Triggered - Donald Trump Jr - Biden Moves US Closer to a Military Draft, Ric Grenell Explains Why, Plus the Jack Smith Scandal You Haven’t Heard About | TRIGGERED Ep.133

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00:06:27.000 Now, every day I wake up and I wonder whether or not I'm living The Truman Show.

00:06:31.000 You know, the Jim Carrey movie where they're filming his life, every aspect of it, and he doesn't know it's happening so that they can create all sorts of crazy stuff.

00:06:40.000 The world is burning under Joe Biden and Democrat leadership.

00:06:44.000 Our border is wide open.

00:06:45.000 Ukraine is getting whatever money this country has left.

00:06:49.000 We're mortgaging our children's future to protect one of the most corrupt countries in the history of the world.

00:06:55.000 We have pro-Hamas demonstrators setting up camps on college campus across the country, not just protesting for the peaceful existence of a Palestinian people, but literally cheering on a terror group.

00:07:07.000 that murdered and raped people in the streets of Israel in early October.

00:07:13.000 And we have a Roomba wandering around the White House, falling down the stairs of Air Force One, making every mistake imaginable, and he's now wearing special sneakers so he doesn't fall even more often.

00:07:30.000 Our country is becoming a punchline.

00:07:31.000 It's a joke.

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00:07:34.000 You see, Italian television and so many other countries just openly mocking the incompetence that is exuded from the White House.

00:07:43.000 So who better to try to make sense of all of the insanity than former Acting Director of National Intelligence and the founder of Fix California, Rick Grenell.

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00:11:30.000 Well, guys, joining me now, former acting director of National Intelligence, founder of Fix California, the one and only Rick Grinnell.

00:11:39.000 Rick, good to have you here, buddy.

00:11:40.000 Nice to see you in pink, Don.

00:11:42.000 Yeah, I was going to say, we were joking off camera before we started.

00:11:45.000 I was like, this feels like a little bit of a role reversal.

00:11:47.000 You're wearing camo and I'm wearing pink.

00:11:49.000 You know, I don't know.

00:11:50.000 I mean, it's fine.

00:11:51.000 It's fine.

00:11:52.000 Listen, I know you personally, and I know that you're very comfortable wearing pink.

00:11:56.000 Yeah, and I'm comfortable with my gay friends.

00:11:59.000 We were also joking about this.

00:12:00.000 It feels like saying gay is making a comeback.

00:12:04.000 Not in a sexual way, but there's a couple of words that felt like they were cancelable offenses. 0.96

00:12:09.000 You couldn't say gay, you couldn't say retarded.

00:12:12.000 It felt like for me growing up, either one of those, those two words combined probably made up 50% of the words that came out of my mouth.

00:12:21.000 Early high school through college.

00:12:22.000 Maybe a little bit further.

00:12:24.000 Then they went like full cancelable and now... Maybe the pendulum overcorrected too far in terms of PC.

00:12:30.000 Yeah, look, you know, my attitude on all this stuff is like, you know someone's heart and you know what they mean.

00:12:37.000 You know, you can't go off and just get offended by every little thing.

00:12:41.000 I mean, a lot of times, you know people who are super comfortable and totally for equality.

00:12:49.000 And so you want them to be real.

00:12:51.000 You want them to kind of talk like a normal person.

00:12:54.000 And use humor.

00:12:56.000 I mean, look, I think the biggest thing that we've lost through this whole thing is humor.

00:13:00.000 There are some really funny jokes about religion, sexuality.

00:13:06.000 I mean, there's a whole bunch of things that we used to... My dad, who is like one of the holiest people that I knew before he passed away, he would tell, you know, funny religious jokes.

00:13:18.000 Yeah.

00:13:19.000 Yeah, and that was okay.

00:13:20.000 Yeah, of course.

00:13:21.000 And then it wasn't for what?

00:13:23.000 And that's right.

00:13:24.000 I sort of feel like maybe, you know, the ultimate proof of like, you know, not being homophobic is being able to have a gay friend like yourself and say these things totally comfortably.

00:13:33.000 Like it's, you know, it's not like, you know, it's when you are changing your vernacular or whatever it may be to accommodate for, you know, to perhaps not offend whatever, like if you have that worry, I mean, how good of friends could you actually be?

00:13:47.000 How comfortable could you actually be with that person?

00:13:49.000 It sort of feels like, you know, the most anti-racist thing in the world is having real friends that you could joke at any level with and be totally comfortable.

00:13:58.000 Well, you know, what you're hitting on is really people can sense authenticity.

00:14:03.000 They know when someone is being completely phony and pretending like they're offended or pretending like, you know, you shouldn't use that word because I never would use that word.

00:14:15.000 It's a microaggression.

00:14:17.000 Yeah, I mean, to me, that's where President Trump really took off, is just completely being authentic.

00:14:24.000 I know him personally as somebody who not only looks at me as completely 100% equal, but also completely 100% responsible for my actions, and he can hold me accountable.

00:14:39.000 He is somebody who doesn't try to take The rainbow table down the hallway and and make all policies go through that.

00:14:49.000 He looks at people individual.

00:14:51.000 Are you qualified?

00:14:53.000 It doesn't matter who you are, what color of skin you are, who you love.

00:14:57.000 He actually just treats you and holds you to a responsible level.

00:15:02.000 Regardless of who you are.

00:15:03.000 And so he can joke with me about it.

00:15:06.000 I got a zillion stories of the president joking with me about just how comfortable he is and how he loves the gay community and the votes from the gay community.

00:15:17.000 And how do we reach the gay community?

00:15:21.000 Yeah, because when he appointed you, you know, acting DNI, first you were ambassador to Germany, that was a big deal, but then you were at acting DNI, you know, the first gay man in that sort of level of power, and it was strange, like, you know, I saw no accolades from the media touting the fact that this was the first person, you know, of that sexuality to be put in this power.

00:15:42.000 I know, you know, our press secretary, she's the first black, gay, foreign-born lesbian, like, You know, that was a big deal. 0.86

00:15:49.000 I mean, frankly, that seemed to be her only qualifications because she's otherwise incompetent. 0.99

00:15:54.000 You got none of that.

00:15:54.000 You got no credit.

00:15:55.000 You know, you would have been the first maybe openly gay person in a cabinet, I think.

00:16:00.000 And, you know, they made a really big deal about Buttigieg, who you beat by, you know, a few years.

00:16:09.000 Look, I find it actually huge progress.

00:16:13.000 Now, the conservatives, I've watched how they've changed on gay issues.

00:16:19.000 And what I love about the way conservatives and Republicans treat gay people is because they really, at this point, There's no debate about equality.

00:16:30.000 There's debate about responsibility.

00:16:32.000 Are you going to be a responsible member?

00:16:33.000 Are you going to seek to make our community better?

00:16:36.000 Are you part of the group of Americans that are loving this country, feeling responsible for making sure and protecting that it Making sure that it grows and that we protect everybody.

00:16:52.000 What I love about that growth is that we started, there's no question the Republican Party started in a terrible place.

00:16:59.000 1992 when I was at the convention in Houston.

00:17:02.000 It was nightmarish to hear the language.

00:17:05.000 But we have completely grown and now, I really believe that you can't be anti-gay in the Republican Party and not be run out of the party.

00:17:16.000 Yeah, there'll always be a troll or two, but I mean, you said this to me, and it actually struck home, because it's so interesting with what's going on right now. 0.99

00:17:24.000 You said this to me, you know, years ago, and it was like, hey man, there's no one tougher than a gay Republican, because we went through some shit. 0.99

00:17:31.000 And I was like, you know what? 0.99

00:17:32.000 That's actually a really good point.

00:17:34.000 And now though, you've broken through that.

00:17:37.000 It does feel, like I said, of course there's going to be trolls here and there.

00:17:39.000 There's always, you know, there's always something like that.

00:17:42.000 But like, you know, I've been all across the country and no one cares.

00:17:44.000 I mean, you're a hero in the America First movement.

00:17:47.000 You know, you're one of those guys that people list in the top five of like, who do I think represents us best?

00:17:51.000 And it's not like you're hiding this stuff.

00:17:53.000 So, you know, I think that's pretty incredible progress.

00:17:56.000 Well, thank you.

00:17:58.000 But two points on that is that You know, gay conservatives really believe, and I would say log cabin Republicans, really believe wholeheartedly that government needs to be smaller and that its power needs to be limited because, frankly, we're on the front lines of realizing we're not going to get all these benefits if you're trying to, you know, appease all these groups. 0.89

00:18:20.000 The gay conservatives are going to be the last ones to get anything. 0.92

00:18:24.000 Yeah, you get nothing. 0.99

00:18:26.000 The trainees will get everything.

00:18:27.000 I think we can say that too now.

00:18:28.000 But like, Because I do want to hear your thoughts on that because that's sort of like, that's like one of those like, it's not about equality, it's actually going so much more.

00:18:35.000 They don't want equality, they want much more than equality.

00:18:38.000 They want special treatment.

00:18:39.000 They want special treatment and they want others hindered so that they get even more special treatment and, you know, I'm sort of curious how that jives.

00:18:46.000 You know, in the gay community in general, not even with the conservative gay community, because I probably, you know, I imagine they sort of feel like I do about it, but, you know, within the gay community as a whole, you know, what's going on there, because it feels like that movement has sort of been usurped by the QTIA++++, you know, it just goes on, you know, to infinity. 0.63

00:19:08.000 And yet it does feel like it's at odds with so much of what the, you know, LGB maybe, you know, had accomplished.

00:19:17.000 We don't even understand the Bs.

00:19:18.000 So what I don't understand about the bees is that that isn't that an admission that there's two

00:19:26.000 genders if it's a bi? I'm not sure why they may be okay with it but that that's sort of yeah I mean 1.00

00:19:32.000 yes that that's definitely a component. I think they're ready to kick the the bis out as well. 0.80

00:19:36.000 But look, one thing I want to say before I go into that answer is that it's really important for people to understand is that the growth of the Republican Party has been enormous. 0.53

00:19:45.000 Donald Trump has blown the doors off this process to really welcome gay conservatives in.

00:19:51.000 But the gay left does not want to make progress on this. 0.94

00:19:55.000 The gay left exists to make sure that gays and lesbians think that this is a terrible country to live in, that we're oppressed. 0.89

00:20:03.000 And what we're left to argue is we've largely achieved equality in this country. 0.92

00:20:09.000 We need to recognize that there are 69 countries around the world that will criminalize you for being gay. 0.99

00:20:15.000 And you even go to the point of nine countries will kill you for being gay. 0.96

00:20:20.000 I just saw that Iraq, we've spent trillions of dollars of blood, sweat and tears to try to move Iraq forward. 0.86

00:20:29.000 And guess what they just did under the Biden administration?

00:20:32.000 They just criminalized homosexuality.

00:20:35.000 They went backwards. 0.98

00:20:37.000 We were making progress because we were holding people to a standard that just simply said, don't criminalize it, don't put people in jail, don't kill gay people.

00:20:46.000 Well, it doesn't seem like a big ask, you know, in the civilized world, but you know, but But that's the problem, right?

00:20:52.000 Our elite, you know, the adults were back in charge and they're so pro-LGBT in the Biden administration and yet, you know, Anthony Blinken gets up there with a straight face after the disastrous withdrawal of Afghanistan and, you know, literally before Congress.

00:21:03.000 I say this all the time because it's so, like, mind-blowing to me that, like, the adults who are back in charge could be this incompetent.

00:21:10.000 He was, and I quote, shocked and dismayed that the Taliban, I mean, you know, the Taliban did not install a more Diverse and inclusive government.

00:21:18.000 Was there going to be a little trans-Taliban coalition?

00:21:20.000 They threw them off buildings last week, but now they have a seat at the table.

00:21:25.000 Is it just about optics and just saying it and they get the full credit?

00:21:29.000 It's so far from reality.

00:21:33.000 It is about optics.

00:21:34.000 As soon as these university students in America realize that Hamas isn't for climate change, there's going to be a reckoning. 0.57

00:21:41.000 People are going to freak out.

00:21:42.000 But they are, but I mean, there's Gaze for Palestine, right? 1.00

00:21:44.000 I mean, I'm seeing, I'm like, wait, you don't, I mean, you don't have to be, like, an avid follower of the news.

00:21:50.000 You don't have to wake up like me and, like, scroll truth on Twitter to see what's going on in the world for hours on end, and then rant about it at night on your own podcast.

00:21:57.000 Like, you have to be able to, like, open a newspaper.

00:22:01.000 Like, it's this daily stuff that's happening.

00:22:03.000 I mean, they do this, and then one of the, you know, one of the activists over there that is Gaze, you know, literally murdered for it, and it's like, no, it's different.

00:22:10.000 It's like, Well, I think what we have to start with is that, you know, I've become an expert on the gay left and what their motives are, and their motives are money and jobs. 1.00

00:22:21.000 They really are not concerned about the issue, because if they were concerned about the issue, they would declare victory and pack up and move on to something else, like international issues or something, where gays and lesbians literally are being criminalized.

00:22:36.000 But they don't.

00:22:37.000 They continue raising a lot of money from corporate America, which is one of the things that I'm going after, is to remind corporations that when you give to the gay left, you're giving to a partisan organization who want, they collectively want, There to be conflict on this issue. 0.86

00:22:54.000 They don't want progress.

00:22:55.000 They want jobs and they want money because they have big mortgages back in Washington, D.C.

00:22:59.000 for their buildings.

00:23:01.000 That's just the fact.

00:23:02.000 And let's take the issue of trans because you asked about it.

00:23:07.000 There's a very common-sense solution on the trans issue, but the gay left is absolutely against this because then it takes the issue away and they can't raise money off it. 0.87

00:23:17.000 But here's the common-sense solution.

00:23:19.000 Log Cabin Republicans are at the forefront of this solution, which is if you're under the age of 18, We don't let you put tattoos on your body.

00:23:30.000 We don't let you put alcohol.

00:23:32.000 You're not allowed to buy cigarettes.

00:23:34.000 There's a whole bunch of things that we say you are not yet equipped to be able to make life altering decisions.

00:23:42.000 And I would say We could have a debate on whether or not 18 is even the appropriate age.

00:23:47.000 But society has said it's 18.

00:23:49.000 If you can go to war, you can make other decisions.

00:23:53.000 Even if you're signing up for a $500,000 college loan, you're not capable of that.

00:23:59.000 You're not capable of paying that back.

00:24:00.000 You had no idea that your gender studies degree wasn't going to pay out.

00:24:03.000 Shockingly.

00:24:04.000 I mean, I don't know how that happens.

00:24:05.000 But yes, at three, you could decide to change your gender permanently and be on life-altering drugs for eternity. 0.92

00:24:10.000 Yeah, and look, what log cabin gay conservatives say is that's not right. 0.65

00:24:14.000 We should protect kids under the age of 18.

00:24:17.000 No one should be able to get life altering drugs into their body like that, or surgeries or make any permanent decisions like that.

00:24:25.000 That is an absolute protect kids protect Bathroom spaces. 1.00

00:24:31.000 What we have to be able to do is if you're under the age of 18, protect kids, even when they and their parents say, no, this child is ready to go forward and change their gender.

00:24:42.000 I don't believe that the child has the wherewithal to stand up to a parent.

00:24:46.000 I think the parent is pushing the child into this situation.

00:24:52.000 There's a reason every other family out of Hollywood has a trans baby. 1.00

00:24:58.000 You know, no, but math and statistics don't work.

00:25:00.000 Like, just, you're artsy, therefore you passed on a trans gene. 0.87

00:25:03.000 Like, no way.

00:25:05.000 It's a Lambo. 0.98

00:25:05.000 It's like having a Lambo in Miami, you know what I mean? 0.98

00:25:08.000 It's a Birkin bag.

00:25:09.000 It's a status symbol in Hollywood to have a trans bag.

00:25:12.000 If you have trans like twins or like two of them, it's like, ooh, it's even better. 1.00

00:25:14.000 It's like, it's- It's clearly out of control.

00:25:17.000 And so what we want to say is, if you're under the age of 18, protect the kids.

00:25:21.000 But at the same time, Don, the same messaging We have to be able to say, if you're over the age of 18, go knock yourself out. 0.61

00:25:30.000 Be whoever you want.

00:25:31.000 Well, I got in trouble with this during the primary, right?

00:25:33.000 Because everyone will find outrage, they're being paid by another campaign, and I go, you know, sort of jokingly, I said it on the show, I go, hey, listen, I'm pretty liberal on the issue, I guess.

00:25:40.000 Like, if you're 18, you know, whatever legal age we come up with, like, hey, have at it.

00:25:45.000 I don't want to pay for it.

00:25:47.000 I don't want to hear about it ad nauseum.

00:25:49.000 And, you know, stay the hell away from my kids. 0.66

00:25:53.000 Like, I don't know, as a conservative, if we're trying to keep government and all these rules out of your lives, let people make decisions, that's fine.

00:26:00.000 Again, I don't want to have to pay for it.

00:26:03.000 You see that.

00:26:03.000 I saw an article on Wikipedia.

00:26:05.000 The trans community makes up a very disproportional portion of the military relative to their per capita, you know, thing in society.

00:26:11.000 I'm like, yeah, because our military is now paying for sex change operations, and then once you're on the drugs after the sex change operations, you're not allowed to be on the front lines.

00:26:20.000 So we've created a system that has scared away anyone who'd actually want to be in the military that would actually fight well, and basically given out free sex change operations where there's no risk of actually having to be on the front line.

00:26:30.000 You just be like, hey, I took care of this.

00:26:32.000 And they're doing it like, They're the greatest patriots in the economy. 1.00

00:26:35.000 I'm like, no, they're gaming a system designed by morons. 1.00

00:26:38.000 Like, of course they are. 1.00

00:26:39.000 Yeah, look, my position is protect the kids under 18. 0.63

00:26:43.000 Over 18, be able to do what you want. 0.53

00:26:45.000 But that means responsibility.

00:26:47.000 If you're going to go through a gender reassignment after the age of 18, and you are going to decide that this is what's best for you, I actually think that you've got to figure out how to go through that without asking the public to pay for it. 0.62

00:27:06.000 I just don't believe that you have the luxury of saying, I'm going to make this decision, I'm going to make the public pay for it.

00:27:15.000 These are controversial decisions.

00:27:18.000 These are individual decisions.

00:27:20.000 I know they're very difficult for adults.

00:27:22.000 And I'm not judging any adult who makes that decision.

00:27:26.000 I think if you want to get a tattoo on your face, You get to have a tattoo on your face.

00:27:30.000 There's consequences to your actions, but yeah.

00:27:33.000 You as an adult, that's where I come in as a libertarian and I'm like, you know what?

00:27:36.000 Knock yourself out.

00:27:37.000 Be whoever you want to be as long as you're happy.

00:27:40.000 As long as you're also not taking away someone else's rights or demanding that they pay for your activity.

00:27:48.000 And that's where I think we've got to have a better conversation, even about drug use.

00:27:55.000 This is a whole controversial of how do you get people off drugs?

00:27:58.000 Do you have to give them a little bit of drugs to wean them off? 1.00

00:28:01.000 Do you do it cold turkey?

00:28:02.000 Do you throw them in prison?

00:28:03.000 I don't really think that there's one answer.

00:28:05.000 I think everybody responds differently.

00:28:08.000 But I do know this, because I was raised evangelical, that the spiritual side of a lot of these issues are very real.

00:28:17.000 And I think that if you can bring in the private sector that is really good, the religious community, really good at giving compassion.

00:28:29.000 Government doesn't give compassion.

00:28:30.000 Individuals give compassion.

00:28:32.000 And I think it's really important to bring in the religious community into this conversation as well.

00:28:37.000 Yeah, it's actually interesting.

00:28:38.000 I mean, I think there's also probably conversations about, you know, levels.

00:28:40.000 You see these guys, they keep the, you know, the male body parts, they're female, and it's like, well, I committed a crime, so I'm trans, and I'm in a female prison, and they seem to be having a great time impregnating the rest of the inmate population. 0.73

00:28:52.000 It's sort of lunacy.

00:28:53.000 I almost like, hey, if you're gonna do this, you're gonna get that credit.

00:28:56.000 Like, you have to fully commit?

00:28:57.000 Like, what's the... Yeah, you know, there's a great study... You can't really have your cake and eat it, too, here, boys, girls, whatever, you know, Zimzer, like, whatever you are, right? 0.71

00:29:06.000 It's...

00:29:07.000 There's a really good study from the Independent Women's Forum.

00:29:09.000 You should have one of the experts on your show because they went into the prison population and they looked at this issue in detail and there's amazing stories that really show the problem and they have been leading the way on figuring out within the prison population how it's being manipulated with gender ideology.

00:29:29.000 It's a real serious problem.

00:29:31.000 I'll definitely check that out.

00:29:31.000 If you have any recommendations, shoot me a text offline because I'd be curious about it.

00:29:35.000 It is fascinating to see how, again, this population of society that's, what, 0.02%?

00:29:40.000 Less than a percent in terms of real.

00:29:46.000 The lobbying power that they have, it feels like they're the only group in society that's like totally like, you can't, oh, you can't mess with them.

00:29:52.000 They're trans.

00:29:52.000 It's like totally beyond reproach.

00:29:55.000 You know, totally off limits to mess with anything.

00:29:57.000 And so it's sort of a fascinating one.

00:29:59.000 But yeah, I'll have to do that more offline.

00:30:00.000 This is because this was totally off track of where I wanted to talk with you, but given everything else that's going on, because obviously, you know, you're from California.

00:30:08.000 Uh, there's new data out that actually showing really big increases in the number of registered Republicans.

00:30:15.000 Uh, this is directly because of your efforts in California with, like, Fix California, people understanding what's going on, people with, you know, believing their lying eyes.

00:30:23.000 It's, like, shocking.

00:30:23.000 It's like, oh wow, the crime has gone up when we've done ridiculous, you know, California Democrat things.

00:30:28.000 You know, what are the latest numbers?

00:30:31.000 What have you been doing in the ground out West?

00:30:32.000 How does that look?

00:30:33.000 How's that transformation happening?

00:30:35.000 And what do you think it really effectuates?

00:30:36.000 I mean, for me, I love seeing it because maybe it means house seats or, you know, state rep type stuff.

00:30:42.000 What do you see on the ground?

00:30:43.000 I don't know that you're going to win California in the presidential, but like... I think if you give us five or six years, we're on our way.

00:30:50.000 About three years ago, I decided to do something about it.

00:30:52.000 And it's a very unsexy campaign.

00:30:55.000 People can go to FixCalifornia.com or FixCalifornia.org.

00:30:59.000 We are spending $50,000 a month right now to register conservatives who are sitting on the sidelines.

00:31:09.000 So we found, and we have a database of 1.4 million Unregistered Californians who we know are conservatives and who were just trying to convert.

00:31:21.000 So we're spending this money and we're doing a really good job.

00:31:24.000 President Trump, your dad has really believed in this and has helped us raise money for this effort in California.

00:31:31.000 The way that I like to say it to people is imagine, you know, 15 years ago, Florida was a purple state.

00:31:38.000 And you ask yourself, what happened?

00:31:40.000 Why did they go completely into the red?

00:31:43.000 And the answer is because a few people got together and started doing digital registration.

00:31:49.000 It's not the old way of doing registration with a clipboard in front of the grocery store.

00:31:53.000 It's literally finding digital footprints.

00:31:56.000 And we in California hired a firm out of Florida who knows how to do this.

00:32:01.000 They have been doing it in Florida and now they're doing it for us in California.

00:32:06.000 We've been doing it for three years.

00:32:08.000 I will say this because you've got a lot of gun owners that watch your podcast.

00:32:13.000 If you're in California and you're a gun owner, You probably aren't registered to vote.

00:32:17.000 And we really need to start pounding that.

00:32:19.000 One of the reasons that gun owners don't like to register to vote is they don't want to give a blue state management system like Gavin Newsom.

00:32:28.000 their information.

00:32:30.000 But we are finding ways to protect your information.

00:32:34.000 We're holding local governments to account.

00:32:37.000 And we think that it's very important that gun owners register to vote, get involved, especially in California.

00:32:43.000 We're telling people on the sidelines, we are making a huge difference.

00:32:46.000 We just had a month for the first time in about 15 years, where more Republicans registered to vote in California counties than Democrats.

00:32:57.000 Yeah, and that's such a big deal, right?

00:32:59.000 It may not matter for the presidential yet.

00:33:00.000 We've got a long way to go, though.

00:33:01.000 But, yeah, but imagine flipping a couple school board seats and, like, not having the indoctrination of your children or, you know, the other stuff we're talking about.

00:33:09.000 Yeah, sure, your rainbow-haired teacher says you're trans.

00:33:12.000 I'm three, I'm gonna listen to my teacher, I must be trans.

00:33:14.000 Like, you know, imagine what you could do at that level.

00:33:17.000 So, you know, it's funny, when you look at California, it's like some of the most conservative people I know actually live in California.

00:33:21.000 I think as a population, it's like the second largest conservative state in the country. 0.95

00:33:26.000 It's just, you know, you got a lot of lunatics on the coast.

00:33:29.000 But, you know, you go about a mile inland and it's basically, you know, ag land, it's farmland, it's everything that you, and it's, you know, rodeo.

00:33:37.000 And like, wait a minute, I'm like, how is it possible?

00:33:39.000 And yet... Let me give you this stat.

00:33:43.000 The way to flip California is through Los Angeles.

00:33:46.000 Los Angeles County is the largest county in America by almost double.

00:33:51.000 It's by far the biggest behemoth county.

00:33:54.000 All you have to do is flip Los Angeles County And then you flip California and you flip the entire presidential state.

00:34:02.000 How do you flip Los Angeles?

00:34:03.000 Presidential race.

00:34:04.000 Is that just an example of statistics?

00:34:09.000 What we're doing is we're digging deep and finding all of those conservatives for the last 15 years that gave up on Los Angeles and gave up on voting.

00:34:17.000 We have a whole bunch of people sitting on the sidelines.

00:34:20.000 Remember, Don, only about 50% roughly, and the numbers are a little bit rough, But roughly 50% of society is even registered to vote, and then only roughly 40% of people registered are actually voting.

00:34:35.000 So we've got massive amounts, more people on the sidelines, watching the process.

00:34:40.000 And what I'm saying up and down the coast in California, and I don't get paid to do this, I do this out of my own pocketbook, But I travel the state telling people we cannot be an ATM for the rest of the country.

00:34:53.000 We've got to care about Sacramento.

00:34:54.000 We've got to care about City Council in Los Angeles.

00:34:57.000 We've got to care about our local communities.

00:35:00.000 And so we are.

00:35:01.000 We're making a big difference.

00:35:02.000 I stepped out and I endorsed about six people Look, it's going to take four, five, six years.

00:35:09.000 We didn't get here overnight.

00:35:11.000 We're giving them money.

00:35:12.000 We're giving them a lot of support.

00:35:15.000 I'm hoping that they all win and we can send in a group into Sacramento

00:35:19.000 and begin to change it.

00:35:20.000 Look, it's gonna take four, five, six years.

00:35:22.000 If we didn't get here overnight, we're not gonna change it overnight.

00:35:26.000 So I wanna touch base on a kind of a big story that has gotten almost no coverage

00:35:30.000 as it involves and surrounds Jack Smith, who's trying to put my father in jail

00:35:34.000 for the rest of his life, effectively plus about, I don't know, 650 other years

00:35:38.000 and maybe the death penalty.

00:35:40.000 And his actions overseas in Kosovo relating to allegations of massive foreign bribery.

00:35:47.000 You know, I know you know the region well.

00:35:49.000 You were our ambassador to Germany.

00:35:51.000 You worked at the UN, you know, prior to all of this.

00:35:54.000 You know, so you understand the dynamic that, you know, of course our MSM isn't going to tell us anything about.

00:36:00.000 What can you tell us about what's going on with all of this?

00:36:03.000 Look, I've tried to share this far and wide and literally we can't get the legacy media in America to pick it up.

00:36:09.000 But the president of Kosovo, his name at the time was, his name is Hashim Thaci.

00:36:16.000 President Fauci was a great man.

00:36:19.000 Joe Biden actually, many years ago, called President Fauci the George Washington of Kosovo.

00:36:26.000 So the George Washington of Kosovo was, 20 years after the war, indicted By the Hague and Jack Smith.

00:36:37.000 Remember, Jack Smith was at the Hague before he came back to Washington to take the job to go after President Trump.

00:36:44.000 He was living in Europe, a really cushy life at the Hague, and he was a prosecutor.

00:36:50.000 And his assignment was Kosovo, Serbia, and all of the war criminals from basically 21 years ago. 0.56

00:37:00.000 And so We had a series of prosecutors who couldn't find anything on Hashim Thaci, who didn't indict him for decades.

00:37:10.000 And the previous prosecutor before Jack Smith actually gave up and said, you know, there's nothing here.

00:37:15.000 I'm closing up and I'm leaving.

00:37:18.000 And the Hague continued to spend American dollars.

00:37:22.000 American taxpayers are paying for this.

00:37:24.000 To continue spending another couple of years, Jack Smith, researching and trying to get to war criminals.

00:37:32.000 But it wasn't until I announced that Hašim Thaci, the president of Kosovo, and President Vučić, the president of Serbia, were coming to the Oval Office to meet with Donald Trump, because we were about to negotiate and sign a historic agreement between the two.

00:37:52.000 Right after I tipped off the Department of Justice and told them that we had agreed, the two parties, Kosovo and Serbia, had agreed to get rid of the Hague Tribunal Court.

00:38:06.000 This is the key.

00:38:07.000 I tipped off DOJ and said, just want you to know in the final agreement between Kosovo and Serbia, they've agreed to get rid of the Hague, which is Jack Smith's job.

00:38:17.000 They agreed to get rid of the criminal court, the international court at The Hague that Jack Smith was running.

00:38:26.000 And the DOJ individual's name is Bruce Schwartz.

00:38:29.000 I still have a voicemail from him on my phone from four years ago.

00:38:34.000 I've kept it.

00:38:36.000 That individual said, Oh, Rick, I don't know about that.

00:38:38.000 Jack Smith needs to know he's, you know, this is he's in charge of this.

00:38:42.000 Let me talk to Jack Smith.

00:38:45.000 I found out two days later that he said, no, Jack Smith said you can't do that.

00:38:50.000 And within weeks, within three or four weeks, Jack Smith had announced an indictment of President Fauci.

00:38:58.000 Before he came to the White House, President Fauci was hauled off to the Hague.

00:39:03.000 And Don, do you know that four years later, President Fauci is still in prison?

00:39:09.000 He's still waiting four years later for the Jack Smith team that Jack hired to do something about this trial.

00:39:18.000 The trial is a sham.

00:39:20.000 The Europeans should be totally embarrassed. 1.00

00:39:22.000 This is his playbook at this point.

00:39:23.000 I mean, that's the same thing with Trump, right?

00:39:25.000 Right now it's, you know, keep him off.

00:39:28.000 Uh, you know, keep him off the campaign trail because, you know, if he's out there talking to Americans, they'll realize, uh, the, let's just say, rather stark contrast between our incompetent leader, Joe Biden, and, and Donald Trump.

00:39:38.000 Uh, and, you know, the, the numerous, you know, he can't, he's not allowed to talk about this. 0.99

00:39:42.000 You can't talk about the facts of the case because then the American people would see that it's all bullshit.

00:39:47.000 And so, you know, today, you know, we may put you in prison for violating a gag order because you can't exercise your First Amendment rights in America anymore, even if it's, you know, something that the vast majority of people believe is a political persecution, which of course it is. 0.95

00:40:02.000 It seems like this is textbook for the Marxist.

00:40:05.000 There's one more angle to this, and I want to be very clear that I don't know the facts, but the facts are absolutely worthy of tracking down.

00:40:16.000 What I do know is several people involved in what I'm about to say have confirmed individual parts of the story as true.

00:40:26.000 And so I'm competent enough to say Individual parts of this story are true, enough to where there's definitely smoke and people need to investigate, and yet they're not investigating.

00:40:37.000 And here's the allegations, and I tweeted them today.

00:40:41.000 There is a businessman from Kosovo who is very close to Russia, and he did a lot of business dealings in Russia.

00:40:48.000 He now lives in Spain.

00:40:51.000 He has said that for a year and a half, he and Jack Smith talked regularly, and that he was being pushed by Jack Smith to help him find individuals that would accuse Hashim Thachi.

00:41:12.000 In that negotiation, this businessman was facilitating $16 million to Jack Smith in exchange for dropping US sanctions and prosecutions on two Russian businessmen and that Jack Smith took the money.

00:41:33.000 Now, again, this is the allegation from others.

00:41:36.000 All of this is all over the Balkans.

00:41:38.000 It's been reported since last December People have been looking into this, and yet no one in the United States has dug into this to report on it.

00:41:49.000 I find it to be outrageous that we haven't gone and that this individual businessman in Spain who's from Kosovo, who's making this allegation, and by the way, there are recordings with Jack Smith's prosecutors Uh, where I've heard these recordings and individuals have challenged the whole process to say, that's not what I said.

00:42:13.000 You're, you're, you're putting words in my mouth.

00:42:14.000 This is not what I said.

00:42:16.000 You're making things up.

00:42:17.000 So the whole case is very flimsy against President Thachi.

00:42:22.000 It should have been looked at and fallen apart a long time ago.

00:42:26.000 And in the middle of it is Jack Smith and his tactics and his hate for Donald Trump.

00:42:33.000 Yeah, I mean, I guess it's clear what's going on here.

00:42:37.000 It's clear, frankly, what's happened to sort of the permanent bureaucracy in America.

00:42:42.000 But are there elements of that permanent bureaucracy that just hate our country?

00:42:46.000 Because I see what they do.

00:42:48.000 I see their view.

00:42:48.000 And I'm like, I don't understand man.

00:42:51.000 I'm not in government, but I'm a guy with a brain and these things don't make any sense.

00:42:57.000 What should our viewers know about official Washington and whether it can actually be dismantled, where their motives lie?

00:43:05.000 Because none of it makes sense when you, you know, when you think about it.

00:43:07.000 You know, we're told everyone's a public servant, but it seems like everyone's actually a self-servant.

00:43:12.000 And, you know, public service is the, you know, just sort of the joke around the cocktail party.

00:43:17.000 Like, haha, I've got them fooled. 1.00

00:43:19.000 Public servant, my ass. 0.99

00:43:21.000 So I live in Los Angeles, and if somebody came to Los Angeles in an official capacity some way, maybe a politician, maybe a businessman, Maybe a newspaper person. 1.00

00:43:33.000 But if somebody came to Los Angeles and said, I have a great idea.

00:43:37.000 Let's get rid of movies. 1.00

00:43:40.000 The entirety of Los Angeles is going to say, kill that person. 0.99

00:43:45.000 Because everyone in Los Angeles knows someone who works at a studio, who works as a subcontractor to a studio, actor, agent, a union, the entirety. 0.98

00:43:56.000 We go to school, we go to church with people whose livelihoods are all about the movie industry.

00:44:03.000 The same is in Washington, D.C.

00:44:05.000 What we conservatives have to stop doing is we have to stop asking the people who live and work and go to church in Washington, D.C.

00:44:14.000 to somehow make their city less powerful with a smaller budget.

00:44:19.000 They don't want less money.

00:44:20.000 They want more money.

00:44:21.000 They're now cheering for their sports teams.

00:44:23.000 They've created sports teams in Washington, D.C.

00:44:26.000 It's a huge system.

00:44:28.000 That is always going to protect themselves.

00:44:30.000 When a vote comes up that says, you know what, I have a great idea.

00:44:33.000 Let's shrink the budget of Washington, D.C.

00:44:35.000 and make it less powerful.

00:44:37.000 You must vote for term limits of yourself. 1.00

00:44:40.000 Yeah, everybody in that city is going to be like, kill them. 0.71

00:44:43.000 So what we have to do as conservatives who want to make Washington more responsible to the rest of the country, and we want to make Washington, D.C. 0.69

00:44:53.000 less powerful over our lives, We have to send people to Washington who aren't from Washington, who don't have a future in Washington, whose job is never gonna be surrounding Washington.

00:45:05.000 We need regular people to stand up and run, go to Washington, vote to shrink that city, leave, go home to go to church, have a social life in Wisconsin or North Carolina or California, wherever you're from, and not be a part of Washington.

00:45:19.000 You can't go to Los Angeles and say, let's get rid of movies.

00:45:23.000 Okay, but by that logic though, how many guys do you know?

00:45:25.000 Cause I know plenty, frankly on both sides.

00:45:28.000 They go in, you know, I was in Montana this weekend and we're, you know, doing a thing for, you know, Tim Sheehy running for Senate there against Jon Tester.

00:45:34.000 And I didn't know this.

00:45:35.000 I was literally staying with my buddy.

00:45:37.000 It was like, dude, well yeah, growing up, like Jon Tester was like my godfather.

00:45:40.000 Like if my parents were killed in a, by a truck, like I was going to move in with him.

00:45:43.000 And he was like, yeah, he was a school teacher and a meat cutter. 0.82

00:45:46.000 And then he went to Washington DC and he ain't ever come back.

00:45:51.000 And so, you know, over a 25-year career, you know, you may have come in with the right intentions, but now, you know, Jon Tester in Montana, a pretty conservative state by all standards, you know, is voting 100% of the time with Joe Biden.

00:46:07.000 He's for, you know, males in women's sports with the trans issue, for open board, just like across the board.

00:46:14.000 I mean, one of the most liberal people in the United States Senate, and he's also become I guess the number one recipient of lobbyist dollars in all of Washington.

00:46:22.000 And this is a guy that started off as a school teacher and a meat cutter from Montana, but over 25 years became the swamp.

00:46:28.000 How do we prevent that from happening?

00:46:30.000 Obviously, term limits, it's an idea, but I don't know that any one of these people, because you're not going to get them all at once, are going to vote for term limits.

00:46:36.000 And while I may love the idea, it ain't happening anytime soon.

00:46:39.000 Yeah, there's no way that they're going to vote to limit their own power.

00:46:43.000 And we've got to stop asking them to do that.

00:46:45.000 But I do think that we have power.

00:46:46.000 I think the rest of us outside of Washington has power, and we need to flex it.

00:46:52.000 I think term limits are a great idea, and here's why.

00:46:55.000 I get the argument, the philosophical argument, that we should be able to vote for anyone we want.

00:47:01.000 And so on paper, the idea that you're limiting terms seems like you're taking away people's right and you have the simplistic view that people should just be able to vote for who they want.

00:47:13.000 The problem is, is that money in politics has become so huge.

00:47:17.000 And the power of incumbency has become even bigger that it's not a level playing field anymore.

00:47:24.000 Mitch McConnell is super out of touch, but he controls the purse strings of the Senate.

00:47:28.000 That's hundreds of millions.

00:47:29.000 No one can get elected by going against Mitch McConnell.

00:47:32.000 And once you take the money, he owns you for life.

00:47:34.000 Yeah, so I do think that the term limits are going to be important, but here's one caveat.

00:47:40.000 If we just limited the terms of politicians and we left their staff and the bureaucrats in Washington to be there for 25 years, they are going to become more powerful.

00:47:50.000 and the politicians are going to turn into puppets.

00:47:53.000 So it's really important that we figure out how do you get limited government?

00:47:59.000 How do you make sure that their power is taken away?

00:48:03.000 And I do think that that requires a president when they're running the federal government

00:48:09.000 of putting people in cabinet jobs that are there to reform, not just cut, but reform.

00:48:17.000 How do you make it better?

00:48:17.000 How do you make services better?

00:48:19.000 How do you use digital technology?

00:48:21.000 And that means rethinking the way that you, you, uh, do services, but it also means Hiring people who aren't from Washington, who can withstand the media hits and the lobbyist hits and all of that, because they don't want their city to become less powerful, but everybody else outside of Washington does.

00:48:40.000 The rest of America does want Washington to be less powerful.

00:48:44.000 I think there's a component of that's why they're also going after Trump so hard.

00:48:47.000 For sure.

00:48:48.000 Someone who doesn't need Washington, someone who didn't need Washington.

00:48:52.000 It's not just that they're going after him, it's that they're putting a marker out there for anyone else who's exactly what you're talking about.

00:48:58.000 Someone where, like, going to Washington DC, you know, whether you like it or not, even, you know, it's kind of a downgrade, not an upgrade.

00:49:04.000 You know, the people that sort of become part of the swamp, it's because, you know, they became a congressman because it's like, you know, the Distinguished Gentleman, the Eddie Murphy movie.

00:49:12.000 It's like, the name you know.

00:49:13.000 It's like, they have the same name as the guy that sat there for 30 years, so they get elected into Congress, and now they're in the big leagues, you know, from, you know, years of working in the state and making no money and getting crushed, and now they're a congressman, and people are kissing their ass, and they're invited to, you know, this and that dinner, and they're seeing, you know, celebrities every once in a while, and it's like, they ain't ever leaving.

00:49:31.000 They don't want to leave.

00:49:32.000 It's the greatest gig in the world.

00:49:33.000 And so I feel like part of the attack on my father is to show anyone else, you know, the entrepreneurial type.

00:49:39.000 Elon Musk wasn't born in America.

00:49:40.000 He's not running for president.

00:49:41.000 But those guys don't get involved in our game.

00:49:44.000 If you do, we're going to make you pay for it.

00:49:45.000 It's not worth it.

00:49:46.000 You got a good life.

00:49:47.000 Just sit back, relax, stay in the background and you'll be fine.

00:49:50.000 There's no question that that's what they're doing.

00:49:52.000 It's a warning shot.

00:49:53.000 And thank God we've got Donald Trump, who doesn't care.

00:49:56.000 about what the media says, and he's getting stronger.

00:49:59.000 And I believe that God has his hand on him.

00:50:01.000 There's just no other way to say it, because what he's been able to withstand

00:50:05.000 is truly unbelievable.

00:50:07.000 And I do believe that the people are seeing this more and more,

00:50:12.000 and they're getting more and more outraged because of it.

00:50:15.000 So, you know, pray for the president.

00:50:19.000 What we have to do in November is we have to win.

00:50:21.000 We have to send the outsider. 1.00

00:50:23.000 And I think forever, we need to send outsiders to Washington, D.C. 0.91

00:50:27.000 Stop, you know, I'll finish with this is that, you know, I do a lot of traveling like you do to help candidates.

00:50:34.000 And I hear a lot of the time when you pick somebody new, like Bernie Moreno, who's never been involved in politics because he's been literally out building businesses, creating jobs.

00:50:45.000 But you hear people constantly say, well, I've never heard of Bernie.

00:50:49.000 My point is, that's the whole idea of this game.

00:50:51.000 That's a good thing.

00:50:53.000 That's not a bad thing.

00:50:53.000 Yeah.

00:50:54.000 If you haven't heard of them, it's because they've actually been creating jobs, not running for office for 40 plus years, like Sherrod Brown.

00:51:01.000 Well, so I want to get your take.

00:51:02.000 I mean, we're seeing chaos across several of these so-called elite colleges, my alma mater Penn included as one of them.

00:51:09.000 How much is the Biden administration culpable in this sort of anti-Israel, anti-Semite extremism?

00:51:18.000 And how much is it the faculty and administration, how much are they to blame in all of this?

00:51:22.000 Because it seems like they seem to be leading the charge.

00:51:25.000 Look, what I think is, The Biden team is responsible because they don't know what side to be on.

00:51:33.000 They're trying to play both sides.

00:51:36.000 And therefore, they say one thing, they say the other.

00:51:39.000 They're inflaming both sides.

00:51:40.000 They're not being a leader and saying this is the way.

00:51:44.000 The opposite is true for President Trump.

00:51:45.000 President Trump has three messages.

00:51:48.000 I'll just concentrate on two of them right now, that are incredibly powerful with the pro-Israel, pro-evangelical wing, as well as Arabs and pro-Palestinians.

00:52:02.000 He doesn't have to change his message.

00:52:03.000 And the message there is, this war wouldn't have happened if I were president.

00:52:07.000 We would have had more Arab-Israeli peace agreements.

00:52:11.000 And two, you can't fund Iran and not expect to have terrorism and war. 0.94

00:52:17.000 We squeezed Iran. 1.00

00:52:19.000 We had them complaining about not having money.

00:52:22.000 And then the Biden team came in and gave him hundreds of billions of dollars in sanctions relief, cash and credit.

00:52:29.000 So I actually think that Arabs and evangelicals and pro-Israel groups and Jews all see this.

00:52:38.000 They see that President Trump is very consistent in how he views this.

00:52:45.000 We shouldn't have this war and don't fund Iran. 0.93

00:52:48.000 That message works across the board.

00:52:51.000 And that is where Joe Biden has failed, and Jake Sullivan has failed, and Anthony Blinken has failed.

00:52:57.000 They don't know what side they're on.

00:52:59.000 They're still trying to negotiate with Iran.

00:53:02.000 They still don't understand October 7th and what happened.

00:53:07.000 And they're trying to play both sides.

00:53:08.000 They're not even concentrating on getting the hostages out.

00:53:11.000 That should be the very first thing you do.

00:53:13.000 Release the hostages, bring home the Americans. 1.00

00:53:16.000 Then we can talk about what's next, getting rid of Hamas leadership, rebuilding Gaza,

00:53:21.000 all of that appropriate conversations, but that comes after you get the hostages back.

00:53:27.000 I mean, listen, it seems like every American adversary is just flagrantly taking advantage of Joe Biden's weakness.

00:53:33.000 If you end up, God forbid, what would a second Biden term look like?

00:53:38.000 I mean, it feels like the next natural progression is China invading Taiwan and we lose our semiconductor business.

00:53:46.000 But there's no other plausible explanation because of the weakness that we've exuded for so long.

00:53:52.000 Look, if Joe Biden is reelected and he continues on these policies, we're going to have to have the draft because we are going to be fighting a lot more wars.

00:54:02.000 And we already know that Joe Biden has really failed to recruit a volunteer force into the military.

00:54:09.000 Our recruiting numbers are at the lowest they've ever been.

00:54:13.000 It's a crisis.

00:54:14.000 But at the same time, we're picking fights around the world, and it's getting more dangerous.

00:54:18.000 And we're getting involved in a lot more places.

00:54:21.000 So if you just take the trajectory of both of those, fewer people volunteering, more conflict, We absolutely are going to have to have a draft, and I know I'm going to get hit by people for saying that, but I think it's the truth.

00:54:36.000 Joe Biden is re-elected.

00:54:38.000 Get ready for a draft, because these policies cannot continue without recognizing that we don't have enough people to fight, and there's a lot more conflicts to fight.

00:54:49.000 So, you know, a big one that we saw in the last couple weeks, you know, was, you know, the renewal of FISA and all of that.

00:54:56.000 You understand exactly how FISA works.

00:54:58.000 I mean, you're, you know, the Director of National Intelligence.

00:55:01.000 Can you explain the, you know, the civil liberties issues at hand so that people understand the nuance?

00:55:07.000 Because everyone's like, no, you got to renew FISA so that you can spy, you know, on foreign adversaries.

00:55:12.000 And like, I'm fine with that, but like, they spied on 370,000 Americans too, like, Yeah.

00:55:16.000 You know, like, I don't have a feeling that 370,000 Americans had somehow real terror links, but it's like, ah, well, we signed a warrant, so it's fine.

00:55:24.000 So, you know, we've shortchanged all of it to basically be able to go after Americans. 0.94

00:55:31.000 How easy is it ultimately for Biden's administration, his weaponized DOJ, the FBI, etc., to spy on whoever it wants to through FISA?

00:55:43.000 It is very easy, and I'm very uncomfortable with people who don't know about this process just saying, oh, we've got to have Pfizer to get the terrorists.

00:55:52.000 Look, if you want to stop the terrorists right now, close the border, because we know there's a whole bunch of terrorists coming through the border.

00:55:59.000 So, it's hard for me to take anyone very seriously who are screaming about the terrorists when they're not screaming about an open border.

00:56:08.000 That's the first point.

00:56:09.000 The second point is, look, there are a lot of good people within the intelligence community who are working hard gathering intelligence.

00:56:16.000 But one of the things I've talked about this before, one of the problems that we have in Intel, are the analysts.

00:56:22.000 Because now you have Intel gatherers who get the information, maybe they're listening and they're doing all sorts of ways to get the raw Intel.

00:56:32.000 But then you have a group of people who look at the pieces of raw Intel and they come up with an analysis.

00:56:38.000 They say, ah, I see this A, I see this B, and I see this C. You know what's going to happen?

00:56:42.000 It's D. So then they give this warning, this analyst warning across the Intel community saying, this is coming.

00:56:50.000 Now that's based on raw intelligence, and we need to do a better job of holding the analysts to account.

00:56:56.000 Because remember, the analysts are the ones who said if you move the embassy, From Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

00:57:02.000 World War III.

00:57:03.000 There's going to be World War III.

00:57:05.000 And not only were they wrong, but they were absolutely wrong because we actually had Arab-Israeli peace after that.

00:57:12.000 We literally had peace agreements.

00:57:14.000 So the analysts are the problems in this scenario.

00:57:18.000 And imagine this, Don.

00:57:20.000 Imagine if you opened up a newspaper and you went to the editorial section and you had no idea who wrote the editorials because nobody signed them.

00:57:29.000 So you don't know if you're dealing with a total partisan or a total expert.

00:57:35.000 You have no idea who is writing this, and that's what the analysts are doing to us.

00:57:40.000 Well, it feels like, you know, two parts, right?

00:57:42.000 It feels like you could solve a lot of this if there were, like, actually severe criminal penalties for those who took some liberties with these things, right?

00:57:48.000 You actually put some consequence up there, and there's not.

00:57:50.000 It's like, oh, I lied to a judge.

00:57:51.000 Just kidding.

00:57:52.000 Oh, it's fine.

00:57:52.000 Go amongst your day.

00:57:54.000 You know, if you actually put people in jail for this stuff, I think you'd create some honesty in the analyst community.

00:58:00.000 But I also feel like, you know, it's sort of amazing.

00:58:02.000 You see guys, you know, they're really against Ukraine funding.

00:58:05.000 They're really against the endless war.

00:58:06.000 They're really... And then it's like, well, we met with the intelligence people and, you know, they showed me a report.

00:58:11.000 Like, I got to reverse my entire opinion.

00:58:13.000 It's like...

00:58:14.000 They're lying to the, like, does anyone believe that these reports mean anything other than to have the desired effect of, let's call it, big war or the military-industrial complex?

00:58:25.000 It's like, yeah, I could craft a report to, like, if you read this as the gospel, oh, we gotta fund Ukraine for the rest of eternity, otherwise, you know, the world is gonna explode. 0.91

00:58:33.000 You know, just like, you know, Russia, Russia, Russia really happened.

00:58:36.000 It wasn't, you know, a concoction of the FBI who leaks to the New York Times.

00:58:40.000 New York Times writes an article, FBI uses the article as the precipice to investigate

00:58:44.000 and spy on a presidential campaign.

00:58:46.000 Like, you know, people should be in jail for that.

00:58:48.000 And yet it's like, we didn't know, we read an article.

00:58:51.000 It's like, it's insane.

00:58:53.000 Look, the briefing process is a real problem.

00:58:56.000 My first intelligence briefing was in 2001.

00:58:59.000 I am a total expert on what the intel community gives public policy officials as an intel briefing.

00:59:06.000 I've been through thousands of briefings.

00:59:09.000 I know exactly how they do it.

00:59:12.000 And what I've learned through this process is When the person, when your briefer is sitting in front of you giving you this information, you got to ask questions.

00:59:21.000 You got to say, where did you get that?

00:59:22.000 How old is that?

00:59:23.000 Who gave that to us?

00:59:26.000 If you don't know how to dig down, it can be pretty flimsy.

00:59:31.000 And I think the crisis that we have in the Intel community is what we're giving as top secret classified information, or what we're giving in the briefings.

00:59:40.000 A lot of the stuff is not top secret.

00:59:42.000 It's found somewhere online, or it's going to be online in a matter of days after you tell us.

00:59:50.000 We've got to do a better job on the collections and the analyst process.

00:59:55.000 But I will say that a lot of people who look at Intel and can get manipulated by it, it's because they haven't been through enough briefings to know, I better ask some questions.

01:00:07.000 Yeah, I mean, I feel like they roll the Republicans with this every time.

01:00:10.000 Like, we have where we want to be, we understand what it is, and... I changed my mind entirely because someone gave me a briefing that conveniently covers every point that Big War would want, or whatever it may be.

01:00:22.000 It feels insane, and again, that's probably because a lot of people in Congress, you know, they've just been bureaucrats.

01:00:28.000 Maybe my eyes are open because I was targeted by these people, so it's like I'm a little bit more skeptical of everything these days, as everyone should be, but they don't seem to be in Congress, which is weird.

01:00:37.000 Yeah, look, Congress is not briefed that often.

01:00:40.000 They don't get regular Intel briefings.

01:00:42.000 So, you know, it's very rare for them to now, some individuals might request to go to a SCIF and get it.

01:00:49.000 But still, what they're given then is not Uh, is not detailed enough because if you're getting a briefing every day and you're involved in the dynamics of it, and it's very dynamic where you're asking questions and you're directing the team on the information.

01:01:08.000 If you're not doing that on a daily basis, then you're not really getting a real feel for what's happening.

01:01:14.000 You're going to get a picture rather than a video.

01:01:17.000 And it's really important to get a video picture in real time of what's happening, what changed yesterday, what changed today.

01:01:26.000 And that's where I think Congress really lacks.

01:01:33.000 What can you talk about that you witnessed as Director of National Intelligence that perhaps shocked you the most?

01:01:38.000 I mean, you've had probably some of the highest clearances available.

01:01:44.000 You served in the highest position.

01:01:45.000 You served in lower positions, like I said, from the early 2000s on.

01:01:49.000 What was the thing that sort of shocked you the most in all of that process?

01:01:53.000 Look, I think intelligence gathering and diplomacy is an art, not a science.

01:01:57.000 And too many people just think that they can plug in the equation and it comes out in the perfect way.

01:02:07.000 And you've got to be involved.

01:02:08.000 Like, I don't believe that being a diplomat means that you're weak.

01:02:12.000 I don't believe that it's culinary diplomacy like Anthony Blinken does.

01:02:16.000 I believe that you have to be tough.

01:02:18.000 If you want to avoid war, you better have some real SOBs sitting at the table trying to solve problems. 1.00

01:02:25.000 It's very difficult to be a diplomat, a good diplomat, that finds alternatives to war.

01:02:29.000 It's a lot easier to transfer the file over to the Pentagon because the Pentagon doesn't negotiate.

01:02:35.000 So, what I would say, what I learned is that we have a system where too many people are thinking that it's a science, not an art.

01:02:44.000 We need to celebrate the real tough diplomats.

01:02:47.000 We need to be able to reward people who go in as a diplomat into the war zones.

01:02:53.000 Right now, Anthony Blinken is vacating our embassies when there's a crisis.

01:02:58.000 I know Foreign Service officers who want to be on the front line.

01:03:00.000 They signed up to solve problems.

01:03:03.000 Now, we've got to make sure that they're protected and that they're not going into dangerous situations, but they also sign up knowing that it is dangerous, and we've got to allow them to do their job.

01:03:15.000 Yeah, I mean, you know, I'd expand because that, you know, that was sort of the intelligence side of it, but you served as our ambassador to Germany.

01:03:21.000 And, you know, unlike it felt like so many of our ambassadors, you know, when Trump was like, hey, I need you to do this, you know, Germany wants us to pay for NATO indefinitely and pay for all of it.

01:03:31.000 They're not kicking in their share, but they want us to up it because they want protection from Russia while they're simultaneously negotiating a pipeline deal with Russia.

01:03:40.000 To get cheaper energy, so I'm like, you're enriching the enemy that you want us to protect you from, and there's no accountability, and you went in there and were like, no, this doesn't work, and that had to be an uncomfortable situation, but, you know, why is it that it feels like so many in that diplomatic corps and ambassadors, well, I would rather be liked by the press than do what my job is, which is to serve your president and ultimately your country.

01:04:01.000 Yeah, I think you just got to remember that you work for the American people and that and that's your job is to make us safer.

01:04:07.000 Remember, the three things that President Trump and I were pushing in Germany were Nord Stream 2, stop it, stop the pipeline, pay the 2% fair share.

01:04:17.000 And the third thing was stop having German companies work with Iran.

01:04:23.000 All three of those things have been proven right.

01:04:25.000 Now, I don't expect to have an apology from Chancellor Merkel.

01:04:29.000 I don't think we're going to have an apology from the German media.

01:04:32.000 But I will tell you this, the German government has changed their position on all three of those, and their position is now Donald Trump's position.

01:04:40.000 He was an early mover on this, and they should have listened to him.

01:04:44.000 Well, it feels like, you know, with some common sense and with some action from the American people, we can get back to that kind of policy, because God knows we don't just need it as a country.

01:04:52.000 I think we need it as the world.

01:04:54.000 Yes.

01:04:55.000 Well, Rick, as always, buddy, thank you so much for being here.

01:04:58.000 Really appreciate you joining.

01:05:00.000 I'm sure, hey, the coming months we're going to be busy and active.

01:05:04.000 There's gonna be a lot to talk about, so I'm sure we'll be talking to you again soon.

01:05:06.000 So be well, and I'll also, I'm sure, see you out on the trail in the not-too-distant future.

01:05:11.000 All the best, Don.

01:05:12.000 Thanks.

01:05:12.000 Be good, bud.

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