconsider their earlier refusal of a five
00:19:04.800 million civil verdict in the case of writer E. Jean Carroll. Remember E. Jean Carroll? That was
00:19:10.440 the lady who said President Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman shopping fitting room. 0.94
00:19:17.600 Couldn't remember the date, couldn't remember what happened.
00:19:22.460 But just remembered it happened. And of course, with the corrupt judge in New York,
00:19:27.900 they were able to do it because it was all just an embarrassment trial on President Trump.
00:19:31.420 how could we embarrass him and the supreme court faces now we have we have no interest in taking
00:19:37.980 this up uh you're probably the most attacked man in history
00:19:41.260 went after you any way they could but we're gonna let this one rock pay that five and a half million
00:19:49.660 dollars no big deal you're rich that's our supreme court total total joke we're taking one more quick
00:19:55.940 break here live tonight for the great america show folks we're coming right back in less than 60
00:19:59.020 seconds we're telling you what fang fang eric swalwell's gotten himself into now it's not good
00:20:05.560 we're coming right back folks please stay with us don't turn that down
00:20:08.880 thanks everybody for staying with us here live tonight on the great america show as always
00:20:17.860 let us know where you're tuning in from and if you're enjoying uh the great america show
00:20:22.340 appreciate each and one of you guys every one of you guys uh tuned in tonight so uh before we get
00:20:28.200 into Eric Fang Fang Swalwell. He's got himself into a little bit of trouble, or I should say
00:20:34.180 a lot of trouble. President Trump this afternoon, as he sat in the Oval Office with that very brave
00:20:40.420 lifeguard who saved the 10-year-old's life, gave us an update on Korea, on South Korea,
00:20:47.580 and what he expects out of them. Let's take a listen, because it's not good for South Korea. 0.80
00:20:53.600 South Korea has been protected by us for many, many years.
00:20:57.580 And during my first term, they agreed to pay close to $3 billion a year for protection.
00:21:02.940 Because we don't, you know, they essentially weren't there.
00:21:05.980 And I asked them to do that.
00:21:07.500 At my request, I said, not right.
00:21:09.100 They weren't happy about it, but they agreed.
00:21:12.260 I asked for $10 billion.
00:21:14.560 And they were very unhappy.
00:21:17.940 But we agreed for a short term there would be $3 billion.
00:21:20.560 The next year would go up and the next year would go up.
00:21:23.140 So they start paying for their protection when the election was rigged.
00:21:26.980 And I ended up watching for four years and then coming back.
00:21:30.600 I watched Biden rescind that three billion dollars for whatever reason.
00:21:36.260 When I called recently the president of South Korea, who I like, I think he's very nice, actually.
00:21:42.200 But I called him. I said, would you like to give us a little hand?
00:21:44.780 We don't need help with Iran. 0.97
00:21:46.620 But if you'd like, give us a hand with Iran. 0.93
00:21:49.520 He said, no, thanks.
00:21:50.560 And I said, wait a minute, we have 39,000 soldiers over there guarding you from Kim Jong-un, your next-door neighbor, and you're not going to help us on a very easy military operation in Iran?
00:22:06.120 That's strange.
00:22:07.100 No, no, we'd rather not get involved.
00:22:08.820 I said, well, why are we involved in helping you?
00:22:12.400 So and I want to help them. But, you know, when you ask somebody, would you like to give us a hand?
00:22:18.520 And they say, no, thanks. And then we're guarding them from a country and paying ourselves billions of it's costing us billions and billions of dollars to protect not only them, but other countries.
00:22:30.980 Look at NATO. We spend hundreds of billions of dollars protecting Europe from Russia, hundreds of billions, mostly from Russia, but from other things, too. 0.58
00:22:43.500 And then they say, well, they don't want to get involved with getting, you know, guarding the strait where they get most of their oil. 0.70
00:22:51.880 They get 50 percent of their oil and they don't want to get involved. Why are we doing it?
00:22:55.820 So all I want is fairness. And South Korea, I get along with them very well, but they were paying three billion dollars a year.
00:23:02.800 And then they convinced Biden that I was probably a bad person and they shouldn't.
00:23:07.480 And he immediately rescinded that order. So we were getting paid.
00:23:11.340 We would have been getting paid a lot more, but we can't go around and protect all of these countries, especially when they're not there to help us.
00:23:19.640 that's exactly what they want they want protections for free
00:23:28.020 and president trump clearly holding that grudge on these countries who
00:23:32.720 sat back and let america drain all their resources on fighting against hamas and fighting against
00:23:41.880 Iran. And quite frankly, South Korea's got enough money. Why are we protecting them?
00:23:51.380 It's like everyone wants to be protected. But then when it comes time to helping America with
00:23:58.680 a small task, nobody can be bothered. Nobody can lift a finger to do anything. So President Trump,
00:24:10.540 as you heard him there, asked Secretary Hegseth to go ahead and reduce those joint military
00:24:17.720 exercises, which I'm sure, I'm sure South Korea is going to reconsider paying their fair share.
00:24:26.460 And it's, by the way, it's not them paying us. It's literally them paying their share for what
00:24:31.920 we're paying out. We're not making money on it. We're heavily still subsidizing it.
00:24:40.540 common courtesy korea common common courtesy so i promised you we're going to talk about fang
00:24:47.800 fang eric swalwell because he's gotten himself in a little bit of hot water once again gotten
00:24:54.640 himself in a little bit of a trouble i guess you can say newly declassified documents real
00:25:00.640 salacious details about eric swalwell and his relationship with that chinese spy and honeypot
00:25:05.460 fang fang it's previously reported that the intel community had a classified report detailing eric
00:25:11.460 swalwell's intimate relationship with fang fang and according to axios fang fang was a bundler for
00:25:16.820 eric swalwell and other democrat candidates it's also reported that the chinese spy had intimate
00:25:22.060 relationships with swalwell which we've talked about many times here now despite the chinese
00:25:28.340 spy scandal swalwell remained on the house intel committee thanks to nancy pelosi and had access
00:25:34.320 to some of the nation's most highly classified information.
00:25:38.760 John Solomon of Just the News,
00:25:40.480 he's also in charge of the White House Government Transparency Task Force,
00:25:45.400 released some damning documents today.
00:25:49.740 According to some of these memos,
00:25:51.520 Fang Fang went over to Eric Swalwell's apartment at least two times.
00:25:55.520 Although Eric says, quote-unquote,
00:25:57.120 he does not remember having candles lit while she was there.
00:26:01.680 Fang Fang reportedly, according to these documents,
00:26:04.060 would show up to Swalwell's apartment, quote, not wearing any underwear, end quote.
00:26:09.520 Quote, one night, Fang came over late in the evening and started banging on Swalwell's door.
00:26:15.740 Swalwell's redacted, let her in, and she and Swalwell hooked up.
00:26:20.720 Fang Fang left after a couple hours, and Swalwell barely remembers the event
00:26:24.220 because he had taken an Ambien prior to Fang Fang arriving.
00:26:29.020 Swalwell takes Ambien to sleep, and those of you who have never taken an Ambien,
00:26:32.160 i suggest don't ever take one it's the most powerful sleeping pill that you can possibly
00:26:36.900 take there's been crazy stories of people waking up in cornfields not knowing how they got there
00:26:41.400 from taking these ambien which by the way i think should be illegal and off the market
00:26:46.020 now these files provide significant new details about the long rumored relationship
00:26:52.480 that was more than just a intimate one the fbi reportedly initially wanted to investigate
00:26:58.600 Congressman Swalwell for a bribery scheme in which he exchanged donations from Fang for her planting
00:27:04.620 interns in his office, but eventually decided to narrow the case to seek criminal charges only
00:27:09.200 against Fang for making illegal donations to California Democrats through different conduits
00:27:15.260 or straw donors, if you will. Swalwell admitted to having sex with Fang, his staff placing Fang's
00:27:21.740 interns in Congress and not having strong enough campaign finance system to detect these strong
00:27:27.400 donations, straw donations rather, she allegedly passed through U.S. citizen conduits. Pretty much 0.66
00:27:33.900 what a straw donor is, is if you've maxed out making a contribution to so-and-so's campaign
00:27:39.840 and you have a lot of money, you go give so-and-so, you know, a friend or whatever who doesn't have
00:27:45.960 the money, that donation to give to them. Now, the Justice Department declined to prosecute Fang
00:27:51.140 despite strong evidence of the illicit donations after she fled the U.S. and the FBI began
00:27:56.140 interviewing her associates and rented her home.
00:27:58.980 The early steps in the investigation were overseen in part by none other.
00:28:03.660 You ready to do this?
00:28:05.280 Jack Smith.
00:28:07.360 I don't have to tell you who Jack Smith is.
00:28:09.200 You all know who he is very well if you watch this show.
00:28:12.220 The FBI was recruiting Frank to be a confidential informant
00:28:14.580 through an undercover agent.
00:28:16.580 Aside her code name, Rusty Thumbs, 0.92
00:28:19.600 planned to hire her through a cutout company
00:28:21.440 and was still evaluating her suitability as a confidential human source.
00:28:26.140 when they discovered her alleged criminal behavior.
00:28:29.580 Well, what'd you think you were getting from Fang?
00:28:32.020 The FBI knew early on during the recruitment
00:28:34.820 that Fang was tied to the Chinese Ministry of State Security,
00:28:39.280 Beijing's notorious intel service.
00:28:41.960 That bureau also identified her parents as MSS agents
00:28:44.980 and knew she was raising money for California Democrats 0.61
00:28:47.940 and was willing to use sex as a means 1.00
00:28:50.320 to getting ahead in the world of U.S. politics.
00:28:54.600 Now, early this year, Swalwell, of course, panicked through a fit when FBI Director Cash Patel pushed to release the slacious files related to his relationship with the Chinese spy and honeypot Fang Fang.
00:29:09.880 At the time, Swalwell was running for governor of California, which was also a very, very short-lived campaign.
00:29:16.700 campaign. He didn't make it out of the primaries, or I guess you could say he didn't make it even
00:29:22.820 to the primaries. Bit of a rough road ahead, I'd say, for Mr. Eric Swalwell,
00:29:29.340 who had no problem going on TV every night calling President Trump a slew of different adjectives.
00:29:36.800 But he was really just hiding behind his own criminality. That's all for us folks tonight
00:29:41.620 here on The Great America Show. As I said, Stephen Gardner will be in for me tomorrow, so
00:29:45.540 don't worry
00:29:46.560 I will be back on Wednesday
00:29:49.360 we hope to see you back here tomorrow
00:29:51.880 with Steven Gardner he's bringing you
00:29:53.460 a great great interview so please be sure
00:29:55.940 to join us and tune in for that tomorrow and I'll see you back
00:29:57.940 here on Wednesday until then
00:29:59.900 may God bless you may God bless America
00:30:02.060 and may God bless the great
00:30:03.300 Lou Dobbs have a wonderful night folks God bless
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