On today's show, we discuss the latest in the case against Abrego Garcia, a former Marine who served time in prison for a crime he committed in El Paso, Texas. We also hear about the latest on the Joe Biden and Pete Hegseth controversy, and some other stories from the past week.
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00:06:29.000I am a journalist that has gone independent.
00:06:31.000I've worked for 15 years everywhere from the Washington Examiner and the New York Post to ABC News where I was a White House correspondent.
00:07:16.000I am Elad Eliyahu, Tim Kass, White House correspondent.
00:07:19.000Tara, I'm really excited to hear from somebody with so much experience in the journalism space, both establishment and now in the new media space.
00:07:27.000And it's just funny seeing the old media people saying they look up to Tim now.
00:08:14.000Democrat senator tells Fox News he's not vouching for the man in a Brego Garcia case and will support a court deporting him.
00:08:21.000Now, this is a huge turnaround from a guy who dang near nearly called him an American and then and stopped himself and then called him a resident.
00:08:30.000And with the media screaming to the high heavens, Maryland father, for a Democrat senator who was leading the charge to come out, be like, I'm not vouching for the guy and I'm OK with him being deported now.
00:08:57.000Four more Democrats are going down there.
00:09:01.000I don't know what they're thinking with this.
00:09:04.000We are going to be having a debate in the culture war going over all the legal documents, which I believe shows he's gotten his due process.
00:09:11.000But the American people like, of all of the things Trump has done, immigration is his most popular issue.
00:09:18.000Why are they setting themselves up like this?
00:09:21.000To make me laugh because I needed a good chuckle.
00:09:25.000Democrats are sitting back and they're like, what can we do that'll make Phil laugh today?
00:09:44.000He's alleged to be a member of a gang, but it's been multiple courts that have said it, I believe.
00:09:48.000And I don't remember what the other person or the other organization that made allegations that he's in a gang, but they're reputable organizations.
00:09:55.000There's his ex-girlfriend has filed charges or at least made claims of abuse.
00:10:20.000Old man glasses, just starting with at.
00:10:22.000At a master calendar hearing, the respondent, through counsel, admitted the factual allegations contained in the NTA and conceded removability as charged.
00:10:33.000Based on the respondent's admissions and concessions, the court found his removability to be established by clear and convincing evidence as required by INA 240C3.
00:10:44.000So this is the document from 2019, August 9th and September 27th, where they again confirmed he was to be removed.
00:10:54.000However, not to El Salvador because a gang in Guatemala was threatening to kill him.
00:11:16.000And so then the error that the Trump administration made, they were supposed to have a USCIS interview with Abrego Garcia before sending him home.
00:11:26.000But on the Alien Enemies Act, he was allowed to do it.
00:11:28.000So, you know, I feel like this horse, I would argue that we've beaten the dead horse on this story, but Democrats won't shut up about it.
00:11:36.000So let me just say we've ground the horse into glue at this point, because I don't know how many times we need to point out that this guy was found deportable, credibly an MS-13 gang member, now accused of beating his wife.
00:12:28.000Why would he have hired him to be his chief Pentagon spokesperson and lead the communications at the NSA if he didn't believe that this guy was legit?
00:12:35.000Why were there three people leaking information to the press?
00:12:38.000Listen. You've got to take this seriously.
00:12:40.000Allegedly, in the article, was he a chief of staff?
00:12:44.000He was the chief Pentagon spokesperson until two weeks ago.
00:12:48.000Yeah, he wrote an op-ed in Politico where he actually denied the three advisors that they ever leaked anything.
00:12:55.000So I want to add allegedly here because I do feel like lawsuits are coming.
00:14:58.000Yeah, and they confirmed that he is an MS-13 member.
00:15:01.000So he was found to be an MS-13 gang member in the standard procedure by his crown tattoos on his wrists, which the left is arguing are just crowns and they're not MS-13.
00:15:28.000Okay, well, I think that'd be interesting to find out.
00:15:29.000Because, I mean, you might say, oh, the Trump administration has different criteria.
00:15:35.000Listen, I can't really debate this one in the same way because I thought it was the Maryland hairdresser that we were talking about, our makeup artist.
00:15:59.000I'm conflating it because, you know, this...
00:16:01.000Yes, some Democrats are doing this, and I do question, I mean, I think there's just a fear that it's happening so quickly and so recklessly and that people are not getting their due process in the process of it, especially when they're saying we're going to support homegrown.
00:17:12.000And also by defying a judge's order, whether you don't agree or not, you should have halted that plane and put the person down and then gone through the process.
00:17:21.000The Supreme Court sided with him on that regard.
00:17:26.000The Supreme Court said no one can direct the executive branch to engage in foreign policy.
00:17:31.000And so the issue was, should Abrego Garcia be returnable, they should facilitate his return.
00:17:36.000And the argument from the conservatives is, or from Trump, that if he were to try to come back to the U.S., Trump must facilitate that return.
00:17:45.000Otherwise, we have nothing to do with it.
00:17:46.000But then there's just these random guys, like these German tourists that didn't have a booking in Hawaii, and they are suddenly getting deported.
00:17:55.000And then you're seeing students on the street just being muzzled, basically, and deported because of their political activity on universities.
00:18:29.000I don't think, I think it's scary that non-Americans are in our country calling for violence on Yeah, I mean, that's on the universities for sure.
00:18:40.000So in the case of Mahmoud Khalil, this is a guy who was organizing, whether it was intentional or otherwise, violent protests where employees were attacked and threatened, buildings were taken over, Jewish students were attacked on campus.
00:18:54.000And even people presumed to be Jewish.
00:18:56.000Did he direct people to attack Jewish people?
00:20:07.000Agreed. The conservatives prop up a young woman who was murdered by an illegal immigrant criminal gang member, and the Democrats prop up the criminal illegal immigrant gang member.
00:21:48.000A few minutes later, Derek Chauvin shows up having no idea what's going on.
00:21:53.000And performed what the Minnesota police trained him to do because even the defense showed this in the continuum of force argument in the criminal trial for Chauvin.
00:22:11.000The cop who is simply standing in front of people with his hands up, not involved in the Chauvin incident at all, just off to the side, they put him in prison for life.
00:22:44.000And the left promotes violence and chaos.
00:22:46.000The question is, like, when do they overstep the boundaries?
00:22:48.000Well, right now, going back to a lot of saying with speedrunning these different people, is like what we were talking about before the show.
00:23:11.000Due process we just talked about with the illegals.
00:23:14.000I got the court document right here for Abrego Garcia that says he admitted to removability.
00:23:18.000So the question is, did he get, was he warranted a USCIS interview before final deportation?
00:23:23.000The answer is yes, but their argument is, at first we made an error in doing so without checking for this.
00:23:29.000However, under the Alien Enemies Act, we are allowed to get rid of them regardless.
00:23:32.000So, but the point I was going to make a moment ago.
00:23:34.000When we're setting up the show, I was pointing out that we often try to find a prominent individual that represents a core of the story or the parties involved.
00:24:02.000There is no Central Democrat Party member.
00:24:05.000And arguably those members that you saw in that picture, even though I'm not fully aware of the story, like they are more from the progressive wing.
00:24:15.000They don't want to get involved in this fight because, like you said, they don't know the full story.
00:24:18.000I think Cory Booker was even virtue signaling, at least saying that these deportations were wrong, and specifically on the gang members, too.
00:24:27.000I think, I'm not a usual believer of Trump's 5D chess, but it almost feels like he is baiting Democrats into defending these otherwise.
00:24:37.000These otherwise, I mean, because then it always comes out like, oh, they defended this guy.
00:24:42.000They said there was no way he was a gangster.
00:24:43.000His wife covered up his knuckles in all of these pictures because it was obvious that he had MS-13 written on his knuckles, and the Democrats couldn't do their research to find that out before deciding to defend him.
00:24:55.000Do you think that Van Hollen and these other four Democrats that are going down to El Salvador are doing so with the intent to influence the foreign government of El Salvador into taking action on their behalf.
00:26:04.000All of them said that their purpose to go down was to get him back.
00:26:09.000Yep. To get the foreign government to take an action pertaining to U.S. foreign policy, which is a violation of the Logan Act, which specifically states any U.S. citizen, wherever he may be, who without the authority of the U.S. directly or indirectly commences or carries on correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government.
00:26:28.000Or any officer or any agent thereof with the intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof in relation to any disputes or controversies with the U.S. or to defeat the measures of the United States shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years.
00:26:44.000Donald Trump explicitly set forth a deal with El Salvador's government pertaining to U.S. foreign policy under the Alien Enemies Act.
00:26:52.000That is the direction and purview of the executive branch, their entitlement, their right under the Constitution.
00:26:57.000These members of Congress are in direct and overt violation of the Logan Act.
00:27:02.000I believe that we need to see some action by the DOJ.
00:27:06.000Yeah. They're trying to do a reverse Elian Gonzalez.
00:27:13.000So these four Democrats of members of Congress, some of them young, freshman-ish progressives, they go down there and they stage their political...
00:27:25.000You know, photo op, whatever you want to call it.
00:27:27.000The rest of the party, you have like someone like Gavin Newsom saying this is a distraction and they kind of know they're being baited.
00:27:33.000Trump sets the story up every morning.
00:27:36.000When I covered him for the first four years of his administration, he sent out a tweet and he would literally say to his staff, watch the libs.
00:30:49.000Yes. Trump hired a lot of bad people in his first term, and many people were concerned about the hires that were going to come in in the second term.
00:30:54.000Yeah. He's done a pretty good job, but I'm not surprised to see that the firing margin is a bit lower than what we would have seen in 2016 had he learned his lesson.
00:31:03.000Yeah? I think what's actually going on here is that within the Trump administration, there are rumblings between the more isolationist and the more hawkish camps.
00:31:12.000And this is manifesting right now through the debate on whether or not we should strike Iran preemptively at their nuclear sites.
00:31:20.000So I think some of Hexeth's staffers allegedly leaked out the Iran plans early to the New York Times and other outlets in hopes of trying to help prevent the plan.
00:31:32.000It's really those two sides knifing each other within the administration.
00:31:35.000And then there's also like the Democrat and left media that's taking advantage of these internal conflicts that are going on to try to kind of capitalize it is how I see what's going on right now.
00:31:45.000So that doesn't mean the administration or the Department of Defense is in complete disarray or the Pentagon's in complete disarray.
00:31:52.000I think it's people trying to knife each other in the back.
00:31:56.000More than anything, and want to influence the way the administration goes.
00:32:00.000That doesn't mean Hexf needs to be fired.
00:32:02.000I wouldn't be surprised, though, if they are putting this out there themselves.
00:32:05.000But do you understand the context behind...
00:32:09.000Because maybe something big is coming.
00:32:11.000Maybe there are text messages again, like SignalGate, and everybody's going to get it.
00:32:15.000Let me give you the stupidest conspiracy out of all of it.
00:32:19.000If you don't want to go to war with Iran, and the deepsets can try and force your hand, just throw the Pentagon into disarray, and they can't false flag you into one.
00:32:41.000Israel said we're going to maybe do it a little bit anyway.
00:32:44.000If there's some kind of attack or false flag or who knows what.
00:32:47.000If the Pentagon is broken, we're not getting involved in that war anyway.
00:32:51.000So if you had a functional Pentagon, and again, I'm stressing, this is a stupid conspiracy theory, it's probably not true at all, I'm just saying, if a false flag were to happen, we would be publicly pressured into a conflict we don't want to be involved in.
00:33:05.000However, with the Pentagon broken, the response is going to be like, unfortunately, due to the disarray with leadership, we can't formulate a proper response to what happened in the Middle East.
00:33:13.000Can I just say what is probably really happening?
00:34:04.000Whether we'll see them actually go anywhere has yet to be seen.
00:34:08.000I don't think the admin's also going to get rid of Hexeth, because once you get rid of one of these top guys in the administration, one of these secretaries, that means everybody's kind of on ice.
00:34:16.000It's kind of opening the floodgates for other people to be fired.
00:34:51.000So that's why he's trying to keep everything together.
00:34:53.000Because if Pete Hexeth gets fired, other people could be, you know, on the chomping box.
00:34:58.000And they spent like $10 million to get him confirmed.
00:35:00.000He saw it on everybody on his cabinet.
00:35:02.000Also with the Walt story, you could have hypothetically kicked him out from that SignalGate story.
00:35:07.000I mean, if he wanted to get him, if he wanted to get rid of that story really quickly, he could have just booted him out, but he chose to stand by him.
00:35:13.000So I suspect Trump's going to stand by Hexeth throughout all of this.
00:35:16.000I do think it may largely be fake news, specifically because...
00:35:21.000As you were mentioning, I think it was you saying this, that the Democrats are just speedrunning through all these narratives and these individuals trying to latch on to something, and they don't have any strong case against the Trump administration.
00:35:56.000She had an ability to walk in the door and a side door into the Oval Office, and she had the ability to essentially take out six very powerful people in the national security apparatus, overruling Mike Waltz, okay?
00:36:09.000Yeah. And actually, when she showed up in Washington, she told me, and this has never been reported, but she had a video of Mike Waltz from 2016.
00:36:19.000Speaking very poorly about Donald Trump and we'll have it in the podcast.
00:36:23.000You should check it out on my YouTube channel at Tara Palmieri.
00:36:26.000But yeah, she came there to kill Waltz.
00:36:30.000Waltz walked in the door just in time because she knows he's 78 years old, Trump, and she's got to show him the video.
00:37:14.000If you go to a random tourist from anywhere in middle America, let's say you go to Times Square and you're looking for American citizens specifically.
00:37:21.000But God, but they probably don't even know the capital of Maine.
00:38:06.000And while I lived there, there were so many terror attacks between Paris and Brussels from the terrorists, the homegrown ISIS terrorists that were there.
00:39:04.000I think there are issues with some of the way the first signal gate stuff happened, but can you walk me down the logic of how Times Square is therefore not safe?
00:39:13.000You know, Mike Walsh mishandled in a part of a signal chat, right?
00:39:17.000If the person is in charge of security, then our nation's security is at risk.
00:41:41.000No one cared about signal gate except politicos.
00:41:44.000I can agree with you that there are people that exist that do not know who the National Security Advisor is.
00:41:50.000There are people that—and that is the luxury of being in a country that functions, and that's why I was bringing up Brussels.
00:41:55.000The luxury of working in a country that truly functions is that you don't have to go to sleep at night worrying about making sure that there is security, making sure that there is not a terror threat where you live, that you know that the subways are constantly being monitored by FBI, that they are constantly, you know,
00:42:11.000tracking— My body just got raped in New York City.
00:42:37.000I'm knocking on wood, and I hope that we never have to experience it.
00:42:40.000And the only point I was making is that Democrats are attaching to a low-value story because they're desperate for something to go against the administration on.
00:44:49.000I don't see how those two are connected.
00:44:50.000Could it be that immigration being the number one issue among Americans they're winning on, Democrats and the media are shifting off of a story?
00:44:57.000And they're going backwards to a previous one?
00:45:54.000They've now shifted to an anonymous claim with no evidence of a second SignalGate.
00:45:59.000The point I brought up was not to defend SignalGate, was not to defend Donald Trump.
00:46:02.000So you think they shouldn't report on it?
00:46:04.000My point was that with Senator Van Hollen coming out and saying, I'm OK with Abrigo Garcia being deported now, they're backing away from a story.
00:46:11.000And the corporate press is now shifting the news cycle back onto SignalGate, which was two weeks ago.
00:48:00.000I want to read the story actually really quickly so we can actually make this clear on air so that I hope you're not disparaging these people without actually looking at it.
00:49:59.000Talking about a deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who's made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again to include the...
00:52:58.000Okay, so I feel like, again, we're leaving some parts of this story in the dark now because, again, is the department in disarray or is it in disarray because there are leakers and President Trump now is fixing it because there are leakers and this is making it better, not in disarray, if anything, right?
00:53:36.000And you got, like, people in the media are opportunistically using this story to try to veer narratives off of, you know, what they think might be dispopular elsewhere.
00:53:44.000But is this making sense to you as I'm running through this?
00:55:14.000So when they say it wasn't classified, it's not.
00:55:16.000Oh, if Trump decides it's not classified, then it's not classified.
00:55:19.000Indeed. But would you have wanted those people in Yemen or our service members to be exposed by that information and if, say, it was intercepted?
00:55:57.000The reason why they argued it wasn't classified is because the launch of vehicles, I'm sorry, I think it was vehicles, not weapons, no specific targets, and unspecified locations.
00:56:06.000And so they argued this is not classified information.
00:56:46.000Richard Engel, correspondent for NBC News, carried his personal cell phone into Assad territory, giving away all U.S. intel to a foreign adversary.
00:56:54.000And not a single journalist cared at all.
00:56:59.000And I'm like, so someone accidentally got texted vehicles in an attack that everybody knew was going to be happening at some point because Trump said they were going to do it.
00:57:09.000And so it's not a pretty moment, I suppose, to accidentally loop the journalist in.
00:57:13.000But I will add, the government brings journalists in these conversations all the time and have their security compromised unintentionally by these individuals.
00:57:20.000And not a single journalist will ever call out one of their own.
00:58:16.000It's a question of if it's classified or not.
00:58:19.000So the information given, which is surprising to me, is at first I thought, did they include Goldberg on purpose?
00:58:24.000Because this is actually routine stuff.
00:58:27.000I've been given tons of private information from government sources often, and they say, just don't repeat it, it's off the record.
00:58:31.000With every single person's number on there, and like the chief of staff, and the vice president, and the entire national security apparatus essentially on there.
00:58:53.000That's why we don't reveal their information.
00:58:55.000Then Goldberg gets given privy to access to a communication, and you're saying, I can't believe you guys wouldn't have shared this.
00:59:00.000Indeed. I know people who work in government— But it wasn't intentional, and they were sharing— Okay, but I want to go back to the— So my question for you is, would you expose your private sources if they accidentally sent you information?
00:59:13.000And I don't think I would expose my sources, but if it was this situation where he was mistakenly added to a chat that includes—this was a rare situation, okay?
00:59:22.000Why not just be like, guys, take me off?
01:01:21.000My point was, the questions we need to ask on SignalGate if you're actually trying to understand what's going on in the truth is, is information like this routinely given to journalists?
01:04:14.000So let's just go to the Postmillennial.
01:04:16.000Andrew Cuomo has been criminally referred to the DOJ over COVID nursing home disaster.
01:04:21.000Now, while the story does sound fun, it actually is just James Comer saying that Cuomo made false statements to Congress and he's referring him to Pam Bondi.
01:04:30.000The rumor is, I believe it was Steve Bannon who said, we should expect to see some arrests by summer, but I won't hold my breath.
01:04:36.000So seeing this story does make me feel, I would say, the dried, withered husk of hope that's just disheveled and lying within my core, maybe pulsed once as soon as this story popped up.
01:04:48.000But again, does anybody really think they're going to indict Cuomo?
01:04:54.000Exactly. I was going to say I'm truly conflicted because if they did indict Cuomo, the runner-up in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary is this socialist named Zorhan Mamdani, this AOC wannabe.
01:06:18.000Like, I actually, when I was a child, I really wanted to be a muckraker.
01:06:22.000I don't know if you know much about them, but they were Nellie Bly, you know, these type of investigative journalists that could get their hands dirty and they could expose the powerful and hold them to account by getting real facts and information.
01:06:33.000So, to me, accountability journalist, journalism is super important, and I side with people when they find information.
01:06:40.000Of course, it has to be accurate and it has to be correct, but I do believe at the core of journalism.
01:06:45.000Journalism, it's to bring information to light that protects people.
01:07:25.000Yeah, everyone with power needs to be held into account.
01:07:28.000What I'm saying, are you implying that they are abusing people?
01:07:32.000Because it's one thing to say you're in a position of authority and you're in a position of power, so you should be scrutinized.
01:07:37.000But it's another thing to be like, I think you're actually doing.
01:07:40.000No, I would never accuse anybody of anything until I had actual information to be able to do that.
01:07:45.000What degree of power do you think warrants this kind of spotlight?
01:07:50.000I think that if you are an elected official, for example, I think if you oversee, like, perhaps you're a major CEO of a company that sells products to people and maybe there's some sort of,
01:08:06.000like, poison in the products, you know, it's about, like...
01:08:09.000So what if it's a big corporation that has a customer base and they're mass-deceiving their customer base in some way?
01:08:23.000Let me ask you, there's a big company with a million customers and they have deceived all of their customers.
01:08:29.000If you found there was an employer of that company who knew what was going on and was deceiving these people, that person is to be targeted as well, yes?
01:08:36.000The employee would be a part of the story for sure.
01:08:40.000What if the employee is the one doing it?
01:08:44.000If the employee was doing it, and if they were doing it independently, or were they being told by higher-ups to do it, I think, in general, this is just a populist form of journalism.
01:08:55.000I started my career at the New York Post.
01:08:56.000I've always believed that, to me, the best thing was when we got a dinkus that said Post got action, and that meant that whatever we reported resulted in some sort of change.
01:09:36.000Like, I've been doing this for 15 years, and I want to make sure that people, when they read my stuff, they're like, oh, yeah, that shit's legit.
01:09:41.000In the same way that when I saw that New York Times article, I saw the bylines, and I was like, oh, I've worked with those people before.
01:12:17.000If you got a leaked message from this company and maybe some people who worked with this person, and releasing it would destroy their business, it didn't necessarily show that they were evil, but that what they were doing was probably hurting people.
01:12:31.000If I had the sourcing, if I had done the reporting...
01:12:36.000If I had gotten down to the story and had as complete a story as possible, including the fact that this person may be unaware of what they're doing, which I would include in the story, allowing the readers to decide, you know, if I thought it was harming the public, I would release it.
01:12:51.000Yeah, I would, because I think it's important for people to know.
01:12:54.000And I do think that, like, we don't live in this world that we live in right now if it wasn't for those people who have risked, you know.
01:13:03.000They risk their own lives to try to report.
01:13:06.000I hope and I pray that that journalist exists and they get you.
01:13:54.000What if you report on a manufacturing business because some guy at the top took a kickback of $10,000 and it results in the company going out of business and 100 employees lose their job and now a middle-class working guy in the middle of the country says, I'm homeless and destitute because of you?
01:14:07.000I mean, these are complex questions, but this is— Indeed it is, which is my point, is when you say that your intention is to strike— But are you just saying that we shouldn't just not cover powerful people?
01:14:15.000We should just let everybody run amok?
01:14:47.000That employee who loses his job because you blow the whistle on one guy at a mid-level who took a kickback would say, why didn't you just keep this under wraps?
01:15:58.000I'm pretty sure I recall you saying that, but 48% of people...
01:16:01.000I didn't because we learned recently that's pronounced Rasmussen by the guy from Rasmussen who came here.
01:16:05.000And also, I just want to say the definition of classified information includes, quote, information providing indication or advance warning that the U.S. or its allies are preparing an attack.
01:16:14.000Does Pete Hegseff have the authority over the DOD's information, whether it's classified or not?
01:16:19.000I think Trump is the one who decides, right, about classification?
01:16:33.000The appropriate way that you handle a thing like this is to say, guys, take me off this text chat, and there's no story.
01:16:40.000But what if they take you off the text chat and carry on committing a crime, like you said, the National Records Act?
01:16:47.000Well, the Biden administration did that, too.
01:16:49.000Okay. So perhaps the response should be, hey, guys, you know, the Biden administration and probably Obama and now the Trump administration are all doing this thing.
01:16:56.000Yeah. I don't think there was Signal during Obama years.
01:18:39.000So it is clear that there are appropriate ways to handle things that minimize damage, solve the problem without causing disarray for the United States.
01:18:46.000What Goldberg and the media apparatus did with SignalGate and what they're continuing doing now isn't actually solving the problem of Signal being used or of accidentally texting people.
01:19:15.000The other issue on top of this is the second Signalgate story, which, again, is largely a liberal Democrat phenomenon because the right doesn't care about it.
01:19:22.000Yeah, I mean, you can say what people care about.
01:19:24.000There's no information as to what was in these chats.
01:23:34.000Future strikes, and like I said when I actually gave you the definition of classified, which we can go over again, classified, according to the definition of classified information, information providing indication or advance warning that the U.S. or its allies are preparing an attack.
01:23:49.000Okay, you don't want to hear what I have to say, but here's what the lead story is of the New York Times.
01:23:55.000Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15th in a private...
01:24:23.000And why I'm saying that is because in the second Signal chat, there wasn't a journalist added.
01:24:29.000So one might ask, oh, how did these leaks get out?
01:24:32.000It was most likely that one of the people that was fired for allegedly leaking is now continuing to leak against Hegseth because he has an axe to grind.
01:24:40.000One of the people who was fired for allegedly leaking was the same guy who was Pete Hexeth's contact man in the first Signal Gate chat.
01:24:48.000So it makes sense that this guy, one of the same guys who was his contact man in the first Signal Gate chat,
01:26:03.000So no, I think it's pretty obvious too, because again, these guys were fired.
01:26:07.000And again, if you looked at the Signal chat, which you were reading to us earlier, you'd see the name of one of the people who was fired was his contact man there.
01:26:14.000Obviously, there's an axe to grind, and it's a disgruntled employee.
01:26:17.000And if you were a good journalist, you'd know that this actually comes up all the time.
01:26:20.000Half of the sources for people are just people who are pissed off at others and people in their company.
01:27:19.000Okay. So when a source comes forth with a story, the question is for who is to gain.
01:27:24.000If there was a story about toxic sludge being put in our milk and kids were going to drink it, the person who is to gain largely is the people who are saved from drinking it.
01:27:34.000But the source who comes forward, what is their motivation?
01:27:38.000What do they gain by bringing this story forward?
01:27:40.000Maybe they are actually whistleblowers.
01:27:41.000For most people, it's because, holy crap, kids are going to die from this.
01:33:06.000Okay, I just found something that I remembered.
01:33:10.000So, the whole thing with Goldberg, right?
01:33:12.000He didn't want to have to reveal the text, is what he said.
01:33:15.000He said, if he had any regrets about how the story played out, he said that he wished the Trump administration hadn't challenged his first story, forcing him to write a second one with the compromising details.
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01:38:46.000Phil's going to be running the Uncensored show with all your call-ins because Alad and I have to leave at the wee hours of the morning to go to the White House, which I'm not sure Alad was supposed to say, but he said anyway, so now everyone knows.
01:39:00.000They sent out another email saying that TimCast is going to be in rotation at the White House press pool, which is a great privilege, and we're excited to be there.
01:39:15.000There was enough information in that text that the Israelis complained that their sources were compromised and they were upset about their sources via the apartment leak.
01:39:23.000Interesting. Yeah, it was enough information to upset our allies.
01:42:49.000All these demons trying to infiltrate.
01:42:50.000It was my sense that because he had kind of decided to go into the financial world, that was kind of being like, okay, the Democrat party's not really for me this round.
01:43:16.000They're like 15 years behind the Republicans right now when it comes to media and they're catching up and it's really awkward and kind of like...
01:43:24.000Listen, I'm happy to have guests on my show, but I do look at it and I'm just like...
01:43:31.000I think every single person who worked for Biden needs to answer in their first question, what did you know, when did you know it, and why didn't you say anything?
01:43:40.000The crazy thing to me about liberal podcasters...
01:44:27.000I don't think it's fair to call him a comedian.
01:44:29.000And what I mean by that is he is a political commentator and comedian.
01:44:33.000And I believe comedian is the subset because his principal shtick for his whole life, as long as I've known him, I should say, since I was a kid with Politically Incorrect, has always been talking about politics and then being kind of funny about it.
01:44:45.000He's a comedian like Colbert is a comedian.
01:45:24.000So he's a comedian, and they do some politics.
01:45:26.000John Oliver, it's make jokes, but make it political.
01:45:29.000Bill Maher is talk politics on Friday night with a variety of high-profile political guests, and then do a monologue or something before or after the fact.
01:46:12.000So the sooner you can get away from that, I think that's when you can do the best journalism.
01:46:16.000The problem is some people need to have some experience, though, just learning how to be investigative and investigators and make choices like the kind that Tim brought up.
01:46:35.000Well, so the issue with the corporate press today is that intelligence actors have been doing this for a long time, but largely in the past 20 years.
01:46:43.000There is a particular individual who I will leave unnamed to avoid litigation.
01:46:47.000But what the intelligence agencies did was they contacted her when she was very young, in an entry-level position at a publication, and said, I work for this organization.
01:48:03.000And an award-winning, I believe it was an award-winning photo.
01:48:06.000Except the real photo, in my opinion, that everybody recognizes as the real photo, is one of the photographers walked away from the gaggle and took a picture of all of the journalists huddling around a dead girl to get a photo.
01:48:18.000And I believe the real photo that may have won the award was a spattering of journalists all getting the perfect angle of a corpse.
01:48:24.000And that's what journalists are, vultures.
01:48:27.000And that's why they call themselves vultures, because they know...
01:49:13.000Does the picture of that woman, who is already dead, it's not like they were crowding around a girl who was gasping for her last breath, okay?
01:49:20.000And again, this is actually a really interesting question.
01:49:24.000What do you do as a journalist when you're around people who are suffering?
01:49:57.000And then I called 911, and then I stepped away, and I started recording it, because obviously, like, they saw me, and they punched me, although it wasn't a hard punch.
01:50:05.000It was like, she couldn't hit, you know, you would appreciate this.
01:50:08.000Women aren't the best at throwing punches, right?
01:50:18.000I gave them the, I have a question for you.
01:50:36.000Let's say you're in an active conflict zone and a woman carrying a bag of groceries gets shot in the leg and falls down and she's bleeding.
01:51:42.000And the journalist said, we have to film this.
01:51:44.000We have to show the world what they're doing.
01:51:46.000So then the activists physically attacked the group of protesters, formed a line and then screamed, charged the journalists and started attacking the journalists.
01:51:54.000No, I mean, listen, it's not, I don't, it's a hard situation to be in.
01:52:13.000As somebody who's been field reporting for over five years, and my experience with other journalists in the field makes me totally self-loathing.
01:52:22.000A lot of these reporters and camera people are absolutely some of the worst people you could imagine.
01:52:27.000Tim's spot on when he was describing them as vultures.
01:52:29.000I do come across some moral quandaries, though, in my reporting.
01:52:33.000So, for example, For example, protesters do get mad at me when I film them doing illegal stuff.
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01:53:08.000Is it tongue-in-cheek, or is this really, like...
01:53:32.000So during Ferguson, I was doing the actual news coverage of the Ferguson riots.
01:53:36.000Yeah. And we were told that the documentary crew was coming out with, you know, I'll just leave them unnamed because it's bad enough I'm telling the story.
01:57:48.000It's part of a meme related to an individual who claimed to be a prison psychotherapist, psychologist, who said that people with IQs under 80...
01:59:18.000There's a story that said that Palmer Luckey, Elon Musk, and the guys from Palantir are going to be the ones that are doing the Golden Dome.
01:59:43.000Yeah, I think we've talked about how AI is going to destroy the world and he only bought X so he can get access to the fire hose so that he can create an AI system which is going to destroy the earth.
01:59:50.000He's a degenerate, anti-human, transhumanist.
01:59:52.000He's got 14 kids and he probably should be a dad to one of them.
02:00:31.000And with all due respect to Elon, as much as we've routinely brought these things up, he follows me on X. Like, he doesn't seem to be a baby about being criticized.
02:00:41.000Because he wants to feed your ideas and to grok.
02:00:43.000I mean, he doesn't need to follow me to do that.
02:02:12.000But the issue is with Trump, the Trump administration and the people in his sphere, Charlie Kirk, for instance, they don't get mad if you criticize them.
02:02:33.000And he's invited—there are a lot of people at TPUSA who are critical of Charlie or critical of people on the right.
02:02:40.000This is the thing about the anti-establishment, now that I guess technically the establishment, although technically the institutions aren't completely converted.
02:02:48.000But I can say Trump was wrong to launch a commando raid in Yemen in his first term, and he should be criminally investigated for the—and investigated, not saying charged, but there's an allegation that the raid resulted in the death of an American girl, a seven-year-old, the little sister of Abdurrahman al-Awlaki.
02:03:03.000Now, the Obama administration admitted to killing Abdurrahman.
02:03:07.000I think the DOJ should investigate it.
02:03:22.000He goes on Fox or whatever, and then he starts arguing about the things that the Democrats are doing wrong, and they go, yeah, well, Trump did a bad thing, and he goes, you're right, he did!
02:04:17.000Okay. You told me I was defending Trump by asking a question about motive, so I said you are attacking Trump, making the point that you are making towards me.
02:04:41.000When you countered, I said, if you're making that point at me that I'm defending Trump by saying this, you claiming it matters is you attacking Trump.
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02:14:15.000The real stories are outside of the press room.
02:14:17.000But that's just a pretext to the real story that I was going to tell you about.
02:14:22.000I learned about this whole Hunter Biden thing with the gun.
02:14:26.000And the whole story with the gun where he threw his, you know, threw the gun in the garbage and I went to Delaware and I tracked it all down and I got the form that he lied on and he said he wasn't.
02:14:41.000And then I found out that the Secret Service was involved.
02:14:43.000And so I did this big story and it took me months and months and months, not just to stand it up to the level of what, you know.
02:14:50.000I was talking about with Tim, but to convince my editors to publish it, which was very frustrating to me as a journalist that I had to spend so much time.
02:14:57.000And I felt, honestly, that if it was a story about the Trump kids...
02:17:17.000And the problem with Me Too, and this is why I could never be a politician or really I don't work well in big organizations, is I have this sort of anti-establishment thing inside of me or I really question authority.
02:17:28.000I always have, which kind of makes, frankly, a good reporter.
02:17:35.000The kid in the class, the teacher, is like, can you just shut up?
02:17:37.000And so that makes it hard to be in places where clicks matter.
02:17:41.000And the sheep follow one way and everyone's afraid to have a different voice or to have a different way of thinking.
02:17:47.000And so I think when you work in a news organization, it's really hard to stand out.
02:17:50.000And by the way, I will tell you, after that Biden story and a few others that were critical of the administration, suddenly, I'm not working on Playbook anymore.
02:18:14.000And it's like, that's where you kind of get to this point where you're, like, in your career.
02:18:19.000And I will say, though, when I lived in Brussels, though, and I covered the European Union and Brexit and all that other stuff, I didn't really have those problems as much because it's less political.
02:18:27.000Well, because nobody in America gives a fuck what anyone in Europe thinks.
02:18:29.000So nobody's trying to get in their, like, get in their phone book.
02:18:32.000Yeah, I was just, like, I was just, I was.
02:18:34.000Okay, well, you know, the Prime Minister, though, at the time, David Cameron, did call my boss and was like, how is she getting all these stories about Brexit?
02:20:32.000The day they were talking about was a free speech talk when they were pulling down statues of southern confederates.
02:20:40.000And there were Nazi, actual Nazis that went there.
02:20:44.000But he was talking about the people that were not associated with the Nazis because there were free speech people there saying that this is a free speech issue.
02:20:52.000And so Trump was talking about the people that were there that were protesting about free speech, not about Nazis.
02:20:58.000I never really thought of Trump as like a...
02:21:16.000Maybe you have a gut instinct that says no.
02:21:19.000My gut instinct says that some of those fine people on the other side were probably some of them voted for Trump and he didn't want to offend them.
02:21:36.000There were a shitload of Southerners that were like, this is fucked up.
02:21:40.000You're not taking our fucking heritage down.
02:21:42.000Now, whether or not you agree with it doesn't change the fact that they're not like, hey man, let's get ready for the thousand year Reich, homie.
02:21:50.000They're literally there saying, don't pull down these statues.
02:25:27.000And he said, I'm not talking about the white nationalists and the neo-Nazis.
02:25:32.000You also had some very fine people on both sides.
02:25:34.000Yes. The very fine people on both sides comment.
02:25:39.000There's no disputing that he said that.
02:25:41.000Because he was talking about the people that were protesting.
02:25:44.000Because there was that poor girl that got killed that got run over.
02:25:47.000Guys, I don't really want to keep going into this because it was an atrocious moment.
02:25:51.000And I feel like if you can't have any moral...
02:25:53.000Do you guys want to pull the clip up and watch it that you don't understand?
02:25:56.000I'm not calling you names, I'm not insulting you or anything, but the point is, he made specific comments that were- he made a specific- Statement.
02:26:08.000Not talking about these people, but you're still like, well, you know, and kind of bad.
02:26:40.000And by the way, as someone who's covered President Trump for a very long time, like since I was 22, since the New York Post, this is what he does.
02:28:26.000As far as Lincoln goes, of course he did some things that were unconstitutional, but I mean, I think those were obviously extraordinary times, and I don't think we should whitewash what the Confederates were trying to accomplish.
02:28:36.000Secession is probably like Xi Jinping's wet dream.
02:28:40.000Like, I couldn't think of something that makes...
02:29:36.000They put the Poles in camps, and they called them family camps, but they were still concentration camps, and they worked them to build the artillery and the bombs that they needed to continue the war, and they used the children to try out their drugs.
02:29:52.000I mean, it's not the same thing as what happened to the Jews by far.
02:29:54.000I mean, what happened to them is terrible, and they were immediately exterminated, which my grandmother told me too.
02:33:44.000The point is I can't take Robo Rants because there's only one controller between these computers.
02:33:56.000And I don't think, actually, I don't even, like, there's not, I don't want to take rumble rants, but at the same time, do we really want to beat up on Tara anymore?
02:35:07.000I've got to say, my only regret was that I had read more about the immigrant case up front because I don't think I was truly prepared for that part.
02:35:19.000And I think you should – I should admit regrets.
02:35:21.000Normally – I didn't really know what was going on with the immigration.
02:35:24.000I just think ultimately it's kind of another one of those 80-20 issues where – but I do worry about the president pushing the boundaries of his power and – Just think of FDR.
02:37:30.000The point is, when the Democrats learn nothing, listen, the Democrats have learned nothing, and whoever gets in is going to do all the stuff that Joe Biden did, plus more.
02:37:49.000He allowed all the stuff that's happened, like all the stuff that the administration did about cooling freedom speech and all that stuff, they will go after podcasters.
02:38:00.000They're going to go after people when the Democrats get back into office.
02:38:04.000So it's only going to get worse, just so you know.