The Great America Show - August 16, 2022


FLYNN SAYS BARRACK OBAMA’S WEAPONIZATION OF OUR INTEL COMMUNITY HAS CREATED A SECURITY STATE


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Former National Security Adviser to President Trump Michael Flint joins us on the Great America Show to talk about the ongoing political persecution of President Trump and his family by the leftist Deep State, including the recent raid on his Mar-A-Lago resort.

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00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show, where truth, justice,
00:00:06.800 and the American way are our ideals, our goals, and non-negotiable values. Great to have you with
00:00:13.620 us. Particularly so in these trying times, and nothing is as trying as this impaired puppet 1.00
00:00:20.360 president of ours and his Marxist band of minions who are trying their worst to do their worst to
00:00:27.680 this country and patriots everywhere. They're trying first and foremost, in what I think of as
00:00:34.200 Obama's third term, to finish off America, our Constitution, and our way of life, and of course,
00:00:41.120 you and me and our fellow patriots. It should be clear to all what the Biden administration really
00:00:47.740 is and what sort of people make it up. Marxist Dems committed to destroying this country and still
00:00:55.540 committed to destroying the only man I believe has the capacity, the strength, and talent,
00:01:01.220 and intelligence to lead the United States out of the quagmire created by the Biden White House.
00:01:07.940 That man is the one who's proved he has the gravitas and judgment to lead the nation to greatness.
00:01:14.780 He's Donald J. Trump, and the corrupt FBI and Justice Department fear him more than any other
00:01:21.480 public figure. And therefore, they hate Trump through and through. Trump is the reason they
00:01:28.060 raided his Mar-a-Lago offices. That's why Attorney General Merrick Garland needed 45 extra minutes to
00:01:34.860 get his courage up and up to go out, face cameras, and make a media statement, but refused to take
00:01:41.240 questions. And it's why today the Justice Department opposed unsealing the affidavit that the Department
00:01:48.160 of Justice used to get a judge's approval for a search warrant of Mar-a-Lago. It's all raw abuse
00:01:55.500 of government power against not only President Trump, but the American people and our Constitution.
00:02:02.840 This simply cannot stand. Our guest today has uncommon knowledge of the Marxist Dems and the
00:02:10.040 deep state and their capacity for evil. With us today is General Michael Flint, former National
00:02:17.160 Security Advisor to President Trump, former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. General,
00:02:23.620 it's great to have you with us. And let's start with a Mar-a-Lago raid, another Marxist-dim, 0.53
00:02:29.580 deep state atrocity against President Trump and our Constitution in the sixth year of their political
00:02:36.060 persecution of Donald Trump. Hey, Lou, thank you very much. And thanks for having me on. I think,
00:02:42.800 you know, I really, really appreciate you, your audience. I appreciate everything that you have
00:02:48.500 done for this country to keep, to be unapologetic. I like the word unapologetic. You're an unapologetic
00:02:54.540 guy when it comes to standing up for our country. And so what we are facing in this country right now is
00:03:01.020 we're facing a complete breakdown of the rule of law and the institutions of the rule of law in our
00:03:07.400 country. And it starts really with the Department of Justice. And I joke about it sometimes. I call it
00:03:14.880 the Department of Just Us. And some people call it the Department of Injustice. But everything that we
00:03:23.060 learned about the attack against President Trump, his family, me, my family, when it came to the Russia
00:03:32.140 hoax is what was outrageous enough. I mean, that the things that we have learned, the the lies,
00:03:38.480 the the deception and the criminal behavior of people at the highest levels of our government
00:03:43.640 when it came to the Russia hoax, we thought was was enough. And we still want people held
00:03:48.640 accountable. And then we went into the impeachments. Right. We went into two impeachments
00:03:52.500 of the president of the United States of America. And they they couldn't find not even a a a speeding
00:03:58.220 ticket when it came to Donald Trump. And then, of course, all of the personal things that him and
00:04:03.560 his family are going through. I know that, you know, recently in New York, he had to go up there
00:04:08.580 because of the New York attorney general was was was basically bringing his company up on on all kinds
00:04:15.440 of charges and they could find nothing. And Trump, for the first time, you know, he he put out the
00:04:21.140 other day about taking the fifth, which I've done. I've had to take the fifth. The fifth is a right that we
00:04:25.680 have. It's not because you're guilty or innocent. It's a right that you have. So you cannot be
00:04:29.420 incriminated by a bunch of thugs in our in our justice system, nor the thugs that are in our
00:04:34.840 legislative side of the system, which is in the unselect committee, you know, where I had to take
00:04:40.260 the fifth there. So we had this constant political persecution. And now we have this raid on the home.
00:04:48.600 So I'm going to I'm you know, it's Mar-a-Lago. People know what it what it is. It's a beautiful place.
00:04:52.820 It's you know, it's a it's a bit of a resort, but it's really the home. See, it's the home of the
00:04:58.120 former of the president of the United States of America. And they raided his home.
00:05:03.880 And God knows why or what for, because they really haven't told us the real truth. I mean,
00:05:09.420 we've seen the warrant and the warrant is so broad. And, you know, the media, the media,
00:05:15.520 Lou, as you know, and and actually even the even the statement from the Attorney General Garland
00:05:22.780 made it sound like this was a really you know, this was a dramatic thing that we're that we're
00:05:27.400 having to do. And but yet we find out that the warrant was issued on a Friday and the FBI didn't
00:05:34.620 didn't go and execute it until the following Monday. So if we had problems with really,
00:05:41.260 you know, really sensitive, classified information, things about nuclear systems that
00:05:48.280 we have. And so if we had that kind of dramatic, sensitive intelligence that was that was that
00:05:55.580 was secured by President Trump or his team from the White House 18 months ago, then why wait
00:06:02.380 another three or four days to go to go get it? I mean, so it just doesn't make sense.
00:06:07.420 None of it has none of it made sense immediately, Lou, and the American people are done being
00:06:14.660 fooled. So the American people are now digging and they're looking in there and they're asking
00:06:19.100 a different set of questions. And I'm telling you, having been not only doing, you know, talking
00:06:25.160 to various media outlets for the last week, but also talking to the American people. And we just spent
00:06:30.020 we just spent a another weekend with thousands and thousands of Americans in upstate New York,
00:06:36.220 and they came from from damn near all 50 states to our event. And I spent a lot of time out in the
00:06:42.680 audience and out out in the back and just talking to different people, hundreds of people. And people
00:06:47.320 are just upset because they're not going to be fooled anymore. They they all they want is to be told
00:06:53.520 the truth. Number one. And number two, Lou, is they want accountability of these other things that
00:06:59.940 I talked about. So we have not had accountability of, you know, the Hunter Biden laptop, you know,
00:07:06.020 drama. We have not had accountability of all of the people that were involved in the Russiagate,
00:07:12.600 right in the Russian hoax, starting with members, starting with people in the former White House prior
00:07:17.780 to Trump and people like at the national level, national intelligence director, the CIA director,
00:07:23.220 people in the FBI, the FBI director, the deputy FBI director, you know, the the lovers of of Strzok
00:07:30.480 and Page. Right. I'll name those two. I mean, all these people that have yet to be held accountable
00:07:35.820 and and we're still going after, you know, the justice system, the just us system is still going
00:07:43.160 after President Donald J. Trump. And then and they had the the audacity, Lou, the audacity,
00:07:49.360 you know, not totally unprecedented, never in the history of our country. They went in and they
00:07:56.180 assaulted his home. They raided his home. They they had the they just they had the egregiousness,
00:08:03.100 the the incredible lack of of of protocol. And they are rummaging around in his wife's closets,
00:08:12.760 his wife's bureau. I mean, so here's what I said. Here's what I said the other day, Lou.
00:08:19.360 And I said this the day before the the attorney general came out and and took responsibility for
00:08:26.540 authorizing this raid. OK, so I was asked, what level would this have to be approved? And I
00:08:32.780 immediately said the attorney general of the United States of America would would have to approve this.
00:08:38.180 And I said that there is no doubt there's no doubt in my mind that that somebody in the White House
00:08:44.060 was was aware of this now. And I sort of tongue in cheek said, you know, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,
00:08:52.080 they they probably if they were told they wouldn't know the difference. I mean, you could tell them
00:08:56.760 and they wouldn't even understand what's going on. And so I'm not sure what they really understand
00:09:01.040 is going on in the country, because every time I hear particularly President Biden, right,
00:09:06.580 every time I hear him, I'm like, you know, the guy like babbles when he talks. Right. It's sad.
00:09:11.800 It's sad. It's sad for this country. So I'm not really sure if if this did go to the president or
00:09:17.300 if they did take it to him. But I can guarantee you and there's no way in the world that for me,
00:09:22.000 as a guy who ran one of the largest intelligence agencies in the world, was the most senior military
00:09:27.140 intelligence officer for the United States military, was the national security advisor to our country,
00:09:33.780 was a assistant director of national intelligence for this country. There's no way in the world that
00:09:39.060 the White House was not aware of this raid, which has never happened in the history of our country.
00:09:44.620 No president has ever had their home raided like like the FBI did with 30 agents in a like as though
00:09:52.360 he's the he's this hardened terrorist criminal. I mean, this is insane. And so I I. So what do we
00:09:59.440 do about it, Lou? And I don't want to you know, I'm going on and on. But I I think that the American
00:10:04.460 people are sick of it and they're so tired in there. And they're like, you know, we have got to
00:10:09.580 we have got to fix these problems that we have in our first place that we have to fix is our rule of
00:10:14.620 law institutions because they're out of control. They're totally out of control. So what does that mean
00:10:20.440 to fix them? Well, you know, the FBI and the and the and the attorney general who I said 24 hours prior to
00:10:27.100 to him to him coming out and approving it, I said, I guarantee the attorney general approved it. The next day
00:10:32.460 he had to come out on a on a on a on a press conference and say, yep, I approved it. I don't know whether it was
00:10:39.260 because he was hearing that from guys like me, but I know he was hearing it from from from everybody. And he knew that
00:10:44.780 they screwed this up. The the backlash, the backlash against the the White House, the backlash against the
00:10:53.120 Department of Justice against the FBI is is horrible. And and I don't want it to be like that, Lou, you know me
00:10:59.680 and you and we've talked about this many other times. We don't want our government to be like this. We want our
00:11:04.660 government to be respected. We want our rule of law to be respected. We want I want the FBI to be respected. I want the
00:11:10.300 Department of Justice to be respected. But but right now they're not. And they're not because of their
00:11:14.980 own behavior, because of their own actions. And I'm a guy that can talk, you know, in rhyme and verse
00:11:21.940 and in great detail about the corruption that I face and my family face. And frankly, I do call their
00:11:28.040 actions un-American. And and in the case of Donald Trump, President Trump, who, you know, well, Lou, I mean,
00:11:34.500 he I totally support, you know, his actions and his and his responses to this and the kinds of things
00:11:41.340 that he was doing. I mean, everything that we've learned from this here, here, President Trump and
00:11:46.300 his team have been cooperating and talking to these guys like they're like they're buddy buddies. This
00:11:51.940 happens after every administration when it comes to archiving of information and archiving of, you know,
00:11:59.460 of data and and the kinds of things that a president needs to take. I mean, you know, we don't want to
00:12:04.560 get into we don't want to get into the to the Clintons. I mean, they ended up there. They took
00:12:08.860 they took the China and the silverware from the I mean, it was seriously, you know, and not not
00:12:14.620 jokingly. I mean, so, you know, and when we talk about classified, the president of the United States,
00:12:21.400 and I think that this is important for your audience. So when the when a president departs for the
00:12:27.520 final time, you know, after, you know, let's say, you know, after his term or second term,
00:12:32.000 they are given a a budget, you know, a good budget. And at one time, it was about four million dollars
00:12:38.120 a year, but it's a good budget. It's a government approved budget. The taxpayers have, you know,
00:12:43.260 have approved it through our own system of government. And it is ordered for the president,
00:12:48.200 the former president of the United States to have a staff akin to and it's not not as big, obviously,
00:12:53.080 but to have a staff while he is the former president, because at times the former presidents
00:12:58.800 of our United States of America have been called upon to go and do things to advance American interests
00:13:05.880 around the world or to advance an American interest right here at home. Maybe former presidents get
00:13:11.200 involved in education. Maybe former presidents get involved in in in drug abuse. Maybe former
00:13:16.820 presidents get involved in dealing with former with foreign partners and foreign adversaries because
00:13:25.320 because of relationships that they've had. And and we've done that. We've done that with foreign
00:13:30.180 with former presidents for a long time. So that so Donald Trump has a has a staff that and it also
00:13:38.560 includes in his home the ability to have a SCIF as a computer a secure compartmented facility to be able
00:13:45.740 to protect classified information. He's got a staff to have a chief of staff. He's got a staff to have
00:13:51.800 a national security advisor. He's got all these little, you know, components of a of a legitimate
00:13:56.720 staff for a functioning former president of the United States. That's why he still has secret service.
00:14:03.220 Right. So he still has secret service. So there's there's all these little aspects of what we expect our
00:14:08.880 former presidents to be able to do to help advance the United States of America. And here we have
00:14:15.640 the administration of Biden, the Biden administration. They are doing everything
00:14:20.660 to damage not just President Donald J. Trump. They're doing everything to damage what it is that
00:14:28.140 we have as a as a democracy, as a form of our Republican form of government, our Republic form of
00:14:34.320 government. I mean, I have had and I have I have friends all over the world, Lou, that are, you know,
00:14:40.680 very serious people in in in politics or in in certainly in the military and the amount of people
00:14:47.720 that have sent me messages from around the world that that are just ashamed of what has happened
00:14:54.540 in America. And they're asking me questions like, you know, Flynn, what is going on there?
00:14:59.420 What's happening to the to the United States of America? Is the is the U.S. collapsing? Is the U.S.
00:15:04.740 falling apart? Can we continue to count on the United States of America to be this beacon, to be
00:15:11.780 this, you know, you know, true north star, to be this, you know, shining city on the hill? And I have
00:15:18.860 a very difficult time answering that question today, Lou. I'm I am I am I'm beyond disappointed.
00:15:25.480 I I feel ashamed at times because of how our our nation is beginning to look. But it's principally
00:15:34.420 because of the actions by this White House and the actions by this by by the current government
00:15:40.360 that we have in Washington, D.C. And they are they seem to be attacking everything from
00:15:46.120 from moms who are standing up for their children. They've made, you know, moms political enemies over 1.00
00:15:52.380 real criminals. The you know, the crazy, crazy spending spree by by by the Congress for this
00:16:01.440 eighty seven thousand IRS agents, the the 40 year high inflation, the record record level of illegal
00:16:10.560 illegals coming into our country. The the amount of fentanyl. I mean, Lou, I read a stat the other day
00:16:17.200 we have a I think we're at one hundred thousand deaths caused by fentanyl this year alone.
00:16:22.460 You know, the fact that we are we are dependent now, we are dependent on foreign countries for our
00:16:29.620 energy. I mean, how insane is that? And then we have, of course, China, you know, the crisis going
00:16:36.720 on over the Taiwan Straits right now. We have we gave 50 billion with a B dollars to Ukraine.
00:16:43.820 And we've seen the latest the latest couple of weeks here. We've seen some media reporting where
00:16:49.560 like very little of that money is actually going to where it needs to be in Ukraine.
00:16:53.300 Because why? Because Ukraine is rated as one of the most corrupt countries on the planet
00:16:57.400 by our own State Department. We had the debacle in Afghanistan, which happened about a year ago,
00:17:02.960 Lou, right? Happened about a year ago. We had the the the surrender to the Taliban.
00:17:08.080 The and they basically the we surrendered to the Taliban and then we we escaped. Right. We escaped
00:17:15.980 out of there. But we left we left thousands of Americans behind enemy lines. We are dealing with
00:17:22.020 Iran, who, you know, in the news lately, Iran has been just horrific and particularly, you know, 1.00
00:17:28.680 in some of their actions against Israel and and some of their statements by some of their leaders.
00:17:33.920 But yet we have a negotiation ongoing in in I think it's in Geneva right now for Iran to have
00:17:41.900 nuclear weapons. And guess who's at the table, Lou? Guess who's at the table? Russia. Russia is at the 0.54
00:17:47.520 table. And they are one of the key negotiators between Iran and the United States of America
00:17:52.300 for Iran to have nuclear weapons. Yet we're we're putting sanctions against Russia. We're we're doing
00:17:58.380 all these things over in Ukraine against Russia. And it's just it's it's it's absurd. It's an upside
00:18:03.780 down world. It's like in one of those I think it was the Seinfeld show years ago had the bizarro
00:18:10.360 world. Right. So all of these things and there's many, many more. There's many more. I mean, I still
00:18:16.320 talk about the election integrity issues that we're having. I still, you know, the I mean, everything we
00:18:21.340 have supply chain crisis. We have labor shortages. We have, you know, the massive, massive drug smuggling
00:18:26.900 that's going on in this country. And I mentioned fentanyl. We have this, you know, this hysterical
00:18:32.160 January 6th unselect committee, which is only allowing one side of the argument. And frankly,
00:18:38.900 I think. So here's my here's my hypothesis, Lou, if you if you don't mind me, because I know I'm going
00:18:44.620 on my hypothesis of of the Mar-a-Lago raid is that the January 6th unselect committee found nothing.
00:18:54.420 They knew that their narrative was totally collapsing. Nobody even cared about it.
00:19:00.020 It's one of the least, you know, concerning things of Americans right now, because it's just such a
00:19:05.820 farce. It's such a joke that and I'm under I'm under subpoena for this committee. I pled the fifth
00:19:11.440 to this committee. And and I did because, you know, because I know the type of people that we're up
00:19:15.980 against in our in our entire justice system. So I actually think that they found nothing.
00:19:21.200 They realized that the whole thing was collapsing. The narrative of January 6th was collapsing.
00:19:26.880 And so they needed something else. They needed another distraction. And so vis-a-vis the Mar-a-Lago
00:19:32.280 raid. Right. And and and and so that this particular one was done in such an egregious, you know,
00:19:41.600 and I use that word, but I use it, you know, very seriously. It's such an egregious way.
00:19:47.820 The behavior of the FBI at the at the president of the United States is home it in in Palm Beach,
00:19:55.980 Florida, there at Mar-a-Lago and the way that they took a very broad warrant because the warrant is
00:20:02.980 very broad. It's like, you know, you can go look anywhere. They took a very broad warrant and they
00:20:07.520 took advantage of it and they didn't allow the lawyers to to, you know, to to be part of it.
00:20:12.780 They didn't even show want to show the lawyers the warrant. I mean, this is crazy. This is a third
00:20:18.480 world. This is third world behavior in in what really should be, you know, the the best country,
00:20:26.880 the the shining light for the rest of the world. Instead, we have the international community now
00:20:32.100 looking at the United States of America and wondering if are we still are we still going to be
00:20:36.920 that that that beacon of hope, that that that true north star. And I'm really concerned about that,
00:20:42.900 Lou. And I. So how do we get back there? And, you know, my big thing has been going around the
00:20:47.940 country, getting people to to run for school board, to run for county commissioner, to get up at the
00:20:53.680 local level. I use the phrase local action equals a national impact. So if people stand up, step up,
00:20:59.580 speak up in their counties and get involved like they've never been involved in, fix the voter
00:21:04.640 registration systems, fix voter integrity, you know, get involved, volunteer, volunteer, volunteer,
00:21:11.280 get involved, be fearless. Don't worry about the, you know, the media in your local area. That's
00:21:16.100 going to that's going to come after you because they do just be fearless. And but but get involved.
00:21:21.720 Not everybody can be I call it not everybody can be a Washington, D.C. superstar and everybody has to
00:21:26.760 be a Joan of Arc. You know, we have to sort of get people, you know, we have to, you know, awaken
00:21:32.980 people. And that's why we have this reawaken America tour that we do run. And and I have been
00:21:38.340 involved in it. And the last thing I'd say before you I throw it back to you, Luda, if you have any
00:21:42.980 other issues you want to discuss is I I say that, you know, the destiny of our country, Lou, really
00:21:48.960 the destiny of America, the future of America for my children and my grandchildren is going to be
00:21:54.600 determined by every single American citizen. It's not going to be determined by Washington, D.C.
00:22:00.520 It's not going to be determined by the politicians that we have. And the determination of that destiny
00:22:06.120 is is based on which path each of us chooses to walk upon. You know, when we when we start to think
00:22:14.340 about what more can I do as an American citizen? And that's my bigger message is for people to get
00:22:20.340 out there and decide to get involved. And, you know, and I say I know your audience. I do. I believe I
00:22:27.220 know the type of audience you have. You have a very, very broad audience. And I think that people
00:22:31.560 are looking for truth and they need to know most most people out there that are listening at it in
00:22:36.720 their homes or listening at it, you know, on the on a on a drive or something like that. Trust me,
00:22:41.600 folks, you're not alone. All the things that I've been talking about, all of us feel the same way.
00:22:47.620 All of us feel this this anxiety. We have this like angst in our country saying to ourselves,
00:22:52.780 Jesus, how do we ever get here, Lou? You know, and and and we got here because, frankly, we we we've
00:23:00.160 got a little bit apathetic in in our in our sort of political discourse. And we allowed people,
00:23:07.620 politicians primarily to to sort of continue on and take, you know, get back into office. And
00:23:12.560 and every time they get back in office, they just do they do worse damage to us. So now's the time.
00:23:18.800 I'm sorry, Lou, go ahead. Yeah. Let me just pose an answer to to part of what you're asking. Where
00:23:24.360 did it start? I think it started with the Patriot Act after September 11th. I think it started with
00:23:32.040 a number of agencies, intelligence agencies, law enforcement agencies, the creation of the
00:23:37.820 Homeland Security Department. And suddenly, suddenly we started moving toward a surveillance state.
00:23:46.620 And with that, the Dems saw an opportunity where the Republicans, frankly, did the typical
00:23:53.540 thing. They were expedient. They stepped back and they let the Dems have their way after the Bush
00:24:03.220 administration. We're watching. We're watching this extraordinary eight years of Barack Obama,
00:24:12.220 Obama in which he organized and weaponized the intelligence agencies. And no one. I mean,
00:24:20.360 I'll be glad to debate this with anyone. It's just straightforward fact. And now that we had a
00:24:27.480 Donald Trump shock to the system, the system of the Marxist Dems and the deep state from which
00:24:35.900 they could not recover. And they knew that it was existential for Trump. If they were to permit him
00:24:43.560 to go another four years, it would have been disaster. We're watching in Mar-a-Lago after all of the
00:24:52.660 nonsense. This is a look at Bruce Reinhardt, the magistrate that the FBI selected at the Department of
00:25:00.020 Justice, a magistrate, not even a full Article III judge, in order to get a search warrant instead
00:25:07.380 of serve a subpoena, in order to be as disruptive and hostile as they possibly could be against a
00:25:15.080 president of the United States who had, by the way, Reinhardt had recused himself 20 days previous
00:25:21.020 to the raid because he had been selected to be the judge in the Donald Trump lawsuit against Hillary
00:25:29.880 Clinton for the crossfire hurricane conspiracy that led to the Russia hoax, that led to the special
00:25:36.220 counsel, and was carried throughout the Trump administration in the form of a special counsel,
00:25:43.220 in the form of two impeachments, and then January 6th and all that has followed. I truly believe
00:25:53.780 that that is where it started. And we have been damn fools to let it go. Our Congress, our Senate,
00:26:02.460 gave up their oversight responsibilities in the quote-unquote national interest,
00:26:07.200 uh, in national security interest, uh, as well. It's, that's where it is. What do you think?
00:26:14.260 Yeah, no, I, I, I appreciate your, your laying that out. And I think that that is so spot on.
00:26:20.680 So let me, let me just, let me bring a couple of, I guess, highlights to this. And I'd start with
00:26:27.380 Dwight D. Eisenhower when he was president of the United States of America in the last, uh, month of his,
00:26:34.720 one of his favorite, very famous last speeches. He warned us about the military industrial complex.
00:26:43.020 Right. Okay. And I think, and I, you know, tell your audience, you know, it's just very short speech.
00:26:46.900 It's, it's a great speech. I think it's only like 10 minutes, you know, to, I, I encourage people to go
00:26:51.860 listen to it, uh, cause you can find it online. And he talks about the military industrial complex and
00:26:57.320 really he warns us. It's a warning. So here I am sitting here and what you just described,
00:27:03.360 when we talk about the weaponization of aspects of our federal government, and especially the
00:27:09.780 weaponization of the intelligence community by Barack Obama, I now, I now call this a security
00:27:16.100 state. So my warning to America is that we have entered sort of a new phase of, of the, um,
00:27:24.660 takeover of our country. And, and the military industrial complex, while it still exists,
00:27:31.160 it is actually a subordinate to what I call the security state. And the security state is this
00:27:37.200 rise of the federal government since the, uh, Patriot Act, as you, as you, uh, uh, mentioned
00:27:44.140 earlier there. So I can, I can tell you that the size of the federal government on the 10th of September
00:27:52.840 of 2001 grew by times, at least by times five in the, in the 10 years that I had the following 10
00:28:01.560 years, 11 years that I serve, I continue to serve in the government. I did a, I did a, a, a, uh, an
00:28:08.220 examination when I went into the defense intelligence agency of the size of the federal government,
00:28:14.340 partly because I wanted to know how we stacked up, how the DIA, the Intel agency stacked up to other
00:28:20.360 organizations and, and how much change had taken place. Cause I was really trying to affect
00:28:24.940 the culture of an organization, a large organization, almost 20,000 people. Right.
00:28:29.420 And I looked at the size of the government. And what I learned was that from the Patriot Act,
00:28:34.760 and it really does start with, with that as one of the, one of the elements, one of the conditions
00:28:39.900 that were, was created, uh, post nine 11 and the attack on our country, the government started
00:28:46.520 to become really, uh, much larger. And I say like, you know, it's like times five, we have a,
00:28:53.100 we have a gigantic federal government that needs to be, uh, completely and wholly reformed. But we also
00:28:59.720 saw the rise of the security state, meaning the rise of federal programs and federal organizations
00:29:07.660 and federal law enforcement organizations. Uh, for example, the department of Homeland security,
00:29:13.160 right. That didn't exist. We did prior to nine 11 and prior to the Patriot Act, the, the elements of
00:29:20.160 it did the, the, uh, transportation security administration, TSA that we see at our, all of
00:29:25.640 our airports that didn't exist prior to, uh, nine 11. It existed. It was a cause and effect issue,
00:29:32.160 right? So the TSA, to give you an example, TSA is about 70,000 people. It's about 70,000 people.
00:29:38.580 And, you know, everybody has their issues with TSA, but it's, it's all part of this security
00:29:43.680 state. So now when you take it to, to today and you look at the security state apparatus and who
00:29:51.240 is leading it, right? What organizations are the principal drivers behind it? It is clearly elements
00:29:57.840 of our, of our intelligence community. Definitely the, the, the, the sort of the top organizations,
00:30:03.140 the national security agency, central intelligence agency, you know, defense intelligence, the, the,
00:30:09.100 the, uh, office of the director of national intelligence. Those are security state elements
00:30:13.360 within that, within that realm though, is the federal Bureau of investigation, which is a, not
00:30:18.940 only an intelligence arm of the security state, it is actually, it is also a law enforcement arm and
00:30:25.300 it is tucked underneath, uh, by sort of line and block chart. It's tucked underneath the department
00:30:31.120 of justice and the attorney general. I mean, these are things that most Americans and frankly,
00:30:36.360 most people in our, that come into government to serve in the white house, they don't even
00:30:40.320 understand half of what I'm talking about. They still don't understand. Even people that have
00:30:43.380 served for, for four years in an administration don't understand what I just said. The security
00:30:47.940 state of our country has grown, has grown so out of control. And when you have a president
00:30:54.560 for eight years, and now I'm talking about the Obama administration, when you have a president
00:30:58.640 for eight years that brings in people and allows, uh, allows the structure and the organization and
00:31:06.420 the behavior and the, I would call it the culturalization, right? That's changing the culture
00:31:12.000 of a, of a, uh, organization like the department of justice, like the FBI, where the enemy,
00:31:18.300 the enemies are not criminals and the enemies are not our overseas adversaries. The enemies are
00:31:23.520 actually the citizens of our country and they make the enemies. They make those of us who are
00:31:28.900 political, you know, politically inclined. Like if I'm a conservative and I'm on, I'm on, you know,
00:31:34.000 Trump's team, then I become the enemy and they go after me. I mean, look, just look Lou at the people
00:31:41.520 that are around, but you know, as you said, and you're right, Trump came in, in 2016 and it was a,
00:31:49.140 it wasn't a fluke. It was because the American people were sick of the, of what we had been up
00:31:53.360 against and what, and the, and frankly, eight years of, of, uh, of an assault on our freedoms
00:31:58.880 and, and, and the way the economy was going and Trump promised a bunch of things and he met all of
00:32:05.320 his promises and he was terrific at it. And, and they, when he, when he beat the heir apparent in
00:32:11.200 Hillary Clinton, it was like, oh my God, we, we can't have this guy. We can't have a person like
00:32:16.060 this, come in and frankly do two things. One, fix the country and make it better. And number two,
00:32:21.260 find out how much corruption and how much criminal activity we were actually doing. That's why they
00:32:25.960 went after me so quickly. And so, and so, uh, um, in a really radical way that I can tell you that,
00:32:32.400 you know, and go into verse on that. Just think about what is contained in the new bill that was
00:32:39.680 signed the inflation reduction act, uh, is the, uh, Orwellian Biden, right? Marxist dim, uh, white
00:32:49.640 house styled it. What was in there is, and I think this is the most telling of all the elements
00:32:55.820 said it, 87,000 new internal revenue service agents, $80 billion alone to more than double
00:33:09.820 the number of agents, 87,000. Yeah. And those agents, the first thing they put up is an ad
00:33:16.920 and they, and the first elements within that, and it's the only time I've ever seen it, uh, in my life,
00:33:24.440 uh, whether it's the military, whether it is, uh, the Texas Rangers, the, the, you name it,
00:33:31.820 you have to have, uh, expertise with a handgun and, uh, the, uh, the will to exercise a deadly force.
00:33:43.800 I mean, have you ever seen a, a condition like that put on a Marine or a soldier? I haven't.
00:33:50.680 Yeah, no, I never have. And, you know, and I'm, but I, I will tell you, and, you know,
00:33:55.020 and for your audience, we should not be surprised, Lou, we should not be surprised that this
00:33:59.340 administration, all of the actions that it is taking do not be surprised. And I said this publicly
00:34:05.200 the other day to a large audience, uh, just two days ago, I said, look, this Mar-a-Lago thing is,
00:34:12.300 it is just another distraction because what they do, their masters at this, it's another distraction.
00:34:17.680 It's another means of further dividing this country. And so I guarantee, I guarantee in this
00:34:22.980 87,000 IRS agents is part of this. It is a, they will come up with another distraction between now
00:34:30.540 and the next time we talk, Lou, you know, that, that to, to cause us to not focus on the real
00:34:37.080 problems that they know they have, which is things like election integrity, right? Things like this
00:34:42.960 massive illegal invasion, the problems with inflation, the problems with drugs on the
00:34:48.180 streets, the, the, the levels of crime. I mean, we are, we are in, in really tough, tough shape right
00:34:54.780 now. And to throw on top of that, Hey, we're going to, and to make it sound like, Oh yeah,
00:35:00.740 87,000 IRS agents is a good thing. No, they, they, they will not, they, you know, this business
00:35:09.500 about, they're only going to go after, uh, people that earn over 400,000 is bullshit. Excuse my Irish. 1.00
00:35:14.920 I mean, it is total bull. These are people that are going to be out there and they're going to
00:35:18.580 come after you, uh, you know, listener, they're going to come after, you know, the American citizen,
00:35:24.140 the majority of audits already being done, Lou, the majority of audits already being done better
00:35:29.060 than 50% of the audience being done. Audits being done in this country right now are after the
00:35:34.980 middle income and lower middle income, uh, citizens of this country. So for this administration to
00:35:41.440 blatantly try to try to make us believe that 87,000 IRS agents is good for us. It's like,
00:35:47.980 it's like when somebody, you know, when the, when you're in the military, you're in the government
00:35:51.500 and the inspector general shows up and they, and they tell you that they're here to help. No,
00:35:57.060 they're not. They're not there to help. These people are not going to be there to help. They're
00:36:00.300 going to be there to basically be another member of what I call this security state complex to
00:36:07.860 basically cause this country to move more closely and align itself more closely with a socialist
00:36:14.420 communist system of, you know, ideological system. I don't know. I don't know why else we are moving
00:36:21.300 in this direction other than they're changing. This is not about Republicans and Democrats anymore.
00:36:25.300 This is about people who love this country and I don't care what walk of life they come from,
00:36:30.000 but if you love this country, we are losing our freedoms rapidly, much faster than I think anybody
00:36:35.380 really thought could ever happen. And we are moving into a, a, into an ideological realm,
00:36:42.220 if you will, that is more aligned with communism and socialism. That's the only way I can, I can say it.
00:36:48.940 You know, we, we haven't talked too much about China in this, uh, uh, this, but China, China has
00:36:56.760 infiltrated this country, Lou. They've infiltrated into our businesses. They've infiltrated into our
00:37:02.340 education system. They've infiltrated into our government. And that's a real thing. And that's
00:37:06.800 a real threat. And they, and we know, we know that there's people in the, in the white house. I mean,
00:37:11.800 just look at Hunter Biden and the relationships that he has business relationships with, he has
00:37:16.680 with the, one of the, one of the, in fact, one of the guys was the leader of the Chinese Communist
00:37:21.640 Party intelligence. Uh, you know, it's, it's, it's Hunter Biden has been under investigation for
00:37:27.460 four years, but you talk about the CCP in China. Uh, you, your experience is a leader of, uh, one of
00:37:36.000 the most important intelligence agencies. We go back to 1993 and 1993, a snapshot in time, right? It is, uh,
00:37:45.820 the first year of the Clinton administration and identified in the United States were 3,500
00:37:52.240 front companies for the CCP, the, uh, the People's Liberation Army, Communist China. And we knew
00:38:01.840 that they were infiltrating. Now we come back here 30 years, uh, into the future. It's the present.
00:38:09.780 And guess what? We've, they've dismantled all of the task forces that were supposed to be
00:38:16.200 taking on these front companies because no one did a thing in the, in the previous 25 years.
00:38:22.760 Right. No, no, no. It's, it's, it's, uh, it's, it's, it's, it's, what are these intelligence
00:38:28.080 agencies do, Mike? Yeah, no, they screwed. I'm going to tell you, they have, believe me,
00:38:32.260 believe me. And, and they, you know, they've screwed up. We've, we've, this is a grave,
00:38:36.160 grave national security threat to the United States of America. And I'm, I appreciate you
00:38:41.120 bringing it up, uh, taking us back to 1993 because you're right. This is 2022. So this is decades.
00:38:47.160 This is a generation later. And so you have to say to yourself, so if it was that bad, then how bad
00:38:53.460 is it now? And we can complain all day about, you know, the, the, what the intelligent agencies
00:39:00.420 should be doing. And I know what they should be doing. And believe me, you know, in, in the two
00:39:05.820 years that I was at the defense intelligence agency, I, you know, you're, I, I am privy to a lot of,
00:39:12.340 of intelligence. And then of course, going in to become the national security advisor to the
00:39:16.560 president of the United States, privy to a lot of intelligence. What I, what I would say, not
00:39:21.160 hypothetical, this is not hypothetical for your audience. What I would say is the level of infiltration
00:39:26.440 by, by the, by the, you know, the people's, uh, liberation army, by the communist, uh, Chinese,
00:39:35.640 you know, by the, by the communist government of China, you know, by the CCP into every single
00:39:42.040 aspect of, of Americana is very, very real. And so, and it's, and it's, and it's, it grew rapidly
00:39:51.580 under administrations that enabled it and allowed it because they really were not, you know, when
00:39:58.820 you think about it, when you, when you look at what, what kinds of actions and what kinds of
00:40:02.360 decisions were made, they were not necessarily decisions. And I'm not talking about the Clinton
00:40:06.840 administration. I'm talking about the Obama administration that didn't advance America's
00:40:10.860 interest around the world. What they were doing is they were allowing China to, to gain even more of 0.62
00:40:15.520 a foothold inside of the United States of America. And that's a, that's a very, very strong
00:40:19.360 statement from a guy like me, who's been, who's, who's been at the top levels of our intelligence
00:40:23.980 community and inside of the white house and has knowledge, deep knowledge of, of China. And I,
00:40:29.920 I have always, I've been saying this for a long time, Lou, about China. And I've talked a lot about
00:40:35.440 just their, just the amount of students that the Chinese have been sending to our country for the
00:40:40.460 better part of two decades, really three, but, but we're talking about upwards of 500,000 students a
00:40:48.380 year, you know, and the average is probably 300,000 students a year going back 20 years coming
00:40:54.920 into our country. And so what are they doing? And they're young, they're, they're young people. And
00:40:59.800 so what are they doing? Are they working to spy? Are they working to, to, you know, to get inside of
00:41:05.020 our systems? Are they working to get an education and go back home and use our, use the, use the great
00:41:10.420 education system that we have at the college and our graduate and undergraduate level, which we still do
00:41:15.540 to a degree? Are they learning engineering? Are they learning math? Are they in our labs? Are they in our
00:41:20.340 medical facilities? Are yes, yes, yes. The answer is yes. They're all, they are in every aspect of what
00:41:26.240 we do. I mean, I just listened to a piece the other day about, and I've been following this very closely
00:41:31.100 about the amount of real estate, real estate that the Chinese government is buying in the United States
00:41:36.360 of America. For any, for any foreign government to purchase real estate in this country, it takes
00:41:41.580 approval by the state department. So why, why is it that our state department is allowing members of
00:41:47.180 the Chinese military to purchase large plots of property, good property? I mean, really, really
00:41:53.160 some of the best property in our country, right? Buying land right next to military bases. This is,
00:41:59.620 this is, it's insane. So, you know, if, if it sounds like my hair is on fire, and for those people
00:42:06.360 that meet me around the country, uh, and, and many do, for those that listen, hear me speak in other
00:42:11.580 places, my hair is on fire and I'm not, I'm not a boy crying, you know, wolf, and I'm not a conspiracy
00:42:18.540 theorist. I'm not a, you know, I mean, this is, this is very, very serious. And, you know, I'm a guy that
00:42:27.280 could have gotten out of the military after a great career, very, very, you know, an excellent career. I could
00:42:33.840 have gotten out of the military and gone and gotten myself on some boards and some, you know, and done
00:42:39.280 all kinds of things, you know, and, and, and had a nice cushy life and gone and played some golf and
00:42:44.580 took a, take nice vacation, all that crap. Right. But I didn't, I didn't, right. I got involved in
00:42:50.480 politics and I, and I met a guy named Donald J. Trump and I believed in what he believed in. And he
00:42:56.520 and I saw eye to eye on the future of America and how, and how difficult that it was going to be for
00:43:03.780 us to maintain the America that we both grew up in. And, and, uh, because it was, it was being
00:43:09.420 damaged by, by stupid people and, and, uh, and people that actually were, I would say, I would
00:43:16.260 call him un-American and he won and he won. So once he wins and all of a sudden we become the enemy of
00:43:22.460 the state, right? The bureaucratic state, the deep state, as we call it. And, uh, the, I call it the
00:43:28.060 security state and they're continuing to do this. They're continuing to damage our country.
00:43:33.860 And when I think about the people that are inside of our government, cause I know that there are a few
00:43:39.220 people, there's a few good people in there that care, but they are all fearful of what might happen
00:43:46.060 to them. If they, if they speak up, if they become, you know, quote unquote, whistleblowers, or if they
00:43:50.700 go and they, and they, and they quit and they come out and they start talking about what they saw.
00:43:55.240 People are afraid of our own God dang government, Lou. We cannot have that in the United States of
00:44:01.420 America. We cannot live like this. We cannot have a FBI and a justice system that is attacking,
00:44:07.240 assaulting the very fabric of our country, which is the regular American citizen who's in fear.
00:44:14.220 They're afraid that the, that the FBI is going to come knock on their door because they attended a,
00:44:18.520 a relatively peaceful, uh, demonstration in Washington, DC that, you know, I think as we, as the,
00:44:25.240 I'll talk to January 6th, unselecting again, and what happened on January 6th, I think if we find
00:44:30.940 out the truth and we get all the evidence, we get all the videos, we get all the narratives and, and,
00:44:35.860 and true evidence is going to be seen that we're going to find that there was, that there was some,
00:44:41.540 some, uh, planning of, of what happened on January 6th and not, not talking about planning.
00:44:46.700 Yeah. Go ahead. I'll predict one thing on that. I think you're going to see the January 6th committee
00:44:53.220 dissolved in the middle of the night, go away, bury all of the video, bury all of the, uh, documents
00:45:01.200 they've got so that no one can ever see it because it is a travesty carried out against the American
00:45:07.980 people, hundreds of Americans charged, uh, punished. Uh, it is an abuse of government like, uh, we have
00:45:16.160 never seen, never seen. And you know, I, so here's my, my last point to you and I'll, I'll, you know,
00:45:21.500 get off my soapbox. I pray that we win in November. I pray that we win the house and we win the Senate.
00:45:29.680 I pray that we win some really critical governor positions. I pray that we win some state legislatures
00:45:35.400 in some really critical States. I pray that we win. And I pray that we have a free and fair
00:45:40.460 election. I'm, I am, I am, uh, I am not inclined to, uh, to say that, you know, I'm going to be
00:45:46.400 naive and think that it's going to be, you know, nice and clean. Cause it's not, it's going to be
00:45:50.140 really ugly. And there's going to be all kinds of cheating going on in our election because we're
00:45:53.960 seeing it in our damn primaries, but that's what I pray for. And, and if that happens, if we're
00:46:00.160 lucky enough, let's just say we just win the house. We just win the house of representatives.
00:46:04.460 What that's going to do, it's not going to solve our problems. It's going to give America a little
00:46:09.940 bit of breathing room. And let's see what our Republican, uh, uh, legislatures do. If they 0.96
00:46:17.400 do get in charge, let's see if they actually stand up and go and go after these people and, and hold
00:46:24.060 to account the people that are actually doing the most severe damage to our country, which are many
00:46:29.960 of the different people and institutions that we have been talking about. That's what we have to
00:46:34.820 find out. We have, and, and frankly, is there a real investigation of Hunter Biden's laptop and
00:46:40.840 what we've learned from that? Cause it's not just some, some son of a, of a president who's got a
00:46:45.280 drug problem. This is a grave threat to our national security because of the business and endeavors and
00:46:50.640 the business relationships that we know of that he had in Ukraine, that, that Hunter had in,
00:46:55.860 in China and the business partners that he had as well as the big guy, right? We don't want,
00:47:01.540 we want, we don't want to forget the big guy. So that's what I pray for Lou. I pray that we are,
00:47:06.460 are able to, uh, to, to have that happen. And then of course, uh, then it gives us breathing room
00:47:13.700 to get us to 2024. And maybe, you know, maybe I, I, I'd love Donald Trump to, to announce today.
00:47:20.980 You know, he, I think he needs to announce sooner than later, but people tell me, you know, it's
00:47:25.240 different, different reasons why he shouldn't do it. And there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot
00:47:29.260 of different reasons. And, but I, I, I would rather he do it sooner to then what would it would do to
00:47:34.920 me, and this is my, my take on it. It would galvanize, absolutely galvanize the American people
00:47:40.820 even more than they already are, are ready to stand up and, and, uh, and truly fight in the
00:47:47.300 political battles that we're going to have in the next, in the coming months, uh, to get to November,
00:47:51.740 2022, and then to get to November, 2024, it would galvanize the American people like, like we've never
00:47:57.540 seen in this country. And I think that there was, there was probably 10, 20, maybe, maybe 30 to 40
00:48:03.460 million people left of that center line, right. That are over there in the democratic party that never
00:48:09.420 thought that they'd lose our country to communism and don't like the idea of, of, uh, living in a
00:48:14.120 communist country. Cause that's, what's going to happen folks. If we don't get through these
00:48:17.780 elections, um, in the, in the, you know, in, in November, frankly, this November, uh, you know,
00:48:23.300 if it, if it, if it's, if it's an unfair election, like I believe the 2020 election was unfair, um, and,
00:48:29.960 and done, you know, uh, corruptly, then we could, we could actually find ourselves very rapidly
00:48:36.080 moving towards communism very, you know, much, much quicker. And, uh, and I'm afraid of that.
00:48:41.400 I'm, I'm, I, that does, that does, uh, that does concern me and because I can see it. I've seen it
00:48:47.480 in other countries. Uh, we we've seen it in places like Venezuela. Venezuela is one of the, you know,
00:48:53.140 one of the more recent examples and people in this country think of Venezuela as some, you know,
00:48:57.820 S hole, but it's really, it was really one of the top 10 economies in the world back in the eighties.
00:49:03.160 And it was generally, it was pretty, pretty well aligned to the United States of America as a,
00:49:07.480 as a, as a place where they had free and fair elections. And then all of a sudden now, now in,
00:49:13.520 in Venezuela, it's just, it's become a criminal enterprise and you can't even, you know, those 0.99
00:49:18.900 people that are living there, you can't even get a roll of toilet paper, right? I mean, you can't buy
00:49:22.480 food. And it was one of the top 10 economies in the world, not that long ago in my lifetime,
00:49:28.240 in my military career. So that's how fast something can happen in this country. And don't think that
00:49:33.640 it can't folks. And so that's why I say we've got to get involved. I would love to see Donald
00:49:38.680 Jake Trump, uh, president Trump. I'd love to see him step up there and say, you know what I'm running,
00:49:43.520 but I, I, I, you know, I understand the, the advantages and disadvantages of that. And some of
00:49:48.180 it has to do with the, the, uh, the, the FEC, the federal elections commissions and monies and all
00:49:53.340 that kind of stuff. But I, but this, we can't make it about that. We need to make this about our
00:49:57.320 country and what's best for our country. And right now, what's best for our country is we,
00:50:01.360 we have to have leaders around the country that have never been involved in politics,
00:50:07.220 step up and get involved. And we have to have the American people go vote. I mean, my God,
00:50:14.300 we are still only at about 30% of people that can vote that have, that are registered to vote in this
00:50:19.920 country for the primaries. We're only hovering around 30% right now in the primaries across the
00:50:24.660 country. You know, I, you know, I'm, I'm told that we should only expect a 60% turnout in November.
00:50:30.780 We can't have that folks. We got to have everybody. Everybody's got to show up to the,
00:50:35.100 to the game. And it's not just go to the bleachers. I want people on the field. I want people on the
00:50:39.600 field. I want everybody on the field and you get on the field by going and voting. That's how you play.
00:50:44.340 That's how we play in this, in this country called United States of America. And, uh,
00:50:49.720 that's, that's how each of us participates. And so that's what I want.
00:50:54.000 Well, I think that what you want is, uh, what is best for America. And I think that that is a big
00:51:00.800 part of the list that we need, uh, to, to get this country going again. Uh, general Flynn,
00:51:08.160 always great to talk with you. I hope you'll come back soon. Uh, the next time we'll talk about the
00:51:13.720 intelligence agencies, including the FBI, uh, and the department of justice will also take up the
00:51:20.260 Homeland security department and how an agency that was a department was created, uh, in the wake of
00:51:28.140 September 11th to coordinate law enforcement agencies, intelligence agencies, and support
00:51:35.600 first responders at the local level. Suddenly I has its own intelligence agency has its own, uh, police
00:51:43.840 forces in various forms. And you talked about several of them, uh, but especially the TSA, uh,
00:51:50.760 and it's, it's, it's a fascinating issue and, and critical to all that we are talking about general
00:51:58.180 Michael Flynn, a great Patriot, a great American. God bless you. God bless Lou. Thank you. And thank
00:52:03.980 you to your, your really great audience. God bless. Thanks everybody for being with us here tomorrow.
00:52:11.020 John McLaughlin, leading GOP pollster and strategist on the political turmoil and conflicts
00:52:17.140 boiling over in America. Please join us here tomorrow on the great America show till then.
00:52:23.600 God bless you and God bless America.