Joe Kent is Wrong, And So is His Explanation (Ep. 2475)

30:30Why do you support our relationship with the Israeli agencies? Because they've been helping us mow the lawn against these death to America, cut your head off lunatics forever. What else would be, what else would be the, give me another reason.

30:52Folks We should have learned the lesson from North Korea When Clinton era and others Their appeasement gave these guys a nuclear weapon And now you've got a country that can't even put a freaking can of corn on the table You know, dictating regional global policy over there You want a bunch of theocratic mullahs dictating what we do with the most important resource in that region while blackmailing oil, while blackmailing us with nuclear weapons?

31:26I mean, seriously, are you insane? And the Iranians, by the way, learned a lesson from the Iraq war. With us no longer, Saddam Hussein. They learned you don't have nuclear weapons, you're F2. That's why they're not going to stop. folks, the Iranian theocracy was getting desperate after October 7th. Here's what they thought was going to happen. Please, trust me on this one. They thought they would frighten the Israelis into submission. They thought they would send a message globally, we're back in charge, okay? They said, look, we're going to unite Shia, Sunni. We are going to go hit the Jews in Israel.

32:14We're going to wipe them out and everyone's going to rally the flag behind us in this Islamo fanatic movement. The exact opposite happened and the Iranians got desperate. Their proxy groups, Hezbollah, got totally wiped out. Their missile stocks got wiped out. Midnight Hammer crushed their nuclear program in those facilities. Hamas got wiped out. they got totally completed was the biggest i would say out outside of 9-11 was the most significant tactical misstep on the terror front of all time and what the president is clearly now worried about and why he's got to finish this job with them is because instead of being rational actors and coming to the table and going okay that didn't work president trump offered him everything civilian nuclear power semi-normal relationship on the economic front they said double barrel middle finger we're still going to build a nuclear weapon and kill you and you want the president to sit back and not admit it okay yeah that makes sense they got desperate too because the houthis on the other side are losing faith in the iranians too because the houthis only respect power there's a fascinating wall Wall Street Journal piece about this from the other day, from last week.

33:35The Hooties, they only respect power. Why aren't they jumping in in the Red Sea right now? Because they realize the Iranians are screwed. Folks, the persistent lethal plotting as well. Attempts to kill our president and others. You're going to wait for him to do it? Oh, there you go. Thanks, guys. Asher Orkaby, why we haven't heard from the Hooties? The Yemeni rebels now likely see Iran as a weak horse. Great peace. Worth your time. How the Houthis don't align with anyone who has power, even the Israelis decades ago. You know, put up that tweet from Joe about this. Joe had been clear-eyed in the past about these threats, the lethal plotting threats, the attempts to kill the president.

34:18This is real, folks. We're going to wait for him, what, to take another shot? Iran's been after Trump since January of 2020 after he ordered the Soleimani hit. This isn't a new threat. the secret service consistently failing to secure trump is new we need to figure out exactly why these failures keep happening he's correct folks and one of the most disgusting parts about this whole episode this whole episode

34:48is what i call the ox's gourd effect folks while i was standing up for joe i had joe on my show again i've had him on my show and everything i said before about the man i knew is true it doesn't make his opinion now valid he's free to question mine too he doesn't know what my i'm not beyond questioning i'm not even suggesting that but the media i told you the the ox's gourd effect is real this will drive you bananas once you see it you'll never unsee it the left-wing media charlatans and frauds they have no principles at all zero the second someone attacks donald trump a guy they hated say whatever joey bag of donuts podcast and he's like a right-leaning guy they'll be like conspiracy theorist nutbag and then the second joey bag of donuts podcast attacks donald trump they're like a respected conservative commentator you doubt me watch here we go let's start this here's a logan dobson tweet on senator mark warner a democrat here's quotes from senator mark warner again a democrat on joe kent here's mark warner last year wait yeah go back to the other one go back to the first tweet yeah mark warner last year quote joe kent promotes falsehoods and twists intelligence to serve political purposes hold on statement there's senator mark warner democrat principal democrat right here he is yesterday mark warner joe kent's current falsehoods are twisting intelligence in my political direction so now he's good here's the quote this it's obviously they're being sarcastic but here's the quote from the joe kent article you believe this

36:28this is incredible these guys will change their mind based on here's another one here's a guy uh i i i'm not doing the mariah carey j-lo thing i don't you know the famous giffy i don't know her but here's chuck ross that's some good reporting he's after years of mocking joe kent a racist and an idiot the liberal media is now going to treat him as an honorable and wise truth teller here's tim miller i left this i guess tim o dc haven't talked uh he goes i've talked a lot of shit about joe kent over the years deserved and i can't speak to all his motivations but here i gotta say it's pretty refreshing to see someone in the administration who has a red line on something they don't care about anything i thought what i thought he was a lunatic and a crazy person i never said that and i'm not saying it now i'm just saying i think his opinion is wrong and yet what we're the ones with the credibility issues here's the same left-wing media by the way when there was a left-wing generated bullshit scandal this was no scandal at all because i was i lived through this here's the left-wing media and msnbc i think it's uh menendez lisa menendez here she is talking about joe kent oh manipulating intelligence also now this is from months ago.

37:43And now again, they'll be like, oh, he's great. Ox is gourd, man. Trump's ox is gourd. He's a hero now. Check this out. Sources tell NBC News that Joe Kent, chief of staff, the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, urged analysts to revise an assessment of the Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, after it came to light that the assessment contradicted public statements from Donald Trump. Specifically, the report undercuts Trump's justification for sending immigrants to that notorious Salvadoran prison without due process. Because of that, Joe Kent pushed the analysts to make changes to protect his boss and the president from being attacked.

38:19Kent wrote in an email, quote, we need to do some rewriting so this document is not used against the DNI or POTUS. Guy just brought up a good point. He rarely pops out of the office. He goes, you know, Dan, you should test this one day. It'd be risky, but you should test it one day. You just come out. obviously be you know i've support the president you get that so full stop there however you should come out one day and just like attack the israelis and president trump all at the same time right we would be superheroes it would be amazing the twitter bot army would go well this guy's the best i always knew he was the greatest fbi deputy director ever oh my gosh this podcast and they come back to say just kidding and then they'd be right back i told you this guy was full of shit I'm telling you man it's all fake Listen to you boy I've been through this for 10 years This is not the first, second or third Fight, rodeo Why do I not change my mind On these issues I'll change my mind when the inputs change Because the inputs haven't changed There are people who want to cut our freaking heads off And people who don't This is not hard Heads off, not heads off Heads off, not heads off you want your head lopped off here's a little test for those in the audience who think i'm crazy don't do it but if you're so confident i'm not even encouraging you to try this because i actually don't want you dead i don't i do i know you want me dead my i don't want you dead okay don't get dead's the first rule of the show i'll say justin how safe do you think these guys will be tell you what why don't you take a trip over to say, let's go, any Palestine, anything you consider Palestine, which is not even a real place, anywhere you consider Palestine, right?

40:13Dominated by Palestinians, okay? Justin, what do you say? Go over there with the pride flag and sit out there and say, hey, we're all for like, we share values, liberty. Folks in the chat, how long do you think that person would last? I would say what do you think? Realistically How long does it take to fall from four stories? Good point Justin I'm doing the math now Justin's trying to do the physics of how long it takes to fall from five stories off a building What is it? 9.8 minutes What is it? Gravity Yeah It'd be pretty quick Yet Go do the same thing over outside like the King David Hotel You may get some looks No one's gonna lap your head off Heads off No heads off hands off no listen to me back to serious time here okay

41:05there are people using this 30 seconds who said that howard and danielle yes a minute a heartbeat then gone the chat yeah you're damn right folks listen to me please i said in the beginning of the show there are people preparing for 2028 right now

41:29they think they have found a wedge issue because they're new to politics on the it's not even the israel it's the jews they think they found a wedge issue they are getting out now some of them and some of them are leaking to the media because they are going to can you please mark this right now everyone in the chat flag it this is mandatory if you're a regular listener that you flag this in the chat okay flag it today and remember this judy archivist record this right now i guarantee you in 2028 people you think i'm not talking about the craziest people normal people think are like in it for the cause there you go there's the flags right there i'm talking about red flags but American flags work too, are going to shock you, are going to put their names on the ballot to run for president and are going to run on, I was against that the whole time, man.

42:30I was against it the whole time. Really? Why didn't you say anything when you were in there? And this is the first foray into that. They are trying to fracture the movement. Here's the problem they're having and why they're growing increasingly frustrated. And they're working with the freaking doomers to do it. the problem they're having is this is not the real world folks i kid you not i'm not bullshitting you

42:58i live in the real world like you do people recognize me sometimes unfortunately i have a face for radio but people recognize me and they say really nice things now i'm not a confirmation bias guy obviously the people who are going to approach you are probably people who know you because they're supporters. I'm not telling you that I have universal support. You take a stand against anti-Semitism, there's going to be a lot of people who hate your guts. That's okay. That's a fight. I'll fight till the day I die, not changing at all. Nothing you can get, nothing you can say to change. I'd rather be dead.

43:34And if that happens to me one day because of it, then that happens. I'm not the victim. Nobody's freaking martyr. Fine. but I'm telling you brother I've been in this business a long time and I have had one person in 10 years in 10 years plus say something negative to me in an airport in Reagan airport I was going to get a bagel with my wife and you're a guy on Fox News and my wife wound up calling him out because I was too bored listening to the guy she's like I'm hungry I need a bagel get out of my face little guy little guy

44:13this is not our movement. I'm telling you it's not our movement. It is bot-generated insanity. Dan, producer of seats. Okay. Folks, you think CNN, again, this guy on CNN, Harry Enten, has a pro-Trump agenda? Let's just, come on, that's just crazy. Can we all agree? If CNN is putting out a poll they took showing basically mass alignment with the Trump agenda on Iran, numbers that are through the roof, You think they're lying to paint Trump in a good light? Why would they do that? That's why I try not to use too many polls from Fox, and I use the CNN guy. Because it hammers home even more to polls.

44:50They're trying to make him look bad, and they still can't. They're trying to fracture the movement, and they still have to run segments like this with this poll. This is not the movement. The movement is with Trump on this issue, and our international relationships, and our relationship with Israel. They just are. Check this out. MAGA GOP on the U.S. military action Iran. Look at this. Nearly 9 in 10, 89 % approve of the U.S. military action Iran. That is the MAGA GOP base. Just 9 % disapprove of it. This is tremendously popular among the Republican base. And of course, Marco Rubio, Secretary of State, overseeing the effort.

45:28It seems to me that a lot of people are taking that into account, including President Donald Trump, who has been smiling an awful lot at Marco Rubio lately. Do receipts even matter? Aren't you required to produce some evidence? All of these people, MAGA's done. MAGA's fractured. It's over. The movement's finished. I can't believe everyone in MAGA fell for this. You have no evidence to back any of that up. None. Zero.

45:59folks going to take a quick break last one um and then on the other side i want to there's something really important i need to get to as well because i am really desperately trying to avoid republican on republican political attacks but unlike other people who don't see what's going on right now i've now seen it from both sides and i'm telling you this is not infighting This is a deliberate, deliberate strategy to destroy our movement from the inside. And all of those people saying, oh, we need to stop this and focus. There is, this is the focus. You will have no movement going forward. This is not the first time I've seen this.

46:41Trust me on this. You've got to contain this now. I'll show you what I mean coming up in a second because the libs are working with the doomers. There is it because they're all trying to get ready for 2028 with their guy. There's money in it. There's consulting in it, polling in it, everything. Big show today. Thank you to everybody tuned in. It's great to be. It really is great to be back. Folks, hiring takes time, way more time than most of us expect. You post the job, then you wait, hoping the right candidates eventually apply. It gets to be a long, laborious, pun intended process. Then comes the resume avalanche, trying to sort through who's actually qualified.

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48:45We read in on everything on the CT side. Folks, I'm just telling you the facts. Joe Kent never expressed these concerns about Israel walking around the president like a dog or something to me. And we had quite a few interactions. Ever. Never said that. I don't know where that even came from. Matter of fact, I never heard one time that he didn't think Iran was a threat. Matter of fact, I heard things that sounded the opposite. So I don't know where this even came from. I don't know what got in his head or why he's doing that, but I wasn't there for five minutes, okay? We had quite a few meetings, the White House and elsewhere.

49:25And I don't want to hear it either. I'm just telling you, this is part of the news. I never heard that at all, like ever. And it's time for us to get back to work and get stopped. You talk about focus. We need to focus on this threat of homegrown lone wolf terror. how many times do I get to say this? This is the biggest threat. If you have, I heard Paul Morrow refer to this, the Fox commentator, smart guy, NYPD intel guy, long history decorated with counterterrorism work. He talks about these multiple buckets. You have cells, cells, organized groups of terrorists, which I said, listen, are a very serious problem, but they leave a lot of investigative breadcrumbs because they communicate, they exchange money, they go and buy things and buy weapons they do training together i mean we had that turtle island front arrest out in california i'll hopefully get to in a few minutes they were stupid cells talk lone wolves are really really hard to detect here was a hit i did on laura ingram not last night but a week ago where i can't emphasize this point enough folks listen if we don't do something at the border and denaturalize these people when we catch them.

50:39And we're just going to constantly let them out. You can't, there's no catch up here. You are going to lose. You're never going to catch up on this front. Here's me on Ingram warning about this lone wolf threat. It's persistent. We got to get back to work and start to focus. Check this out. The president has a deeper insight into intelligence than anyone. He is the chief authority on this matter. The intelligence is provided for him to be the decision maker. On the sleeper cell issue, there's always going to be a threat of what you indicated earlier, what Rumsfeld called the unknown unknown. We don't know who's here if we don't know how they got in.

51:12And once Biden admitted 15 to 20 million people, we don't even know the number. If we don't know you're here, it's very difficult to find these people. It is very difficult, but not impossible, but very difficult to communicate and activate a cell in the United States of people, United States, if people enter the United States and get here, excuse me. It's very hard to do that without leaving significant, huge investigative breadcrumbs. I mean, like loaves of bread. It's really difficult to do that. Usually there's some money that changes hands. There are online chat rooms. You never know who you're talking to.

51:44There's obviously FISA. There's signals interception. There's all kinds of interception mechanisms we have, including human sources and foreign partners. It's difficult, but not impossible to do it. Do I worry about it? Of course. But the president knows, as he said earlier in that clip they played on the channel, Hey, we're watching. We're listening. If there's a cell here, we're probably on to you. It's the lone actors that worry me more. Folks, there is absolutely no way to we don't have pre-crime. OK, there's no Tom Cruise minority report. Police departments, federal agencies, law enforcement agencies, they exist to stem and help mitigate and stop as many crime.

52:26you're never going to stop crime. You're never going to have zero crime. And with millions of Islamo-radicals around the world, and then using all kinds of social media forms to radicalize millions more, you're never going to stop all this stuff. However, you have to take some sensible steps to get rid of these people. You know, put up the Newsweek article first, Justin. I want to go out of order just a little bit. I brought this up last week on a different Fox hit. Newsweek covered it. You realize right now that if you're a naturalized citizen, and you come into the country, you come in here on a work visa, whatever, you want to seek your citizenship, you get married, and you're naturalized.

53:02If you're convicted of a terror charge or a terror-related charge, or a number of them, that you're not automatically denaturalized, is that this the craziest thing? How U.S. citizens can be denaturalized as Republicans push for change. Folks, this is freaking insane. You should be immediately denaturalized the minute you get out of jail and get the hell out of the country to never ever return again. Send them to that freaking prison. This is insane. This is an actual U.S. policy. This guy Kevin Cohen wrote a great piece in the Wall Street Journal about the threat of lone wolves too, saying exactly what I said on that hit.

53:44This is a real problem. We can't be focused 24 hours a day on the Jews did it, the Jews. There are real threats of Islamo radicals that have killed people just in the last month. He writes in this piece, terrorists are now often made in the USA. He writes, seen one by one, these lone wolf incidents, he notes they look like separate crimes, but they share several threads. Lawful presence in the United States, few warning signals, I told you, online radicalization, and attacks carried out without the fingerprints of an organized network. Thank you, Kevin Cohen. That's exactly what I've been saying.

54:21Here's another part of this that really matters Folks, you cannot stop an ideology from festering It's the reverse problem Leave this up, Justin It's a problem with the reverse problem of communism The reason communism never worked is capitalism and the idea of free markets You can't stop the idea from spreading Someone invents something, an idea The wheel, fire, whatever Just go back to the basics, the simple machines The inclined plane the pulley system you can never stop the idea from spreading it's like communism doesn't work you can't put a lid on that there's a problem though with radical ideology islamo-fanaticism he writes something important survived the ideology no longer needs territory command structures or even training camps this perverse ideology travels easily moving through digital networks and personal grievances it makes it harder to trace a terrorist organization leaves clear trails and idea doesn't yes folks we gotta get back to work man we cannot these distractions are endless this is a real threat your kids your life listen to me this shit is real everything is a freaking distraction now to these people the freaking doomers the liberal media and the media is working against us.

55:44I know Sean played this the other day. But to me, you got the media and the doomers now. Every time we do something, constantly, they have two opposite approaches. The left-wing media first, again, just in my experience, they go, I can't believe they fired all these people. You guys are doing too much, locking people up, ERO, removal operations, Title 8 deportations. And then on the other, well, nothing's happening ever. They can never get their story straight. I'm going to prove it to you right here. This is the easiest ground ball ever. Here's the left-wing media in a Maze Moore clip. Love Maze Moore.

56:16Follow him. Maze Moore on X. Great account. Here is the left-wing media. We don't have to play the whole thing, but play. Oh, it's Tom Elliott. Great. I'm sorry. Another great account. Here is a compilation of the left-wing media telling you how Antifa doesn't exist. And I'll tie this into the nothing is happening thing in a second. All right. Check this out. No Antifa. This is an entirely imaginary organization. There is not an Antifa. Like, I don't even know what Antifa is. There is no group. It's not even like far right groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers compared to right wing extremists.

56:45Antifa linked violence is rare and limited. It isn't an organization. It is a it is a in many ways mythology. It's not like the Proud Boys or the Oath Keepers, you know, sort of defined terrorist organizations with leadership that led that leads violence. It's not a highly organized movement. It goes on. Thank you, Tom Elliott Graby. Great clip there. Really? Here's a tweet by Katie Daviscourt and Andy Ngo. Antifa doesn't exist? This was from last week. This is when I wanted to get on the air so desperately because I was there when this whole case went down at the DOJ FBI. Breaking. A Texas jury has found all nine Antifa defendants guilty of terrorism charges in the ICE detention facility ambush shooting.

57:32It's the first Antifa terrorism case brought to trial in the U.S. And then Andy Ngo, who's covered this, you should follow him. He's a great account, Mr. Andy Ngo, NGO on X. He's been following Antifa from the beginning. Notes, it was the first ever federal Antifa terrorism trial over the Texas ICE ambush where an officer was shot in the neck. All cell members have been convicted. I thought nothing was happening. Thank you. Here's a Center Square article. In the first, nine Antifa members found guilty on federal terrorism charge. Now, I only say that because, again, I don't want to get into these and waste a ton of time on people I like and respect in the space that are entitled to their opinion.

58:11But I saw a guy this weekend, nothing's happening at all with Antifa. What do you, I don't understand. There's only two ways out of this. Either you're lying that nothing's happening or you just don't read the news. Oh, well, nine people were just convicted. Well, I didn't mean nothing. I just meant not enough. Okay, well, there's others too. And then when you say that, well, here's what else happened. Well, when that nothing that you said wasn't happening happens, then you just move on. It's like we're just dying the doomers in our own unit here to fracture the movement. It's intentional. Here's some more.

58:44You think I'm bullshitting you? Again, it's your responsibility in the space, if you're going to be a talking head, to know what you're talking about. Nothing's happening on Antifa. Really? Nothing's happening on left-wing groups. Really? Here's CNN. FBI arrests four people of planning to detonate pipe bombs at a New Year's Eve event in California. I was there for that, too. the Turtle Island Liberation Front. That case is still going on. What do you mean? I thought nothing was happening.

59:14That's it? Well, that's it. You guys only got Antifa and this other left-wing group, Turtle Island. Oh, no, there's another one. DOJ press. Here's another one. Executive Director of Black Lives Matter charged with wire fraud and money laundering. Oh, okay. I mean, I didn't say nothing was happening. I just mean nothing, something, but maybe not the something. I've heard nothing. Oh, look, there's another one. Here's one we were involved. Remember the LA riots? Seems like an eternity ago. We investigated any evidence of criminal conspiracy in the LA riots. You know how many arrests came out of that with the locals?

59:47There were about like 800 arrests that came out of that, including a number of people with left-wing ties. Again, you're just making it up. And then when the nothing else you say is happening then happens, they'll never apologize. Listen to me when I'm telling you this too I've said this a thousand times And if I'm wrong You'll make a fool out of me in three years Because I know I'm not That is how confident I am in telling you this Everybody telling you That there's no effort To infiltrate and break up Criminal organizations With an ideology left wing or other way Anyone telling you that is totally full of shit And when more stuff happens I guarantee you There'll be no apology at all I am absolutely 100 % confident this is just the beginning.

1:00:37This takes time. We don't like that. The justice system doesn't care what you like or what I like. You've got judges, AUSAs, who take this paperwork, this process. We have a judicial process. We're not the Department of War. We can't just order a decapitation strike.

1:00:56There are doomers on our side, folks, dying to crack this movement up. again, I'm really trying. That's why I'm not getting into like a lot of personal stuff because I know these people. I've had good relationships with them. I don't know what their problem is. They just are dying to like have us get our asses kicked in the midterms.

1:01:19Here's another one. This one, I'm just, I'm done with this shit. Miranda Devine, the New York Post. Again, I've been in an effort to avoid this kind of circular firing squad. I'm just trying to tell you a lot of these people are not your friends. They're just not telling you the truth. This is like the fifth or sixth attack piece on cash. All right, we get it. You don't like him. His flamboyant lifestyle. The guy lives in like a tiny townhouse in Washington, D.C. Here's a read. This is the most ridiculous thing you are ever going to see. I was furious about this this week. Miranda Devine, you think, oh, one of us, right?

1:02:00one of us she's complaining leave this up she's upset that i by the way i was gone when this happened i'm not taking credit or not credit i just wasn't there what happened so cash just fired a bunch of agents and analysts who were involved in the jack smith witch hunt okay what's the problem apparently miranda doesn't like that i you see the doomers quite here the dozen or so agents analysts and staff who were fired last month from the uh the c12 unit there ci-12 had worked on special counsel jack smith's witch hunt against trump and reportedly were zealous enough to subpoena records of phone calls made by patel and suzy wiles when they were private citizens okay they were first fair enough goes on a little bit whether they were liabilities or just following orders the latest purge has sent a chill through the ranks now she goes back to a former, by the way, they never have the balls to put their name on it.

1:02:56Another former FBI just says a culture of fear has paralyzed FBI leadership. Folks are afraid to do their jobs for fear of losing their heads. I got a couple more, but hold them. Come back to these, come back to me and then come back to the other two. Okay. Time out right here. A culture of fear. The FBI had the best year against violent crime, against crime in general we've ever had in the history of the FBI. That's a fact. The crime rate and homicide rate were the lowest in U.S. history because of our initiative to push agents back in the field, get them out of targeting Trump with Jack Smith and getting back to arresting child pornographers, get out to bank robbers, crypto thieves, violent criminals.

1:03:41We did that. And you're bitching and moaning because some people, a limited group of people got fired for their role in the Jack Smith thing. And you're upset about that. Again, what freaking team are you on? I love this last line, a culture of fear. They're not doing, they actually did their job. The agents we hired to do their freaking job and go arrest criminals went out and did it. The only culture of fear was amongst, was amongst a bunch of knuckleheads from the Comey Ray era who wanted to keep weaponizing the FBI to target political figures. Yeah, they got fired. Too bad. This is her words, folks, not mine.

1:04:24You can read them yourself. Now, again, here comes the foe like, oh, let me take the edge of it. She doesn't like cash. Just hates them. It's a read every single piece. There's one she was like, oh, it cost the FBI a whole bunch of money with the new hacker. Cost money? We'd save billions of dollars by moving into a building that already exists. What are you even talking about? Do you even fact check anything? Again, to be fair, she knows. Oh, this is not. Well, thank you. The FBI has foiled numerous Islamist terror plots in recent times. There's something you don't even know about because you've never been in a meeting ever with anyone but a bunch of pissed off Ray Comey-era agents who you keep kissing their ass.

1:05:06Talks about a terror attack. They stopped. Oh, gee, they're throwing that in there. Okay. Then it goes on. Put up the next one. But those successes, basically against the terror attacks, were all the more reason why the FBI's focus should have zeroed in on countering threats of Islamic terror rather than diverting agents onto immigration enforcement and other unrelated tasks. Now she goes full Epstein, such as reportedly spending hours redacting names in the Epstein files.

1:05:39Unbelievable. Unbelievable. this is freaking unreal the public had an interest in the case we assigned a group of agents over there because there were victims names in there there was kiddie porn in there that was on the internet it wasn't his stuff it was stuff you downloaded you want that out there on the fbi website do you even understand there were actual rules about this there's 6e grand jury material you legally can't put out there, you'll be liable? The grand jury's secret. Does she even know that? Then she's complaining about immigration enforcement. Do you have any idea how many violent criminals were in the country illegally?

1:06:21We assigned to these ERO, Emergency Removal Operations Task Forces, that we got out of the country that are not here to commit crimes, and you're bitching and moaning about it from your post at the New York Post, from your desk? What the do you know? You don't know shit You don't know jack shit And jack left town Put up that last one again About the ERO, the removal ops You don't know a damn thing Should have zeroed in on countering threats Of Islamic terrorism We already did that She won't tell you any of this stuff We poured millions of dollars into the threat screening center to screen out these terrorists.

1:07:08Millions of dollars into expanding biometric programs overseas. Do you know about any of that? Collecting biometrics from criminals overseas. Why would we do that? I'm Miranda Devine. I have all my law enforcement experience. Why would we do that? So they don't get on a plane and come to the United States. We have their biometrics before they get here. Do you even know about that? The threat screening center that screens terrorists. You know how much money we put into that? the drone program, they didn't have a drone school before we got there to teach locals how to mitigate the drone threat. Did you know that either?

1:07:41Did you even ask? I never got a call. What about all the agents we put into CTD, the counter-terror division? What about all the agents we farmed out in the field and got out of headquarters desk jobs, put into counter-terror roles in the field? Do you know about that? Of course you didn't, because you're at your desk at the New York Post doing jack shit.

1:08:05damn right they should that was what about the fact that we had a bunch of intelligence analysts inside the fbi who were telling agents working field agents uh that's not my job when it came to a lot of stuff so you know what we did you don't know about any of this miranda because you're sitting at your desk typing away cash is lifestyle i don't like his sneakers i don't Whatever, man. We brought in a specialist from the West Coast who knew about this and basically scrapped the whole thing and started from scratch and rebuilt the intelligence analyst position to make it more service-oriented. None of this bullshit.

1:08:44That's not my job.

1:08:48You have no idea what you're talking about. You had the best year ever and you get a bunch of freaking doomers out there. It's all bullshit. man I'm so tired of listening to these just jerk wads you gotta base an opinion on something base it on some facts we put a thousand people in the field to work on counter terror counter espionage and violent crime narco trafficking we opened up offices and sensitive spots around the world but relationships were shit you get to type away in your laptop in the office yeah i don't know they should have refocused maybe you should start focused on telling the truth and cut the bullshit you don't like the guy fine you have the right to your opinion but you're gonna go right for a newspaper then base it on some facts and not some disgruntled ray comey era dipshits who have nothing to do but wine because their buddies got fired because they were targeting trump those are your freaking words in the piece own it or step up and serve yourself.

1:09:57You won't. You don't have the balls. Here's someone who stepped up. Judge Jeanine. I don't know what the judge made at Fox. I have no idea. I'm not pretending. I can assume it's probably in the millions of dollars. I can promise you Judge Jeanine's not making millions of dollars as the D.C. District United States attorney over there. But she stepped up. Doesn't mean she's beyond criticism. I wasn't. But Judge Jeanine last week, who stepped up and did instead of talk. I don't know if you heard about this case. This is what we're dealing with, too, with the whole judicial brands. This is why everything is slow.

1:10:37You've got judges out there like this Bosberg guy who, folks, this is stuff we've never seen before in our lives. The targeting of Donald Trump. Donald Trump went all the way to a trial in New York. Granted, in the state system, but it doesn't matter. The point's the same. on a completely made up fraud charge. It didn't even exist. They brought the alleged victims in the bank. The bank was like, we love doing business with Donald Trump. We want to do it again. How are they a victim? That was the end stage. A conviction on a totally fake charge. And now the Democrat judges, this Boasberg guy, this is incredible.

1:11:13We're not even at the end stage on this Federal Reserve investigation on potential fraud in the construction project. They're just at the beginning stages Where they issue this thing I know liberal media is kind of stupid Call this subpoena You have a deus eticum Ad testificatum Subpoena to testify Or subpoena to produce documents These are common They happen all the time You got a judge, Boasberg In D.C. Squashing Judge Jeanine's subpoena At the beginning of an investigation We don't even know if there's anything there yet Folks, this is nearly without precedent This is the crazy shit everybody in the FBI, DOJ, DEA is dealing with right now.

1:11:55You want to know why everything takes forever? Stuff like this. Here's Judge Janine, thankfully, fighting back. She was pissed last week. Check this out. The American public is fed up with public monies that seem to go into a black hole, especially in D.C., where no one is held accountable. One of the age-old tools that all prosecutors have to investigate any crime, including cost overruns, is a grand jury subpoena. Today, however, in Washington, an activist judge has taken that tool away from us. By inserting himself and preventing the grand jury from even obtaining, let alone hearing evidence, he has neutered the grand jury's ability to investigate crime.

1:12:52As a result, Jerome Powell today is now bathed in immunity, preventing my office from investigating the Federal Reserve. this is wrong and it is without legal authority i'm just trying to be realistic with you about what is possible we are going to need the next three years and probably four years after that whoever becomes the president hopefully on the republican side the cleanup process for our federal government which has taken decades to destroy from the bench on down people think because they're on the bench, like they're immune to criticism. Oh my gosh, John Roberts, Chief Justice. Oh man, we can't criticize judges.

1:13:41Bullshit. They're part of the government that operates under a constitutional construct that operates by consent of the governed. That's us. You're absolutely, I abhor any kind of, again, any threats or anything like that, absolutely unforgivable. Get off my show if you're one of those people. I'm not interested in that at all. I'm only interested in condemning it. But legitimate criticism of Boesberg and us, they're part of the government that operates on our consent. They're not beyond criticism. You've got this activist judge squashing subpoenas?

1:14:21Say you're out there. I've even seen some establishment GOP folks. You're out there and you're like, hey, you know, I don't like this Federal Reserve investigation into potential fraud in the contract. You're allowed to have that opinion. Let the judge take a look. Judge Jeanine takes a look. There's nothing there. Fine, it goes away. You think the alternatives have judges now coming in squashing subpoenas? Where does that stop?

1:14:50Folks, this, I'm telling you, I am very optimistic about the future. Gosh, when you talk about liberty, right? Talk about it with a smile. You live in the greatest country on earth that the greatest time to be alive, you just lived through the golden year of politics. So much amazing stuff had happened. We were on the verge of unbelievable economic growth with quantum computing, AI, again, material sciences, energy technology, fusion. You were going to live through untold prosperity. But I want to be realistic with you too. The government took 20, 30 years to really deeply screw up. It's not going to be fixed overnight.

1:15:26Anyone telling you that nothing is happening, when stuff is happening, at a pretty healthy clip, and more is coming is just lying to you. They're not being realistic. And the only purpose is not legitimate criticism. It is to disorient you before the midterms so that Donald Trump takes a beating in the midterms, gets impeached and looks bad. And their preferred candidate on quote, our side fills in the gap in 2028 and goes, oh, look, I told Donald Trump the whole time he was wrong. Flag it, man. Flag this episode.

1:15:58We've had a significant audience in this business for a long time because that corner we see around is always there. So there's a vote coming up on the SAVE Act too. Speaking of elections, we don't get the SAVE America Act and some voter ID measures and voter integrity measures in place. Ladies and gentlemen, we're going to be screwed. I do not want you, however, to fall prey to left-wing efforts to, one, tell you there's no public interest in this. About 80 % of people support voter ID. And I also don't want you to fall prey to bullshit because there's a lot of bullshit out there. I'll show you what I mean.

1:16:32I wanted to run this last week on Friday. Forgive me, but the Save Act vote is coming up. I'm not optimistic. I think they should do the talking filibuster. John Thune doesn't want to do it. He says he has his reasons, unlimited amendments, all this other stuff. Folks, we don't get the Save America Act. I don't know how we save America. I just don't. The liberals, when they get in, are going to dump the filibuster altogether. They are. Remember it. You flag it, double flag. Flag it again. You're going to be like, well, why didn't we do that in advance? Here's Caroline Leavitt talking about the Save America Act.

1:17:04And she gets, you know, fact checked by the AP. The AP fact check totally blows up in their face because the fact check is just an opinion check they don't like. Check this out. The bipartisan 2005 report of the Commission on Federal Election Reform, shared by, of all people, former President Jimmy Carter and former Secretary of State James Baker, concluded that, quote, quote, absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud. And it is time for Congress to finally address this. Okay, so the AP jumps in on this. AP did a fact check on Caroline Levitt that absentee ballots remain the largest source of potential voter fraud.

1:17:45So they jump in. They say the facts, which, by the way, from AP are never the facts. Key experts again. Here you go, Josh, the experts. Whenever experts chime in, what we do without experts, folks, you can always assume it's bullshit. Experts. Experts say there's no evidence that mail-in and absentee voting leads to widespread fraud, either now or 20 years ago. 20 years ago. What was it 20 years ago? Was it 2006? Is my math wrong, guys? Am I doing Mary Gay math? 20, 26, 20 years, 2006, right? Yeah. Huh. That's pretty good. Okay. So they're saying in 20 years. Am I reading this right? Andrew In 20 years There's no evidence Of any of this Mail-in balloting Or absentee There's no They said it right Guys it's on the screen Key put it up one more time In case the audience missed it It says experts Guys experts They're experts They say there's no evidence Fellas and ladies That mail-in and absentee voting Leads to widespread fraud Either now Or even 20 years ago Key's like But There was a New York Times article About Rampant fraud And absentee And mail-in balloting and it wasn't even 20 years ago.

1:18:56I've never seen this article before. Some of you P1s will laugh. You get the joke. Put that article of you in mind. New York Times. Any day now, guys. Yeah, of course. You don't know they have... These guys. My own team's on you. Yes, Lip Tag. It's notes right here. New York Times. Here we go. Adam Lip Tag. Hey, guys. Is 2012, does that fit within the 2006, 2026, 20-year horizon? I'm just checking. Andrew's doing the math. He's like, yeah, I think it does. I think it does. It sounds like it's like six years after 2006. Error and fraud at issue is absentee voting rises. I'll leave this up. The New York Times.

1:19:41Wait, the New York Times is saying that the AP is wrong? They note, yet votes cast by mail are less likely to be counted, more likely to be compromised and more likely to be contested than those cast in a voting booth. Statistics show. Statistics show. I thought they were experts. They note election officials who would be experts, right? Reject almost 2 % of ballots cast by mail. Double the rate for in-person voting. Holy Moses. This Mr. Sancho, an expert election official, the more people you force to vote by mail, the more invalid ballots you will generate. That is amazing. That's so crazy. It's like the AP didn't do five minutes of research.

1:20:22How does that happen? I don't know, man. I don't know. It's almost like they have an agenda.

1:20:38Folks, again, I'm always going to tell you the truth. If those numbers go down and mail-in balling and absentee balloting, there's a rigorous non-bibular a study and says there's no fraud, then there's no fraud. But that's not what the experts say. The New York Times themselves wrote an article saying the experts say the opposite. So the AP is full of it.

1:21:05So it was a big sports night last night. World Baseball Classic, unfortunately. Team USA. I watched the game against DR. I was out in Colorado. I watched it in a bowling alley, bowling with my daughter. And what an amazing game. It's strike. Yeah, it was strike to me. You can't go down looking. You got to swing, all right? Unfortunately, I didn't pull it out last night. Good effort. But listen, there's only one medal and it's gold. Silver don't matter. You're just the first loser. So it's too bad. But, you know, listen, God bless them for playing. You know, these guys don't have to do this. These guys are multimillionaires.

1:21:40And they really did. They had a good team. Just the bats went a little dry. But I'm scrolling through the interwebs yesterday, and I'm looking for some stuff because I always like to kind of put a smile on your face, especially towards the end of the show. And I had totally forgotten about this story. This was 19 years ago, I believe, yesterday. This story is, this is going to put a smile on your face. Do you remember Jason McElwain? Some of you in the chat, you know who this is? he was a young man on a high school basketball team. He had some kind of autism spectrum disorder, so the coach let him be the manager.

1:22:18So in one of the last games of the season, he lets this young man, Jason McIlwain, suit up. And in the last few minutes of the game, he lets him get on the court. Folks, what happens next is almost like miracle on ice stuff. This is the craziest thing. If this doesn't put a smile on your face, nothing ever will. Here is a CBS story from 19 years ago. It's about a minute 30 show, but it's totally worth your time of Jason McIlwain. Check this out.

1:22:49Because he has been so devoted to the team. For the last game of the season, Coach Johnson decided to let Jason actually suit up. Not to play necessarily, just to let him feel what it's like to wear a jersey. At least that was the plan. After years of fetching water and toweling off other people's sweat, Jason was actually in a game. His first shot was a 20 footer from the right baseline. His second shot missed two, but the third was a charm. A three point no doubter. And Jason wasn't done yet. Not by a long shot. Jason ended up shooting six three-pointers one right after the other he had 20 points total and each time a shot went in his teammates and the crowd went a little crazier because he is autistic jason says he's used to feeling different but never this different never this wonderful well i hope that makes you feel different in a wonderful way too because it certainly made me feel good that i had totally forgotten about that story and it popped up on my timeline and i watched that video probably five or six times i i i read some of the comments you see some of the folks in the chat that's awesome who said that shereel that's awesome brunt happy tears good we need that i told you man you live in a wonderful country full of really amazing people that the coach thought to do that.

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