WE HAVE A FULLY WEAPONIZED DOJ WORKING FOR JOE BIDEN AND THE MARXIST DEMS SHAMELESSLY & VENGEFULLY GOING AFTER TRUMP & HIS SUPPORTERS
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Julie Kelly joins Lou Dobbs on the Great America Show to discuss her new book, January 6th: How Democrats Use the Capitol Protest to Launch a War on Terror, and her reporting on the ongoing corruption and collusion between the Democratic Party and Big Tech.
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Hello, everybody. I'm Lou Dobbs, and welcome to The Great America Show. Thank you for being with us.
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About those existential elections. No, I promise you I won't be boring you with numbers or
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laments about Paradise Lost or Great Expectations Dash today. My wife this morning said she couldn't
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think of a time when winning the House of Representatives felt more like a defeat,
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or holding the Dems to basically a tie in the Senate felt more like a win. Mostly, I think
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we've all been whipsawed by the non-stop corporate media and Marxist Dems psyops run every day up to
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the midterm elections. But we all survived, didn't we? We didn't succeed, but we may well have gotten
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more than we really deserved with the GOP winning the majority in Congress. Don't you think?
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These are troubling times, no matter how you look at it. Troubling times of immense proportions,
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aren't they? In large measure, I think, the Marxist Dems have the American people under some sort of
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a psychological spell, as they've weaponized the parts of government we once knew to be there to
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protect citizens, to assure law and order, and even justice. Instead, they've not only weaponized our
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FBI, our Department of Justice, and many of our courts against us, they've worked hard to normalize
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their anti-American programs and policies to render us accepting of a wide-open border, to the targeting
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of citizens who insist on their parental rights and the well-being of their children in our public
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schools, and, of course, the denial of our constitutional rights, the deprivation of those
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same rights to our fellow citizens, including the January 6th demonstrators and protesters who've been
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caught up in the Marxist left's exploitation of that day for their ideological purposes and election
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advantages. And their programs, their disaffection programs, have worked, and worked well. Almost a
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thousand of our citizens are in political prisons, wasting in various jails and prisons in the D.C.
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area. And some have been held without charge, without trial, for now almost two years. And nothing
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is done. Nothing is being done. Nothing seems like it can be done. And this hopeless national disgrace
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is perpetrated by the Marxist Dems with the passive indifference of the GOP. It is a national tragedy,
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borne by individuals who might as well be victims of a faraway totalitarian third-world government.
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No one ever dreamed this could happen in America. And no one has covered their plight better than our
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guest today, Julie Kelly. She's a terrific journalist. You can read her work on americangreatness.com.
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And her book is January 6th, How Democrats Use the Capitol Protest to Launch a War on Terror
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Against the Political Right. Julie Kelly is doing great work as well in covering the constant,
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insistent corruption of the FBI and Department of Justice. Great to have you with us, Julie. And tell
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us, first of all, bring us up to date on the lawsuit you're reporting on on the corruption and collusion
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between the Biden regime and big tech. So, Lou, there is a fascinating lawsuit right now happening in
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Louisiana. And that is the attorneys general from Missouri and Louisiana filed a civil suit against
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more than five dozen government officials to expose their deep collusion with big tech to censor and
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suppress posts on social media that were contradictory to the official narrative, especially related to
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COVID and vaccines. Also, the Hunter Biden laptop suppression and a number of issues. So, there's a
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judge down in Louisiana, Judge Terry Doty, and he's overseeing this lawsuit. And in October, he ordered
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the deposition of eight government officials, including Anthony Fauci and former press secretary,
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Jen Psaki. Well, they've been fighting these depositions. Jen Psaki filed a separate motion in a different
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court seeking to quash the subpoena for her deposition. They kicked it back to this judge.
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And on Monday afternoon, the judge denied her motion to quash the subpoena, said she attempted an end
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around around the court's order, which, of course, she did. Mocked her for saying basically she is too busy
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to offer a court-ordered deposition for her role in the government. And she will have to sit for a
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videotaped deposition on December 8th, which her attorneys also want to be kept under protective
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seal. It's, well, that's a nice positive step. And I don't know if I expected it or if I was just
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hoping so much that it would occur. But this is an important lawsuit and has the potential to really be
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It really does, Lou. And it's kind of flying under the radar.
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But it's it's moving pretty quickly. And again, these are five dozen, nearly six dozen government officials,
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the U.S. Surgeon General, of course, Joe Biden himself and Alejandro Mayorkas,
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Jen Psaki, Anthony Fauci, several top level officials in the Biden administration,
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because they want to expose, right, how the government and these agencies are working with
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most powerful information platforms in the world to ban content that the government does not want
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people to see. Well, that's in direct violation, of course, to the First Amendment, which is the
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argument in this lawsuit. I suspect, Lou, we will learn a lot more from this lawsuit than we will from
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any kind of dragged out congressional investigations that the Republicans are now promising.
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This has been a subject, an issue that is the relationship between government and big tech and
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social media in suppressing the public's right to know. That's been sort of been unfolding in sort of
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peculiar ways. We, you know, we find out that the FBI actually had face to face contact,
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with social media. We found out that top officials through the whistleblowers have been working
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with a number of companies and other entities to suppress stories in national media. It's really
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starting to come together in all places. This lawsuit by, I think it's what, 20 attorneys general,
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led by Jeff Landry and Eric Schmidt from Missouri. I mean, that's not exactly the place you would have
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expected this all to originate, is it? It's not. But you know what, Lou? It shows the power that
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Republican attorney generals have and that they need to use because we now have a fully weaponized
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Department of Justice working on behalf of Joe Biden and the Democrats, shamelessly, recklessly,
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vengefully, vengefully going after Trump and his supporters. So the only recourse is what could
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happen in the states. And I mean, I think this is a very powerful lawsuit. I really applaud Eric Schmidt
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and Jeff Landry for filing this. And to your point, Lou, they are also going to depose a man named Elvis
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Chan. He's an FBI agent who works out of the San Francisco FBI field office. He is one of the direct
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conduits between the FBI and big tech because, of course, the San Francisco field office is in the
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heart of Silicon Valley. Now, of course, the FBI is not investigating any of the 300 plus big tech
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companies in that jurisdiction, right, for violating First Amendment, deplatforming people, violating
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certain federal laws like election interference. No. Elvis Chan is a conduit to give the FBI and DOJs
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marching orders to big tech what they're supposed to suppress and ban and what they're supposed to
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amplify. His deposition will be as interesting, I think, as Jen Psaki's or anyone else's.
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You know, and the way you just put it, I think, is is not the way many people think about this
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this issue of the FBI and the Department of Justice pushing out against particular stories or
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information or Russian disinformation as they styled it in the case of the 51 signatories from the veterans
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of our intelligence agencies in 2020. It is actually handing them a list of what to do and what not to
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do. This is picking winners and losers in the in the most in the rawest way. And to have it at this
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level, we've known about it, I guess we've known about it really since 2016, 2017. Those of us who
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are covering it every day, we've known that they were active in this in this fashion. But to see it
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still in in effect persisting through today, after all we've been through the election of 2020, now the
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election of 2022. And on it goes, it is just, it is so broad. It is so deep, this this corruption,
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political corruption, and this denial of the public's right to know. It's just it's shameless,
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it's disgusting, it's appalling. And it's so large, that it's almost impossible to get to get your head
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around. And what's it going to take to bring all of this under control and to rid the federal
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government of this kind of political corruption? I mean, I think this lawsuit will go a long way.
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I think some of the revelations, Lou, that are coming out of the January 6 trials, which is the
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extensive use of informants run into the key militia groups, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers now
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months before January 6, not only sort of confirms what people like me and Darren Beatty have been
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covering, which is the very, the likelihood that the FBI not only participated in January 6, but really
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helped organize and provoke the events of that day. It's sort of supporting that. But on the flip side,
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Lou, you have even people at the left, the New York Times who confirmed the existence of eight
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informants and the Proud Boys before January 6. What they're asking, Lou, is wait a second,
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Christopher Wray and the FBI and the Democrats and even the January 6 committee have made it sound
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like everyone was caught off guard, that this was, you know, behind the scenes maneuvering incitement
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by Donald Trump. Then his speech kind of lit the flame that day. But that's not what Christopher Wray
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and they have been, they've never admitted that they had numerous government assets working in these
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groups and who knows where else. So the idea that they didn't have knowledge now completely contradicts
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the fact that they had informants, confidential human sources in these groups. Were they collecting
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information and not passing it to the FBI? Did they collect information and they didn't expect anything
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to happen that day? Or does this look more like the quote unquote plot to abduct and assassinate
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Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, which is where dozens of FBI supervising agents, undercover agents and
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informants working out of multiple field offices, stitch this group together, provoked organized meetings,
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you know, created encrypted chats to sort of promote this overheated rhetoric that was used as evidence.
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But to make it look like these white supremacist militiamen loyal to Donald Trump were going to try to
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kidnap Gretchen Whitmer. It was all an FBI fabrication. So did they put that on steroids for January 6,
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which has been, of course, my suspicion and Darren Beatty's suspicion and a few other people's,
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you know, from the beginning? Or did they just use really bad informants who didn't pass this along
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to their handling agents who then didn't pass it on to top law enforcement? Lots of questions now being
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asked on both sides. It's a bad prosecution. It's a horrible investigation. And it looks like it was an
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instigation as well as an investigation on the part of the FBI. Your thoughts about it all?
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Well, look, there is nothing in my view that is more illustrative of the willingness and capability
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of the FBI to use whatever powers it has to create political narratives to help Democrats sabotage
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Donald Trump and promote FBI Director Christopher Wray's absurd, phony claim that domestic violent
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extremists pose a dangerous threat to the country. Now, two men were convicted. This was in a retrial.
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They got a hung jury in the April trial where two other men were outright acquitted after their
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defense attorneys argued this was an FBI entrapment scheme. The other two men got a hung jury. The
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government went back, retried them in August, thanks to a lot of help by the judge in the second trial
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who did outrageous things helping DOJ promote their case, where those men found guilty. Their attorneys
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are going to immediately appeal after these men are sentenced at the end of December. That's the
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process, I guess. But this case is far from over. And so the idea that, oh, there were convictions. Well,
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I followed both trials every single day. I know exactly what the judge did. There's also accusations of
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juror misconduct in the second trial. So this thing is far from over. And I think it's important,
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right, Lou, to appreciate. These two things are happening at the same time. The very same time the
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FBI is running the Whitmer Fednapping hoax. They are running informants into Oath Keepers and Proud Boys,
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the two similar militia groups that aren't militias, but whatever, tied to January 6. So there's no way to
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look at the Whitmer Fednapping and say, oh, but it was different in January 6. They were really just
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being used to collect intelligence, see what these guys were up to, yada, yada. No, this was all part
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of the same operation. And here's the kicker, Lou. The direct, the head of the Michigan FBI field
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office, Stephen D'Antuano, he was the guy responsible for the main handling agents and the main informants
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and undercover agents. He was promoted in the middle of October 2020 by Christopher Wray to go
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where? The Washington, D.C. FBI field office. So he took one operation, took it to another operation
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in D.C. before January 6 and on January 6. He's also the guy who told us the pipe bombs were legit
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and he was going to investigate the pipe bombers until he found it. And here we are almost two years
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later. No pipe bomber, no report, no interest. It's been totally a memory hold. You can't disconnect
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all of these similarities and coincidences, right? Yep. And there's another coincidence because the
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Mar-a-Lago raid came out of the Washington field office, the D.C. field office, which is where,
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as you say, he had been ensconced as a promotion from his evil doings in Michigan, right?
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That's right. And that is why Stephen D'Antuano's name has appeared on a list sent by House Judiciary
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Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee last week, notifying Merrick Garland and Christopher Wray
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of FBI officials they want to interview. Now, Stephen D'Antuano, I've been told by sources,
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has announced his retirement as of the end of this month. So he is going to try to skate out of town
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unscathed by House Republicans who I sincerely doubt or hope, at least, that they are not going
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to let him off the hook because he, more so than anyone, Lou, has questions to answer for both of
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these, January 6th and the Whitmer Fed napping. Absolutely. And all of his superiors as well.
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You know, there is an interesting little, what would I call it, an artifice here, that if an FBI agent
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retires in time, he doesn't have to be brought before or can decline coming before Congress. It's
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sort of a retirement into congressional immunity. That is a bizarre kind of rule to me. What do you
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think? Well, it is. And I think that's why I think Tim Tebow, he resigned or was fired. We don't really
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have a clear story on that. He's another agent out of this just rotted to the core Washington, D.C.
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FBI field office. And he was the one who helped try to bury the Hunter Biden story, calling it
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misinformation and burying it somewhere so it could not be sort of reinstated into some sort of
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investigation. So look, the source of the rot of both the FBI and Department of Justice are in D.C.,
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not necessarily the headquarters, the Washington field office and the U.S. attorney for Washington
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for the District of Columbia, Matthew Graves. These are the agents. Those offices need to be shut down.
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They need to completely be defunded by House Republicans. Why would you fund these powerful
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offices that are doing nothing but targeting your own members, the leader of the party, Donald Trump,
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and his voters and supporters across the country for four hour disturbance on January 6th? It's just
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insanity. So but look, that's where the problems I if Stephen D'Antuano tries to avoid congressional
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inquiries. I really hope Republicans use whatever powers they have to hold him accountable and
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culpable. And in public, we need hearings so the American people can see and hear for themselves
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how these people handle inquisitions into their work on behalf of the American people.
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Well, I think you're exactly right. And we're so close here. But we've been close before and nothing
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has come of it. And I see Christopher Wray stand up and say, you know, we have discovered that the
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Chinese, the communist Chinese have police stations in America. And this is troubling. This is concerning,
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says Christopher Wray. Well, only a damn fool would be unaware that those police stations have been
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here for years. And if the FBI doesn't hadn't known about them for years, we really need to have a house
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cleaning. It's preposterous, this political theater that emanates from the FBI and its director
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shamelessly. What does he expect to happen now? And why? Why on earth is he sitting here talking
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about his concerns? When is the head of the FBI? He's paid to shut this kind of crap down.
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It's interesting to watch Christopher Wray in action because he he distances himself from anything
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that's happening in the FBI, except when he needs to defend the 36,000 men and women.
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They're above reproach. You should not question our integrity, our motives, etc., etc. He might be
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right about some of them. But look, that sort of arrogance, lack of accountability, and really
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flagrant abuse of power has infected this entire bureau. It is not just a headquarters problem. And
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Stephen D'Antuano is an example and his agents are an example of that. This infects every single office
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unfortunately, that kind of hubris, which goes back to James Comey as well. But look, Lou, we've seen
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Chris Wray finally on the hot seat a little bit. When Representative Clay Higgins confronted him not
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once but twice last week, during House Home and Security Committee meeting, asking Chris Wray directly,
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did you have FBI informants dressed like Trump supporters planted inside the Capitol building
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before protesters entered the building? Yes or no? Chris Wray couldn't answer yes or no. That was an
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astonishing moment, even for me, because it suggests two things. Representative Higgins has seen video
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that shows FBI assets disguised as Trump supporters in the Capitol that afternoon. Otherwise, I doubt he'd
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be asking that question. You could see by the reaction of Chris Wray. He was really caught off guard at that
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question and actually got really agitated when Higgins said to him, it should be a no. You don't have to
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hide between sources and methods and investigations, etc. You say no. Of course, that's preposterous. But he
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didn't because he knows that Representative Higgins knows that that is the fact. You also saw
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Senator Josh Hawley a few days later confront Wray about skating out of the Senate Judiciary Committee
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hearing a few months ago, claiming he had a business trip when he was taking a Gulfstream 5 taxpayer
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funded private jet to meet his family for a summer weekend, I believe, in upstate New York.
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I hope that Christopher Wray doesn't retire real quickly, because I still think there are a lot
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of questions he needs to answer and a lot he needs to be held responsible for. But amongst those things
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is again, and Julie, I tell you what, I get gut sick every time I think about January 6 and those people
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who are still behind bars. We report, we talk, we talk with people who talk about and some who talk
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about and try to help these folks. But nothing moves, nothing moves these pitiful excuses for Americans who are
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peopling our courts, our Justice Department prosecutors, and FBI investigators. It's a sickening,
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sickening moment. And I have never felt so helpless as I have. And I mean, helpless to do anything about
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January 6 and those people. Well, I appreciate your saying that. And I know that people listening,
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especially the people whose lives have been and are being destroyed by this, just you can't believe
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so un-American, so abusive. The word I often use is sadistic, because there's something really wrong
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with these judges, with these prosecutors, and with these agents. Not only are they total liars,
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they are gratified by the pain that they are inflicting on Americans who did nothing wrong that
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day, who have no criminal record, who are patriotic people who love this country, not the handful who
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engaged in violence, but people who walked into open doors. You had a man now sentenced to three years
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in prison after he was found guilty for obstruction of an official proceeding, of course, a ridiculous
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non-violent felony. And I think he took a bottle of booze from someone's desk. And Emmett Sullivan,
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that crazy, that Emmett Sullivan, who should have retired or been impeached, at least, he blasted this guy.
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He accused him of contributing to the deaths of police officers that day, which, of course,
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no police officer died as a result of January 6th. He compared Donald Trump to Hitler. He compared his
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followers to Nazis. These are the sorts of things that are happening in open court in our nation's
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capital. It's just astonishing. But look, Lou, the bottom line is it's too late to help these people.
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The time to have helped them was right when this began, putting money and lawyers on the ground to
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defend them, to challenge Matthew Graves and the U.S. Attorney for District of Columbia and this DOJ.
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It's far too late. The only way we can help them is to redeem them to find the truth of January 6th and
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hold the real criminals, the real perpetrators accountable, even if not criminally, at least
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publicly so that people can hear what this government did to foment the events of that day to end up
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where we are now, which is, you know, criminal indictment of Donald Trump in the works, criminal
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prosecutions of his allies, his associates, and of course, his voters.
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Well, the election is over. I think that there is an opportunity here to help, and that is
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those who are in leadership of the Republican Party on Capitol Hill and nationally should take up this
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issue. Those people are all Trump supporters. They need to be helped. Donald Trump needs to stand up
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and demand help. And I think one of the surest ways to have some influence, and this is just a thought,
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I want to see what you think of it. I would like to see, because ultimately, Chief Justice John
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Roberts is responsible for the courts. And I agree for the implication of what you said, if not
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what you said directly. These judges have the power to stop all of this now, and they refuse to do it.
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Indeed, they seem to rise to it, to absolutely embrace the idea of punishment for the so-called
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insurrectionists, which is a pathetic piece of propaganda emanating from the Marxist-left Democratic
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Party. But what do you think of the idea of putting the focus on John Roberts, because he does have
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the responsibility and the power to intervene and do something about it with these sadistic judges?
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I think you're exactly right to call it what it is. They're sadistic and they're vicious.
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I mean, I don't have a lot of faith that John Roberts would do anything. I mean, he lives in
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the same, you know, they run in the same circles in Washington, D.C. and in the suburbs in Virginia
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and Maryland. They're all in the same little group together. This D.C. district court has done nothing
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but act like a rubber stamp for this Justice Department. And I'll tell you what, the Trump-appointed
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judges are as bad, and I know we've talked about this, they're as bad as people like Emmett
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Sullivan or the Democrats. Judge Tim Kelly, a Trump appointee who is a former prosecutor
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in the U.S. Attorney's District of Columbia office. I just watched a pretrial hearing for him
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for the Proud Boys. That trial starts next month. Judge Tim Kelly has kept four men behind bars since
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the spring. In fact, one, I believe Joe Biggs has been there since January 2021, right when he was
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arrested. They will have been incarcerated for almost two years on nonviolent offenses before they even have
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a chance to go to trial. And I watch him and his smugness. And there's not even a flicker of
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conscience in that man looking at the men at the table who I saw who had been behind bars away from
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their families suffering in solitary confinement conditions. Veterans. Joe Biggs is a veteran.
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He's been in jail now for almost two years away from his young daughter, his life destroyed.
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And Judge Kelly doesn't even care. Prosecutors don't even care. These men did nothing wrong.
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They didn't bring weapons. They didn't assault police officers. And here they are rotting in jail
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before they go before a D.C. jury that sadly, because DOJ has a 99.9 percent record, victory record
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before D.C. juries in J6 cases. Sadly, go before a D.C. jury where they probably will be convicted.
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And these same judges, they have not moved a single trial out of Washington, D.C., a city that voted 93 percent
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for Joe Biden. Yeah. And just for those who think the name Emmett Sullivan sounds familiar, he is also
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the district court judge in D.C. who decided to act as prosecutor as well as judge in the General Michael
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Flynn case in which the Department of Justice and the Attorney General had ordered
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the suspension of the prosecution against General Kelly. And he decided, and everybody I talked to
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had never heard of a federal judge doing this, decided to intercede himself and make the decision
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and fight the Justice Department on its request to the judge, very respectful, General Michael Flynn,
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to end his prosecution and free him. And he started fighting it from the bench. The appellate court,
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to its credit, made it known that they were not pleased with his position. He still persisted,
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but then ultimately gave way to the appellate court. It's remarkable. The man is completely mad as far
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as I'm concerned. But a lot of them are like that, unfortunately. He is, you know, this is what
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I've seen from almost every single one of these D.C. district court judges. Look, Lou, it's also time
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to impeach a federal judge. I think the last time a federal judge was impeached was maybe two decades
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ago. House Republicans are really serious, and this is a deadly serious time. At least one of these
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judges, whether it's Emmett Sullivan, whether it's Beryl Howell, who is the chief judge who is overseeing
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this farce in that courthouse, whether it's a judge like Tim Kelly, who is clearly violating
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numerous constitutional rights of these defendants. I've got a long list. I've got a long list of their
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comments about a long list of their rulings, not just denying, you know, speedy trial, due process,
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presumption of innocence, but refusing to move these trials out of Washington, D.C., when it is
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so obvious these men and women cannot get a fair trial. Emmett Sullivan, I should point out, I'm
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pretty sure of this. I think he is a senior judge or effectively a retired judge who is brought in to
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pick up. You know, there's the other sad part of this. The federal court system is such a morass of
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backed up cases. It's just a sludge to get through the federal court system. They don't have enough
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judges, and their senior judges seem to be getting more and more of the important mainstream cases
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just because of that alone. His senior status, he should be retired and forthwith, I think.
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Oh, I agree. I mean, I think a lot of them, you have judges like Tom Hogan, 83 years old,
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appointed by Ronald Reagan. He's still on that court. Royce Lamberth, also appointed by Ronald Reagan.
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He's still on that court. They have been also egregious in their handling of January 6 cases.
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They have open contempt for these Trump supporters. They also have kept men detained behind bars,
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denying the bail. Royce Lamberth was the judge in the Jacob Chansley case, kept him in jail.
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After 317 days in solitary confinement, DOJ tortured him into a plea deal. He pleaded guilty to
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the obstruction of an official proceeding count, again, a non-violent felony related to the post-Enron
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era. Jacob Chansley begged for mercy. Royce Lamberth sentenced him to 41 months in prison.
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A veteran, again, with no criminal record, rotting in jail for walking into a public building,
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talking with police, going into the Senate chamber, leading a prayer, and leaving.
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Yeah, you know, and, you know, I think every veterans group in the country should be marching
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on Washington to stop this. They haven't said a word. They have not said a word. Nope, they haven't
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said a word, as have so few. And those of us who have said a word feel all the worse because we can't
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do anything. It's, there's got to be a solution here, but it's one that certainly I haven't found.
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And without your reporting, we would know almost nothing about what is happening.
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Julie, as always, thank you for being here. Thanks for all your reporting, all that you're doing to
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chronicle this national disgrace, because it is that. It is just, it's just incredible to think
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that this is happening in the United States of America. Julie Kelly, thank you so much for being with
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us again here on The Great America Show. God bless you. God bless you, Lou. Thanks so much for
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having me on and covering my work. I really appreciate it. Thanks to Julie Kelly, and I want
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to urge you to pick up her book, January 6th, Essential to Understanding What the Left is Doing
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in D.C. and Doing to All of Us. The book is January 6th, How Democrats Use the Capitol Protest
00:34:37.660
to Launch a War on Terror Against the Political Right. Thank you, and thank you, everybody,
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for being with us today. Please join us here tomorrow when our guest will be Congressman Andy
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Biggs, running for Speaker of the House, fighting the rhino Ryan handpick Kevin McCarthy for the top
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job. By the way, just wondering, why do Republicans get elected by their voters and then turn over their
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leadership once they get to Washington to the rhinos? Perhaps that's part of the reason the Republican
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Party is a bit of a mess, don't you think? Please join us here tomorrow. Till then, God bless you,