THE FBI RAID ON PRESIDENT TRUMP SHOULD BE THE DEFINING MOMENT AS PEOPLE VOTE ON NOV. 8
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Judicial Watch Director of Investigations and Research Chris Farrell joins Lou Dobbs on the Great America Show to discuss the recent raid on Mar-A-Largo by the FBI on President Trump's private estate in Washington, D.C.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and this is The Great America Show.
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There's little doubt the country's in deeper trouble by the day.
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I know we're all gutsick about what's happened to our country.
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We're all feeling the weight of this government on our public spirit.
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I hear some of us are turning off the news altogether,
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sick and tired of the left-wing corporate media,
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and I certainly don't blame anyone for doing so.
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The outright lies, the shame of it all, is those networks, cable and broadcast,
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It's hard to put up with, and as I say, I don't blame anyone for not putting up with it,
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Certainly, left-wing newspapers and websites aren't any better,
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and we know now that President Biden lied again and again.
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The White House told us he didn't know about the Mar-a-Lago raid.
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and changed America to a place we no longer recognize as our country.
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We can't honestly claim it's a constitutional republic.
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Not when we have an FBI that frames national security advisors as they did with General Michael Flynn.
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An FBI that conspires with the Marxist dims in the deep state to overthrow a president.
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An FBI that manufactured false statistics that they report to the American people.
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Entrapped citizens and put them on trial because of the plot manufactured by the FBI,
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as they did in Michigan in the Governor Whitmer kidnapping case,
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and in league with the Justice Department and the White House
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who carried out a six-year-long political persecution of President Trump.
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This is no longer the America that we once knew, is it?
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And none of us blame those fellow citizens who say they can't take any more of the attacks,
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and the raging evil that has overwhelmed Washington, D.C.,
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and almost the entirety of our federal government.
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And there's no doubt corporate America is complicit
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Whether the refusal of their media, the media they own,
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to cover news honestly, to be fair and balanced, to stick to the facts,
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And it's hard to see how we fight our way to a free press,
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a free press that is independent and intent on seeking and reporting the truth,
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no matter what, in keeping our citizens informed,
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The FBI's raid on Mar-a-Lago was the stuff of Soviet-era KGB secret police,
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an act that demonstrated clearly to all that the Marxist dims
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and most of what was once our federal government.
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A clear statement that corruption of the Biden White House,
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Department of Justice, and the FBI is pervasive and profound.
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the Judicial Watch attorneys immediately filed a motion
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Our guest today is Judicial Watch's Director of Investigations and Research,
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So far, the magistrate judge has said he doesn't agree with the DOJ arguments,
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but the affidavit, unsealed or not, can still be, he says, redacted,
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which will deny the public meaningful information.
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My colleagues and I were watching what was going on and felt compelled to take action.
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There's a whole lot of people rightfully upset and concerned and a lot of soundbites,
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They were just kind of waving their arms and wringing their hands as per usual.
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So we decided it was up to us, that the impetus, the onus was on us to take action
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because the American public was owed straight answers.
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And they clearly were not coming from the Department of Justice or the FBI.
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So we were going to do our best to seek the release of the underlying affidavit,
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the sworn statement by the FBI special agent that formed the predicate for the warrant and the search.
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If you can successfully receive that document in a timely fashion,
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it's going to be fascinating to see what pretext they use.
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Because one thing we do know about the FBI, they have persecuted this president for six years.
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Not a single one of their charges has amounted to a hill of beans.
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And the only liars and the only transgressors and crimes have been committed by the FBI
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So it'll be interesting to see what the pretext is.
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Well, purportedly, there's a reported issue of NARA, National Archives and Records Administration,
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documents, papers, folders, et cetera, that are actually covered under the Presidential Records Act,
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the P.R.A., which I have a disgustingly detailed amount of knowledge firsthand on, unfortunately.
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The P.R.A. governs presidential records at the point where the president is about to say goodbye
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and leave the office and what happens to him afterwards.
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And every president since F.E.R. in 1939, when he turned over his records to the government,
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every president has had a push me, pull you, shove and push back and forth over what was going to be kept,
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what was going to be given to a library, what was going to go to the archives, what was going to be sealed.
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And that back and forth is something that's been negotiated with every president.
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I have literally sat in the Clinton Archive in Little Rock and looked through a glass dividing wall piece
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at Bruce Lindsay, Bill Clinton's personal representative, as he was reviewing records
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and deciding whether I could see them, and I was one room away.
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So I am very familiar with this process, and I can tell you that what the FBI did a couple days ago
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is completely off the charts, totally out of control, and really just an effort to once again
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try to smear and dirty up the former president.
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Yeah, we're getting a report that John Solomon said on Breitbart,
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the FBI office behind the Mar-a-Lago raid, which is the Washington, D.C. field office,
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has a big problem with political manipulation as they're styling it as they conducted that raid.
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It's, as John Solomon put it, Chris Wray, the director of the FBI, is not taking whistleblowers seriously,
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and so now they've got another problem in addition to all the transgressions that they have committed,
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and frankly, I think the laws they've broken, certainly, in this.
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There should be no surprise to anyone about that.
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But at this level, Chris, your thoughts about the level of just a rogue FBI
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following their Marxist-dim masters and the deep state into committing this kind of an act
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going against a president, former president of the United States?
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Well, the repercussions, unfortunately, in the next few months are probably, you know, zero.
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I want to point out, though, that the headquarters of the FBI is a wildly politicized place.
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It has virtually nothing to do with rank-and-file FBI agents around the country,
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although there's a number of places where the FBI is out of control around the country.
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But the headquarters is essentially the enforcement arm of the Democratic National Committee.
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And the Washington field office, the Washington field office, remember,
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the new chief of the Washington field office, a guy named D'Antuono,
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it's D-apostrophe-capital-A-T-U-O-N-O, D'Antuono.
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He was previously the special agent in charge of the Detroit office of the FBI.
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And you remember, those are the guys that dreamed up the crazy kidnap Gretchen Whitmer case.
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And so this guy is clearly, he's a piece of work.
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I mean, this is the guy who manufactures a kidnap plot and then conveniently moves to Washington, D.C.
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The two months later, you have the Ray Epps cheerleading section at the January 6th event.
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So the Washington field office needs to be put under a microscope, especially this guy, D'Antuono.
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Well, as you have basically said, the entire management of the FBI right now, in my opinion,
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should be forced to resign, fired, however you want to style it.
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They should be frog-marched out of the FBI headquarters.
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Four directors of the FBI since the advent of the crossfire hurricane and the Russia hoax,
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the Russia collusion disinformation campaign by Hillary Clinton's campaign,
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that four of them have been caught lying to the Congress, lying to the American people,
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and without accountability, without any consequence whatsoever.
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I think you will recall, when I said it on air on your television show probably six years ago,
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But you will recall that I early, early advocated for the disillusion of the FBI,
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that it should be eliminated as a law enforcement agency.
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At the time I said it, some people kind of scratched their heads and said,
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hey, you know, aren't you going a little far here?
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And now it's taken a few years, but now everyone's finally catching on to what I warned about years ago,
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And, you know, the fish rots from the head down.
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And it's an example that just keeps replicating itself.
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We think of all of the instances in which the FBI has lied,
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the orchestrated Marxist Dems campaign against the candidate Donald Trump,
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but they tried to frame the president of the United States.
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They successfully framed General Michael Flynn.
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Where do you go to get back the house you had to sell,
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This is just to survive the process of eventually being vindicated.
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and Michael Flynn has had support of a lot of people in this country,
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We should all be doing more for all of those caught up in the January 6th
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iniquity that they call the January 6th committee.
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but there's the conservative version of that we should be using to,
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the former aide to the president Trump caught up in it.
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And the only thing they did was hang around DC on January 6th and then go
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they had flashbang grenades thrown in their house.
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a retainer for an attorney to then spend another 20 or $30,000.
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one of the things we're looking at is the same thing with Trump.
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We're trying to get to the underlying affidavit from the special agent who
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they're violent felons or B their flight risks.
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but that didn't stop them from blowing through the gate on their ranch and
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making the poor husband stand in his underwear for two and a half hours in
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this is your federal law enforcement in action.
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And how dare them not have the courage and the principle to stand up and tell
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their superiors that they will not participate in something like a pre-dawn
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raid with SWAT tactics and nonsense going after a,
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It's just simply to create fear in the entire American public.
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I still believe this intimidation nonsense from the part of the FBI will blow up in
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the more they're going to keep trying more and more and more.
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they want to keep the American public in a state of,
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They want them constantly fearful that they're going to be blamed.
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They're going to be associated with something because they want you to keep your head down and shut up.
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because right now there is no countervailing force of decency and,
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and respect in this country to put against them other than the will of the American people.
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the so-called leadership on the Republican side of the equation is a joke.
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there has to be a response to this kind of ignorance,
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They are functioning supposedly in support of this,
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They have declared war on all of America that isn't a Marxist dem following in lockstep to their woke ideology and utter Marxist devastating destructive ideology.
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for the record on this whole issue about the president and his records,
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sharply worded letters between two different sets of attorneys.
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then they can ask for a civil subpoena to produce the records by court process.
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you then file for some sort of contempt motion to get the marshals to come out and collect the records.
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what I'm trying to get across is there is an escalated,
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none of which consists of FBI agents conducting,
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he may have had something bad or something he wasn't supposed to have,
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there were records that were under lock and key on a presidential compound that's guarded by secret service agents.
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you tell me if those records are secure or not.
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and President Trump himself has said point blank,
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he had ordered his attorneys to give them whatever it is that they,
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and the president was generally just shocked that this,
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this occurred given the fact that there was full cooperation.
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And it was a process that had been underway for months.
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this stinks to high heaven and heads should roll.
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because right now we have a government that no one respects.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland is a cowardly cretin.
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they look like they came out of the same finishing schools for bureaucratic
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It's hard to imagine what the national security claim would be.
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these are purportedly record documents that would have a creation date of at
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you're right at the very end of the president's term.
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that's the most aggressive position you could take.
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So whatever information there was is now actually quite dated.
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certainly the Biden administration and their national security strategy,
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if they have one is radically different from the,
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the whole world has changed and we're two years down the road.
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So how in the world can any record or document that president Trump might
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that would mandate any kind of law enforcement action,
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it's very tough to conjure up any sort of excuse.
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one speculation that does resonate with me is that for whatever reason,
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the FBI and the justice department and the Biden white house,
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there might be documents relating to spy gate and the culpability of this
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And they wanted those documents that would add to the urgency.
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very clearly judicial watches sued the department of justice for the Russia
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hoax records that were declassified and ordered released by president
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This actually looks to me like it could be connected to your lawsuit against
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It could be because we know that the president ordered the declassification
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the national archives either didn't cooperate or only partially
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the subject records that you just described are something that they are
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or somehow try to reel them back in under their control,
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despite the president's order that they'd be declassified and released.
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the day before the president of course was leaving office,
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he of course is the ultimate authority on declassification.
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not to respond and carry out his lawful presidential order.
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And not until this raid and your lawsuit has this been on the front pages,
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you'll remember that the FBI went over and threatened,
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how he wanted to release what his findings were based on reviewing
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He was head of the intelligence and that went over to the white house and
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Democrats were making up this long twisted tale of Russia,
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there's still the documents that are retained within the,
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but we know that this was a twisted and torturous,
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conspiracy on the part of the intelligence community,
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I don't know if it'll be a constitutional crisis,
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And we as citizens have got to engage and make sure that we,
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the outcome because nothing less than the future of the country is at stake.
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when people go in and go to a cast their ballot this coming November,
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this event should be at the very forefront of their mind and should be the
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tipping point for deciding which way they're going to vote.
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if you care about this Republican law and order,
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in this election on November 8th and bring this,
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and that's why it's so important to have new leadership.
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you're going to keep getting what you're getting.
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and what we've gotten so far is a lot of lip service and double talk and
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people that never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity and,
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posturing and gesturing and then running off to the country club for a
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extended stay in his Delaware home after recovering from COVID,
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President Biden has taken a family vacation of,
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leaving poor Merrick Garland alone in Washington,
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but all of the explanations the FBI offers are lies.
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I can't think of a time when they have said anything that made any sense or held up over the course of time as truth.
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they're remarkably arrogant in their stonewalling.
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they will look straight into the camera and tell you to drop dead.
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the January 6th violence with undercover operatives and,
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confidential human sources and what they were doing,
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whether they were actively planning to create the unrest.
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they are looking you straight in the eye and telling you to drop dead.
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she is not responsive and that committee doesn't make any part of the deep
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the administrative state have to be responsive.
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it's Mary way doing exactly what the Marxist Dems tell them.
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that's why judicial watch goes into the Southern district of Florida and
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we'll get some kind of accountability for the American people.
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and everything that judicial watch does for this country.
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give you the last word as we do all our guests.
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And I'll just take a second here in order to get a warrant to go to a
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a special agent and normally a supervisory special agent of the FBI has to
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and why describing why there's a compelling and urgent need under,
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their right to own land and be secure in their homes.
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we're going to smash the fourth amendment and we're going to do it knowingly,
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but we're doing it with the approval of the court.
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That affidavit then goes forward with a sort of a letter on top,
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what they're asking for and pointing at the affidavit saying,
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the evidence could disappear that that's the foundation for this kind of
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And so that's brought before a judge in this case,
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a magistrate judge who reviews all the information.
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And once he's convinced that it's absolutely urgent,
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the FBI is off to the races and they can do pretty much anything they damn
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So when they go into a building like that at Mar-a-Lago,
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they're supposed to look for what's in the warrant,
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they're vacuuming up every single thing they can put their hands on.
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And that's really the other sort of violation of this thing is I can
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virtually guarantee you that their activities exceeded the scope of the
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And they were looking for every piece of paper,
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And they grabbed it and scooped it up and took off with it.
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although that number that we've heard various claims,
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and letters taken from the Trump residents in a,
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but we also know how lightly they take their obligations under law,
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let's start with four FISA warrants that were fraudulent.
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Let's talk about two 302 documents by the FBI that were fraudulent.
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And so my explanation was sort of the by the book,
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what goes on is the FBI will say and do virtually anything at once to get
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If you're in their crosshairs and they're after you,
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there's no length to which they will not go to twist and distort and double
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and manufacture any document they need or want in order to,
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they forum shop just like a lot of attorneys do.
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a reliable person who just happens to be on duty and is,
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can be relied upon to fully support them without asking too many questions.
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the U S attorney's office in Florida and switch jobs.
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the justice department and straight into the Epstein manner to,
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it's quite a breathtaking little extravaganza that I,
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we're going to learn a lot of more about in the days,
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let's close out as we always do with the concluding thoughts of our
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we appreciate you being here and the time is yours.
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I just want folks who are interested in what we've been talking about to
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And you can see all the stuff we've been talking about.
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You can see both written and video clips of myself and my,
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You can see our other work on a host of other ponies up,
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You can go and read about the 411 flights that,
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that the president's son Hunter Biden made with his father,
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they went to 26 different countries and visited China five times.
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That's just in the first five and a half years of the,
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And thank you for the chance to be on and to talk about this,
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thank you for all that you and judicial watch do.
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and this nation never needed him more than now.
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Please join us here tomorrow for president Trump.