Roger Stone's wife is waiting for him to fix the faucet in the guest bathroom. John Bolton is the third alleged Trump hater and criminal to be indicted by a federal grand jury in Maryland. Special guest host Ken Matthews is joined by intelligence correspondent Ken Delani.
00:05:35.580And if there's any time to shave off that mustache that looks like a paintbrush or Colonel Sanders is out drinking, now is the time.
00:05:45.360I would shave that off before you get into court, and you'll be less recognizable.
00:05:49.020And this is a very serious and detailed indictment.
00:05:53.900It says that John Bolton derived secrets from his time as national security advisor, assembled them because he was writing a book, sent them over unclassified email and messaging apps to his wife and daughter.
00:06:06.260We've identified the two people as his wife and daughter.
00:06:08.640And then that information was hacked by the government of Iran.
00:06:12.500At least one of those email accounts was hacked.
00:06:14.560And so the government of Iran obtained some of these state secrets, according to this indictment.
00:06:20.800And the indictment says that Bolton used language that made clear he knew he was talking about sensitive information, things like the intel briefer said or when in the situation room, I learned.
00:06:31.320And what seems to be the case is that they did not know the extent of what was in at least one of his email accounts until they discovered that Iran, they discovered the material that Iran had hacked.
00:07:12.200OK, then I'm not going to say war whore, but I never liked him.
00:07:16.740And and it's not it doesn't have anything to do with the mustache.
00:07:20.940It has to do with he's one of those Republicans.
00:07:23.260And unfortunately, there's too many in the fold right now who want to go to war in the Middle East and Venezuela and they want to go to war in the Ukraine.
00:07:30.680And they're thinking, oh, my God, can you imagine if we get into a war with Russia, how rich we're going to get?
00:09:07.380Whether someone stole your car in Idaho or they broke into your house in Seattle, it's hard to get justice because at the very top, the people that have all the power that can make a phone call and get justice, they don't even do it.
00:09:27.340They let the John Boltons and the James Comeys and Brennans and that clown Christopher Wray.
00:09:35.300These people walk all over the American Republic.
00:09:39.100We need to we need to awaken to this and take care of it through a U.S. intelligence penetration of Iran.
00:10:57.300And then he wraps it up with, look how bad President Trump wants to go after the former security advisor, John Bolton, just because he was using open source platforming and telling top secret stuff to people that weren't even in the government.
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00:15:55.800I disagree with Fetterman on the shutdown, but I agree with him completely on turning down the temperature.
00:16:00.760And if you call people Nazis and Hitler and fascist enough, other people start to believe it.
00:16:09.040And the people that know history, if they're not completely informed, they start to think, my God, you know,
00:16:17.960how many people say we're living, you know, so-and-so's a Nazi, and if you don't know history enough,
00:16:25.520but you know enough to be angry about it, you're going to get people that are willing to do horrible things to other people based on labels.
00:16:35.140And that's why we need to protect free speech, which is a biggie.
00:16:40.080And we have to, and you know, I direct this not so much toward the clowns that live on social media.
00:16:51.400I direct it toward people in government, because they use your rhetoric as an excuse.
00:18:57.300Because I think President Trump is letting his ego and his emotions get involved in this whole Maduro thing.
00:19:02.980And we don't have enough time to go through the whole history of Trump and Maduro and his first term and then what happened in the interim and what's happening now.
00:19:13.020But Donald Trump confirmed he has authorized the CIA to conduct covert operations inside Venezuela.
00:19:20.040And he said he's weighing strikes that target drug cartels on land now.
00:19:31.740I was okay with the whole, you know, if you're a drug cartel, which means you're a terrorist organization and you can kill my family in some manner or form,
00:19:42.540and you're heading toward the great republic of the United States of America, even though it hasn't been a republic for a while,
00:19:49.460you're heading toward the coast, I do think you should be blown out of the water.
00:19:53.200And I would like to see it on video because some of my friends and I are really, that's cool to watch.
00:19:58.920Especially when the bad guys get blown up.
00:20:02.180But this thing about we may come on land and we're sending more aircraft and this I don't like.
00:20:10.340And then, wait for it, the whole thing about the new authority that President Trump just gave to the CIA will allow it to carry out lethal operations in Venezuela
00:20:23.500and conduct a range of operations in the Caribbean.
00:22:08.300What do you think that, what do you think they have that operation for?
00:22:11.340The whole central intelligence agency is to gather intel and then to tell big, big people in charge and the bigger parts of the government, like the Oval Office, sometimes the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sometimes, and then to topple the government.
00:22:34.660So they're going to, they're going to, the, they have expertise in destabilizing governments.
00:22:41.520In fact, I would argue respectfully, and I say it with all due respect, thank goodness I'm so unknown, they, I'm not even on a grid yet.
00:22:52.120Few institutions have committed more illegal acts under the banner of national security than the CIA.
00:22:58.180And it worries me because Trump was one of those people that just seven, eight years ago, he was railing against the deep state, said we shouldn't be meddling abroad.
00:23:12.240We shouldn't be poking our, you know what, where it doesn't belong, he says, as now we're sending troops to Israel, sending more troops to Ukraine, sending more money to Ukraine,
00:23:22.000sending CIA and air force assets to Venezuela.
00:23:29.920And we're flirting with getting in a war with Putin, who is, of all the people I just mentioned, Putin is not even something we should worry about at this point.
00:23:40.520But again, if you sift through the hype, I still think one of our biggest threats is communist China.
00:23:51.520And it's an economic threat, it's a military threat.
00:23:55.920But there's, Trump is claiming the reasons for this is because, and this is what we've been fed, and who could feed us this information?
00:24:04.140What we've been fed is that somebody in Venezuela got up one day and they said, you know what we should do?
00:24:11.120We should release all the really skanky, nasty prisoners and send them right to St. Louis and Dallas and Chicago.
00:24:23.340And I don't think it happened that way, okay?
00:24:25.440Because so far, there is no hard evidence that Nicolas Maduro and his regime deliberately release prisoners or psychiatric patients.
00:25:11.400Caracas couldn't keep a secret, just like Washington, D.C. can't, Caracas rather.
00:25:18.620Washington, D.C. can't keep a secret either.
00:25:20.640Journalists, you've got journalists, you've got NGOs, you've got rival political factions that routinely operate in and out of the Venezuela prison system.
00:25:31.180So if something like this happened, intentionally, if it was an evil plot, I think we would know about it other than just having politicians attach it to their excuses.
00:25:42.380So my belief, again, this is only my opinion, and everybody has one.
00:25:46.600You know what opinions are like, right?
00:26:01.360You just tell Maduro, get a grip on your cartels, whether you're involved or not, get a grip on it, because we're going to keep blowing them out of the water.
00:26:12.220And if they break our airspace, we'll blow them out of the sky, if we know for sure.
00:27:09.080Maduro is probably shaking in his boots right now because Trump said, and these guys know Trump is serious, but Trump can also be petty sometimes, and it bothers me.
00:27:25.600See, over the years, Maduro, and yeah, he's a communist and all this stuff.
00:27:31.360We get it, but we negotiate and we talk to some of the scummiest, scariest people around the world.
00:27:42.280Our leaders are in the same room with him.
00:27:45.340I think the only reason Trump has it out for Maduro and wants to replace his government is because Maduro has just trashed Trump all the time.
00:27:57.720You know, the way that Trump would trash other leaders, Maduro did it.
00:28:03.280And anyway, last week, Maduro, hat in hand, came to the Trump administration.
00:28:13.820And I don't even think people in the administration allowed it to get to Trump, but they claim they did.
00:28:18.680They claim they did, but Maduro basically said, now, I didn't see the agreement because, as I said, President Trump has not returned my calls in 11 years.
00:28:29.340But in the agreement, it basically said, Maduro said to Trump, if you do not remove this administration,
00:28:38.260we will be more aggressive with the drug, stopping the drugs, but more importantly, Mr. President of America,
00:28:48.020because we're in your hemisphere and Venezuela is a big deal and we're a big energy producer,
00:28:54.760we will give you a cut of all our gold, all our minerals, and all our oil, and we will withdraw from China and Russia.
00:29:10.320This is how badly Maduro wants to stay in power in Venezuela.
00:29:30.320He even said, he even said in the agreement, he said, Americans can enter our country and partner with our companies that are extracting minerals
00:29:44.620and then we can set up a situation where you're getting minerals.
00:29:49.180And so it's an amazing deal when you think about it.
00:29:52.680Now, I'm not saying Maduro is a great person or he's an amazing person, but that isn't the reality of it.
00:29:59.060The reality is all over the world, there's people in charge of countries that would kill you for a sandwich.
00:30:07.060And if you can contain them and neutralize their ability to hurt America because we're America and America's first,
00:30:20.280not to be selfish, but if we can muscle in without having to kill anybody and get a guy to say,
00:30:29.120all right, I'll stop doing that stuff with China and Russia.
00:30:32.640Because China and Russia, they've had their eyes on South America and all, well, all over the world.
00:30:39.080But Venezuela is big because it's a straight shot to America.
00:30:42.900And for enemy reasons, for threat reasons, but it's also a straight shot to America, either by land, I'm sorry, by air or sea, excuse me, to benefit our country.
00:30:57.160And in the process, Maduro would probably end up making things better for his people because, let's face it, things are kind of sucky there now, right?
00:31:08.180But this is something that no one covered.
00:31:10.780And I'm so disappointed that nobody covered it.
00:31:13.860And this is what bothers me because I look at Trump's behavior in the Middle East, his behavior in Ukraine.
00:31:20.920Remember, he was going to take care of that in one day.
00:31:22.880Now, I'm not that foolish to think he can take care of it in one day, but I don't like the direction it's going now.
00:31:29.880I don't like the fact that President Donald Trump signed off on hitting valuable targets deep in Russia.
00:31:37.260What are you trying to do, Mr. President?
00:35:02.900You go in and you say, here's how it's going to be.
00:35:04.580If you want to keep running this country, Maduro, then you will – and Maduro made the first – he made the first overtures with that.
00:35:14.320But the fact that – I guess what bothered me most, Gail, is that no one really covered it because everybody's afraid to question or challenge or go against the current philosophy or policies of the administration.
00:35:29.780But I think that – I don't even think we should be messing with Venezuela and risking any type of military interaction with them because we've got so much on our plate.
00:35:40.200We've already proven if you get near our shoreline with drugs, you're dead.
00:36:10.340However, I'm just saying I'm fine with blasting him.
00:36:13.720And I don't think it's starting a military –
00:36:16.780When you say blasting him, are you saying you're fine with Trump assassinating Maduro?
00:36:21.440Not necessarily assassinating him, but going to any of the distribution spots, et cetera, for the cartels that actually run Maduro, I'm fine with.
00:36:36.420And I don't think it would cause any long-term military excursion because they're – as you acknowledge, they're like a nothing.
00:36:43.320Well, I don't know if they're like a nothing, but they certainly are in a position now where they're vulnerable and we're in a position of strength.
00:36:52.760I mean, we have not been in a position of strength like this in a long time, and I just don't want to abuse it.