The Megyn Kelly Show - December 04, 2025


BREAKING: Alleged January 6 Pipe Bomber Arrested, and Trump on "Garbage" Somalia, with Michael Knowles and Julie Kelly | Ep. 1206


Episode Stats

Length

2 hours and 6 minutes

Words per Minute

175.06868

Word Count

22,199

Sentence Count

686

Misogynist Sentences

50

Hate Speech Sentences

76


Summary

Brian Cole of Virginia is now in custody for allegedly planting the pipe bombs outside of both the Democratic National Committee headquarters and the Republican National Committee HQ in Washington, D.C. on January 5th, 2021. The FBI previously said the suspect wore a face mask, gray hooded sweatshirt, and black gloves. They used a backpack to transport each of the devices.


Transcript

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00:01:01.260 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show,
00:01:03.140 live on Sirius XM Channel 111, every weekday at New East.
00:01:12.960 Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly.
00:01:14.660 Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show.
00:01:16.100 There is breaking news right now on a big story
00:01:19.400 we just discussed on this program yesterday.
00:01:22.080 A major arrest.
00:01:24.600 Brian Cole of Virginia is now reportedly in custody
00:01:28.240 for allegedly planting the pipe bombs
00:01:31.220 outside of both the Democratic National Committee headquarters
00:01:34.660 and the Republican National Committee headquarters
00:01:37.520 in Washington, D.C.
00:01:39.260 on the night of January 5th, 2021.
00:01:42.760 Law enforcement activity was seen
00:01:44.400 at what is believed to be his home this morning.
00:01:46.780 We are showing video here on our screen from Fox News,
00:01:51.380 which just says law enforcement and police tape
00:01:53.500 outside of this home.
00:01:55.700 The arrest comes nearly five years after the incident
00:02:00.200 in a high-profile case
00:02:02.340 that has befuddled law enforcement for years,
00:02:06.260 but we don't understand why.
00:02:09.340 We've never understood why this case
00:02:12.660 was so seemingly impossible to crack.
00:02:16.000 It's unclear what exact charges this Brian Cole faces.
00:02:19.900 We're expecting an FBI press conference
00:02:22.560 later this afternoon.
00:02:23.700 We are told it could happen within the hour.
00:02:26.000 We are monitoring it and we'll bring it to you
00:02:27.920 if and when it happens.
00:02:29.560 Here, in the meantime,
00:02:30.680 is the FBI previously explaining
00:02:32.840 what happened when those bombs were placed that night.
00:02:36.040 The suspect's height is approximately 5 foot 7 inches tall.
00:02:41.840 The suspect wore a face mask,
00:02:43.780 a gray hooded sweatshirt,
00:02:45.500 and black gloves.
00:02:46.940 They used a backpack to transport each of the devices.
00:02:50.620 They were wearing distinctive
00:02:51.860 Nike Air Max Speed Turf shoes,
00:02:54.640 which are black and gray with the yellow Nike logo.
00:02:57.980 Fewer than 25,000 of these shoes were sold
00:03:00.680 between August 2018 and January 2021.
00:03:03.760 The first time the suspect is seen
00:03:06.760 is at approximately 7.34 p.m.
00:03:09.620 at the intersection of First Street
00:03:11.360 and North Carolina Avenue Southeast.
00:03:13.860 This footage shows the suspect
00:03:15.520 sitting on the DNC bench
00:03:17.440 before placing the first bomb.
00:03:21.800 Here we see the suspect place the bomb
00:03:23.960 at approximately 7.54 p.m.
00:03:26.340 They place the second pipe bomb
00:03:36.880 at approximately 8.16 p.m.
00:03:41.300 The suspect then turns back onto Rumsey Court,
00:03:44.700 walking east until the person is last seen on camera
00:03:47.740 at approximately 8.18 p.m.,
00:03:50.580 wearing the backpack on their shoulders.
00:03:52.380 The bomb is believed to have been placed
00:03:55.060 shortly before this video,
00:03:56.780 based on how the suspect is carrying the backpack.
00:04:00.800 Hmm.
00:04:02.020 According to the New York Times,
00:04:03.680 the break in the case was not thanks to a new tip
00:04:07.240 or any additional information.
00:04:09.980 I mean, that's remarkable.
00:04:11.300 What they're reporting is that
00:04:12.800 they discovered a new lead within the FBI
00:04:16.260 after reviewing previously compiled investigative files
00:04:20.680 as the new leadership team there,
00:04:23.240 FBI Director Cash Patel
00:04:24.360 and Deputy Director Dan Bongino,
00:04:26.100 have made solving this case a priority.
00:04:28.400 Dan Bongino, when he was a podcast host,
00:04:30.840 had said for a long, long time
00:04:32.960 that he believed this case was solvable.
00:04:36.020 He also theorized that it might be an inside job
00:04:38.480 by law enforcement,
00:04:40.000 but he'd long been saying this is solvable
00:04:42.280 and had been asking questions
00:04:43.720 about why it hadn't been solved.
00:04:45.420 And now here they are six months in power
00:04:47.960 and appearing to have solved it.
00:04:51.940 This is, let's see,
00:04:53.560 from the Washington Post this morning.
00:04:55.940 They give some background,
00:04:57.880 saying more about how
00:04:59.500 this is not based on a new breakthrough,
00:05:02.220 but that they've been,
00:05:04.220 the FBI sources have been going through
00:05:05.860 the voluminous trove of material
00:05:09.140 largely collected in 2021 and 2022.
00:05:12.640 They write,
00:05:13.060 the suspect's arrest is expected
00:05:14.380 to cause significant embarrassment
00:05:15.680 for the Bureau
00:05:16.380 and the enormous team it assigned
00:05:18.480 to the pipe bomb investigation,
00:05:20.360 the two sources said,
00:05:21.240 not meaning Cash and Dan's team,
00:05:23.200 meaning the team that was there
00:05:24.700 under previous leadership,
00:05:28.040 saying the suspect could have been arrested years ago
00:05:30.240 if investigators had earlier connected the dots
00:05:32.600 they already had in hand.
00:05:34.380 This is the Washington Post writing,
00:05:37.060 this development could also be seen
00:05:39.420 as vindication of Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino,
00:05:42.740 who has long focused on the pipe bomb case
00:05:44.400 and has urged the Bureau
00:05:47.100 to redouble its efforts to solve it
00:05:48.780 when he took efforts.
00:05:49.720 Wow, that must have been hard for you
00:05:52.060 to write, Carol Lenning.
00:05:54.880 Let's see.
00:05:56.880 The timing of the arrest
00:05:57.940 comes as Cash Patel's under fire.
00:05:59.700 The suspect placed the pipe bombs
00:06:02.080 the night before January 6th.
00:06:04.620 They were discovered 15 hours later
00:06:06.420 on the day of January 6th.
00:06:09.320 This is one of the largest cases
00:06:11.200 in the Bureau's history.
00:06:13.160 The FBI subpoenaed box store retailers
00:06:16.420 for credit card transaction data
00:06:18.980 to obtain the identities of people
00:06:20.800 who bought the kind of battery connectors
00:06:22.800 they thought were used in the bombs.
00:06:24.080 They were actual bombs.
00:06:26.220 Agents then compared the list of purchasers
00:06:27.960 to the owners of phones
00:06:29.020 located near the DNC and RNC party headquarters
00:06:31.400 around the time of the explosives being planted.
00:06:33.700 They concluded there was no match.
00:06:35.960 They focused on the clothing of the bomber.
00:06:38.580 They believe they identified the shoe,
00:06:40.040 as you heard in that little soundbite we played.
00:06:42.740 Agents filed subpoenas for credit card receipts
00:06:44.520 from shoe sellers like Foot Locker and others,
00:06:47.220 obtaining a list of about 1,200 sneaker sales.
00:06:50.720 They then compared the credit cards used
00:06:52.700 to those used purchasing bomb components.
00:06:55.280 That's actually good police work
00:06:57.200 from the sound of it.
00:06:58.400 In January, the Bureau released new video
00:07:00.200 of the unidentified suspect.
00:07:02.880 And at that time,
00:07:04.360 they said they'd visited more than 1,200 residences
00:07:06.480 and businesses,
00:07:07.200 conducted more than 1,000 interviews,
00:07:09.180 reviewed approximately 39,000 video files,
00:07:11.600 and assessed more than 600 tips
00:07:13.540 about who may have placed the bombs.
00:07:16.920 Okay, and then they go on from there.
00:07:18.380 It's long been a target of scrutiny
00:07:20.460 by House Republicans
00:07:21.480 who accused the FBI and Justice Department
00:07:23.820 of failing to investigate it thoroughly.
00:07:26.100 Just to be clear,
00:07:29.060 I just want to...
00:07:32.260 Now, this is a post.
00:07:32.880 Does Carol Lenning still write for WAPO?
00:07:34.900 She's co-authoring this piece
00:07:36.100 with Ken Delaney and under MS Now.
00:07:38.220 So just to be clear,
00:07:39.660 she's with MS Now now.
00:07:40.880 Okay, but she was a long-time
00:07:41.940 Washington Post writer.
00:07:43.580 In any event,
00:07:44.380 so that was MS Now that I was quoting from,
00:07:45.960 not WAPO.
00:07:46.540 Forgive me for that.
00:07:47.960 But here's what's interesting
00:07:48.760 about this case, among other things.
00:07:50.000 Since the beginning,
00:07:51.920 the left has been trying to paint this
00:07:53.600 as a Trumper,
00:07:56.100 as a guy who is connected
00:07:57.220 with the J6 riots,
00:07:59.880 that the J6ers meant to sow chaos,
00:08:03.000 and that this was some sort of,
00:08:04.260 you know, Jimmy Kimmel style,
00:08:06.500 some MAGA guy
00:08:07.460 who wanted to unleash hell
00:08:10.340 on Washington, D.C.
00:08:11.880 when MAGA wasn't getting its way
00:08:13.720 on Trump winning.
00:08:15.660 You know, this is back in 2020.
00:08:17.600 And this is unconfirmed,
00:08:20.540 but it was reported by NBC today
00:08:22.440 that this guy may have had links,
00:08:24.680 this guy under arrest now,
00:08:26.000 this Brian Cox,
00:08:27.400 may have arrests.
00:08:29.600 Sorry, Brian Cole.
00:08:30.840 I said that this morning.
00:08:31.820 Brian Cox is the guest
00:08:32.640 we had on our show two days ago
00:08:34.440 talking about the military strike
00:08:36.960 down off our southern border.
00:08:39.280 I almost fell out of my chair
00:08:40.220 when I actually made that mistake
00:08:41.600 in my head.
00:08:42.200 Like, oh my God, what?
00:08:44.060 Sorry, it's not Brian Cox.
00:08:45.580 It's Brian Cole.
00:08:46.980 Who's under arrest?
00:08:48.540 Not related to our guest
00:08:49.540 the other day at all.
00:08:50.620 Apologies, Brian.
00:08:52.400 And unconfirmed,
00:08:54.580 we'll find out more,
00:08:55.360 but MSNBC or NBC
00:08:57.380 actually reporting today
00:08:58.480 that there is a suspected link
00:09:00.520 between this guy and Antifa.
00:09:03.720 Now that would be very interesting.
00:09:05.800 Hold your fire on that
00:09:06.920 because that's only one outlet
00:09:08.220 and we expect to hear directly
00:09:09.900 from the FBI shortly
00:09:10.920 on whether or not that's true.
00:09:13.320 In the meantime,
00:09:14.100 we've got Michael Knowles standing by.
00:09:15.540 He's host of the Michael Knowles show.
00:09:17.640 Michael, welcome back.
00:09:18.640 This is, I mean,
00:09:20.400 oh, wait, oh,
00:09:21.080 we're going to bring Michael in
00:09:21.820 in a second.
00:09:22.280 We were waiting on Julie Kelly
00:09:23.320 to see if she could join us.
00:09:24.800 She's been all over the J6 cases
00:09:26.460 and everything around this controversy,
00:09:29.080 including the pipe bomber,
00:09:29.880 and she managed to make time for us
00:09:31.360 on a busy morning for her.
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00:10:40.160 Julie, thanks for being here.
00:10:42.140 Your reaction to this breaking news?
00:10:44.440 I mean, it's a welcome development
00:10:46.380 in, I think,
00:10:47.720 arguably the greatest
00:10:49.020 unsolved mystery
00:10:50.080 of January 6th,
00:10:52.140 and that is
00:10:52.640 who planted these devices
00:10:54.200 apparently the night before,
00:10:55.940 and this is the hoodie individual
00:10:57.080 as you have covered
00:10:58.460 and showed the video.
00:11:00.120 This individual
00:11:01.020 wearing a hoodie,
00:11:01.940 carrying a backpack,
00:11:02.800 walking around Capitol Hill
00:11:04.000 between 730 and 830
00:11:05.760 on January 5th,
00:11:06.960 the night before,
00:11:08.400 and allegedly setting
00:11:09.280 these devices
00:11:10.180 outside the headquarters
00:11:11.300 of the RNC
00:11:12.540 and the DNC,
00:11:14.080 where they were discovered
00:11:15.720 within 20 minutes
00:11:17.200 of each other
00:11:17.900 after sitting there
00:11:19.220 for 17 hours
00:11:20.280 right as the joint session
00:11:22.880 of Congress
00:11:23.380 was set to begin
00:11:24.620 on January 6th.
00:11:26.320 So this apparently
00:11:27.580 is the individual
00:11:28.640 who's in the hoodie
00:11:29.500 who the FBI believes
00:11:31.720 set those devices.
00:11:33.320 That evening,
00:11:34.700 your reporting is correct.
00:11:36.320 The name appears
00:11:37.460 to be Brian Cole.
00:11:39.660 Some of the corporate news
00:11:40.680 outlets are reporting
00:11:41.720 via their sources
00:11:42.640 that this individual
00:11:43.600 was tied to Antifa,
00:11:45.040 which Megan explains
00:11:46.680 why the Chris Wray FBI,
00:11:48.580 Joe Biden DOJ,
00:11:50.060 Merrick Arlen DOJ
00:11:51.340 buried this
00:11:52.820 in the spring of 2021,
00:11:55.500 even though there was
00:11:56.360 a very intensive investigation
00:11:57.980 going on
00:11:58.940 into the pipe bombs
00:12:00.120 for the first few months
00:12:01.620 of 2021.
00:12:03.000 And if correct,
00:12:04.620 if this is accurate,
00:12:05.620 that this man is tied
00:12:06.540 to Antifa
00:12:07.100 or any of those organizations,
00:12:08.420 it explains why
00:12:09.640 this case went
00:12:10.360 completely cold
00:12:11.460 as of March of 2021
00:12:13.560 and really nothing else
00:12:15.620 done on a certain basis.
00:12:16.660 Explain that.
00:12:17.480 Explain why that would be.
00:12:20.080 Well, think of what was happening
00:12:21.400 in early 2021, Megan.
00:12:23.080 You know this.
00:12:24.080 The creation,
00:12:25.000 the development
00:12:25.520 of the January 6th
00:12:27.160 insurrection narrative
00:12:28.740 that this was a bunch
00:12:30.680 of MAGA terrorists
00:12:32.260 who stormed the Capitol
00:12:33.680 at the behest
00:12:35.600 of Donald Trump.
00:12:36.840 And all of the chaos
00:12:38.060 began when this first device
00:12:40.500 was detected,
00:12:41.960 discovered outside the RNC,
00:12:44.000 just a few blocks away
00:12:44.980 from the Capitol,
00:12:45.660 both of these buildings.
00:12:46.660 outside the RNC
00:12:48.400 at 1240,
00:12:49.920 redirecting resources,
00:12:51.540 prompting the evacuation
00:12:52.680 of nearby
00:12:53.340 congressional buildings.
00:12:55.200 And this started
00:12:55.800 the panic that day.
00:12:58.000 So the pipe bomb
00:12:59.020 was really the beginning
00:13:00.580 of the alleged insurrection.
00:13:03.260 Everyone was led
00:13:03.940 to believe early on
00:13:04.840 that this was a MAGA person.
00:13:06.800 And you had representatives
00:13:08.320 who were posting that
00:13:09.460 early on that day
00:13:10.980 as they were being evacuated.
00:13:12.280 I can't believe
00:13:12.960 we're being evacuated
00:13:13.900 from a pipe bomb
00:13:14.700 set by a Trump supporter.
00:13:16.540 So just imagine
00:13:17.960 if by April of 2021,
00:13:19.880 Chris Wray
00:13:20.520 and Merrick Garland,
00:13:22.920 as they were rounding up
00:13:23.840 J6ers,
00:13:24.640 had to announce
00:13:25.520 that this pipe bomber
00:13:27.020 was someone connected
00:13:28.320 to the left.
00:13:29.720 Furthermore,
00:13:30.660 it would have undermined
00:13:31.820 Chris Wray's own insistence
00:13:34.060 that Antifa was not involved
00:13:36.420 in the events
00:13:36.960 of January 6th.
00:13:37.760 He made that determination
00:13:39.000 early on
00:13:40.300 before he even could know
00:13:41.880 of the thousands of people
00:13:43.540 who were at the Capitol,
00:13:44.760 whether there were Antifa or not.
00:13:47.260 So this would have also
00:13:48.480 undermined his insistence
00:13:50.720 that Antifa was not involved
00:13:52.060 in January 6th.
00:13:53.720 As my friend Darren Beatty
00:13:55.140 always said,
00:13:56.080 the pipe bomb story unravels
00:13:57.920 all of January 6th unravels.
00:14:00.260 So this would explain
00:14:01.440 if reports are true,
00:14:03.580 why this was kept under wraps,
00:14:05.900 why the case went cold
00:14:07.160 for years
00:14:07.980 until Cash and Dan
00:14:10.340 got in there
00:14:10.920 earlier this year.
00:14:12.360 It's really amazing, Julie.
00:14:14.440 And just to underscore
00:14:15.060 for the listening audience,
00:14:16.720 we're awaiting a presser
00:14:17.800 from the FBI.
00:14:18.660 We do not yet know
00:14:19.480 whether there are ties
00:14:20.240 to Antifa.
00:14:21.140 That's one report
00:14:22.200 cited to NBC
00:14:23.280 and we have not matched
00:14:25.640 the reporting.
00:14:26.260 So when we do
00:14:27.260 or if we don't,
00:14:28.260 we'll report both
00:14:29.180 of those things to you.
00:14:30.100 We're based on
00:14:30.920 an NBC report right now
00:14:32.500 on the Antifa connection.
00:14:33.440 We do know Brian Cole.
00:14:34.780 That's been reported
00:14:35.580 out of several outlets now.
00:14:37.160 has been identified
00:14:38.180 and reportedly arrested
00:14:39.780 as the J-6 pipe bomber,
00:14:42.440 the man we've been
00:14:43.040 looking for now
00:14:43.720 for five years,
00:14:45.260 almost five years
00:14:46.040 to the day
00:14:46.780 in about 30 days or less.
00:14:49.480 And it's really remarkable,
00:14:51.760 Julie,
00:14:51.980 these reports
00:14:52.540 that the FBI did it
00:14:53.740 based on documents
00:14:55.740 inside the building
00:14:58.280 that they had
00:14:59.880 everything they needed
00:15:01.060 to solve this case
00:15:03.380 all along.
00:15:07.840 That I'm sure
00:15:09.160 we will find out
00:15:10.160 at one o'clock
00:15:10.980 and also once
00:15:12.120 the indictment
00:15:12.940 is actually posted,
00:15:14.680 we will get more details.
00:15:16.800 And I'm hoping
00:15:17.320 that we will get
00:15:18.240 more answers
00:15:18.840 as to exactly
00:15:19.740 what the FBI
00:15:20.500 has had all along,
00:15:21.900 documents.
00:15:23.220 You know,
00:15:23.720 we know that the FBI
00:15:25.020 early on
00:15:25.520 was trying to track
00:15:26.440 purchases
00:15:26.980 of those very unusual shoes,
00:15:28.880 those Nike shoes.
00:15:31.000 They were trying
00:15:31.560 to find out
00:15:32.160 the brand of the backpack
00:15:33.700 and asking retailers,
00:15:36.020 you know,
00:15:36.400 about sales.
00:15:37.420 This was very intensive.
00:15:39.640 This is not like
00:15:40.360 they just buried it
00:15:41.660 right away.
00:15:42.820 And it appears
00:15:43.500 that they did have
00:15:44.440 a very strong lead.
00:15:45.480 It could be the suspect
00:15:46.940 as a matter of fact,
00:15:48.940 but they did have
00:15:50.160 strong leads.
00:15:50.860 They were interviewing
00:15:51.520 people all over
00:15:52.540 both of those neighborhoods
00:15:53.760 outside of RNC and DNC.
00:15:56.600 So, yes,
00:15:58.480 this is why
00:15:59.780 we are hopefully
00:16:01.040 going to get
00:16:01.440 some more responses
00:16:02.740 from the FBI
00:16:04.020 and law enforcement
00:16:04.840 today
00:16:05.940 that why
00:16:08.000 this has been
00:16:09.860 not just forgotten
00:16:10.780 by the FBI,
00:16:11.780 the Chris Wray FBI.
00:16:13.120 Megan,
00:16:13.480 the media has ignored
00:16:14.580 this as well.
00:16:15.820 They're forced
00:16:16.280 to cover it today,
00:16:17.300 but they have not
00:16:19.400 covered any
00:16:20.340 of the pipe bomb,
00:16:21.620 any of my reporting,
00:16:22.660 certainly,
00:16:23.080 and other reporting
00:16:23.880 showing,
00:16:25.000 for example,
00:16:25.980 the bomb-sniffing canines
00:16:27.260 who we are told
00:16:28.740 missed this device
00:16:30.640 outside of the DNC
00:16:31.660 not once but twice
00:16:32.740 because Kamala Harris
00:16:33.800 was arriving there
00:16:34.520 at about 11.25
00:16:35.980 that morning.
00:16:37.380 So,
00:16:38.360 there's still going to be
00:16:39.200 a lot of questions.
00:16:40.120 We still have to tie together
00:16:41.420 whoever this individual is
00:16:42.940 to the discoveries
00:16:43.980 later that day
00:16:45.760 and how this all
00:16:47.840 came together.
00:16:49.240 It's really hard to believe,
00:16:51.040 and I'm going to keep
00:16:51.640 an open mind,
00:16:52.560 it's hard to believe
00:16:53.220 that this individual
00:16:54.040 did this on his own
00:16:55.820 that the device
00:16:56.700 sat there for 17 hours
00:16:58.320 before they were
00:16:59.120 miraculously discovered
00:17:00.480 at this perfect timing
00:17:01.780 during-
00:17:03.260 Very interesting.
00:17:04.020 Here's what we know
00:17:04.980 from the Daily Mail
00:17:06.780 that he's,
00:17:08.160 this Cole,
00:17:08.680 is a resident
00:17:09.260 of Woodbridge, Virginia,
00:17:11.020 that he was arrested
00:17:12.140 in the early hours
00:17:13.520 of this morning.
00:17:15.720 The exact charges
00:17:16.640 against him
00:17:17.120 not yet clear.
00:17:18.060 He's expected in court
00:17:19.220 later today,
00:17:20.700 and this comes weeks
00:17:21.820 after the FBI
00:17:22.560 offered a $500,000 reward
00:17:26.000 for leads to identify
00:17:27.680 the suspect.
00:17:28.340 We don't know,
00:17:29.000 though,
00:17:29.240 at this hour,
00:17:29.880 Julie,
00:17:30.140 whether that was,
00:17:32.720 that led to anything.
00:17:33.660 In fact,
00:17:33.880 what we're being told
00:17:34.660 is that there was
00:17:35.320 no new tip.
00:17:37.160 It was based on
00:17:38.340 shoe leather reporting
00:17:39.780 or shoe leather investigation
00:17:41.040 based on what they already had,
00:17:43.300 what had been culled together
00:17:44.400 by previous investigations,
00:17:45.820 we believe.
00:17:47.480 So that's,
00:17:48.680 you know,
00:17:48.900 they've been doing
00:17:50.220 everything they can
00:17:50.900 inside the FBI
00:17:51.940 to amp up
00:17:52.660 the investigation tips
00:17:54.380 on this guy
00:17:55.040 with the reward
00:17:55.660 and so on.
00:17:56.520 Whether they actually
00:17:57.440 got any,
00:17:58.260 we don't know.
00:17:59.320 Let's see.
00:18:00.380 I'm just looking
00:18:00.880 for more on whether,
00:18:03.460 yeah,
00:18:03.940 they're saying,
00:18:04.660 this is the Daily Mail,
00:18:06.360 saying,
00:18:06.740 sources told MS Now
00:18:08.060 that Cole is believed
00:18:09.200 to be linked
00:18:09.800 to support
00:18:10.840 for anarchist ideologies.
00:18:13.480 He just lives
00:18:14.380 in this quiet
00:18:15.020 Virginia suburb.
00:18:17.360 The heavy police presence
00:18:18.560 outside of his home
00:18:20.000 is what's making headlines
00:18:21.120 right now.
00:18:22.140 So far,
00:18:22.620 we're not seeing anything
00:18:23.640 about a manifesto,
00:18:26.140 about,
00:18:26.780 you know,
00:18:27.580 him having previous arrests,
00:18:29.440 about weird social media.
00:18:30.940 Normally,
00:18:31.260 all that would have been
00:18:31.880 breaking already.
00:18:32.800 Although,
00:18:33.280 can I tell you,
00:18:34.060 it's very possible
00:18:35.000 that the FBI
00:18:35.760 has had a few days
00:18:37.620 to scrub
00:18:39.000 anything
00:18:40.040 that they don't want
00:18:41.240 out there immediately
00:18:42.360 from the internet,
00:18:43.660 as law enforcement
00:18:44.380 typically does.
00:18:45.020 correct.
00:18:47.580 So,
00:18:48.020 I'm sure
00:18:48.460 we will get
00:18:48.940 some of those answers.
00:18:50.120 But again,
00:18:50.680 I mean,
00:18:51.040 since this is such a cold,
00:18:52.340 really was a cold case
00:18:53.500 for years,
00:18:54.300 to your point,
00:18:55.120 almost five years ago
00:18:56.540 that this happened,
00:18:58.540 you know,
00:18:59.300 if this person felt
00:19:00.320 like they were
00:19:02.160 surrounding him,
00:19:03.480 that his days
00:19:04.480 were numbered,
00:19:05.160 I'm sure he would have
00:19:06.200 scrubbed whatever
00:19:07.280 he needed to
00:19:08.240 from his own social media,
00:19:09.880 computer,
00:19:10.500 et cetera.
00:19:10.880 Of course,
00:19:11.360 it's easy to,
00:19:11.860 to retrieve that.
00:19:14.180 There's been not a hint
00:19:15.540 that an arrest
00:19:16.940 was coming in this case.
00:19:18.100 You know,
00:19:18.320 we had the Blaze report,
00:19:19.660 which we just discussed
00:19:20.720 on Kelly's court yesterday
00:19:21.860 on saying it was a woman
00:19:23.880 who was a female
00:19:24.740 law enforcement agent,
00:19:25.960 retired,
00:19:26.800 and we just discussed
00:19:27.940 whether the Blaze
00:19:28.500 is going to get sued
00:19:29.080 by that woman
00:19:29.680 who,
00:19:30.500 according to CBS,
00:19:31.100 has an alibi
00:19:31.720 showing her on camera
00:19:32.820 with her puppies
00:19:33.500 during the hour
00:19:34.480 that those bombs
00:19:35.240 were placed on J5.
00:19:37.380 And,
00:19:37.460 but the FBI
00:19:39.240 has not,
00:19:40.480 like,
00:19:40.720 there had been
00:19:41.280 no report at all
00:19:43.140 that they'd identified
00:19:45.140 this person.
00:19:46.840 In fact,
00:19:47.460 if,
00:19:47.700 if Brian Cole
00:19:48.680 really is the guy,
00:19:49.500 he was probably
00:19:49.880 sitting there
00:19:50.240 reading that Blaze report
00:19:51.200 going,
00:19:52.080 great.
00:19:53.940 I'm off the hook.
00:19:55.460 Yeah.
00:19:56.920 Right?
00:19:57.360 So I'm just saying,
00:19:57.900 like,
00:19:58.380 there,
00:19:58.820 if,
00:19:59.280 if they've known
00:20:00.080 about this guy
00:20:00.540 for days or weeks,
00:20:01.740 they did a very good job
00:20:02.860 of keeping it
00:20:03.400 extremely quiet.
00:20:05.320 Very true.
00:20:06.220 I mean,
00:20:06.520 I know that
00:20:07.400 after that Blaze report
00:20:08.800 came out,
00:20:09.480 Dan Bongino posted
00:20:10.560 something,
00:20:11.460 I think it was
00:20:11.880 a few days later,
00:20:12.820 basically debunking that,
00:20:14.300 dismissing that report,
00:20:15.620 that very sketchy report.
00:20:17.800 Not sure why
00:20:18.720 that was ever published,
00:20:20.360 but,
00:20:20.660 you know,
00:20:21.700 there's definitely
00:20:22.560 will be repercussions.
00:20:23.800 As you said,
00:20:24.580 the woman who they identified
00:20:26.020 has an attorney
00:20:26.960 called this
00:20:27.880 false,
00:20:29.380 defamatory.
00:20:30.060 They might have been
00:20:31.020 waiting for an arrest
00:20:32.380 before they file
00:20:33.940 a lawsuit
00:20:34.880 against certain
00:20:36.260 reporters,
00:20:37.180 online influencers,
00:20:38.480 and the Blaze.
00:20:39.800 We are expecting
00:20:40.640 that lawsuit
00:20:41.260 really any time.
00:20:43.580 So,
00:20:44.100 yes,
00:20:44.820 but this has been
00:20:45.580 very close hold
00:20:46.400 except for,
00:20:47.200 say,
00:20:47.960 Dan Bongino
00:20:48.680 posting that.
00:20:49.600 Also,
00:20:49.860 Cash has said
00:20:50.460 in a few recent
00:20:51.360 interviews
00:20:51.920 that there was going
00:20:53.280 to be some big news
00:20:54.160 coming on this
00:20:55.520 investigation.
00:20:56.580 So,
00:20:57.100 we weren't sure
00:20:57.520 if that meant
00:20:58.060 they were just
00:20:58.540 going to give us
00:20:58.980 new details.
00:20:59.820 There was some talk
00:21:00.420 about increasing
00:21:01.040 the reward.
00:21:02.440 To your point,
00:21:03.400 they did repost
00:21:04.520 the video
00:21:04.840 at the end of October
00:21:05.760 and added some
00:21:07.540 new footage,
00:21:08.400 apparently.
00:21:09.280 So,
00:21:09.820 we know that
00:21:10.400 this has been
00:21:11.080 a top priority.
00:21:12.020 We know that
00:21:12.600 it has been
00:21:13.500 a focus.
00:21:14.720 But,
00:21:15.220 yes,
00:21:15.760 I think
00:21:16.700 it came to
00:21:17.620 a lot of people
00:21:18.340 as a surprise
00:21:18.960 the past
00:21:19.460 today
00:21:20.620 that there was
00:21:21.820 an arrest made.
00:21:22.980 Yeah.
00:21:23.700 Now,
00:21:24.240 New York Post
00:21:24.840 giving his
00:21:25.920 full name
00:21:26.300 is Brian Cole,
00:21:27.500 Jr.,
00:21:28.280 age 30
00:21:29.080 of Woodbridge,
00:21:31.800 Virginia,
00:21:32.540 age 30.
00:21:33.320 He's 30 now.
00:21:35.140 So,
00:21:35.480 he would have been,
00:21:36.320 you know,
00:21:36.720 25,
00:21:37.760 26 then.
00:21:39.980 This is crazy.
00:21:41.500 I'm sure they know
00:21:42.280 a lot about this guy
00:21:43.440 at this point.
00:21:44.060 I'm sure he had
00:21:44.660 quite a mourning
00:21:45.460 this Brian Cole
00:21:46.280 and better pray to God
00:21:48.740 that he's got
00:21:49.320 some sort of
00:21:50.140 airtight alibi
00:21:50.920 if he wants to get
00:21:51.660 out of this.
00:21:52.120 This is a crazy
00:21:52.800 development today.
00:21:54.260 Again,
00:21:54.580 now almost
00:21:56.040 five,
00:21:57.020 almost five years
00:21:57.900 to the day,
00:21:58.800 right?
00:21:59.120 Five,
00:21:59.460 yeah,
00:21:59.660 after this whole
00:22:01.120 thing went down.
00:22:02.740 There's the New York
00:22:03.500 Post reporting out
00:22:04.180 that they had just,
00:22:07.180 Congress had just
00:22:07.860 prepared this report
00:22:08.780 assessing that,
00:22:10.160 little meaningful
00:22:10.800 progress had been
00:22:11.640 made in the pipe
00:22:12.300 bomb investigation
00:22:13.180 and charging that
00:22:14.480 the feds had refused
00:22:15.500 to provide
00:22:16.100 substantive updates
00:22:17.240 to Congress.
00:22:18.520 so there's been
00:22:19.540 frustration on
00:22:20.860 Capitol Hill
00:22:21.360 about nothing
00:22:22.540 being done
00:22:23.000 in this investigation
00:22:23.700 and now we have
00:22:24.540 left to ask
00:22:25.100 ourselves why,
00:22:27.680 why,
00:22:28.020 when we learn
00:22:28.580 more about this
00:22:29.220 Brian Cole,
00:22:29.880 will the answer
00:22:30.560 provide itself?
00:22:32.740 Thank you so much.
00:22:33.580 You're one of the best,
00:22:34.460 Julie.
00:22:34.640 You are the best
00:22:35.420 on this subject.
00:22:36.080 Nobody has matched
00:22:36.820 your reporting
00:22:37.320 from the beginning.
00:22:38.640 You've never lost
00:22:39.280 interest in it.
00:22:40.300 People have mocked you.
00:22:41.300 They've tried
00:22:41.600 to diminish you.
00:22:42.780 You've been right
00:22:43.580 about it all.
00:22:45.100 Intrepid reporting.
00:22:46.060 Thank you,
00:22:46.340 my friend.
00:22:47.480 Thank you,
00:22:47.920 my friend.
00:22:48.460 Thanks for covering
00:22:49.120 all of this.
00:22:49.680 I appreciate it.
00:22:50.900 All right,
00:22:51.200 we'll see you soon.
00:22:52.280 We're going to take
00:22:52.720 a quick break
00:22:53.240 and we'll get
00:22:53.640 to Michael Knowles
00:22:54.280 and again,
00:22:54.720 we are now awaiting
00:22:55.500 an FBI presser
00:22:56.380 which we are told
00:22:57.680 is going to begin
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00:25:04.760 to Michael Knowles,
00:25:05.520 host of the
00:25:05.920 Michael Knowles Show.
00:25:07.320 It's pretty remarkable,
00:25:08.540 Michael.
00:25:08.900 Again, just to
00:25:09.720 caution the audience,
00:25:11.100 only MS Now,
00:25:12.280 which is now separate
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00:25:14.560 they're two different
00:25:15.080 news organizations
00:25:15.800 with two very different
00:25:16.760 news gathering arms,
00:25:18.580 is the only one
00:25:19.640 reporting that the
00:25:20.580 suspect, Brian Cole,
00:25:22.520 now in custody
00:25:23.460 for the January 6th
00:25:24.600 pipe bombings
00:25:25.260 attempted.
00:25:27.480 Has any connection to
00:25:28.860 Antifa?
00:25:29.720 We'll wait to see
00:25:30.240 whether that's true.
00:25:30.980 But several outlets
00:25:31.940 reporting that he is
00:25:33.220 in custody.
00:25:33.740 His name is Brian Cole.
00:25:34.700 He's currently 30,
00:25:35.940 at least according to
00:25:36.720 one report in the
00:25:38.280 New York Post.
00:25:39.300 And he was arrested
00:25:40.040 in the wee hours
00:25:40.700 this morning.
00:25:41.860 Your reaction to it?
00:25:43.480 Well, anytime that
00:25:44.580 MSNBC now,
00:25:46.020 MS Now reports anything,
00:25:47.480 I just immediately
00:25:48.260 assume the opposite is true.
00:25:49.420 So I'm willing to
00:25:50.860 withhold and reserve
00:25:52.220 judgment on that.
00:25:52.960 So maybe he's MAGA.
00:25:54.520 J.K.
00:25:54.720 He might be.
00:25:55.320 That's right.
00:25:56.000 Who knows?
00:25:56.820 Maybe he's a member
00:25:57.320 of the Trump family
00:25:57.960 or something.
00:25:58.880 However,
00:25:59.900 with this report,
00:26:01.780 it certainly matches
00:26:03.080 Antifa's M.O.
00:26:04.620 And I think that explains
00:26:05.940 why this case has been
00:26:06.980 unresolved for five years.
00:26:08.820 Because I think
00:26:10.600 even the left
00:26:11.360 would have to admit
00:26:12.100 in moments of candor
00:26:13.080 that pipe bombs
00:26:14.380 are not generally
00:26:15.320 the instruments
00:26:16.060 of the American right.
00:26:17.200 So from what little
00:26:18.800 we knew about
00:26:19.840 this pipe bomber,
00:26:21.520 the evidence pointed
00:26:22.820 to his being
00:26:23.680 on the left
00:26:24.520 or who knows,
00:26:25.580 maybe part of
00:26:26.100 some grander conspiracy.
00:26:27.840 But he probably
00:26:29.200 wasn't wearing a MAGA hat.
00:26:30.320 And so you have
00:26:31.200 to ask yourself,
00:26:32.300 especially with this
00:26:33.000 key bit of information,
00:26:34.780 that there was no new lead
00:26:36.180 that led to his arrest.
00:26:37.340 It was actually an old lead
00:26:38.540 that Kash Patel
00:26:39.520 and Dan Bongino
00:26:40.240 just followed up on.
00:26:41.500 You say,
00:26:42.000 why did the left
00:26:43.460 not,
00:26:44.480 why did the DOJ
00:26:45.640 and the FBI
00:26:46.200 under Joe Biden
00:26:47.120 that is to say
00:26:47.780 the left,
00:26:48.380 why didn't they
00:26:49.080 pursue this
00:26:49.740 for five years?
00:26:50.860 And the answer
00:26:51.460 is simple
00:26:51.960 because every little
00:26:54.500 granny who was
00:26:55.260 wearing a MAGA hat
00:26:56.160 taking pictures
00:26:57.220 in the foyer
00:26:57.920 of the Capitol
00:26:58.580 on January 6th,
00:26:59.900 the supposedly worst day
00:27:01.020 in American history,
00:27:02.360 every single one
00:27:03.180 of them
00:27:03.500 was a Trump supporter.
00:27:05.120 And so to go in there,
00:27:06.560 arrest every single
00:27:07.540 one of them,
00:27:08.320 put them in solitary
00:27:09.100 confinement for two years,
00:27:10.600 three years,
00:27:11.320 that made perfect
00:27:12.560 political sense
00:27:13.360 for the left.
00:27:14.640 When it comes
00:27:15.300 to the pipe bomber,
00:27:16.660 it was far less clear
00:27:18.180 who this person was
00:27:19.180 and it was much more likely
00:27:20.260 that it was going
00:27:20.600 to be a person
00:27:20.960 on the left
00:27:21.340 and so they just
00:27:21.980 didn't care.
00:27:23.080 January 6th,
00:27:24.140 so-called,
00:27:24.860 was a political persecution
00:27:27.180 from beginning to end,
00:27:29.440 soup to nuts.
00:27:30.440 Even the way
00:27:31.340 that it was discussed
00:27:32.040 as the worst attack
00:27:32.980 in our nation's history
00:27:33.860 and certainly the worst attack
00:27:35.200 on the Capitol
00:27:35.760 is preposterous
00:27:37.060 because we know
00:27:37.680 there were at least
00:27:38.900 four other violent attacks
00:27:40.300 on the Capitol
00:27:40.920 that involved shooting
00:27:42.080 and blowing stuff up.
00:27:43.440 Going back to 1915,
00:27:44.860 you had a left-wing
00:27:45.460 anti-capitalist Harvard professor
00:27:46.980 blew up part of the Senate.
00:27:48.540 You had Puerto Rican nationalists
00:27:49.700 in the 50s
00:27:50.280 shoot up the House.
00:27:51.340 You had the Weather Underground
00:27:52.740 in the 1970s
00:27:53.900 also set off an explosive.
00:27:55.860 And you had a Maoist group
00:27:56.820 in the 1980s
00:27:57.600 also set off an explosive.
00:27:59.680 All of those groups
00:28:00.640 were on the left.
00:28:02.260 Certainly matches
00:28:03.080 what we know about
00:28:03.960 what the pipe bomber
00:28:04.580 was trying to do.
00:28:05.640 And it doesn't matter.
00:28:06.400 It was purely
00:28:07.540 a factional
00:28:08.900 my side versus your side
00:28:10.660 kind of witch hunt.
00:28:11.720 And the fact
00:28:12.760 that we're getting
00:28:13.220 to the bottom of this
00:28:13.920 I think really serves
00:28:14.820 a major political purpose.
00:28:16.460 It's not just Bongino
00:28:17.580 and Kash Patel
00:28:18.280 tying up loose ends.
00:28:19.740 It's actually
00:28:20.540 bringing some transparency
00:28:21.900 back to our criminal justice system
00:28:23.600 and how horribly
00:28:24.800 it was abused
00:28:25.660 over the last five years.
00:28:27.920 I mean,
00:28:28.580 it's going to be
00:28:29.040 really interesting
00:28:29.780 to hear
00:28:30.560 this guy's bio.
00:28:32.820 You know,
00:28:33.120 I just feel like
00:28:34.080 it's going to be
00:28:34.500 so illuminating
00:28:35.420 to hear
00:28:36.400 because
00:28:36.840 I would love to believe
00:28:39.480 that
00:28:39.880 even the Joe Biden
00:28:41.660 FBI
00:28:42.400 would not
00:28:43.760 willingly
00:28:44.620 hide
00:28:46.820 the fact
00:28:47.860 that they had identified
00:28:48.780 the J6 bomber
00:28:50.020 just because
00:28:51.360 he was Antifa
00:28:52.920 or he was linked
00:28:53.800 with some more
00:28:54.460 left-wing group.
00:28:55.920 I would love to believe
00:28:56.900 that they would never do that.
00:28:58.200 But I don't trust
00:28:59.000 that FBI
00:28:59.560 at all.
00:29:01.620 At all.
00:29:02.520 And most Americans
00:29:03.640 who've been paying attention
00:29:04.800 to them over the past
00:29:05.620 couple of years
00:29:06.140 don't either.
00:29:06.720 I mean,
00:29:07.020 it was
00:29:07.440 a political
00:29:09.040 operation.
00:29:10.780 You know,
00:29:10.940 it was the same group
00:29:12.140 that was texting,
00:29:13.640 we have a plan
00:29:14.460 to stop Trump.
00:29:16.060 We won't let it happen.
00:29:17.460 You know,
00:29:17.860 like Peter Strzok
00:29:19.360 and Lisa Page.
00:29:20.940 Like,
00:29:21.400 that's who the FBI
00:29:22.500 has been
00:29:23.200 for many years now.
00:29:24.620 So,
00:29:25.480 it's really hard
00:29:27.120 to give them
00:29:27.840 all benefits
00:29:28.560 of the doubt
00:29:29.120 that we might have
00:29:30.240 some 15,
00:29:31.380 20 years ago.
00:29:32.740 So,
00:29:33.240 I have no idea
00:29:34.140 what they're about
00:29:34.600 to tell us.
00:29:35.120 Like,
00:29:35.360 that's the big challenge
00:29:36.320 to Cash and Dan
00:29:37.240 in going in there
00:29:38.340 trying to get
00:29:38.980 this ship righted.
00:29:40.820 And you're seeing
00:29:41.740 the hit pieces
00:29:42.360 on them drop
00:29:43.220 even this week,
00:29:44.360 Michael.
00:29:44.660 There's this,
00:29:45.080 you know,
00:29:45.960 former and current
00:29:47.080 group of FBI agents
00:29:48.340 that was going to
00:29:49.840 report to Congress
00:29:50.540 this week
00:29:51.020 on how rudderless
00:29:52.920 the FBI is
00:29:54.180 and how bad
00:29:55.720 it is
00:29:56.540 and how it's not
00:29:57.180 going to get anything done.
00:29:57.920 Meanwhile,
00:29:58.240 their arrests are up
00:29:59.380 of violent felons,
00:30:00.480 of gang members,
00:30:01.480 of child predators,
00:30:02.840 recovery of missing children,
00:30:04.880 sex traffickers,
00:30:05.880 like,
00:30:06.060 you name it,
00:30:06.520 they're actually,
00:30:07.020 they actually really
00:30:07.680 are getting things done.
00:30:09.240 One stat that jumped
00:30:10.100 out at me was
00:30:10.660 they've already arrested
00:30:11.720 four people on the
00:30:12.560 10 Most Wanted list
00:30:13.500 in their six months
00:30:14.440 in office.
00:30:16.220 Joe Biden's FBI
00:30:17.380 under Chris Wray
00:30:18.700 arrested four people
00:30:20.140 on the 10 Most Wanted
00:30:20.980 over four years
00:30:22.640 they did that.
00:30:23.780 So it's just,
00:30:24.580 they are getting things done
00:30:25.660 but the old guard
00:30:26.500 is still in there.
00:30:27.480 They don't like
00:30:28.180 the new leadership.
00:30:29.480 They think they're
00:30:30.280 crass.
00:30:31.660 They think they're brash.
00:30:33.820 They're mad
00:30:34.620 that they didn't come up
00:30:35.920 in the FBI.
00:30:37.660 Bongino has a law enforcement
00:30:38.900 background
00:30:39.320 and Cash has an intel background.
00:30:41.540 So they are of law enforcement
00:30:43.120 but not FBI-ers,
00:30:45.300 you know,
00:30:45.440 not agents.
00:30:46.600 And this is part of
00:30:47.580 what they've been up against
00:30:48.480 since the moment
00:30:49.140 they walked in the front door.
00:30:51.980 Yes.
00:30:52.560 Look,
00:30:53.000 obviously the DOJ
00:30:54.240 and the FBI
00:30:54.740 have been corrupt
00:30:55.440 for a very long time.
00:30:56.680 Not just going back to Biden
00:30:57.900 but going back to Obama.
00:30:59.520 You know,
00:30:59.800 Barack Obama
00:31:00.420 is sicking the government agencies
00:31:01.640 on his enemies too.
00:31:03.480 I want to make clear
00:31:05.580 that Joe Biden
00:31:06.960 does not
00:31:08.200 and his DOJ
00:31:09.400 do not need to have
00:31:11.040 actively
00:31:11.720 covered up
00:31:13.060 who the pipe bomber was
00:31:14.500 in order to be
00:31:15.960 guilty here
00:31:16.820 of corruption
00:31:17.400 because look,
00:31:18.720 I grant you Megan
00:31:20.580 the same FBI
00:31:21.480 that was arresting
00:31:22.320 pro-life grannies
00:31:23.220 for praying
00:31:23.800 and that was infiltrating
00:31:24.800 and spying on Catholic churches,
00:31:26.460 yeah,
00:31:26.660 they might have just
00:31:27.240 covered up the person
00:31:28.140 that they thought
00:31:28.540 was the pipe bomber
00:31:29.260 but it also might have
00:31:30.660 just been malign neglect.
00:31:32.440 Not benign neglect
00:31:33.360 but malign neglect.
00:31:34.320 It might have just been
00:31:35.640 the case
00:31:36.200 that they knew,
00:31:37.280 okay,
00:31:37.620 if we prosecute
00:31:38.800 all of these people
00:31:39.520 taking pictures
00:31:40.280 in the Capitol
00:31:41.040 on January 6th,
00:31:42.360 we're going to get
00:31:43.040 100 out of 100 MAGA people
00:31:45.240 and the pipe bomber,
00:31:46.620 we just don't know
00:31:47.980 and we don't want
00:31:49.140 to find out
00:31:49.840 and it doesn't matter,
00:31:50.800 the bomb didn't go off,
00:31:51.880 it doesn't help
00:31:52.480 our political persecution
00:31:53.660 so you know what,
00:31:54.620 we're just going to
00:31:55.140 look the other way,
00:31:55.760 we're going to ignore
00:31:56.640 leads that come in
00:31:57.700 and who knows,
00:31:58.740 if a Republican
00:31:59.300 gets elected
00:31:59.900 in four or five years
00:32:01.000 then I guess maybe
00:32:02.100 they can uncover
00:32:02.760 some of those leads.
00:32:03.700 It looks like
00:32:04.420 that's exactly
00:32:04.980 what Cash Patel
00:32:05.620 and Dan Bongino
00:32:06.240 have done.
00:32:07.820 I mean,
00:32:08.800 I want to know
00:32:09.800 more details
00:32:10.320 about the guy.
00:32:11.260 I want to know
00:32:12.080 is he in some
00:32:14.000 protected class?
00:32:15.600 Is there,
00:32:16.300 you know,
00:32:16.680 some other reason
00:32:17.660 why they might
00:32:18.360 not have zeroed in
00:32:19.640 on him?
00:32:20.240 We're going to find out
00:32:21.320 very,
00:32:21.980 very soon
00:32:22.600 and look,
00:32:23.360 right now,
00:32:24.180 congrats to the FBI
00:32:25.180 on making this arrest,
00:32:27.860 let's hope it's
00:32:28.280 the right guy,
00:32:29.140 let's hope we get
00:32:29.580 a confession
00:32:30.080 and that people
00:32:31.100 are spared too much
00:32:31.920 drama around this.
00:32:33.280 We're going to put
00:32:34.040 a pin in that
00:32:34.540 as we await the FBI
00:32:35.460 presser because
00:32:35.960 there's no new
00:32:36.400 information as it
00:32:37.120 comes in.
00:32:37.580 Believe me,
00:32:38.000 my team is scouring
00:32:38.720 the internet
00:32:39.060 for any updates,
00:32:40.420 mugshots,
00:32:40.940 etc.,
00:32:41.280 and we will bring
00:32:42.100 it to you,
00:32:42.480 but for now,
00:32:43.040 let's get in
00:32:43.400 some other news
00:32:43.940 because if this
00:32:44.740 really happens at
00:32:45.320 one,
00:32:45.920 we'll probably be
00:32:46.620 all pipe bomber
00:32:47.320 at that point forward.
00:32:49.100 The big story
00:32:49.880 in the news this week
00:32:50.640 has been something
00:32:51.980 similar happening
00:32:52.720 at the Pentagon,
00:32:53.940 like an attempt
00:32:54.820 by people
00:32:55.740 who never wanted
00:32:56.580 this leader
00:32:57.180 to take him down.
00:32:59.080 Now,
00:32:59.440 there definitely
00:33:00.260 are people
00:33:00.780 inside the Pentagon
00:33:01.540 who hate Pete,
00:33:02.720 didn't want Pete,
00:33:03.640 and want him gone
00:33:04.380 and did from day one,
00:33:05.700 but it's also
00:33:06.900 very much on the outside
00:33:08.000 with these lawmakers
00:33:10.200 who can't stand him,
00:33:11.140 these Democrats
00:33:11.660 who can't stand him,
00:33:12.980 and now it's
00:33:14.180 devolved into them
00:33:15.240 accusing him
00:33:15.820 of war crimes
00:33:16.780 based on inaccurate,
00:33:19.240 incomplete information,
00:33:20.480 which by the day
00:33:21.320 gets better
00:33:21.840 for the Pentagon,
00:33:23.720 not for his detractors.
00:33:25.380 It started last Friday
00:33:26.620 when the Washington Post
00:33:28.040 all but accused him
00:33:29.540 of a war crime.
00:33:31.120 Seth Moulton
00:33:31.800 citing this Democrat
00:33:33.360 from Massachusetts
00:33:33.900 saying someone's
00:33:34.720 going to jail
00:33:35.120 for murder
00:33:35.580 or a war crime.
00:33:36.840 Someone's,
00:33:37.260 you mark my words,
00:33:38.300 one of these people
00:33:38.880 is going to jail.
00:33:39.820 Okay,
00:33:40.460 because they said
00:33:41.720 that they bombed
00:33:43.620 a ship
00:33:44.020 coming to America
00:33:45.020 from south of the border
00:33:45.880 carrying drugs
00:33:46.640 and that two people
00:33:47.960 were clinging
00:33:48.400 to the side of the boat
00:33:49.320 having survived
00:33:50.740 the first strike
00:33:51.440 and they were devastated
00:33:53.460 to see this
00:33:54.420 because they wanted
00:33:54.980 everybody to be dead
00:33:55.860 and Pete Hegseth
00:33:57.280 gave the oral order
00:33:59.120 to kill the people
00:34:01.420 and drop a second strike
00:34:03.220 to kill them.
00:34:04.500 Well,
00:34:04.980 that didn't turn out
00:34:05.540 to be true.
00:34:07.380 Most people agreed
00:34:08.520 that that could
00:34:10.080 potentially be a war crime,
00:34:11.460 but there actually
00:34:12.480 was ambiguity around it
00:34:13.520 depending on the circumstances,
00:34:14.620 but that's not even
00:34:15.800 what happened.
00:34:16.460 Pete Hegseth,
00:34:17.060 now we know,
00:34:17.540 did not give any second order.
00:34:19.620 He only gave an initial order
00:34:20.960 to take out the boat
00:34:21.960 and now we're hearing
00:34:23.780 that the boat
00:34:24.900 was not destroyed
00:34:25.840 after the first strike.
00:34:26.960 It was only disabled
00:34:29.300 and that it was
00:34:30.720 in enough
00:34:31.660 of good shape
00:34:33.440 that these two survivors
00:34:34.760 were on there
00:34:35.340 reportedly using a radio
00:34:36.780 to contact other narco drugs
00:34:39.040 or boats
00:34:40.060 in the water
00:34:41.400 and listen to how
00:34:42.740 Martha Raddatz
00:34:43.620 on ABC News yesterday
00:34:46.080 reported
00:34:47.200 exactly that.
00:34:49.040 Tonight,
00:34:49.940 new information.
00:34:50.980 According to a source
00:34:52.360 familiar with the incident,
00:34:54.080 the two survivors
00:34:55.160 climbed back
00:34:56.000 onto the boat
00:34:56.860 after the initial strike.
00:34:58.500 They were believed
00:34:59.200 to be potentially
00:35:00.260 in communication
00:35:01.260 with others
00:35:02.080 and salvaging
00:35:03.200 some of the drugs.
00:35:04.700 Because of that,
00:35:05.600 it was determined
00:35:06.240 they were still
00:35:06.920 in the fight
00:35:07.780 and valid targets.
00:35:09.000 A JAG officer
00:35:10.180 was also giving
00:35:11.120 legal advice.
00:35:12.440 So again, David,
00:35:13.160 that video will be key
00:35:14.460 and Admiral Bradley
00:35:15.460 will be on the Hill tomorrow.
00:35:17.400 I mean,
00:35:18.100 for ABC News
00:35:19.060 to have to come out
00:35:19.680 and say it, Michael,
00:35:20.380 really must have hurt.
00:35:21.660 And it's not just them.
00:35:23.080 You've got
00:35:23.880 the Wall Street Journal
00:35:26.000 now reporting
00:35:27.100 citing three Pentagon officials
00:35:28.460 that surveillance video
00:35:29.900 of the operation
00:35:30.540 did not reveal
00:35:31.560 two survivors
00:35:32.420 until an hour
00:35:33.680 after the initial hit.
00:35:34.920 After Hexeth said
00:35:35.840 he stopped monitoring
00:35:37.180 the video feed altogether.
00:35:39.960 And here's what Martha said.
00:35:41.800 Tonight, new information.
00:35:43.240 According to a source
00:35:43.820 familiar with the incident,
00:35:45.000 the two survivors
00:35:45.680 climbed back onto the boat
00:35:47.020 after the initial strike.
00:35:49.140 They were believed
00:35:49.960 to be potentially
00:35:50.920 in communication
00:35:51.680 with others
00:35:52.620 and salvaging
00:35:53.920 some of the drugs.
00:35:55.440 Because of that,
00:35:56.060 it was determined
00:35:56.480 that they were still
00:35:57.080 in the fight,
00:35:57.800 still in the fight,
00:35:58.460 which is a military term of art
00:35:59.780 and valid targets.
00:36:02.420 A JAG officer,
00:36:04.360 meaning Judge Advocate General,
00:36:05.800 a naval law lawyer,
00:36:08.780 was also giving legal advice
00:36:10.960 in the moment.
00:36:13.160 And ABC said,
00:36:13.980 the source said
00:36:14.440 the pair of survivors
00:36:15.120 were later killed
00:36:15.780 in a second strike
00:36:16.440 because they were deemed
00:36:17.180 to, quote,
00:36:17.640 be still in the fight
00:36:18.720 because they were in comms
00:36:20.040 with other vessels nearby
00:36:20.880 and were gathering
00:36:21.400 some of the cargo of drugs
00:36:22.660 that the boat
00:36:23.420 had been carrying.
00:36:24.320 Brian L. Cox,
00:36:25.260 who was on this show
00:36:26.100 two days ago,
00:36:26.960 Cornell law professor
00:36:27.740 and 22-year-old service member,
00:36:30.380 22-year service member,
00:36:31.980 now retired,
00:36:32.540 said hat tip
00:36:34.680 to the journalistic reference
00:36:35.840 to still in the fight,
00:36:36.680 which in legal terms
00:36:38.440 is the opposite
00:36:39.960 of hors de combat,
00:36:42.240 which is the term
00:36:42.960 meaning like out of the fight.
00:36:46.560 It's like you've been shipwrecked,
00:36:48.120 you're out of the fight
00:36:48.860 and you can't be targeted.
00:36:50.520 Still in the fight
00:36:51.180 is exactly the opposite,
00:36:52.100 meaning totally targetable.
00:36:53.420 It's a complete exoneration,
00:36:55.220 complete exoneration
00:36:56.280 of Pete,
00:36:57.600 his admiral,
00:36:58.820 Mitch Bradley,
00:36:59.740 who actually did give the order
00:37:00.900 and gave the order
00:37:02.020 to destroy the boat.
00:37:04.660 And let me just show you
00:37:06.360 the narrative that's out there
00:37:08.560 that has been proven
00:37:09.640 completely wrong.
00:37:12.020 We'll wait for them
00:37:13.600 to correct the record
00:37:14.380 and apologize
00:37:15.120 to the Pentagon
00:37:16.360 and the military leaders,
00:37:17.420 the unfairly besmirched.
00:37:19.900 Watch.
00:37:21.560 There is no lawyer
00:37:23.120 that I'm aware of
00:37:25.060 who indicates
00:37:26.480 that that second strike
00:37:27.980 is not a war crime.
00:37:29.920 These are individuals
00:37:31.720 in the water
00:37:32.440 who were wounded.
00:37:33.480 As far as I'm concerned,
00:37:34.780 there is a war crime
00:37:35.960 involved here.
00:37:37.120 He's, you know,
00:37:38.780 violated.
00:37:40.100 He has committed war crimes.
00:37:41.920 If the facts are,
00:37:42.940 as have been alleged,
00:37:44.040 that there was
00:37:44.420 a second strike
00:37:45.320 specifically to kill
00:37:46.420 the survivors
00:37:47.020 in the water,
00:37:48.720 that's a stone cold war crime.
00:37:51.580 It's the United States
00:37:53.340 of America
00:37:54.040 on our behalf,
00:37:55.160 on your and my behalf,
00:37:56.540 killing two individuals
00:37:57.840 who were unarmed.
00:37:59.440 And that's just shocking.
00:38:00.880 And this is clearly
00:38:01.920 a war crime.
00:38:02.820 You do not execute survivors
00:38:04.580 who are no longer a threat.
00:38:06.080 Everybody understands that.
00:38:07.560 Pete Hexeth has to go.
00:38:08.620 He has to resign.
00:38:09.200 He is a walking,
00:38:10.020 talking national security
00:38:11.700 embarrassment.
00:38:12.580 I think that Pete Hexeth
00:38:13.840 clearly ordered
00:38:14.900 the code red here.
00:38:16.120 And I also think
00:38:17.380 that that would be
00:38:18.460 a war crime.
00:38:19.160 I think he must resign.
00:38:21.420 Sonny Hauston,
00:38:22.280 Rachel Maddow,
00:38:23.280 that was Congressman
00:38:23.920 Adam Smith
00:38:24.340 before them.
00:38:25.620 I mean,
00:38:25.780 they were clear as day,
00:38:26.600 Michael.
00:38:26.880 They had this case
00:38:27.620 solved from the moment
00:38:29.760 they read the Washington
00:38:30.720 Post report,
00:38:31.440 which has now been
00:38:31.940 contradicted by ABC,
00:38:34.640 by the New York Times,
00:38:36.740 and by the facts,
00:38:39.060 according to anybody
00:38:39.760 who actually was involved
00:38:40.780 in this thing.
00:38:42.640 Clearly a war crime,
00:38:44.080 they say.
00:38:44.560 Clearly because
00:38:45.320 of an unverified report
00:38:48.000 over an oral order,
00:38:50.280 not a written order,
00:38:51.620 to have a follow-up strike
00:38:54.880 on a legitimate
00:38:56.240 military target,
00:38:57.640 and wow,
00:38:59.020 it just shows you
00:39:00.080 how desperate
00:39:01.100 the Democrats are
00:39:01.840 for anything
00:39:02.560 to hit the Trump
00:39:03.480 administration,
00:39:04.460 and specifically
00:39:05.220 Pete Hexeth.
00:39:06.140 They have been
00:39:06.980 particularly focused
00:39:08.460 on torpedoing Pete
00:39:09.800 since the beginning.
00:39:11.760 He was the one
00:39:12.320 they most tried
00:39:13.140 to boot out.
00:39:14.060 He's their
00:39:14.480 Venezuelan drug boat.
00:39:15.760 That's what they would
00:39:16.240 like to see happen to him.
00:39:17.460 Yes,
00:39:18.000 and in order
00:39:19.040 to take him out,
00:39:19.720 they are literally
00:39:21.240 taking the side
00:39:22.080 of the Venezuelan
00:39:23.400 narco-terrorists.
00:39:24.460 It's very funny
00:39:25.140 because Dan Crenshaw,
00:39:26.820 who is a Republican,
00:39:28.120 but obviously he's not
00:39:28.880 the Trumpiest
00:39:29.800 of Republicans
00:39:30.480 in the House,
00:39:31.440 he was asked about this
00:39:33.040 by liberal media,
00:39:34.120 and he said,
00:39:34.660 what are you talking about?
00:39:35.660 He said,
00:39:35.820 I've been in a lot
00:39:36.640 of firefights, okay?
00:39:37.920 And yeah,
00:39:38.960 we generally try
00:39:39.900 to kill them.
00:39:40.540 That's the point.
00:39:41.740 That's why we shoot them
00:39:43.040 in the first place.
00:39:43.780 We're trying to kill them.
00:39:44.640 This is ridiculous,
00:39:45.560 total non-troversy.
00:39:47.160 And to your point,
00:39:48.640 what is hinged on
00:39:49.600 is whether or not
00:39:50.340 the people were
00:39:51.640 hors de combat,
00:39:52.880 were out of combat.
00:39:54.540 And obviously,
00:39:56.040 in this case,
00:39:56.860 from all the information
00:39:57.840 we're getting
00:39:58.160 in the follow-up,
00:39:59.180 they were not.
00:40:00.120 And I think really
00:40:01.120 the thing that was
00:40:02.100 clobbering the Democrats
00:40:03.240 after this
00:40:03.840 is,
00:40:04.540 got to give a hat tip
00:40:05.420 to Mays on X,
00:40:07.540 pulled up a great clip.
00:40:08.600 this video of Joe Biden,
00:40:11.680 1989,
00:40:13.140 giving a speech,
00:40:13.760 I thought it was
00:40:14.160 AI-generated at first,
00:40:15.820 in which he defends
00:40:17.340 precisely the Trump
00:40:19.480 administration's policy
00:40:20.540 on these narco-terrorists,
00:40:22.380 including using the very phrase
00:40:24.520 narco-terrorism
00:40:25.760 and calling for
00:40:26.800 an international strike force
00:40:28.220 to stop the drugs
00:40:29.660 where they originate.
00:40:31.200 So,
00:40:31.680 this is something
00:40:32.460 that everyone agreed on
00:40:33.440 until about five minutes ago.
00:40:35.380 The Democrats are in
00:40:36.460 such a bad position
00:40:37.560 arguing for their
00:40:38.820 economic policies,
00:40:39.820 their migration policies,
00:40:41.040 their domestic social policies,
00:40:42.760 really just about everything,
00:40:44.460 even healthcare,
00:40:45.260 doesn't really work
00:40:45.900 for them anymore,
00:40:46.640 that they are now
00:40:47.440 taking the side
00:40:48.220 of narco-terrorists
00:40:50.080 in a state
00:40:51.100 that is a sworn enemy
00:40:52.380 of the United States.
00:40:53.660 And even that
00:40:54.400 they can't do right.
00:40:55.600 It really is incredible
00:40:57.120 in how much
00:40:57.800 they have attacked
00:40:59.060 poor Pete Hegseth
00:41:01.040 for something
00:41:01.960 he didn't do at all.
00:41:03.400 And also,
00:41:04.260 Admiral Bradley,
00:41:04.900 here's the maze
00:41:05.960 posting
00:41:07.020 with Joe Biden yesterday.
00:41:08.400 I'll just read
00:41:08.980 a transcript
00:41:09.780 of what Biden says
00:41:10.820 in part.
00:41:13.560 He says,
00:41:14.040 let's go after
00:41:14.720 the drug lords
00:41:15.580 where they live
00:41:16.540 with an international
00:41:17.840 strike force.
00:41:19.180 There must be
00:41:19.660 no safe haven
00:41:20.680 for these narco-terrorists
00:41:22.240 and they must know it.
00:41:24.760 That was him
00:41:25.300 finding Joe Biden
00:41:26.320 back in 1989
00:41:27.840 saying exactly that
00:41:29.920 in a televised message
00:41:30.740 from the Democrat Party
00:41:31.720 calling on President
00:41:32.860 H.W. Bush
00:41:34.420 to do more
00:41:35.380 to stop the flow
00:41:35.980 of drugs
00:41:36.380 into the country.
00:41:37.920 It's crazy.
00:41:38.800 A strike force
00:41:39.400 to attack the drug dealers
00:41:41.080 before they reach
00:41:42.000 our borders.
00:41:43.080 Now, when that exact
00:41:43.880 thing is done
00:41:44.580 because it's done
00:41:45.640 by a Trump administration
00:41:47.020 and a Pete Hegseth
00:41:47.880 who they can't stand
00:41:48.720 and dismiss as a Fox News host,
00:41:50.520 it's a war crime
00:41:51.780 based on made-up shit
00:41:54.020 that I have no idea
00:41:55.700 where it even originated.
00:41:56.980 None of it
00:41:57.320 has proven true.
00:41:58.960 All right,
00:41:59.080 let's keep going.
00:42:00.580 These same outlets
00:42:01.640 are calling President Trump
00:42:02.740 a racist today.
00:42:04.700 That's how my little friends
00:42:05.940 over at NPR
00:42:06.900 where I begin my day,
00:42:08.240 I do it so you don't have to.
00:42:09.800 Every day,
00:42:10.720 I listen to their
00:42:11.420 terrible morning podcast.
00:42:13.380 It's full of lies.
00:42:14.700 They hate Trump.
00:42:16.160 It's kind of amusing
00:42:16.980 just for that reason
00:42:17.800 to be honest.
00:42:18.640 I listen to Morning Wire
00:42:19.660 and I listen to my own show,
00:42:22.280 A Morning Update
00:42:22.920 with my husband, Doug.
00:42:24.720 Anyway,
00:42:25.780 they're very, very upset
00:42:26.780 over Donald Trump
00:42:27.980 sounding like a racist,
00:42:30.340 they say,
00:42:31.200 at the Tuesday cabinet meeting
00:42:32.640 by saying the following.
00:42:33.920 Stop four.
00:42:36.240 I don't want them
00:42:37.200 in our country,
00:42:37.880 I'll be honest with you.
00:42:38.920 I don't want them
00:42:39.600 in our country.
00:42:40.360 Their country's no good
00:42:41.360 for a reason.
00:42:42.600 Their country stinks
00:42:43.860 and we don't want them
00:42:45.600 in our country.
00:42:46.300 I can say that
00:42:46.980 about other countries too.
00:42:48.960 I can say it
00:42:49.740 about other countries too.
00:42:51.080 We don't want them to hell.
00:42:52.080 We have to rebuild
00:42:53.920 our country.
00:42:55.140 You know,
00:42:55.400 our country's
00:42:55.960 at a tipping point.
00:42:57.760 We could go bad.
00:42:58.860 We're at a tipping point.
00:42:59.860 We could go one way
00:43:00.740 or the other
00:43:01.220 and we're going to go
00:43:03.520 the wrong way
00:43:04.120 if we keep taking
00:43:04.920 in garbage
00:43:05.500 into our country.
00:43:07.420 Ilhan Omar is garbage.
00:43:09.440 She's garbage.
00:43:10.660 Her friends are garbage.
00:43:12.580 These aren't people
00:43:13.220 that work.
00:43:13.820 These aren't people
00:43:14.460 that say,
00:43:14.880 let's go,
00:43:15.380 come on,
00:43:15.720 let's make this place great.
00:43:17.280 These are people
00:43:17.900 that do nothing
00:43:18.620 but complain.
00:43:20.620 They complain.
00:43:21.480 But when they come
00:43:22.520 from hell
00:43:23.160 and they complain
00:43:25.420 and do nothing
00:43:26.940 but bitch,
00:43:28.760 we don't want them
00:43:29.760 in our country.
00:43:30.880 Let them go back
00:43:31.880 to where they came from
00:43:33.300 and fix it.
00:43:36.140 In response to which
00:43:37.320 the vast majority
00:43:37.960 of Americans
00:43:38.500 were like,
00:43:39.180 yeah,
00:43:39.960 tracks,
00:43:40.940 but no.
00:43:42.540 If you listen to NPR,
00:43:43.900 if you listen to MSNBC,
00:43:45.160 if you read
00:43:45.460 the New York Times,
00:43:46.640 he's a racist.
00:43:47.680 And if you shook
00:43:48.500 your head yes
00:43:48.980 in response to that,
00:43:50.060 you too are a racist,
00:43:51.260 Michael Knowles.
00:43:52.440 I loved that clip so much.
00:43:54.520 It was just after Thanksgiving.
00:43:56.200 And you know,
00:43:56.540 for some,
00:43:56.960 I am the crazy conservative
00:43:58.180 uncle at Thanksgiving.
00:43:59.080 I try to be,
00:44:00.020 I try to be put together,
00:44:01.800 polite and accommodating.
00:44:03.400 But you know,
00:44:03.800 you would say,
00:44:04.160 hey, hey,
00:44:04.660 come on,
00:44:05.040 don't get political at dinner.
00:44:06.260 I say,
00:44:06.440 all right,
00:44:06.700 I won't get political.
00:44:07.620 Don't worry.
00:44:08.820 And then I have one sip of beer
00:44:10.340 and it's,
00:44:11.020 I'm just trying.
00:44:11.680 I don't want them
00:44:12.260 in our country.
00:44:13.700 Ilhan's trash.
00:44:14.940 I want them out.
00:44:15.900 They contribute nothing.
00:44:18.300 And most people agree with that.
00:44:20.980 And I think it's not even just
00:44:22.260 to beat up on the Somalis
00:44:23.320 in particular,
00:44:24.180 even though they have taken
00:44:25.400 over a major American city,
00:44:26.840 defrauded the taxpayers
00:44:27.800 and funded terrorism overseas
00:44:29.180 and complained about it
00:44:30.320 the whole time
00:44:30.640 and married their brother
00:44:31.720 and violated immigration law.
00:44:33.180 And look,
00:44:33.640 we could go on and on and on,
00:44:34.640 but I don't mean to beat up
00:44:35.700 on them.
00:44:37.300 So,
00:44:37.940 you know,
00:44:38.580 the real issue here is
00:44:40.360 you have to ask,
00:44:41.460 why did we bring them here?
00:44:44.200 What is this?
00:44:45.100 What is immigration for?
00:44:47.040 I mean,
00:44:47.240 that's really the point
00:44:48.540 that Trump is getting us to.
00:44:49.960 And,
00:44:50.380 you know,
00:44:50.820 he's,
00:44:51.160 he uses provocative language
00:44:52.420 to get us to pay attention.
00:44:53.480 And now that's what we're debating.
00:44:55.360 What do the Somalis bring?
00:44:57.480 They don't really contribute anything.
00:44:59.300 They have a 60% poverty rate
00:45:01.420 in Minneapolis.
00:45:03.200 They have,
00:45:04.140 what,
00:45:04.300 what is it?
00:45:04.860 40% education rate for,
00:45:07.720 you know,
00:45:07.900 it's,
00:45:08.080 it's just,
00:45:08.760 they don't really contribute anything.
00:45:10.660 And you say,
00:45:11.060 okay,
00:45:11.320 well,
00:45:11.580 are they here because
00:45:12.440 they're suffering some particular persecution
00:45:14.420 and as a charitable policy of the U.S.,
00:45:16.140 we're taking them in as refugees?
00:45:17.740 Not really.
00:45:18.360 It's just that their country
00:45:19.220 is generally bad.
00:45:20.700 Okay,
00:45:20.940 well,
00:45:21.140 there are plenty of generally bad countries
00:45:22.820 in the world.
00:45:23.180 We're not going to take them all in.
00:45:24.440 Our country wouldn't survive five minutes
00:45:25.980 if that were the case.
00:45:26.920 Okay,
00:45:27.340 are we taking them in because,
00:45:30.500 have we aggrieved them in some way?
00:45:32.200 That's sometimes an argument
00:45:33.780 for bringing people to the country.
00:45:35.260 No,
00:45:35.580 we've only ever tried to help Somalia.
00:45:37.880 We've only ever been nice to the,
00:45:39.640 we can't say that for every country in the world,
00:45:41.040 but to Somalia,
00:45:42.100 yeah,
00:45:42.300 we've basically only ever tried to be nice to them.
00:45:44.420 And so we don't,
00:45:45.520 we don't owe them anything in particular.
00:45:47.220 What,
00:45:47.420 so what's it for?
00:45:49.400 And the only answer
00:45:51.000 that the liberals ultimately can give is,
00:45:53.740 well,
00:45:54.120 because we're bad
00:45:55.940 and they're different
00:45:56.780 and so we're going to bring them in
00:45:58.220 and that's it.
00:45:58.940 And because,
00:45:59.500 because we don't like you,
00:46:00.820 Native American population,
00:46:02.460 we don't like you,
00:46:03.360 most voters,
00:46:04.520 we don't,
00:46:04.840 and that's what we're going to do.
00:46:05.820 I mean,
00:46:06.080 and,
00:46:06.360 and some of them go even further than that
00:46:08.000 and they say,
00:46:08.460 we want to bring in totally different people
00:46:10.400 because that's going to change the electorate
00:46:12.520 and then we'll win more elections.
00:46:13.620 Okay.
00:46:13.960 Well,
00:46:14.360 that doesn't work for me.
00:46:15.640 Okay.
00:46:16.260 And I'll tell you,
00:46:17.180 this is a really beautiful moment of clarity
00:46:19.240 because when I was a kid,
00:46:20.340 there were two views
00:46:21.100 that you were allowed to have on immigration.
00:46:22.880 You could either want more illegal immigration
00:46:24.800 or you could want only more legal immigration,
00:46:27.600 but you had to want more migration.
00:46:29.940 That,
00:46:29.980 that was everything else was beyond the bill.
00:46:31.860 Now,
00:46:32.320 I think people are beginning to say,
00:46:33.340 hold on,
00:46:33.600 I don't only care about the procedural norm
00:46:35.960 of how the migrants come in.
00:46:37.740 We have the highest foreign born percentage
00:46:39.360 of the population ever.
00:46:40.880 I just,
00:46:41.420 what if I just want less migration?
00:46:43.400 And let me say something even more verboten
00:46:45.560 that you couldn't say for many years.
00:46:47.580 It seems pretty clear at this point
00:46:49.760 that some people are easier to assimilate than others.
00:46:53.740 If we share,
00:46:55.120 I don't know,
00:46:55.600 the same religion,
00:46:56.580 the same language,
00:46:57.540 the same traditions,
00:46:58.500 the same institutions,
00:46:59.540 in some cases,
00:47:00.340 the same broad family
00:47:01.300 because we came from England.
00:47:02.500 Okay.
00:47:02.720 Maybe those guys are easier to assimilate
00:47:04.900 and I'll go one step further.
00:47:06.680 Maybe some people as groups
00:47:09.080 contribute more to the country than others.
00:47:11.220 These were all things
00:47:11.920 you were not allowed to say
00:47:13.220 10 or 20 years ago.
00:47:14.620 And yet these are all things that are true.
00:47:16.640 They have been part of the conversation
00:47:18.220 around immigration,
00:47:18.980 going back to classical antiquity
00:47:20.540 by some of the most moral
00:47:21.800 and brilliant political thinkers of all time.
00:47:23.780 And Trump's bringing it back
00:47:25.200 and the libs can whine about it,
00:47:26.540 but his message is resonating
00:47:28.300 because he's stating the truth.
00:47:29.800 It should be harder
00:47:31.460 to get into the United States
00:47:33.180 than it is to get into Yale.
00:47:35.480 It really should.
00:47:36.540 We should be having
00:47:37.300 that level of screening,
00:47:39.520 like aptitude tests,
00:47:41.460 background checks,
00:47:43.080 assessment of whether they are paying,
00:47:45.260 contributing members to society
00:47:46.860 in the place from which they hail.
00:47:49.760 And other than that,
00:47:50.880 only the most dire asylum claims
00:47:52.800 should be even considered.
00:47:53.980 and from people who were rejected
00:47:56.360 for some other reason
00:47:57.400 can't go to a different country for asylum.
00:47:59.080 You know,
00:47:59.360 I'm not sure why the United States
00:48:00.480 would be the first place of refuge
00:48:02.160 for virtually anyone
00:48:03.020 other than a Canadian.
00:48:05.500 It's just,
00:48:06.200 that's what Trump is trying to change.
00:48:07.580 And by the way,
00:48:08.580 you can call it racist all you want,
00:48:10.060 but what he said about Somalia is true.
00:48:12.260 We just did a quick fact check
00:48:13.400 on Somalian crime
00:48:14.760 from the U.S. State Department.
00:48:16.600 Violent crimes common throughout Somalia,
00:48:18.460 including kidnapping,
00:48:19.560 murder,
00:48:20.280 illegal roadblocks,
00:48:21.580 widespread.
00:48:22.780 Terrorists continue to plot kidnappings,
00:48:24.520 bombings,
00:48:24.920 and other attacks there.
00:48:26.260 They may attack with little to no warning.
00:48:28.240 Airports,
00:48:28.640 government buildings,
00:48:29.240 hotels,
00:48:29.580 restaurants,
00:48:29.940 shopping areas,
00:48:30.460 public places that attract
00:48:31.540 large crowds and tourists.
00:48:33.720 Trump says they've taken billions
00:48:34.820 of dollars from our country.
00:48:36.360 Yep,
00:48:36.860 they have.
00:48:37.460 They looted taxpayers
00:48:38.380 over one billion
00:48:40.760 in Minneapolis
00:48:43.520 that was intended
00:48:44.680 for child food assistance.
00:48:46.320 And they're sending it back home
00:48:47.720 to Somalia,
00:48:48.360 reportedly to Al-Shabaab,
00:48:49.660 some portion of it,
00:48:50.500 a terrorist group
00:48:51.260 that's doing some of that stuff
00:48:52.400 I just ticked off.
00:48:53.680 78 of the 86 individuals
00:48:55.440 charged so far
00:48:56.500 are Somalis.
00:48:58.160 So just,
00:48:58.540 I mean,
00:48:58.700 like,
00:48:58.860 just stop with your stupid,
00:49:00.620 it's racist.
00:49:01.900 It's true.
00:49:03.100 And by the way,
00:49:03.860 he wasn't even saying
00:49:04.560 that it's every Somali.
00:49:05.860 He was talking about
00:49:06.860 people like Ilhan Omar,
00:49:08.780 who honestly is awful,
00:49:11.240 and people
00:49:12.160 who are committing
00:49:12.960 fraud against us,
00:49:13.920 who take advantage
00:49:14.700 of our good graces
00:49:16.220 and our nice invitation
00:49:17.420 to have them here
00:49:18.160 and give them
00:49:18.920 taxpayer money
00:49:19.740 and defraud us.
00:49:21.500 What is it?
00:49:22.240 What should he be calling them?
00:49:23.860 Heroes?
00:49:24.920 People to look up to?
00:49:25.900 I think garbage
00:49:26.560 is more than fair
00:49:27.360 for anybody.
00:49:28.500 It doesn't,
00:49:28.900 you're not allowed
00:49:29.440 to say it, though,
00:49:30.040 because they're black
00:49:30.820 and under New York Times
00:49:32.460 and NPR rules,
00:49:33.780 they can't be criticized.
00:49:35.580 Well,
00:49:36.140 in that case,
00:49:37.040 then I'll turn our attention
00:49:37.860 to people
00:49:38.320 who are not black
00:49:38.980 but only slightly brown
00:49:40.080 because I think
00:49:40.680 it clarifies it, too.
00:49:42.080 When J.D. Vance
00:49:43.980 was doing
00:49:44.340 that famous interview
00:49:45.300 in which he was arguing
00:49:46.640 over importing Afghanis
00:49:48.500 and the liberal interviewer
00:49:50.900 kept giving all of these
00:49:51.880 justifications for doing it
00:49:53.060 and he said,
00:49:54.020 look,
00:49:54.280 frankly, Margaret,
00:49:55.280 I don't care.
00:49:56.060 I don't want these people
00:49:56.920 in my country.
00:49:57.940 And he was truly
00:49:58.920 the voice of the American people
00:50:00.500 in particular
00:50:01.480 at that moment.
00:50:02.800 And he was ultimately
00:50:04.260 tragically proven right
00:50:05.520 just the day
00:50:06.100 before Thanksgiving
00:50:06.780 when the Afghan
00:50:07.880 supposed refugees
00:50:09.000 and allies
00:50:09.720 shot two of
00:50:11.100 our National Guardsmen.
00:50:12.640 J.D. Vance
00:50:13.080 was just reacting
00:50:13.760 to the fact
00:50:14.300 that our supposed
00:50:15.020 Afghan allies
00:50:16.180 and refugees
00:50:17.000 plotted a terror attack
00:50:18.800 on Election Day
00:50:20.060 of 2024.
00:50:21.420 And so you can give
00:50:22.540 all of the justifications
00:50:23.500 in the world,
00:50:24.880 dubious though they may be,
00:50:26.340 on why we really must
00:50:27.820 to bring in
00:50:28.780 Afghanis
00:50:29.780 and Somalis
00:50:30.460 and people
00:50:31.060 who are very,
00:50:32.140 very difficult
00:50:32.640 to assimilate
00:50:33.300 from third world
00:50:34.440 dangerous places
00:50:35.540 who pose a real threat
00:50:36.720 to the American
00:50:37.220 political order
00:50:37.960 and to Americans
00:50:38.980 in a very direct way.
00:50:40.600 You can come up
00:50:41.600 with all those
00:50:42.200 rationalizations you want.
00:50:43.740 But frankly,
00:50:44.300 Margaret,
00:50:44.860 we don't care.
00:50:46.140 We don't want
00:50:46.680 those people
00:50:47.200 in the country.
00:50:48.560 We're Americans
00:50:49.500 and we have a right
00:50:50.860 to our own country.
00:50:52.340 We're supposedly
00:50:53.380 a self-government here.
00:50:54.720 Don't you guys
00:50:55.500 always exalt
00:50:56.420 our sacred democracy?
00:50:58.020 Well, look,
00:50:58.880 if we don't have
00:50:59.800 a right to determine
00:51:00.680 who comes in,
00:51:02.080 who milks
00:51:02.600 the taxpayer money,
00:51:03.980 hitting the dole
00:51:04.740 and welfare,
00:51:05.800 who ultimately
00:51:07.020 get on the voter rolls
00:51:08.240 and certainly
00:51:08.920 whose children
00:51:09.340 get on the voter rolls
00:51:10.300 and who fundamentally
00:51:11.340 transform our government
00:51:12.820 and our political society,
00:51:13.960 then you know what?
00:51:14.620 We don't have a country
00:51:15.380 and we don't have
00:51:15.820 a democracy.
00:51:16.440 We don't have
00:51:16.720 anything like it.
00:51:17.520 So you can come up
00:51:18.520 with all the explanations
00:51:19.340 you want as to how
00:51:20.260 Somalia is so great
00:51:21.200 and it's just been
00:51:22.240 misunderstood for eternity.
00:51:23.700 But frankly, Margaret,
00:51:25.020 we don't care.
00:51:26.280 And that message
00:51:27.800 is the one
00:51:28.220 that's going to resonate.
00:51:29.660 Frankly, Margaret,
00:51:30.440 we don't give a damn.
00:51:31.460 Back to the bombing
00:51:33.080 of that drug vessel
00:51:34.300 that came in.
00:51:35.440 They're having a hearing
00:51:36.040 on it right now
00:51:36.760 with Admiral Bradley,
00:51:38.100 the guy who gave the order,
00:51:39.720 and Dan Raisin-Cain,
00:51:42.680 chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
00:51:43.920 Listen to what
00:51:44.360 Senator Tom Cotton
00:51:45.200 just says
00:51:45.740 after having seen
00:51:47.060 the video
00:51:48.040 of the actual strike,
00:51:49.720 the whole thing.
00:51:50.300 Watch.
00:51:52.040 Senator,
00:51:52.600 you said that the strikes
00:51:53.420 were righteous,
00:51:54.100 that there were four of them.
00:51:55.000 Would you have taken
00:51:55.520 the same shot
00:51:56.140 if you were in that position?
00:51:58.240 If I was Admiral Bradley
00:51:59.420 and I'd been delegating
00:52:00.260 that for you,
00:52:00.680 absolutely.
00:52:02.020 I'd do it again.
00:52:02.880 Was there more
00:52:03.300 than four shots?
00:52:04.580 No, there's four.
00:52:05.440 Absolutely.
00:52:06.320 He said I'd do it again.
00:52:07.180 He expanded saying
00:52:08.040 the boat strikes
00:52:08.640 were entirely lawful.
00:52:09.960 He would have conducted
00:52:10.720 the second strike.
00:52:11.480 The targets were not
00:52:12.920 non-combatants,
00:52:14.840 meaning they were combatants.
00:52:16.240 And he said Admiral Bradley
00:52:17.260 denied that there was
00:52:18.180 any kill-them-all order
00:52:19.580 given by Pete Hegseth.
00:52:21.200 The entire narrative
00:52:22.880 pushed by WAPO
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00:54:40.120 Hey, everyone.
00:54:43.680 It's me, Megan Kelly.
00:54:44.740 I've got some
00:54:45.300 exciting news.
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00:54:56.100 Along with the Megan Kelly Show,
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00:55:17.000 We are back
00:55:17.940 with Michael Knowles
00:55:18.600 of the Daily Wire,
00:55:20.420 Michael Knowles show
00:55:22.040 and still awaiting now.
00:55:23.860 We are told
00:55:24.480 that they are on track
00:55:25.460 for this 1 p.m. presser.
00:55:26.660 It's 1 p.m. exactly now
00:55:27.660 East Coast time
00:55:28.440 on the arrest
00:55:29.420 of the January 6th
00:55:30.580 accused pipe bomber
00:55:32.160 who's now in custody
00:55:34.020 named by several outlets
00:55:35.580 as Brian Cole.
00:55:37.360 There are some reports
00:55:38.160 circulating
00:55:38.680 that he is
00:55:40.280 Brian Cole Jr.
00:55:42.200 and some reporting
00:55:42.940 about Brian Cole Sr.
00:55:44.520 and what he may
00:55:45.180 or may not do.
00:55:45.900 I'm not going to get into it
00:55:46.700 until we know
00:55:47.240 it's the actual guy.
00:55:48.900 There's no point.
00:55:49.580 We'll find out
00:55:50.160 everything we need to know
00:55:51.200 soon enough.
00:55:52.080 But we are told
00:55:52.540 he was arrested
00:55:53.040 this morning.
00:55:54.460 He's in custody
00:55:55.140 and police are now
00:55:56.420 on the scene.
00:55:57.520 We just got video in
00:55:58.480 of search dogs
00:56:00.140 roaming around
00:56:02.000 the back of Brian Cole
00:56:03.640 the accused
00:56:05.020 of his property.
00:56:06.280 We're showing it here.
00:56:07.260 This is actually
00:56:08.240 from Fox News
00:56:08.960 where you can see
00:56:09.760 not much really.
00:56:11.380 It's an aerial shot
00:56:12.160 through the top of trees
00:56:13.180 down into what looks
00:56:14.400 like a modest backyard,
00:56:16.740 a small patio.
00:56:17.660 Maybe if you zoom in there
00:56:20.360 you can see dogs.
00:56:21.160 I don't.
00:56:21.540 Oh yeah.
00:56:21.840 I guess I see one.
00:56:24.420 I see people.
00:56:25.860 Maybe people and dogs
00:56:26.840 according to my producer.
00:56:28.320 There are both.
00:56:29.920 Okay.
00:56:30.440 I want to tell you this too.
00:56:31.580 Now we're getting
00:56:32.200 the thing that always
00:56:34.060 comes out, Michael,
00:56:34.980 the interviews
00:56:35.720 of the neighbors
00:56:37.000 which sometimes
00:56:38.800 are probing
00:56:39.660 and sometimes are not
00:56:41.180 but they're always
00:56:41.700 mildly interesting.
00:56:43.480 The New York Post
00:56:44.340 reporting as follows.
00:56:45.200 Calls to relatives of Cole
00:56:46.460 listed in public records
00:56:47.880 not immediately returned
00:56:48.780 but neighbors
00:56:49.260 in this suburban
00:56:50.280 cul-de-sac
00:56:50.840 where he lives
00:56:51.540 described a young man
00:56:53.140 who shunned interaction
00:56:54.440 and doted on a
00:56:56.520 wait for it
00:56:57.300 pet chihuahua.
00:57:01.500 All right.
00:57:02.860 Guilty.
00:57:03.820 I'm just going to say it.
00:57:05.780 He's very antisocial.
00:57:08.860 Very.
00:57:09.620 A woman who said
00:57:10.460 she had lived
00:57:10.960 in the neighborhood
00:57:11.380 for decades
00:57:11.920 told the Post
00:57:12.540 he keeps to himself.
00:57:14.540 He has a dog
00:57:15.260 that he loves.
00:57:16.400 He walks every day
00:57:17.320 twice a day
00:57:17.920 to 7-Eleven
00:57:18.540 with his dog
00:57:19.380 and he wears
00:57:20.200 his headphones.
00:57:21.860 He seemed very quiet.
00:57:23.240 He would never
00:57:23.620 make eye contact
00:57:24.440 almost like
00:57:25.080 he just didn't see you
00:57:26.480 added a second neighbor
00:57:27.420 a man who noted
00:57:28.460 that Cole would
00:57:29.100 quote wear shorts
00:57:30.140 all winter long.
00:57:31.480 Well so does my Thatcher
00:57:32.680 who's 12.
00:57:33.660 That doesn't mean
00:57:34.200 you're a bomber
00:57:34.720 and likes red Crocs.
00:57:37.860 I'm pretty shocked
00:57:38.640 said this neighbor
00:57:39.340 who lived in the area
00:57:40.840 for seven years
00:57:41.700 this is a very
00:57:43.180 uncommonly friendly
00:57:44.140 and neighborly place
00:57:45.080 to live.
00:57:46.180 The second neighbor
00:57:46.780 said he doubted
00:57:47.720 that Cole was the person
00:57:48.620 recorded planning
00:57:49.420 the bombs
00:57:50.340 claiming the suspect
00:57:51.140 has quote
00:57:51.760 uncommonly short legs
00:57:54.300 and a simple gait analysis
00:57:56.740 could rule him out
00:57:57.900 or confirm him
00:57:58.820 as the culprit.
00:58:00.520 Now don't be too sure
00:58:01.400 of that
00:58:01.780 because that's what
00:58:02.400 the blaze used
00:58:03.160 in order to accuse
00:58:04.460 some woman
00:58:05.220 of being the perp
00:58:06.780 and it appears
00:58:07.360 according to this FBI
00:58:08.380 that gait analysis
00:58:09.980 is not all that accurate
00:58:11.160 because theirs said
00:58:12.000 it was something
00:58:13.080 like a 96% chance
00:58:14.680 it was the actual
00:58:15.600 bomber
00:58:16.640 now being told
00:58:17.800 that's not true
00:58:18.460 by the FBI.
00:58:19.860 So you always
00:58:20.860 get the details
00:58:22.260 red Crocs
00:58:23.600 and a little
00:58:24.720 chihuahua
00:58:25.660 that he loves
00:58:27.160 and pets
00:58:28.400 all the time
00:58:29.100 but with humans
00:58:30.240 not so much.
00:58:32.200 It's always the quiet ones
00:58:33.820 Megan.
00:58:34.340 You know
00:58:34.600 this reminds me
00:58:35.900 I react to so many
00:58:37.560 news stories this way
00:58:38.720 it's always the ones
00:58:40.280 you most expect.
00:58:41.700 You know
00:58:41.920 I know our culture
00:58:42.860 tells us the opposite
00:58:43.900 but a good rule of thumb
00:58:45.640 is it's always the ones
00:58:46.880 you most expect
00:58:47.780 and I think that's why
00:58:49.120 look
00:58:49.320 we could find out
00:58:50.580 that this guy
00:58:51.560 is a Republican
00:58:52.760 we could find out
00:58:53.720 he's a conservative
00:58:54.420 I guess
00:58:55.120 we could
00:58:55.500 anything
00:58:56.200 we could find out
00:58:56.860 he doesn't have
00:58:57.480 a political motive
00:58:58.200 you know
00:58:58.500 anything is on the table
00:58:59.880 right now.
00:59:01.240 Yeah
00:59:01.320 however
00:59:01.840 the Red Crocs
00:59:02.980 the chihuahua
00:59:04.300 he was such a quiet
00:59:06.060 young boy
00:59:06.700 and
00:59:07.400 the pipe bomb
00:59:08.780 does make us think
00:59:10.360 it would seem likely
00:59:11.320 that if he has a political motive
00:59:12.720 the political motive
00:59:13.500 would be
00:59:13.920 would be more on the left
00:59:15.080 that's just in keeping
00:59:16.360 with the patterns
00:59:17.120 that we've seen
00:59:17.740 and patterns don't
00:59:19.380 you know
00:59:20.020 predict everything
00:59:20.760 but
00:59:21.440 but they're
00:59:22.340 they're rules for a reason
00:59:23.300 you know
00:59:23.520 and exceptions prove rules
00:59:24.800 also the fact
00:59:26.260 that there were pipe bombs
00:59:27.100 planted
00:59:27.480 at both the DNC
00:59:29.080 and the RNC
00:59:30.680 does suggest
00:59:31.800 anarchistic behavior.
00:59:33.480 Totally
00:59:33.920 that's very Antifa
00:59:35.060 That's Antifa's
00:59:36.660 MO
00:59:37.060 without question
00:59:38.800 and so
00:59:39.480 we don't know
00:59:40.620 if he was a quiet guy
00:59:41.640 if he wasn't
00:59:42.100 particularly social
00:59:43.100 then one wonders
00:59:44.500 if there's going to be
00:59:45.500 a heavily
00:59:45.900 online aspect
00:59:47.460 to his radicalization
00:59:48.920 to his planning
00:59:50.120 that is also
00:59:50.900 usually the case
00:59:52.060 in
00:59:52.540 left-wing terrorism
00:59:54.720 so
00:59:55.560 we don't know
00:59:56.320 for now
00:59:56.680 however
00:59:56.980 it is worth
00:59:57.520 pointing out
00:59:58.000 at this moment
00:59:58.640 before the FBI
00:59:59.520 has come out to speak
01:00:00.320 all of the details
01:00:02.080 up to
01:00:02.760 and especially
01:00:03.480 including the chihuahua
01:00:04.840 do point to someone
01:00:06.420 who would be on the left
01:00:07.540 rather than on the right
01:00:08.380 my friends listening to this
01:00:09.960 who have chihuahuas
01:00:10.880 are writing in right now
01:00:11.740 upset
01:00:12.060 we forgive you
01:00:13.400 and we don't believe
01:00:15.000 you bombed anything
01:00:15.740 okay
01:00:17.600 let's keep going
01:00:18.160 there's so much news
01:00:18.880 let's go
01:00:21.100 back
01:00:22.120 to
01:00:23.100 Ilhan Omar
01:00:24.460 okay
01:00:24.980 because there's more on her
01:00:25.860 and Trump's comments
01:00:27.660 just wanted to get a couple
01:00:29.020 of these in
01:00:29.460 Terry Moran
01:00:30.420 who's now departed
01:00:31.180 from ABC
01:00:31.760 he's very upset
01:00:32.620 he's one of the people
01:00:33.320 who thinks
01:00:33.700 Trump
01:00:35.020 has been smearing
01:00:36.220 the Somalis
01:00:37.040 unfairly
01:00:37.620 just want to give you
01:00:38.140 some color on it
01:00:38.760 here's thought six
01:00:39.580 first it's a stupid
01:00:42.520 thing to say
01:00:43.320 there are about
01:00:43.920 200,000
01:00:44.760 Somali Americans
01:00:45.720 refugees
01:00:46.260 immigrants
01:00:46.960 and American born
01:00:48.140 kids too
01:00:48.900 and they came here
01:00:50.060 because they believe
01:00:51.280 that America
01:00:51.820 keeps her promise
01:00:52.900 that this land
01:00:54.040 is big enough
01:00:55.140 and brave enough
01:00:56.200 to offer safety
01:00:57.520 and dignity
01:00:58.260 and upward mobility
01:00:59.380 to hard workers
01:01:00.740 and big dreamers
01:01:01.720 from around the world
01:01:02.840 Somali Americans
01:01:03.820 are working
01:01:04.620 hard
01:01:05.140 they're starting businesses
01:01:06.580 paying taxes
01:01:07.520 raising families
01:01:08.760 second
01:01:09.940 presidents should not
01:01:11.660 talk like that
01:01:12.640 no decent person
01:01:14.060 should call any other
01:01:15.200 human being garbage
01:01:16.280 but Trump does it
01:01:17.660 not just because
01:01:18.700 he is that kind of man
01:01:20.000 but for political reasons
01:01:21.480 he wants to drag people
01:01:23.120 down to his level
01:01:24.380 give them permission
01:01:25.640 to become the worst
01:01:27.480 version of themselves
01:01:28.620 and join him
01:01:29.800 in remaking our country
01:01:31.500 in his image
01:01:32.720 okay Terry
01:01:35.480 thanks a lot
01:01:36.980 we appreciate that
01:01:38.360 he thinks
01:01:40.240 President Trump
01:01:40.960 is out of line
01:01:42.080 and is very angry
01:01:42.820 about it Michael
01:01:43.400 thoughts
01:01:44.340 listen Terry
01:01:45.940 Ilhan Omar
01:01:46.700 is not going to
01:01:47.440 marry you bro
01:01:48.200 because she married
01:01:49.160 her bro
01:01:49.580 so she's not
01:01:50.320 she's not going to
01:01:50.940 marry you
01:01:51.400 it's not going to
01:01:52.060 happen
01:01:52.320 speaking of garbage
01:01:53.880 we can say about
01:01:55.320 arguments that if you
01:01:56.200 put garbage in
01:01:57.000 you're going to
01:01:57.300 get garbage out
01:01:58.120 if you're going to
01:01:58.500 have garbage for
01:01:59.140 your premises
01:01:59.680 you're going to
01:02:00.440 have some garbage
01:02:01.180 conclusions
01:02:01.740 and his premises
01:02:02.980 are just totally off
01:02:04.040 he says that Somalis
01:02:05.280 are hard working
01:02:06.120 they're not
01:02:06.920 they're just not
01:02:07.600 I'm not saying
01:02:08.020 there isn't a Somali
01:02:08.880 who is a hard worker
01:02:09.700 but as a group
01:02:10.540 they're not hard working
01:02:11.460 he says that they
01:02:12.540 pay their taxes
01:02:13.340 they don't really
01:02:14.600 they're not net
01:02:15.420 contributors to the
01:02:16.900 government in any way
01:02:17.860 they're largely on
01:02:19.720 welfare
01:02:20.200 the vast majority
01:02:21.480 of them
01:02:21.900 in these American
01:02:23.060 enclaves
01:02:23.640 are in poverty
01:02:24.540 and they just
01:02:25.820 don't contribute
01:02:26.420 and now there's
01:02:27.040 been this massive
01:02:27.500 scandal where they
01:02:28.100 were actually
01:02:28.500 defrauding the
01:02:29.340 government
01:02:29.600 so no
01:02:30.440 none of that
01:02:30.900 is true
01:02:31.180 but then the
01:02:31.760 broader premise
01:02:32.480 on America
01:02:33.020 is also wrong
01:02:33.780 it says they've
01:02:34.480 come here
01:02:35.040 because they
01:02:35.700 believe that
01:02:36.240 America
01:02:36.660 is going to
01:02:37.400 live up to
01:02:37.860 the promise
01:02:38.440 that if you're
01:02:39.220 a hard worker
01:02:39.980 from anywhere
01:02:40.560 in the world
01:02:41.220 you can come
01:02:42.040 here
01:02:42.340 that's not
01:02:43.640 the promise
01:02:44.200 that's never
01:02:44.840 been the promise
01:02:45.500 I don't know
01:02:45.900 where you got
01:02:46.440 that idea
01:02:46.900 that America
01:02:47.360 said we don't
01:02:48.200 have borders
01:02:48.840 everyone from
01:02:49.740 around the world
01:02:50.260 should come
01:02:50.700 here
01:02:50.880 that isn't
01:02:51.760 true
01:02:52.180 the country
01:02:52.980 was founded
01:02:53.560 a long long
01:02:54.260 time ago
01:02:54.680 it was founded
01:02:55.380 by some people
01:02:56.060 on the Mayflower
01:02:56.700 which is a great
01:02:57.300 cigar company
01:02:57.880 by the way
01:02:58.320 and they came
01:02:59.040 here in 1620
01:03:00.300 they came to
01:03:00.900 Jamestown
01:03:01.400 actually a little
01:03:01.900 earlier than that
01:03:02.720 and they said
01:03:03.920 that some people
01:03:04.980 can come here
01:03:05.640 but you got to
01:03:06.360 believe certain
01:03:07.080 things
01:03:07.460 you got to
01:03:07.720 have certain
01:03:08.040 disciplines
01:03:08.540 you got to
01:03:09.320 you got to
01:03:09.860 kind of fit
01:03:10.300 in a little bit
01:03:10.960 and then
01:03:11.660 when we had
01:03:12.480 the American
01:03:12.880 revolution
01:03:13.240 they actually
01:03:13.740 said that
01:03:14.220 just to be
01:03:14.620 clear
01:03:14.840 they actually
01:03:15.680 said that
01:03:16.160 exact thing
01:03:16.580 they worried
01:03:17.060 about people
01:03:18.060 who would not
01:03:18.520 assimilate
01:03:18.980 being let in
01:03:19.580 they did not
01:03:19.980 want that
01:03:20.360 keep going
01:03:20.820 this is why
01:03:21.820 we had
01:03:22.260 basically no
01:03:23.200 Muslims in
01:03:23.720 America
01:03:24.060 until recent
01:03:24.940 decades
01:03:25.280 no knock
01:03:26.420 on Islam
01:03:26.880 even generally
01:03:28.180 it's just
01:03:28.620 not how the
01:03:29.480 country works
01:03:29.820 they don't want
01:03:30.180 us either
01:03:30.560 right
01:03:31.820 this is just
01:03:32.720 a fact
01:03:33.140 of history
01:03:33.560 the only
01:03:34.520 American
01:03:34.920 engagement
01:03:35.340 with Islam
01:03:36.040 before recent
01:03:37.680 decades
01:03:38.040 was really
01:03:38.560 in the
01:03:38.760 Barbary Wars
01:03:39.420 when we were
01:03:40.460 making war
01:03:40.940 on them
01:03:41.220 because the
01:03:41.500 Muslims
01:03:41.740 kept
01:03:42.000 imprisoning
01:03:43.000 and enslaving
01:03:43.740 our sailors
01:03:44.460 so fast forward
01:03:45.440 to the American
01:03:45.860 revolution
01:03:46.340 in the decades
01:03:47.240 after the
01:03:47.600 American
01:03:47.820 revolution
01:03:48.260 we severely
01:03:50.120 restricted
01:03:50.960 immigration
01:03:51.620 then you move
01:03:52.720 into the middle
01:03:53.160 of the 19th
01:03:53.800 century
01:03:54.100 we opened up
01:03:55.100 immigration
01:03:55.520 a little bit
01:03:56.300 but it was still
01:03:56.880 relatively restrictive
01:03:57.820 and assimilation
01:03:58.400 was difficult
01:03:58.980 now it is true
01:03:59.840 by the end
01:04:00.240 of the 19th
01:04:00.780 century
01:04:01.020 into the early
01:04:01.480 20th century
01:04:02.120 we loosened up
01:04:03.040 immigration
01:04:03.460 considerably
01:04:04.060 and it caused
01:04:05.160 a ton of
01:04:05.680 problems
01:04:06.160 so many problems
01:04:07.300 that in the
01:04:07.620 1920s
01:04:08.280 we greatly
01:04:09.260 restricted
01:04:09.840 immigration
01:04:10.340 again
01:04:10.780 and that was
01:04:11.480 the status quo
01:04:12.440 until the
01:04:13.300 1960s
01:04:14.000 when the
01:04:14.440 Democrats
01:04:14.760 opened the
01:04:15.180 floodgates
01:04:15.620 and in that
01:04:16.820 even more
01:04:17.980 recent years
01:04:18.540 than the
01:04:18.780 Democrats
01:04:19.100 opened up
01:04:19.800 illegal
01:04:20.180 immigration
01:04:20.620 and imported
01:04:21.140 millions
01:04:21.420 and millions
01:04:21.680 of people
01:04:22.040 so even
01:04:22.740 the claim
01:04:23.140 that America
01:04:23.560 is a nation
01:04:24.020 of immigrants
01:04:24.460 that's not
01:04:25.160 true
01:04:25.520 and you'll
01:04:26.300 notice that
01:04:26.720 whenever you
01:04:27.260 point ask
01:04:27.800 for evidence
01:04:28.280 on this
01:04:28.720 they don't
01:04:29.280 point to
01:04:29.520 the Constitution
01:04:30.100 they don't
01:04:30.780 point to
01:04:31.360 the Naturalization
01:04:32.060 Act
01:04:32.360 they don't
01:04:32.900 point to
01:04:33.180 any actual
01:04:33.920 parts of
01:04:34.320 American history
01:04:34.940 they point
01:04:35.580 to this
01:04:35.820 stupid poem
01:04:36.620 on the base
01:04:37.260 of the Statue
01:04:37.820 of Liberty
01:04:38.260 written by a
01:04:39.140 socialist
01:04:39.500 that says
01:04:40.400 give us
01:04:40.740 your poor
01:04:41.060 huddled masses
01:04:41.680 that does not
01:04:42.680 have the weight
01:04:43.200 of federal law
01:04:44.000 first of all
01:04:44.580 like dumb
01:04:45.140 socialist poems
01:04:45.980 are not the
01:04:46.780 Constitution
01:04:47.300 and two
01:04:48.400 that doesn't
01:04:49.240 even actually
01:04:49.900 describe the
01:04:50.440 American tradition
01:04:51.100 on immigration
01:04:51.620 we've been by
01:04:52.880 far the most
01:04:53.380 generous nation
01:04:54.100 in the history
01:04:55.100 of the world
01:04:55.500 when it comes
01:04:55.960 to immigration
01:04:56.500 but there are
01:04:57.820 limits and I
01:04:58.660 think history
01:04:59.260 and the American
01:04:59.820 tradition should
01:05:00.740 be able to
01:05:01.120 weigh in on it
01:05:01.780 more than the
01:05:02.440 bloviations of
01:05:03.420 Terry or whoever
01:05:04.080 that guy was
01:05:04.700 I think less
01:05:06.620 about the poem
01:05:07.720 by the socialist
01:05:08.500 and more about
01:05:09.900 that brilliant
01:05:10.440 sage Homer
01:05:12.320 Simpson who
01:05:13.600 in one of the
01:05:14.000 episodes held
01:05:14.660 up a sign
01:05:15.320 Norma Ray
01:05:16.100 style that
01:05:16.700 read go
01:05:17.620 home the
01:05:18.260 country's full
01:05:19.140 that's really
01:05:20.160 where we are
01:05:20.800 today as
01:05:21.780 as all
01:05:22.420 matters Homer
01:05:23.220 Simpson has
01:05:23.800 solved it
01:05:24.400 Terry Moran
01:05:26.260 is the soul
01:05:27.020 of wit as
01:05:27.500 the bard
01:05:27.920 tells us
01:05:28.420 that's right
01:05:29.260 so he thinks
01:05:29.820 that Trump
01:05:30.240 is hateful
01:05:30.860 I mean he
01:05:31.480 just got booted
01:05:32.200 from ABC
01:05:33.080 for pretending
01:05:34.620 to be objective
01:05:35.260 when he's not
01:05:35.900 there was it
01:05:36.480 was shortly
01:05:36.800 after he posted
01:05:37.440 this tweet
01:05:38.060 about Stephen
01:05:39.120 Miller in
01:05:39.620 June the
01:05:41.180 thing about
01:05:41.500 Stephen Miller
01:05:41.900 is not that
01:05:42.300 he's the brains
01:05:42.860 behind Trumpism
01:05:43.600 though he is
01:05:45.080 but that's not
01:05:45.960 what's interesting
01:05:46.440 about him
01:05:46.800 it's not his
01:05:47.180 brains
01:05:47.420 it's bile
01:05:48.340 he's a man
01:05:49.120 who's richly
01:05:49.740 endowed with
01:05:50.360 the capacity
01:05:50.860 for hatred
01:05:51.600 a world-class
01:05:52.880 hater
01:05:53.260 you can see
01:05:54.180 this just by
01:05:54.620 looking at him
01:05:55.180 because you can
01:05:55.560 see that his
01:05:56.040 hatreds are his
01:05:56.800 spiritual nourishment
01:05:57.920 he eats his
01:05:58.960 hate
01:05:59.200 this is an
01:05:59.800 objective news
01:06:00.520 reporter
01:06:00.880 allegedly
01:06:01.720 Trump is a
01:06:02.880 world-class
01:06:03.580 hater
01:06:03.900 but his
01:06:04.640 hatred only means
01:06:05.500 is only a
01:06:06.360 means to an
01:06:06.860 end
01:06:07.160 and that end
01:06:08.060 is his own
01:06:08.640 glorification
01:06:09.320 that is his
01:06:10.600 spiritual
01:06:11.400 nourishment
01:06:12.120 so no surprise
01:06:13.600 he's at it again
01:06:14.520 trying to rip on
01:06:15.640 these people
01:06:15.960 now you made
01:06:16.420 some interesting
01:06:17.120 points about
01:06:17.700 immigration and
01:06:18.480 what the founders
01:06:19.040 envisioned
01:06:19.500 it's gone a
01:06:20.820 different way
01:06:21.420 which is not
01:06:21.960 only being
01:06:22.360 acknowledged by
01:06:23.420 people like
01:06:23.900 you and me
01:06:24.900 two MKs
01:06:26.120 but by
01:06:27.200 Wajahat Ali
01:06:28.860 who our
01:06:30.420 audience may
01:06:31.220 remember
01:06:31.640 as being one
01:06:33.120 of the three
01:06:33.640 on that
01:06:34.360 infamous
01:06:35.060 Don Lemon
01:06:36.840 clip
01:06:37.280 with Rick
01:06:38.740 Wilson of
01:06:39.260 the Lincoln
01:06:39.560 Project
01:06:39.980 and Don
01:06:40.620 where they
01:06:41.260 were mocking
01:06:41.800 Trump voters
01:06:42.560 like yeah
01:06:43.600 them smart
01:06:44.720 people with
01:06:45.460 their maps
01:06:46.840 and like
01:06:48.000 their history
01:06:48.740 that's their
01:06:49.800 version of
01:06:50.920 what Republicans
01:06:51.500 and MAGA
01:06:51.980 sounds like
01:06:52.600 completely
01:06:53.460 sneering
01:06:54.380 elitist
01:06:55.520 assholes
01:06:56.580 he has a
01:06:58.080 different thought
01:06:58.920 on immigration
01:06:59.540 and here's how
01:07:00.940 it goes
01:07:01.340 Saten
01:07:01.900 you have
01:07:04.340 lost
01:07:04.780 you lost
01:07:05.500 the mistake
01:07:06.660 that you made
01:07:07.080 is you let
01:07:07.960 us in in the
01:07:08.280 first place
01:07:08.700 there's a bunch
01:07:09.740 of us
01:07:10.040 and we breed
01:07:11.340 we're a breeding
01:07:12.400 people
01:07:12.800 and the problem
01:07:13.700 is is you let
01:07:14.600 us in in 1965
01:07:15.420 there was a few
01:07:16.120 there were a few
01:07:16.460 of us beforehand
01:07:16.920 but once you let
01:07:17.480 one of us in
01:07:17.920 you know what
01:07:19.260 happens with brown
01:07:19.720 folks
01:07:19.960 our grandmother
01:07:21.300 comes our
01:07:21.920 grandfather
01:07:22.180 comes our
01:07:22.760 uncle comes
01:07:23.240 our aunt
01:07:23.760 comes our
01:07:24.260 cousin comes
01:07:24.720 our second
01:07:25.100 cousin comes
01:07:25.560 our third
01:07:25.900 cousin comes
01:07:26.440 then we have
01:07:27.140 kids a bunch
01:07:27.720 of kids
01:07:28.040 and then guess
01:07:28.760 what we know
01:07:29.440 some white
01:07:29.700 women you know
01:07:30.380 the western
01:07:30.800 civilization women
01:07:31.460 the pure
01:07:31.820 women the
01:07:32.160 american women
01:07:32.700 the rust belt
01:07:33.660 women the real
01:07:34.120 women they like
01:07:35.160 some of us brown
01:07:35.600 folks we don't
01:07:36.380 take them they
01:07:37.240 come to us so
01:07:38.140 we're embedded we
01:07:39.140 are everywhere i
01:07:40.160 want you to
01:07:40.520 realize this you
01:07:41.520 have lost your
01:07:42.880 story is a shitty
01:07:43.800 story filled with
01:07:44.600 misery it's it's
01:07:46.020 it's filled with
01:07:46.640 bland chicken it's
01:07:47.840 filled with terrible
01:07:48.560 terrible dry ass
01:07:49.480 meat your music
01:07:50.900 sucks all your
01:07:52.380 culture sucks
01:07:53.480 nobody that's why
01:07:54.980 the kids like
01:07:55.680 listen to black
01:07:56.140 people and their
01:07:56.520 music that's why
01:07:57.020 the kids love
01:07:57.520 latinos your
01:07:58.800 parties suck because
01:07:59.780 they're monochromatic
01:08:01.040 our parties have
01:08:02.000 better food better
01:08:02.740 music better
01:08:03.260 looking women
01:08:03.660 then get out and
01:08:06.040 go back to
01:08:06.600 pakistan since you
01:08:07.960 seem to love it so
01:08:08.880 much no one will
01:08:10.780 miss you this is the
01:08:12.460 son of two pakistani
01:08:13.660 muslim immigrants he
01:08:15.560 was born and raised in
01:08:16.640 the san francisco bay
01:08:17.600 area he studied at
01:08:19.560 university of
01:08:20.060 california berkeley he
01:08:22.000 got a law degree from
01:08:23.260 the university of
01:08:23.920 california davis he's
01:08:25.700 written for the new
01:08:26.320 york times the
01:08:26.860 washington post the
01:08:27.520 atlantic cnn as an
01:08:28.900 opinion contributor and
01:08:30.340 that's his thanks to
01:08:31.780 this country that has
01:08:32.520 given him so much
01:08:33.480 given him this world
01:08:34.620 class education put put
01:08:36.060 him on tv obviously
01:08:37.420 he's a man of means is
01:08:38.960 to tell us we
01:08:39.920 americans actually suck
01:08:41.820 our country sucks our
01:08:43.180 culture sucks we can't
01:08:44.880 cook we we he wants
01:08:47.100 to take our women the
01:08:49.060 white women is that
01:08:49.780 what he means uh and
01:08:51.140 make them what like
01:08:52.180 they want to use the
01:08:53.420 white women to make
01:08:54.000 more little pakistanis
01:08:55.220 okay great see how
01:08:56.860 that works out for
01:08:57.480 you watch a hot and
01:08:59.240 by the way his
01:08:59.760 parents are a couple
01:09:01.600 of hot messes uh i
01:09:03.000 had it in front of
01:09:03.540 me the other day but
01:09:04.260 they they're they're
01:09:06.120 ex-cons i'm gonna get
01:09:07.700 my facts but they're
01:09:08.880 ex-cons and they're
01:09:10.560 deeply troubled hold
01:09:11.680 on here it is this is
01:09:13.720 what he comes from this
01:09:15.560 this guy who wants to
01:09:16.720 judge the rest of us as
01:09:17.920 like a cultureless and
01:09:19.780 problematic um stand
01:09:22.400 by i'll get it soon
01:09:23.480 after 9-11 his parents
01:09:24.680 who sold academic
01:09:25.640 software were arrested
01:09:27.140 and imprisoned for
01:09:28.540 mail fraud wire fraud
01:09:29.580 and other counts as
01:09:30.900 part of a large
01:09:31.520 microsoft anti-piracy
01:09:32.720 criminal indictment
01:09:33.500 they spent nearly five
01:09:34.860 years in prison what
01:09:36.380 does he say about it
01:09:37.160 now he says it's they
01:09:38.680 were targeted for being
01:09:39.660 brown michael knowles
01:09:41.200 they went they had a
01:09:42.520 trial they went to
01:09:44.380 prison for five years
01:09:45.600 and he wants to say
01:09:47.040 it's down to skin color
01:09:48.100 and you know what that
01:09:49.000 gets you a job at the
01:09:50.140 times and an opinion
01:09:51.780 writing gig at cnn
01:09:54.160 i find the clip
01:09:56.100 delightful for this
01:09:57.120 reason megan actually
01:09:58.060 because you know the
01:09:58.720 words they got clipped
01:09:59.740 out obviously it's a
01:10:00.360 much much longer clip so
01:10:01.320 you only heard the
01:10:01.800 highlights but he says
01:10:02.840 there he says white
01:10:03.860 people you lost and we
01:10:06.160 brown people won that
01:10:08.240 that's always the
01:10:08.940 framing here that's why
01:10:09.540 he's talking about the
01:10:10.000 white women and the
01:10:10.720 brown people he says
01:10:11.480 he says we pakistanis
01:10:13.360 were a breeding people
01:10:14.540 which if we were to be
01:10:15.560 specific we would
01:10:16.240 probably have to say
01:10:17.060 inbreeding people because
01:10:18.240 of the extraordinarily high
01:10:19.560 rates of cousin marriage
01:10:20.400 though maybe that's a
01:10:21.300 conversation for another
01:10:22.080 time and it's a thing
01:10:23.160 yeah he sure he make he
01:10:24.920 makes the point though
01:10:25.740 he says look i i wad
01:10:28.000 jihad ali view politics
01:10:29.260 as a battle between the
01:10:31.020 white people and the
01:10:31.640 brown people and we
01:10:32.960 brown people are going
01:10:33.760 to win we're going to
01:10:34.320 beat you and by the way
01:10:35.380 your country sucks and
01:10:36.220 everything about your
01:10:36.840 culture sucks it's kind
01:10:38.280 of funny because that
01:10:38.940 last bit raises the
01:10:40.160 question you say well
01:10:41.340 can't help but notice
01:10:42.740 you keep coming here
01:10:44.060 you know there's there's
01:10:45.560 no uh crisis of mass
01:10:47.140 migration to pakistan
01:10:48.480 i it all seems to be
01:10:50.080 maybe it's our forks
01:10:51.420 is that is that where
01:10:52.680 you're perhaps you're
01:10:53.860 really loving our
01:10:54.520 utensil use i get it
01:10:56.740 our working toilets i
01:10:58.440 understand that would
01:10:59.440 lure me out of a country
01:11:00.300 too but what i love
01:11:02.120 what i love most about
01:11:03.380 the clip megan is the
01:11:04.360 fact that you mentioned
01:11:05.320 earlier this guy he was
01:11:07.080 born here he was born in
01:11:08.060 california and he is in
01:11:09.860 many ways the perfectly
01:11:11.880 assimilated lib he
01:11:13.940 graduates from berkeley he
01:11:16.060 writes for these stupid
01:11:17.080 left-wing publications and
01:11:18.440 bloviates he dresses
01:11:19.640 sloppily he yeah he
01:11:21.320 looked he is the lib
01:11:22.220 par excellence okay and
01:11:24.480 yet when you push him he
01:11:27.200 has this tribal racial
01:11:29.940 tribal hatred for the
01:11:32.480 native population of the
01:11:33.840 country to which his
01:11:35.160 parents fled and i think
01:11:36.660 that that should arrest all
01:11:37.740 of us for a moment because
01:11:38.960 what it means is that
01:11:40.260 actually we should give
01:11:41.540 the libs a little bit of
01:11:42.280 credit here in the way
01:11:42.860 they talk about
01:11:43.300 immigration it means that
01:11:45.200 heritage is an important
01:11:47.340 aspect of identity i think
01:11:48.960 that's true you know my
01:11:49.900 great-grandparents great-
01:11:51.140 great-grandparents came
01:11:52.100 from italy and that does
01:11:53.800 affect me a little bit i do
01:11:54.960 feel a little bit italian
01:11:56.040 don't i my great-great-
01:11:57.040 great-great-great-great-
01:11:57.640 great-grandparents came on
01:11:58.460 the mayflower and named all
01:11:59.280 cigar company after it that
01:12:00.540 does affect me in some way
01:12:01.980 it when when black people
01:12:03.320 sometimes say that they
01:12:04.660 have difficulties with
01:12:05.620 america because their
01:12:06.340 ancestors were brought in
01:12:07.320 chains in a way i i kind of
01:12:10.020 sympathize with that it's not
01:12:11.520 an excuse for living a bad
01:12:12.640 life today but i kind of
01:12:14.060 sympathize and and what
01:12:15.140 wajahad ali is saying is
01:12:16.500 you you can be the most
01:12:18.000 assimilated lib in the world
01:12:19.460 but you know when push
01:12:21.040 comes to shove at least at
01:12:22.120 least on the left these
01:12:23.580 tribal anxieties are gonna
01:12:25.240 are gonna reassert
01:12:26.280 themselves and that means
01:12:27.700 that the the old view of
01:12:28.800 immigration is vindicated
01:12:31.040 which is that yeah identity
01:12:32.780 is really complex and when
01:12:34.280 you do take immigrants in
01:12:35.640 you got to be really cautious
01:12:37.260 about it and you have to
01:12:38.560 have in the best of
01:12:39.700 circumstances all of the
01:12:41.760 the tools in place for
01:12:43.540 people to assimilate i
01:12:44.720 think it's possible to
01:12:45.540 assimilate i don't think
01:12:46.360 assimilation is necessarily
01:12:47.420 always harmful you know
01:12:48.660 ruth assimilates she she
01:12:50.380 goes from being a moabite
01:12:51.720 to an israelite and she's
01:12:52.720 in the genealogy of christ
01:12:53.860 so i think it can happen
01:12:55.340 but you have to do it in a
01:12:57.100 really careful cautious way
01:12:58.900 and when the people like
01:12:59.800 wajahad ali come at and
01:13:01.240 tell you exactly what what
01:13:02.420 they believe and exactly who
01:13:03.540 they are we should listen
01:13:04.680 to them we say you know
01:13:05.320 what wajahad you're totally
01:13:06.480 right about immigration i
01:13:07.960 guess it's time for us to
01:13:08.840 stop it yeah you know
01:13:11.000 think of how racist it is
01:13:12.780 too michael right to say
01:13:13.820 that stuff about like we
01:13:15.760 we brown men we're gonna
01:13:16.920 marry your white women
01:13:17.920 like we're gonna marry
01:13:18.900 them we're gonna breed
01:13:19.680 like can you imagine if
01:13:21.500 somebody like me were to
01:13:22.320 say you know what wajahad
01:13:23.280 we white women would never
01:13:24.480 marry a man like you ever
01:13:25.800 we're not gonna marry the
01:13:27.040 brown men from pakistan
01:13:28.160 we're only gonna reproduce
01:13:29.360 with white americans
01:13:30.800 native born that's it
01:13:32.660 because we don't want to
01:13:33.640 make mixed babies can you
01:13:35.740 imagine what he would do
01:13:37.260 with that what the left
01:13:38.420 would do with that it
01:13:39.380 would be obviously racist
01:13:40.660 everyone would be able to
01:13:42.200 hear how racist it was
01:13:43.280 this guy will get a total
01:13:44.880 pass on the bullshit he
01:13:46.660 just said they they don't
01:13:48.040 care like we are
01:13:49.020 threatening you white
01:13:50.780 women by saying we're
01:13:52.500 gonna take you or
01:13:53.780 threatening white men by
01:13:54.820 saying we're gonna take
01:13:55.560 your women we're gonna
01:13:56.760 reproduce with them we're
01:13:57.580 gonna make brown babies
01:13:58.660 that are gonna be
01:13:59.040 threatening all of you
01:13:59.980 basically saying that you
01:14:01.980 you're afraid of us you
01:14:03.420 don't like browns you're
01:14:04.960 racist all of you and
01:14:06.760 we're going to make you
01:14:08.140 suffer by by infusing
01:14:10.920 your white women with
01:14:12.040 brown semen and create
01:14:13.660 brown babies it's so
01:14:14.880 fucked up what he's
01:14:15.940 saying um he won't be
01:14:17.900 called out by it because
01:14:19.120 everybody's too afraid of
01:14:20.360 people like wajah ali
01:14:21.480 because he's a lot a
01:14:22.660 nutcase a loon and i'll
01:14:24.640 just show you one that
01:14:26.100 clip i referenced just to
01:14:27.460 prove my point and yours
01:14:29.360 about the elitism because
01:14:30.780 this same guy who's saying
01:14:31.880 things as vile as that has
01:14:33.980 been scoffing at mocking
01:14:35.780 at sneering at maga for
01:14:38.280 years along with his pal
01:14:39.980 don lemon watch
01:14:41.020 donald trump couldn't find
01:14:44.360 ukraine on a map if you
01:14:45.220 had the letter u and a
01:14:46.420 picture of an actual
01:14:47.280 physical crane next to it
01:14:49.180 he knows that this is you
01:14:50.780 know an administration
01:14:52.180 defined by ignorance of
01:14:53.800 the world and so that's
01:14:55.940 partly him playing to their
01:14:57.520 base and playing to their
01:14:58.660 audience uh you know the
01:15:00.300 the the credulous boomer
01:15:01.820 rube demo that backs
01:15:03.020 donald trump um that
01:15:05.000 that wants to think that
01:15:06.040 that that donald trump's a
01:15:07.580 smart one in there oh
01:15:08.500 y'all y'all elitist are
01:15:09.820 dumb you will you elitist
01:15:12.620 with your geography and
01:15:13.680 your maps and your
01:15:14.960 spellings even though my
01:15:16.800 math and you're reading
01:15:17.860 yeah you're reading you
01:15:19.720 know your geography knowing
01:15:22.020 other countries sipping
01:15:23.620 your latte all those lines
01:15:26.080 on the map
01:15:26.740 only them elitist know
01:15:30.340 where ukraine is
01:15:31.500 go ahead michael they can't
01:15:35.740 even you know i see the
01:15:36.940 bit that they're doing and
01:15:37.980 some of it's kind of funny
01:15:38.880 but it is it's also funny
01:15:39.940 too they they can't build
01:15:41.480 on it the only line they
01:15:42.480 have really is just a joke
01:15:43.720 about geography and you
01:15:44.740 say hold on if you were
01:15:45.360 really the elites you'd bring
01:15:46.320 in all these other things
01:15:47.200 from literature and
01:15:48.160 philosophy and so they they
01:15:49.520 fail on their own terms but
01:15:51.160 all they really have is
01:15:52.280 resentment all they have is
01:15:54.120 contempt for their fellow
01:15:55.580 americans and i we've seen
01:15:57.580 that for a very very long
01:15:59.080 time the irony of of
01:16:01.340 wajahat's commentary in
01:16:02.880 particular is we have been
01:16:04.640 told that one of the most
01:16:05.980 dangerous racist evil false
01:16:08.660 conspiracy theories around
01:16:10.580 is the great replacement
01:16:12.280 conspiracy theory go look on
01:16:14.440 wikipedia go look anywhere
01:16:16.060 that's so true and they say
01:16:17.860 and what is the great
01:16:18.880 replacement conspiracy theory
01:16:20.020 it's that political elites are
01:16:22.240 importing people en masse
01:16:24.040 from around the world in
01:16:25.400 order to displace the native
01:16:27.100 population of america and
01:16:28.340 change the demographics and
01:16:29.940 wajahat ali comes out and
01:16:32.160 the entirety of his
01:16:33.840 commentary there is ha ha ha
01:16:36.140 we did the great
01:16:37.200 replacement ha ha the great
01:16:38.840 replacement is real ha ha ha
01:16:40.660 you lost the great
01:16:41.680 replacement that's it there's
01:16:43.040 no but he gets away with it
01:16:44.740 because he's celebrating it
01:16:45.820 so when you celebrate it it's
01:16:47.400 not it's no longer false it's
01:16:48.860 no longer racist it's good it's
01:16:50.180 true it's wonderful it's only
01:16:52.120 when you would object to it in
01:16:53.340 any way that it suddenly
01:16:54.720 switches and it becomes false
01:16:56.960 uh so you know i i saw on
01:16:59.500 msnbc the other day msnow now
01:17:01.960 that that awful woman nicole
01:17:03.560 wallace she was interviewing
01:17:04.820 someone and and uh this woman
01:17:07.240 accused trump of engaging in
01:17:09.680 ethnic cleansing with mass
01:17:11.800 deportations by deporting illegal
01:17:13.440 aliens who have no right to be
01:17:14.440 here she said that constituted
01:17:16.240 ethnic cleansing and this of
01:17:18.320 course raises a question for the
01:17:20.280 viewers which is well hold on if
01:17:22.120 it's ethnic cleansing to radically
01:17:24.060 change the demographics of a
01:17:25.640 country by taking people out
01:17:27.760 what do you call it when you
01:17:29.560 radically change the
01:17:30.380 demographics of a country by
01:17:31.720 bringing people in and it's
01:17:33.340 that it's the exact same issue
01:17:34.700 with watch out it's the same
01:17:35.800 irony of the the celebration
01:17:37.420 parallax of the great
01:17:38.740 replacement theory it seems like
01:17:40.520 they're just telling us who they
01:17:42.560 are what they believe and that
01:17:43.920 all the things they've been
01:17:44.700 calling terrible and racist and
01:17:46.220 dangerous and conspiracy theories
01:17:47.440 are actually true and they're
01:17:48.740 happy about them yeah totally
01:17:51.340 agree so back to ilan omar who
01:17:53.900 trump did rip on in his remarks
01:17:55.400 actually i didn't play that piece
01:17:56.620 of it but i'll i'll play it now
01:17:57.840 it's not thought it's not five
01:17:58.900 these somalians have taken
01:18:03.760 billions of dollars out of our
01:18:05.280 country they've taken billions and
01:18:07.440 billions of dollars they have a
01:18:09.380 representative ilhan omar who
01:18:12.180 they say married her brother it's a
01:18:16.440 fraud she tries to deny it now but
01:18:19.120 you can't really deny it because
01:18:20.480 you know it just happened and she
01:18:22.660 shouldn't be allowed to be a
01:18:23.680 congresswoman and i'm sure people
01:18:25.240 are looking at that and she should
01:18:27.340 be thrown the hell out of our
01:18:28.340 country the somalians should be
01:18:30.300 out of here they've destroyed our
01:18:32.600 country and all they do is complain
01:18:35.040 complain complain you have her she's
01:18:38.080 always talking about the
01:18:38.880 constitution provides me with uh go
01:18:44.220 back to your own country and figure
01:18:45.580 out your constitution all she does
01:18:47.880 is complain about this country so
01:18:49.940 somalia is considered by many to be
01:18:53.080 the worst country on earth i don't
01:18:55.460 know i've never i haven't been there
01:18:57.220 i won't be there anytime soon i hope
01:18:59.660 i love him i love him i mean where is
01:19:06.540 he wrong we're like it truly where is
01:19:08.760 he wrong she did marry her brother by
01:19:10.600 the way it hasn't been confirmed but
01:19:12.620 there's been reporting that they went
01:19:14.980 in depth on this and could not
01:19:17.200 disprove it that if memory serves was
01:19:19.720 the minneapolis star tribune which is
01:19:22.040 a far left newspaper which would have
01:19:24.060 had every incentive to disprove it if
01:19:26.680 they could they could not disprove it
01:19:28.160 if you wanted to disprove that i
01:19:29.960 married my brother it would be very
01:19:31.560 easy to take you about 30 seconds the
01:19:33.700 fact that they couldn't disprove it is
01:19:35.340 deeply problematic she did it not to
01:19:37.820 get herself in the country who she was
01:19:38.980 brought when she was younger but to
01:19:40.060 get him into the country um she's out
01:19:43.140 there just for a little bit more color
01:19:44.260 on it michael of course the reason
01:19:46.160 we're talking about somalia is because
01:19:47.420 these somalis who are now living in
01:19:49.060 minneapolis who've taken over that
01:19:50.340 city have committed all that fraud that
01:19:52.240 i mentioned in my sheet like 78 of the
01:19:54.440 86 people arrested for scamming the
01:19:56.640 government out of over a billion dollars
01:19:58.160 in welfare checks are somalis they're
01:20:00.460 sending these checks back home including
01:20:02.320 to al-shabab the terrorist group according
01:20:04.300 to city journal and now trump's trying
01:20:07.200 to get rid of them anybody who's not a
01:20:09.960 natural born citizen doing this um and
01:20:12.540 and here's ilan omar giving an interview
01:20:14.820 to jake tapper i think it was listen to
01:20:17.580 what she has to say about that scam by her
01:20:21.400 fellow somalis wash
01:20:22.480 to 73 is what i'm here okay can you shed
01:20:27.460 any light on why uh the fraud got so out
01:20:30.780 control in minnesota um i think what
01:20:35.160 happened um is that you know when when
01:20:38.440 you have these kind of new programs that
01:20:40.740 are um designed to uh help people you're
01:20:44.940 oftentimes relying on third parties to be
01:20:47.640 able to facilitate and i just think that
01:20:50.240 a lot of the covet um programs that were
01:20:53.000 set up uh they were set up so quickly that
01:20:55.580 a lot of the guardrails did not get
01:20:57.200 created it was the guardrails in the same
01:21:02.880 way if you drive your porsche 150 miles
01:21:05.540 an hour down the highway and you go off
01:21:07.500 an embankment it's the fault of the
01:21:09.820 guardrails for not being able to stop
01:21:12.240 you it's not your fault you know i think
01:21:15.640 covidator homework i think this is so it
01:21:18.440 shows you that there is no defense for
01:21:20.620 this whatsoever that that ilhan omar
01:21:23.180 oh no it was this there were these
01:21:24.980 programs and you know it was a really
01:21:27.280 unfortunate i mean it was you know it
01:21:29.680 rained that day and also i forget the
01:21:33.020 power went out and so it was all a big
01:21:35.500 miss hold on you're telling me systemic
01:21:37.820 community-wide fraud to the the tune of
01:21:42.300 an insane amount of money from the
01:21:44.440 taxpayers going to fund in part terrorists
01:21:47.100 overseas that was all just like a big
01:21:49.200 mistake it was all just a big
01:21:50.480 misunderstanding no guardrails it was
01:21:53.080 if only we had the guardrails it this is
01:21:55.360 what what trump was talking about what
01:21:56.540 makes trump's commentary resonate so
01:21:59.240 well other than the fact that it's
01:22:00.760 hilarious and true is is when he focuses
01:22:03.880 on the ingratitude because the ingratitude
01:22:07.780 to me is the cherry on top of this awful
01:22:11.220 migration sunday you know this is what
01:22:13.260 really pushes the issue over the edge
01:22:15.000 for people even if the somalis were
01:22:17.880 wonderfully grateful and happy for all
01:22:20.040 all the things that we've offered them or
01:22:21.700 the afghans or i don't know all the
01:22:23.220 people that we've led into our country
01:22:24.560 even if that were the case there would
01:22:26.600 still be massive massive problems with
01:22:28.520 all of the migration that we've had to
01:22:29.800 deal with the largest movement of people
01:22:31.660 ever in recorded history into this
01:22:33.240 country in 70 70 years however the fact
01:22:37.120 that they come in and we give them
01:22:38.780 everything and we tolerate them and we
01:22:40.540 tolerate in certain places the increase
01:22:42.480 in crime and then we tolerate all of the
01:22:44.460 chain migration that goes along with it
01:22:45.860 the wajahad ali cop too and we tolerate
01:22:48.260 the breakdown in social solidarity and we
01:22:50.480 we tolerate all of it and then on top of
01:22:52.720 that they're ungrateful and they defraud
01:22:55.080 us and they whine about how evil a
01:22:57.340 country it is and we they whine about
01:22:58.780 how we owe them more and they whine about
01:23:00.760 how our country was rotten from the
01:23:02.060 beginning it's just that's what pushes
01:23:03.760 people over you say look we've been so
01:23:05.960 freaking generous to you we have harmed
01:23:07.960 ourselves to be generous to you and then
01:23:10.560 you spit in our faces in such in such a
01:23:13.440 particularly offensive way uh we've had
01:23:16.720 enough no thanks we're done i i know i
01:23:19.520 and i don't want to go there you guys
01:23:20.760 can go back to somalia i don't want to
01:23:22.260 go there i hope i'm never going there
01:23:23.540 anytime soon to quote donald trump that's
01:23:25.480 it it's just enough you know what needed
01:23:28.080 happened in that clip same thing that
01:23:29.620 adam carolla did to gavin newsom in that
01:23:32.460 very famous exchange they had years ago
01:23:34.960 where he just rolled him over his claims
01:23:38.280 about homelessness in the city and try to
01:23:41.420 blame like racial disparity and adam just
01:23:44.100 kept saying what do you mean why why and
01:23:47.120 he's like well they have they use check
01:23:48.480 cashing places just the black people do
01:23:50.540 why why he just kept trying to challenge
01:23:52.500 these assertions of gavin newsom's and
01:23:54.840 gavin was wiggling it was so wonderful
01:23:57.480 adam's great at it and um jake tapper
01:24:00.860 needed to ask her it's the guardrails
01:24:03.060 why did the guardrails not invite the
01:24:06.080 americans to commit the fraud what was it
01:24:08.660 about the american neighbors to the somalis
01:24:11.840 in minneapolis that made them not take
01:24:14.620 advantage of the low guardrails how is it
01:24:17.560 the guardrails fault what is it about this
01:24:20.540 particular community that saw the guardrails
01:24:23.220 and made a different decision than their
01:24:25.780 neighbors who were american-born can you
01:24:28.760 imagine where have the fucking balls to
01:24:32.280 ask that do that that's how you make news
01:24:37.300 that's how you call out hypocrisy lies
01:24:41.420 bullshit nonsense it was the dog the
01:24:45.200 covid that ate my homework excuses it
01:24:48.020 would have been so so so gratifying to
01:24:51.500 watch of course it's megan you know there
01:24:53.900 was this awful uh story there's a million
01:24:56.060 of these awful stories but a story about
01:24:57.800 uh a so-called refugee and a somali
01:25:01.760 refugee who uh raped a teenage girl and so
01:25:05.880 he was being booked on this and the local
01:25:08.340 islamic center wrote a letter in his
01:25:10.340 defense and said no he's great we really
01:25:12.440 like him he's a good family man not a lot
01:25:14.560 of good family men i know rape teenage
01:25:15.980 girls but said no he's really great and the
01:25:18.180 key to it was they said and he's he's just
01:25:20.940 having trouble assimilating to this new
01:25:23.540 culture adapting to the new culture and if
01:25:26.640 if your culture is such that not raping
01:25:30.820 teenage girls poses a problem of
01:25:33.940 assimilation get out and i guess we just
01:25:36.580 yeah we just can't take that culture in
01:25:38.680 people who were brought up in that culture
01:25:40.200 you're out sorry sorry we're we're full
01:25:43.420 yeah homer simpson um on the subject of
01:25:47.600 attacks on young girls women on this show
01:25:52.000 yesterday we featured um amelia lewis the
01:25:55.300 nyu student who was attacked on monday by
01:25:58.140 that homeless guy was she was heading to
01:26:00.740 class 9 30 in the morning in manhattan at
01:26:03.560 nyu and her pal who's a family friend of
01:26:07.200 ours summer armstrong went to the local
01:26:10.080 liquor store in front of which it happened
01:26:13.140 and asked them if they had tape and god
01:26:14.680 bless those guys excuse me they checked
01:26:17.960 and they did they put it online i tweeted
01:26:20.740 on x yada yada they caught the guy serial
01:26:24.100 sex offender had just gotten out of two
01:26:26.260 years in jail for sexual assault this could
01:26:30.460 have been far worse now it emerges today
01:26:32.360 he had been living squatting in nyu housing
01:26:37.740 look at this report from abc 7 in new york
01:26:41.160 top 23 students reacting and what about
01:26:44.600 news from police that the man was a
01:26:47.200 squatter in nyu housing oh my god i did not
01:26:50.840 know that and had apparently according to
01:26:52.740 police broken into four other
01:26:54.800 apartments to take things to live in the
01:26:58.200 other apartment where he was squatting
01:26:59.680 that is crazy i did not know that um i
01:27:02.880 literally dorm right on that street and i
01:27:04.780 walked that street every single day and
01:27:06.420 now to find out that he was living as a
01:27:08.120 squatter
01:27:08.480 apparently according to police in nyu
01:27:11.680 housing
01:27:12.340 yeah i mean that's just extremely shocking
01:27:14.320 extremely shocking is right now we also
01:27:18.560 find out
01:27:19.260 he has a history of mental illness failed
01:27:21.320 to report to his parole officer
01:27:22.860 had multiple arrests more than 16
01:27:25.380 he committed four burglaries in the same
01:27:28.880 building
01:27:29.260 all from around 1 a.m tuesday cops said
01:27:32.920 she was attacked on monday
01:27:35.000 the theft victims included a 20 year old
01:27:37.900 man
01:27:38.160 who woke up to find that his suitcase and
01:27:40.040 backpack were missing another man 29 had
01:27:41.780 his backpack three laptops and headphones
01:27:43.720 stolen a 58 year old woman
01:27:45.040 had three grand items taken a fourth
01:27:47.480 victim a 58 year old man reported
01:27:49.040 having his
01:27:49.580 yoga mat in a water container stolen
01:27:51.920 investigators track one of the missing
01:27:54.220 laptops
01:27:54.700 discovered it was still inside the
01:27:56.200 building the laptop trapper tracker
01:27:57.800 led them straight to this guy rizzo
01:27:59.300 who was alone in a vacant penthouse
01:28:01.400 surrounded by the items that were
01:28:02.580 stolen
01:28:03.040 even the mypd not the mypd but even
01:28:05.800 the da's office of alvin bragg should
01:28:08.120 be able to prosecute that crime
01:28:09.560 and then they said when he was
01:28:11.620 arraigned
01:28:12.500 on wednesday night in manhattan criminal
01:28:14.300 court
01:28:14.600 um his defense attorney requested that
01:28:17.760 he be sprung
01:28:18.620 unsupervised release
01:28:20.400 arguing this career criminal had long
01:28:22.520 suffered from
01:28:23.040 housing instability
01:28:24.440 maybe his culture
01:28:26.480 was making it difficult for him to
01:28:28.240 assimilate
01:28:28.740 it's kind of one of those things
01:28:29.960 no his
01:28:31.140 his
01:28:31.500 his housing instability
01:28:33.480 and mental illness
01:28:34.760 made it difficult for him
01:28:36.780 and um he was ordered held without
01:28:39.420 bail but your thoughts on the
01:28:40.400 latest on here on this
01:28:41.520 housing instability so he ends up
01:28:43.960 at nyu
01:28:45.000 one of the more shocking aspects of
01:28:47.720 the story that has a lot of them
01:28:49.180 is that this freaking guy got some
01:28:51.780 of the most expensive apartments in
01:28:53.440 new york can you imagine how much
01:28:54.640 that apartment must cost
01:28:55.740 though it's a that's a nice area
01:28:57.340 around nyu this guy's just
01:28:58.740 squatting
01:28:59.140 how many people in new york would
01:29:00.940 kill to get any any apartment like
01:29:02.520 that anyway
01:29:02.940 that's a symbol actually of the
01:29:04.960 broader problem
01:29:05.620 which is that
01:29:06.580 new yorkers are subsidizing
01:29:08.480 the housing of people who
01:29:10.180 who do not deserve it
01:29:11.500 including notably many many
01:29:13.420 foreigners
01:29:13.900 it's just so pathetic
01:29:16.020 and it
01:29:17.040 it takes us all the way back
01:29:18.900 really to the declaration of
01:29:20.240 independence
01:29:20.580 why
01:29:21.540 why do we have a country
01:29:23.340 it says so in the declaration of
01:29:24.920 independence
01:29:25.160 everyone always remembers
01:29:26.400 that we have a country because we
01:29:28.000 want to you know guarantee the
01:29:29.500 rights given to us by god to life
01:29:30.980 liberty and the pursuit of
01:29:31.860 happiness but actually the
01:29:33.520 founding fathers tell us why they
01:29:35.000 launched the revolution
01:29:35.760 they they say they do so in order
01:29:38.100 to uh establish their own
01:29:40.760 peace and security so that they
01:29:43.740 can flourish as a it's about having
01:29:46.020 a good country and you cannot have a
01:29:48.600 good country you cannot have
01:29:50.220 liberty you cannot protect life you
01:29:52.360 certainly can't pursue happiness
01:29:53.640 if you don't have order and when you
01:29:56.820 have vagrants people who are getting
01:29:59.220 off on multiple crimes who are
01:30:01.840 uh being released after short jail
01:30:03.940 sentences who are squatting without
01:30:05.980 any problems who are committing
01:30:07.480 minor crimes in the streets no one
01:30:09.100 even looks at them when you have
01:30:11.120 that sort of thing trust collapses in
01:30:13.720 your society it inhibits you from
01:30:16.040 flourishing it inhibits your safety
01:30:18.040 you just you can't i mean this was
01:30:20.120 why giuliani was so successful in new
01:30:22.240 york with broken windows policing is he
01:30:24.300 said look we want liberty we want
01:30:26.180 flourishing we want but first you have
01:30:27.980 to have order and order has just totally
01:30:30.880 broken down certainly in the the
01:30:33.240 american cities but in the country
01:30:34.920 broadly and so i just think that the
01:30:37.200 liberals who are opposing law
01:30:39.520 enforcement right now what they're
01:30:41.240 undercutting is not just you know one
01:30:43.420 aspect of the law they're undercutting
01:30:45.120 all of our liberty all of our
01:30:46.560 flourishing the whole notion that we
01:30:48.440 could have a country and they're given
01:30:50.420 they're given expensive apartments to
01:30:52.280 lunatic criminals like this yeah i mean
01:30:55.080 nyu i'm sure is doing a full-throated
01:30:57.120 investigation now of how this guy
01:30:59.020 was able to squat in campus housing
01:31:02.520 and i will say this michael because
01:31:04.420 both amelia and summer were on the
01:31:07.460 show yesterday and summer had also
01:31:10.620 been attacked on the streets of new
01:31:12.200 york last may wailed in the face by
01:31:15.480 someone and i know summer and her
01:31:16.660 family very well i did not know about
01:31:18.380 this story and she told me it was
01:31:20.440 because she was traumatized by she was
01:31:22.740 humiliated and i think that's the
01:31:24.740 instinct of a lot of people you you
01:31:26.340 there's like a shame when you get
01:31:28.180 victimized you know like i don't know
01:31:29.680 why that happens but it happens it's
01:31:32.180 it's backwards you know of course
01:31:34.240 there's nothing to be ashamed about
01:31:35.520 um but i get it and i think even like
01:31:39.180 the tape of it was jarring for her was
01:31:41.520 upsetting to her in any event it was a
01:31:43.600 different assailant but both of these
01:31:45.320 girls had been attacked and assaulted
01:31:47.520 just walking around new york city i
01:31:49.580 realized new york it's not like going
01:31:51.500 to college at the university of
01:31:53.520 alabama which is amazing and pristine
01:31:56.520 but you know this is major metropolitan
01:31:58.800 city myu but still new york city used to
01:32:02.060 be it used to be relatively safe under
01:32:04.900 bloomberg and giuliani it was safe and
01:32:07.580 now what we see is you're gonna see
01:32:09.460 amelia on this tape in a minute she
01:32:10.580 circled herself in red after getting the
01:32:12.240 videotape and see the assailant come
01:32:13.980 get her look at her it's broad daylight
01:32:16.260 it's a crowded sidewalk he knew tons of
01:32:19.600 people would be there he runs up to get
01:32:21.340 her and wails on her and then when she
01:32:24.700 goes down pulls her by the hair and
01:32:27.000 people are horrified and it is like it
01:32:30.720 is a falling apart of the basic covenant
01:32:32.460 of just being a citizen in a free country
01:32:35.720 that this isn't supposed to be able to
01:32:37.880 happen and and there is a way of
01:32:39.660 stopping this a serial criminal arrested
01:32:43.060 16 times just out of prison mental
01:32:45.220 illness yet again we see we had the
01:32:47.380 police commissioner of nyc is saying
01:32:49.620 before all this there's only so much
01:32:51.740 the cops can do about mental illness
01:32:53.040 and she's right we need to lock these
01:32:55.780 people up in facilities from which they
01:32:58.580 are not allowed to leave even if they
01:33:00.640 haven't committed a crime i'm sorry but
01:33:02.540 the rest of us have rights as
01:33:05.300 recognized by that declaration you you
01:33:07.240 mentioned that are not being
01:33:08.400 protected protected yes well i'm sorry
01:33:11.200 i want you to i want you to respond to
01:33:12.660 this but the fbi presser of course
01:33:14.040 starting right now standby standby watch
01:33:15.680 good afternoon good afternoon as you
01:33:22.920 all know now early this morning brian
01:33:26.180 cole jr was arrested and charged with
01:33:29.640 placing the pipe bombs at the rnc and
01:33:33.020 the dnc on january 5th 2021 he has been
01:33:38.040 charged with violating 18 usc 844 which
01:33:42.260 is use of an explosive device this
01:33:45.260 investigation is ongoing as we speak
01:33:48.720 search warrants are being executed and
01:33:51.380 there could be more charges to come i'm
01:33:53.860 going to let our u.s attorney discuss
01:33:55.420 that shortly this was the work of
01:33:58.360 multiple agencies working together this
01:34:02.160 morning's operation was carried out
01:34:04.420 safely and successfully we know that
01:34:07.540 there is there are so many issues when
01:34:10.980 you're issuing search warrants dangerous
01:34:13.840 things can happen and this was carried
01:34:15.860 out safely and secure securely thanks to
01:34:18.960 all of the people standing around me they
01:34:21.860 have worked tirelessly on this today's
01:34:24.720 arrest happened because the trump
01:34:26.960 administration has made this case a
01:34:29.960 priority the total lack of movement on
01:34:34.380 this case in our nation's capital undermined
01:34:38.380 the public trust of our enforcement agencies
01:34:43.420 this cold case languished for four years
01:34:48.260 until director patel and deputy director
01:34:51.180 bongino came to the fbi the fbi along with
01:34:57.220 u.s attorney piero and all of our prosecutors
01:35:00.620 have worked tirelessly for months sifting
01:35:04.780 through evidence that had been sitting at
01:35:08.200 the fbi with the biden administration for
01:35:11.460 four long years let me be clear there was no
01:35:15.840 new tip there was no new witness just good
01:35:20.140 diligent police work and prosecutorial work
01:35:23.960 working as a team along with atf capital
01:35:27.820 police metropolitan police department and of
01:35:31.980 course the fbi we are working every day to
01:35:36.380 restore the public's trust we hope that
01:35:39.860 today is a significant step towards that
01:35:43.020 progress we'll share more information when
01:35:46.620 when we can and when it unfolds i cannot
01:35:50.300 stress enough how hard director patel and
01:35:53.980 deputy director bongino have worked for
01:35:56.620 months to make our nation's capitals safer
01:36:00.780 and to make our country safer i'd like to introduce now director patel
01:36:07.820 thank you general when you attack american citizens
01:36:13.260 when you attack our institutions of legislation
01:36:16.620 when you attack our nation's capital you attack the very
01:36:20.140 being of our way of life and this fbi and this department of justice stand here
01:36:25.260 to tell you that we will always refute it and combat it we will
01:36:28.860 provide the safest country the nation has ever seen under
01:36:32.060 president trump's leadership here and that's what we did here today with
01:36:35.180 great resolve on a case of massive public importance as it should be an
01:36:39.260 individual who's now alleged to have placed multiple explosive devices
01:36:43.100 to blow up multiple people and multiple officials innocent civilians is now
01:36:48.460 arrested thanks to the brave men and women of the fbi and the inner agency i want to take a
01:36:54.140 moment to thank the metropolitan police department the united states capitol police
01:36:58.860 our brave prosecutors the department of justice and our leader attorney general
01:37:02.060 pam bondi and u.s attorney janine pirro whose relentless work on this case
01:37:07.500 made this possible as the attorney general said we did not discover any new information
01:37:13.180 what we did an investigation spearheaded by the deputy director and the adic of our
01:37:18.380 washington field office brought in a new team of investigators and experts re-examined
01:37:23.500 every piece of evidence sifted through all the data something that the prior administration
01:37:29.260 refused and failed to do as a result of that we generated numerous investigative leads
01:37:34.860 executed multiple legal process with their u.s attorney partners and came to this conclusion today
01:37:40.620 and that is why we were able to safely secure this individual into custody remember we are dealing with
01:37:47.980 an individual who is alleged to have made bombs we cannot do this sort of takedown in haste because
01:37:54.700 it endangers the lives of law enforcement and this fbi will never allow the lives of law enforcement and
01:38:00.620 our prosecutors to be put in jeopardy this execution was flawless in terms of teamwork resilience and just
01:38:08.860 a good old-fashioned way of police getting the job done when you let good cops be cops this is what happens
01:38:16.860 i'm eternally grateful to the team behind me to the leadership at the fbi who made this possible but
01:38:23.260 i do want to highlight when i introduced the deputy he made this case and so many others including summer
01:38:28.620 heat his priority to come in here and solve it for the american people and today i'm proud to stay in
01:38:35.340 here before you and say we solved it he will have his day in court the american public and the world will
01:38:41.900 learn even more information through the legal process as we have committed under this attorney
01:38:46.860 general we are the most transparent law enforcement operation in u.s history but we are also going to
01:38:52.380 make sure accountability is delivered to its fullest extent and that happens in the courts of law with
01:38:57.340 our u.s attorneys and our prosecutors so we will divulge information when it is prudent and
01:39:01.740 constitutionally permissible while upholding the safeguards of this case to make sure that the
01:39:06.780 people that this individual intended to victimize get the accountability to deserve and most importantly
01:39:12.940 to deliver on president trump's promise to secure our nation's capital and the rest of the cities
01:39:17.820 in this country to make sure that americans are allowed to go out free and securely in their
01:39:22.860 neighborhoods and that people around the world are allowed to visit our nation's capital and they
01:39:27.580 now have that trust thanks to the leadership of the fbi the washington field office and i'm honored
01:39:32.860 now to introduce to you deputy director bongino who spearheaded this investigation
01:39:41.020 thank you all for being here for this critical investigation we've been working on for a very
01:39:44.780 long time we deeply appreciate it thank you for the kind words attorney general and director i appreciate
01:39:50.860 it folks this is what it's like when you work for a president who tells you to go get the bad guys
01:39:56.060 and stop focusing on other extraneous things not related to law enforcement this is what happens we had a
01:40:01.340 great team i know it's said a lot in this business it was a team effort becomes cliche but cliches are
01:40:07.100 useful for a reason because they matter and this was a team effort uh the director and the attorney
01:40:12.300 general emphasized that it was not a new public tip this came from this was our internal work at the fbi
01:40:18.940 and i want to just um really express my sincere
01:40:22.780 von gino up at the microphone there
01:40:28.780 down others went down so we'll try to get it back but
01:40:31.900 look nothing was said nothing there was a lot of back padding just but it's a good day for it for them
01:40:39.740 let's not let's not begrudge the fbi a moment of celebration as they announced they have caught what
01:40:44.860 they say is the pipe bomber brian cole jr uh charged him under 18 usc 844 with use of an explosive device
01:40:53.500 more charges to come potentially uh saying this cold case pam bondy attorney general languished for
01:41:00.700 four years until director patel and deputy director bongino came to the fbi um miss bondy also saying
01:41:08.940 that search warrants are being executed right now on his property that we will share more info when
01:41:14.940 we can and when it unfolds is suggesting that the legal documents submitted at his arraignment later
01:41:21.100 will have the details of why they believe it's him i guess we learned next to nothing new about him
01:41:26.300 in that presser michael but notwithstanding the fact that the fbi did a lot of you know
01:41:30.940 go go us it is kind of a day for go us over at the fbi and they've certainly taken a lot on the chin
01:41:37.180 since they got in there they certainly have the question on all of our minds is why didn't they
01:41:42.860 tell us anything about him and uh there there are two potential reasons for that i think one is they
01:41:48.700 might just not know you know they just arrested this guy they're executing more search warrants
01:41:52.860 so they might not know and that that is without question the that should be the the first place that
01:41:58.300 we go to however let's say that they do know something and everyone's going to try to speculate
01:42:03.980 is the information that they have suggesting that he's on the right or is it suggesting that
01:42:08.460 he's on the left it seems to me from the fact that we haven't really heard anything about him from the
01:42:13.020 fbi probably the evidence puts him on the left because if there were a ton of evidence i'm now i'm
01:42:20.060 going to put on my real cynical politician hat if there were evidence placing him on on the right i think
01:42:26.860 it would probably behoove the administration to release any information whatsoever that could complicate
01:42:32.700 the story and put him onto the left or make his political motivations ambiguous the fact that
01:42:37.740 they've told us nothing they say look we're gonna we're gonna release the biographical information
01:42:42.300 when it is prudent to do so we don't want to compromise the investigation we don't to to me
01:42:47.260 suggests if there is evidence about a political motivation probably it is that he's on the left
01:42:53.340 and that we'll hear about that soon enough and that would back up all of the information we had
01:42:57.500 even before the press conference which was most of the information that we're going to get period
01:43:01.180 uh but let's not forget we didn't know anything about this guy for five years and it might be the
01:43:05.820 case that we might not know anything about this guy for five years and a week or two weeks or two
01:43:10.220 months i want to hear the building blocks of how they found him you know like i want to hear exactly
01:43:14.700 what they saw in those files that led them to this guy and you know what we may indeed hear all of that
01:43:21.980 because as of right now we are scheduled to have a sit down with cash patel on this show tomorrow
01:43:31.100 so he's agreed to do an interview with us and i'm gonna ask him all those questions and it will be
01:43:36.540 post arraignment so we should have more details and we should be able to get all the little breadcrumbs
01:43:42.060 that led them right to this guy was it just a matter of sheer will and determination and you know good
01:43:48.220 old-fashioned police work you know why all i keep thinking about michael are those burn bags of
01:43:53.340 information they found in some old room that comey had at the fbi um you know like and then chris ray
01:44:00.700 like what why why were those there what was this a disorganized dysfunctional group or just a nefarious
01:44:09.100 group that was actively ignoring this case because they didn't like where it was leading we really don't
01:44:14.060 know but i mean with government incompetence 99 of the time is your best bet we just don't know yet
01:44:20.460 here and i'm fascinated to hear him explain it to us there is this question as to how the us marshals
01:44:26.700 were able to track down the cell phones of every single person who ever even had a thought about
01:44:31.580 traveling to the capital on january 6th and you know arrest them in their showers six months later
01:44:36.540 but this guy we've just known nothing about for five years i agree with you megan it certainly could
01:44:42.700 be incompetence but knowing what we know about the doj and the fbi under biden it's it's and i'm
01:44:48.860 sorry under under democrats really for for a very long time it's hard for me to believe that and i
01:44:55.180 that's a great interview tomorrow that's very impressive i think the only way i could scoop you
01:44:58.780 on ratings is if if i could get brian cole to sit down for an interview but otherwise that is going to
01:45:03.020 be must listen i i can't wait to hear it thank you you might be able to get brian cox who actually was
01:45:09.180 a very interesting guest and told us a lot about that ship i literally almost fell out of my chair
01:45:14.620 when i saw i saw the name in my in my head i read it as brian cox i'm like holy shit he was just on the
01:45:20.140 show he he fooled me too wow yeah not not it brian cox is a distinguished man of service who we really
01:45:27.820 admire not to be confused with cole who is now under arrest for um use of an explosive device okay the
01:45:36.300 feed got back up but they were still just doing a bunch more back patting darren cox the assistant
01:45:42.140 director in charge of the fbi washington field office says they went through three million lines
01:45:47.340 of data as part of the investigation but again nothing more specific than that um what what's
01:45:54.300 our timing steve do we have to go i know michael has to go okay that's what we'll do i know michael
01:46:00.380 you're gonna have to leave we're gonna go back to this presser and continue monitoring it thank
01:46:03.340 you my friend it's great to see you today as always excellent to be with you megan i look
01:46:07.500 forward to that interview tomorrow okay good i got it covered yeah i will continue to pursue back in
01:46:12.220 every resource that we have to ensure that the dc pipe bomber is brought to justice thank you
01:46:24.540 you keep hearing the words partnership and team and that's what we are and we could not do this
01:46:30.780 without our u.s attorney janine pierrot janine from day one has worked tirelessly for our country and
01:46:38.140 for our nation's capital it's my honor to introduce my friend u.s attorney janine pierrot
01:46:45.660 thank you very much attorney general and you have been listening to a lot of thank yous and a lot of
01:46:51.660 gratitude the reason that we're thanking each other to the extent that we are today
01:46:57.740 is because we have seen in this case an incredible collaboration around the clock in the middle of
01:47:07.660 the night it doesn't matter we call each other we make contact they need a warrant they need something
01:47:15.660 someone wants legal advice these are the men and women who never give it up you hear about government
01:47:23.980 employees but i don't know if you really realize what it is that they do they are incredible and this case
01:47:33.660 is big four years 10 months and 28 days ago an individual placed a bomb in the vicinity of both the rnc
01:47:44.060 and the dnc and for that amount of time that individual evaded accountability
01:47:50.540 today as a result of the cumulative efforts of the men and women in the fbi and the police department
01:47:59.180 and the department of justice we are finally able to make an arrest of an individual by the name of brian
01:48:06.860 cole as the attorney general has indicated he is uh arrested for transporting an explosive device
01:48:14.700 and interstate commerce as well as the attempted malicious destruction by means of explosive materials
01:48:23.180 you know folks this case involved millions of pieces of data and it is a huge win because it was like
01:48:33.020 finding a needle in a haystack so much of this evidence was uh very specific but a lot of it was also
01:48:43.900 very general for example there were 233 000 black end caps of the type that were used in this case
01:48:56.140 i want you to think about the fact that the fbi had to go through the sale of every one of them
01:49:03.180 to try to find commonality with an individual along with the purchase of the the the pipe itself the cap ends
01:49:13.820 the wires the steel and the nine volt batteries every one of those had to be mined and remind to the point
01:49:22.620 where we were able to then connect and make no mistake it was this administration it was this president
01:49:31.420 who made the decision that we were going to use all of our efforts to get it done and get it done they
01:49:39.020 did finally let me say this today begins the formal process of accountability where this defendant will
01:49:50.060 begin his journey through the criminal justice system and i pledge to you that the united states
01:49:56.940 attorney's office will take this case across the finish line again thank you to the incredible work
01:50:04.780 of the fbi to the attorney general and to our local partners as well this is a job that i think was well done
01:50:17.100 thank you president trump's directive to all of us was to not only make america safe again
01:50:22.140 but dc and to make it safe and beautiful we could not have done that without our partnership with mayor
01:50:29.260 bowser and chief smith it is my honor to introduce metropolitan police department chief smith
01:50:40.460 good afternoon and thank you everyone i am chief pamela smith chief of police of the metropolitan
01:50:44.940 police department thank you attorney general bondi uh us attorney janine pierrot and fbi director patel
01:50:53.420 for having me here today for nearly five years the agency standing here today have worked together
01:51:00.060 under the leadership of the fbi to locate our suspect who is responsible for the two pipe bombs that were
01:51:05.740 placed around our city mpd members assigned to the fbi's joint terrorism task force have supported this
01:51:12.540 case from the beginning that supports include looking reviewing and going through countless probably
01:51:20.220 thousands of hours of cctv footage from around the dnc and rnc headquarters and they followed up on
01:51:27.820 hundreds and thousands of leads from members of our communities what i will say today is that
01:51:32.940 washingtonians can rest easier today knowing that the suspect responsible for this act is now in
01:51:40.140 custody this morning's arrest is yet another reminder that committing any act with the
01:51:46.700 intention of harming the residents and visitors of the district of columbia will result in your arrest
01:51:52.780 the men and women of the metropolitan police department the fbi the atf the u.s capitol police
01:51:59.740 and certainly the prosecutors at our u.s attorney's office will go to the furthest length i heard somebody
01:52:05.900 say to the end of the earth but thank god we didn't have to go to the end of the earth today
01:52:09.820 that we were able to bring this subject into custody i want to commend the men and women of
01:52:15.580 the fbi and the members of the metropolitan police department and all of the agencies who are standing
01:52:21.340 behind me today on a job well done i will turn it over now to attorney general bondi we're going to
01:52:28.540 take some questions just remember as i said in the beginning this is ongoing it's very active
01:52:34.300 the search warrants are still being executed many charges potentially to come so just keep that in
01:52:40.460 mind when asking your questions jake fox news um so you said it'd been nearly five years we all know
01:52:47.500 that and that you said there have been no new evidence so can you say anything about the evidence
01:52:52.380 that actually did lead to this arrest and then secondarily you're talking about additional charges
01:52:57.660 possibly can you say what those you might be considering or terrorism charges or what we can't discuss
01:53:02.780 new charges of course yet ongoing but what i will say is this is why this was so incredibly important
01:53:09.340 more than any other cases this is in our nation's capital where this happened and now thanks to the fbi
01:53:15.900 we know that this defendant was living just miles away from here in virginia so as to the evidence in
01:53:23.180 the case i'm going to let director patel take that but it's still very active and very ongoing
01:53:27.820 thank you general and as i stated earlier and as the general has already reiterated our job is
01:53:34.780 to provide full accountability in the court of law with uh judge piero's team and in order to do that
01:53:40.140 we have to preserve the chain of custody and evidentiary value what i will say generally is that when you go
01:53:45.900 through three million lines of information you all can think about the amount of cell phone data that
01:53:50.780 has to be ingested and triangulated and dumped and received you also have to think of just sheer human
01:53:56.460 ingenuity we brought in a team of experts who were the best at what they do in their specific fields
01:54:01.820 to reevaluate that evidence to dive back in and to not come back with a no for an answer until they
01:54:07.420 had found the suspect and when you develop evidence you get a search warrant and when you get a search
01:54:11.660 warrant you get an address and when you get an address you hit the house and that's what we did
01:54:15.180 uh city wall street journal hi there um so what can you tell us about this person's motivations and
01:54:24.460 whether they were driven by politics or any other for any other reason why right now it's ongoing again
01:54:30.540 we just executed the search warrant early early this morning it's ongoing but america's safer dc's safer
01:54:37.740 because he's in custody uh mary margaret uh thank you so much so any theory on why kamala harris is
01:54:45.980 never mentioned coming within 20 feet of being assassinated and any news on why her secret service
01:54:50.780 team took so long to find this bomb at the dnc no but what what i what i will tell you is that evidence
01:54:57.740 has been sitting there collecting dust this wasn't a new tip it wasn't some new evidence it was the hard
01:55:05.980 work of president trump's administration deputy director bongino and director patel i watched
01:55:13.740 them from day one come in here and say we are going to solve this crime and they did working hand in
01:55:21.100 hand with u.s attorney piero and all of our great attorneys uh pierre there you see um general body
01:55:29.740 director patel or deputy director bongino can you describe was there a particular moment
01:55:36.540 where the evidence is coming in and it's starting to look like progress is being made which what was
01:55:42.700 the moment that you knew that you were on the road to solving the case
01:55:49.900 dan you want to take that yeah sure yeah i was smiling at you because i certainly remember the moment
01:55:55.980 darren remembers it too he said are you sitting down called me on the phone i said oh boy why is this bad
01:56:03.100 news and he said i think we got him um what exactly that tip was i i'm gonna have to pass on that for
01:56:13.820 right now while we're still there's obviously we're in the prologue of a long book this is just the
01:56:19.020 beginning this is not the end of the investigation as you all well know haven't reported on these for a
01:56:23.580 long time there's interviews to be conducted the search warrant processing scene is not even done so we're
01:56:29.660 at the early stages so that's the only reason i hesitate tell you what the exact tip was but yes
01:56:35.100 that was absolutely the moment and it was due to the diligent and incredible work of a team
01:56:41.740 in the washington field office that came in and just scoured through this over and over and over and over
01:56:48.220 again in general was it forensic was it a phone call was it something about a vehicle i'd rather
01:56:55.900 i i will just leave it generally forensic evidence yeah it's fair enough to say
01:57:02.060 excuse me how long ago that was um i'd rather not say because of the ongoing interview process and i don't
01:57:08.060 want to i just want to add something to tell you how thorough this team was
01:57:13.980 that that moment that was kind of like the aha moment that wasn't the end this team continued to
01:57:22.860 work and work and work to get every bit of evidence that we could get we didn't stop at that moment and
01:57:29.900 that's a testament to the fact that the team wanted every possible evidence piece of evidence that they
01:57:36.140 could gather thank you so much have you recovered the notable sneakers uh have you um done surveillance
01:57:50.620 of this suspect uh from that aha moment to when you exercise the search warrants today and obviously this
01:57:58.700 happened on january 5th into january 6th how should the public look at this case separate from all of the
01:58:05.900 cases related to what transpired on january 6th and the president's subsequent parties i'm going to
01:58:11.980 let director patel take the evidence part we have to be careful again um you've asked very good
01:58:16.940 investigative questions but this is ongoing very active but america should feel safer today we say a
01:58:23.660 pipe bomb these are bombs these were live active bombs that were placed in washington dc director
01:58:30.780 thank you uh this shows you how much detail you and the american public have paid paid attention to
01:58:37.260 this case of course we analyzed everything that you're seeing on this poster board and information
01:58:43.580 that you will see um through the formal charging process and court process but we want to let that
01:58:48.860 evidence speak for itself because again we do not want to disrupt the accountability that we owe the
01:58:54.700 american public yes you heard about the cell phone tower data yes you heard about of course we surveil
01:58:59.580 individuals who we think we're going to blow up american citizens but how and when we do it and
01:59:04.300 why we do it is not something we're ever going to reveal unless the department of justice deems it fit
01:59:08.700 at trial so we appreciate your attention to detail and your hardcore investigative work but you can just
01:59:14.460 imagine some of those same skills are being utilized by this fbi this department of justice our partners
01:59:19.660 the atf and everybody across the board and this is an interagency win for the american people
01:59:23.900 radar before thank you all and and one more thing this is the best birthday present i think deputy
01:59:30.620 director bongino could ask for today happy holidays merry christmas thank you
01:59:39.820 wow an extraordinary day for the country for the fbi and for justice um now being told that they do have
01:59:48.060 brian cole in custody that he is the alleged pipe bomber of january 5th 2021 and we did that time get
01:59:57.420 a bit more information not a ton but some saying that they went through millions of pieces of data
02:00:04.220 they said it was like finding a needle in a haystack uh pointing out that there were two this is janine
02:00:10.780 piero mentioned there were two hundred i think it was janine 233 000 black end caps like the caps
02:00:18.060 you put on a pipe that they had to look through like the purchases of those the nine volt battery she
02:00:25.020 mentioned the pipes themselves we went through it all to connect the dots she said um then they go they
02:00:32.540 went on excuse me cash patel adding three million lines of info cell phone tower info uh that we brought
02:00:43.740 in a team of experts to come back in and pour over all of this information we told them we would not take
02:00:50.780 no for an answer find the suspect um then saying pam bondi saying this evidence has been sitting
02:01:00.940 there collecting dust under joe biden it was the hard work of dan bongino and cash patel that got it
02:01:07.420 done janine piero um saying this team came back and worked to get every possible piece of evidence
02:01:15.420 the question by kelly o'donnell who was she still with nbc i don't watch mainstream media anymore
02:01:22.300 uh asking if they recovered the sneakers if they recovered uh if they did any surveillance
02:01:27.500 and cash basically saying yes without saying yes he said this fbi absolutely does surveil someone who
02:01:33.500 wants to blow up hundreds of thousands of americans and uses cell phone tower data too
02:01:41.180 you can you can assume some of those techniques were used in this case we're going to learn more
02:01:46.060 today i believe at this i believe we're going to see the we'll have an arraignment we'll have some
02:01:51.820 court proceeding later today we'll see the supporting affidavit in support of the arrest by the arresting
02:01:57.500 officer of the fbi agent similar to the way we did in brian kohlberger and that will spell out exactly
02:02:03.740 how they got the arrest warrant for this guy so we're going to know a lot more by the time cash
02:02:07.820 hopefully we'll be sitting down with this this time tomorrow he's agreed just you know you never know
02:02:10.940 he's busy um then there was that great moment where the reporter asked how did just tell it was a
02:02:21.420 clever question because they weren't answering any of the substantive questions so he said can you at least
02:02:25.260 tell us what the moment was like when you realized oh mg i think we got him and dan bongino telling
02:02:32.140 the story about being called by uh one of the fellow fbi supervisors and who asked dan are you sitting
02:02:39.420 down dan thinking it was gonna be bad news and the guy saying i think we got him uh then they pointed out
02:02:46.620 search warrant is right at this moment still being executed so they can't share the exact tip
02:02:53.100 or comment that followed that but did say it was forensic evidence it was forensic that could mean
02:02:59.900 anything um i'm not sure exactly what it means it sounds like it goes back to the analysis they were
02:03:07.500 taking the pipes they were taking the the cap ends the nine volt batteries all these things that had
02:03:14.860 had to be purchased and they i guess we're assuming it was purchased in the metropolitan dc area they
02:03:20.940 probably started there and then you try to see whose credit card paid for what you try to match up
02:03:25.500 those receipts there'd be millions of them you know 233 000 for the black end caps alone cross-reference
02:03:34.140 trying to figure out whether you know one person is on more than one list and before you know it
02:03:39.820 you've you've got uh maybe a couple of profiles and then you see height right you try to figure out
02:03:48.860 uh who could i rule out this person has died since then this person whatever a six foot four
02:03:56.940 this person has a travel record stamped by immigration showing he was in italy at the time
02:04:01.980 right that kind of thing i mean that that's old-fashioned police work that could get you a very
02:04:05.820 narrow list and then possible surveillance i mean one of the things they said they were concerned
02:04:09.980 about is if they're executing the active search warrant right now in this guy's backyard they're
02:04:14.300 worried about bombs i mean this guy clearly knows how to make them if this is the right man
02:04:20.060 and so everyone needs to be careful the agents who are on site are potentially endangered
02:04:25.660 so are the dogs so is the neighborhood and um so everything has got to be handled just right
02:04:31.980 i think they handled this well because they needed to tell people that they made an arrest it was going
02:04:35.180 to leak anyway but they didn't get too far ahead of their skis by saying anything that could compromise
02:04:40.540 the investigation prior to actually charging him in court and then passing the baton to janine pirro
02:04:47.660 the u.s attorney now for the district of columbia look it was a great day for the fbi and i didn't
02:04:53.420 realize it was dan's birthday happy birthday to him such a sweetheart he's had a rough few few months
02:04:58.300 down there too i don't think any of them really loving being in government you can't blame them
02:05:03.420 does it look fun it doesn't look fun to me dan had a great life sort of cash on the outside they did
02:05:10.540 this for all of us they've received nothing but shit for saying yes i mean nothing like people turned
02:05:18.860 on them in an instant suggesting they'd gone deep state because they came out on epstein and said
02:05:25.100 like we actually think he did kill himself they like they were not to be forgiven for drawing that
02:05:30.300 conclusion it's been really crazy how people reacted to them i think they're trying to do their job as
02:05:35.820 law enforcement officers hasn't been flawless but it's been very solid those arrest stats that we read
02:05:40.540 the other day from cash were really impressive and this is amazing assuming they have the right guy
02:05:44.940 guy and then it'll play out but this is amazing thank god this person is under arrest this was a
02:05:50.220 crime that should not have gone punishment free um or and without identification of this suspect who
02:05:56.460 knows what this guy would have done next who knows whether that would have been his alleged crime his
02:06:00.180 last alleged crime and i for one can't wait to find out exactly exactly what it was that led them
02:06:07.420 to him okay i'm gonna hand it over to my pal emily jashinsky she's here she's gonna be hosting the
02:06:12.580 megan kelly show wrap-up program and there's so much to discuss i don't can i talk to emily or is
02:06:18.180 that not possible have we not figured out that technology i can't talk to her only you can talk to
02:06:22.740 her so you can call in now and talk to one of the ej's emily jashinsky uh host of the mk wrap-up show
02:06:29.460 thanks to all of you for listening don't forget to tune in tomorrow when we believe we will have
02:06:34.260 cash patel live thanks for listening to the megan kelly show no bs no agenda and no fear
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