Pelosi Bodycam Footage Revealed, and Pfizer Exec Caught on Tape, with Michael Knowles and Mike Baker | Ep. 481
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Summary
Project Veritas releases a new video featuring a top Pfizer executive, speaking freely and alarmingly about the company's research and development efforts. When challenged by James O'Keefe's undercover reporter, Jordan Tristan Walker, walks back what he said on camera and denies it. Megynkelleknecht and the Daily Wire's Michael Knowles join host Meghan Kelly to discuss.
Transcript
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Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, your home for open, honest, and provocative conversations.
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Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show and happy Friday. We made it.
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We are awaiting at this hour the release of the body cam footage and other videos in the Paul
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Pelosi home invasion case. They did not want to release this stuff, but a bunch of media
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organizations took to the court to demand it and they won. It is expected to drop at any moment.
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Noon is the time it's expected, which it is now, and we will bring it to you as soon as we get our
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hands on it. This comes as another video is breaking the internet, as they say, the latest in the Project
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Veritas undercover investigations featuring a top Pfizer executive. This is the guy in charge of
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research and development, speaking very freely and, you could argue, alarmingly. When he's
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confronted by James O'Keefe, you know, that moment when James O'Keefe sort of pops out of the shadows,
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things get really uncomfortable and kind of violent. Joining me now is Michael Knowles,
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host of The Michael Knowles Show over on The Daily Wire. Michael, so, so glad to have you here. How are
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you? Megan, great as always to be with you. Thank you for having me. Don't you love James O'Keefe? I
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mean, he's just such a, he's a muckraker, right? He's just a stirrer of all sorts of excrement in a
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great way. You know, in this clip in particular, James O'Keefe proves that he is the Chris Hansen
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of politics. When he walks into that room, he says, hey, mind if I have a seat right over here?
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What are you doing here? Are you, do you work for Pfizer? And then actually, Megan, just moments ago
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before I came on, a classmate of mine reminded me that I actually went to college with this guy,
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this Pfizer executive was a year below me in college and which makes perfect sense now because
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he has absolutely all the characteristics of so many of my more aggressive activist liberal
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classmates, which is that he's extremely ambitious, extremely cynical, willing to lie the first chance
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that it suits him, outraged whenever he faces consequences for his actions. And then by the very
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end of that, uh, that expose, he says, well, I'm, I'm lying. I was just, I'm a liar. I was lying on
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this date. Nothing I said on camera was true. And I thought, buddy, that's not a great defense of
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yourself. If your defense is that I can't believe you, uh, I'm going to have to go with the video.
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Exactly. Exactly. I'll accept the spirit of your remarks. However, they don't apply to the part
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you're referring to Yale. Right. Michael, if memory serves, it's really, really, uh, decayed from those
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early days of Eli. I don't, something, something's going on in new Haven. They got to figure out
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they're not sending it. Now my God, they'd say, Michael, well, good God. No, he wouldn't even let
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him step foot on campus. All right. So let's walk the audience through it. This is, um, the guy's name
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is Jordan Tristan Walker of Pfizer. And again, this is their head of research and development,
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according to project Veritas. And they unleashed one of their undercover journalists to go quote
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unquote interview this guy. Um, so Jordan Tristan Walker is one of the voices you'll hear. And then
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you'll hear the undercover, um, uh, project Veritas reporter sort of pressing him. And we have a few
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thoughts. We're going to walk you through it. Here's the first where, uh, Jordan
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Walker talks about what Pfizer's doing to explore the COVID virus so that it can allegedly create a
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new vaccine. But what it's doing to the COVID virus sounds rather concerning. Here it is.
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Got one. We're exploring like, you know, the virus keeps mutating. Yeah. One of the things we're
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exploring is like, why don't we just mutate it ourselves so we can create uncivilized vaccines.
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Right. So we have to do that. If we're going to do that though, there's a risk of like, as you could
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imagine, no one wants to be having a pharma company mutating fibrosis. Yeah. Okay. So we're like,
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do we want to do this? So that's like one of the things we're considering. Okay. Like the future,
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like maybe we can like create new versions of the vaccines and things like that.
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Okay. So Pfizer ultimately is thinking about mutating COVID?
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Well, that's not what we say to the public. No, but that's why it was a thought that came
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up in a meeting and we were like, why, why do we not? It was like, we're going to consider that
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Oh my God. Like, first of all, he's so giggly. This is clearly like an alleged date set up. This
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is generally how James does it. Um, and so it's two guys out together, clearly drinking and this
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guy's super giggly and it's so fun that they're going to mutate the COVID virus, Michael, so that
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Pfizer can test new vaccines on it and then make more billions of dollars. One presumes that clip
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is also where this guy's excuse at the end that he was lying and just making it up on the date. It's
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where, where it also falls apart because he's so specific. He's so fluent in the way that he's
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describing, uh, Pfizer engaging in gain of function research. This is not the first time this has
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occurred to him. This is not just a thought that he's popped into his mind to impress somebody on
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a date. I don't know why this would be impressive by the way to say, Hey, my company is doing really
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nefarious things that, uh, the, the sort of research that very likely caused the pandemic in the first
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place. And then he says, we were not honest with the public. We're not telling them what we're
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actually doing, but this is very specifically what we're doing. And then of course, when he gets
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caught, he says, Hey, forget everything I said. I was just lying here. But in, in fairness to this
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guy, uh, he, one, I'm grateful to him for exposing what Pfizer is almost certainly actually engaged in.
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But two, what he's doing is, is no different from what Dr. Fauci did. When this guy at the end of
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the video, James O'Keefe nails him and he says, no, that's not true. We're not engaging in gain of
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function. That's all made up. That's what Dr. Fauci said before the U S Senate, when he perjured
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himself under questioning under oath in front of Rand Paul, he said, we are not engaging in gain
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of function research. We've never funded it. And then Rand Paul brings the receipts of the
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specific research he was funding. And what does Fauci say? He goes, well, and if we were funding
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it, it's totally fine. He got caught absolutely red handed. And so I think, okay, this guy, Jordan
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Walker is going to be held to account. I assume he's going to lose his job. Well, what about Dr.
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Fauci? That guy keeps getting plaudits and, and wonderful laudatory documentaries about him.
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He's doing the same thing on a much larger scale. It's a good point. You know, the, um, I wonder
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whether this guy's going to lose his job because very few media outlets seem interested in the
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James O'Keefe tapes and we're going to play more of them. And, and, and unless the pressure is put
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on Pfizer to explain whether in fact it's doing this and to comment on its senior executives, he's
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third in line from CEO, according to our look at the chart. Um, they're going to keep doing it.
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They're going to get away with it, which is truly outrageous. Now you are having, uh, some top doctors
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weigh in on this saying how outrageous this is. We'll get to some of that as well. Uh, Pfizer,
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I hope will be forced to respond to this on the record with whether it's doing this or not.
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Uh, before we get to, cause the reporter does say that sounds an awful lot like gain of function
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research where you take the bug and you find ways to make it more lethal or more contagious.
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And they have an exchange about that. I'll play it in one second, but first let's listen to Jordan
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Trister Walker of Pfizer tell this undercover project Veritas reporter about the testing they
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are doing on monkeys or how it would work with their monkeys. Sot to.
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So, um, the way it would work is like we put them in the virus in those monkeys and then we
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successively like cause them to keep infecting each other. I would collect serial samples from
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them and then the ones that are more infectious, like the virus, we'll put them in another monkey
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and you just constantly actively mutate it. That's one way. Okay. Or you can even do like
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directed like simulation, which like we should not prefer. And then you just sample what the
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different like, um, like, uh, proteins on the surface of the virus look like over time. Okay.
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Okay. You have to be like very controlled to make sure that this virus that you mutate doesn't create
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something like, you know, it goes everywhere. Something crazy is the way that the virus started
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to be honest. Like it's, it makes no sense if this virus popped out of nowhere. Like, yeah, I know.
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Okay. We're all with Jordan, Tristan Walker on that last point, even though this morning,
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literally just this morning, I listened to NPRs, uh, podcast and they were the whole thing for five
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minutes. They're going off about how the virus came from a natural source. There's a zero evidence.
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It came from a Wuhan, uh, from the, from the Wuhan lab. It definitely came from a market. I mean,
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like zero proof that it came from a lab. Where is the proof that it came from an animal that they
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tested 80,000 of them had never found it in any event. So now you have one of Pfizer's top
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executives on camera saying, uh, this is how I suspect this man-made mutations, uh, that the
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virus started in Wuhan. To be honest, it makes little sense. The virus popped up out of nowhere.
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Yes. Word. Tell the truth. Many of us suspected this from the beginning when the official storyline
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was that the pandemic came from a bad batch of bat soup at the Wuhan wet market that just
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coincidentally was right down the road from the Wuhan Institute of Virology where they were conducting
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this research. I think those of us paying attention knew what this was about from the beginning,
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but the good news is I think by this point, now we're pushing three years later, uh, the public
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has seen the evidence and no matter what NPR says, no matter what the crooked Pfizer spokesmen say,
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I think people know what is up. And, and so we no longer trust big pharma, you know, living in a
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country where you can't even trust big pharma executives. What has this nation come to? And so now the
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question for us is what do we do about it? These are the people who lied to us about the origin of
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COVID, about the virulence of COVID, about the efficacy of the vaccines, about the safety of
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the vaccines, about the tests that they subjected the vaccines to. They lied to us about everything,
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the masks and the social distancing and the whole kit and caboodle. So what are we going to do about it?
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I think this is the part where at least the conservatives, if not more good faith liberals and people in the
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center will go in and say, we need to wield the political order to punish Pfizer and to regulate
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Pfizer. And it becomes a big problem because of, of the issue of regulatory capture. Very often the
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agencies that are supposed to regulate these, these companies are totally beholden to these companies
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or being funded by these companies. Hold that thought. I definitely want you to talk more about
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that. Um, but I'm going to tee it up first. I'll get us there in the story as we tell the story
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together. So, uh, undercover journalist listens to this guy saying, Oh, we're going to, we'd get
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the monkeys and then we successfully cause them to keep infecting each other. And we collect the
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samples from them and, um, we put it in another monkey and you just constantly actively mutate it,
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uh, and says, uh, yeah, so this is going to be something we have to be really careful though.
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Cause we could create something like, you know, that just goes everywhere. And that's when he makes
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the point, like, that's what I think happened in you in Wuhan. Now this is crazy because let's keep
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mind the people who we believe did it in Wuhan were, um, Chinese, uh, scientists working for
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the Chinese government. And with the help of Peter Daszak's group, eco health Alliance,
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this scientific research group here in the United States that we all fund, but it wasn't a drug
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company who would stay, who would stand to benefit to the tune of $80 billion. That was revenue for
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Pfizer last year. It w it's very complicated when you have the person who's going to fix the problem,
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creating the problem, right? That that's a bridge too far. Uh, not to, not to say it's not a bridge
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too far to have the others doing it. So here we are. That's the problem. Now the undercover journal
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says, gee, it really sounds like gain of function kind of sounds like the thing where you take the
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virus and make it more contagious or more dangerous. And here's that exchange in part.
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So three, I mean, when is Pfizer going to implement the mutation of all these viruses?
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I don't know. It depends on how the experiments work out. Cause this is just like something
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we're trying, right? It sounds like gain of function to me.
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I don't know. It's a little bit different. I think it's different. It's like there's,
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it's definitely not gain of function. It sounds like it is. I mean, it's okay.
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No, no, no, no, no, no. No, directed evolution is very different.
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Well, you're not supposed to do gain function research of the viruses.
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They probably not. But you do like these like selected
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directional mutations to try and see if you can be more potent.
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So there is research on the line about that. I don't know how that's going to work.
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There better not be any more outbreaks. It's like Jesus Christ.
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There better not be any more outbreaks. Correct, Jordan. We all agree with that. But there it is
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right there. It's not, it's not exactly gain of function. It's directed evolution where we're
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trying to see if we can make the viruses more potent. Do you feel better?
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It's not gain of function. It's increase of utility procedures. It sounds like a euphemism to me
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for the exact sort of research that the questioner pretending to be on a date has talked about.
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And what's so amazing about that exchange is imagine you're on this date and this guy just
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keeps pestering you with questions about this very controversial, nefarious sort of program that your
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company is engaged in. You keep answering and you keep telling the truth and you can see Jordan
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Walker's, his blinkers start to go on. And eventually he says, well, I don't know. This is kind of weird.
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Why are you asking me these questions? But, but he's so fluent in this research because it is
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happening that he just keeps talking about it. I think when you, when you watch more and more of
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the video, it becomes clear. This is really happening. If I, if I had to bet the farm right
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now, I would bet Pfizer is engaging in this research and this guy got caught red handed.
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Me too. He, he seems to me like he's enjoying himself. He's had him in a couple of drinks and the
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drinks are acting like a truth serum. And if you're going to try to impress somebody on a date,
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you're going to talk about like the size of your wallet or your bicep or your good character,
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you're not going to be talking about your weird potency research at Pfizer in this kind of level
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of detail. That's who the hell does that turn on? Um, by the way, just for color, Dr. Robert Malone,
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who helped invent the MRNA vaccines. Um, he had this to say, and I think it's, he sums it up in Sop4.
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If this is the quality of individuals within Pfizer that are making these huge decisions that
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risk global public health, it's profoundly corrupt.
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Yeah, correct. Right? Like this is the guy we're entrusting our health to and the future
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When the liberal establishment yells at all of the awful, unvaccinated, skeptical conspiracy theorist
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people for not trusting the public authorities, the only answer can be, yes, we don't trust the
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public authorities and that's not our fault. If the public authorities were not constantly lying to us
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and then bragging about lying to us and then lying to us some more after they got caught
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red-handed, I would be more inclined to trust them. But it's been at least three years now that
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they've been doing this. They keep getting caught red-handed. And so don't accuse me of wearing a
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tinfoil hat when I simply repeat their words back to them. They are liars.
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Michael, how old are you? So how old is this guy?
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You know, a lady never tells Megan, but I'm 32 years young.
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So he, and he was right behind you or right in front of you?
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Yeah, he was one year behind me. So he's either 31 or 32.
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Is it possible he's actually head of R&D at Pfizer? I mean, it just seems too young. It seems
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Well, even if he's not the tippy top head of it, I don't know how the corporate structure of Pfizer
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works. He has a director level position. He's working on these things specifically. It was right
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there on his LinkedIn before he scrubbed it. It was there on Pfizer's documents before they tried to
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scrub those from the internet. So I think that probably what Pfizer and the libs will try to
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do now is they'll say, oh, this was a low level employee. This is always what happens when they
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get caught. It's a low level staffer, but it's not a low level staffer. You can hear that from
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the fluency with which this guy talks about these issues and the information that he knows about the
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It's true. And listen to you, you're brilliant and you're his age. So it's like, it can happen.
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You can get the whippersnappers who really wow people from Yale. And before you know it,
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they're running Pfizer R and D and his title, you know, it certainly makes it sound like he is.
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And project Veritas is asserting that he is just two titles below CEO, Albert Borla.
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So here's the moment. All right. Here's the, this is the James O'Keefe moment that has made James
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like a nearly household name. The surprise confrontation where he comes,
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he comes out. And I mean, if you're listening to this, you gotta, you can go on YouTube and watch
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this with me and Michael, you should go check out project Veritas's website where the whole thing
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runs. But here's a bit of the confrontation. Sat five. Hey there. Is this seat taken? You work for
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Pfizer. My question for you is why is Pfizer want to hide from the public? The fact that they're
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mutating the COVID viruses. Is this real life? I'm literally a liar. I was trying to impress a
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person on a date. What's your life? This is absurd. Don't touch me. Well, this is not why the way
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don't tell anybody. He was just working in a company to literally help the public. You
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really did. Please bring the cops. I'm feeling very unsafe right now. Yeah. You're feeling unsafe.
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Okay. Right. Retreats right to like, I'm unsafe because I got called out on my bad behavior.
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And you can always tell when the voice goes super high. Oh, I was lying. I said, no, it wasn't true.
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This is every scene from to catch a predator. I mean, this is why I think of James O'Keefe as the
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political Chris Hansen is what happens. Chris Hansen walks in and you've got the weird sex guys
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standing over in the corner and he's got, you know, his movies and popcorn or whatever. It's why don't
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you have a seat over here. And what's the first thing out of the guy's mouth every time he says,
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I wasn't going to do anything. I was just lying in the transcripts. I was just lying about every,
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it was all dishonest. This guy is giving the exact same answer. And this guy is presenting himself
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as a predator, not as a sexual predator driving to some person's house, but as a public predator,
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as someone attempting to deceive the public on a very, very important, dangerous issue from one of
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the most powerful corporations in the world. All right, here's the next scene where it devolves
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into a bit of an altercation. This is the amount of like terror this guy has knowing what he just said,
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that he was being taped and that this is going to come out. It's sat six.
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Please unlock the door. Please unlock the door.
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Unlock the door. Unlock the door. Unlock the door. Unlock the door. Unlock the door. Unlock the door.
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report. This is this is remarkable here. We're trying to unlock the door. I'm on the door.
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I'm on the door. It's not. I lock the door like that. It is not. Stop. Let go of me. Now you're
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hurting me. What is going on here? You cannot just record people like that. It's not OK.
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He's clearly intoxicated. And for the listening audience, what you saw there was the guy,
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according to James was reporting and what I see with my own eyes, tried to grab the the equipment
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from the Project Veritas recording crew, the iPad, the camera, and try to destroy them because he
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thought somehow that was going to be the answer to his problem. I feel a little sorry for him in
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that moment. I'm not going to lie. But this is the problem. Like when you work for a company like that
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and you stop, you talk about their infuriating secrets so openly, it's probably going to induce
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panic in the larger public and in you once you realize what you've done.
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Well, he realized that he got caught. An innocent man who's doing nothing wrong doesn't react in this
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way. And he could say, well, I was just following orders. A lot of people have said that throughout
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history. But when you go to work, when you sign up to work for a company, you're putting your your life
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on the line, you're putting your soul on the line, you're putting your your moral self on the line.
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And when you do things that are immoral on behalf of your company, you are culpable for that. And so
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this guy reacts in a way that does not look good for him at all, and is not going to work. First of
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all, even if he gets the iPad, there are what, four or five cameras filming over here, he's not going
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to grab all of them. Two, James O'Keefe is a pretty buff guy, actually. And you know, as much as I love my
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fellow Yalies, we're good at a lot of things, singing acapella, occasionally dancing to musical
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theater. But generally speaking, we're not the most physically intimidating guys in the world.
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This was never going to end well. John, the revelator came down from the mountain.
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I'm sure he could beat James O'Keefe in a Gilbert and Sullivan contest, but you're not going to beat
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the entire film crew with the bodyguards. It's not going to happen. It's an act by a drunk,
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desperate man who can sense what he's actually just done. Totally irresponsible. But to your
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point, glad he did it and glad James did it because we deserve to know this. They're sticking
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that needle in our arms and our children's arms right now. They're still having mandatory vaccine
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programs all over the country. They're trying to bring them back in schools and so on. They're still
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in our school. And then to your point about why this is so pernicious, because the people who approve
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that vaccine and are supposed to be holding Pfizer responsible and accountable for its role in the
00:22:18.040
public health system are on the take. They're basically on the take because they are banking
00:22:24.680
on getting a big job at Pfizer when they leave the FDA or potentially the CDC, as they have been doing
00:22:32.200
for years. That's where they cash in these public regulators who are looking out for us. And they
00:22:38.840
discuss that, too. Here's an interesting soundbite on that exact point. Soundbite eight.
00:22:43.720
It's a revolving door for all government officials. Wow. Yeah, for any industry. So, like, in the
00:22:50.560
pharma industry, all the government officials who, like, review our drugs, they come work for
00:22:54.900
pharma companies. Like, in the military, like, all the, like, army and defense, like, government officials
00:22:59.600
eventually go work for the defense companies afterwards. How do you feel about that revolving
00:23:03.260
door? Like, it's pretty good for the industry, to be honest. Yeah. It's bad for everyone else in
00:23:08.620
America. Why is it bad for everybody else? Because if the regulators, so if a few are drugs,
00:23:13.280
you know that once they stop being regulated, they want to work for the company, then I'm going to be
00:23:16.720
as hard for the company. Jordan, he nails it once again. That's, I mean, of course, we all know he
00:23:24.100
is telling the truth. That is true. That's not a lie, though he claimed to be later. We pulled the
00:23:28.240
stats. Science Mag in 2018 did a report. 15 of the 26 employees who left the FDA later worked or
00:23:34.940
consulted for the biopharmaceutical industry that was studying just one year, a nine-year
00:23:40.720
period, I guess, in one field. The hematological, I don't know, in one field, Michael. And then they
00:23:49.000
said this. Science has discovered that 11 of the 16 FDA medical examiners who worked on 28 drug
00:23:54.440
approvals and then left the agency for new jobs are now employed by or consult for the companies
00:23:59.140
they recently regulated. 11 of the 16 FDA examiners who worked on the drug approvals.
00:24:07.200
The vast majority who decide what drug gets approved or, you know, is okay to stick in our
00:24:13.460
arms, they're on the take. They are beholden to big tech for the big job to pay their big
00:24:18.940
mortgages. This is a matter of the highest sort of public corruption. And so we're laughing
00:24:25.780
about it because it's kind of a funny video. And you might even feel a little sorry for the guy
00:24:30.600
in the way that you feel sorry for anybody who gets caught doing something wrong and the kind
00:24:35.060
of pity that one feels for criminals. But to your point, Megan, this is deadly serious,
00:24:41.420
truly deadly serious. These vaccines have been mandated. People have been forced to violate
00:24:46.680
their conscience in many cases because the vaccines were produced using and developed using
00:24:51.620
aborted fetal cells. They have been forced to get it against their will, knowing the risks or
00:24:58.820
suspecting the risks. People have died from these vaccines. People have had very serious complications
00:25:03.880
from these vaccines. And then furthermore, to the type of research that we're talking about here,
00:25:08.260
gain of function research, gain of function research has killed people. If, as seems likely,
00:25:13.440
gain of function research was involved in launching the pandemic in the first place, many, many,
00:25:18.100
people have been killed because of this. And Dr. Fauci, when he was discussing the risks of gain
00:25:23.900
of function years ago, he said, well, you know, it's basically worth the risks. Yes, it could go
00:25:29.560
awry, but the benefits outweigh the potential costs. Well, even if that were the case, that ought to be a
00:25:34.300
matter for public debate. I don't think that the benefits seem to outweigh the costs here, but that
00:25:39.640
should be a matter for public debate, not for a pharmaceutical company to hide and lie to the public
00:25:46.120
about. And then for that same pharmaceutical company to, to control the regulators who should
00:25:51.560
at the very least be asking questions about these kinds of activities. Yes, it's true. And before you
00:25:57.140
start to feel too bad, I'm talking to myself for Jordan. Here he is feeling pretty good about the
00:26:02.440
amount of dough his company is collecting and notwithstanding the risks of this making the
00:26:09.000
virus is more potent activity. It's not seven. Isn't that like the best business model? Like
00:26:17.000
just control nature before nature even happens itself, right? Yeah. If it works. What do you
00:26:24.860
mean if it works? Because like some of the times it would just be mutations that pop up, right?
00:26:28.440
Like with Delta or Omicron and things like that. So who knows? I mean, either way,
00:26:35.240
it's going to be a cash cow, COVID probably a cash cow for us for a while going for it. Well,
00:26:39.320
yeah, I obviously like, well, I think the whole, you know, I think the whole like research of the
00:26:46.800
viruses and mutating it like would be the ultimate like cash cow. Yeah. It'd be perfect.
00:26:55.080
It'd be perfect. And he says, it's hard to hear there, but he says, well, some of the times,
00:26:59.560
um, mutations pop up that we're not prepared for like the Delta and the Omicron and things like
00:27:05.540
that. Yes. The things that killed a lot of people, Delta in particular. Yeah. Those that's why we're
00:27:11.420
concerned about this, but you can hear him enjoying the notion of it's still going to be a cash cow for
00:27:17.040
us. You know, a lot of people called us rubes. Those of us early on who were skeptical of the whole
00:27:22.520
COVID regime and the mandates and the lockdowns and the vaccines. And they called us rubes. They said,
00:27:27.640
you don't understand how science works. I think those people don't understand how politics works
00:27:31.780
because anybody with two brain cells to rub together could have realized at the beginning
00:27:35.400
of this whole lockdown nonsense, that a handful of companies, a small number of individuals stood to
00:27:41.700
make a ton of money from the COVID regime. The COVID lockdowns broadly represented the largest
00:27:49.080
transfer of wealth from the lower classes to the wealthier classes in recorded history. Do you think
00:27:55.340
that that doesn't have any effect on the kinds of policies that you're going to see pushed from
00:28:01.000
the private sector, from the public sector? And by the way, the distinction between those two things
00:28:06.280
is getting blurrier by the day. If you don't think that money has any role in that, I have got a bridge
00:28:12.200
in Brooklyn to sell you along with all the vaccines and the gain of function research.
00:28:17.100
Again, Project Veritas is the one that got this story, broke this story. They're breaking their own
00:28:22.440
records right now. So far, I think something like 13 million views on this video just posted last
00:28:27.580
night. And people are interested. This affects everyone, every American and beyond. And Pfizer,
00:28:34.600
we know, has not been honest with us, has not told the truth, the full truth. We've interviewed people
00:28:38.840
who are part of the vaccine trials who got severely injured and whose data did not show up in the trial.
00:28:43.880
They were just dropped by Pfizer. That's not honest. So now finally, I'm team Jordan. Go Jordan.
00:28:49.700
He's telling us the truth. He's embarrassed and he's drunk, but he's telling us what appears to be
00:28:54.360
the truth. And hopefully the media will make sure this is not a one day story just because it came
00:28:59.400
from James O'Keefe, who they already dislike, but who's the only one willing to do the Chris Hansen
00:29:04.880
on those in power in another field. Michael Knowles stays with us as we now have our hands
00:29:10.560
on the Paul Pelosi body cam footage. We're going to show it to you next.
00:29:13.980
So, Michael, we just got our hands on the Paul Pelosi attack video. It's stunning. It's disturbing.
00:29:26.360
We are going to play it and we'll probably play it a couple of times and talk about our
00:29:30.380
observations. I just want to tell the listening audience what you're going to hear is two police.
00:29:36.180
Well, maybe more police officers show up at the door of Paul Pelosi. The door opens.
00:29:40.140
Paul Pelosi is on the right and the attacker, DePap, is on the left. They're kind of holding
00:29:47.100
hands, but not in a romantic way. It looks like DePap has his hand like on Pelosi's hand
00:29:51.120
and has a hammer. Pelosi is also holding a glass, water glass, something like that.
00:29:58.180
And you'll hear the police sort of greet them. Pelosi will say hi and it'll be self-explanatory
00:30:08.560
Hi. How you doing? How are you? What's going on, man? Everything's good.
00:30:15.340
Hi. Drop the hammer. Um, nope. Hey. Hey, hey, hey. What is going on right here?
00:30:20.760
I'm not getting an answer on Paul Pelosi. Oh, shit.
00:30:23.020
You see Paul Pelosi lying on the floor. He opens the door. Uh, I mean, keep in mind,
00:30:45.580
the report is that this man came into his house at 2 a.m. Um, that Paul Pelosi was asleep in his bed.
00:30:51.360
So he's wearing what appears to be boxer shorts and like a sweater up top. And, um, DePap is
00:30:56.640
dressed. And my impression looking at this, Michael, a couple of things, there's no urgency
00:31:02.200
when the cops show up unclear who opened the door. It seems like, but it didn't appear to be the
00:31:07.040
police. Um, they're standing there. The guy's got a hammer and the cops are there because Paul
00:31:12.840
Pelosi called. He used his phone to call 911 and made clear he, that there was an attack underway,
00:31:18.280
that there, there was something happening underway. Um, I want to, I'm just looking back at my notes
00:31:24.240
to see what he said. He called 911. He left open the line saying, what's going on? Why are you here?
00:31:29.660
What are you going to do to me? And that prompted the 911 dispatcher to send police. Here's my thing
00:31:34.440
all along. We've been asking ourselves, why are the police being so cagey about this? Why, why are we
00:31:39.900
getting conflicting information? Why wouldn't they release the tape? You know what? My, my first
00:31:44.220
impression is seeing this. The police have been involved in a CYA of themselves from the beginning.
00:31:49.880
They look like morons. Why, why wasn't there urgency? They're the, they are the problem in
00:31:55.520
creating all the speculation around this. Why wasn't there urgency? Why, why did somebody gently
00:32:00.860
open the door? Why didn't they go in there immediately? They saw the guy. They knew there
00:32:04.520
was an intruder. They knew this is the, the husband of the house speaker. What, what was so,
00:32:10.340
why were they so cavalier about this? There were questions about the dispatch call as well at the
00:32:16.700
time before, obviously before we had the footage of the, the cops at the house, you had transcripts
00:32:23.800
of the dispatchers saying that the intruder or suspect was known to Paul Pelosi who made the phone
00:32:31.860
call. Again, I don't know if that was actually in the phone call, but according to reports, it was
00:32:36.640
in the language of the dispatcher. So to your point, it could be that this was a police issue,
00:32:42.380
that they just completely bungled this. But there are some strange questions here with Paul Pelosi's
00:32:47.340
behavior. As you point out, Megan, it's unclear who opens the door. Paul Pelosi's got a drink in
00:32:53.460
one hand and then his other hand is being held by De Poppe. So it doesn't look like Paul Pelosi opened
00:32:58.840
the door. It doesn't look like De Poppe was holding the door because with one hand, he's holding
00:33:01.500
Paul Pelosi. With the other hand, he's got the hammer. That's very strange. There's no urgency from the
00:33:05.740
cops. There's also no urgency from Pelosi. One would imagine that if you've had someone break
00:33:11.580
into your home, is holding you hostage with a hammer, particularly if your wife is the speaker
00:33:16.240
of the House of Representatives, you might say, help me, help me, this guy's trying to attack me.
00:33:20.820
Maybe not. Maybe it's two in the morning and Pelosi was just totally out of it for whatever
00:33:25.180
reason. But I agree the behavior of the cops is not quite what you would hope for in terms of
00:33:31.520
urgency. But the behavior of Pelosi and obviously De Poppe is pretty strange too.
00:33:37.960
I feel like I can understand perfectly why Paul Pelosi would be behaving bizarrely. He's an old
00:33:44.580
man. He's been woken up in the middle of the night by this intruder in his home. He's scared. He knows
00:33:51.200
he can't overpower the guy. And honestly, the cops and the FBI, their stories did not match.
00:33:58.320
They put out misinformation, which they then immediately had to correct about what who opened
00:34:04.760
the door. And there was something there was something in the media about underwear and
00:34:07.760
whatever. So the initial reporting on this was wrong. And the cops were very reluctant to release
00:34:14.660
all this information. As I said, the media had to sue them to make it happen. And now I see why,
00:34:19.760
with all due respect to the San Francisco Police Department, you blew it. You blew it. You knew the
00:34:25.200
guy was in distress. You knew this is a public official making him more likely to be a target
00:34:29.600
of this kind of attack. And you sauntered up there. You could have saved him. He had not yet been
00:34:35.340
attacked by the time you opened that door. As soon as you saw that that guy had his hands on Paul
00:34:39.960
Pelosi and had a hammer there, you should have been all over him. You should have been waiting.
00:34:44.400
How's it going? Hey, good. Can we just watch it one more time? Just, just to hear the,
00:34:50.300
the exchange, um, the verbal exchange that would, that is at the top.
00:35:14.640
I'm getting a problem in the area, but it's not one of the answers.
00:35:19.800
Okay, so there you have it. Drop the hammer. Like, okay.
00:35:28.160
I guess everybody's really just laid back in California. This, this could have taken place
00:35:32.360
maybe at Venice Beach with the way that these police officers sound so relaxed here. But a
00:35:37.260
question I think we have to get from the answers on from the police is, did they know that this was
00:35:42.780
Paul Pelosi? If they knew that this was Paul Pelosi, that dramatically changes the calculation
00:35:48.700
here. If they thought it was just some random person they walked into, then who knows? Maybe
00:35:52.260
it's an intruder. Maybe it's a friend. Maybe, uh, again, that dispatcher suggested that the guy was
00:35:57.500
known to Pelosi. So maybe they were confused by-
00:35:59.320
Oh my God, if they didn't know, how did they not know? It's not like they have
00:36:01.980
that many congressional leaders living in San Francisco, right? It's like she's the speaker
00:36:08.920
of the house. You don't know where she, and you're not doing your job. I just feel like in
00:36:13.420
New York City, that is not how an NYPD cop would have sounded under these circumstances.
00:36:21.500
There's another question. Why do the Pelosi's not have more security? I'm not, I'm not victim
00:36:28.440
blaming. I'm not saying, but it is really strange. I mean, I know, I know medium-sized
00:36:33.280
podcasters who have a lot more security than the Pelosi's seem to have. I certainly, I know plenty
00:36:37.000
of, of politicians who have more security. This woman is third in the line to the presidency
00:36:41.800
is where was the security? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, she wasn't there. There would have been
00:36:47.440
security had she been there, but still it's a very good point. How did the guy just manage to,
00:36:51.240
you know, break a window and get right in? How, how is it the cops didn't have this house
00:36:55.840
on their radar? How was it not like, oh my God, Pelosi's house got broken into all sorts
00:37:00.960
of questions. Um, I do want to say this, the, the DOJ claimed in an indictment, uh, filed
00:37:08.580
on November 9th that the officers opened the door themselves. That does not appear to be
00:37:13.080
true. That's not true. And the body cam footage, which we're now looking at had was then viewed
00:37:18.640
by San Francisco DA's office. And it's, it, they came out later, San Francisco DA and said,
00:37:24.320
this body cam footage confirms it was Paul Pelosi who opened the door and let them into the home
00:37:30.820
that it was Paul Pelosi. Now I don't see Paul Pelosi opening the door in this video. Maybe
00:37:34.880
there's more to it, but the point, my point is that we've been misled by law enforcement officials
00:37:40.700
from the start on this. To me, it's very aggravating because people who smelled a rat and like
00:37:47.780
something's not adding up. What do you mean? Why, how could any of this have happened in the
00:37:51.460
way you're saying I'm, I'm one of the people who asked those questions. I didn't go to their gay
00:37:56.240
lovers. Like many people did on the, you know, internet. Um, but I just wanted more answers
00:38:01.900
to what happened, got labeled like disinformation artists by the New York times. And I know, and my
00:38:07.300
sin, if you look at the actual New York times, uh, article on it was my sin was wants more
00:38:13.280
information about the attack believes not all information has been disclosed. The irony of
00:38:17.640
the New York times then suing to get more information about the attack. They were one
00:38:21.060
of the complainants who demanded that they release the body cam video, which is what I'd been saying
00:38:24.600
too. And many people have been saying, but this is, it's just part of a larger story where people
00:38:29.340
who want more information, because we feel like we're not getting the full skinny, whether it's
00:38:33.380
from law enforcement officials in San Francisco or law enforcement officials who work for the FBI in
00:38:37.920
Washington are shamed, right? It's situational because the left is about to unleash on law
00:38:42.940
enforcement in Memphis, Tennessee, uh, in connection with a, with a, the horrific killing of an unarmed
00:38:48.480
black man by five black police officers. And I get that, but they have fewer questions when it's a city
00:38:54.820
they love. And it's a, it's a victim. They love, uh, that we're supposed to look the other way.
00:39:00.660
Of course, Megan, I'm going to break the cardinal rule of pundits here and just say,
00:39:05.520
I don't get it. I don't get it. I've now watched this tape two or three times. I, I don't get the
00:39:13.740
police behavior. I don't get, obviously I don't get to pap's behavior. I don't totally get, I just,
00:39:20.120
I just don't get it. And, and to, to your point, we were given a narrative by the DOJ. We were given
00:39:27.060
a narrative by local police. Those were lies. I don't get why they were lies. I don't get why this
00:39:32.220
story became a huge national story to the point that the president of the United States gave a
00:39:36.420
speech on it right before the midterm elections. And then it just disappeared. All of a sudden,
00:39:41.400
everyone is acting very, very sus to use the, the language of the Utes. And I would just like
00:39:48.480
some more information. Yeah, I know that we're about to get the 911 call. Uh, we'll have it in
00:39:53.320
just a bit and we'll play that too. And we're not sure if we'll have it in the next couple of minutes,
00:39:56.400
but just for, as a reminder, one of the reasons it became such a national story was the left
00:40:01.720
decided to blame it on the right. They decided to blame it on right wing rhetoric that led to this
00:40:06.720
horrific attack. And then the, it took about two minutes to dig into this guide to pop's history to
00:40:11.820
realize he's a lunatic. He thought he was Jesus for a year. He spoke to fairies and made some little
00:40:16.920
home for them. His ex gave an interview with San Francisco Chronicle talking about how he could
00:40:22.960
never hold a job. He's been homeless. He suffers from mental illness. Um, he's a broken child in an
00:40:28.280
adult body. He's got serious mental problems. He did help me fight against San Francisco's public
00:40:32.500
nudity laws, which she wanted. She was a nudist. And so was he for a time. Okay, great. Believe there
00:40:37.220
was a shadow government, um, on and on it went, but she was paranoid, believe people were watching him
00:40:43.280
and on the, they refused the left to acknowledge this is a sick man on the streets of San Francisco
00:40:49.940
because of the San Francisco policies because San Francisco refuses to clean up its homelessness
00:40:54.900
problem. It's drug addicted problem. Uh, and the fact that it looks the other way when rampant mental
00:41:00.400
illness is running around the streets, endangering its residents, they don't care. They think that's
00:41:03.900
what bleeding heart liberals are supposed to do. And that problem crept its way right up into the home
00:41:09.600
of Paul Pelosi. Well, these are the two big takeaways. If, if we had a magic wand and could do the whole
00:41:15.900
thing over again is obviously to prevent this, you would need to take care of lunatics and get them
00:41:21.160
off the street. And you would have to have much more active and aggressive policing. Those are two
00:41:26.500
issues that the left has run so hard against for, for the past, not only years, but past several
00:41:32.800
decades that they, they, they can't possibly admit that. And so they try to paint this Looney Tune as,
00:41:38.120
as MAGA country or something, you know, try to paint him as a Trump supporter. Don't really see that
00:41:42.300
anywhere. And then when that doesn't work, the story goes away. Correct. Well, we'll see now. Um,
00:41:48.200
we were not given the full story and the SFPD does have egg on its face and we were misled by law
00:41:54.380
enforcement. So, you know, there's still a lot of questions to be asked. Um, and we'll stay on it.
00:41:59.980
All right. I've got it. Oh, just as I was about to turn the page, we got the whole 911 call. This is
00:42:05.040
the first time any of us has heard this. Uh, it's two and a half minutes. This is when Paul Pelosi
00:42:09.940
found this guy to pop in his home. We are told he demanded to speak to Nancy Pelosi told to pop.
00:42:15.660
She wasn't there. He, the guy said he would wait for her. And then Pelosi got into the bathroom.
00:42:21.360
We were told and managed to call nine one one. Here it is.
00:42:29.220
Oh, I guess I, I guess I, uh, I told them to say, what is this?
00:42:33.760
It's the San Francisco police. Do you need help?
00:42:36.080
Oh, well, there's a gentleman, uh, here, just waiting for my wife to come back.
00:42:46.220
Uh, he's just, uh, waiting for her to come back because he's not going to be here for a day.
00:42:54.200
Okay. Do you need police fire or medical for anything?
00:43:16.360
They usually protect my wife. They're usually here. They're usually here at the house.
00:43:38.080
Uh, he thinks everything's good. Uh, I, I've got a problem, but he thinks everything's good.
00:43:46.640
No, no, no. This, this gentleman just, uh, came out of the house. Uh, and he wants to wait here for my wife to come home.
00:44:00.860
No, I don't know who he is. He, uh, uh, he has this...
00:44:04.500
He told me, he said, he told me not to, uh, he told me not to do anything.
00:44:24.680
Anyway, this gentleman says that, uh, he thinks everything he ought to, you know, he told me to put the phone down.
00:45:01.240
He's telling me I'm being very lenient, so I, I gotta stop talking to you, okay?
00:45:06.420
Okay, you sure I can stay on the phone with you just to make sure everything's okay?
00:45:09.940
No, he, he, he must know he got that all off the phone.
00:45:13.760
Zero, two, twenty, six, and zero, eight seconds.
00:45:29.480
That, it shows you, one, that some reporting was wrong in the beginning, because the reporting
00:45:34.920
rightly said that, that Paul Pelosi used the term friend to refer to this guy, but obviously
00:45:41.000
in the context here, he says, I don't know this person.
00:45:46.240
And then, so, so Paul Pelosi, for it being two in the morning, handles this really incredibly
00:45:54.100
And then this 911 dispatcher, okay, well, have a nice night.
00:46:03.020
That guy could not have been trying to telegraph.
00:46:06.940
The perpetrator, the assault, his assailant is there, and they've clearly got it on speaker.
00:46:12.080
And the 911 operator failed to put together the fact that the criminal is listening to
00:46:18.940
And Paul Pelosi is trying to play a dangerous game he's been forced to, where he's trying
00:46:23.160
not to piss off the guy next to him, but he's clearly trying to telegraph, I'm in trouble.
00:46:29.780
And she's like, and he says, my wife, Nancy Pelosi, hello, is she an idiot?
00:46:35.680
And then he says, are the Capitol police around?
00:46:42.780
The question from the beginning is, who is hiding something here?
00:46:50.640
It was the cops hiding everything because of sheer incompetence.
00:46:57.300
Can you stay to the top of the hour for a few more minutes on this?
00:47:02.560
Stick around because we've got to squeeze in a quick break and there's much more to dissect.
00:47:10.060
Michael Knowles is our guest today in an extraordinary moment as we finally get our hands on the 911
00:47:15.700
Paul Pelosi, then husband of the sitting speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, made to authorities
00:47:21.600
after an intruder named David DePapp entered his home at 2 a.m.
00:47:28.880
Paul Pelosi was sleeping in his bed, according to the authorities, at 2 a.m.
00:47:32.480
When this man entered his home, they found the means of entry were via a back door through
00:47:40.100
There was a lot of speculation about what happened in this case because the information we were
00:47:45.460
getting from San Francisco PD and ultimately the FBI slash DOJ did not match up.
00:47:51.060
And people had a lot of questions about what this man was doing in the Paul Pelosi home
00:48:01.240
I think Michael Knowles nailed it right before the break.
00:48:03.640
The questions about who was covering up and or potentially covering up and why have now
00:48:10.160
The San Francisco police had a lot to cover this.
00:48:13.840
This dispatcher's behavior for the first two thirds of the call is an outrage.
00:48:20.920
Neither you nor I has ever been in law enforcement, and it was very clear to both of us, and I'm
00:48:27.800
sure to the listening audience right now, what Paul Pelosi was doing.
00:48:31.680
If only you are a sentient human who would pay some attention, which was literally her
00:48:50.920
Oh, well, there's a gentleman here just waiting for my wife to come back.
00:49:00.880
He's just waiting for her to come back because she's not going to be here for a day, so I
00:49:09.260
Do you need police fire or medical for anything?
00:49:32.020
They're usually here at the house protecting my wife.
00:49:55.240
I've got a problem, but he thinks everything's good.
00:50:02.800
This gentleman just came out of the house and he wants to wait here for my wife to come home.
00:50:09.300
And so, anyway, he told me to put the phone down.
00:50:16.840
He, uh, uh, he has this, he told me, he said, he told me not to, uh, he told me not to do anything.
00:50:39.120
Anyway, this gentleman says that, uh, he thinks everything he ought to, you know, he told me to put the phone down and just do what he said.
00:51:04.540
Yeah, I, I, um, he says he's a friend, but as I said, I've never.
00:51:15.800
He's telling me I'm being very leading, so I, I gotta stop talking to you, okay?
00:51:21.680
You sure I can stay on the phone with you just to make sure everything's okay?
00:51:33.180
Michael, the, the parts, she said, he says, there's a gentleman here waiting for my wife
00:51:46.800
Do you need police, fire, or medical for anything?
00:51:55.940
And by the way, he kicks it off by saying, oh, I guess I called, I guess I called you
00:52:05.360
He's going to call to see when Nancy's coming back.
00:52:12.440
Um, so he says, you know, he's, he's going to wait.
00:52:21.400
Uh, they're usually here protecting my wife, who I've already told you is Nancy Pelosi,
00:52:28.820
And she says nothing that she says, no, this is San Francisco police.
00:52:50.660
And even at that point, this moron says, okay, call us back.
00:52:58.980
The one that got me the most was that second one.
00:53:20.600
The fact that this guy was able to keep his cool, not just out of fear of the assailant
00:53:25.960
who was in his home, but out of just pure rage at this incompetent woman.
00:53:30.160
I can't tell is the solution here to fund the police much more so that they can hire people
00:53:38.420
who can do the basic function of their job or are the libs right?
00:53:41.480
Should we just defund the police and start over?
00:53:43.580
Because this is just, just so absolutely shocking.
00:53:49.860
As you say, Megan, law enforcement was, was not agreeing with each other.
00:54:01.440
This nine one one phone call is convincing and damning.
00:54:06.140
And I can see why the police did everything they could to prevent it from coming out.
00:54:11.760
If they look ridiculous, they should be embarrassed about how they handled this, both in that dispatch
00:54:17.940
And I understand it's a stressful job and you've got to figure out a lot, but please.
00:54:22.160
And anybody, I mean, my nine year old would have had it well before this dispatcher got
00:54:26.620
And then I was going to say initially, well, maybe that excuses the cops in showing up at
00:54:32.780
But I don't think so, because even this moron who took the call got it by the end and understood
00:54:44.520
Oh, and by the way, I've already told you, my wife is Nancy Pelosi.
00:54:48.040
And so I'd love to know now what was the communication between her and the police officers
00:54:54.440
Did she make them perfectly clear, as she clearly should have, who they were dealing with?
00:54:59.180
And the fact that this was an intruder situation where the guy was scared and trying not to,
00:55:05.820
you know, clearly communicating that he was in distress.
00:55:08.540
Without saying those exact words in any event, to me, any cop would have shown up there guns
00:55:19.100
He wasn't hurt when they when that door was opened.
00:55:24.240
The question I have now is if this is the treatment that Paul Pelosi gets from the San
00:55:30.360
Francisco police, what do the regular people get?
00:55:33.220
If the dispatchers can't hear this man, all but shouting into the phone, come over here
00:55:38.780
A man is trying to kill me and my wife, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, get over here
00:55:44.140
And if the dispatcher can't can't understand that.
00:55:46.980
What about an abused wife who is calling the cops and trying to be somewhat surreptitious
00:55:52.500
and and implying that she's in danger rather than explicitly stating it?
00:55:57.700
What what about a person who's a regular person facing a regular burglary?
00:56:01.860
What are are are any of these people getting the first response services that that they're
00:56:10.740
I have no idea, but I feel like they need to answer for this behavior because they caused
00:56:15.720
what was a crime that happened to have been caught in part in on camera to become this
00:56:22.960
out of control story where people kept asking question after question of a question and keep
00:56:29.200
And look, if you just pull out and release parts of what Paul Pelosi said, you could make
00:56:37.300
This was initially released by law enforcement without revealing their own sin in the progress
00:56:43.760
and that utter befuddlement for some reason of this 9-1-1 dispatcher who's literally in
00:56:49.900
the job of trying to discern levels of emergency that call.
00:56:57.980
He said right up front, there's a gentleman here trying to get my wife, Nancy Pelosi.
00:57:02.420
I'm wondering whether this woman even knew who Nancy Pelosi was.
00:57:07.860
She doesn't say like Nancy Pelosi, speaker of that.
00:57:12.680
I think it's likely that this woman didn't know, given her tone in the phone call.
00:57:16.820
But you've hit on a point that's so important here, Megan, which is earlier earlier you mentioned
00:57:22.040
that there were all these conspiracy theories floating around initially from the left.
00:57:26.000
You had the conspiracy theory that this was some kind of Trump conservative Republican
00:57:33.320
Then you had all of these conspiracy theories from the right that Paul Pelosi was having
00:57:37.420
some drunken orgy or something, that this guy DePape was his lover or something like
00:57:41.860
But where did those conspiracy theories come from?
00:57:45.880
They came from the leaked words of the transcript, the leaked reports about this cop interaction
00:57:53.660
that made it seem as though this guy was a friend of Paul Pelosi, that Paul Pelosi was not
00:57:59.820
in distress at all. Who leaked it? It wasn't the Republicans leaking it. Republicans don't have
00:58:04.880
any power in San Francisco. I don't even think it was the Democrat politicians leaking it.
00:58:09.480
It was the cops. The cops were the ones who had the transcript, who had the dispatch call,
00:58:13.340
who had the body cam footage. And they're the ones who leaked it to make it look in the reports
00:58:18.020
as though this were some bizarre situation that the conspiracy theorists ran with.
00:58:23.720
Hmm. I'm just looking back on some of the initial reporting on this. Uh, this is via Politico
00:58:29.620
clearly having spoken with law enforcement from October 31st, 2022 saying officers arrived at the
00:58:37.280
house, knocked on the front door, were let inside by an unknown person. They discovered DePape and
00:58:45.080
Pelosi struggling for a hammer. Uh, and after they instructed him to drop the weapon, DePape took the
00:58:51.640
hammer and violently attacked. Not exactly, sirs, not exactly. Uh, they discovered them struggling
00:58:56.900
for a hammer. They opened the door calmly and there was absolutely time for the police to intervene.
00:59:01.440
As soon as they saw the hammer, understanding what they had been told by the 9-1-1 dispatcher,
00:59:05.560
they understood what they had on their hands. Uh, so all of this to me, I mean, forgive the comparison,
00:59:11.260
but it has an echo of Uvalde where something horrific happened. The police were the first to sort of
00:59:18.080
try to create the public narrative and their number one concern was their own asses. And this,
00:59:23.760
this has a similar strain to it. Of course, uh, uh, the, uh, the libs can almost be forgiven for
00:59:30.860
thinking this was a politically motivated attack because the Pelosi's are the Pelosi's the
00:59:36.100
conservatives. I think certainly can be forgiven the ones who indulged in some of the more eccentric
00:59:40.580
theories because according to the reporting, nothing added up. And it did seem like Paul Pelosi knew
00:59:46.420
this guy and there were, uh, all of the leaked aspects of this episode seemed to suggest that
00:59:53.240
this wasn't just a random guy breaking in to kill them. And, uh, I think the only people who cannot
00:59:58.840
be excused here are the people in the San Francisco police department hierarchy and that dispatcher,
01:00:05.520
you know, and the people who were dealing with this at the time who completely blew it. And even if
01:00:10.140
you're going to say, okay, you totally blew it. Well, uh, you were in the heat of battle or what
01:00:14.360
about the people who covered it up? Now we have the surveillance video of the intruder breaking
01:00:20.960
into the house. This is the first time we've seen that. Uh, let's watch it. I'll try to narrate it for
01:00:25.820
our, our listening audience. I can't see much either. It's black and white. Uh, yeah, he's banging,
01:00:31.800
which with what appears to be a hammer or some sort of instrument on the back, probably window.
01:00:36.340
Cause we know that that was broken. He's going after it time and time again, really slamming it.
01:00:41.980
My God. And he's really, it almost looks like he has some, like an ax, um, slamming down on what
01:00:49.420
I think is the window of the back door over and over. Oh, and now the full shoulder knocking the
01:00:57.320
door. Now the foot, the left foot kicking the door, he's halfway in a leg is still out and he goes all
01:01:03.780
the way in. So now we have the story. That's how he entered. He attacked Paul Pelosi in the middle
01:01:08.080
of the night. A desperate Paul Pelosi called police. And as you point out, the domestic violence victim
01:01:12.720
is a good analogy where you don't call up and say necessarily, if you haven't been hurt yet,
01:01:17.580
he's going to attack me. You call up and say, Oh, I can't find my child. My child left the house
01:01:22.860
and there's an emergency that I need some, you know, this has been done by people in danger
01:01:26.700
since the beginning of time. And they had a completely moronic 911 operator who took way too
01:01:32.080
long to get it further, increasing the stakes for Paul Pelosi. I don't know what she said to the
01:01:36.860
police officers on call, but I'd love to hear how she relayed the emergency. They got there,
01:01:41.800
took too long to realize that he was in grave danger. And that hammer coming down on Paul Pelosi's
01:01:46.620
skull, in my view, could have been prevented. Before I let you go, Michael, I've got to ask you
01:01:51.700
about another. And it's not a good day for police in the news. There is a terrible case coming out of
01:01:58.220
Memphis, Tennessee, and it's starting to get more and more attention. Tyree Nichols was a man who was
01:02:05.280
pulled over in a traffic stop that wound up becoming fatal. He was beaten to death by five
01:02:12.580
cops. Tyree was black. The five officers were black as well. This isn't necessarily a racial
01:02:19.820
thing, though. Those questions will be asked notwithstanding, even when we have black police
01:02:25.000
officers that gets injected by people with agendas. And the police chief has now fired all five of the
01:02:31.160
men. They've been charged with murder, second-degree murder, which the family of the decedent is saying
01:02:37.780
they're okay with. They had one at first degree, but they said there have been multiple charges against
01:02:41.680
them, so they're okay with second. And now the police chief in Memphis is saying this videotape of
01:02:48.920
the incident is going to come out tonight and that the public needs to prepare themselves that this is
01:02:55.940
going to be worse than Rodney King. That's a direct quote that Tyree was not driving recklessly,
01:03:00.980
as the police officers claimed. And it looks like he hadn't done anything wrong. And it sounds like
01:03:07.720
we're about to get something that's going to shock the conscience of Americans at a time when police have
01:03:14.120
already been, you know, under fire, defunded, refunded, you know, called racists, all cops are bad,
01:03:22.660
all cops are bastards, whatever that, you know, that you've got public officials and their kids
01:03:26.440
putting this on cars and so on. I feel like the nation's bracing now for something terrible as the
01:03:32.740
family urges, the mother of the decedent is urging people. She said, if you want to go out and protest
01:03:39.140
when you see this video and it's going to be terrible, you do that. Do not burn things. Do not
01:03:43.100
loot things. Do not do any of that in my son's name. He would not have wanted that as a young child at
01:03:50.180
home. This is going to be, this is going to be a rough couple of days for the country. What do
01:03:56.460
you think? I'm going to try to reserve judgment as best as one can. Obviously the reports are out
01:04:01.920
there now. People are already forming their opinions. Taking a cue from the Paul Pelosi
01:04:06.320
episode, I am going to try to reserve all of the judgment here until we see the video tonight.
01:04:12.300
It is oddly enough, a saving grace that these cops were black because if, if this, if the cops were
01:04:20.740
white, if even one of the cops were white, this would be painted as a racial incident. It would
01:04:25.160
become far more combustible as a political situation than it is now. That's a sad fact, but it is a fact
01:04:32.100
of our political culture and just a, just a terrible tragedy. The question is, will this remain a
01:04:38.000
local tragedy and a low, essentially a local news story, uh, albeit a very sad one, or will this be
01:04:45.760
blown up into, as you referenced a Rodney King situation or any of the national police stories?
01:04:52.280
The fact that all of the national police stories have had to do with race in recent memory, I think
01:04:57.820
suggests this may remain a tragic, very sad local news story. And then, then the question for the police,
01:05:04.820
uh, there will, will, uh, remain local to the, the constituents, to the people of Memphis.
01:05:11.720
And, uh, uh, but, but you're, you're seeing these problems crop up. As you mentioned, Megan,
01:05:16.600
Texas, California, there are questions about police all over the country.
01:05:21.260
There's no excusing. What we understand here was just a disgusting case of police brutality,
01:05:26.500
but people do need to remember that poll after poll show that communities, especially minority
01:05:34.420
dominated communities want more police, not less. They want more cops on the ground, protecting them
01:05:39.400
from the bad guys. And when the police turn out to be the bad guys, it's particularly disgusting
01:05:45.600
given their role and the need of, of all communities to be able to trust them and to be able to trust
01:05:51.600
when they pull over. And yes, especially if you're a person of color that you will not be unnecessarily
01:05:56.440
harassed or hurt or killed that that's just a fundamental principle of society. But, but we
01:06:04.900
must remember that the vast, vast majority of police officers in this country are honorable and
01:06:08.960
are trying to serve and protect the community to the best of their abilities and are not out to hunt
01:06:14.180
as LeBron James said, uh, black men. And just a couple of stats. This was not a police shooting.
01:06:20.000
This was a, this man was beaten to death. Um, so these statistics I'm about to give you do not,
01:06:26.160
do not encompass the full scope of, of deaths at the, at the hands of police, but the Washington
01:06:33.040
post for the past several years has been keeping a log of every person shot and killed by an on duty
01:06:38.960
police officer. Um, in, in particular has been looking at unarmed white and black men shot and killed
01:06:46.220
by police officers. And this, these are the numbers so far in 2023, zero 2022, seven, 2021,
01:06:56.140
10, the police make 10 million arrests a year. All right. And the number of stops is far beyond that
01:07:01.760
10 million. And you got, there's another seven, seven last year. Go ahead. The other fact here is
01:07:07.760
no matter what is in the video tonight, no matter what people take away and how, however the narrative
01:07:12.340
goes, the simple fact is Memphis will be a much worse and more dangerous place. If this incident
01:07:19.540
leads to fewer cops being on the streets, Memphis has a big crime problem to begin with. And so
01:07:24.920
people are going to have a reaction. And this is really the meaning of scandal. Scandal is when,
01:07:31.520
when the good guys turn out to do very bad things. Scandal is when people lead other people astray. And so
01:07:37.480
this scandal could have wide ranging effects. And if it is taken as a justification to reduce the
01:07:43.080
police in, in Memphis or any other crime ridden city, then you could see many, many other crimes.
01:07:49.020
You could see many other deaths coming as a result of this scandal. Yes. We saw that after George Floyd.
01:07:55.560
And yet if, if you are the chief of police in Memphis, Tennessee, I mean, if I were getting to
01:08:01.320
interview her, I think it's a her. Um, my first question would be, is this a systemic problem?
01:08:07.480
Like what, what would make five officers, not one, not one bad apple, not one, you know,
01:08:14.740
disturbed person like Derek Chauvin, uh, go after five, you have five officers who participated
01:08:21.800
knowing that there's body cams not to mention and police dash cams to beat a man to death and on our
01:08:27.760
man, according to the report. So why, what, what would make them do that? What is it? It's fair
01:08:34.280
question. What is, is there something in the culture of the police department? Is there something
01:08:38.940
in the power trip or structure that some of your officers may have been on that, that led to that?
01:08:44.640
Like, those are all fair questions that people, forgive me for phrasing it this way, but who are
01:08:49.900
more on our side, who are more, you know, quick to defend the police and not quick to just need
01:08:54.500
jerk, condemn them without real evidence should be interested in asking too, right? This shouldn't
01:09:00.440
just immediately, just because Ben Crump of course is on the scene, uh, it shouldn't immediately boil
01:09:05.960
down to sides. There should be a true exploration of how this can happen.
01:09:09.900
Of course. Uh, it's typical for conservatives to wear the back, the blue shirts. And, and we,
01:09:16.060
we obviously are much, much, uh, more vociferous defenders of the police because the, the civil
01:09:22.760
authority is a good thing and we need law and we need order. And these are all, uh, necessary to a
01:09:27.660
flourishing and just and virtuous society. Uh, that doesn't mean that we don't recognize that
01:09:33.360
this is a fallen world and bad things happen and we can make improvements. And sometimes
01:09:36.820
policies have unintended consequences and sometimes there are bad people that need to be dealt with.
01:09:41.140
Of course not. And, and to, if, if people are, are so reductive in their politics that they just,
01:09:46.740
uh, make every issue merely partisan and knee jerk, well, then, then we're not going to get very
01:09:52.800
far in politics at all. We got to figure out what led to this
01:09:57.660
what, why, why would these five officers do this? What, what takes over what, you know, I,
01:10:04.840
I too am relieved that I don't think this is going to be made all about race, uh, given the race of
01:10:10.940
the officers, but there's something that drove them to do this. And we better figure out what it was.
01:10:15.280
And the people of Memphis should, should follow the recommendation of, of Tyree's mom. Do,
01:10:21.820
do not riot. Do not hurt people or property in her son's name. That's not the way forward.
01:10:28.320
Michael Knowles. What a great day to have you. Thank you so much. I'm so grateful that you were
01:10:32.500
here with your always spot on analysis. Megan, always great to be with you. Thank you for having
01:10:36.960
me. All right. To be continued. And coming up, we have former CIA agent. Mike Baker is here looking
01:10:42.200
forward to talking to him. My old pal from Fox news. Uh, he's been doing a lot. He's been watching
01:10:46.280
his story and we will have his take next. My next guest spent 15 years as a covert CIA agent
01:10:55.760
specializing in counter terror and counter narcotic operations. He now runs his own company,
01:11:01.300
Portman square group, and is the author of a new book company rules or everything I know about
01:11:07.300
business. I learned from the CIA. I like that. Mike Baker joins me now. Hi, Mike. How you doing?
01:11:12.640
I'm doing good, Megan. It's good to see you. It's been a while.
01:11:14.940
Yeah. Good to see you again, too. Good for you for getting out there with your thoughts in the book
01:11:19.480
and on Rogan all the time, which is cool. I think you might be his favorite guest.
01:11:23.440
Well, that's very kind of you to say. He's a great guy. Uh, can't say enough good things about him.
01:11:27.220
Um, and, uh, and thank you for mentioning the book. It's an audio book, so I'll put people's
01:11:31.960
minds at ease. Cause I don't, I don't really know enough big words to write a whole book. Um,
01:11:36.120
but this is, uh, hopefully an easy listen for people and I narrate it myself. So it's,
01:11:41.400
it's really very soothing. I, it's very soothing. I love audio books. It's almost the only way I
01:11:47.200
consume books these days. It's just so easy. You can do it in your downtime and, you know,
01:11:51.620
you're sort of drifting off to sleep and then you can go back for what you missed,
01:11:54.360
uh, really enjoying that. So yes, I will dig in. Um, let me ask you as a guy who, you know,
01:11:59.680
had spent 15 years in the CIA trying to go after bad guys and help people color inside the lines,
01:12:04.540
what you make of this Paul Pelosi news that nine one one call Mike. Yeah. Yeah. That I,
01:12:11.460
I was listening to you talking with Michael Knowles earlier and I think you, you, you raised a really
01:12:16.860
important point, which is that if you, if you, if you think like we would, right. If, if you're
01:12:23.560
somebody who follows politics, if you're somebody who follows the news, right. Because that's part of
01:12:28.980
your, your makeup, then yes, the nine one one operator, uh, sounds, uh, completely ignorant
01:12:36.040
and completely, you know, incompetent. But if you then put yourself in the place of a nine one one
01:12:43.080
operator, who's just doing a job, right. And going home and not watching news and not caring about news
01:12:48.720
because maybe they're a single parent, whatever it is. So I think when you said, maybe the operator
01:12:53.700
just had no idea who Pelosi is. And then certainly when he mentioned the Capitol police,
01:12:58.520
that wouldn't ring any bells. I think it, it puts it into some context that is maybe
01:13:04.180
a little bit easier to understand. I don't, I mean, so I'm being too hard by calling her a moron
01:13:10.500
because I'm like, do you need police? He's like, he's telling her in every way he can. Yes, I need
01:13:17.160
police. Like she just wasn't getting it, Mike. Well, but the very, and so I, you know, I, I refrain,
01:13:24.140
I hold judgment on whether she's a moron or not. Um, but I, you know, I, I have seen, uh, a real
01:13:32.000
variety of abilities when we're talking about law enforcement and we're talking about the Intel
01:13:36.680
community and we're talking about government and we're talking about politics. You, they're all
01:13:40.900
over the map when it comes to their abilities, uh, their, their, their training. Um, and that's part
01:13:46.880
of the problem, which is, you know, what we always talk about when we talk about law enforcement,
01:13:50.460
how can they do their job better? You know what? You need more and consistent and thorough
01:13:54.840
training. And that includes somebody like a nine one one operator who's really at the,
01:13:58.880
at the pointy edge of the spear when it comes to conflicts. When this guy, he says, he's looking
01:14:05.880
for my wife, Nancy Pelosi. He's waiting. I told him she won't be home for days, but he wants to wait.
01:14:12.300
And then says his capital, he's police around. They're usually here protecting my wife. No,
01:14:17.640
this is San Francisco police. Uh, then he says to the assailant, I don't know. What do you think?
01:14:21.640
What do you think? And says, uh, he thinks everything's good. I've got a problem. And
01:14:26.760
she responds, okay, call us back. If you change your mind, come on. It's indefensible.
01:14:31.600
No, I, you can't, I mean, I, I, I don't disagree with the fact that it, it sounds really bad.
01:14:37.020
I'm just saying that I I'm not surprised sometimes when I see a level of incompetency because it's based
01:14:42.360
on a lack of knowledge or training. And I think that's what we're looking at here,
01:14:45.840
but you can imagine Pelosi and I think Michael Knowles mentioned it and says he kept this
01:14:50.100
composure and not just saying, what the hell, what do I have to say to you to get you to respond
01:14:56.000
properly? And, you know, and then, you know, then you have to wonder what was the response? What,
01:15:01.400
what was advised to those responding officers who showed up on the doorstep, right? What was their
01:15:07.400
brief before they showed up, uh, based on that call and based on the 911 operators interpretation of
01:15:13.500
that call, right? So I'm just going to guess, I am going to guess that your average cop who opens
01:15:18.760
the door and they should have known that it was Paul and Nancy Pelosi's house. If they didn't, there
01:15:22.740
was another system failure. And you can see the speaker of the house, her husband standing there
01:15:27.660
with, with an assailant who's holding a hammer. There's, it's not a good time for chit chat. It's
01:15:32.420
not, it's not the time. No. And, and, and they said, you know, and look, they, they have to be able
01:15:37.000
to assess the situation. I don't, again, I don't want to sound like I'm apologizing for every step
01:15:41.740
because there was clearly a sort of a cascading effect here of, of mistakes of, of errors. Right.
01:15:46.940
And it actually started with the U S Capitol police, uh, surveillance feed, right. That is in
01:15:52.640
Washington, DC, because they do have a surveillance feed on the Pelosi home. Uh, but it's one of many
01:15:59.340
monitors within the complex there, uh, that they have to watch. And so until those police cars
01:16:06.980
showed up with the lights flashing and it suddenly catches your attention because you're looking at
01:16:10.540
banks of dozens of other monitors. So that's the first problem. Why then it kind of keeps going
01:16:14.640
from there. Uh, but with the police showing up, you know, you can, you can tick off in a handful of
01:16:20.300
seconds, the moment from the time that they spotted the hammer, right. To the time they said,
01:16:24.540
drop the hammer to the actual attack. And there's a, there's a moment of assessment. They can't,
01:16:29.760
they're not just going to knock the door down and charge at Paul Pelosi and this individual,
01:16:33.660
right. That's, you know, that's a movie thing. Uh, so they have to, they have to be able to do a
01:16:38.420
spot assessment very quickly. Unfortunately, you know, the, the perp was able to grab the hammer in
01:16:43.920
that short, short period of time. Again, it doesn't excuse some of the other mistakes that took place,
01:16:48.600
but I am saying that when the police rock up on it, on a, on a situation,
01:16:52.220
it's a lot more complex than sometimes TV and film make it out to be.
01:16:57.420
No, I appreciate that. And what do I, I've never been a cop. I don't, what do I know? I've practiced
01:17:02.060
law and I've been a journalist. And so it's easy for me to, you know, pass judgment from my cheap
01:17:06.000
seat over here. It's just to me and my late person's eyes, it looks rather shocking knowing
01:17:10.360
what they knew. The fact that like that attack did not have to happen. Can we just look at it one
01:17:15.120
more time? I just want to see that the, the, the video of the cops showing up at the door,
01:17:18.560
to see, cause to me, it seemed like an eternity to when they, the amount of time that they had
01:17:23.820
to get that hammer out of the guy's hand. How are you doing? What's going on, man?
01:17:43.460
You know, Mike, I may be reading into it. The officer from his voice sounds kind of young.
01:17:47.940
He kind of tells he's not an older guy. And that could mean not that much experience. I don't know,
01:17:53.020
but yeah. Yeah. Again, you've got, you've got a problem with consistency of training, you know,
01:17:58.180
throughout the law enforcement across the country. Right. And, and they deserve more in terms of
01:18:03.220
resource. I'm, I've never been one to say, you know, pull back funds from the police because look,
01:18:07.160
if you want better police, you got to train them better. Right. That's just the reality of it. You
01:18:11.020
have to be consistent in that training. But I would, I would say the, the bigger mistakes here,
01:18:16.140
and they, they've done a hot wash on this thing. Um, and, and they do what's called a gap analysis
01:18:20.900
in terms of the security, uh, that, that takes place here. And the, the real critical mistakes
01:18:27.060
were, you know, the perimeter security that existed around Pelosi's home was, was clearly,
01:18:31.740
um, inadequate. Um, the, uh, the coverage of surveillance handled by the U S Capitol police
01:18:39.000
that obviously failed, uh, because they, they could have identified this problem if they'd been
01:18:44.540
monitoring properly the home in real time. And then that line of communication, right. The,
01:18:50.700
between the 911 operator, the Capitol police, uh, the, the, uh, the, the local police that were
01:18:55.920
responding, there was a lack of understanding as to what they were going to rock up on when they
01:19:01.160
knocked on that door. So those are the, those are the, the, the, the real points of, of, uh,
01:19:07.180
problem here when you're evaluating something like this. Yeah. That this is, they should have gone in
01:19:12.200
there knowing this is a five alarm fire. Like we have a deadly situation on our hands and you were
01:19:17.160
not getting that feeling from that videotape. And certainly not from the 911 call took her,
01:19:22.100
took her far too long. Right. Again, because of this failure of communication from the start of this,
01:19:26.260
this whole effort. Let's, uh, let's shift gears because 15 years in the CIA and I, it's been back
01:19:34.200
in the news lately. Um, the subject of the CIA and what, if any connection they had to the most
01:19:39.360
famous or second, most famous presidential assassination of all time. And that was that of
01:19:43.720
JFK. Um, we were told back in 17 that they were going to release all the files. The CIA has files
01:19:49.220
and they were going to see them all. And then Trump postponed it. And, uh, because the FBI went to
01:19:53.880
him and said, don't do it. And presumably CIA too. And then, uh, Biden did the same though. Some were
01:20:00.000
released in December though, not all. So we still don't have all supposedly by June, we're going to
01:20:05.520
have all, but more and more, we're hearing speculation in the news that the CIA had a role
01:20:11.160
in it. Maybe not coordination with Leah Harvey Oswald, but perhaps looking the other way,
01:20:16.940
failing to do its duty, perhaps intentionally failing to do its duty. What do you make of
01:20:21.940
these, the speculation and the growing fervor behind that theory? Yeah. Um, well, first of all,
01:20:29.680
I understand why it's, it's such a powerful, uh, conspiracy that just won't, it will never go
01:20:36.300
away. Right. It's just, you know, even, even if they released everything they have, there'll still
01:20:40.580
be folks out there saying, no, that's not how it happened. It happened this way because nobody wants
01:20:46.160
to believe, right. That something that impactful, that emotional could have been done by one individual,
01:20:53.420
you know, much less, you know, somebody of, of, of Lee Harvey Oswald's caliber. And so I think that's,
01:21:00.400
that's helped to, to create this, uh, that just keeps building over the years is this idea that
01:21:07.300
there were others involved releasing the documents. Look, I'll be honest with you. I think unless,
01:21:12.380
unless what they're doing is, is waiting till every last possible person who was alive at the time,
01:21:17.500
um, is dead now. I don't know why they're, they're holding onto anything at this stage, unless,
01:21:23.020
and typically the only reason that you would do that is because it would reveal sources and methods
01:21:27.620
or would reveal sensitive sources. And if that's the case, then yeah, fine. You, you maintain the
01:21:34.440
classification, but yeah, I, I, I would, I would say never say never, but I'm not one who, who has
01:21:41.840
fallen down into this thing of, of look, I think the CIA and other governments, people are going to
01:21:46.060
say that. Of course, that's what I would say, but I, I, I haven't seen enough yet to say I'm connecting
01:21:52.380
all of these dots and putting the CIA in there. So this head of this big cabal that wanted Kennedy
01:21:57.480
dead. I mean, uh, RFK jr. Was on the show and definitely believes that it, I think he put the,
01:22:04.540
put it, the military industrial complex was behind his dad's assassination and that of JFK as well.
01:22:09.880
It's that's his belief based on all of his research. And it's been considerable given who he is. Um,
01:22:15.580
and then Tucker Carlson made news the other night with this news. I mean, this is a one source
01:22:22.160
unnamed and the guy didn't put, you know, a fine point on it. Exactly. There's some wiggle room in
01:22:27.240
the soundbite that Tucker's about to, yeah, a lot of wiggle room, but take a listen to what he
01:22:31.720
reported the other night. We spoke to someone who had access to these still hidden CIA documents.
01:22:38.060
Person was deeply familiar with what they contain. We asked this person directly,
01:22:42.740
did the CIA have a hand in the murder of John F. Kennedy, an American president?
01:22:47.800
And here's the reply we received verbatim quote. The answer is yes. I believe they were involved.
01:22:54.740
It's a whole different country from what we thought it was. It's all fake.
01:23:00.120
It's hard to imagine a more jarring response than that. Again, this is not a quote conspiracy
01:23:04.660
theorist that we spoke to not even close. This is someone with direct knowledge of the information
01:23:10.800
that once again is being withheld from the American public. And the answer we received
01:23:15.680
was unequivocal. Yes, the CIA was involved in the assassination of the president.
01:23:21.460
It was a part of it was unequivocal. The answer is yes. But then according to Tucker,
01:23:25.920
the answer went, I believe, I believe they were involved. So a lot of people believe that.
01:23:32.040
And you've carved out the most important part of that sentence, along with that last bit, which,
01:23:38.700
excuse me, but does sound like a conspiracy theorist, where the country is not what we
01:23:43.020
thought it was. And I think, okay, if you just identify yourself, if you've got access like this,
01:23:51.160
and this is what you believe, then yeah, you've got an obligation to come right out and tell us that
01:23:58.480
the country is not what we thought it was fine. Or if you've seen the document, leak the document,
01:24:02.480
leak it. Yeah, do it. I mean, if that's the case, and you know, let people decide for themselves,
01:24:06.980
then fine. But I just haven't, I haven't seen that. Look, Lee Harvey Oswald was on
01:24:12.520
the agency's radar, right? Lee Harvey Oswald lived over in Russia, right? He married a Russian woman,
01:24:18.260
he came back, he was, he was, he was, he was not just fascinated by, he was impassioned by
01:24:24.300
the Cuban revolution in Castro. He was desperate to show his importance to the Soviets and Castro.
01:24:32.000
He had disappointing existence over in the Soviet Union, where he ended up working for a radio,
01:24:36.600
you know, factory, because they kind of realized, okay, you're not really important to us. They
01:24:42.160
shoved him over there and just kind of gave him a place to sit. He comes back, he goes down to Mexico,
01:24:47.700
makes contact with the Soviet embassy there. He's, again, that puts him on the radar,
01:24:53.060
because it's the Cold War. And you better hope that, you know, we're monitoring and listening to
01:24:58.220
what the Soviets are doing. And so they're in contact with Lee Harvey Oswald. So yes, he's on
01:25:05.060
the radar. There's no doubt about it. But Lee Harvey Oswald, when people say, well, what was his
01:25:09.400
motivation? Well, in part, if you want to go this route, or fine, go the conspiracy route. But if
01:25:14.100
you're going, you know, the route of, you know, was Lee Harvey Oswald the shooter, then he was,
01:25:19.040
you know, he was out to make a statement. And that, you know, he was fascinated with the and
01:25:24.480
like I said, impassioned with the whole revolution. And he was out to make a name for himself as far as
01:25:31.380
It doesn't seem like if the CIA had some smoking gun document that showed they had a hand in this,
01:25:37.960
they would fork it over ever. I'm sure they those documents would have been destroyed. And we're not
01:25:43.400
going to get the big reveal in June where they're like, we did it right. So it's like,
01:25:46.840
expectations should be tempered. They are already withholding thousands of documents,
01:25:51.580
according to the reports under these sources and methods objection. So I mean, I we're never
01:25:57.500
going to know, are we we're never going to know? No. Well, we may we may have all the facts laid on
01:26:03.540
the table at some point, but it doesn't mean that we still won't have the conspiracy theories.
01:26:08.140
And and that's just that's the way things things work. But I do think the interesting thing that I
01:26:14.940
one of the things I took away from all my time behind the curtain there for seeing how
01:26:19.040
government works and the intel community works is, you know, is that
01:26:23.240
I and I firmly believe this people can't keep their yap shut for, you know, an inordinate amount
01:26:30.160
of time. So if there was some massive secret and the agency had been behind it, I'm pretty sure we
01:26:35.600
would have heard about it because the honest to God's truth is, you know, they Washington can't keep
01:26:41.380
a secret and there would have been enough people that would have had eyes on that to, you know,
01:26:48.060
at some point come forward. So, again, never say never. I always kind of cover that because I've
01:26:53.000
I've I've looked at things. It wasn't we did two seasons so far with Discovery of a show called
01:26:58.740
Black Files Declassified. Yeah. And and we look at a lot of interesting, very interesting topics,
01:27:05.940
including some conspiracy theories. And so never say never. But I'm not there yet.
01:27:13.680
But you're you're at you're at. I doubt it. OK, so that's for the record. So let me ask you,
01:27:18.600
because there's been so much coverage lately, especially of the FBI and whether it's become
01:27:22.520
a political operation and whether whether it needs to be sort of taken down to the studs and rebuilt
01:27:27.160
because it's been politicized by people from within, from leadership and so on.
01:27:32.180
And having been 15 years at the the brother organization, the sister organization,
01:27:37.020
what do you make of those claims? And do you think the CIA may suffer from similar problems?
01:27:44.340
Yeah, that's a really interesting and an important question. I think to start with,
01:27:50.960
you never want a politicized intelligence organization or law enforcement. And you
01:27:56.720
know, I've spent so much of my time overseas in difficult or challenging environments where every
01:28:04.440
time there's a change in the leadership, there's a wholesale change in the intel community. And
01:28:09.100
and, you know, they just bring in their own people and it's highly politicized. And we never,
01:28:14.300
ever want that. So it's an important question to always ask. It's an important question for
01:28:19.460
hopefully functioning, curious politicians who are responsible for oversight on the various
01:28:26.680
committees to be asking constantly. And it's important for the public to be keeping that front
01:28:31.860
of mind. Now, I think over the past few years, yes, we've had FBI senior personnel. I'm not talking
01:28:40.280
about street level operators at both, you know, the agency or the FBI, but senior level personnel
01:28:45.180
who became a little too enamored of contact with the White House. And you did, you know, become
01:28:52.860
more political than is desired. They should be. Don't you think Comey got drunk on his own power?
01:29:00.360
He has this tweeting out photos of him under the Klieg lights waiting for George Stephanopoulos to
01:29:04.200
interview him. My God. Yeah. Yeah. I think I think you could argue Comey. Look, John Brennan had,
01:29:10.720
you know, over at the agency had a very good relationship with Obama. I think he also found
01:29:17.360
that very enticing. So all I'm saying is there, you want that, you want that close contact with
01:29:27.100
the administration, right? Because that's, that's important in terms of the flow of information and
01:29:32.420
communication. But there's got to be a firewall in terms of the politics of it all. And we, and again,
01:29:38.100
to repeat myself, you never want a politicized Intel or law enforcement federal organization.
01:29:44.940
It's true with respect to the intelligence agencies and the military, right? We want the
01:29:48.920
same thing for our generals who get a little too cozy and, you know, have their eye on power instead
01:29:53.760
of on their troops and mission focus and all that. All right. And we only have a couple of minutes left.
01:29:57.360
So I've got, I want to ask you some fun things. What are some of the funnest tools you've ever used
01:30:01.820
in the CIA? What's give us something behind the scenes, some covert thing you got to do or use or
01:30:06.440
something that would excite people at a cocktail party? I'll tell you, I'll tell you what excited
01:30:11.960
an asset the most once, right? I can't talk about a variety of things. And obviously I'm not going to,
01:30:16.820
I can't talk about tech here really, but I will tell you in an, in an operational meeting one time
01:30:20.680
in the middle of some, it was a, it was, I don't even, I don't even know what's after a fifth world
01:30:25.180
country. But, uh, we finished the meeting and I was, I, you know, he had handed me a couple of
01:30:31.640
pieces of paper to write, uh, or, or sorry to, uh, to review as we were talking. And then he had to
01:30:37.380
get off the X, he had to get out of there and I had to get out of there. And while he's talking,
01:30:42.120
I'm busy folding this paper. And there's a thing that you can do called a fan fold. It's not,
01:30:47.240
I'm not releasing sources and methods. People could Google it, I suppose. And so then I fan folded
01:30:52.020
this paper. I set it on the table between us. And then I lit it, uh, with my, with my trusty
01:30:56.740
Zippo lighter and it just burns. It just goes straight down, no smoke, nothing. It just burns
01:31:02.520
straight down. Right. And that this guy, suddenly I was like, Jesus, right? He was, he couldn't,
01:31:09.720
he couldn't believe what he'd seen. And I I'm staring at him thinking I hadn't even thought about
01:31:14.600
it, but I thought, you know what? That, that, that was pretty cool. Um, so you, did you read it
01:31:19.940
first? You read it and then you burned it right in front of me? Oh no, no. I didn't want to know
01:31:23.240
anything. I just, I just, no, of course. No, it was, it was sad. And then I kept it all up here
01:31:30.000
and, and, uh, then got rid of it. And then you walked out of there with a little new swagger
01:31:34.480
in your step, a little swagger, a little swagger, but that was it. So that was the one thing that I
01:31:39.460
thought, you know, of all the stuff we've done over the years and all the things we've handled,
01:31:43.560
that seemed to impress somebody the most. You still got the swagger in your step. So what are people
01:31:48.120
going to learn if they buy this book? Uh, um, well, there's nine, uh, nine rules, right? And I
01:31:54.400
came up with nine because I couldn't think of a 10th, but there's, um, they're, they're, they're
01:31:58.260
what I took away, right? This book is not about my time in the agency. It's about when I left and
01:32:02.800
started the business. And the idea is I found I had a limited set of skills when I left the agency,
01:32:08.180
but I started this business. And after a while I realized I was able to keep it growing and
01:32:12.480
building and breathing because of some principles that I took away. Other people who worked for the
01:32:17.140
agency, I'm sure they took away their own rules. These happened to be mine. And I hope that people
01:32:22.560
will take away one or two or three of these that can help them, not just in business, but you know,
01:32:26.440
hopefully in life. Um, and that, that sounds very deep, doesn't it? That sounds appropriately deep.
01:32:32.360
Sign up for the swagger and check it out. Mike, thanks so much. I hope you come back.
01:32:36.600
I will. I'd love to. Thank you very much. All right. All the best. Uh, and I don't forget folks,
01:32:40.720
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01:32:45.120
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