00:00:05.200They want to get involved and make sure they choose who they want to be the president or even, you know, throw it off.
00:00:09.880Or, you know, even the canal, the ports that we have, Panama Canal, because they still have control over it.
00:00:15.420Hutchinson still owns them and, you know, they prevented us from being able to transact and put that under Larry Fink's, you know, BlackRock.
00:00:22.980But how much of it is things we can do for a fact to prevent it from happening versus how much of it is watching the screens constantly to see movement here, action here, action here?
00:00:43.840It never stops, and we can't ever not be diligent.
00:00:47.100So can you imagine if our electrical grid went down?
00:00:50.380We have our military bases are vulnerable to a hacking attempt. When you hear about our telecoms going down, 100% of the time we're involved in trying to figure out why that happened. Was it a hacking attempt? Did they steal personal data and information from U.S. citizens? And what can we do to ensure that that doesn't happen again?
00:01:10.220So you maybe have heard about Salt Typhoon and Volt Typhoon, where we did have bad actors hack into that critical infrastructure, and CISA is the agency and the federal government that's responsible to harden our system so that doesn't happen.
00:01:23.860And then also make sure that we're working with local states and those communities, maybe, you know, rural cooperatives or water plants, because if we are even participating with them and have our systems connected, if they get hacked into, it makes us vulnerable on a nationwide scale.
00:01:40.980And so CISA spends every day doing that and working with those technology companies and those entities to make sure that we're much safer and that we are insulated from those kind of bad actors.
00:01:51.980Yes. In the financial industry, I've been in it for 25 years. You can't go in a meeting nowadays without them talking about cybersecurity attacks with 2.2 million social security numbers were stolen from this company. They logged into the client accounts. They moved this much money.
00:02:07.160So if that's happening within insurance companies, financial firms, I can only imagine what it's like when you're going up against a country like China that wants to see us fall and them get ahead of us.
00:02:19.640But I always think about, you know, what what is the way to fight against that?
00:02:25.520Can you catch them? Because even if you if you talk to the average person right now, you're at the bar, you're having a cigar and you say, so what are the five issues that are unanswered that you wanted to get answered?
00:02:34.660Right. Is it 9-11? Is it John F. Kennedy assassination? Is it Epstein? Is it this?
00:02:40.140You'd be amazed how many people say we still don't know what happened with COVID and why isn't China being held accountable for it?
00:02:46.260is there anything like you know when uh uh ilan bought twitter and they did something called
00:02:52.000twitter files matt taibi and all these guys that went in and we saw the emails and you saw the
00:02:56.720emails from the biden administration saying you can't put that up there you can't let that article
00:03:01.080go viral you know the laptop story with new york post when you got in did you guys run any kind of
00:03:06.600a you know department of homeland security files to go back and look at all the previous communication
00:03:11.840and emails to say wait a minute they were talking to china this guy was bought did you guys do
00:03:16.660anything like that yes i feel like that's all i do patrick i mean you wouldn't even believe what
00:03:22.760i found since i've been in this department i just found the other day a whole room in in on this
00:03:27.980campus that was a secret skiff secure facility that had files nobody knew existed so we just
00:03:34.460happened to have a an employee walk by a door and wonder what it was and started asking questions
00:03:40.740we went in there, there was individuals working there that had secret files that nobody knew about
00:03:45.120on some of these most controversial topics like that. And now I've got that turned over to
00:03:49.480attorneys and we're getting to the bottom of what exactly happened there. You know, we have
00:03:53.620CBP, which is, you know, Customs and Border Protection. They know every traveler that
00:03:58.800comes into this country, every good that comes in, they're the ones who assess and collect all
00:04:03.900of the tariffs. But the information that they had on travelers that came in during COVID,
00:04:08.340What are national labs, which I also have national labs under my jurisdiction.
00:04:13.660They're scientists that participated with that Wuhan lab.
00:04:17.040How they were traveling back and forth between each other and working on those experiments, it's been eye-opening.
00:04:24.660And I'll tell you, Patrick, even from the time I came into this office, Elon and his team were extremely helpful to me.
00:04:31.380They helped me identify that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me to record our meetings.
00:04:43.980They had done that to several of the politicals, and so we ended up bringing in people, and that was something that if you didn't have those technology experts here in the department looking at all of our laptops and our phones and recognizing that kind of software, it would still be happening today.
00:05:00.260So one of the things I need to do and continue to do is partner with technology companies and experts to bring them in and help us.
00:05:08.120Because many times in government, and especially in this department, which was extremely neglected, we were just behind and not up to the standard we should be at.
00:05:18.020I remember the first four months, I couldn't even send a PowerPoint over email from the Department of Homeland Security servers that was longer than six pages long.
00:05:25.940And so the backwards thinking of protecting our country was extremely detrimental to keeping us safe.
00:05:34.720And many times the deep state, I think what I tell people most of the time is I always believed when people talked about the deep state before that it existed.
00:05:44.480I never would have dreamed that it was as bad as it is.
00:05:47.880It's it is I'm still every day trying to dig out people who don't love America that not just work at this department, but also work throughout the federal government.
00:05:57.100Did you find anybody that was taking money from foreign countries, anybody that was taking money from China, anybody that was being funded?
00:06:04.300I haven't found any of that. I haven't found individuals like that.
00:06:07.920We do have people that should not have had security clearances, that should not have been able to have the information that they have, that were able to access information that wasn't legal for them to have.
00:06:20.300And frankly, Patrick, there's been a lot of news stories written about it, but we polygraph people.
00:06:26.220Because I'm a law enforcement agency and a national security agency, we bring people in.
00:06:31.120If we think that they are bad actors, if they're not working in the best interest of the United States and are violating the law and their job duties, you know, we have no problem polygraphing them to find out if they're telling the truth.
00:06:42.180And we've gone out there and fired individuals, many of them, because they didn't have the United States of America and their constitutional duties in hand.
00:07:16.280We had to sweep my office on a regular basis to make sure that there's not listening devices in it.
00:07:21.800But it's it's very it was very prevalent.
00:07:25.420And I think that what happened at this department was individuals had gotten away with for years spying on people who were politically appointed and trying to stop an administration that was coming in and trying to fix this country and keep us safe.