“This Goes ALL The Way To The Top” - Joe Kent's Classified Intel Leak PROBED By The FBI
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Trump counterintelligence chief who resigned over the ongoing conflict with Iran is under investigation for leaking classified information, according to a report from the Daily Mail. Former Director of National Counterterrorism, Joe Kent, has been accused of improperly sharing classified information.
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Is that, okay, let me read that one and we'll get into it.
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Trump counterintelligence chief who resigned over U.S.,
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over war in Iran, under investigation for leaking.
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So, guys, be ready because I'm going to come to you.
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And, Vinny, I'm probably coming to you first, okay?
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So the former counterintelligence chief who resigned over the ongoing conflict with Iran
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Joe Kent, who issued a scathing letter of the resignation,
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national counterterrorism, has been accused of improperly sharing classified information
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Semifer, the probing to his alleged misconduct has been ongoing for months
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and predates his resignations from the intelligence agency.
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The shocking development comes just hours after Kent told Tucker
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that the U.S. was providing faulty intelligence from Israel
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who was responsible for national security leaks.
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It marks the first major and voluntary departure
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I saw Joe Kent's face maybe three months ago one time.
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Didn't do, you know, because he was never in the news.
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So then when you do some research, I mean, obviously, Tom Woese, 11 tours.
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Decorated, like, soldier, loves America, lost his wife, I believe,
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in a terrorist attack in Syria, if I'm correct.
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All of a sudden, yeah, 11 completed combat tours, primarily in Iraq.
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uh earned six bronze stars for his service so i don't know pat they're they're out of nowhere
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this just come out of nowhere that this this happens because if first of all put the suicide
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thank him for his service awesome as a veteran god rest his wife's soul but when it comes to
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the stuff that we're hearing about leaked if anything from him was leaked because this is
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what it's kind of sounding like was leaked and somehow because what's the first interview that
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he did first interview first podcast went to tucker yep we're finding out from the cia and
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mind you i talked about this earlier in the week the cia is not just going to wake up and go yo
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we're going to monitor tucker because you guys know that they're not supposed to do any operations
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or any surveillance on uh american soil that type no never no yeah no why would they do that
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so that means that you're communicating with the foreign uh nation that we're freaking about to go
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to war with they're gonna tap your phone so this is starting to look like there were some leaks on
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the top that trickled down to somebody like tucker tucker was in communication with iran
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and this is this could look really really really bad i think this is i think this is nastier than
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you guys think way worse what do you think what do you think the oh i think this is gonna go all
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the way to the top really i think this is gonna go your your opinion what do you think like how
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How did this all, like, what made him go on X, post a letter, say he's going to retire?
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Well, listen, allegedly, there was a couple guys that confronted him because he got caught showing,
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and he promised that he wasn't going to do anything.
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Yeah, guys are like, hey, why are you leaking info to Tucker?
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And then he comes back, and now there is even stories.
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So if you remember last year, again, remember, Laura Loomer last year.
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She got, you know, Waltz, you know, fired from his position, okay,
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I told you last year that Kent leaked President Trump's private messages.
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In meetings, particularly his meetings with Jewish Republicans, to Tucker Carlson and Max Blumenthal, when admin officials caught Kent, who was in the hallway to Trump's office, when he was seen picking up his phone and texting Tucker, he was confronted by senior White House officials who wanted to see if he would lie to their faces.
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So they cornered him and asked him if he leaked to Tucker.
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Kent told him, if you ever do that again, you're fired.
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Kent was told, if you ever do that again, again.
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this is not a this was a year ago who told kent that the other officials told them the senior
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white house officials so then now you're hearing reports that that this is this is a little bit
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weird to even talk about now you're seeing reports of you know uh yesterday tulsi or two days ago
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she's being asked and pressed on questions about this and her answer is very vanilla okay very
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vanilla very very vanilla and remember for the last six months what has everybody been saying
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where's Tulsi I haven't seen where's Tulsi where's Tulsi so to me is this it Rob where she's kind of
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like uh said a lot of things in that letter yeah this is the one so if you want to oh it's a minute
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Thank you. I also wanted to ask this because this week there was a high-profile resignation of Director of National Counterterrorism Center.
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I've communicated directly with President Trump my support for Operation Epic Fury,
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and I was very not only disappointed but how inappropriate this letter was.
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And I want to read a statement and get your personal assessment whether you agree or disagree with that, and that's this.
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Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America First platform and pro-war sentiments to encourage a war with Iran.
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This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States and that you should strike now.
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This is a lie and is the same tactic these Israelis used to draw us into a disaster.
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uh he said a lot of things in the that letter ultimately we have provided the president
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with the intelligence assessments and the president is uh elected by the american people
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and makes his own decisions based on the information that's available to him but do
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you agree with does that statement he made blaming israel concern you yes okay so watch this
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go back from go back uh 20 seconds from the moment she starts talking to what she says
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And look, but you have to realize what's going on here, Vinny.
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Ultimately, we have provided the president with the intelligence assessments.
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And the president is elected by the American people and makes his own decisions based on the information that's available to him.
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Go back when she starts following up with the question right there.
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Does that statement he made, blaming Israel, concern you?
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Concern you could mean, yes, yes, it concerns me.
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I wouldn't be surprised if she's next and she resigns.
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okay i think she'll step down in the next few weeks maybe and by the way my guesstimation my
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gut feeling of her resigning 20 30 percent okay that's still a high number oh yeah that's pretty
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high and let me tell you what else happened yesterday which is kind of weird story comes
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out with jd vance now saying uh dropping stories out there to people which is what hey um i'm not
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gonna run have you seen this rob can you see can you verify this if this is true or not
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is a story from the AFP Post News saying that J.D. Vance
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is considering not running for president in 2028 due to family priorities.
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The decision to keep J.D. Vance from the situation, Vance,
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Yeah, J.D. Vance is considering not running for president in 2028
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if wife Usha is currently pregnant with their fourth child.
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Other speculations suggest that Republican polling
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and causing Vance to reconsider political environment.
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Strategists caution that a heavily contested primary
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could potentially decimate Vance's future ambitions
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So, if you run and you lose in the primary to Rubio and you're the vice president,
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that's a pretty heavy thing right there to happen.
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If Joe Kent is your direct report, you're probably part of that camp as well.
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Then you have probably Massey, and you have a small little dotted line to J.D. Vance.
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So I think what just happened with Joe Kent is the nuclear bomb to put a divide between them.
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And I know yesterday, the press secretary, who does a phenomenal job, she got up and she said,
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to all the people that are saying stuff that's going on with Tulsi, shame on you and whatever,
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you know, she kind of defended her while Tulsi is standing behind her.
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Tulsi is very ambitious, and she doesn't see herself as just having this job.
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I think, who is saying that, that she would release this to try to boost her standing with the president?
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Well, the president has publicly undermined her when it came to Iran.
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He said she was wrong. He told me that she didn't know what she was talking about.
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The only people who are suggesting that the director of national intelligence would release evidence
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to try to boost her standing with the president
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I am with the president of the United States every day.
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He has the utmost confidence in Director Gabbard.
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to deliver on the promises this president made.
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Now, obviously, I can't see she's the GOAT because we all know Kareem Jean-Pierre is the GOAT.
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We can't ever undermine her for her to read off the papers.
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The chat GBT press secretary that we had, Kareem Jean-Pierre.
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But I think something's going on here, and I think it goes all the way to the top.
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Was he a Democrat until like 2021 or something like that?
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Until 2021, Joe Gant was a registered Democrat.
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In 2020, he voted for Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary.
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That he voted for Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary.
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So this isn't like Tulsi or this isn't like voted for Bernie.
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and also apparently voted for bernie in 16 when he was the right right uh but so with this joe
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kent story the first thing i thought of when i heard well joe kent said something about trump
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was who's joe kent i mean let's face it we study politics i've been actively studying politics for
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at least a decade we've been doing the show for six years i've never heard of this person
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have you ever heard of him before this situation the name didn't ring a bell to me you can't
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So I want to know where you're going with that, because to me, you don't get the job,
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the director of national counterterrorism, without being somebody.
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You know, the vetting process should come into question.
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But at the end of the day, we're saying, do you trust some guy you've never heard of
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or the president of the United States that all four of us has voted for?
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Now, let's go deeper of who this person is, though.
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we're not just going to dismiss him and say can't trust anything because i don't know you
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okay let's go a little deeper apparently he did vote for bernie in 16 then then vote for him in
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the primary then there's even trump tweeted hey this is what this guy said two years ago
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complete iran hawk and now he's this iran dove and then it's basically fizzled down to yeah yeah
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trump's controlled by israel tell me where we've heard this before so to me at the very least he's
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flip-flopping he's impressionable but at what point how did this happen so two quick stories
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i used to have a uh my one of my best friend's younger brother uh when whenever i would see him
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he was somebody new i was like oh what's up dude how are you he's like a little skater kid
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the next time I see him he's a little gangster next time I see him a few years later he goes
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yeah I'm actually becoming a rabbi becoming a rabbi what see him a few years later he goes no
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I stopped being a rabbi I'm a teacher now and then I see him recently he's like a Jewish kid
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but he's pro-Palestine I go listen at what point are you just completely confused with who you are
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and are completely impressionable by the world around you to me that's Joe Kent he served in
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our military respect but you're voting for bernie then you become maga then you become this iran hawk
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then you're this iran dove and now because apparently his wife is very very very anti-israel
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his new wife he's now accusing the trump of being a bb puppet how many times have we heard the putin
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puppet thing and what did you say about the puppet strings with elon that's just the latest iteration
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with this last thing about joe kent you know this is his second wife did you know this his first
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wife god bless rest her soul was killed by isis in syria in i believe 2019 his wife was killed
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by isis in syria nothing to do with israel his new wife the latest wife it's only been two years
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is vehemently anti-israel so i i think he's gone through a lot i think he's confused i think he's
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under major duress and stress he's flip-flopping on issues he's obviously had some major issues
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in his life and you know they say who's the last person in your ear the last person in his ear now
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is this max blumenthal far left isolationist anti-israel woman and that's the the latest
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recreation of whoever joe kent is my my final thought is this joe kent himself is here today
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gone tomorrow and trump and maga are stronger than ever have you seen what trump's rating is
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within maga have you seen that path you're gonna pull it up rob it's insane i i had to like when
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harry enton said the number i said let him let the audience here watch this folks it's uh harry
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enton's yesterday doing a poll go ahead yeah you know sometimes you look at the polling data and
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And there are numbers that just jump off the screen at you, and this is one of those.
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Because just take a look here, MAGA GOP view of Trump, approve 100 percent, 100 percent.
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If you are a member of MAGA and the GOP, you approve of Donald John Trump, zero percent
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You don't have to be a mathematical genius to know you can't go higher than 100 percent.
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Even against non-MAGA, he still has two-thirds of them.
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But basically, listen, you do an Instagram poll.
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I could say, hey, do you want me to give you a million dollars
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or do you want me to kick you in the balls?
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you're going to still have 2% to 3% that's like,
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They're not leaving Trump, the guy they've known to be the president
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and the leader of their movement, for 10 years,
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We need to step back and look at something in Washington.
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The history of leakers in Washington have come from intelligence communities and people that are undermining this president or that president.
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One of the most famous leakers, if you know your history, was during Watergate.
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And Woodward and Bernstein referred to it as Deep Throat.
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Now, Deep Throat's got terrible connotations because it was the name of a porn film in the 70s.
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Tom, let's just stay on politics and Watergate if you can.
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And, you know, the guy, I don't know if it shows it here,
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but the guy who was eventually exposed to a Ben Deep Throat,
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which was the guy that was leaking to Woodward and Bernstein,
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And so now you've got a guy inside the intelligence community
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that was leaking to a major member of the media.
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He's a member of the new media, the alternative media that we're a part of.
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We're a part of the podcast that people trust more than they trust regular.
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On October of 2026, Tulsi celebrates her second anniversary of being a Republican.
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Remember, she switched right before the election.
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I don't know what's going on, but people are selecting teams, and teams are becoming very obvious.
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Something that Pat said two years ago, something very strange will happen, and you'll see alliances form, and some of them will surprise you.
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You predicted it, and you didn't say who and when, but you said, guys, when things happen like this, alliances become visible that maybe were invisible, and alliances get made.
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If J.D. Vance doesn't take family time off and actually,
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which I don't believe, I think he's going to go against.
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Do you think he would have, like, a Joe Kent as vice president?
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J.D. Vance's best pick for vice president is Ron DeSantis.
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He needs to get somebody that's a true conservative.
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He needs to get somebody like he needs a Mike Pence type.
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Remember, Trump for 2016, Pence was the right pick.
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Trump for 2024, J.D. was the right pick because who he needed in 2016 was the traditional conservative rhinos, all that stuff.
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And what he needed in 2024 was the technocrats, and he got it with J.D.
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So you have to realize it's a very, very different strategy.
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So, for J.D., if he runs Joe Kent, 100% you're a loser.
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Remember, when everybody said Michael Avenatti,
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Michael Avenatti, he's going to run for office.
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I don't know if Joe Kent and what he's going to end up doing.
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By the way, Joe Kent, you know, if he did this stuff.
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Just so you know, if he did, I'm not saying he did.
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If he went to Tulsi and cleared a tweet with Tulsi and J.D. Vance,
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if he did that, this is not just bad, this is horrible all the way to the top.
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One story is not enough to draw any conclusions.
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If you start seeing this story pop up on different media outlets about J.D. Vance,
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about taking some time off, that's when there's smoke, there's fire.
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So I think it's a little too premature to go that path.
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I mean, he doesn't have to make any decision anytime soon.
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I actually agree that it's very premature to go that path.
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And if you look at the odds, Pat, where's Rubio versus Vance in terms of the Calci?
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I want to say that Rubio has now surpassed Vance.
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To get past the primary, how closely do you think J.D. is watching this?
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How closely do you think their team is watching this?
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If you scroll down, Rob, if you see it, bing, bing, bing, there you go.
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You know what I think will be the tipping point for Rubio?
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In the next, you said, three to six months, Iran's going to be done.
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Who knows better of what's going on in Cuba than Marco Rubio?
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Next thing you know, he's going to be the dictator of Cuba.
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