Kash Patel, former Deputy Director of National Intelligence, joins Jemele to discuss a wide range of topics, including the latest in UFO sightings, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline leak, and more. Plus, Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar's take on the Super Bowl, and why a black quarterback can lead teams. Plus, a look at The View's dumbest take yet on racism on a mainstream show on regular television, and a breakdown of why The View should be ashamed of itself for perpetuating racism on the biggest platform in the world. It's time to wake up America to the reality that racism is alive and well on The View, and it's time we wake up the rest of the country to the fact that racism needs to stop. And that racism has no place in the modern world, whether it's on social media or mainstream media, and that we should all be mad about it or not. If you don't know what racism is, you're in for a real treat tonight. Triggered is a show where we're here to break down racism, sexism, and everything else that goes with it, and we'll tell you what it is and why it needs to go. Enjoy, and tweet us what you think of it! to let us know if you think it's dumb, racist, or just plain dumb, and how dumb it is, and what we should do about it. Timestamps: 1:00 - What's the dumbest thing The View has ever said on the show? 2: What do you think about racism? 3:30 - What does it mean to you? 4:15 - What is racist? 5: What does racism really mean? 6:20 - What do we need to know about it? 7:40 - Is racism in America? 8:00- What are we should we be proud of? 9:30- Is it okay to be black? 10:00 11:15- What's your favorite color? 12:20- What does the word of the week? 13:30 15:15 16: What are you going to do with the name of the Kansas City Chiefs? 17:40 18:40- What is your favorite football team? 19:20 21:30 | What does your favorite sport? 22:00 | How racist does it matter?
00:03:44.000Do they not know? I mean, listen, when Whoopi is the voice of reason, like, well, wait a minute, you know, we sort of knew that, but the rest of racist America couldn't possibly imagine that even if Patrick Mahomes went to the Super Bowl a few years ago, you know.
00:04:13.000I know that I'm going to take some hits, but I also figured that if someone invites you to talk about their book, maybe they'd let you actually talk about the book, but that didn't happen.
00:04:21.000And just in case it went exactly the way I thought it would go, I did a little bit of homework right before the show.
00:04:28.000I just Googled, what are the dumbest things ever said on The View?
00:04:31.000And that's the episode where I guess I called out Joy Behar for wearing blackface and Whoopi Goldberg for basically promoting Roman Polanski, a convicted child pedophile.
00:04:51.000Now, this is an audience in New York City that The View and the lunatics of the left lost.
00:04:57.000Whoopi was MFing the audience in the middle of it, saying, this isn't a, quote, effing Trump rally, because what they did was so insane and so indefensible that they lost a New York City crowd at The View to me.
00:05:13.000I wish that ABC or NBC, whatever the hell station they're on, would put this one up, because, honestly, it's truly epic.
00:05:24.000Wasn't exactly the level of stupidity that we've come to know from the people of The View and the same amount of racism that they're perpetuating.
00:05:32.000Another far-left activists were out there talking about how racist it was for the name Kansas City Chiefs.
00:05:40.000Somehow, the team that is the Super Bowl champions or world champions—I'm trying to still figure that one out since I think football's only played in America, but minor details— I think calling them the Kansas City Chiefs actually is glorifying the notion of Native American tribes, that they are strong warriors, that they won the world championship.
00:05:59.000But no, there are still the people out there that go as far as to say fans will don more We're good to go.
00:06:29.000It's like they don't have anything else to bitch about anymore, folks.
00:06:32.000They've just lost their minds and they don't care.
00:06:35.000They're catering to, like, the two people who figured out how to make themselves somehow victims of this who are probably getting paid to be victims like we've seen so much.
00:06:43.000But... In other insane news of the week, Australia established a new ambassador for gender equality.
00:06:52.000And guys, it's everything you would think that it would be.
00:06:59.000The eyes give it away way before everything else.
00:07:02.000Check it out for yourself, and I'll have some commentary.
00:07:06.000Hello, I'm Stephanie Copas-Campbell, Australia's new ambassador for gender equality.
00:07:11.000I'm incredibly honoured to take on this role as the lead international advocate for Australia's commitment to gender equality and the human rights of women and girls and persons of diverse gender identities.
00:07:22.000In this role, I'm committed to listening to those who are dedicated to promoting gender
00:07:27.000equality and learning about the perspectives and priorities in communities and countries
00:07:46.000I look forward to working with partners in Australia, in the Pacific, in Southeast Asia
00:07:52.000To progress the Australian Government's priorities to increase women's economic empowerment, women and girls' leadership, and to end sexual and gender-based violence, to improve access to health and education services, and progress the Women, Peace and Security agenda.
00:08:09.000As I said, guys, it's always in the eyes.
00:08:11.000Now, I'm not sure how this is going to lead to any equality.
00:08:16.000I have a feeling when we've seen these programs, it probably creates equality for men who want to compete in women's sports and other such programs.
00:08:23.000But again, I'm still trying to figure out how it strengthens Australia's defense programs.
00:08:34.000Now, we tried doing a little bit of research into this woman, Stephanie Corpus Campbell.
00:08:39.000Apparently, from what we were able to find on her LinkedIn profile, has no prior experience in public service based on what we were able to see.
00:09:34.000The answer is probably not a lot of anything.
00:09:37.000So if you thought the left was losing their minds with something like this, this one was even crazier to me.
00:09:44.000Apparently, a left-wing abolished the police activist, Baker.
00:09:49.000Died this weekend after robbers mowed her down near an Oakland bank.
00:09:54.000They dragged her to death, and her family does not want the criminals prosecuted.
00:10:02.000Either her family hates her, or there's a whole lot more crazy going on with these people.
00:10:07.000I mean, think about that. She died being a victim of a crime, and the family, and presumably her, based on her activism, wouldn't want the criminals prosecuted because it somehow perpetuates a cycle of whatever.
00:10:23.000These are the people Who, like the Biden administration, wants to put in charge.
00:10:28.000In the process of trying to chase them down, this woman got caught in the door of the fleeing vehicle and was dragged more than 50 feet.
00:10:37.000She was then put on life support and died from her injuries.
00:10:40.000The victim has a history of anti-police beliefs and community activism.
00:10:45.000I guess Ms. Angel reportedly once bragged on Facebook that she has taught her employees to do what she does and never call the cops.
00:10:54.000Her family doesn't even want them prosecuted.
00:10:58.000Guys, I got nothing else other than these people are freaking insane.
00:11:01.000But because of the media, because of the big tech and their lock on leftism, because the leftists have taken over every faction of our government and our world, these people are the people that have much more say.
00:11:14.000These are the ones that are going to be making decisions for your children and mine because they've been given platforms when they're clearly freaking idiots.
00:11:24.000So, California now introduced a bill that could end K-12 suspensions for defying school rules.
00:11:32.000Another one that we can't quite figure out, because if you misbehave, you're supposed to have no consequence, right?
00:11:39.000That's how we grow and we learn, or at least that, according to this story as well as the last one, is what the left would want you to believe.
00:11:46.000I'm not sure What they're looking to do.
00:11:49.000I don't know what the endgame is, other than it leads, in my opinion, to anarchy.
00:11:55.000Because you can't teach someone if there's never a consequence.
00:11:59.000Why would they do anything if they can just do whatever they want?
00:12:04.000The left is promoting lawlessness, and it doesn't stop.
00:12:11.000And just when you think maybe we'd be at an end to the leftists losing their minds, we have a Yale professor who suggested that mass suicide for old people in Japan is the solution for their rapidly aging society.
00:12:29.000I guess Harry Carey, because that's the honorable thing to do.
00:12:33.000This is a professor at what would be told, what we've been told for years would be one of the finest education institutions ever.
00:12:40.000In the world. This is one where years ago you'd want to send your kid there desperately.
00:12:45.000At this point, I don't know that they offer any value because you can't actually get ahead learning to think because if you think a little different than your professor, you're going to be penalized.
00:12:55.000Ask me how I know. When I speak on these college campuses and they show up and young students show up, I ask them, first thing, raise your hand.
00:13:02.000If your teachers knew you were here right now, would you be penalized academically?
00:13:06.000And unanimously, every kid in the room raises their hand.
00:14:05.000Between the white toe and the, let's call it the tight pants and camel toe, I think we found it.
00:14:10.000And it seems to be a rather large demographic, one promoted by the left and one that we must rebel against.
00:14:20.000In all seriousness, though, guys, before we get to Kash Patel, and I think this is going to be an important one, we've shot down now multiple objects over the weekend.
00:14:30.000Apparently, NORAD has not shot down anything over the airspace that it watches.
00:14:35.000Including Canada, for quite some time.
00:14:38.000But in the last week, we've shot down about four objects, three aircraft over North America in the past week, in addition to the Chinese spy balloon over the coast of South Carolina.
00:14:49.000On Friday, an unidentified object was shot down over Alaska by an F-22.
00:14:54.000Another one where military experts and people currently in the military could not identify their propulsion system.
00:15:34.000We did it clearly in step with Canada.
00:15:39.000Okay. I mean, clearly we're going to stick with Canadia!
00:15:46.000Guys, you've probably heard me bitchy about it before, but in all fairness, this is what happens when your only qualifications that day, you were a foreign-born lesbian who happens to be African-American, and that was the hiring process, it seems, for this individual.
00:15:59.000That's not racist. They basically said it.
00:16:02.000People will criticize you for it, but this is the most incompetent person to ever sit in that office.
00:16:08.000Our allies to the north, you know, the little country, Canadia, You gotta be shitting me!
00:16:17.000Like, she is the communications director for the White House, for the President of the United States, the leader of the free world.
00:16:25.000Now, if you listen to him speak, it's not much better.
00:16:28.000Okay? But we're being led by imbeciles.
00:16:32.000These are the people that are going to get calls when there is an actual alien invasion, which who the hell knows?
00:16:38.000Maybe this is it. Like, how about this?
00:16:41.000Please, we'll take you to our leader as long as you promise to take him with you.
00:17:10.000And apparently, she checked off a lot.
00:17:13.000So, folks... It doesn't just end there, though.
00:17:16.000This is a little bit more troubling, and a U.S. general in charge of NORAD says he hasn't ruled out anything, including the possibility of extraterrestrial origins.
00:17:26.000Check it out. This is for General Van Herc.
00:17:30.000Because you still haven't been able to tell us what these things are that we are shooting out of the sky, that raises the question, have you ruled out aliens or extraterrestrials?
00:17:44.000And if so, why? Because that is what everyone is asking us right now.
00:18:10.000Remember guys if it is an alien invasion, you know who I want to charge
00:18:13.000Joe Biden We're all screwed guys at this point
00:18:18.000Like I may have to change my presidential vote for 2024 from Donald Trump to just a meteor
00:18:24.000Just take us out because at this point we deserve it. That's where we're at
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00:21:17.000So... With that, I'm going to ask Kash Patel to slide over here a little bit.
00:21:21.000We're still in the makeshift studio, so we're going a little bit ad hoc here.
00:21:28.000But Kash Patel was the Director of National Intelligence, deputy under, I guess, a couple people, but primarily, well, you worked for Devin Nunes, first of all, in Congress.
00:21:40.000I think that's important because Kash is the guy that basically discovered All of the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
00:21:48.000Tell us a little bit about that first, and then we'll go into the D&I role.
00:21:51.000No, first of all, Don, thanks so much for having me on, but I really want to start out of the gate with something important.
00:21:56.000I'm here to deliver you the Pulitzer Prize for having a brown guy on your show in the first two weeks.
00:22:01.000Well, you know, listen, listen, we don't do this on purpose.
00:22:05.000That's it. It's not getting any better.
00:22:06.000I promise you, buddy, we've known each other for a while.
00:22:09.000We've communicated a lot over the years.
00:22:12.000You're not like the token brown guy on the show, right?
00:22:14.000Like, we're just friends. Like, you know, I understand that there's a lot of people out there that do that.
00:22:23.000I mean, like, how about like, I don't know, whether it's the airlines that I see out there, you know, the, well, we want to make sure we have the most diverse array of pilots.
00:22:40.000No, look, you're right. Look, whether it came to working for Devin Nunes and running the Russiagate investigation, which, of course, we've led to writing the Nunes memo and the exposure of lying to federal courts, the Democrats funneling in money, all to target DJT, all to take out a political opponent, or whether it came to working in the Donald Trump administration, be it as deputy director of National Intel...
00:23:01.000Or Chief of Staff at DOD. Oh, and by the way, I was the first minority in U.S. history to hold either of those posts.
00:23:09.000But I'm not proud that I held it as a minority.
00:23:11.000I'm proud that Donald Trump, Devin Nunes, and others hired me and others who were skilled enough to do the job, not based on the color of my skin or my background.
00:23:20.000And you just heard Kareem Jean, whatever Pierre her name is, she can't even read English, let alone be our advertiser for Well, that's what it was.
00:23:27.000When she got that job, it was like, she's the first foreign-born lesbian woman of color to hold.
00:24:03.000I mean, I would think, just imagine if we're in the Trump presidency and we're talking about the night we took out Baghdadi when I was running counter-terrorism.
00:24:09.000I'm in this situation with the President of the United States, his cabinet, and the next morning we go to our secretary, our press secretary, and just imagine if she couldn't spell the country Syria.
00:25:13.000And if it wasn't for people like me being willing to call it out, it'd be like, it's just a free pass.
00:25:18.000The sad thing is, we're joking about it now, and it's good to do that because we need humor in these times.
00:25:23.000But tragically, with my background, I'm a national security defense intel guy.
00:25:27.000And we have the Commander-in-Chief of the United States and his team leading out, and they cannot even identify the countries that we're focusing on by name because they don't know them or how to spell them.
00:25:36.000You know who's looking at us and laughing?
00:25:38.000Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin are staring at us and they're saying, oh, we caught you with, you caught one of our balloons?
00:25:47.000By the way, we're not even going to tell you about the cyber intrusion we're doing to you right now while you're looking left and we're going right.
00:25:52.000Well, and that's sort of the government cyber intrusion.
00:25:54.000And then you obviously have, like, TikTok on every kid's phone in America.
00:25:57.000Like, these guys are racking up information on our children that will be weaponized and used against them forever.
00:26:03.000There's a reason that TikTok has been labeled the digital Chinese fentanyl, because that's exactly what it is.
00:26:09.000And people don't care about the six-month plan or the year plan.
00:26:12.000The CCP has a 15-year plan against America, a 20-year plan.
00:26:16.000So the information they collect against our children, when they're leaders in government, they're going to be like, hey, we already have all that intel.
00:26:23.000How are we going to redirect that information to you and against you to bring out China's advantage over America?
00:26:29.000And do you think they figured out how to target Fang Fang Swalwell overnight?
00:26:32.000That was a collection operation that went on for years.
00:26:36.000And they had a member of the House Intelligence Committee targeted by a Chinese spy agent.
00:26:42.000Just imagine. And I hate to bring in our good friend Devin Nunes on this.
00:26:45.000But when he was chairman of the Intel Committee, do you know what the world would have done if he was courted by a Chinese spy asset female who he had slept with?
00:28:13.000B, you checked off that box, and you're like, oh my god.
00:28:15.000And yet, you're vilified for all of the things that they have glorified on the other side.
00:28:21.000You get no points, no credit, nothing.
00:28:25.000And here's the thing. I don't want any of it.
00:28:26.000Because, like you, we were put into positions that we never thought we would have.
00:28:31.000But the one thing we shared is accountability for the American public and putting out the truth.
00:28:37.000Overall, it doesn't matter what it costs me or you or our families or our persons because the American public and our children and our future are more important than some political tagline.
00:28:46.000So when we put out things like the Nunes memo, or as I like to call it, the cash memo, Devin and I joke about it, we got excoriated for it.
00:28:52.000But the only thing that mattered, and I didn't know, most people don't know this, I didn't know Donald Trump back then.
00:29:01.000And I told Devin, I said, look, I don't know this guy, but you want to do this Russiagate investigation?
00:29:05.000I'll make you one deal. We put out whatever we find.
00:29:08.000Whatever we find. Donald Trump's a Russian asset?
00:29:11.000We put it out. Now, of course, we never thought we would figure out The biggest criminal scandal put on by the FBI and the DNC, but half of this country still believes Donald Trump's a Russian asset.
00:29:22.000And we have to work... They're still running with it.
00:29:24.000They're still running with it. As though it's fact.
00:29:58.000You know, a crime punishable by death.
00:30:00.000But Hunter Biden can take a billion from China, work for Ukraine oligarchs, you know, work for Russian oligarchs, money launderer, be paid in diamonds off the books, not declare anything in taxes, drop guns in dumpsters across from high schools.
00:30:14.000And it's like, he is an upstanding human being.
00:30:17.000Then I give an impassioned speech and they're like, oh, Don Jr.'s on Coke.
00:30:20.000You know, and I borrow your name, and I don't do it to vilify anyone, but I borrow it to juxtaposition the two-tier system of justice we have.
00:30:28.000And let's stick with Hunter Biden and the laptop.
00:30:30.000I know we know we've proven that the elections were rigged and everything like that, but how about this?
00:30:48.000If you look at the documentation found on the Hunter Biden laptop, there's one specific memo that he took and copied and pasted and then put into his own words.
00:30:56.000It was a memo to the Ukrainian government and Ukrainian foreign officials.
00:30:59.000Me, as a former deputy director of national intelligence, looked at that information and I said, that's classified.
00:31:04.000There's no way Hunter Biden had access to it because he doesn't have a security clearance.
00:31:12.000They took that memo and sent it overseas.
00:31:15.000He got a seven-figure contract from the Ukrainian government by stealing classified information through his father and hiding it in the Corvette book or wherever it was.
00:31:25.000They want to give him a pass. And I always say, you know, what if Don Jr.
00:31:29.000had stolen information from Donald Trump and then got a seven-figure payday from China?
00:31:33.000Would we even be having this conversation?
00:31:35.000So for me, the win is highlighting the two-tier system of justice so that we can fix it.
00:31:41.000Because right now, it started back in Russiagate, and it's continuing on to Hunter Biden's laptop, to Biden's classified document investigation, and now the balloon scandal and everything else.
00:31:50.000Well, so, I mean, I want to get to the balloon shortly because, you know, I can't tell if it's a scandal or if it's a distraction, right?
00:31:56.000Like, is this the shiny object that we're waving out over here to not get you talking about, like, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline bombing?
00:32:01.000But, like, I want to unpack a little bit more of the Hunter thing that you just talked about because I think the question I'm shocked no one's asking is...
00:32:09.000Everyone understands there's a link there.
00:32:11.000But are they wondering, like, we've spent $130 billion plus, you know, whatever a percentage of the $220 billion that the Pentagon lost and has magically, I mean, they lost $220 billion, right?
00:32:24.000But how much of that was probably spending in Ukraine?
00:32:26.000How much of our decision making in Ukraine against Russia and a nuclear power is being based off of stuff because those guys have this information and are holding it over Joe Biden's head?
00:32:39.000This makes the Swalwell China stuff seem like small potatoes in terms of leverage.
00:32:46.000And we've spent so much money, and no one's asking if our decisions are being influenced by the unknown.
00:32:53.000That's actually, from an intelligence perspective, the most critical question no one is talking about.
00:32:59.000Leverage. Because the documented information that we know exists on Hunter Biden's laptop, plus the documents we found, or the government found, in Joe Biden's Six places so far?
00:33:09.000And here's the cute thing. If you want to talk about government cheese, these guys are talking about sets of documents that were discovered for the last 20 years that Joe Biden's been hiding.
00:33:17.000Do you know I've seen sets of documents?
00:33:18.000One set could be a thousand pages of classified information.
00:33:22.000Yeah, they make it seem like it's a one-page memo that he has classified.
00:33:25.000Well, it was one set. A set could be the entire garage for all we know.
00:33:30.000And it's documents we now know from the Ukraine, from the CCP, from Russia.
00:33:34.000All of these things are interconnected.
00:33:37.000These leaders, like China and Russia and Ukraine, they do everything they can to go against their number one adversary, us.
00:33:44.000Right now, they have documentation against the sitting—think about this—the sitting commander-in-chief to the United States of America has classified information he stole.
00:33:53.000They use that to barter and gain an illegal deal.
00:33:56.000Through their son. And these guys have so much more information on those two individuals who are basically running our country.
00:34:03.000And you want to talk about leverage points?
00:34:05.000You want to talk about an Intel pressure switch that's just waiting to ignite?
00:34:15.000They're not worrying about a two-year election cycle where they've got to promise stuff and give people free shit and basically buy a vote.
00:34:22.000Even if they can't do it, they'll promise it, and then they'll fail the student loan thing, the insanity.
00:34:32.000This is where we need to be in 100 years, and it doesn't matter what gets in the way.
00:34:35.000I'm not saying that's right, but I'm saying...
00:34:38.000You don't think they're taking advantage of Joe Biden and the idiocy and even our process?
00:34:44.000And that's what I think Americans are finally starting to learn, because they're paying attention, is how our government actually works.
00:34:52.000Let's talk about the money that they're sending over the Ukraine.
00:34:55.000I'm not saying we shouldn't help other countries, but when we got 55,000 homeless veterans in this country, two dozen of which take their lives every day by suicide, maybe we should spend it on the people that defended this nation.
00:35:07.000And the worst, I mean, I don't want to call it the worst part, But Ukraine is what I call the modern-day Afghanistan, and here's why.
00:35:14.000There is no banking system in the Ukraine.
00:35:17.000There is no way to monitor and track the dollars we send over there in the billions.
00:35:21.000And it's siphoned off by whatever rogue officials and padded into Zelensky's foreign-seased bank accounts somewhere in Southeast Asia.
00:35:28.000And we are just giving money away, and that's not even to mention the military equipment we've lit on fire by sending over there and depleting our resources.
00:35:36.000Well, of course. And then you have Putin buying the stuff we left in Afghanistan, $86 billion worth, to use against us and our equipment.
00:35:42.000Yeah, we're creating a billionaire oligarch class in Ukraine.
00:35:46.000By the way, we're doing it here, too, because I imagine some of that money is coming back as a kickback to the big war machine in the United States, right?
00:36:03.000Fuckers, like, we watched big pharma get rich for two years.
00:36:08.000Now it's like, well, big war, we're sitting on the sidelines that they've been watching, and they're like, it's our turn again, and we're just going to say okay.
00:36:15.000So, I mean, some of it is coming back here.
00:36:18.000But that doesn't mean it's right. Like, no one in America wants to be in the never-ending wars.
00:36:22.000And as long as that money spigot is going, there's no incentive for Zelensky to get out of the table.
00:36:27.000They know they're not going to target him.
00:36:29.000You know, it's such a precarious position for him that he can go be on Hollywood award shows and zoom in to, like, these sorts of, like, every politician and actor in America has the Zelensky photo op.
00:36:42.000It never ends. There's no endgame if we continue until we cut off the money and say, you guys better come to an agreement.
00:36:47.000And it's like everything else, the money.
00:36:48.000So when I was Chief of Staff at the Defense Department, my first call, my first five calls were the heads of Boeing, Lockheed, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, and another big provider.
00:36:56.000And I said, the Defense Industrial Complex provides great work for the American people that we need, but you guys are also the biggest wasters of money on planet Earth, and you're connected to the boondoggle in Washington, D.C. on Capitol Hill because of the kickback schemes and also the golden parachutes you guys have going out on a rotating basis.
00:37:13.000Let me give you one example. We have service-to-air missiles, right?
00:37:16.000They take a long time to build one battery system.
00:37:19.000We sent seven years worth of SAMs to the Ukraine under the Biden administration.
00:37:23.000That means if we spent the next seven years building, then we'd be back to zero.
00:37:27.000That is tens of billions of dollars that we have shifted over there.
00:37:31.000And they want to say... SAM is a surface-to-air missile.
00:37:33.000So, like, the stuff we're using now or could be using to shoot other Chinese intrusions out of the sky, we won't be back to baseline for seven years if we started this instant.
00:37:42.000Exactly. And the cute thing is, the Biden administration is like, no, no, we're just helping them with money and machinery.
00:37:49.000Who operates this money and machinery?
00:37:50.000Do you just give them an M1 Abrams tank and you're like, here are the keys, go ahead, drive it down Broadway in downtown Kiev?
00:38:01.000American soldiers. And it's cute by a half.
00:38:03.000You know who's on the ground right now?
00:38:05.000American contractors who used to be soldiers, who have a job with the United States government so they can say there's no uniformed officers on the ground.
00:38:12.000We are entering the Afghan phase of entry into the Ukraine, and we're going to be there unless this government stops.
00:38:18.000Russia sits on 6,000-plus nuclear missiles.
00:38:20.000You have a dictator, clearly, who many say is unwell, but who is also probably overseeing what I imagine most think is the great underperform of, like, modern military warfare.
00:38:32.000Meaning everyone figured, hey, Russia will steamroll these guys, they'll be over in two weeks.
00:38:35.000And everyone's realizing, wow, like, Russia's a paper tiger, but for the nukes.
00:38:39.000But, like, you know, ground forces clearly not up to par.
00:38:42.000They're doing that. A lot of that's because we're bolstering that aid and everything like that.
00:38:45.000But, again, what's the worst that could happen when you have a lunatic egomaniac with 6,000 nukes saying, hey, we've been basically at war with the United States?
00:38:55.000Not Ukraine. And that's the problem, and he knows that.
00:38:59.000They've partnered together. They've partnered with Iran, and they're saying America is lighting itself on fire, depleting of itself civil resources.
00:39:05.000Here's another thing. They won't even take our phone calls.
00:39:08.000Remember, we'll get to the balloon thing, but these leaders in Russia and China will not take the phone calls of our Secretary of State, our Secretary of Defense, our Joint Chief of Staff at the White House, or anything like that, like they did, like I was on during the Trump administration, because they have no respect For the Commander-in-Chief in our chain of command here.
00:39:26.000And that, to me, is the biggest harm to American nationalism.
00:39:49.000And, you know, you're going to take Blinken's phone call?
00:39:51.000He got up there after the Afghan debacle and said to the world, like, I believe the exact quote was he was shocked and dismayed that the Taliban...
00:40:01.000Remember this one? Did not install a more diverse and inclusive government.
00:40:07.000Did they think they were going to have a trans coalition on the Taliban government that spent 20 years throwing homosexuals off of buildings?
00:40:24.000One, this DOD's first action in the Biden administration, what we call CONOPS, concepts of operations, how the DOD moves its machinery, you know, how to take on terrorism, how to get us out of Afghanistan.
00:40:33.000Their first con-op in the Biden administration was on climate change.
00:40:38.000The Department of Defense's first operational plan to move 3 million employees in the United States of America was on climate change and whether or not the sun would set tomorrow.
00:41:01.000They don't have anything going after the African-American gentleman that mowed down a Christmas parade that was clearly saying racist stuff, because it's not racist if someone other than a white male Republican wearing a MAGA hat and an AR-15 does it, right? No, you're absolutely right.
00:41:18.000Or you. Or me. We'll talk about that later.
00:41:21.000But the second serious part of that tragic consequence of that, focusing on white rage in the climate, is you make the men and women in our intel community and military focus on that target.
00:41:34.000And what happens? China and Russia come in while we're looking left, and we're spending billions in the Ukraine, and they come in and say, how can we get after our adversary's stupidity?
00:41:44.000You know what you do? We'll fly aerial balloons over there.
00:41:47.000By the way, one that doesn't get discovered until it's well into our airspace.
00:41:51.000Others that make it all the way through.
00:41:52.000And then when we do discover it, it takes six days to shoot it down.
00:41:56.000Again, you've got to question, like, does China have something on Joe Biden?
00:41:59.000Because they must be looking and, like, laughing their asses off.
00:42:04.000So talk about that. I mean, what's going through the process?
00:42:06.000Like, how... Like, it feels like when they finally shot down that other balloon and then they start talking about shooting the other ones down, it's like he was bullied in it by Twitter.
00:42:15.000Right? It's like, or truth, socially, people on social media were like, ah, do you think it's a great idea to allow them to continue to gather information?
00:42:23.000Like, no, no, no. We're going to let them get through the spine.
00:42:26.000Now, I'm sure they could do a lot of this stuff with satellites.
00:42:42.000They've won the actual intel collection game and the propaganda game.
00:42:45.000Now look, let's just take the one balloon and we'll talk about the others later.
00:42:48.000We have to look at it from an intelligence collection standpoint.
00:42:51.000What's its payload? What's its movement?
00:42:53.000Why didn't NORTHCOM, Northern Command, a combatant command that is responsible for the territorial safety of the United States of America, detect this thing when it was hitting the Aleutian Islands and Alaska?
00:43:04.000And then why did it take seven days of intel collection that China was getting live feedback Because they were doing diversity and inclusion training.
00:44:07.000We kill terrorists overseas. You know what happens?
00:44:08.000Donald Trump brings home 54 American hostages.
00:44:11.000He winds us out of three never-ending wars without losing a single American civilian casualty.
00:44:15.000But when you switch it off to white rage and the sunset and other biodiversity gender projects, I hate to make fun of it, these things happen.
00:44:25.000Four aerial objects over the United States in one week span.
00:44:29.000China laughing all the way home with the intel they got.
00:44:32.000And by the way, no one has actually stepped down to connect with where this balloon was going over.
00:44:36.000It was going over military installations of the United States.
00:45:30.000Of course it was. To what Vladimir Putin was doing with us.
00:45:33.000Now, Joe Biden has had that opportunity.
00:45:35.000Not one person in the public, not one person in his cabinet has said, why don't we expel the Chinese diplomats here for that balloon stunt?
00:45:41.000Not one. And when Milley went to call his counterpart after we detected the balloon, or I believe we detected earlier, they just lied to the American people about it.
00:45:49.000That guy wouldn't even take his phone call.
00:45:51.000He wouldn't take the phone call from the guy who said, I'll call China if we're going to attack them during the Trump administration.
00:45:57.000This is how much respect they have for our military leadership, which is why we are in the hole we are in, and that is a loss for America.
00:46:04.000Well, so, okay, like, obviously the balloon stuff seems like it's really real, but it also feels like it could be a distraction.
00:46:10.000I think we're guilty of this on the conservative side.
00:46:11.000We find the one thing that they're doing that's incompetent, and we pounce on it.
00:46:14.000But, like, you read the Nord Stream 2 article, right?
00:46:17.000There was that article by a journalist that basically was like, and of course we did it, like...
00:46:21.000Of course. Just like, when was the Wuhan lab leak theory not the most plausible answer?
00:46:26.000So, for those of you who didn't know, Nordstrom, the big pipeline, gas pipeline from Russia to Germany and all that stuff, was blown up while we were doing military exercises or shortly thereafter.
00:46:56.000And, like, is some of the balloon stuff a distraction from the fact that this stuff came out this week and no one's talking about we took a preemptive strike against the largest nuclear power in the world who we're now in a proxy war with?
00:47:09.000I'm like, feels like a really big freaking deal.
00:47:14.000And again, it was always the most plausible solution, but, like, it happens, and we're like, oh, yeah, the Russians did it to themselves.
00:47:21.000I'm like, the Russians shot themselves for, it cost themselves billions of dollars and or the stream of income.
00:47:27.000They're not that dumb. It made no sense, and it never does, but, like, everyone, the media is doing us such a disservice that they just, they take the DNC talking points, they buy the administration talking points, they run with them, even if they make no sense whatsoever, and, like, we don't actually have any real information about a plausible act of war against the world's largest nuclear power.
00:48:36.000But what I'm saying is, Joe Biden reversed course of the Trump administration policy, allowed Russia to finish the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and then allowed Russia to fund Germany's gas needs, and the rest of Western Europe, and an intel collection standpoint against United States interests.
00:48:51.000Now it comes out that America probably blew it up.
00:48:54.000And here's the thing. Do we have the capability to do that as a former chief of staff of DOD? Yeah, we can do that.
00:49:03.000Then, like he always does, has the media try to cover for him and then insert some ridiculous national security program to go in there and upend the world order to put us on the brink of World War III. And nobody is talking about it because the media, as you said, doesn't want to hurt Joe Biden and the radical left-wing agenda.
00:49:21.000Well, it also feels like the way they did it based on the article, it was like the way to circumvent Congress and, you know, this administration, right?
00:49:28.000Trump was going to get us into World War III. Trump's the only guy that seemed to keep us out of it, right?
00:49:34.000But also, this is going to be the administration of transparency.
00:49:37.000But they seem to avoid being able to bring this to anyone in Congress.
00:49:40.000Now, again, I understand that if they still had Adam Schiff and Swalwell on the Intel Committee, it would have leaked in seconds to get a nice hit piece on Republicans on CNN. But You know, how does that happen?
00:49:52.000Because it feels like this is never-ending.
00:49:54.000I mean, you were senior counsel to the House Intelligence Committee, right?
00:49:58.000You were the guy, the architect of that memo.
00:50:00.000How do we stop this stuff from happening again?
00:50:03.000What did you do then? How did you get the information?
00:50:08.000How do the Republicans, how does Jim Jordan, How does James Comer, how do the guys now that have been tasked with doing this stuff, how do they get this information?
00:50:17.000Because I know they'll try to slow roll it.
00:50:18.000I know everyone's going to put up everything.
00:50:20.000How do we make sure that the Republicans actually follow through on the task that they were given to by the American people, that they don't get stalled, that they don't get laid and mired in the bureaucracy?
00:50:43.000It's not out yet, but it's coming out.
00:50:44.000But as Donald Trump called it, it's the blueprint for how we win back the White House and win back our agencies in government to work for the American people.
00:50:51.000And how you do it is you have to actually hold these people, these government gangsters, as I call them, accountable.
00:50:57.000What do you do? Okay, the same thing we did in Russiagate.
00:50:59.000It's not rocket science. You don't have to be a lawyer or some fancy intel guy to figure this stuff out.
00:51:03.000One- Follow the money, follow the money, follow the money.
00:51:05.000What does that require? Subpoenas got to go out the door at these committees of weaponization of government and Comer's Oversight Committee yesterday against the people that we know, like the James Baker and Company that are outside of government and those that are inside of government, the FBI Election Security Task Force.
00:51:20.000Subpoena every single one of those people yesterday.
00:51:24.000Then, subpoena the banking records for every financial transaction between the FBI and Big Tech, between Twitter, between Facebook.
00:51:32.000And I bet you, I've never said this publicly, I bet you there are dozens of contracts between the FBI and Big Tech for...
00:51:39.000Billions of dollars. And or you retire from the FBI only to be hired by Twitter and Facebook seven seconds later.
00:51:46.000Well, I mean, we all watched some of that testimony.
00:51:49.000I mean, it seems clear. Like, A, they perjured themselves.
00:51:51.000They lied before Congress. If I'd have done that in my 50 hours of testimony, I'd be in jail right now.
00:51:56.000I mean, it never ends, but there was nothing there.
00:52:02.000I mean, how did you do it with, you know, Russia, Russia, Russia?
00:52:06.000So you were like the chief guy looking for that.
00:52:08.000You found out, and Devin, who you worked for, was the only man in America, including, frankly, the Republican side, who was actually the only guy 100% right about everything.
00:53:04.000I talked about issuing subpoenas for people.
00:53:06.000Then you've got to issue subpoenas for the receipts, the documents.
00:53:09.000Because what I learned in my time in government is that the people that did Russiagate, Comey, Clapper, McCabe, Strzok, all these people, these government gangsters, are so corrupt and so egotistical that they will write down their own wrongdoing because they'll think no one will ever catch us.
00:53:23.000So you have to go get the FBI's documentation, the DOJ's documentation, the DOD's documentation.
00:53:28.000So you've got to subpoena. Every single document on these committees, we have the authority to do so.
00:53:33.000It's like Schiff with Twitter, where he's literally telling them, like, I mean, even Twitter was like, ah, it's a little too far.
00:53:38.000Like, where left is fucking lunatics, but, like, that's a little bit far.
00:53:43.000We're not going to censor other congressmen to that extent.
00:53:46.000And yet... He can do it every day and get on TV and lie about it.
00:53:49.000He can. And there's no consequence or ramifications.
00:53:52.000And yet, again, what they did to Devin, they tried to drive him out of Congress.
00:53:56.000He's not that guy, but they would have done anything to make that happen.
00:53:59.000They made it hard for him to do his day job.
00:54:01.000They made it hard for him to maintain a powerful position on a committee to be able to do that.
00:54:06.000We're not playing the same game the other side is playing.
00:54:08.000They're much more vicious. They're much more intelligent about it.
00:54:11.000We're playing a game like we're pretending they're still...
00:54:29.000Why do these subpoenas have to go out the door immediately?
00:54:31.000Let's do to them what they did to us and our entire team.
00:54:34.000Except the only difference is we were working for America and they're working against America.
00:54:37.000So the subpoenas got to go out the door.
00:54:38.000Then you start bringing in witnesses for these things called transcribed interviews.
00:54:42.000And they don't have to be public right away.
00:54:44.000You went through it. You sit in a closed room for 10 hours, for 20 hours, and you pepper them with questions.
00:54:49.000Then you get the receipts, the subpoenaed documents that you have, and you give them to the American public.
00:54:53.000And I know your next question. Well, these guys aren't going to give them over.
00:54:56.000These government gangsters are going to hold these documents because it hides their corruption.
00:54:59.000There is one way in Congress that you can get the documents from every single agency and department, and it's called this thing called fencing.
00:55:06.000The Speaker of the House has to come in and give the authority to the chairs, Comer and Jordan, in this instance, to say, you as the chairman have the ability, now that the subpoenas are at the door, to fence pockets of money from the FBI, from DOJ, from DOD, from CIA. And I'm not saying take operational funds.
00:55:22.000I'm saying, take the 10 grand, the 10 million for the pet project, the new building here, the armchair there, the 10 new escalades there, and you start, and those millions start adding up to 10 million.
00:55:33.000They start adding up to 20 million. And you hold it.
00:55:36.000We'll release the funds, and Congress has the ability to do this retroactively.
00:55:40.000Even though it was last year's budget, this year they can hold it.
00:55:43.000And I did it once in Russiagate because Paul Ryan was feckless and only allowed me to do it one time.
00:55:48.000I mean, think about it. That's what we're working against, folks.
00:55:52.000We could have discovered the Russia-Russia hoax before spending $50 million in U.S. government taxpayer funds, before dragging the country through three years of bullshit, preventing an agenda from We're good to go.
00:56:31.000He wanted to be loved in D.C. His wife's a big lib, all this stuff.
00:56:35.000He wanted to be invited to the cool person party.
00:56:37.000And in D.C., what people don't know, you can be a Republican in D.C. and have a really easy existence if you're weak.
00:56:45.000If you're a pathetic pussy, you can have a great existence there because they know that when they need you, you'll be there for the Democrats.
00:56:54.000You can go back to wherever you are in the Midwest and have an R by your name and tell You'll get a board seat somewhere.
00:57:28.000If these committees fence the money, What we did back then was we fenced like four million dollars not even in government speak that's like 10 bucks yeah overnight 1 000 pages of fbi and doj documentation showed up to my office doorstep the next morning including the illegal fisa including the bruce or 302 including the bogus christopher steele information including the amounts of money they paid taxpayer money Two, the unlawful sources they used to gin up dirt on Donald Trump, paid for by the DNC. That happened overnight in one instance.
00:58:02.000Look at the authority we have with this new speaker and this new team.
00:58:06.000If we sent out just a hundred subpoenas and then used the fencing power on, say, ten of them, we would have enough ammunition to arm the American people with the truth.
00:58:16.000And I'm not saying do a thousand things.
00:58:17.000Yeah. Okay, I think that's important, right?
00:58:19.000Because I think, you know, you want to go after the laptop.
00:58:22.000You want to go after this. You want to China, Russia, this.
00:58:24.000Like, what would be your, you know, even have, once you get out of sort of that, you have the border and the fentanyl crisis and all that.
00:58:31.000What would be the two, three things that you would say, hey, there's...
00:58:36.000This is where we expose the government corruption at the end of this.
00:58:39.000It's probably a little bit under all of them, but what would be the big ones that we should be focusing on?
00:58:43.000Because I think that's part of the other tactic.
00:58:44.000There's so much out there you want to focus, but there's only so much time, only so much energy, only so much manpower to go after it.
00:58:51.000If you're going after a thousand little things, you'll never get to that next level where you're like, oh, here.
00:58:57.000Once you have that oh, here moment, I feel like That's when the floodgates open because you know it's probably the same for each of the thousand things, but you just got to get to one or two of those big ones to expose it all.
00:59:22.000We know it's an invasion. We know Chinese fentanyl is pouring in through our streets, and we know Mayorkas is doing nothing about it because Biden has directed him to do so.
00:59:31.000The third one is Fauci and COVID. That's the third one, that we have to go after the vax mandates, the lack of intelligence, and the lying to the American people that cost millions of people their lives.
00:59:43.000If we do those three things, just imagine if we do those three things somewhat well.
00:59:47.000How much information and accountability we can have out there for the American public.
00:59:51.000We could win back the middle that was lied to for the last seven years, and we could steer this country back on the course to having government work for the American people.
00:59:59.000Yeah, listen, I think those are so good.
01:00:01.000And again, for me, it's like, there's ones I take personally.
01:00:03.000Like the Hunter Biden thing, I take it so personally.
01:00:06.000Maybe it becomes, but there's so many.
01:00:09.000It's so bad. And I do think, you know, I think, and I talk about this on the show a lot, I sort of say, like, you've got to sort of support the red state economy.
01:00:17.000Like, the other side, you know, you see it, but people are finally waking up to it, right?
01:00:20.000People, Disney stock is down because we're sick of getting this crap jammed down our throats.
01:00:25.000Netflix, the same thing. But they all say, well, build your own if you don't like it.
01:00:29.000Well, you do. And then Amazon Web Services throws you off their servers.
01:00:32.000They don't make it that easy. I mean, you've been a big part of that with TrueSocial and just trying to combat that.
01:00:41.000Because I'd love not to live in sort of two separate Americas right now, but I don't think we have a choice.
01:00:46.000I mean, the other side, you see it with the difference between the rioters of the 2020 Summer of Love, you know, all over the country, murder, mayhem, looting, arson, and you see January 6th people, half of it, you see people that were taking selfies that are in jail for two years for peacefully protesting, you know, something that, frankly, was pretty sketchy to begin with.
01:01:09.000How do we, how do you reconcile some of that?
01:01:12.000And I think the only way to do it is through those investigations we outlined, because they all fall under that.
01:01:17.000When you talk DOJ, FBI, you encompass the January 6th folks.
01:01:20.000When you talk COVID vaccine mandates and the farce that they perpetrated on the world, that's all Fauci and COVID. But the only way I've learned, in my opinion, that the American people care is not by having government officials or former government officials recite to them what they think happened.
01:02:02.000Didn't James Comer, like today, said, well, it's not exactly what I said.
01:02:05.000I'm like, no, bullshit. 51 Intel people told us that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinfo.
01:02:11.000I'd be willing to bet that 100% of them knew that was not the case, but they had a result that they wanted to get to.
01:02:18.000They knew they'd be getting positions back within government.
01:02:22.000They knew they'd be getting a contributorship on CNN or MSDNC or one of the leftist, you know, just propaganda creation machines.
01:02:31.000I bet you they all knew that that wasn't the case.
01:02:33.000And I bet you all of those same people knew that Russia, Russia, Russia was bullshit from moment number one, or at least within the first few weeks of it, they knew it was there, but they stayed silent on that and did the opposite to protect Joe Biden and the Democrats.
01:03:01.000Clapper, the guy who signed the letter, the former head of the CIA and director of national intelligence, along with former SecDefs and 50 other people, signed this memo, and the letter and the article were good for Two plus years, but now you have these former government gangsters going back and saying, Politico actually did us a disservice.
01:03:22.000That is the perfect example for the American people to say an election was rigged, they were in on it, they got caught, and now they're blaming the media that helped put it up.
01:03:58.000This is pretty cool, and I kind of just thought of it on the spot.
01:04:01.000So all these people, Clapper, the former SEC devs, Leon Panetta, all these guys that signed this letter, you know how they make their money?
01:04:08.000They still have an active security clearance.
01:04:10.000They still have an active top-secret security clearance.
01:04:12.000You know who gives it to them? The United States Congress.
01:04:14.000You know what we can do? Take the money that sponsors their active security clearances and shut them down for lying to the American people and rigging a presidential and congressional election.
01:04:22.000Okay, so that's another one we've got to bring to these guys.
01:04:52.000I'm like, but that guy has no chance of winning.
01:04:54.000Right. If McCarthy didn't get 20 votes, that guy would have not gotten 90 votes from Republicans on the first ballot.
01:05:01.000So what people don't always understand is sort of the difference between jockeying for TV time and Twitter likes and campaign fundraising emails with a hot take that is just not rooted in Anything based on fact or reality.
01:05:18.000But these are big ones that I think we can bring to them.
01:05:21.000I think we have to because that's how things are going to get done.
01:05:26.000I've been really happy with what McCarthy's done so far and the people he's put on there and the ideas and the things that they're taking on.
01:05:32.000But we've got to make sure that we follow through in the proper way.
01:05:36.000He's responding to a lot of what happened because there was debate.
01:05:57.000And here's the thing even about our Republicans and the guys we like.
01:05:59.000They are in an elected office for every two or six years.
01:06:02.000So unless the constituents remind them on a daily basis that this one investigation is important about DOJ, or this one investigation about the border and COVID, or this one investigation about Fauci, unless they are reminded every single day by the Americans who ask you when you're on the road and you talk to the millions of Americans that you talk to, then they will not follow through because the bandwidth...
01:06:22.000Look, I'm telling you from being on the inside during Russiagate and quarterbacking that thing.
01:06:27.000Everybody had a million and one ideas when I was running this investigation.
01:06:29.000Why aren't you doing this? What about calling this guy?
01:06:31.000What about doing that? You just got to focus on a couple of lines of effort.
01:06:36.000We went after the money and DOJ, the DNC, the FBI, and the media, and we won.
01:06:41.000And that playbook can win again if we just use it on the right targets.
01:06:44.000I think that's right. I mean, what we saw with the release of some of the Twitter files, we understand, like, hey, no one's pretending that we're in, like, a fair fight anymore.
01:06:52.000So I think that was good. I think you see, you know, James Baker and the FBI and Twitter trying to actively suppress this.
01:06:58.000I mean, you know, you see the connection, obviously, with Russia, Biden, Hunter, all of this stuff, all coming together.
01:07:05.000But yeah, we've got to focus on those couple things so that we can get, you know, out there.
01:07:12.000So give us a little bit, like, I think we want to, you know, there's so much here we could talk about that one for weeks, but give us a little bit, like, behind the scenes working in the Trump administration.
01:07:22.000What were the challenges? What was the, you know, the good, the bad, and the ugly?
01:07:26.000Was there a story that sort of gives you, indicative of the insanity, you know, obviously within the confines of your, you know, classified...
01:07:34.000Yeah, no, look, so working for President Trump, you know, some of the greatest jobs I'll ever have.
01:07:38.000Chief of Staff at DOD, Deputy Director of Intel, and I also ran counterterrorism form at the White House.
01:07:42.000And he said, look, on these lines of effort, let's do a couple of things.
01:07:46.000Wipe out al-Qaeda senior leadership, kill the emirs of ISIS, bring home American hostages, end the forever wars, and protect America.
01:07:54.000And we added meat to every one of those lines of effort by bringing home 54 American hostages, more than every president before him combined.
01:08:02.000And we didn't brag about it, by killing Baghdadi, by killing Soleimani.
01:08:06.000I was in the Situation Room when these calls were being made.
01:08:09.000Wait, wait. Do you mean austere religious scholar?
01:08:12.000So if you're with the Washington Post, he's not the leader of Al-Qaeda or ISIS or whatever it is.
01:08:17.000He's an austere religious scholar because that's what we're up against.
01:08:21.000You read those headlines and you're like, it must be a joke.
01:08:24.000I feel like I'm waiting for Ashton Kutcher to jump out of a cake and be like, ah, you're being punked.
01:08:28.000I'm just kidding. But they're serious.
01:08:30.000But there is one story for me that encapsulated, and I've never told it publicly, about working for President Trump and why we were so motivated to put the mission first, as I write about in my book, Governing Gangsters.
01:08:41.000We were giving the highest presidential honor we could give to a clandestine unit for an operation that we did to safeguard the world.
01:08:47.000And we were down there at the unit headquarters, and President Trump's there.
01:08:51.000And we had an American hostage being held or was captured somewhere in Africa.
01:08:56.000And so I take the boss and I pull him aside and I say, sir, I know you're busy with this stuff, but it took me five minutes to explain it to him.
01:09:04.000He assembled his team and he goes, so what's the ask?
01:09:06.000And he goes, sir, we need your authority to retrieve this American hostage.
01:09:18.000He was like, of course we protect Americans.
01:09:21.000And you know what the awesome part is?
01:09:23.000This raid happened. It was one of the fastest raids that ever occurred without loss of lice, the quickest retrieval.
01:09:29.000And it happened because Donald Trump said to do it.
01:09:33.000Even though Mark Esper, his Secretary of Defense at the time, tried to abort that mission, it happened because of his courageous leadership.
01:09:40.000And he said, as the Commander-in-Chief, we are going unless there is threat to operational force of mission.
01:09:46.000And when you talk to the guys, like you guys know, the SEAL guys and all these guys and our Special Forces operators and our brave warriors, you ask them, when you're downrange with them, You learn whether or not they can be in trouble.
01:09:57.000And what President Trump understood more than anyone was never jeopardize U.S. soldiers' lives unnecessarily, but utilize them at every instance to safeguard America, whether it was killing terrorists or bringing home hostages.
01:10:11.000And in that one moment, You should have seen the uproar in the room because we were just so motivated to get after it.
01:10:20.000And that's the type of Commander-in-Chief he was.
01:10:22.000We knew we could rely on him to put the American First mission out there, and we knew we could rely on him to carry the flack that the media was going to give him no matter what the victory was or wasn't.
01:10:34.000And to me, the way he had me lead us out of Afghanistan was one of the honors of my life because We went out on a methodical fashion.
01:10:42.000We flew 65,000 miles to every theater of war we had on the ground to ask the soldiers in Afghanistan specifically, should we stay or should we go?
01:10:50.000And every single one of them said, it's time to leave, sir.
01:10:53.000And we left and not one of them died because we did it.
01:11:13.000I love it. What would you do differently in these institutions?
01:11:17.000Because again, I think one of the things that was great was coming in without any governmental experience, but I think that was also one of the things that they weaponized against you, because they could slow roll.
01:11:26.000They put in someone, no, no, this guy would be great.
01:11:46.000Like, I see them, you know, I do a lot of shooting and all these things, and, like, there's a lot of overlap, and they're like, we're so embarrassed, it's disgusting, but we can't, like, we'll lose our jobs if we talk about this stuff.
01:11:54.000Now, finally, there's some whistleblowers.
01:11:55.000Again, we've got to get it over the line, because, of course, this was going on, but we've got to get it over the line, because otherwise it doesn't matter.
01:12:01.000What would you do if you were in charge to prevent that from happening again?
01:12:11.000In business, I always felt like you could find people's motivation because, you know, it's usually about money or you're trying to win or, you know, get a deal or get an asset.
01:12:21.000It's like everyone's playing a game of, you know, if this administration's going to be gone, I've got to make sure to please the rhino that's going to be next in line so I get that name.
01:12:28.000Everyone's... It's such an incestuous world that you think it's going to be right.
01:12:32.000You think the guy that's giving you advice is going to be giving you real advice, but he's not.
01:12:36.000I mean, it's all a setup for political capital to be cashed in later on.
01:12:40.000I agree. No pun intended. I agree, and that's why we went after things like the defense industrial complex.
01:12:45.000I mean, guys like Mark Esper leave to get their $10 million beta at Raytheon.
01:12:49.000That stuff has to end. Like Donald Trump came out and said already, one policy thing was, if you're in government, you can't go work in private tech.
01:12:55.000You can't go work in these big industries.
01:12:57.000But how you get it right is, and look, when you all came in for the first time, I'd already been in government for, I think, 13 years.
01:13:04.000You are right to entrust the senior leadership in government to do what?
01:13:07.000Work for the American people, not weaponizing.
01:13:09.000But they didn't. That's what's scary to me.
01:13:12.000I was like, I still, you know, with all of the things, you know, when they went after General Flynn, when they went after some of these guys, some of the conversations, even with Devin, I was like, I don't know, like, the CIA is saying it's false.
01:13:21.000Like, there's got to be some truth to it.
01:13:23.000The FBI, like, there's no way there could be this much smoke without fire.
01:13:45.000And yet they are. The hard lift is done, right?
01:13:47.000We've proven, whether it's through Russiagate, or whether it's through Jan 6th, or Hunter Biden's laptop, we've proven these corrupt actors.
01:13:53.000So now the hard lift of saying the director of the FBI was corrupt, the AG is corrupt, the DOD leadership is corrupt.
01:14:00.000We can show the American people tangible, actual efforts to say, we've got to wipe these people out.
01:14:05.000The other thing I learned is, okay, who's the bench?
01:14:07.000Who do we bring in? And what I can tell you from my 16 years in government, that I promise you, whether it's the FBI or DOJ or DOD or CIA, that bench exists.
01:14:19.000To put these people in positions of power.
01:14:21.000And I don't just mean cabinet secretary.
01:14:23.000This is where we went wrong a little bit.
01:14:24.000If we get the top one person in, we're good.
01:14:59.000When's it coming out? When the government releases my book.
01:15:02.000It's out for presale on governmentgangsters.com, and you can get a copy right now, but it's been three months and they still won't release my manuscript.
01:15:09.000That just tells you how on point we are.
01:15:11.000But what I'm proud of is the men and women I served with in the Trump administration in multiple agencies and departments.
01:15:18.000I've worked with all those people all over the world, and they are ready to be the next deputies, the next undersecretaries.
01:15:23.000So basically, I'm calling you and be like, hey, we need some personnel help.
01:15:26.000If you do that, half of Congress is going to be really ticked off.
01:16:07.000How is it that there are people that are still, you know, there?
01:16:10.000You know, was there—I know you were in the room for some of this stuff.
01:16:13.000I mean, was the reluctance by Pelosi's and others to actually protect the Capitol—was this a setup to allow something to happen?
01:16:21.000You know, because I do feel like you can't have a conversation not saying that these people— Again, violent offenders aside, you know, if people did something, you know, truly violent, you know, I saw some of that, but like 10, 12 people, I don't know, maybe, you know, not a lot.
01:16:38.000And I saw a lot of people walking in velvet robes, taking selfies, maybe, you know, that are in jail two years later.
01:16:43.000What was wrong? How much of that was known or actually safeguarded against?
01:16:48.000I think a lot of people have been vilified about this thing, and a lot of people are in jail two years later, and yet it seems like it was actually a setup.
01:16:55.000Yeah, so I was Chief of Staff at DOD on January 6th.
01:16:58.000Okay, so me and the SECDEF were responsible for that entire National Guard mission set.
01:17:02.000And if you listen to nothing else I'm about to say, go read the January 6th committee's report on the Trump DOD's actions on January 6th.
01:17:18.000They still found that we acted without delay, without unnecessarily delaying anyone, authorized the National Guard appropriately, and secured the facility.
01:17:28.000Now, if you go into the weeds of that, which is why the January 6th committee didn't want my transcript released, and it was the last one they released, We called over there and we said, look, the National Guard, in order for it to be lawfully deployed in America, one, you need a presidential authorization and a request from the local mayor or governor, right? Pelosi or Bowser.
01:17:48.000Four days before January 6th, I'm in the Oval Office talking about a very sensitive operation with Donald Trump.
01:17:54.000And he goes, by the way, if you need up to 20,000 National Guards men and women authorized, Roger that, sir.
01:17:59.000We got the first leg of that law done.
01:18:01.000Then we go to Pelosi and Bowser, and you know what they do?
01:18:24.000Nothing there. And yet, there were, presumably, there were some people talking about, even if it was going to be a peaceful protest, like, hey, maybe you want to take some precautions.
01:18:32.000But they knew about it, and they actively denied it.
01:18:35.000They did that. They didn't have the Capitol Police there, and they didn't have uniformed FBI whose mission it is to secure the Capitol there.
01:18:40.000They could have had all those things and the fence.
01:18:42.000Now, let's fast forward. They were too busy worried about, you know, moms who don't want, you know, their children being indoctrinated, calling them domestic terrorists, I guess.
01:19:21.000So, it's the greatest threat to democracy ever!
01:19:24.000And she's worried about congressional food services.
01:19:26.000So, like, let's, you know, again, we saw a lot of acting and we saw a lot of crocodile tears and AOC was, you know, it was a threat to her life from a building far away and other, but...
01:19:36.000Nancy Pelosi could get on TV and all these other leaders and talk about the greatest threat to democracy, and many said it was worse than 9-11 and worse than Pearl Harbor.
01:19:44.000It was all bullshit, but that was her concern while it's going.
01:19:48.000That was her statement. And mind you, we had already flown congressional leadership in military aircraft to a safe location, but we'll talk about that later.
01:19:54.000So now we're like, ma'am, our priority is assisting law enforcement.
01:19:59.000We are the National Guard. You do not want uniformed military officers.
01:20:02.000Oh, by the way, it's illegal for us to deploy domestically.
01:20:05.000And they finally gave us the authorization we needed to complete the second part of the law.
01:20:09.000We had the fastest deployment of the United States National Guard to the District of Columbia since the Revolutionary
01:20:36.000Put it up overnight with our brave National Guard men and women.
01:20:38.000These are all things they could have done to secure the security of the Capitol, but they chose not to do it.
01:20:44.000And that's the thing people need to take away from January 6th, especially when the January 6th committee tells you, we did it right under the Trump administration.
01:20:51.000That tells you everything you need to know about their entire investigation.
01:20:55.000But it doesn't matter. Because that's not...
01:21:05.000For two years they were berated with, it's an affront to democracy.
01:21:09.000It's this, that, and the other. And it was all garbage.
01:21:11.000Insurrection. Insurrection. I mean, it's like the dumbest, like...
01:21:14.000First and only unarmed insurrection in the history of insurrections.
01:21:18.000It's never been done before, but they want you to believe this stuff.
01:21:21.000So I guess while we're talking about sort of the government lying to you, recently there's been the information that's come out about the CIA and the deep state being involved in both the removal of Nixon, the CIA's murder of JFK. What was your reaction to that?
01:21:40.000As someone who knows sort of how the sausage is made, You know, and it seems, again, seems now, you know, 50 years later, obviously this stuff was happening, and obviously they were doing it, but like, now that it's out there and everyone's sort of pretending, like, how do the American, how should the American people look at this stuff, knowing that it's probably going on right now in Russiagate, and it's probably going on elsewhere?
01:22:03.000What are the other ones that are out there that, you know, no one's really talking about that is probably being manipulated by these agencies?
01:22:09.000Yeah, look, because of their past actions and recent actions, Russiagate onward, it's right to be skeptical of everything from, you know, what we talk about JFK, Nixon, and onwards.
01:22:18.000But I think for me, you know, having worked on the actual JFK files, which I can't get into, but the Trump administration actually did do a declassification of a portion of it.
01:22:27.000And from my standpoint, and I'm probably not going to be a fan favorite for this one, we put out everything that everyone needs to know.
01:22:32.000Having read everything in there, it's already out there.
01:22:35.000And so I think what we're doing now is chasing around shiny objects, and the left is out there saying they're talking about the JFK assassination instead of talking about whatever's important in the United States, right?
01:22:46.000But there's a balance. There's a balance.
01:22:48.000I think the balance needs to be what should we question our government about.
01:22:51.000And the things that we need to be questioning them about are things like election integrity, COVID, the border, and things that we talked about.
01:22:57.000Not necessarily specific instances that happened 20, 30, 40 years ago.
01:23:02.000The things that our modern electorate remembers that they were lied to about.
01:23:08.000And that's how we change the mission going forward, in my opinion.
01:23:12.000I don't think we need to get bogged down on certain deep dives of, you know, government.
01:23:17.000I guess that is the distraction taking you away from Russia.
01:23:20.000I hate to say it, but some of them are actually conspiracies.
01:23:23.000A lot of them aren't. But some of them just are.
01:23:25.000Well, listen, I'd say the conspiracy theorists are batting a lot better batting average than the experts in the media and all that.
01:23:32.000Okay, so you mentioned a couple times election integrity, and I think that's obviously an important one.
01:23:36.000But, you know, from what you know, from the intel side of stuff, being both in the House side, being in all...
01:23:42.000How bad is it? Because, again, I don't know that there's not one system that's being utilized, and I don't think we should be falling for the ghost of Hugo Chavez came back to manipulate the Dominion machines.
01:24:11.000So I think one of the biggest lessons people learned from the last two election cycles is how American Constitutional Republic actually works.
01:24:19.000It is not for the federal government to go out there and dictate how elections are supposed to be run.
01:24:26.000And people have learned the importance of state secretaries of state and state AGs and state gubernatorial positions.
01:24:31.000That's great. Where we failed in some of those states, like Arizona and Nevada and others, was to get people elected to those positions to change the rules To secure elections.
01:24:41.000So I think that's step one. Step two is, look, this is another thing that I say when I go out on the road and speak.
01:24:45.000They're like, how do we make it so we win the next election cycle?
01:24:51.000I don't really like it, but listen, that's the rule of the land.
01:24:55.000This has been like a tenet of this show from episode one.
01:24:58.000I go, guys, I'm going to get criticized for this.
01:25:03.000At this point, the candidate almost doesn't matter, right?
01:25:06.000John Fetterman, who's basically one step short of a vegetable, you know, maybe he's one step ahead of the average, I don't even, like, got elected a senator in Pennsylvania.
01:25:16.000I imagine the average person that voted for him in Philadelphia or Allegheny County or Pittsburgh, like, probably couldn't tell you who's actually on there, but they handed someone a ballot who filled it in for the guy that was going to just rubber stamp whatever Chuck Schumer wanted.
01:25:30.000I can't imagine any informed voter watching that debate and watching a guy not be able to form a complete sentence.
01:26:29.000We could have done it, but he wanted to be loved, not vilified in D.C. So he didn't do it.
01:26:35.000the president can't unilaterally just do this. And so people have to understand how that works. So
01:26:41.000to win, we actually have to play by the rules that were created and weaponized during COVID,
01:26:46.000you know, with state legislators and governors on the Democrat side. So to actually be able to
01:26:52.000effectuate change that makes sense, we have to play the game the way they are playing it. Then
01:26:57.000we can change the rules to make it fair. I mean, we have socialists in Europe that are like, I can't
01:27:02.000You have a two-month-long election day, and there's no ballot ID, and they just send random shit, and then they'll get on TV. It was the safest and most secure election ever.
01:27:10.000Why? There's not one shred of evidence to say that it's the safest and most secure, other than they said that, and the media ran with the talking points, so they point to countless examples of someone saying it without actually any evidence behind it.
01:27:24.000So that's a huge aspect of what we need to be doing.
01:27:26.000No, you're totally right. So when we go on the road, and we'll be on the road with Donald Trump and you and me and so many others, and we'll take on those questions, and the more we get that message through to our base, to our leadership structure, to say, you may not like it, and we don't like, of course we don't like ballot harvesting, but what I don't like, what I like less is losing.
01:27:46.000What I like less is not being in power.
01:27:54.000I'd love to be able to go, you know, and give my money to a company that I like that, you know, and not have them weaponize it against everything that I believe.
01:28:22.000We have to take the time to find those companies.
01:28:24.000We have to do that. And when we do that, maybe we can one day get to a point where we're just back to normal.
01:28:30.000But the other side has made a career and a very successful job of weaponizing every institution out there against us.
01:28:38.000And they've laughed their asses off as we've pretended like it's not a problem.
01:28:42.000And, like, we can't play that game if we want an existence, if we want a future for conservative values, for American freedom, American exceptionalism, our belief systems, because it's all on the table for the other side.
01:28:54.000And, like, if we don't think that's the case, then you haven't been watching for the last six years.
01:28:58.000And conservatives got to understand that you can't go out there and find 75 million people that are going to agree with every single position you take.
01:29:07.000We do that also. 99% will blow it because they'll take a 51% win and run and they live to fight another day and they claw back the next day.
01:29:17.000We sit there, we take some principled position on something that makes no sense.
01:29:20.000We blow a huge win for something that doesn't even mean anything to most people and we get nothing for it.
01:29:27.000And that's maybe the greatest takeaway of the night is whatever you learned here tonight or whatever we've talked about, if you can take the top priorities of how do we safeguard our border, how do we take on China, Russia, Iran, how do we make it so drugs aren't pouring into our streets, how do we safeguard our communities and make sure education is what it should be and not CRT and things like that.
01:29:46.000If we can agree on those fundamental things, we are going to win.
01:29:50.000We're going to win by a lot. We're actually winning the cultural war.
01:29:52.000Right. In my opinion, for the first, like, people, like, reasonable people are looking at what's going on, whether it's censorship, whether it's, you know, the trans insanity, and they're being like, okay, like, we've gone, we're actually for the first time winning it, you know, abortion at 10 months, wonderful, what could go wrong?
01:30:06.000I mean, these people are nuts and Finally, the pendulum has overcorrected so far that the American people are seeing it.
01:30:12.000But we have to also be able to act and capitalize on that insanity because we're working against a lot.
01:30:17.000We're working against, again, a trillion-dollar industry like big tech who's going to censor the insanity of the other side.
01:30:22.000They're going to massage it. They're going to attack a guy like you.
01:30:24.000They're going to attack a guy like me.
01:30:26.000They're going to attack a guy like Devin.
01:30:27.000They're going to make sure that the truth never really gets out or that it's the...
01:30:31.000WikiLeaks, whitewashed, like, pretend version of what happened.
01:30:33.000But that's what all information is based on.
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