In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with my good friend Michael Bloomberg to talk about the 2020 Democratic primary, the radical leftist agenda, and why we need to stop letting them speak. We also talk about how the left has become so extreme and dumb, and how we can stop them.
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00:07:24.000I think actually it's the difference between the left and the right that is kind of built in there.
00:07:28.000Because in terms of practical politics, one of the first rules is that when your opponent is making a mistake, you should not interrupt.
00:07:38.000And that's generally what happens on here.
00:07:40.000When the radical leftists are spewing total nonsense, you can kind of guide them into their inconsistencies, but really you can just let them speak.
00:07:48.000They're going to hang their own arguments with their own rhetorical rope.
00:07:52.000And at the national level, I think that's exactly what's happened in the last five years.
00:07:56.000Really, you could say that's what's happened for the last 50 years as the left has become so extreme.
00:08:00.000But especially you think about the last five years, record numbers of illegal aliens crossing the border under Biden, Biden basically welcoming them for that.
00:08:08.000Obviously, the trans craziness, the social policy, even the foreign policy has just spun so out of control.
00:08:14.000The left has just made so many mistakes.
00:08:18.000They've so exposed themselves that the American people broadly turned on them in November.
00:08:24.000And it's going to take a lot for the left to unwind that.
00:08:27.000Frankly, now it seems to me they still haven't really learned any lessons.
00:08:31.000The one kind of moderate Democrat in the Senate isn't a force anymore, Joe Manchin.
00:09:02.000Margaret Brennan had a couple of great ones.
00:09:05.000I guess it was with JD when it was like, well, they only took over, radical Venezuelan gangs only took over a couple of buildings in Colorado, JD.
00:09:37.000But it's actually shocking that they could be that ignorant given where the world is right now and what's going on over the last four years.
00:09:44.000Well, this is what makes me think they're going to keep making these mistakes through the midterms, through the next presidential election.
00:09:51.000Even you mentioned Margaret Brennan on CBS, and she in particular keeps making these mistakes, trying to defend USAID spending.
00:10:01.000But Michael, who wouldn't want to send $7 million for trans Elmo cartoons in Guatemala?
00:10:08.000I mean, it's great use of taxpayer funds when we have crappy roads, crappy healthcare, crappy education, our country's falling apart, people are getting murdered in the streets.
00:10:17.000I mean, isn't that still great use of funds, Michael?
00:10:34.000And you alluded to it just now, but Margaret Brennan suggesting her words, not mine, that the Holocaust was caused by an abundance of free speech.
00:10:46.000And you think, you know, look, I'm not the greatest scholar of the Second World War, but seems to me in 1933 in particular, you had at least three or four major provisions out of Nazi Germany that severely limited free speech and civil liberties.
00:11:00.000Ms. Brennan, can you have any example to the contrary?
00:11:05.000You know, Ronald Reagan famously said, the problem with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so.
00:11:13.000I mean, I think this is the most tedious aspect for people left, right, and center in America, that for the American left, including the mainstream, every moment is 1930s Germany.
00:11:34.000Believe it or not, other things happened in history beyond the Second World War.
00:11:37.000And of course, the irony is the people who constantly compare every event to the Second World War don't even know that much about the Second World War.
00:11:45.000You know, they're just exposing a lack of knowledge and political sophistication that is stunning, but which is really delightful if you're on the right side of things.
00:11:55.000Yeah, like you don't have to be a World War II scholar to know that, of course, like Hitler started banning guns.
00:12:23.000And, you know, there is a reason that the left has sought to censor people.
00:12:28.000You saw this when JD was lecturing Europe.
00:12:32.000Europe has been even more egregious about this, banning, effectively banning right-wing political parties, prohibiting people from praying 50 meters away from abortion clinics.
00:12:43.000But you saw it here too in the abuses under Biden, the DOJ going after Catholic parishes, arresting pro-lifers in front of their seven kids, calling parents terrorists and domestic extremists.
00:12:55.000So we've seen it pretty substantially in America too.
00:12:59.000This is where debates like the show that I just went on that's going viral, this is where I think you see why they're censoring it.
00:13:07.000Because if a debate is able to happen in public for everyone to see, a fair fight where both sides can be heard, be that on a YouTube interview show or be that in a presidential election, if it's a fair fight, then the right side is going to win right now because the left has lost the common sense.
00:13:26.000And so thankfully, we were able to get a little foothold into social media, which so tried to destroy your father in 2016 and 2020.
00:13:34.000Once you get just a little bit of that exposure, you are not only going to win over the choir and your core base, you are going to win over, as we saw, the majority of Americans.
00:13:44.000Yeah, I mean, it's why the left, they were such Elon fanboys until he helped level that playing field.
00:13:49.000You know, when they had the entire weight and force of social media, I mean, and they still do across the broad spectrum of apps or whatever you want to look at it at.
00:14:01.000When you have the entire weight and force of mainstream media, and then you have a government backing it up and or subverting truth, whatever it may be, through USAID, funding all sorts of other levels of journalism.
00:14:14.000I was always shocked that, frankly, that elections are as close as they are.
00:14:17.000I feel like if I was running the other side with the resources that they had, with the operatives that they had that are all home team, all functioning as the marketing department of the radical left, I'd be like, elections would be like 99.9 to like 0.01.
00:14:39.000Once you had a little exposure to that, they freaked out because they realized that they're losing badly.
00:14:43.000And it's the first time they've lost the cultural wars, even with the handicaps that they were giving themselves for all these years, perhaps in certainly my lifetime.
00:15:09.000No, Twitter is by far, or at least was before Elon really made it much better, but it was the smallest one by far compared to Facebook and Google.
00:15:17.000Just getting that tiny foothold into the social media was enough to shift the entire dynamic of the election.
00:15:26.000Just cleaning up one agency of the federal government, USAID.
00:15:31.000The left loves to say now it's less than 1% of the federal budget, which first of all is a lot of money when you're considering the United States federal budget.
00:15:37.000But in any case, sure, okay, it's just one agency of the federal government.
00:15:41.000Just one agency with all of that graft, all of that abuse, all of those payoffs to fund not only foreign liberalism, but domestic liberalism.
00:15:51.000I mean, just to use one example, when you've got the taxpayer dollars, you pay your money to the IRS, the IRS funds the federal government, federal government gives money to USAID, USAID gives money to the Tides Center, the Tides Center funds BLM, BLM goes down, burns down your neighborhood, starts extorting corporate America to further advance leftism, and it's this hideous feedback loop.
00:16:17.000The moment you start shedding a little bit of light on this, I think the people, even those of us who were aware that there was serious corruption, are just astounded by the sheer enormity of it.
00:16:29.000Yeah, I guess all these left-wing narratives really collapse on themselves.
00:16:33.000Once you reduce the conversation down to basic truths, there's a lot of sort of cognitive dissidents on the left.
00:16:43.000We're seeing it all play out in very obvious ways.
00:16:46.000What are some of the other most egregious examples that you've seen play out where you're actually, you can't even believe that you're having the conversation?
00:16:55.000Well, I can believe that the left has gotten this extreme because their ideas have consequences.
00:17:01.000And so left unimpeded, they're going to go all the way from, you know, Gloria Steinem in the 70s saying a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle, all the way to a woman really can become a man.
00:17:12.000And the reason that that particular ideology has really overtaken public discourse is because it's just so obviously ridiculous.
00:17:21.000And on certain issues, you can negotiate and meet in the middle.
00:17:24.000You know, the left wants to steal all of our property.
00:17:51.000So that's one reason that I think that issue has really taken off.
00:17:55.000It's the same reason that the immigration issue has taken off is because as you say, Don, you don't need a PhD in philosophy or history to understand that nations need borders.
00:18:07.000A border is literally the thing that delineates a nation from all of the other nations.
00:18:12.000So when you have the left with their genius experts coming out and saying, well, actually, you know, we don't really have a border.
00:18:18.000And actually, the law technically doesn't mean that you can distinguish, you know, you just think, hey, shut up, man.
00:18:22.000I'm pretty sure we can enforce basic immigration law.
00:18:26.000And if one's political ideology runs contrary to all of our common sense, the left thinks that means there's a problem with our common sense.
00:18:36.000In reality, it means there's a problem with that political ideology.
00:18:40.000And if the voters have the opportunity to vote that out, which was a little unclear because the left wanted to take your father off the ballot in this past election.
00:18:48.000But because they fail to save democracy, though, Michael, we're going to not let you vote for people to save democracy.
00:18:55.000And then when the person we do elect stops performing, we're just going to replace them without an election, also to save democracy.
00:19:05.000I mean, you saw this just at the Munich Security Conference that JD caused this big ripple at, is he said, you know, democracies don't have firewalls.
00:19:13.000And I think a lot of Americans are not familiar with this term.
00:19:16.000Germany, and therefore Europe, has this so-called firewall to prevent right-wing parties and even ordinary conservatism from rising in Germany, which is the leader of Europe.
00:19:27.000And JD pointed out, he said, all you guys here, you prattle on and on about democracy, but you're afraid of your voters.
00:19:38.000You have midnight raids because they say something you don't like online.
00:19:42.000And then you have a political order that actually formally kicks out the right-wing parties through a so-called firewall.
00:19:50.000You learn about resilience because everybody has to fight through getting beat or everybody has to fight through getting taken down and show real toughness.
00:20:01.000And you learn about respect because after you spend six minutes beating the tar at each other, you have to stand up and someone gets their hand lifted in the air and you shake hands and walk off the mat.
00:20:11.000So I think a lot of what's great about America, we see in those high school gyms in Pennsylvania.
00:20:18.000And that's what the column was about in the Wall Street Journal.
00:20:20.000And I think it's emblematic of, I think, the community and a set of ideals that your father really hit on the campaign.
00:20:28.000And one of the reasons I think he has such a great following in Pennsylvania.
00:20:32.000I mean, you also read an ad during your campaign about how wrestling taught you to make the hard choices.
00:20:37.000What are those hard choices right now in the U.S. Senate?
00:20:40.000And what will your benchmark be for success in this Congress?
00:20:45.000Well, you know, I've got a whiteboard in my office, and on it, I have the top 10 things I promised.
00:20:51.000A lot of the same things of your dad, some different things that were Pennsylvania specific, but a lot of the same things.
00:20:57.000And I literally look at that whiteboard when I come in every time and say, okay, what are we doing on that?
00:24:07.000She talks about a certain Donald Trump, your father, who, when she was getting the tar knocked out of her and all these horrible insults, pulled her aside and said, You're beautiful.
00:24:28.000Saty Nadella, the CEO of Microsoft, one of the most prominent CEOs in the world.
00:24:33.000He talks about this manager at Microsoft that pulled him out of obscurity, saw something special in him.
00:24:40.000His name was a guy named Doug Bergham.
00:24:42.000So over and over again, you have people that made all the difference.
00:24:45.000And so the moral of the story is you don't have to be a famous person to change the world.
00:24:50.000You can help by helping someone else find their path to greatness.
00:24:54.000And so that's what Dean and I wrote about.
00:24:56.000And she had a great career in business and had created a number of big mentoring programs, very successful.
00:25:04.000So the two of us decided to do it together.
00:25:06.000By the way, if you could make it through a losing campaign, a winning campaign, and writing a book together and staying married, that's a good sign for the future.
00:26:25.000And we just had a, you know, a big party.
00:26:28.000And, you know, later down the road, I never thought that an NFL player, of course, it's Maker Mayfield, would do a, you know, I thought he did a hell of a job of recreating that draft day photo to go through the trouble he went through.
00:26:48.000It actually, I thought it was pretty cool, not knowing that jorts and the old cordless phone, which our kids have no clue about any of that.
00:27:01.000Enough, not even a little bit, you know, they're carrying cell phones, and we thought the coolest thing was we got rid of a cordless phone.
00:27:08.000I mean, you got a cordless phone in the house, but you couldn't walk in the next room and talk because you'd lose them.
00:27:14.000Yeah, it is basically a corded, cordless phone.
00:29:56.000So, needless to say, at the end of that year, I got traded to Green Bay, who had hired or fired their head coach and GM prior to the end of that season.
00:30:09.000And I didn't know this, but Ron Wolf, we played the Jets that year.
00:30:13.000I was with Atlanta late in the year in Fulton County Stadium in Atlanta.
00:30:18.000And Ron Wolf came down in pregame to watch me throw.
00:30:46.000So I do nothing to earn the right to be traded for a first round pick.
00:30:50.000So it's really like you're drafted in the second round, you do nothing, you end up getting back in the draft, but this time drafted in the first round is basically what it amounted to.
00:31:02.000So the best thing about Atlanta was it got me to Green Bay.
00:32:10.000Very rarely did you have audibles and things of that nature.
00:32:13.000So when I got to Green Bay in the West Coast offense, and Mike Honggren, who had coached Joe Montana and Steve Young before coaching me, it was what I considered very complicated.
00:32:25.000The playbook was like this thick and formations, motions, check with me's, audibles.
00:34:32.000But I'm proof that you don't have to know all the ins and outs of the game to be successful.
00:34:39.000By the way, I think that's like anything else, whether it's banking or otherwise.
00:34:42.000I mean, these guys talk and they talk in the acronyms, you know, ABC.
00:34:46.000And like, if you just say the words, it's like, oh, I know exactly what you're talking about.
00:34:50.000But you know, they sort of make you feel foolish by not necessarily articulating what the actual stuff is and just talking in the banking speak.
00:34:57.000So, yeah, I think that's probably pretty common.
00:35:30.000You know, I'm bulletproof, but I'm looking at this and I'm thinking, this could, I mean, this is a jailbreak every time they're playing someone.
00:35:38.000And so I say, Coach White, what do I do if they blitz, if I see blitz?
00:35:43.000And he said, I'll tell you what you do.
00:36:46.000I can't speak for Scott or Jeff because I was not there, but I don't think he, maybe he saw something in me that he didn't in the other two.
00:36:53.000And the other two both got scholarships and played in college, but he was a hard ass on me.
00:37:00.000And the good thing about that was the more he pushed me, you know, some kids will go the opposite direction.
00:38:33.000But, you know, along with that and the discipline that my dad, you know, I can't tell you many times, Don, I would say, dad, let's throw the ball.
00:38:42.000And he says, look, you let me worry about running to plays and calling the plays and running this team.
00:38:55.000Yeah, sometimes they get the last word, even if they're not there to enjoy all of it.
00:38:59.000But yeah, that's, I, I, yeah, I can, I can relate a lot.
00:39:04.000Speaking of fathers, my father was at the NCA Wrestling Championships recently in Philadelphia.
00:39:11.000And so much of the greatness of America, I think, can be found in sports like wrestling or football or these contact aggressive sports.
00:39:23.000What sort of lessons have you learned from sort of each chapter of your career from high school to then Southern Miss to playing professionally?
00:39:33.000Yeah, you know, the different phases or times from high school to college is a big leap socially, fitting in.
00:39:48.000But, you know, I think with football, it really you go onto a team, you walked into the locker room the first time.
00:39:57.000I'm 17 years old, and you were the big dog where you just left.
00:43:21.000And of course, he and my mom didn't come out there.
00:43:24.000But after the game, my dad said, if you ever do that again, you'll sit out there until you rot because I will never come out there and get your ass off the field.
00:43:33.000Now, if you're really hurt, that's a different thing.
00:43:37.000But, you know, and I can't tell you how many times after that, you know, that moment that them tell me that resonates just as if he just told me.
00:43:46.000And I can't tell you how many times on the field I was, you know, high school, college, bros, where I was, yeah, I was dinged up.
00:43:56.000And I really, that, that moment would just be right there.
00:46:44.000I mean, it was, and I say this all the time: it was if you were there to play football, that was what you really wanted to do, then there's no better place in the world to play football because they started off the evening news with the latest on the Packers.
00:47:03.000They ended the news with the latest on the Packers.
00:47:13.000I mean, it's a small town, so if you went out and ate, everyone knew about it, but that was okay.
00:47:17.000The people, and I think for me, it was a perfect fit because they're blue-collar, I'm blue-collar.
00:47:24.000And I, you know, I didn't play the game for them necessarily, but I played it like they would have played it had they got a chance to play.
00:47:32.000And I can't tell you how many times, more so today than any other time in my life, even though I'm 15 years removed from playing.
00:47:41.000I get this probably more than anything.
00:47:44.000The game is missing the enthusiasm and the excitement that you brought.
00:47:50.000You would throw it was like I hear this one often: every touchdown pass you through, and I threw 500 something, every touchdown pass you through seemed like Christmas morning to you.
00:48:02.000It was the greatest thing, and that's true.
00:48:05.000Um, you know, when I first heard that, I was like, you know, I never thought about it, but I was just excited about the last one as I was the first one.
00:48:13.000And there doesn't seem to be that joy and excitement much in the league anymore.
00:48:21.000But I think fans in general, whether you like me or not, could relate to that, how I played and the enthusiasm.
00:48:30.000Because I was always, you know, very thankful that I got an opportunity to do what I always wanted to do.
00:48:46.000And I think the people of Wisconsin in general are that type of person, blue-collar, hardworking, love their deer hunting, love their football.
00:49:01.000Do you think that, you know, sort of the money in the game?
00:49:03.000Obviously, you did very well for yourself in the game, but it seems like, you know, every five years out, it's like an exponential shift towards more money when you look at some of these contracts being signed.
00:49:16.000Do you think that has a role in sort of that change in the game to you?
00:49:52.000If you get a guy that has a tremendous contract like they're giving, but plays the game like he's 12 years old, you really found something special.
00:50:04.000So I do think it's drastically affected the game today.
00:50:22.000In a team sport, it does seem like it's problematic, right?
00:50:26.000You draft a great quarterback, you bring him to a college, he learns the game, someone offers him 10x bit more money, you leave, you break up that entire dichotomy that the team was formed around this one player.
00:50:36.000And it does feel like it'll create a lot of chaos.
00:50:40.000I think the NCA was definitely taking advantage, you know, of the name, image, and likeness of all of these people for a long period of time.
00:50:48.000But I don't know that what they came up with doesn't create, again, total chaos and the inability to sort of grow someone well, because if they keep flipping out each and every year just for the next best offer, I think it probably does that player a disservice despite the money, but also everyone else that the team is building around them.
00:51:10.000And I don't know Nick Saban personally, but his retiring press conference, he said it so clearly.
00:51:18.000It used to be about mentoring and seeing the maturation of a kid as he goes from a freshman to graduation and on to the pros.
00:51:30.000And he said, you know, I would go into these homes and I would talk about what I would do with your son and how I would build him up over the years.
00:51:40.000And he said, then it became, how much are you going to pay me, coach?
00:51:55.000You know, just what kind of car are you going to give me?
00:51:58.000And I just don't see any good in that.
00:52:01.000Well, it also feels like it would, it's going to aggregate, and you've forgotten more about this than I'll ever know, but it's also going to aggregate, you know, the top talent exclusively, you know, to the top, you know, five, 10 schools that can actually pay that.
00:52:14.000And some of those other schools that could be great football schools just aren't going to even get a shot at that talent to be able to.
00:52:19.000So you're just going to have this sort of like three dominant teams that have all the best players.
00:52:24.000And again, maybe it doesn't matter if they're not working as a team.
00:52:28.000Maybe that overrules that talent per se.
00:52:32.000But yeah, it feels like it's going to cause a lot of problems there as well for some of these smaller programs that have produced incredible players over the years, but it may not be, you know, it may not be Michigan, you know, it may not be XYZ school.
00:52:58.000And I often think about it, I get asked, what do you think you would have done had the NIL been in play then?
00:53:07.000Let's just assume we're back in 1987 and I end up starting.
00:53:12.000And at the end of that year, my body of work was good enough that Alabama or LSU or O Miss or Mississippi State, all the regional close teams said, we're going to go for this kid.
00:53:49.000But I may not be talking to you today because I may have gone there and just slipped through the cracks, wasted $500,000 like in three years of walling it maybe in a year because that very easily could happen.
00:54:01.000And then I'm scrambling around trying to find a job somewhere, teaching school and coaching high school football.
00:54:09.000And what would have been is just a, you know, a former dream.
00:54:14.000Well, there's something to be said about like not letting 19-year-olds have unlimited sums of money because like that I remember when I was 19, it's like, I think the best thing my parents did, and I'm not saying I wasn't blessed, I'm not saying I wasn't spoiled, but like it wasn't like, here's whatever you want, because like kids are going to make really bad decisions more often than not.
00:54:34.000Yeah, you know, you're absolutely 100% correct.
00:54:59.000I mean, it's the wild, wild west uh, Ncoua right now, no question.
00:55:05.000What Brett, you know, what role, if any, does, you know, faith play in all of this for you, when you reflect on your successes and how you're fighting this battle now with Parkinson's and working nonstop for better treatments and a cure?
00:55:39.000In addition to doing what's good for our country, it's an important opportunity to sort of reset reality on what these things actually are.
00:55:46.000Yeah, I'd argue the Biden administration canceled plenty of visas of people that actually could be the next astronaut, the next nuclear physicist, the next, because they probably weren't reliable Democrat voters.
00:55:58.000But I think more importantly, as you and my father have both made very clear, gangs like Trend de Laragua, part of Maduro's narco-terrorist regime who've influenced violence on American citizens, murder, as well as the Venezuelan people.
00:57:08.000In the case of Trendadagua, that was a prison gang inside of Venezuela.
00:57:11.000The Venezuelan regime pushed them out of the country, knowing that many of them, first of all, they destabilized all kinds of countries neighboring in the region, but ultimately wound their way up here to the United States.
00:57:22.000And we saw that trend begin probably in January of 2023.
00:57:26.000We started to see uptick in people arriving.
00:57:28.000It was actually Venezuelans that were telling me this, people here in the country.
00:57:31.000They were saying, look, these people that are coming now, they're members of gangs.
00:57:34.000And at first you kind of think, well, how do you really know?
00:57:52.000So there's no doubt that this was a concerted effort by the Maduro regime, not just to drive these gang members out of their country, but to drive them towards the United States and to inflict the price on this country.
00:58:03.000And it's right out of the Fidel Castro playbook.
00:58:06.000Yeah, well, Maria Corina Machada won 92% of the vote there in an open primary despite brutal repression, censorship.
00:58:16.000I mean, I had her on the show two, three weeks ago.
00:58:18.000She was talking about, I mean, if she went to a restaurant, because she couldn't even fly, driving to a campaign stop, they'd shut down the restaurant for even serving her.
00:58:26.000I mean, she's clearly the choice of the Venezuelan people.
00:58:29.000She was banned from the ballot, but even her surrogate, Edmundo Gonzalez, still won the election by 40 points.
00:58:36.000I mean, That's not like some of these things here where you say, hey, you know, you won by basis points.
00:58:41.000I mean, that's pretty decisive, even, you know, in that regime.
00:58:44.000Would you say the Venezuelan opposition today is more unified and credible than perhaps we've seen in the past and that can actually effectuate real change going forward?
00:58:53.000Well, they're as brave as they've ever been.
00:58:54.000And she in particular, Maria Carina Machado is an incredibly brave woman.
00:58:57.000I mean, and I'm not criticizing anybody when I say this, right?
00:59:00.000But if you look at the Venezuelan opposition, a large percentage of the well-known figures in it are now living abroad.
00:59:06.000Because there comes a time where your family's life is threatened or they force you out of the country or you leave, you travel overseas to go give a speech and they don't let you back in.
00:59:41.000The Maduro regime is not a government.
00:59:43.000They govern territory because they have the guns and they have the security forces.
00:59:48.000But it basically is a narco-terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran, strong ties to narco-trafficking.
00:59:54.000And they just happen to control territory.
00:59:57.000They don't even control all of Venezuela because the border regions with Colombia are controlled, openly controlled by narco-guerrilla terrorists.
01:00:07.000So, yeah, I mean, you know, if they had a real election in Venezuela, Maduro would lose, like he did, by a lot.
01:00:13.000But obviously, the way they stay in power is they kill and jail the people who don't agree with them.
01:00:18.000Well, you know, I know the Biden administration, I mean, these were regimes that were largely on the ropes until we shut down our own energy production, the Keystone Pipeline, and allowed Chevron to make a deal with the Maduro regime, which gave them the cash that I'm sure was siphoned off and or funneled through back to the regime to keep them in power.
01:00:36.000I mean, I can't think of a more glaring example of basically giving a lifeline to literally a terrorist dictator than what we saw in the past.
01:00:45.000How do we reconcile that that even happened in America, despite sort of party differences?
01:00:50.000I mean, it's so flagrant and that the fact that the media won't even talk about that, won't even talk about this.
01:00:56.000But if we do anything here, they're so vocal about any kind of change in what was ultimately a failed policy that boosted up a dictator.
01:01:04.000Look, in foreign policy, we want to be mature and realistic about it.
01:01:07.000You're going to have to deal with some bad people, right?
01:01:09.000You're going to have to deal with people that you don't like, people that you don't agree with, but for the purposes of foreign policy, peace, and all that kind of thing, you have to deal with them.
01:01:16.000The problem is you can't do it in a stupid way.
01:01:20.000They went to Maduro and they said, okay, we're going to do a deal.
01:01:23.000You promise to hold elections, free and fair elections in like nine months or whatever, and we will immediately lift sanctions and allow you to start producing oil and getting paid for it.
01:01:32.000It was a side deal, by the way, because they only announced that they did this deal with Chevron.
01:01:36.000What they didn't announce was that Chevron, with a side secret deal, was allowed to pay the Maduro regime royalties.
01:01:42.000It accounted for over 25% of all the revenue going into that regime from oil.
01:01:52.000And after that, after that, they left the deal in place.
01:01:56.000They left it in place, even though they violated their word on holding free and fair elections.
01:02:00.000I think the way they were going to do it, and I don't think at this point you can do it, you say, first you have free and fair elections, then we'll lift the sanctions.
01:02:09.000And even if you do it the way that the Biden people did, at least, you know, if they don't, if they break their word, you know, undo the thing, you know, stop allowing them to get money.
01:02:19.000So I think it's one more example of stupidity in our foreign policy, which other countries look at and say, well, hell, they got away with that.
01:02:26.000We could be able to get away with whatever we want as well.
01:02:28.000It's really both weakness and stupidity.
01:02:30.000Yeah, I mean, I'm not a foreign policy wonk by any stretch, but I know enough about negotiation to say you don't give up all your leverage.
01:02:38.000You don't give the other side everything that they want before you get to the table to figure out what it is that you want.
01:02:43.000You keep maximum pressure on them so you can actually effectuate real policy changes.
01:02:48.000Yeah, well, if I want to put it in real estate terms, you don't get to say, okay, pay me for the building and I get to keep the building anyways.
01:03:16.000Mr. Secretary, could you talk about the impact of your successful leadership and what appears to be a broader pivot into the Western hemisphere?
01:03:25.000We've seen comparisons to the Monroe Doctrine.
01:03:28.000Can you talk about the opportunities to shake up the foundations of communism in the Western hemisphere and build strong, long-lasting American alliances in our backyard, whether it's with Bukele in El Salvador, Mille in Argentina, Maria Carina Machara in Venezuela, hopefully eventually, and perhaps others.
01:03:47.000What does all of that look like to you?
01:03:49.000Well, the baseline is the United States wants to be friends with our friends, right?
01:03:53.000So for a long time, if you were a U.S. or pro-American ally in the region, we kind of ignored you and in some cases actually treated you bad.
01:03:59.000But if you were an irritant like Nicaragua or Cuba or Venezuela, then we made all these deals with you to make you happy, right?
01:04:05.000So we made deals with the people that hated us and we either neglected or sometimes were outright hostile towards the countries that were pro-American.
01:04:14.000And you can, and look, I mean, maybe I'll miss a country here, but you talk about places like Guyana, Argentina, Paraguay, Costa Rica.
01:04:21.000You know, the president of Panama is very pro-American, meaning, you know, he wants to be our ally and our partner, El Salvador, the Dominican Republic.
01:04:30.000So we've made a concerted effort to reach out to these countries that have governments and leaders that want to be aligned with the United States, not just on regional issues, but international issues, and figure out a way.
01:04:39.000We want those democratically elected leaders to go back to their people and say, hey, there's benefits to being friends of America.
01:04:45.000At the same time, it allows us to clearly define the countries that have governments that are enemies of the United States, unfortunately, in Cuba, in Nicaragua, and obviously the regime in Venezuela.
01:05:00.000And then others, you know, we've got some tough issues to work through, like with Mexico.
01:05:03.000On fairness, you know, I think the Mexicans are doing more today against the cartels and against migration than they have ever, ever done ever before.
01:05:10.000And obviously, the credit goes to President Trump for being very strong about that.
01:05:14.000But that's an example of how positive engagement has allowed us to get things, has allowed us to reach a level of cooperation with the Mexican government that we never had before under previous presidents.
01:05:26.000Great friend of the show, investigative reporter John Solomon.
01:05:56.000So the same country that sent those scientists in with the pathogens a few weeks ago that could wipe out our crops, the same scientists that hid the origins of COVID-19 at the Wuhan Institute for Output.
01:06:27.000This source told the FBI in August of 2020 that China was mass-producing fake U.S. driver's licenses, shipping them to Chinese students and residents, both here illegally and legally in America, so that they could go get fake mail-in ballots and hijack the election.
01:06:43.000And the report specifically stated that the goal was to help Joe Biden defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
01:06:50.000Now, it goes out for a few days to the intelligence community like a normal intelligence warning would go out, and then it's suddenly recalled, which is such an odd thing.
01:07:08.000We now know, last night for the reporting I did, that about a month after this report came out, the Customs and Border Protection Agency, a separate federal agency, intercepted about 20,000 of those fake Chinese driver's licenses coming in in the mail into the United States.
01:07:23.000In other words, the source was corroborated.
01:07:26.000What they had said actually came true.
01:07:28.000But that didn't stop the deep state from turning a blind eye, not further investigating this.
01:07:34.000Kash Patel late last night turned these documents over to Senator Charles Grassy, who first heard about this episode from a whistleblower.
01:07:49.000Well, yeah, listen, just so we're clear.
01:07:51.000So they found 20,000 driver's licenses coming in.
01:07:55.000That doesn't mean they didn't find lots of others.
01:07:57.000And I think if I look at the margin of error in some of these states, I mean, you know, whether it's 2016, last election, I mean, this last one was a little bit more of a blowout.
01:08:07.000But in 16 and 20, I mean, entire states were decided on, you know, 8,000 votes, 15,000 votes.
01:08:15.000So 20 being just one shipment, and presumably they didn't put all their eggs in one basket and just, you know, get unlucky that they were caught.
01:08:23.000You know, that could have been the entire election was decided on 45,000 votes in 2020.
01:08:28.000If they got a couple of these shipments in, you know, that could have been the margin of error by itself.
01:08:38.000Instead of continuing down the path of investigating, corroborating, when they hear from the CPB, reopening it, all right, maybe you pulled it back, reopened it when the CPB finds the licenses.
01:08:49.000And then after the election, remember that famous 60-minute story where the guy from the Homeland Security Department said, this was a perfect election.
01:08:58.000He said he looked in the camera and said that.
01:09:00.000We now know there were two foreign interferences, this China plot and an earlier plot by Iran to hack a database, steal the identities of tens of thousands of American voters and use it to try to influence the election.
01:09:17.000But what I want to know is, you know, all these guys that did that, you know, in their pompous, you know, arrogant, self-righteous ways, I mean, Chris Wray was FBI director during this period of time.
01:09:28.000And if I recall correctly, didn't he testify before Congress that there was no interference?
01:09:33.000So when he said that, were they already aware of these things, right?
01:09:39.000Because I mean, now with the newly declassified intelligence reports, we know they were recalled.
01:10:09.000We don't know if Chris Ray knew, but people inside the FBI absolutely knew and would have known that the testimony Chris Ray was giving was inaccurate based on what they had just gotten from his Chinese source.
01:10:20.000Selena, it's been a little while since I ran into you in Pennsylvania.
01:10:24.000Yeah, I did run into you in Pennsylvania.
01:10:26.000You were at a chocolate factory and you are having a really good time.
01:10:30.000Well, you know, listen, if you're going to be campaigning, you're going to be working that hard.
01:10:34.000You have to have a little bit of a good time.
01:10:35.000And I think that usually works well when you're authentic and you're having a good time.
01:10:40.000People get it also, which is probably somewhat helpful in politics as well.
01:15:00.000And so five minutes before he's supposed to come and get myself, my daughter, my son-in-law, Michelle Picard III, and his name is very, very important, comes running back.
01:16:02.000Guys, doesn't she have the most beautiful hair in America?
01:16:05.000And of course, it's a room filled with state troopers.
01:16:08.000And I'm so like, I'm so awkward, right?
01:16:11.000I just want to like crawl inside myself.
01:16:13.000Listen, I mean, I'd say it's solid bag of hair, though.
01:16:16.000I mean, it's a, it's a, you know, hey, as a Trump, I don't make fun of hair because, you know, one day I could wake up if those genes ever kick in, it could be a total disaster.
01:17:39.000He goes, if people were following me on Twitter that day, I had video and pictures, people in the stands, your dad, make our way sort of over to the other side because I don't like logistics.
01:20:58.000I always have my recorder on when your dad has a rally, not because a transcript doesn't come a couple hours later, but I think it is important as a journalist, not just with presidential candidates, but also with people, to catch the nuance when someone says something.
01:21:19.000Because if you don't do that when you're writing the story, it can come across in a very different way.
01:21:28.000I've seen that a lot where it's like, you know, if you play the video or the audio of me saying something, it clearly means something, but you put it in print, you change the punctuation a little bit.
01:21:38.000You know, a question looks like a statement.
01:22:23.000In terms, it tells you a lot, you know, about who your father surrounds himself with and who that he makes part of, whether it's his cabinet or his administration or the people that just work for him.
01:22:37.000And so I can see your dad from the angle I'm at.
01:22:57.000He's fighting with them about putting his shoes on.
01:23:01.000When I saw all of it, even when he came back up, I was like, I told him, like, I was like, that was the most badass thing I've ever seen.
01:23:07.000I'm not sure it's the smartest tactically because who knows if there's another shooter, but like he was not going to not get up there and show that level of resolve, which I think, you know, people now understand.
01:23:17.000And I think it was a big turning point in an election because they're like, you know what?
01:23:20.000I want that representing me, not word salad combala.
01:23:25.000It's important that you point that out because the next morning, your dad calls me at ODAR 30.
01:23:32.000And the first thing he says is, Selena, this is Donald Trump, President Donald Trump.
01:23:39.000I'm like, yeah, like I don't know it's you, right?
01:24:29.000We talked a lot about, you know, I suppose other journalists would have handled it in a different way, but he'd been through a traumatic experience.
01:24:38.000And I did too, not to the extent that he had, but certainly just being a witness to history, right?
01:25:04.000And that's why I said, I mean, when you look at all the shortcomings, I'm sure we'll get into that shortly with the failure, this, that.
01:25:10.000I mean, I don't believe in that much coincidence, but, you know, watching him go to a chart that he never has done before, all of those things happening in that instant.
01:25:19.000I remember when I was talking to him about it either the next day or whatever.
01:25:23.000And he was like, well, you know, 130 yards, pretty far shot.
01:25:25.000I'm like, no, I mean, I came from a competitive, you know, shooting background and everything.
01:25:29.000I was like, no, that's like missing a, you know, quite literally a 100-yard shot prone from a roof for 10 minutes.
01:25:36.000It's like, that'd be like missing a, you know, a six-inch putt, you know, on someone's head.
01:25:41.000And he's like, I was like, yeah, dad, it's not golf where, you know, if you get it within 10 feet of the hole, it's a, you know, it's a great shot from 100 yards.
01:25:54.000He, Don, this is, this was the part that I think is the most important part, not just in terms of his character and understanding the moment, but also redefining American politics and the coalition that has formed around him.
01:26:14.000Because I said to him, Why did you say fight, fight, fight?
01:27:17.000And as that, as that, in that moment, I'm not representing me.
01:27:23.000I'm representing what America stands for.
01:27:26.000Yeah, you know, it's interesting you say that because I had two people, because obviously that was right before the RNC.
01:27:33.000You know, basically that was Saturday, I think Sunday night we went to the RNC or Monday morning, we went to the RNC and we were there for a week.
01:27:41.000And two separate people came up to me at the RNC and told me this thing that you're sort of saying as well.
01:27:48.000And I didn't even realize if he was conscious of it or not.
01:27:51.000But he goes, your dad saved a lot of lives that day.
01:29:12.000And the Secret Service took me to the back of the stage where the click room was.
01:29:18.000I think because of that sort of iconic photo of me with that cowboy boots on and Picard on top of me, I think they thought I had been injured and I didn't know that, which is possible.
01:29:29.000There are people that get hurt and they don't know it because the adrenaline.
01:30:26.000And obviously, that's not a story the media is ever going to tell because they want to vilify every Trump supporter and every sort of America first patriot and all that.
01:30:40.000If someone's phone wasn't working, they were calling loved ones for them to let them know they're okay.
01:30:45.000And we were down there for another hour.
01:30:47.000So that was a total of two hours that they were down there.
01:30:49.000It was the most beautiful thing that I saw.
01:30:52.000And I remember thinking, and I wrote this in the book, they disparage these people so much, bitter clingers, Bible holders, you know, clinging to a past life, angry, resentful, deplorable, garbage, right?
01:31:25.000There's no benefit for them to behave in a certain way.
01:31:29.000And I really thought that your dad, because he did that, not just in that field, but also in the rafters, but also across the country, could have been incredibly different.
01:31:43.000That moment changed American politics.
01:31:47.000There are two moments in the past year and a half that changed American politics that I think people just haven't understood the depth of it.
01:31:55.000One of it, one of them was when he went to East Palestine with JD.
01:32:51.000But your dad, that moment changed because in that February of 2023, your dad was probably at the lowest point in terms of polling with DeSantis, right?
01:33:04.000And he was down, the New Hampshire poll had just come out a couple of days beforehand, and he was down to DeSantis.
01:35:57.000Every single American should take a long, hard look at the twisted soul and dark spirit of anyone who would want to kill a young man as good as Charlie, to kill anybody, but to kill a man like this.
01:36:15.000And anyone who would make excuses for it are just out of their mind.
01:36:23.000Charlie's murder was not just an attack on one man or one movement.
01:36:28.000It was an attack on our entire nation.
01:36:32.000That was a horrible attack on the United States of America.
01:36:37.000It was an assault on our most sacred liberties and God-given rights.
01:36:40.000The gun was pointed at him, but the bullet was aimed at all of us.
01:36:45.000That bullet was aimed at every one of us.
01:36:48.000Indeed, Charlie was killed for expressing the very ideas that virtually everyone in this arena and most other places throughout our country deeply believed in.
01:36:59.000But the assassin failed in his quest because Charlie's message has not been silenced.
01:37:04.000It now is bigger and better and stronger than ever before.
01:37:13.000This isn't just about singing kumbaya.
01:37:16.000It's about understanding the moment that we're in and understanding what exactly we are up against because I think we've lost sight of that.
01:37:24.000That's why I probably got in trouble, probably by some people.
01:38:18.000Hello to our fearless president, Donald J. Trump.
01:38:26.000And hello to millions of Americans all across this land who are gathered in sadness and sorrow to mourn Charlie Kirk, but also to dedicate ourselves to finishing his mission and achieving victory in his name.
01:38:58.000The day that Charlie died, the angels wept, but those tears had been turned into fire in our hearts.
01:39:11.000And that fire burns with a righteous fury that our enemies cannot comprehend or understand.
01:39:21.000When I see Erica and her strength and her courage, I'm reminded of a famous expression.
01:39:31.000The storm whispers to the warrior that you cannot withstand my strength.
01:39:40.000And the warrior whispers back, I am the storm.
01:40:20.000Erica stands on the shoulders of thousands of years of warriors, of women who raised up families, raised up city, raised up industry, raised up civilization, who pulled us out of the caves and the darkness into the light.
01:46:04.000And we have also, this may be one of the most proud stats when it comes to protecting our youth, especially online.
01:46:09.000Nihilistic violent extremist networks like 764, praying and mutilizing children and causing them to commit suicide online and things like animal crushing.
01:46:18.000Our arrest in that category is up 590%.
01:46:22.000These numbers are because the mission of this FBI is simply to get after people who are looking to destroy our way of life, harm our children, and destroy our youth.
01:46:32.000And the fact that President Trump came in and gave me one mandate, get out there and deliver accountability for the American people and make sure our neighbors are safe.
01:46:39.000These are just some of the numbers we're talking about.
01:46:41.000The murder rate, lowest ever in modern history, and the most violent offender arrests by 110%.
01:46:47.000I mean, people have to take a pause at those numbers.
01:46:49.000Those statistics don't just happen if we did one case.
01:46:53.000We are doing tens of thousands of cases across the country and around the world.
01:46:57.000Our espionage arrests, Don, those from Iran, Russia, China, and elsewhere looking to spy on us, we've arrested 40% more spies in the United States.
01:47:07.000We're also taking on agro-terrorists who are importing seeds into this country in funguses and pretending to be researchers at places like the University of Michigan and looking to steal our agricultural seed so that they can supplant that and go overseas and take it away from us.
01:47:24.000We are on a full-scale mission to protect the American public, and we're going to finish this December strong.
01:47:29.000We've already operated Operation Summer Heat to historic results, safeguarding cities like Memphis, which was an FBI-led effort to get out there and absolutely crush violent crime.
01:47:39.000And we're never going to stop defending the homeland.
01:47:40.000So these statistics, Don, while we can rattle them off, that is nine months of putting foot to ass and crushing it for the American public.
01:47:48.000By the way, it's actually a really big deal.
01:47:50.000And I sort of do this for a living at this point.
01:47:52.000And I didn't know half of those things.
01:47:55.000I think there's definitely things that people want action on, especially the online cadres.
01:48:02.000But I think, just honestly, in hearing that right now, because God knows I'm one of those people for a lot of these things.
01:48:08.000But in hearing all of those things and not knowing about it, that's actually amazing.
01:48:14.000I think we all probably have to do a better job of highlighting some of those things because that's ultra critical for Americans.
01:48:20.000That doesn't mean we stop wanting some of those other things, but I think we can't let some of the noise of all of that essentially discredit that work.
01:48:27.000Because like I said, I do this every day.
01:48:59.000But those other stats on a day-to-day basis are such a huge deal.
01:49:04.000And again, I don't know that anyone actually knows about it.
01:49:06.000So I think we collectively have to highlight those things because it's easy to sort of say, well, I want this, this, and this, but not know that that's actually going on.
01:49:14.000Again, I do it for a living and I'm shocked that I didn't know it.
01:49:17.000And so, you know, for those who get frustrated online, I think, you know, I may get it, but like, I think you also have to give credit where credit is due on those other things because those stats, not just the numbers, but the improvement in the percentages relative to your predecessors is a really big deal.
01:49:33.000And that doesn't mean we're taking our eye off the ball.
01:49:35.000Look, you're talking to the guy who was the chief investigator for RussiaGate, the ultimate weaponization of our law enforcement in the United States history.
01:50:27.000Our partners at the Department of Justice are not standing down and bending the knee.
01:50:31.000You're going to see, in my opinion, more investigative work continue to lead to more prosecutions because in order to end the weaponization of justice, there has to be full accountability, not just with transparency, but also with people being held to justice in a court of law.
01:50:44.000And we're going to continue to do that.
01:50:46.000Look, they built this disease temple over the course of decades.
01:50:50.000And in 10 months, we've already taken a sledgehammer to it.
01:51:06.000But I want the American public to know we keep speaking in court when we can.
01:51:09.000We're going to continue to show up to court.
01:51:11.000And we're going to continue to make people like Comey and Brennan and Clapper and Page and Strzok and so many others answer for what I believe are their acts of criminal conduct because that's exactly what they did when they weaponized law enforcement, went overseas, borrowed information from some hack in England about Russia, infiltrated our FISA court, lied to a federal officer, and illegally surveilled your father during a presidential candidacy.
01:51:43.000Again, the media is never going to talk about it, but I mean, you know, talk about a threat to democracy.
01:51:49.000Can you talk generally about the process of conducting investigations?
01:51:52.000Again, whether it be the pipe bomb or Arctic Frost or any of these others that are, you know, all crazy.
01:51:58.000You know, all of this does take time, especially when there's documents literally being found in burn bags in random places hidden inside the FBI headquarters.
01:52:07.000I mean, how shocking is it to know that under Comey Ray, there seemed to be a deliberate effort to hide the truth?
01:52:19.000These people thought that we would never look or find these materials because they had it set for destruction or they put it away in some vault.
01:52:25.000Remember, the Arctic Frost case, where they also targeted not just senators, but staffers, including myself, when I was done being a staffer and on the campaign trail for President Trump, they decided, hey, let's go target him.
01:52:37.000Remember, they put my name in the search warrant, the bogus search warrant for Mar-a-Lago.
01:52:40.000Nobody else's name, mine in that WhatsApp search warrant that the judge signed literally over WhatsApp to unlawfully raid your father's house in South Florida.
01:52:48.000We are the ones uncovering those documents.
01:54:30.000And so like now my journalism is creating change, which is really cool.
01:54:34.000And I think I'm in my like acquiring knowledge phase in life where I'm just taking in everything, whether it's going into the White House and doing a roundtable and meeting and listening to what the president had to say, or if it's talking to some homeless person on the street about the addictions of fentanyl, is eventually just to use all that knowledge to then be able to form my opinions.
01:54:55.000And I'm not trying to push my opinions on people right now.
01:54:58.000And I'm just more show more so just showing them things for what they are.
01:55:02.000But eventually I'd like to maybe create a change or get into politics because I can't be on the streets forever.
01:55:30.000You're forcing them, even if they're sort of begrudgingly doing it, you're forcing the mainstream media to talk about this because it's too big a story to totally ignore.
01:55:38.000They'd lose what's left of their already waning credibility.
01:55:42.000But how have you noticed the media changing because of sort of independent journalists like yourselves actually being the people that are breaking real stories when it you know it used to be the legacy media that they were supposed to be doing it?
01:55:56.000Yeah, it's always funny to me like when I go to events and I see somebody with some press badge and they got this huge camera, this massive backpack, and then there's just me with my camera.
01:56:05.000And I usually either have like my mom filming it or my cousin or my friend.
01:56:09.000And I end up like doubling them or tripling them in views because it's more authentic and real versus somebody who has to then send that video to somebody, then they send it to somebody, then they approve it and then they post it.
01:56:20.000And so you're seeing people like we're done with the BS.
01:56:24.000Like nobody, like nobody wants some twisted narrative on things.
01:56:28.000I just watched someone 60 minutes go to Sekot, which I did a year ago, first ever American to go inside of Sekot.
01:56:35.000And then they're using my video and then they're talking about how unjust it is for these prisoners to be inside of solitary confinement.
01:56:45.000Meanwhile, those people are literally what killed the what killed an innocent life.
01:56:51.000And it's a white liberal telling people like, oh, this is unjust, unhumane, that they're putting prisoners inside or gangsters inside of a prison who literally killed people.
01:57:00.000And so people don't care about that anymore.
01:57:02.000It's like the Cindy Sweeney interview.
01:57:03.000Like we're all just like, no, like that's not how it is.
01:57:33.000I think we could all probably agree on that.
01:57:35.000Except for in 2425, because if it's, you know, fraud that, you know, somehow, you know, lets their TDS, their Trump derangement syndrome kick in, then I guess that kind of fraud is good or the usual, like, well, it's not really happening.
01:57:47.000It's happening, but it's not really bad.
01:57:57.000The chain of progression is always the same.
01:57:59.000It's amazing what President Trump has done because it's like he's this person who has became so polarizing to the point where even if something makes perfect sense, they won't rationalize it.
01:58:10.000Like, maybe don't take Tylenol when you're pregnant.
01:58:12.000Oh, I'm going to start taking Tylenol when I'm pregnant.
01:58:15.000Like, your dad is such a savage in that aspect of the, that he's literally became a figure to where even if he does say the most common sense thing, people will then not believe it.
01:58:44.000So I think we're all hoping that these people will be like, can you imagine if Tim Waltz gets put in jail, right?
01:58:52.000Well, I heard there were whistleblowers, at least on the food program fraud, where there were whistleblowers, and he was like, he basically threatened them.
01:59:01.000They lost accountability for pointing out what was then perhaps the largest fraud scheme in America going back years.
01:59:08.000I mean, I remember a time when whistleblowers were beyond reproach and they could do anything right as long as they were whistleblowers against Trump.
01:59:14.000Now, they turned out to all be liars and hucksters.
01:59:17.000We figured that out after years of investigation, they spent $50 million on Russia, Russia, Russia.
01:59:22.000It seems like accountability means two different things depending on who's the one that's actually committing the crimes.
01:59:30.000So I think the accountability we want to see happen with this is we do want to see people actually be held criminally for what they've committed.
01:59:38.000If you stole $10 million, you'd be in jail.
01:59:40.000If I stole $10 million, I'd be in jail.
01:59:42.000So therefore, if Tim Waltz is accountable for, let's just say, even a million dollars of this fraud, whether he has to spend 10 days in a prison cell or however many years a judge finds him guilty for, that's what he should have to do.
01:59:56.000And same with all the other fraudsters and all the other corrupt politicians who allowed this to happen.
02:00:03.000And this is such a pivotal moment for the current administration to make, to really show like, okay, we're holding people accountable for what they've done.
02:00:12.000Yeah, like I saw Cash put out a thing on it.
02:00:14.000They've been looking into this for months.
02:00:16.000And I guess the thing is this, it's not just the people at the daycare centers or the people taking that check.
02:00:23.000I mean, this is complicated stuff to track down because you really can't just take out the one daycare center or the 50 or the 100 that are there.
02:00:30.000You got to see where all this other stuff is going so you can uncover what is probably a much larger corruption case than even what you've discovered, which is, again, billions of dollars in my opinion, probably at least.
02:00:42.000But it seems like it's going so much further than that.
02:00:45.000And it all probably ties back to some sort of Democrat fundraising apparatus where these businesses are then making sure that they're electing the people and the Democrats so they can keep perpetuating these fraudulent policies.
02:00:56.000And it's just a never-ending vicious cycle.
02:00:59.000Yeah, it is a never-ending vicious cycle.
02:01:02.000But I think if they do go after the person who's most accountable for this and who has even said that organized crime, he's even admitted to organized crime.
02:01:12.000So he's known about this fraud for a long time.
02:01:15.000So if they go after him and then continue to go after everybody else, then you'll see massive change and you'll see real accounting be held.
02:02:01.000So, Nick, you know, thank you for all that you're doing, man.
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