Sen. Mark Warner and Rep. Ted Lieu are calling for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to be fired over a leaked classified document, but CIA Director John R. Radcliffe says there was no classified material in the messages. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump orders the FBI to declassify all documents related to the so-called "Collusion" scandal.
00:01:21.240prove that he did not transfer classified information. Ratcliffe also pointed out that
00:01:27.700the signal chat was an appropriate and legal means of communication. Let's listen to John Ratcliffe.
00:01:35.840One of the things that I was briefed on very early, Senator, was by the CIA records management
00:01:41.860folks about the use of signal as a permissible work use. It is. That is a practice that preceded
00:01:49.740the current administration to the biden administration i've got a series of questions
00:01:54.060i i do you if you're making this point well if you're making the statement the signal is a secure
00:01:59.660channel no can i answer that it is i've got a decryption so it is i understand it is permissible
00:02:08.240to use to communicate and coordinate for work purposes provided provided senator that any
00:02:15.180decisions that are made are also recorded through formal channels. So those were procedures that
00:02:22.220were implemented. My staff implemented those processes, followed those processes,
00:02:28.540complied with those processes, and finally, just please. So you get the gist of it there. Beyond
00:02:37.980that, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard testified under oath during a Senate
00:02:42.580Intelligence Committee hearing Tuesday that there was no classified material in the messages.
00:02:48.540So once again, there's a shift of focus from the mission. The point here is that Donald Trump made
00:02:55.800a command decision that he was going to attack those who have for two, almost three years been
00:03:01.260attacking us. So the Democrats evidently are fine with sea lanes being shut, with American0.71
00:03:07.280destroyers being under fire with Iran supplying missiles to the Houthis. This mission was a0.51
00:03:13.540military success. And those who are calling for resignations by Hegseth or Walsh, I think are
00:03:23.140just playing politics. Let's listen to Mike Walsh defend himself. I take responsibility. I built the
00:03:29.040group. But look, that's the part that we have to figure out. And that's the part that we were
00:03:36.180Embarrassing? Yes. But Pete and I are veterans. We know these operations. He has been an excellent
00:03:43.400secretary of defense. And this was an operation that I mean, it amazes me. I guess the Democrats
00:03:49.900were fine to leave all the sea lanes shut down. We're fine to have destroyers fired on dozens of
00:03:56.240times by this terrorist group and fine to have Iran keep supplying the missiles. That was OK.0.89
00:04:01.340The president takes decisive action, and now we're seeing some real success in taking down their air defenses, opening the sea lanes, taking out their leadership.
00:04:17.840The point, of course, is that the mission was successful.
00:04:21.060Meanwhile, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday directing the FBI to immediately declassify all of the files concerning the crossfire hurricane investigation.
00:04:33.420For those unfamiliar with that name, what we're talking about is the origins of the Russian collusion hoax.
00:04:40.440Now, interestingly, President Trump ordered the declassification of these documents at the end of his first term.
00:04:46.180They were actually given to two different journalists, the late Lou Dobbs and also John Solomon of Just the Do's.
00:04:54.860But then the National Security Agency asked for the documents back and they never returned them,
00:05:01.500which means that even though the president gave an order for declassification, deep state bureaucrats defied that order.
00:05:09.200And we've never seen the actual origins of the most colossal abuse of power in American political history.
00:05:18.580This is nothing less than an abuse of power in which the full authority of the United States government and the incredible capabilities of our intelligence agencies were utilized, utilizing two pieces of, quote unquote, evidence that the government knew was false.
00:05:38.720The so-called Steele dossier, which was actually fabricated and paid for by Hillary Clinton's campaign for president that has commissioned through the law firm Perkins Coy, disguised in the Federal Election Commission reports as legal research.
00:05:57.140her campaign was actually fined for that, or the false claim that the Democrat National Committee
00:06:04.640had been the target of an online Russian intelligence hack, which is also false.
00:06:12.160There's no evidence to support that claim. When I was framed by the Democrats in the Russian
00:06:19.460collusion hoax, I wanted to bring in expert testimony from Bill Binney, who was the leading
00:06:26.440CIA counterintelligence IT guy and forensic evidence that proved beyond a shadow of doubt
00:06:33.200that there was no online hack of the Democrat National Committee, not by Russian intelligence
00:07:42.620They haven't posted it yet because, of course, I'm anxious to go look up those documents that pertain specifically to me and their efforts to frame me.
00:07:51.380It was back on July 31st, 2016, the FBI opened an investigation into Donald Trump, then a presidential candidate, and members of his campaign claiming that we were colluding or coordinating with Russia to influence the 2016 election.
00:08:09.040The important thing to understand was there was no probable cause to justify this investigation, no evidence whatsoever.
00:08:17.460However, the opening of the investigation came just days after a July 28th meeting in which then CIA Director John Brennan briefed then President Barack Obama on a purported proposal from one of Hillary Clinton's campaign foreign policy advisors to, quote, vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service.
00:08:41.660Clinton, of course, was, you'll remember, the Democrat nominee for president that year.
00:08:45.760By January of 2017, then FBI Director James Comey had notified Trump of a dossier known as the Steele dossier that contained salacious and unverified allegations about Trump's purported coordination with the Russian government, a key document that was used as the rationale to open the investigation.
00:09:07.960The problem was the dossier was authored by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer, and was commissioned by Fusion GPS.
00:09:19.040Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign actually paid Fusion GPS during the 2016 election cycle.
00:09:28.040It is beyond belief that we still don't have the answers to how and why this all happened.
00:09:35.280Now, finally, perhaps we will find out John Durham, who was the special counsel charged with getting to the bottom of this, took five long years to reach the conclusions that we many of which we already knew that this was plotted out in the Oval Office in a meeting run by Barack Obama.
00:09:55.700that Susan Rice and Samantha Powers, the then U.N. Ambassador James Comey, the FBI Director John
00:10:05.420Brennan, the CIA Director, they were all in on it. Will anybody ever be held responsible?
00:10:12.320Meanwhile, good news for those who are concerned about the integrity of our elections. On Tuesday,
00:10:17.700President Trump signed a sweeping executive order aimed at trying to make sure that we have free,
00:10:23.280fair and honest elections in this country. His order will cut federal funding for states that
00:10:29.180refuse to take steps to secure their elections, tasks the Department of Homeland Security with
00:10:34.360ensuring that illegal immigrants are not allowed to vote, and adds a citizenship question on the0.51
00:10:41.760federal voting form for the first time ever. This order, called the Preserving and Protecting the0.98
00:10:48.340integrity of American elections requires voters to submit official proof of U.S. citizenship,
00:10:54.820such as a passport or a birth certificate, before they're allowed to register to vote.
00:11:00.420Federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, will be required to share
00:11:04.940data to help state officials identify non-citizens on voter rolls. Prior to Trump's order, that was
00:11:12.220illegal. Additionally, all mailed ballots are now required to be received by election day and
00:11:19.540counted. The attorney general is tasked by the order with taking appropriate action against states
00:11:25.320that count ballots that are received after election day and federal elections. The order
00:11:32.100also tasks the Justice Department with vigorously pursuing election crimes, particularly in states
00:11:37.780are out of compliance with this new federal law on election security and calls for the prosecution
00:11:43.380of foreign interference in U.S. elections, an order which would apply against actions like those taken
00:11:49.840by the British spy Christopher Steele, who I just spoke about. Remember him? He's the guy who
00:11:55.000produced the fake hoax document against President Donald Trump. This is, I think, a common sense
00:12:03.560idea. How about an election? All paper ballots, all on one day. I think mail-in ballots, as Attorney
00:12:11.560General Bill Barr said before he was against him, he was for them, he said they were an open
00:12:17.720invitation for election fraud. To claim that there is no evidence of irregularities, anomalies
00:15:33.240I think his comeback victory in the last election was a testimony to his personal stamina, his perseverance, his strength, his courage, and his energy.
00:15:54.340He has he's like turning around an ocean liner.
00:15:56.760This country was headed over the cliff.
00:15:59.840It was it was headed over the waterfall and turning it around is a massive job.
00:16:05.240He's announced important changes in the election law.
00:16:08.800He's also going to help us get to the bottom of Crossfire Hurricane, the so-called Russian collusion hoax.
00:16:15.260And meanwhile, the Democrats are trying to go to town on this leaked signal exchange, which I don't think really proved anything other than that this administration thinks about doing the right thing before they do it.
00:16:28.960Today, I'm joined by Cat Turd, who is one of my favorite voices on X, the great social media platform owned by Elon Musk.
00:16:37.840What I like about Cat Turd is he always tells you the truth.
00:16:41.240It's got a country twang to it, but he's a straight shooter.
00:17:36.080You're, you know, somebody like, what happens if you're armed and people start trying to come through your door in the middle of the night?
00:17:41.940First thing you do is grab your, you know, your protection.
00:17:44.900And then the cops, of course, are on high alert.
00:17:47.160What they try to do is just get you murdered.
00:17:49.680And it should be charges like that, too.
00:17:51.780It should be charged, attempted murder.
00:19:18.420I really hope that that Kash Patel and Dan Bondi, the attorney general, can get to the bottom of it.0.63
00:19:26.380Yeah. And, you know, they just got Dan Bongino in there.
00:19:29.360But, yeah, so just, you know, so the difference between my swattings, you know, I was swatted three times during the Biden regime, and nothing ever happened.
00:19:38.620And this time when I was swatted, I was instantly, a few days later, contacted by the FBI and given an FBI, you know, person I can call and a phone number.
00:19:48.740And so, I mean, the difference was night and day.
00:19:52.000I mean, somebody was immediately on it investigating it.
00:19:57.440You see the Democrats have their panties in a twist about the whole signal story in which there was debate among the top advisers, the secretary of defense, the head of the CIA, the national security adviser, the director of national intelligence, a debate before carrying out the president's directive to attack the terrorist Houthis,
00:20:25.200who have been attacking American interests now for two and a half years
00:22:07.240And they've changed it in the last 12 hours
00:22:10.420from top secret to secret to classified.
00:22:14.020And today it was, oh, it was sensitive.
00:22:16.420You know, they just keep downgrading it.
00:22:18.200Yeah, it's just it's raw politics. I think people can see this. What do you say about these activist federal judges who seem to be countermanding the decisions made in the last presidential election?
00:22:32.580Whether it is saying that the president cannot deport terrorists and dangerous criminals, or whether it is a judge saying that he cannot ban men from playing in women's sports, or whether it's yet another federal judge saying that he cannot ban transgender people from being in our military.
00:22:53.420Yet another judge saying that Elon Musk and his Doge operation to ferret out waste, fraud and corruption in federal spending, of which he's found not millions, not billions, but trillions, that he can't have access to Social Security records.
00:23:11.140It seems to me that they are just countermanding the will of the American people.
00:23:16.640And it's easy to have Republicans and Trump supporters say, oh, impeach them, impeach them.
00:23:23.300But impeaching a federal judge is a very serious step.
00:23:26.140It requires an indictment in the House, which is like charges, and then a full trial in the Senate and two-thirds of the Senate to remove one of these tyrannical judges.
00:23:38.880You're never going to get them removed.
00:23:40.480The thing about impeachment is if you could get Republicans to do it, but they won't do it because they never stick together, at least you can have a trial and run them through the mud a little bit.
00:23:49.600But the truth is, at some point, Trump and them is going to have to make a decision either.
00:23:55.480The whole four years is done, and these little judges from these little districts, these little liberal districts are going to run the country.
00:24:03.120He's going to run it, and they're just going to have to do it.
00:24:08.900And he he didn't defy a little district somewhere. And, you know, over there in Delaware, he defied the Supreme Court with the ruling of paying back the student loans.
00:24:21.580But they had the right approach when they finally told the judge, I think, yesterday, Bonnie said, you know, these are top secrets and we're not answering any more of your questions and we're not going to do anything.
00:24:30.920it. We're not going to do anything else about it. I mean, you got, you know, they got that guy
00:24:35.880and three blue hair law clerks behind him, and there's really nothing they can do about it.
00:24:42.080Yeah, I had former Congressman Matt Gaetz on the show the other day. He he's an attorney. I'm not,
00:24:48.380but he takes the same position, which is the president should only obey the ruling of a
00:24:53.840three judge appeals panel. And that in every one of these cases, the judges has the judge has
00:24:59.160usurped his executive authority in violation of the Constitution.
00:25:04.700On the other hand, they're used to having their way.
00:25:36.180They don't want to do anything controversial.
00:25:38.560They have no real interest in making government smaller, less intrusive.
00:25:42.480They give lip service to the America First agenda.
00:25:46.400They have to support President Donald Trump, the same way they had to support President Ronald Reagan,
00:25:50.920because they are so popular back in their districts.
00:25:53.900In fact, in most cases, they're more popular than the member of Congress, but they really don't have any belly for the fight.
00:26:01.120And then you've got the other members, the radicals, as it were, people like Tim Burchett and Eric Burleson and Anna Polina Luna and other brawlers who understand they were sent to Washington to bring legitimate change.
00:26:17.860And poor Mike Johnson's got to get a majority for anything he wants to do.
00:26:23.140It's it's like herding cats. It's got to be extraordinarily difficult. Yeah, it's you know, if we had a 20 seat majority, then he could get about anything done he wanted to do.
00:26:33.600But when you got and then of course, you know, that we have the I call them the moral principles crowd who they just don't like Trump.
00:26:40.860And no matter what he votes on, they're going to vote no and then claim the high road.
00:26:45.620And then truth is, they just don't like him.
00:26:48.560Well, and I'm going to be honest with you, we have three upcoming special elections.
00:26:53.960Now, they're in districts that are, you know, went heavily for Donald Trump in the last election.
00:26:59.460They're in districts that are nominally Republican districts.
00:27:03.580But I have seen some early polling that shows that left Democrats are energized because they're angry that the deep state is being taken down and exposed.
00:27:14.440and Republicans are, we're kind of fat and happy
00:27:17.240because Trump is doing such a great job
00:27:19.100and he's doing essentially all the things
00:27:48.360But I also think in that other upstate district, which is Mike Walsh district, which is leading Republican, but not as solidly Republican, I think it is a race.
00:28:09.760By the way, they're outspending almost 101 down there.
00:28:15.260Well, and then there's, of course, the district of Elise Stefanik, New York 21.
00:28:21.720Now, that seat is not technically vacant because she has not yet resigned.0.70
00:28:25.660I think she's waiting for the two seats in Florida to be filled.
00:28:31.040I think, by the way, that her appointment is among the very best appointments.
00:28:34.960She's going to be a great U.N. ambassador.
00:28:36.560But that district, the Democrat, who's a local farmer, whose families lived in the district for many decades, he never mentions in his advertising that he's a Democrat.
00:31:40.080First, he was cheering that the Tesla stock was headed down.
00:31:43.120And then he realized that the state pension fund in his state of Minnesota had over, I think, three and a half million dollars worth of stock was taking a beating, hurting the state employees.
00:31:58.040If you're just tuning in, folks, we're talking to Cat Turd here in the Stone Zone on the Red Apple Audio Networks.
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