Trump's Middle East breakthrough will create a golden age of peace and prosperity, unless, of course, Republicans and Democrats working together mess it up. President Trump has been greeted with open arms in the Arab world. This is, in my view, the Great Trump Reset, the end of a neocon domination of our foreign policy, which pursued endless foreign war, where our inherent national interest was never clear, erosion of our civil liberties, and massive, massive debt.
00:08:43.920Generations of Americans will look back and determine whether we made the right decision or not.
00:08:49.920In the meantime, it is absolutely clear that John Brennan has freaked out over the fact that the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, fired two deep state officials.
00:09:04.280The Gabbard fired top officials leading the National Intelligence Council because whistleblowers described them as radically opposed to Trump and has moved that agency right over to her office,
00:09:17.200the office of the director of the director of national intelligence.
00:09:20.660Gabbard, as I reported yesterday, fired Mike Collins, who was serving as the acting chair of the National Intelligence Council,
00:09:27.080who was deliberately undermining incoming Trump administration policy as well as his top deputy.
00:09:33.740But John Brennan, the former CIA director, the the chief orchestrator of the Russian collusion hoax, said that he was livid.
00:09:46.480It's appalling and outrageous and demonstrates why Tulsi Gabbard never should have been confirmed as director of national intelligence.
00:09:53.560Michael Collins and Marie Langen Rykoff are two of the most experienced, accomplished and talented analysts in the entire U.S. intelligence community.
00:10:03.820With over 60 years of combined experience, they have worked for successive administrations since the 1990s.
00:10:11.860They have demonstrated time and time again their capabilities, their competence, their integrity, and they have served as role models for a generation of intelligence officers inside of CIA.
00:10:23.080They're CIA officers by background, by training.
00:10:25.400And this is going to have real reverberations within the workforce because, as Congressman Hines pointed out, it's clearly a signal to tell analysts throughout the intelligence community, you tell the truth.
00:10:37.380You provide objective analysis as you're supposed to be doing.
00:10:40.460You are running the risk of getting fired.
00:10:42.600And Michael and Maria are really the quintessential analysts that you want to have providing insight and information and analysis to policymakers so they make the right decisions for U.S. policymakers.
00:10:57.080But this is a very tangible example of such dangerous and insidious corruption within the Trump administration.
00:11:03.700What's appalling and courageous is how John Brennan conducted himself at the CIA.
00:11:10.080Brennan, first of all, saintfully set up two dozen Trump advisors without any probable cause for surveillance by the U.S. intelligence apparatus.
00:11:21.940He also colluded with foreign intelligence to conduct illicit, politically-moded spying operations in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
00:11:29.760It was Brennan who was instrumental in the illegal FISA warrants and wiretaps who were deployed in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election while targeting Trump's most vocal supporters, myself included.
00:11:43.740A U.S. court found in 2023 that the misuse of the FISA courts extended far beyond the mere targeting of Trump actors,
00:11:50.980citing the FBI found the mechanism had been used to improperly spy over 300,000 times on American citizens without proper warrants.
00:12:01.900This confirms the worst fears of civil libertarians.
00:12:05.880The Durham report proved demonstrable evidence that it was Brennan who first cooked up the Russian collusion hoax with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden.
00:12:16.920He knew that the Steele dossier was a fraud.
00:12:21.500He knew that it had been discredited, but he used it nonetheless as the rationale for an illegal, illicit, and unconstitutional plot to frame Donald Trump as a puppet of the Russian President Vladimir Putin.
00:12:36.860Brennan used this foreign disinformation to set up Russiagate and that frame job against the president.
00:12:43.480This is the same John Brennan who funneled arms and money into the hands of the ISIS militants as they wreaked havoc across the Middle East and Europe.
00:12:52.460Brennan is an admitted communist who said publicly that he voted for the Communist Party candidate in the 1990s.
00:12:58.940It was Brennan who approved the visas of four of the 11 hijackers who attacked America on 9-11 when he was the station chief in RIDA.
00:13:07.660And then there's the question of his own conversion to radical Wahhabism when he was the CIA station chief, as attested to by John Guandolo, the counterterrorism CIA agent.
00:13:22.480Brennan was aware the Steele dossier was a fraud.
00:13:25.240He's engaged in what I think is traitorous activity.
00:13:28.640His claim that the Russians hacked the Democrat national computer servers is yet another lie for which he has no proof.
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00:15:07.580We're talking about former CIA director John Brennan.
00:15:11.420He has now finally had his national security clearance lifted.
00:15:17.480Brennan was involved in the electoral interference and the censorship programs that helped screw Donald Trump out of his rightful re-election in 2020.
00:15:25.980In fact, he was one of the 51 former intelligence officials who penned a letter proclaiming the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop as Russian disinformation and propaganda,
00:15:37.680which we now know to be completely and totally false.
00:15:41.280And then it was Brennan and his cohorts who strong armed the the social media companies to keep this legitimate story regarding Hunter Biden's laptop from the American people.
00:15:57.400Polls actually showed that 17 percent of voters would not have voted for Joe Biden had they known that the laptop was real.
00:16:05.720Everything I know about Hunter Biden's laptop, I read in the New York Post, who accurately called this entire scandal spies who lie.
00:16:17.320So rather than attacking Tulsi Gabbard, perhaps the Justice Department could be looking at the illegal activities of John Brennan and others,
00:16:28.400because someone should be held accountable for the improper actions and politicization of intelligence.
00:16:34.240It takes time to weed them out and fire them.
00:16:38.100Tulsi Gabbard, precisely the right woman for this job.
00:21:49.560But what it really does is give the government a biometric record of every single person in America.
00:21:57.020This is something conservatives and libertarians have opposed for decades.
00:22:03.140But this law, the Real ID Act, that was actually passed 20 years ago in 2005.
00:22:08.500It was one of the many measures rolled out in the wake of the 9-11 attacks.
00:22:13.860It was presented to the public as being necessary to ensure that similar attacks would never happen again.
00:22:19.020But the truth is, when you go back and look at it, none of the 11 hijackers who attacked America used a fake ID in their efforts to get on the planes,
00:22:28.280their successful efforts to get on the planes.
00:22:31.180So I think in this case, Alex Jones, my good friend, is absolutely right.
00:22:35.700The real goal here is to create a biometric record of every American.
00:22:54.260Beth from Columbus said yesterday you spoke about repealing the Patriot Act.
00:22:59.720Do you really think that's a good idea?
00:23:03.000I must tell you, I do think it is a good idea.
00:23:06.360It's yet another example of precisely what we are talking about.
00:23:09.980We were told that the Patriot Act, which allows the government to surveil American citizens essentially without a warrant,
00:23:20.540with no probable cause, and to hold American citizens in permanent secret detention,
00:23:27.520was going to be a temporary measure to fight Islamic terrorism.
00:23:32.680But the Patriot Act has been re-approved every four years for the Congress with very, very minor revisions.
00:23:43.240It is kind of obvious to me that it has been abused, but the crown jewel of that abuse was the fact that the FISA courts were used to spy on President Donald Trump.
00:23:57.240Now, it is a perfect example of the abuse.
00:26:17.200The thing about Trump, who I've now known for 50 years, hates it when I say that, says it makes both of us sound old, is that he is not scripted.
00:26:27.120He is not reading talking points written by someone else.
00:27:03.240We'll get in as many of your questions today as we possibly can.
00:27:08.140Here is a question, which is, let's see, from Terry in Fairfield, Connecticut.
00:27:17.160Terry says, I just read a story that said that New Hampshire dominates the pizza scene in America, not New York, not New Jersey, not Connecticut.
00:27:30.380It's not a study regarding pizza quality.
00:27:33.660It is a study that has to do with pizza density, meaning how many pizzas there are per sales per capita based on the population and what the average cost of pizza is.
00:27:50.240To me, Connecticut will always be the pizza mecca as a New Haven style of pizza.
00:33:38.960Well, there's a lot of disinformation here, so let's dispel it.
00:33:56.360First of all, I had handled the recount for Governor Tom Kane of New Jersey, who, by the way, celebrated his 90th birthday, I believe, two days ago, a campaign where he won by 1,209 votes out of 2 million cast.
00:34:17.740Because of that, Jim Baker, who had been the White House chief of staff, recalled my expertise in recounts and asked me to go to Florida.
00:34:27.720There were more cooks than necessary, more chiefs than Indians in Palm Beach, and I was sent to Miami.
00:34:36.040Now, in Miami, Democrat election officials were attempting to recount the same chief of ballots that they had recounted three times.
00:34:47.760At the point that the two Democrat commissioners attempted to remove these ballots into a closed-door room with no observers, no windows, no lawyers, no one from the media, that was a violation of the state's sunshine law.
00:35:06.520So, yes, I directed the Republicans who were observers not to let the door be closed and not to allow them to remove those ballots.
00:35:16.040Therefore, the claim that we used intimidation tactics to close down the recount are categorically false.
00:35:26.440But I'm glad to have the opportunity to answer your question.
00:36:23.280I think he deserved an Academy Award that he did not get.
00:36:27.320But the backstory that Roy Cohn threatened to expose sexual misconduct by the head of the tax abatement board in New York City in order to get the approval of the Trump's redevelopment of the Commodore Hotel on 42nd Street is a vile lie.