The Great America Show - January 22, 2024


CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT CHAOS


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33 minutes

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170.86124

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5,791

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378

Misogynist Sentences

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Hate Speech Sentences

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Summary

The Marxist AG Merrick Garland wants Trump behind bars at any and all cost, and so far, the Republicans have allowed him and his Marxists to get away with it. Gerald Mayo is one of the youngest, black head coaches in the NFL.


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00:01:18.340 Hello, everybody. Welcome to The Great America Show. I'm Lou Dobbs. Thank you for being with us.
00:01:23.140 Marxist Attorney General Merrick Garland wants Trump behind bars. There's no other way to put it.
00:01:29.160 Garland means to interfere with the 2024 presidential election at any and all cost.
00:01:34.940 And so far, the Republicans have allowed him and his Marxists to get away with it.
00:01:40.080 Garland this week talking with CNN claimed his indictments of President Trump have been done
00:01:45.680 in a professional fashion, as he put it, and are by no means political.
00:01:50.480 Look, we have reasserted and clarified the norms of this Justice Department.
00:01:56.600 We follow the facts and the law wherever they lead. Politics is not a part of our determinations.
00:02:03.540 It would be improper, and it's not. The Department has regulations about the appointment of special
00:02:10.780 counsels, and we follow those regulations. In each case, we have appointed people who are
00:02:16.760 formerly veteran career prosecutors, whatever their current position is.
00:02:25.380 And they're sufficiently independent from you, you believe?
00:02:27.560 Yes, and the regulations make them independent from me. So with respect to the public, I hope they
00:02:33.540 will see, not only from what we've done, but from the outcomes of the cases and the way in which
00:02:39.320 special counsel proceeded, that we have kept politics out of this.
00:02:43.320 Garland, of course, is lying through his teeth, saying he's just following the facts. The facts are
00:02:49.020 he's interfering with the 2024 presidential election. He's doing everything he can to block
00:02:54.540 Donald Trump from the White House. Garland even said it out loud. Garland said he wants a speedy
00:03:00.620 trial, no matter how close to the presidential election. The department has policies about
00:03:06.240 steering clear of elections. Is there a date in your mind where it might be too late to bring these
00:03:13.760 trials to fruition? Again, to stay out of the way of the elections as the department policies?
00:03:19.180 Well, I just say, you know, what I said, which is that the cases were brought last year. Prosecutor
00:03:25.400 has urged speedy trials, with which I agree. And this is now in the hands of the judicial system,
00:03:33.940 not in our hands. Race and society. Our society racked with division over utter nonsense,
00:03:40.240 in my opinion. The Marxist Dems pushing DEI and critical race theory when we all know better.
00:03:47.300 All of us. Marxist Dems and Republicans, independents, we know better. Racial discrimination
00:03:54.220 is bigotry out and out. We're either a colorblind society, or we're discriminating. Not only immoral,
00:04:01.500 but against the law. Or at least, that is the ideal. Last week, the issue was vividly on display in
00:04:08.080 the NFL. The New England Patriots hired a new head coach last week. His name is Gerald Mayo. And Mayo is
00:04:16.620 one of the youngest head coaches in the NFL ever. The first black head coach for the Patriots. And Mayo,
00:04:23.700 in his first press conference as head coach, had this to say about race.
00:04:29.120 I do see color. Because I believe if you don't see color, you can't see racism. And whatever happens,
00:04:36.620 black, white, disabled person. Even someone with disabilities, I always, you know, for the most part,
00:04:43.180 people are like, you know, don't, you know, when they're young, they kind of make the spot hot.
00:04:47.220 Younger people know what that means. But what I would say is, like, no, I want you to be able to
00:04:52.940 go up to those people and really understand those people. So it goes back to whatever it is, black,
00:04:58.220 white, yellow, it really doesn't matter. But it does matter. So we can try to fix a problem
00:05:03.100 that we all know we have. So what exactly does the new Pat's head coach mean by that?
00:05:09.480 It jarred me to hear what he said. What do you think? Colorblind or color conscious? Mayo isn't
00:05:15.740 the only black coach in the NFL by any means. Tampa Bay Buccaneers, they're in the playoffs this year.
00:05:22.740 And head coach Todd Bowles has been the head coach for two years now. He has quite a different answer
00:05:29.140 about race. And I think it's one that everyone should hear. You and Mike Tomlin are two of the
00:05:36.280 few black head coaches in the league. I wonder what your relationship is like with them and your
00:05:39.580 thoughts on Steve Wilks joining that fall. I have a very good relationship with Tomlin.
00:05:44.700 We don't look at what color we are when we coach against each other. We just know each other. I have
00:05:50.380 a lot of very good white friends that coach in this league as well. And I don't think it's a big deal
00:05:56.120 as far as us being coaching against each other. I think it's normal. Wilks got an opportunity to do
00:06:01.420 a good job. Hopefully he does it. And we coach ball. We don't look at color. But you also understand
00:06:07.020 that representation matters too, right? And that when young aspiring coaches or even football players,
00:06:12.220 they see you guys, you know, they see someone that looks like them, maybe grew up like them.
00:06:16.640 That has to mean something. Well, when you say you see you guys and look like them and grow up like
00:06:21.640 them, meaning that we're eyeballs to begin with. And I think the minute you guys stop making a big
00:06:27.800 deal about it, everybody else will as well. So who's right, Mayo or Bowles? I hope Mayo
00:06:33.880 learns from the guy I think is the class act of the NFL coaches, Todd Bowles and Go Bucks.
00:06:40.420 I have to say, I think Congresswoman Elise Stefanik has become my favorite member of the House GOP
00:06:45.820 leadership. New York Marxist Dem and Trust Fund Baby Congressman Dan Goldman is going after her.
00:06:52.960 He brought a censure motion against the Congresswoman for supporting the January 6th
00:06:58.340 hostages of the venal Marxist Dems like Goldman. He's a partisan snake and a liar through and through.
00:07:05.680 Goldman doesn't like Stefanik because she refers to the January 6th political prisoners
00:07:10.460 as hostages. Well, so do I. And I hope you do as well. Hostages of the Marxist Dems and the Biden
00:07:18.400 regime. Pass it on. Hostages. Our guest today knows all about those January 6 hostages. He's the former
00:07:26.680 chief of the Capitol Police, Stephen Sund, and he was chief of the Capitol Police on that day of protest
00:07:33.420 and chaos on January 6th, 2021. Steve, great to have you with us. Thanks for being back. Let me ask
00:07:40.660 you, do you think those folks who've been imprisoned by the Pelosi Marxist Dems should be called hostages?
00:07:47.400 Are they hostages? What would you call these poor people who've been in jail for three years,
00:07:52.860 at least some of them? Again, I think you look at it, I think it was a Democratic
00:07:56.940 Democratic member of Congress, Dan Goldman, that called for her censorship. My belief is that's
00:08:05.100 her prerogative. Again, she's a member of Congress, a U.S. citizen. You have the right to kind of say
00:08:09.760 what you want. It's not like she called for anybody's violence against anyone. Matter of fact,
00:08:14.920 she spoke against the violence that some of the rioters committed on January 6th. And I think this
00:08:20.820 showcases what frustrates Americans across the country, the inability of Congress to even work
00:08:26.140 together on the simplest things. I think when you ask me, what do I think of that term? I think,
00:08:32.260 again, this goes back to the concern that people have of the disparate treatment that you're seeing
00:08:36.760 committed against, you know, treated against different people. There's no rule of law
00:08:43.440 in how the law is being applied to these folks. Yeah. Well, they're hostages. They're prisoners of war,
00:08:51.240 an ideological war. And Dan Goldman, he is a disgusting and appalling activist who is behaving
00:09:01.140 as ignorantly as any other one of the Marxist Dems who mean to destroy this country. Elise Stefanik,
00:09:09.580 I think, deserves great courage for speaking up and calling these defendants who, many of whom have
00:09:16.580 been in the Bureau of Prisons for three years without a trial, without even a trial date.
00:09:24.020 The ignorance of this is just breathtaking. I think the Democrat Party and all of these Marxist Dems
00:09:30.580 who run it should be censured because they are the ones responsible for those people still being in
00:09:36.520 that prison and being there in the first place. I would like to see the Republicans bring censure
00:09:42.520 motions against them. So we're here. We are three years later, Steve. And we've been talking about
00:09:49.420 videos. And we had a speaker say that he was going to release the videos and he released a few.
00:09:54.480 And now we have a new speaker. And he said he was going to release the videos and he released a few,
00:09:59.920 but over 40,000 remain unseen. What is your view about what is being protected here? And we know by whom
00:10:12.140 it's the congressional leaders and the Senate leaders and the administration. How do we get
00:10:19.440 those videos released, do you think? Well, I think more and more of the videos are going to be
00:10:24.220 released. I think eventually they're going to try and make all, I think, 44,000 hours of the videos,
00:10:28.920 make them available. And I will tell you, I'm 100% behind the transparency of the investigation,
00:10:34.800 release the videos. I think they had raised concerns about security measures on the Capitol
00:10:42.920 being revealed through the videos. I think there's a limited, I mean, minutes maybe that they could
00:10:49.220 redact if that is the concern. But when you hide things like this, this is where you get people to
00:10:54.360 start coming up with their own narratives when people can't go in and see what's going on. You
00:10:58.660 know, if right is right and wrong is wrong, if officers acted wrong, then it should be dealt with.
00:11:03.100 But, you know, release the video because I feel people just keep coming up and
00:11:07.820 determining their own narrative of what happened if they don't see what happened.
00:11:12.280 Well, you know, you used to run that department. And I have to say, my view is if there is a security
00:11:23.460 reason for not showing that video, I don't care what it is, pass a bill, spend some money, and then
00:11:30.080 fix it after that. Because those people's lives are a hell of a lot more important than some
00:11:37.720 nonsensical security concern by these people who are covering up. The American people know what's
00:11:45.100 going on here. It's a cover up. They're stonewalling. And the Republicans now are complicit because Kevin
00:11:51.700 McCarthy and Mike Johnson haven't done what they said they do. And their lives that could be changed
00:11:58.860 as a result of this. And by the way, I think it would show that we saw a vast number of incidents
00:12:04.800 where the protesters were protecting other protesters from cops who had lost it. And they were under a
00:12:14.540 press. I certainly understand that. And I'm not asking for charges to be brought against those police
00:12:19.700 officers. But I'm sure as hell asking that these people be freed from jail for what they did that
00:12:25.780 day. This is ignorance. And it's un-American, don't you think?
00:12:29.840 Again, I think when you look at the, we had talked about the security features, I think that's
00:12:33.840 something that could be easily redacted without taking away the importance of the individual piece
00:12:38.660 of video. So, you know, to your point, I think that can be released. And where it needs to be released
00:12:43.900 for either prosecutorial or defense material, it should be done so. But I do think that the American
00:12:49.320 people need to be able to see stuff that went on, how things were handled up there. And again,
00:12:55.660 I think I'm hoping Speaker Johnson will release more. I'm all in favor. I know he's talking about
00:13:02.100 there's going to be a big push for getting behind what really happened on January 6th. And I hope
00:13:06.940 that is the case. I've pushed for that since day one, because something just didn't feel right.
00:13:11.920 Yeah. And, you know, there's something I want to point out to everybody at this point.
00:13:15.400 I've asked that leaders in this country come together and stop this nonsense. This is the
00:13:22.780 chief justice could do immense good here, interceding because of the judicial proceedings,
00:13:29.100 the bureau of prisons, all of this related to the judiciary. And he is the ultimate force in the
00:13:35.720 American judiciary. But what about all of the national news media? Think about this. The New York Times,
00:13:42.620 the Washington Post, NBC News, ABC News, all of the cable news networks, all of the major city
00:13:50.060 newspapers. Why haven't they come together in outrage and said, free the prisoners, free these
00:13:58.440 hostages of the Marxist Dems? Why would there not be? Why in the world haven't all of the churches
00:14:05.740 come together and said, free these people? It's ignorance and it's madness, it's brutality. It is
00:14:12.580 barbaric. And this country has to do better. We have seen none of that. Steve, your sense as a
00:14:20.700 former police officer and in leadership, why in the world are we permitting such an atrocity in your
00:14:28.520 view? You know, again, looking back in my law enforcement experience, I haven't been especially
00:14:33.880 specifically in Washington, D.C. for 30 years. I can tell you, I've seen and heard about cases where
00:14:42.380 you had significant violence, that people were released pretrial, people were diverted from
00:14:48.920 prosecution. And I think, again, it just goes to the frustration that people have of what you're
00:14:55.180 seeing as a disparate treatment. Why people don't come together, I think, again, you're not going
00:14:59.560 to see it in some of the media, because I think a lot of the media doesn't meet their narrative.
00:15:04.500 Yeah, it doesn't meet their narrative. And may they, well, I'll be kind. I'm not wishing great
00:15:12.100 things for the national media. We're talking with Stephen Sund. We're coming right back,
00:15:17.180 the former chief of the Capitol Police. We will return right after these quick words. Stay with us.
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00:16:02.660 We're back. We're talking with Stephen Sund. He's the former chief of Capitol Police,
00:16:07.580 a great American. He was an eyewitness to history over that period, and I'm sure much of his career.
00:16:15.180 We're talking with Stephen Sund. And Stephen, I want to ask the House investigation into what
00:16:21.060 really happened on January 6th. We're told it's entering a new phase. Speaker Johnson apparently
00:16:26.840 supports it. Why is everything moving in slow motion? How can we freeze in time these over a thousand
00:16:38.980 lives? They're being treated barbarically. We know today that they've turned off the heat to the
00:16:45.440 prison, some of them, most of them perhaps. This is just barbaric treatment, and we're all a party to it
00:16:52.700 because both parties have done nothing. As I said, the national media has done nothing. The courts have
00:17:00.000 done nothing. I've never felt so helpless in my life over an obvious, an obvious injustice.
00:17:08.020 Your thoughts.
00:17:09.680 So, again, we see Johnson, Speaker Johnson, taking this into a new area. I've been down there. I've
00:17:16.620 talked to some of the new committees that are down there. I went down. I testified for my second time
00:17:21.140 in public. The first time was in February 2021. The second time, I think, was September 2023,
00:17:27.280 public testimony. I've done everything I can to get the truth of what I saw were the institutional
00:17:33.300 failings that contributed to January 6th out there as quickly as possible, whether it was
00:17:37.880 in testimony, whether it was in the book. And I will say, you know, at least Congress, and things
00:17:42.260 do move at glacier speed. And when people's lives are on stake, that's unacceptable. And when you look
00:17:47.500 at it, you know, I'm happy Congress has gone and changed some laws based on my testimony, but
00:17:53.420 there's still so much to be done.
00:17:55.220 Well, as you say, Washington, D.C. is, it is a swamp. It is a cesspool, whatever you want to call it.
00:18:03.600 But the stench is so strong, I think people should be moving faster so they can avoid it.
00:18:09.700 I have to say the frustration to see that they're investigating now January 6th. We know what
00:18:17.520 happened. We know that this was an outrageous injustice perpetrated by the Marxist Dems. We
00:18:25.620 know that the courts over-sentenced hundreds of Americans who were overcharged to begin with.
00:18:32.460 And we know the Capitol Police and other agencies were there. Give us your sense about the claims that
00:18:41.320 there were at least 200 FBI agents there on ghost buses or, you know, whatever, however they were
00:18:49.140 transported. How likely is it that the number was that high?
00:18:54.380 You know, I've heard that number recently, and I think he'd, I'm trying to remember the
00:18:58.900 representative that had brought up something about ghost buses. I had not seen or heard anything
00:19:04.520 prior to that about ghost buses. I think he said they were dropping off over by Union Station.
00:19:08.180 It's not uncommon for the various agencies, whether it's Secret Service, FBI, some of the
00:19:15.180 other law enforcement agencies, to have someone to cover in crowds when you have big events.
00:19:19.200 But when you're starting to hear some of the things coming out where people were enticing
00:19:22.520 members in the crowd to get into the building, to do different things like that, that becomes
00:19:28.580 very, very concerning, especially for my position as the chief.
00:19:32.160 Right. Well, I think people should know. Steve Sutton told me in our first interview,
00:19:37.240 he said that he didn't get the intelligence from any of the agencies on the, before the day of
00:19:45.980 January 6th, leading, either leading up to it or the day of. Have you ever found out why you were,
00:19:54.540 I'll put it this way, isolated?
00:19:58.060 No. And that's one of the things I want the investigations to find. What exactly happened?
00:20:02.060 Why was it? Was it just because of stupidity or was there a malicious intent to keep that
00:20:07.620 intelligence away from anybody so we wouldn't have a more robust response? When you look at it,
00:20:14.060 and now we're, like you said, we're three years into this, four congressional reports have come
00:20:18.460 out and every single one of those has indicated this is an intelligence failure. What I've said from
00:20:22.260 day one, if we had had that intelligence, we would have had more officers, mutual aid,
00:20:26.800 National Guard, unarmed. All I wanted was unarmed National Guard when I asked for them on January
00:20:31.080 3rd, but unarmed National Guard and a bigger fence. We wouldn't be here today if I'd gotten that. If I'd
00:20:37.260 gotten the intelligence and we'd gotten the resources that we needed, we wouldn't be here.
00:20:41.220 Maybe you just answered the question. They didn't, they wanted that day to occur just as it
00:20:47.680 unspooled because, you know, every other explanation doesn't add up.
00:20:53.300 Uh, that is the only one because Pelosi was in clear charge. Uh, she was clearly in the know.
00:20:59.520 Uh, I assume Schumer was as well, but we know Pelosi was, uh, we know that the top leadership was,
00:21:06.700 and we know full well, uh, that the Capitol police, uh, all of the agencies that were there
00:21:14.100 represented. And I understand that there are at least three other agencies, the, uh,
00:21:18.300 including the FBI. I'm sorry. What did you say, Steve? D.C. police. Right. And, and, and, uh,
00:21:27.180 uh, the FBI, and I believe the ATF as well, but, um, so we know this is a spectacular
00:21:35.660 piece of theater, at least in part, because we did see officers on those videotapes waving people
00:21:44.300 into the Capitol. We saw, uh, what's his name? Uh, the, uh, uh, Epps, Ray Epps, telling people
00:21:53.780 we're going to the Capitol and, and then getting, getting a free pass. This is just outrageous.
00:21:59.980 And, and now Judicial Watch has filed, filed a wrongful death claim against Lieutenant Michael Byrd,
00:22:07.240 who sent out a, uh, a phony shots have been fired message a minute after he pulled the trigger
00:22:12.860 and killed, uh, in my opinion, murdered, uh, Ashley Babbitt. Uh, your, your thoughts.
00:22:21.080 Uh, again, as far as it involves the, um, the, the actions of Byrd, you got to understand I was
00:22:27.760 literally removed from my position the very next day. Um, Speaker Pelosi went on national TV,
00:22:33.860 called for me by name, uh, to be removed. Uh, I was removed. I actually had set up a transition
00:22:39.760 period so I could at least do a, a transition with whoever's going to be acting chief. And they
00:22:43.960 removed me within hours of setting that up. Uh, so I had no involvement of whatever the
00:22:48.940 investigations were or whatever, uh, information has come out internally, um, for that. So I just
00:22:54.800 don't want to give an un, uh, uneducated, uh, answer on you for you. Well, I, I think it's a very
00:23:00.080 uneducated answer that you just gave that because you're trying to do the right thing. That wasn't
00:23:04.360 in the interest of the power structure of the house of representatives, was it?
00:23:08.600 Well, it seemed kind of odd that they were so quick to, to have me removed, especially
00:23:12.240 if they had just gone and looked and seen on January 3rd days in advance, I'd ask for assistance,
00:23:17.000 the national guard. I, I'm the only chief of police in the United States of America. And I think your
00:23:21.280 audience will get a kick out of this that has to go to the Capitol police board and get approval
00:23:25.780 from congressional leadership to bring in federal resources, which I did on January 3rd and was
00:23:30.860 denied. And even on January 6th, when we were under attack, think about it. The attack started
00:23:35.900 at 1253 on the West front. It took 81 minutes before they broke the first window of the, uh,
00:23:42.480 of the Capitol for 71 of those minutes. I repeatedly was calling the Capitol police board. Can I bring
00:23:47.260 in federal asking for permission? Can I bring in federal assistance and repeatedly being denied
00:23:51.460 even while we're under attack? And who would have been making that decision?
00:23:56.900 Uh, that decision was being made, uh, ultimately by, uh, Paul Irving, Speaker Pelosi's, um, uh,
00:24:03.240 house Sergeant arms, uh, Mike Stanger, who is the chairman of the Capitol police board was
00:24:08.120 kept referring to, uh, my, um, uh, Mike Stanger, I'm sorry, kept referring to Paul Irving to get his
00:24:14.440 answer, uh, and kept waiting. So ultimately, uh, it was Paul Irving. He said, he's going to run it up
00:24:19.240 the chain, get right back to me. And he didn't give me an answer for 71 minutes, despite repeated
00:24:23.900 phone calls, asking, you know, literally begging for the approval. We're talking with Steve Sun,
00:24:28.840 a former Capitol police chief. We're going to talk about Michael Byrd, why the man, why the man
00:24:34.600 never was held accountable for his actions on that day. We're coming right back. Stay with us.
00:24:39.640 We're back with the former Capitol police chief, uh, Steven Sund and Steve, I want to turn to the
00:24:52.460 issue of Michael Byrd here. He fired point blank range with a handgun that he had already drawn,
00:24:59.180 uh, with his, and obviously pulled the trigger, uh, as she came through the, uh, the, the window of
00:25:08.300 the partition. Uh, but she also went, went by five or six other officers. And there were two or three
00:25:15.940 officers in front of Lieutenant Byrd that he fired basically around, uh, they were in harm's way as,
00:25:23.080 as he fired. No one else drew a weapon, let alone fired it. What in the world? Why was there no report
00:25:31.300 of this? Why didn't he file a report? Can you speculate? No, when you say there no, no report of
00:25:37.680 this, anytime there's a use of force, uh, lethal use of forces, there's going to be an investigation
00:25:42.420 of some sort that's going to take place again, like I just mentioned, um, a couple of minutes ago,
00:25:46.860 I was removed within hours of, uh, of January 6th ending. So I didn't have, uh, don't have any
00:25:53.100 insight into what exactly what went on investigation, but anytime there's a lethal use of force by a law
00:25:57.760 enforcement officer, there's going to be an investigation both by the internal affairs, but
00:26:01.900 also by, if it's, if it's a, um, when that results in injury or death, the, uh, U S attorney's office
00:26:08.160 for the district of Columbia is going to be involved, uh, in that investigation as well. Uh,
00:26:12.240 and Washington DC police almost forgot because they investigate every, every homicide, the shooting
00:26:16.500 would have been declared a homicide cause it wasn't a suicide. Uh, and while it was investigated,
00:26:21.240 then determined if it was a justified use of force. Uh, but again, I had, uh, no role in that,
00:26:26.500 uh, investigation. So I don't have any additional to provide on.
00:26:29.260 So you're saying somebody ruled it, uh, justified use of force.
00:26:33.040 Well, if, um, again, if they finished up and I'd have to go back and look, cause I think DOJ
00:26:37.320 ultimately did come out and cleared, uh, Michael Byrd for it. So it would have been declared a,
00:26:42.260 uh, justifiable use of force.
00:26:44.020 Does the, does the, does the shooter usually fill out a report?
00:26:48.940 It, um, it, it may, it may vary, but there's usually going to be a report and investigation,
00:26:53.100 a, uh, in-depth investigation.
00:26:54.820 No, no, but I mean, does he, the shoot, Lieutenant Byrd, he was the shooter.
00:26:58.300 Uh, doesn't he have to put in a report, a record of the, uh, of the incident?
00:27:02.860 Uh, anytime there's usually a use of force report, there's going to be a report, but when
00:27:08.540 it's a lethal use of force report, sometimes, um, they'll wait till they get their attorney
00:27:12.940 and, and, uh, go through that process.
00:27:15.360 But there, there should have been some type of, uh, use of force, uh, investigation.
00:27:18.940 And they, it wouldn't even release his name for over a month. I believe it was over a month.
00:27:23.740 Uh, and we found out his name was Michael Byrd, uh, sort of, uh, not in any official announcement
00:27:31.100 or document. Uh, we also then subsequently learned that he was, uh, secreted by obviously the Capitol
00:27:37.820 police and, uh, one assumes, uh, the, uh, uh, the administration, uh, in some form, uh, a way
00:27:46.140 to joint base Andrews, uh, for, for a month, uh, at taxpayer expense.
00:27:51.260 I mean, for we was in that joint force base for six months at taxpayer expense after killing Ashley
00:27:58.460 Babbitt, uh, who would, who have you got any idea as to why they would do that? That doesn't sound
00:28:04.940 like the American way, does it? Yeah, no, I, um, I've, I've only heard, I've heard about it. Uh,
00:28:09.980 but no, I have no idea who, who would have made that decision, uh, would have been fairly high level,
00:28:14.060 uh, for that, that decision or the reasons behind it. But yeah. Yeah. It's, it's, it's disgusting.
00:28:20.860 And do you think that that shooting, uh, and your response to it is a part of the reason that you
00:28:26.620 were, uh, moved out? Um, I, uh, to be honest with you, I have no idea. Do you have any idea why you
00:28:34.780 were? Well, I was moved out. Yeah. You know, I just found it odd that when I was moved out and
00:28:41.020 immediately there was a concern, it could be intelligence failure. And it's turned out that,
00:28:44.460 you know, like I said, four reports and people repeatedly, even the current chief that's in there now,
00:28:49.340 Tom manger, uh, is in a hearing saying, absolutely. It was an intelligence failure yet. Um, I was
00:28:55.100 replaced by the chief of intelligence, uh, in a acting capacity. So it's, I just find it odd.
00:28:59.900 They, you know, intelligence is always a, uh, a concern. It was definitely concerned on January 6th.
00:29:04.380 I'm immediately removed. And they put the, uh, assistant chief in charge of intelligence, uh,
00:29:08.620 as the acting chief of police. Um, yeah. So let me ask you this. Uh, how many people do you think
00:29:15.340 were there on January 6th demonstrating marching? Um, and when you say, you know, on capital grounds?
00:29:23.020 And yes, yes. Um, you know, again, it would be a, uh, a guesstimate. I think, uh, one of the, uh,
00:29:31.900 colleges, I'm trying to think which one it was, did a, a study at the west front. And I think at one
00:29:35.580 point said there's approximately 30,000 people at one time on the, uh, on the west front at, at its height.
00:29:41.180 Uh, so I don't, I don't know. I suspect it'd be somewhere in north of that.
00:29:46.700 So I guess my question is how much intelligence would your superiors have needed to know that
00:29:56.220 with that crush of people and that few officers, that they would be risking, uh, a injury, uh, to,
00:30:05.900 to the demonstrators themselves, uh, by that kind of massing of people, why would they not just out of
00:30:12.300 common sense, taking any help they could for, uh, crowd control? That is, that's a,
00:30:18.220 I would have to say that was an unprecedented crowd for, for the Capitol police to deal with. Am I wrong?
00:30:25.660 Again, that was a crowd that, that occurred after, you know, while January 6th was, was, was, uh,
00:30:30.700 occurring, but to your, your point, when you now find out and, you know, I, I, uh, talked about it
00:30:37.020 in my interview with, uh, Tucker Carlson, uh, and I wrote somewhat about it in the, um, interview was,
00:30:43.420 um, I mean, my book was the fact that even the Department of Defense had such significant
00:30:48.060 intelligence. They were so concerned about January 6th that they talked about shutting down the city,
00:30:53.420 restricting the city's access to the city, uh, and, uh, revoking the permits for, uh, any activity
00:30:59.980 on Capitol Hill. I'm the one that issues those permits. They never talked to me about that.
00:31:03.500 They never shared their concerns with me yet. What did they do? They prevented the National
00:31:07.660 Guard for responding. Even once we got approval for four and a half hours, the New Jersey state
00:31:13.180 police beat the DC National Guard there. Do you believe there was a conspiracy to create
00:31:19.260 the chaos that was January 6th? I think there's a, and again, um, I think it gets really odd.
00:31:26.860 It's not a big stretch for people who begin to wonder why did, was the intelligence so screwed up?
00:31:31.780 You know, why was I denied in advance? Why was I removed so quickly? Why was I denied for 71 minutes
00:31:37.880 while we're under attack? I mean, one of the most visible, you know, people are watching that on TV.
00:31:42.180 Anybody in their right mind could have said, yeah, well, let's bring in some resources. Um,
00:31:45.780 you know, thank goodness we had DC police not far away, but, um, yeah,
00:31:49.260 I don't think it takes, takes much for someone to think there's, uh, there's some definitely
00:31:52.940 weird stuff going on behind the scenes. Well, Steve, son, we're always give you the,
00:31:57.260 our guests, the last word, uh, your, your thoughts as we conclude. Thanks for being here,
00:32:02.380 by the way. I enjoy the conversation again. So, so do I, again, I think it goes back to the level
00:32:07.740 of frustration that you're seeing across the United States right now. It comes from,
00:32:10.820 you know, all these people sat back and witnessed the mostly peaceful protest of 2020,
00:32:15.540 the attack on the white house, May 30th through June 1st. Uh, that was a terrible, vicious attack.
00:32:21.420 Uh, it's something that, that I talk about in my book, DC police, a police agency formed by
00:32:26.700 Congress specifically for the protection of the president was, was prevented from responding
00:32:31.600 to help protect the Trump white house. Yet you look at what just happened June 13th,
00:32:35.880 you had the pro-Palestinian protest take place. They start tearing down part of the exterior
00:32:41.060 anti-scale offense. DC police immediately allowed in to help support the secret service. When people
00:32:48.340 see that and they don't feel the rule of law and equal treatment of people, it just creates the big
00:32:53.220 frustrations that I think is contributing to what's going on in America right now. People are just
00:32:57.300 extremely frustrated. And I, and I wonder sometimes, is that not, uh, the handiwork of the Marxist
00:33:04.540 Dems, uh, they mean for us to get, uh, get frustrated. Uh, and I think they do want the
00:33:10.560 country destabilized. Uh, Stephen Sun, thanks so much for being with us. I look forward to talking
00:33:15.020 with you soon. Uh, come back soon if you would. Thank you very much for the time. Thanks everybody
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