Former FBI Director James Comey has been charged with two counts of conspiracy to kill the President of the United States, a charge that carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison. The charges stem from a post James Comey made on his social media account in which called for the assassination of President Donald Trump.
00:00:56.740In the short period that he's been interim attorney general of the United States, I think is absolutely commendable, whether it be reinstating the firing squad, whether it be going after the Southern Poverty Law Center for funding the KKK.
00:08:46.160And it's so bad that at the White House Correspondents Association
00:08:48.980day of the night, Congressman Andy Ogles overheard a reporter
00:08:53.460praying that Trump was shot that night.
00:08:56.540There was a reporter. I probably shouldn't say this, but I'm gonna say it. There was a reporter in the room who was under a table. And when the shots went off and everybody's hiding, she said, I hope they killed the orange MF.
00:09:10.020That was a journalist in the room who was hoping that when she stood up, the president of the United States would be dead.0.52
00:09:16.720so i'm coming to a public venue where i know it might be hostile to expose myself to an honest
00:09:25.020dialogue an open dialogue if you ask me a question i don't have an answer i will get
00:09:28.880you something i'm writing or we can talk on the phone but when you have members of the press
00:09:33.160openly enticing hoping talking about killing the chief executive officer this officer of this
00:09:40.220country again muslim jew hindu i don't care that's a problem i'm sorry what did you say1.00
00:14:31.080I have those questions, and I want to ask our next guest,
00:14:34.680a friend of mine, friend of the show, Mark Morano of ClimateDepot.com.
00:14:37.580We're going to take that up with him and so much more gas prices,
00:14:41.600all of that, and much, much more, folks, on the other side of this quick break.
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00:15:02.820Thanks, everybody, for staying with us here on The Great America Show.
00:15:05.460So now, as promised, let's have a little fun and bring in a friend of mine, Mark Marano, the founder, the CEO, the president, all in one of ClimateDepot.com.
00:15:14.740Mark, it's been a while since we spoke.
00:22:00.260Republican Congress, majority Republican Congress, 2017, 40 percent cut in the EPA budget.
00:22:05.900What do you think happened? Dead on arrival on Capitol Hill. So it's very difficult.
00:22:10.840So here's what I would suggest as a pragmatic. Remember, we're not all ideologues here.
00:22:15.420I'm trying to be pragmatic. Let's divert the money from the usual left wing Marxist academic
00:22:22.200scientists who do the same crap. You and climate modeling. This could happen. That might happen.0.99
00:22:27.780You know, the same people who say, well, first of all, the facts are polar bears are more than we've ever counted.
00:22:34.360U.S. Geological Survey says they're at or near historic population highs.
00:22:38.360But a climate activist will tell you it's worse than we thought.
00:22:40.500Why is it worse? Because our climate models now show more of a catastrophe in the year 2080 for polar bears.
00:22:46.080So when current reality fails to alarm, they make scarier and scarier predictions of the future.
00:22:51.080J.D. Vance can go right to the heart of that and he can start funding, literally switch the money.
00:22:56.740If you can't cut it, switch it to people like Roy Spencer, to Dr. John Christie, to Will Happer, to Dr. John Clouser, Nobel Prize winner.
00:23:06.040These are all outspoken climate skeptics with peer reviewed studies and scientific credentials up the wazoo.
00:23:12.560And imagine the outrage if we could switch the money from the usual suspects at Harvard or Caltech or wherever and put that money to known climate skeptics and start doing studies debunking the entire premise.
00:23:26.040that would actually be useful. I actually would argue that's actually more useful than just
00:23:30.160cutting the climate research. Let's actually do it as something that matters and use it to debunk
00:23:35.320that. We saw a hint of that with Chris Wright, the energy secretary's energy report, which was
00:23:41.500phenomenal. By the way, that's another example of you got to be careful in Washington. You got to
00:23:46.500cross all your T's and dot all your I's. What do you think? Do you remember what happened to that
00:23:50.500energy report? It was the first government report by any government in the world pushing back on
00:23:55.060the united nations since 1990 when the first u.n climate report came out it was a phenomenal report
00:24:00.540huge attention official government report and apparently one of the scientists didn't fill out
00:24:07.100one of the bureaucratic forms correctly when they entered into the you know when they did the report
00:24:12.540and a left-wing environmental lawsuit sued a federal court ruled in their favor and it invalidated the
00:24:19.580whole report so they had to pull it from the website i'm telling the truth here this is
00:24:22.900unbelievable now this report still was out there it's still there it had an impact but it's no
00:24:27.800longer an official u.s government report they had to pull it which is why we're trying now to see
00:24:32.700if we can get a u.s senate committee to pick up the report but it just goes to show you you know
00:24:37.420the left owns washington even when republicans even like when donald trump's in charge when i
00:24:43.280say own it i mean the whole system is set up in their favor micro bureaucracy confusion all done
00:24:50.640to favor the deep state and to favor the status quo of the establishment, which is what that did.
00:24:55.720So this report had to be pulled of the most low level, absurd, like a form wasn't filled out
00:25:01.780correctly. That's how absurd we're talking about it. But anyway, the long story short, that's what
00:25:06.160we should do is get that funded. Second thing I just want to mention on funding, and this is
00:25:10.020big, is that Trump deserves all the credit as well as OMB and for going after the, and Lee
00:25:17.400zelda and epa going after the inflation reduction act that biden uh went nuts on particularly after
00:25:22.960from november until uh january remember they fast-tracked trump roughly got 65 percent of
00:25:29.500the 1.2 trillion dollars back that was going to the green new deal version hiding under the
00:25:34.700inflation reduction act people will say well that's still a half a billion you know half a
00:25:38.840what am i yeah half a trillion dollars yeah it got through but at some point it became more
00:25:44.020expensive to stop the money for going to the solar and wind, because then you would have
00:25:47.860prolonged court cases. And there's a legal precedent that once, you know, once the money
00:25:51.960is released to a bank and an organization, you can't just pull it back because there's a new
00:25:56.440president. So he did the best they could. They got way over half the money back. That was a big
00:26:01.360savings as well. This lady on the screen is the congresswoman who's very high ranking.1.00
00:26:07.580I saw this debate. Are you going to show that? It was incredible. We're going to roll it in a
00:26:11.360second here i was it was a stand up and cheer moment for america this is a this is who the
00:26:16.260democrats mark this is who the democrats uh look to uh for yeah their their climate change advice
00:26:23.340this is the kind of people that the marxist dems uh cheer parade to me it's sort of strange that
00:26:31.080they can't find somebody that looks a little bit normal that they could at least sell their point
00:26:35.100a little bit better and say you know listen folks um you know this is this is what we're selling to
00:26:40.820And this is the normal level headed person who is not 65 years old and still dying their hair blue in exchange with Lee Zeldin.
00:26:50.080Change is flooding our streets, poisoning our air, driving up health care and disaster courts.
00:26:56.780How can the EPA justify abandoning that duty to protect Americans to appease polluters under the false flag of economic growth?
00:27:04.800Following the law, Section 202 of the Clean Air Act, where does this say anything about fighting global climate change?
00:27:10.820loper bright supreme court case you're familiar with it no i i maybe others are i'm not but let
00:27:17.500me ask but that's really important as a member of congress loper bright says that we as as an
00:27:22.180agency don't have the authority to get creative if section 202 of the clean air act no no but you
00:27:27.920don't have excuse me you do not have the right to say climate change does not exist that it's a
00:27:33.680hoax and that's where this is you don't have a right and you're upset that you don't know what
00:27:37.100Loper Bride is. Do you know what the major policies doctrine is? I'm upset because you know what the major policies doctrine is. You're a member of Congress. You should know. Well, you're you're you have moved from someone who defended the environment to all of us. I'm very defensive about not knowing the two biggest landmarks. Supreme Court cases of the last year. You are very. You are very defensive about changing your policy and your positions with regard to the environment. You just want me to tell you what the two biggest Supreme Court cases are of the last
00:28:07.080few years this is what i want michigan versus epa whoa west virginia versus you know you're here
00:28:11.880because you need money from us so halt for the second and wait for the questions and answer the
00:28:17.260question i answered your question and you didn't like my answer because you don't know what loper
00:28:21.200right is because you don't know what the major policies doctrine is because you you're asking
00:28:25.640me questions you're asking about section 202 of the clean air act and you don't you don't read it
00:28:29.920you don't know what it says listen and what you want to do is to deny you want no i actually read
00:28:35.040the law i do my homework really you're just somebody who likes to have the microphone on you
00:28:40.000know what i have to do i read the law i read the supreme court cases and i would say no what you
00:28:45.200should do for your constituents is actually a read statute budget is at real risk read your
00:28:50.480supreme court this is the appropriations committee oh you're here you care about science now you're
00:28:55.200threatening to defund it oh my god no you don't fund because you don't know what loper break is
00:28:59.520because you don't know what the major policies doctrine is your message to our our folks at the
00:29:04.480epa is that you wanted to listen to this bs bs you think i made up these cases yeah i think you
00:29:12.040have made up i made i made up loper bright i made up west virginia versus epa i made a michigan versus
00:29:17.540epa whoa whoa is right uh what what are you doing why are you helping the looters
00:29:23.220let's just say by the way i gotta say lee zeldon looks better than ever he looks like he lost a
00:29:33.100He looks 10 years younger, which is usually the reverse of what happens when you go into a cabinet position.
00:29:49.500First of all, Lee Zeldin, the most consequential EPA chief in the agency's history since Richard Nixon started the agency in the early 1970s.
00:29:59.560Lee Zeldin should win every award possible Lee Zeldin is articulate Lee Zeldin is competent
00:30:07.780I mean that's the understatement but I mean he is the most consequential Trump cabinet member I
00:30:13.280would argue he has come in and just like laser focused dismantled everything that not only
00:30:21.500Biden had done but what Obama had done and restoring the EPA back to its original mission
00:30:27.240Remember, EPA was hijacked by the environmental movement to the point where East Palestine, toxic waste dump, lead in the drain, who has time, sewage in the patrol, who has time for that kind of stuff?
00:30:39.520We're focusing on 2040 and EV mandates and net zero, blah, blah, blah.
00:30:44.380He's returning the EPA back to its thing.
00:30:46.580And what he told her was absolutely there's three Supreme Court cases, all critical, basically saying unelected bureaucrats can't regulate the climate, can't do their own interpretations.
00:31:01.640And the Supreme Court is also saying you have to consider economic costs of these environmental protections.
00:31:09.360And the Supreme Court has said that the EPA is going to be, as I say, going to be because the endangerment findings have to come up as a second test.
00:31:21.780But they're saying that they're going to they've shown willingness to severely limit the EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gases without explicit legislation passed by Congress.
00:31:33.240Imagine that bureaucrats at an agency can't just decide to wake up one day and say, hey, we're going to ban gas stoves today.
00:31:39.560Next ceiling fans. Next wood burning pizza ovens. Next gas.1.00
00:31:43.720This is how it's done. That's how the gas powered car ban was started in California.
00:31:48.300Unelected bureaucrats, California Air Resources Board.
00:31:51.260So we have three Supreme Court rulings that are now laying the groundwork, given the current makeup of the court, by the way, which is one reason they're trying to fast track.
00:31:59.640You don't know if a Supreme Court member is going to resign, die, and they're going to start appointing.
00:32:03.220These are five, four decisions, a lot of these.
00:32:05.340So we are in a precarious moment, but you cannot ask for a better commander than Lee Zeldin at EPA.
00:32:13.260I am blown away. In fact, when we were at the conference climate summit in D.C. three weeks ago, Lee Zeldin spoke.
00:32:20.000I spoke the next day. But the media was there and they were asking him, what do you think is when Pam Bondi had stepped down?
00:32:26.080What do you think if Pam Bondi goes to leaves, would Lee Zeldin be a great justice replacing her at the Department of Justice?
00:32:34.280And everyone was like, absolutely not. We cannot lose Lee Zeldin.
00:32:37.180Do you know how hard it is to get a first of all, a a ideologically consistent EPA chief?
00:32:47.000I think the only way you'd have that, Mark, is if you had Donald Trump himself running.
00:32:50.560yeah so but that that debate with the congresswoman no epa and chief in history has ever pulled
00:32:58.580something like that off it was brilliant to watch it was a stand up and cheer moment and just again
00:33:03.480it goes and by the way she said one thing that was interesting she said you used to be basically on
00:33:08.580the other side and he was i wasn't that excited on climate when lee zelden i was like lee zelden
00:33:14.880And it turns out years ago, maybe 10 years ago, he was basically open.
00:33:20.000He was in New York talking about New York Republican. Yes.
00:33:23.300And so then he went, you know, then he sort of moved away from that.
00:33:27.400And by the time he was picked, he's been like the strongest climate skeptic doing exactly what needs to be done.
00:33:32.500So you never dismiss someone because of, you know, past views is what I would say.
00:33:36.900And that, you know, how can you say that? I'm the ultimate example of that because I thought RFK was a complete climate alarmist.
00:33:44.540And he probably was. You know, when I interviewed him in 2014, he was talking about jailing the CEOs of energy companies for their role in climate change and making it so skeptical politicians couldn't challenge climate change.
00:33:57.060And, you know, now he says climate has been hijacked by the World Economic Forum, UN for totalitarian control.
00:34:02.180When he ran for president, never. He said, I'm not going to talk about climate change.
00:34:05.000He just removed it from his vocabulary. So it's amazing stuff.
00:34:08.640And I love the fact you said you can't you challenge the you call climate a hoax.
00:34:12.520you're not you shouldn't be allowed to do that what we're gonna have like a ban on the epa chiefs
00:34:17.220telling science as they see it and their agency sees fit it's it's complete lunacy but yeah so
00:34:22.540that was a great exchange the thing that troubles me the most is that these climate people they
00:34:33.600they want to look to the farcical things the things that just show absurd ridiculously absurd
00:34:38.060may never happen probably will never happen almost guaranteed to never happen and you had
00:34:42.920mentioned something that we never even spoke about because there's been some time since we spoke it
00:34:46.240was the the 300 million gallons of sewage and turds that were floating down the atomic river
00:34:52.020in january when a 72 inch pipe collapsed yes somewhere in maryland which is a local municipality
00:35:00.080issue of dc and maryland not a federal government issue but you didn't hear anybody talking about
00:35:05.140that guess who stepped in to save the environment the environment hater himself donald trump and
00:35:11.720his justice department want answers on why this happened donald trump was the one who sent crews0.95
00:35:16.720out there federal government was to go clean the shit up no pun intended and these democrats are0.98
00:35:22.500just so far beyond their means they don't even know what the hell happened the only thing that0.99
00:35:27.980leads me to believe uh mark is that they're getting money from some corrupt organization
00:37:59.840And I think Elon Musk, who's one of the smartest men to ever walk this earth, has picked up on that, that it's probably not going to last forever.
00:38:06.540So what has Elon done? He's reinvented.
00:38:09.160He's going into autonomous vehicles, autonomous cabs, where I think he's rolled out now in in Austin, Texas.
00:38:16.080He's moved more into the SpaceX side of things where he's going to put one of the biggest valuations and biggest IPOs in the history of this country on SpaceX, whereas these other people are going to get caught with their hand in the cookie jar with their feet in the sand because there is no end to it.
00:38:30.640But I want to bring up another point, Mark, and it's the Iran war that we're having right now.
00:38:37.160Seventeen percent of the oil reserves in this country sit right just south of America in the soon to be 51st state of Venezuela.
00:38:46.080Can you explain to the American people why is it that our gas prices are so high right now for an issue that's halfway across the world when we don't buy most of our oil from them anyway?
00:39:00.240It's a great question. And the answer to that is decades of negligence.
00:39:04.660And when it comes to particularly refining oil, it's funny because we actually we actually produce more oil.
00:39:12.940We're the biggest. We actually export more. We actually export more energy than we produce.
00:39:18.200We produce more energy than we export import, which is the first time since Harry Truman was president.
00:39:24.480And now CNN has just announced we produce more oil than any nation in the history of the world.
00:39:29.140So you would think that, you know, we're self-sufficient. It wouldn't matter what's happening in the Middle East or anywhere else.
00:39:35.160However, it's a lot of oil that we make isn't necessarily usable and it's not refined.
00:39:40.520We don't have the capacity to refine it because of all the climate restrictions, because of all the regulatory red tape that has been going on for decades under both Republican and America, going back to George W. Bush.
00:39:50.660Trump has tried first term. They tried to undo all that. But that takes long term policy stability to change that, because that's like an infrastructure question.
00:39:59.700So what I will say is this. If you look at America, we're the least affected of any country, including Europe, including Asia, from any Middle East disruption.
00:40:10.240And that is really because of the first Trump administration and because of the last year.
00:40:15.560And as CNN announced, and it was February of this this year, 2026, more oil in the history of the planet.
00:40:21.260So we have all that. And now we can sell that oil back to Europe, sell it to Europe.
00:40:26.740We're now providing 80 percent of Europe's natural gas, which is we're replacing Russia as their primary source.
00:40:33.060Because remember, Europe gave up on producing their own energy because they decided, hey, let's do an accounting trick.
00:40:37.920And let's have China and Russia and all these other countries, Venezuela, they'll get our oil and our fossil fuels and we'll look like we're going net zero.
00:40:47.360And that's what they did. So it's a complex problem. Also, oil is a global market.
00:40:52.020So when the U.S., even though we have a ton of oil, if the price of oil goes up, you know, $150 a barrel or $200 a barrel, it's going to affect us prices at the pump.
00:41:03.860The only way to really stop that would be to nationalize the U.S. oil industry. And I don't think anyone's got an appetite for that necessarily. You know, it'd be kind of like the government taking it over and not allowing any profit motive or private companies involved.
00:41:18.480So that is the reason it's a complex thing. And oil prices are also subject to the whim of how everyone feels.
00:41:26.660It's a market whim. You know, if there's you know, like remember, Trump would announce a peace deal in the morning.
00:41:31.620Market would go up. The price of oil would drop. You know, the future market would drop.
00:41:36.000And then, of course, war would break out again and then the price would drop.
00:41:39.200So it's we're subject to all those fluctuations fluctuations. So there's two answers.
00:41:43.280We need more refining capacity, massively more, which will take another five to 10 years to really come online.
00:41:49.820And secondly, we would need to nationalize the industry to avoid that.
00:41:52.700But in the meantime, most energy we can produce and the most insulated will be this is the most insulated we've ever been from international energy disruption in our lifetimes.
00:42:03.620And this is 2026. So that is the good news.
00:42:06.420I think we only have three refineries in America, Marathon, Valero and Phillips 66.
00:42:14.220And Donald Trump has offered incentive to these people. Go open up refineries.
00:42:18.700We'll give you all the tax subsidies that you guys need.
00:42:21.440Here's the problem. Here's the problem. And I get that. But think about it.
00:42:25.480Realistically, you're a company and you have to think five, 10, 20 year investments.
00:42:30.760Who's the next president? What's going to happen in the midterms?
00:42:33.700Why would you go through and invest all that money and then find out Gavin Newsom's elected in twenty twenty eight?
00:42:39.340You just lost a bleep ton of money. And that's the that's been the problem.
00:42:44.620So we have to get America on a rational footing. And by the way, all around about way.
00:42:50.000And that's what I forgot to mention. What Lee Zeldin did against what's her name?
00:42:53.960Congressman, purple haired lady. I want to say Iliar Omar.0.98
00:42:57.180Yeah, La Rosa. Yeah. That's another significant thing. And this is what will actually help bring apart stable energy.
00:43:04.780When you flip the narrative the way Energy Secretary Chris Wright as EPA chief Lee Zeldin and Donald Trump has and Trump 2.0 and you call it a scam, a hoax, a religion, a cult, and you mock it and you make fun of it and you highlight all these scientists like the Nobel Prize winner who comes out and says this whole thing is a scam.
00:43:22.120There is no climate crisis. And by the way, U.N. treaties would have no impact on emissions, let alone the climate.
00:43:28.840Once you do that in the public, as the CNN Harry Enten pollster pointed out in October of this of 2025,
00:43:36.740Americans are no more concerned about climate, not much different than they were in the late 1980s.
00:43:41.260Once you get it out of the radar, it gets harder for someone like Gavin Newsom or AOC or Bernie Sanders to rile up even the Democrat base because they feel so demoralized and defeated.
00:43:52.120And that's part of my idea of funding the scientists don't necessarily cut the funding for climate science, redirect it in a way that would just lay waste to the scientific foundation for all this nonsense.
00:44:02.900And I think that's where I think ultimately we have to go. We need stability because ultimately that's the answer to your question.
00:44:09.640And even though Trump is trying to do all of this incentives and tax breaks and in some cases subsidies and wartime powers to try to get more energy, it's still if it's an infrastructure energy, it's one thing to say, OK, we can start drilling here.
00:44:24.380But if it's an infrastructure like refining, that's going to take longer and you've got to build, build it up and get the capacity refining year to decades.
00:44:33.140That is where you're going to have a problem because no one wants to invest.
00:44:36.820And that's why Energy Secretary Chris Wright is actually, when it comes to nuclear, is actually using taxpayer money.
00:44:43.460Now, that's causing some controversy because, you know, you don't want to necessarily want a Green New Deal for fossil fuels.
00:44:51.360That's the wrong phrase, but you don't want necessarily start subsidizing fossil fuels like that.
00:44:55.920But to use the old Jack Kemp line from the Congressman Jack Kemp about welfare cuts, he said to the extent that we need government to help the poor, we need them to help the poor to the extent that government helped cause the problem.
00:45:09.300So in the case of something like nuclear or refining, I can see a case being made where taxpayer support would go in to invest with the idea of because it was government that destroyed these industries and it can be government that at least gives them a baseline to attract other investing to actually, you know, make it actually happen.
00:45:29.660So we're not a yin yang of energy policy every four years.
00:45:32.980Sorry, it might have been more than you asked for, but that's sort of a wrong answer.
00:45:35.940I think you're absolutely right. And I think the audience appreciates the long form to understand.
00:45:41.980You know, you go on TV, you get three seconds to speak. It's over with. And it's like, all right, here's a soundbite.
00:45:47.180I think the reason people tune into these shows is because it's long form. They could understand.
00:45:51.760And we're all students, right? We're all students of everybody. We're always evolving and we're always learning.
00:45:55.800None of us know everything, which is why we have you on here to teach us all.
00:46:00.440Mark Marano of Climate Depot dot com. It's always a delight to talk with you, my friend.