Bombshell Russiagate Docs Explained, and the Truth About Putin and Hillary, with Matt Taibbi and Ruthless | Ep. 1115

30:05And we'd like to see that. It's not impossible. Of course, there are lots of people who do work as aides and translators overseas who have contacts with the various bureaus. But we need to see that. They just say, we assess and that's it. And it's behind closed doors. And And we see how much that's worth with this intelligence community assessment. Right. Yeah. How did they assess you? Because you point out over at Racket News in speaking to him. Let's see. The question was, how many times was he questioned by American authorities? And his answer was not a single person from the U.S. government has ever reached out to me.

30:45Not one. No one from the Office of Special Counsel, the FBI or the Senate Intel Committee ever contacted him. Not once. Nobody. So that's this guy is integral to the Senate Intel Committee report that Obama's defenders are now using to say they are they are all using this report by the Senate saying they found the same thing as that January 17 ICA. And therefore, this is all a nothing burger. And your point is you can put no stock in that Senate Intel Committee report. I think it's sort of proof that the original ICA is bunk because they had to do a completely new investigation and not use any of the intel from the 2017 intelligence community assessment to come to the same conclusion.

31:36Like, what does that tell you? Like, if a prosecution brings an entirely new case in a criminal court and says, yeah, we're not going to use any of the evidence from that first prosecution that we brought. Wouldn't you have a few thoughts about those prosecutors and what they were up to? That's what happened in this case. And it wasn't just one investigation. There were many of them. Right. So the whole thing, I don't think it holds water. I think that 2020 assessment is deeply flawed. But it also, you know, hangs significantly on Lisa Monaco, who is one of the figures who is in the middle of this original December 8th or December 9th decision.

32:15Like her name's on that piece of paper. She's a nightmare. This woman is an obvious partisan hack. We saw that throughout the the last two Democratic administrations, her work at DOJ. She was one of the ones accused of covering up the entire Hunter Biden scandal, running cover for him, trying to pull back those IRS agents who were onto his tracks. This person is not somebody we should be putting any faith in. All right. Also, in this latest House report, they talk about how they they also in the how this is a house in 2020 pointing out that the the ICA of 2017 ignored evidence that Putin seemed to be protecting Hillary Clinton in a couple of ways.

33:01It did not mention, for example, that Putin chose not to leak info he appeared to have on Hillary Clinton's health, including that she suffered from psychoemotional problems and was on daily tranquilizers. We don't know whether that's true. We know that Putin appeared to have that intel in his pocket and chose not to share it. And the relevant point here, Matt, is that the ICA didn't mention they knew that he had that in his pocket and it didn't mention that he did not release it. This is the man so determined to help Trump win. And he's got evidence that she's on she's on daily tranquilizers and has psychoemotional problems, but he doesn't release it.

33:41He doesn't release it even after being briefed by the GRU, Army Intelligence, that Trump was likely not going to win the election absent a, quote, remarkable intervention of derogatory information against Hillary Clinton. And they had that kind of derogatory information, or at least thought they had it. And here's the really interesting thing, I think, Megan, which is that this material that he had was a large trove of hacked correspondents centered around, it appears, the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton, a number of members of Congress, including W. Wasserman Schultz. And it's the same stuff that that that came out in a declassified report earlier this week with regard to the midyear exam email investigation.

34:42So there's this weird tie between the two investigations. But the point is, they had a lot of stuff they could have leaked about Hillary, and they chose not to do it, largely because it appears they expected Hillary to win and were holding in reserve the best stuff for the presidency. Mm hmm. Right. Exactly. All of which was known by these Intel officials drafting this report, but concealed where meanwhile, you know, all this other flimsy documentation or material on whether there was an aspiration to help Trump made it in over the objections of the core Intel analysts. All right. So, Matt, where does this go from here?

35:19Because Tulsi mentions treason. Trump mentions treason. Treason is very narrowly defined under the law. It's basically aiding or abetting an enemy of the United States or trying to overthrow the U.S. government. I mean, I see the argument, but that's a stretch. And also, there's a question about whether other lesser crimes are even viable now, given the statute of limitations issues and given the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on immunity for a president for official acts taken while in office. So where does this go from here? Because it's been referred to the DOJ by Tulsi Gabbard. It has. And Emily Jashinsky yesterday in a press conference asked Tulsi about criminal charges and where they might be headed.

36:05I thought it was very interesting that Tulsi went out of her way in response to some of those questions to point out that, you know, we've determined that Barack Obama directed the manufacturer of this intelligence. So that sounds to me like there's some kind of conspiracy or Rico style case that they're thinking of, but I don't know what that would be. Honestly, I've had no luck at all figuring out what the, you know, clearly it's going to be a conspiracy case, but conspiracy to do what? I'm not sure. And when I posited the idea of perjury cases because some of them seem pretty obvious, even though the statute of limitations has expired.

36:48You know, the response has been pretty tepid. So I don't know. I don't I don't know what the what kind of case they think they're building, but they seem pretty confident that they're ready to turn it over to or that they that there's enough to already turn over to a prosecutor. Yeah, the generally the statute of limitations on perjury will be like a year. I think it is. It's very low is that we're definitely past it. And Rico trying to think it's either five years or 10 at the outset, which would be, we'd be past that too. We'd be past five. Um, I'm pretty sure it is five. We're looking it up now, but in any event, Oh, it looks like it's four.

37:25Okay. My team's telling me it's four. So we're definitely past the Rico statute of limitations. So I'm not my own initial reaction to this without having done the legal research yet is it's not going to be a legal case. It's going to be it's a public scandal. But the problem for the Trump administration is the same media who participated willingly and knowingly in some cases in the scandal are the ones now being asked to report on their own malfeasance. Yeah, I don't know. I've been assured that it's not a hearts and minds thing that they're trying to do now, that they're true, that they're actually trying to build cases.

38:02So I just don't know what I'm sure they've done more legal research on it than I have, which is zero. Yeah. And I haven't really either yet. So it's been it's been enough to try to keep pace with what has come out. Right. Oh, but clearly there they have something in mind. There are already referrals that have been made for criminal cases to be opened. So they clearly they've conceived of what they think might be a charge and have directed investigators to go gathering evidence for that or assembling that for a prosecutor. So we'll see. We'll see what pans out. Yeah. I mean, listen, those prosecutors who went after Trump were extremely clever and creative in coming up with something.

38:52And we'll see whether the Trump administration is equally creative on what is an actual scandal, unlike what they did to him. Matt, thanks for everything. Everybody's got to check out racket news uh well worth your time and so informational all the best coming up the fellas from ruthless join me for the rest of the show they kind of like oppose pod save america in a way they're kind of like the right wing pod save they're gonna have thoughts on all of this let's be honest no one has time to simmer bones for 24 hours but our bodies could use the benefits of real bone broth especially as we get older that is where paleo valleys 100 % grass-fed bone broth protein powder comes in.

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41:29Here to react to the latest Russiagate revelations and much more, including Colbert, Epstein, there's a lot, are the fellas from the Ruthless program, Josh Holmes, Michael Duncan, John Ashbrook, and Comfortably Smug. Guys, welcome back. Great to see you. Oh, great to see you. You're looking bright and cheery today. Thank you. Thank you. I've got my red on and it's the summer and we've we're having like really nice days now without humidity. So I'm happy. Can you believe this story? It gets crazier and crazier now that the House report exposing the flimsy evidence. And I use that term loosely underlying the 2017 ICA was shoved in a vault over at CIA.

42:15It took Trump intervening to get it out. And now we see why the Democrats appear to have been actively concealing it for years. They did not want this thing to see the light of day because they've been lying to us for a long, long time. That's how it looks. Yeah. I mean, look, this is a story that is especially frustrating to the fellows. here because I think we've landed on this conclusion years ago. All of the evidence pointed and all the facts that we knew pointed to a very concerted effort by then CIA Director Brennan in concert with the Clinton campaign and a bunch of other operatives within DOJ, FBI, and in the White House that basically were trying to manipulate a narrative here that would help Clinton towards the end of what they thought was going to be a victorious 2016 election.

43:10And I think the only question that we've always had here is whether or not they thought they were going to get their hands caught in the cookie jar. And that's why they kept perpetuating the narrative and try to cover their tracks or whether this was just solely an effort to delegitimize the Trump administration in their early days and that they just kept it going on and on. But there was never really any evidence. And we found it in the Mueller report. There was never really any evidence that there was this basis of Russian support for Donald Trump in which they were trying to sway the election.

43:44I mean, Duncan talks about this all the time, but it boiled down to$100 ,000 worth of Facebook ads in a campaign that was running$100 ,000 a minute. Right. I mean, like between Clinton and Trump, they were spending like hundreds of millions of dollars on Facebook. And the idea that Donald Trump would have to outsource his Facebook strategy, spending$100 ,000 to the Kremlin is just a patently absurd thing. Right. And it was all sort of absurd. And the basis of all this being the dossier in the first place and Brennan hiding that fact or Comey going to Trump Tower and saying, you know, president elect Donald Trump, congratulations.

44:20Hey, by the way, did you pee on some Russian prostitutes. They peed on each other, Duncan. Please get it straight. I want to make sure I get that fake fact straight, Megan. That's right. You know, but but to never tell Donald Trump the provenance of this dossier during that that interrogation of what it was and and basically just using it as the premise for then leaking to the media and starting the Russiagate probe. I mean, it was it was cooked up between our intelligence agencies, the Obama White House and the Hillary Clinton campaign. They said Russian collusion for years. And in fact, the collusion was between our own government and the Clinton campaign.

45:01OK, but here's what. So Andy McCarthy at National Review is a skeptic on this whole story, as you heard me raise with Matt. And he keeps saying we knew about collusion. The collusion was with Hillary and Fusion GPS, who created the phony steel dossier and then managed to get it used by the intel agencies to start an investigation against Trump, suggesting he colluded with Russia to steal the election. He's right that that piece of it has long been known. What's happening now is an entirely different piece, which is equally pernicious. all along. We have just accepted that Russia did interfere in the election to help Trump.

45:43Like that's been kind of an accepted thing. And what skeptics have been saying all along is that they interfered like barely in the way they had interfered in many elections prior to 16 and not just in the United States, by the way, and that there's zero proof that they actually wanted to help Trump. And they got dumped on people like Taibbi, Molly Hemingway, Maria Bartiromo got crapped all over for years for saying those two things, because when collusion fell apart, the left held onto those little darlings. Well, he did interfere and he did it to help Trump. So it wasn't a fair election. They've been clinging to them, just like, you know, your kids cling to their little stuffies in their cribs.

46:33And now those are falling apart in spectacular fashion. Those were just as dishonest distortions as the collusion narrative. The Russian interference was barely there. It was like what Putin does to everyone's elections. So chaos. Anybody he doesn't like. Let's get like some fake news articles going. Let's amplify the Black Lives Matter stuff. Well, that was 2020. But you know what I'm saying? Like, yeah, stuff that divides Americans. Let's let's amplify all that. We enjoy that. And that's it. And on top of that, the big kahuna that was left, which was he did it because he wanted to help Donald Trump, was the biggest lie of them all.

47:17He didn't want to help Trump. He had actually very little belief that Trump was going to win. He had a bunch of stuff he could have released on Hillary Clinton that would have made her look terrible and was in the news cycle. There were tons of speculations going on about her health. He could have dropped that shit and blown up her campaign, but he didn't. And now we're finding all this, that there wasn't one piece of the Russia narrative that a was true or B wasn't understood to be false when it was getting peddled to us by John Brennan and Jim Comey and Clapper and Obama. That's the other big piece that's come out that Obama himself was the one who stopped the intelligence community chain from about to report in a document that Trump's team would have seen, too, that the Russian interference really wasn't a thing.

48:10It was really kind of not much to right after he demanded that meeting. It's all these untrue things. Yeah. Well, I mean, this is a gargantuan scandal. And I understand. I mean, if you go to like New York Times or Washington Post, you're not going to find a single story anywhere on the website about it. Right. I mean, they just want this to go away in large part because they were key to the entire strategy to make this thing work. They really were. And I don't think I talked about this on our show today, but something that that I remember from the time, because you guys, every other guy on this, on this set, Megan, they were like, this, this is not true.

48:51This is not true. And I, I, I believe them, but I was working with a lot of reporters at the time. And up until that time, up until that point, it was like, you know, 10 years working reporters and political stuff, trying to sell Republican talking points and all that sort of thing. And we, you know, it's a left-wing media, but we were making some inroads. Trump wins. And then all of a sudden, every single person who I was talking to about the campaign, all of a sudden overnight became a Russia reporter. And that sort of thing does not happen just because they're like, oh, well, we're trying to drive a wedge with the new president.

49:28That sort of sustained, coordinated effort can only happen if someone as influential as Barack Obama and the people around him cared so much about driving it that they spent time doing it. So I agree with you, Ashbrook. I think that's the inside game. I think the outside game for the media was that this whole narrative served as a warm comfort, a coping mechanism for the entire Democratic base and all of these voters who were like, how is it that Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton? And so Russiagate became that on the outside. So the media monetized this fake story. That's the thing. And so I think it perpetuated itself both on the inside from the intel agency and the Obama administration.

50:10And then on the outside, all of these reporters were writing all this salacious Russiagate stuff. They're getting clicks. And beyond getting clicks, you saw the rise of reporters who have zero journalistic capabilities. Natasha Bertrand have created not only careers, book deals. They've gotten rich off of this. They collected awards, accolades, made careers. They jump from paper to paper, getting pay raise after pay raise off of this whole delusion, off of this whole lie, which is why, like Holmes said, you don't see this reporting today in The Washington Post or The New York Times because all the money they made, are they willing to admit, you know what?

50:46I guess these millions were all just bullshit. But you do not get that sort of uniform commitment to a single storyline across every single major broadcast network and major daily newspaper without people at the top telling them we are we are pursuing this. Yeah, 100 percent. And there's little evidence. I mean, as Michael said. And they wrote those articles before the renewed, revised Russia, Russia, Russia did it all. Intel report hit. So they as soon as Obama said, we want to change this narrative, the intelligence community did it. But before they put pen to paper or made a single phone call, they got on the phone with the reporters to make sure they knew where the story was going, that it was a bombshell.

51:32Russia had interfered. And I don't think it's just reporters. I think it goes to editors. I think it goes to publishers. I think that there was a lot more involvement with the media than we know, because the whole storyline is absolutely preposterous to begin with. I mean, you talked about how the Russians meddle in all kinds of elections. And I mean, OK, that's what they do. But we're talking about the American election that is run by 60 year olds who have been in the business for 40 years and they're trying their best to win and get a good message out. The idea that some Russian 20 year old who barely speaks English is going to be able to, like, jump in and all of a sudden change the face of American election is preposterous.

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54:39It's not even a quote. Would you say there's even a little question there, Tulsi? She says no. And you found things that nobody thought we'd ever find. And I'm very happy and very honored to have you with us. She's right now, by far, Speaker, she's hotter than you right now, Speaker. She's the hottest person in the room right now, Speaker. So, Tulsi, great job. And I know you have a lot more coming. She told me you've seen nothing yet. So I heard those rumors about you, but now I know they're true. So we're very proud of you, Chelsea. They cheated so badly. President Trump on this story on Tuesday.

55:18Welcome back to The Megyn Kelly Show. Back with me now, our friends from the Ruthless program. Guys, Trump keeps using the word treason, and we are trying to figure out what possible way there could be to charge any of these officials. I don't think treason is going to work just based on, you know, like I said earlier, my instincts because it doesn't, you know, that's a, that's a, that's a tough one. However, perjury at the federal level has a five-year statute of limitations, which can potentially be told, meaning it won't start running until the crime is discovered. Like the lie is discovered.

55:54If the person who's about to get charged was responsible for actively concealing the truth, like maybe putting the truth in a safe at Langley where it would never be unearthed for, you know, the next five years. I mean, that's, that's the kind of clever behavior we might be seeing from this DOJ, which got very, very clever under Merrick Garland and Joe Biden and the left love that. So let's see if they use their same creativity now to find ways to extend the statute limitations for lying under oath for people like John Brennan and Jim Comey. That would be really interesting. And I don't think Barack Obama is going to get pulled into this very easily, given the fact that thanks to Trump, it's clear he has immunity for his official acts while president.

56:42But that doesn't mean he can't be called as a witness. I don't know that he's totally in the clear because anything he did after he left office and they said they're looking at conduct all the way through 2024 could be brought up. I have no idea, but I have absolutely no sympathy for him. And the left is going to have a really difficult time trying to say, you can't do this to a former president or his top aides. I think that's, that's to me, the central issue in all of this, all of this insanity, all of these horrific things is, this is a tragedy. This was a group of individuals, powerful individuals who decided that they were willing for their own egos and resentments to divide this entire country because half of this country has.

57:23They still believe it. They still believe it. They were they were basically given brain damage and now believe that President Trump is a Russian asset. They were told that there's Russians hiding in every corner. They could take over this country at any moment. Every election we have, you can't believe the results if it doesn't go the way that you want. And you know what? President Trump is trying to kill every single American in this country. COVID came over here because he's a Putin stooge. There are people in this country that damaged and it was done by a group of powerful individuals. And then the media was another cog in their machines.

57:55They had a profit motive in getting that done. They wanted to be buddies with the Obama folks always. They ran with the message that he gave them. They all made millions off of it. And they're wondering, why have Americans lost faith in institutions? Well, those institutions divided this entire country. They're the problem. I mean, what this is about fundamentally is breaking this systemic failure that these partisans led in large part by John Brennan, who I large that I think he is probably the most politically partisan director of the CIA in its history. And by the way, that's a pretty high bar.

58:29That's a high bar. Sadly. History. But but what they did and what they were able to do is not only just conceal the truth, not only perpetuate a narrative, but then become a part of the media business, not just as a source, as a single source to some of these disreputable reporters out there, but then literally become part of the media apparatus. They all sign deals, right? And they would all go on all these cable shows, some of which I was on. I sat in the green room and watched these guys. And they would say, well, you know, we have this top secret clearance, so I can't really tell you all of the things that I've seen.

59:02But I can tell you, it's very concerning. Of course, the inference to the viewer and the listener at that point is like, well, I don't know. This guy was in charge of the CIA. hey, he probably has access to information that I don't know, so I should probably believe it, because at that point in time, we still believe in our institutions, because up to that point, they had sort of served the country well in many, many regards. But this whole circle that wrapped into the media is really, I think, one of the biggest benefits of having this conversation now, because that needs to be broken at its core.

59:34Duncan, I know that you, for example, had interactions with some of these reporters who didn't know shit from China. Yeah, Megan, this is incredible. I have a great story for you because it went way beyond 2016. And then the Mueller investigation, even after all of that was proven false, it continued into 2020. I remember I got a call from a fact checker at the New Yorker in 2020, leading up to the 2020 election, where the contention of this article that was under review was basically that one of our clients, you know, a high profile Republican senator, their website actually was communicating data back to a Russian server.

1:00:13And perhaps there might be voter file data that, you know, Putin and the Russians were using to collude with this Republican, which, of course, was a fundamentally insane thing. And so I sort of like probed the fact checker, like, oh, where are you getting this information? Like, is this public? Is there some sort of confidential source? And I was like, if you want me to actually respond to this, like, which is totally baseless, you're going to have to give me a little bit of something. You know what the something was, Megan? It was a Twitter thread by Louise Mensch. That was the basis for the whole article they were about to write.

1:00:48And I just kind of said, I mean, after laughing hysterically, I was kind of like, if you guys go to print on this, just like as a professional courtesy, I don't know if you went through the rest of her Twitter page, but you're going to publicly embarrass yourself. And they eventually spiked the story. But like, I mean, just having a fact checker who would do that, there are many publications who wouldn't, who would be, it would be too good to print, right? Because they just wanted the clicks. They didn't care if it was actually true. Here's the other piece of it. You got to keep in mind, you guys know this, the audience knows this too, but it's worthwhile to revisit.

1:01:24Keep in mind the time that we were dealing with here, end of 16, the very, very beginning of January 17, when the nation was in shock that Trump won and shock, especially the left, they were having open struggle sessions. They were crying openly, like they were calling off school so children could, you know, go see their trauma counselors about what had happened. And they did not believe he could do it. None of them believed he could do it for a second prior to the Nets announcing he had done it. And they still probably didn't believe he had done it. At the time, Obama was like, we're turning around this ICA.

1:02:07You're not submitting something saying Russia didn't help him do this. We are submitting something that shows how this really happened, which is Russia and he worked together and it was stolen. And we, I had the team pull this. This is, um, I think this is from end wokeness on X that put together a good montage. We stole part of it from him. And, um, this, this is the mentality that was driving the decisions I maintain behind the scenes at the white house still in, you know, late December or early December through early January 16 to 17, when Obama did his one 80 flipping the intel analysis. Watch.

1:02:48He's not going to be president. He is not. Donald Trump is not going to be president of the United States. Take it to the bank. I guarantee it. All right. All right. You think if he becomes the president here, make it great because the state is already. I think that man will be president of the United States right about the time that spaceships come down filled with dinosaurs and red capes. On that note, Tom, take it from me. How about that? And then of course there's Donald Trump. Donald Trump has been saying that he will run for president as a Republican, which is surprising since I just assumed he was running as a joke.

1:03:23Part of your mind or brain, can you imagine Donald Trump standing up one day and delivering a State of the Union address? Well, I can imagine it in a Saturday night skit. I continue to believe Mr. Trump will not be president. And you and Obama, of course, mocked him openly saying, you know, he may be this, he may be that one thing he never will be as president of the United States. That's how they all felt. Yeah. So for them, it was so easy. It was stolen by the Russians. That dirty Trump worked with them. The dirty tricks of Vladimir Putin, who's another boogeyman to them. And that, to me, is so clear when you read these documents like the Brennan.

1:04:07It has the ring of truth. The Steele dossier, it has the ring. What kind of CIA director talks like that? Don't you? These people are, like I said, they're so egotistical. They're so full of themselves. For so long, they've looked down on the rest of America so blatantly, so openly. Like you saw all the jokes they were making, like Trump supporters, why? They're just a bunch of dumb rednecks. Of course, those people will never win. We're surrounded by Ivy League geniuses and we're going to give Obama a Netflix deal. These people really thought they were like the cream of the crop and to be defeated and humiliated and shown that this belief system that they've held so dearly is all just a house of cards built on lies.

1:04:52It upset them so much. They're not willing to accept defeat. They say, OK, well, let's just cook up a lie because we can't look bad. We're egotistical monsters. Yeah, it's also a perfect vignette in how the left wing is willing to compromise major institutions within this country, the things that sort of make us work. I mean, when I started in politics, both intelligence and law enforcement, it was kind of like a church and state with politics. Right. You you had them as there were political appointees and whatnot, but you always operated with it offshore because of things like this. Right. And there was a bipartisan agreement at one point in time, 25 years ago, where everybody sort of believed you just can't venture into that territory.

1:05:38You can't allow intelligence agencies to operate like a third world country protecting a dictator to manipulate intelligence against political opponents and things like that. If there's ever any evidence of that, boy, that's an impeachable offense. And that was basically an accepted rule right up until the point where John Brennan leads the CIA. And at that point, all of a sudden, now you can see from all the things that have been unearthed, it was the opposite. They work hand in hand. I mean, there's handwritten notes at Senate Intel Committee that they keep talking about to try to – which they're talking about something entirely different.

1:06:12But they're trying to use that as a way to insulate the criticism. One of the things that came out on that was handwritten notes from John Brennan after a briefing with the Clinton campaign where he understood that they were going to weaponize the intelligence that he was conjuring up that he originally got from them, that he was briefing congressional leaders on it. And the Clinton campaign was going to actually weaponize it and put it into play in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign. If your intelligence agency is acting as a tool for a political campaign, that is the worst possible thing you can do in this country from a government standpoint, from a trust and institution standpoint.

1:06:52It is the way that you absolutely drag an electorate into a point where they don't trust their country. And that's sadly where we find it. Were you with McConnell in 16? So I was outside by then I'd left in 2014, but I but I was I was close enough to all of this. Yeah, I can give you a good 16. And we know this from John Brennan's memoir. So this is not in dispute. John Brennan recounted this story himself. He briefed in September of 16, then Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on his claim that Russia sought to, quote, to, quote, enhance the electoral prospects of Donald Trump. And we now know from what's getting released here, Brennan had been told that's bullshit.

1:07:38That's bullshit. But it has the feel. It has a has a whiff of being true. OK, this is based on the Steele dossier. And he said that to McConnell. And according to Brennan, McConnell responded dryly, quote, one might say that the CIA and the Obama administration are making such claims in order to prevent Donald Trump from getting elected president. He knew he knew. I mean, McConnell has been around a long time and Brennan went to him to try to soft sell it. And McConnell was like, would you stop with this bullshit? And it didn't stop. It went on and on and on. It got worse. Go ahead. It got worse.

1:08:21So we were in charge of electing Senate Republicans at this point. And so all of this information is relevant to us because it splashed all over the newspapers when McConnell refuses to sign a letter that Brennan wants him to pen that implicates Donald Trump in Russia, refused to do it. So all of a sudden, the entirety of the national media is focused on Mitch McConnell protecting facing Russians, working for Russians, working for Trump. They started calling him Moscow Mitch. You had that scumbag on MSNBC. Got that. Joe Scarborough, who like led every show with Moscow Mitch type stuff. And I didn't, I was out of government.

1:09:00I didn't have a security clearance. So he couldn't tell me what the conversations were. It didn't stop John Brennan, by the way, from writing exactly what happened in that secure intelligence briefing, by the way. I don't know if you're looking around at charges. Maybe that's somewhere to start. But anyway, all of this, we can't formulate the truth because I can't get it from a principal. But you're getting incoming from the outside on all of this. And they then take that and try to weaponize it not only against Donald Trump, but against every single Republican who looked at what we're now all looking at and said, none of this adds up.

1:09:36We went through three long years where this was A1A on the talking point list of all the liberal pundits, every single campaign, every single Democrat. This is the John Brennan effect. This is why he is the key to all of this because he buried the intel, made up a narrative, and then weaponized it through the media in a way that could help their campaign chances, which is really what the only thing that they were focused on at this point. delegitimizing the Trump administration and making sure the Republicans had somewhat of a liability for speaking the truth. And then he monetized it. He went and got himself a contributor contract and a book deal.

1:10:16Yeah. Okay. I wanted to play one other because we're on Brennan and we pulled another soundbite from him. This one's from Meet the Press, February 3rd, 2018. Okay. So by this point, he knows everything, everything that we have discussed on this program and earlier ones this week. He knows it all. It's all, you know, they're still pushing Russiagate and all that nonsense. But in any event, here he is on Meet the Press, February 3rd, 2018, 17B is the SOC. When did you first learn of the so-called Steele dossier and what Christopher Steele was doing? Well, it was a not a very well-kept secret among press circles for several months before it came out.

1:10:54And it was in late summer of 2016 when there were some individuals from the various U.S. news outlets who asked me about my familiarity with it. And I had heard just snippets about it. I did not know what was in there. I did not see it until later in that year. I think it was in December. But I was unaware of the providence of it as well as what was in it. And it did not play any role whatsoever in the intelligence community assessments that was done, that was presented to then President Obama and then President-elect Trump. That's not true. That last part is not true. It was attached to the ICA in the appendix.

1:11:38Information from it was in there and relied upon. That's what all these documents we're seeing now, thanks to Tulsi, are showing us that it was item one, like the crucial item that got them to the point where they could say interference and with the goal of helping Trump and the three other items that just came out and what was unearthed late yesterday are even more pathetic if possible than the dossier. It's like unverified snippets from a conversation that all the intelligence agents on it said, we absolutely cannot rely on this. This is not reliable. Don't put this in the report. And Brennan just kept rubber stamping it all there.

1:12:15And if it's suggested there was a the motive to help Trump, it made it in. It was relied upon. And there he is knowing all of that, being like, oh, of course, would never rely on the Steele dossier. Fucking liar. Yeah. It's the genesis. It's the genesis for all of it. Right. I mean, that's the thing that I find so amazing about that comment is that he's pretending as though, well, I was vaguely aware of it because the press was aware of it. I'm the director of the CIA and I don't know, but like all of our press somehow got a handle on it. I've got a question. What a whale of an intelligence agent.

1:12:55I have a question back to you, Megan, you know, because you were a lawyer and you probably know more about this than any of us. But like in sort of going through all of Brennan's decision making in that process, including all of this unverified, you know, reporting in the dossier and stuff, the career intelligence agents were like, please do not include this. We do not want our names attached to it. We don't believe this is credible. And he did it anyway. At what point do you pass beyond the immunity that you have in your official capacity as John Brennan to being willfully malicious? That's a good question.

1:13:30I don't know. This is all new territory, right? Because we only recently have the Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity within his official acts. Um, I don't know. And then you have to look at statute of limitations, right? This all happened a long time ago, unless they can prove it's an ongoing issue because like right now they're looking at John Brennan statement, you know, cause we found out that the CIA had referred Brennan and Comey to the DOJ prior to Tulsi's document dump. The CIA first came out and was like those two, but they didn't really tell us why Comey exactly. I mean, shake your pick with Comey, there's so much.

1:14:07But with Brennan, with Brennan, they zeroed in on under under oath testimony that he gave about the dossier, again, downplaying its role in the assessment and his knowledge of it. So I don't know, Duncan, it'll be it'll be interesting. I mean, again, they have very clever lawyers over there, and I'm sure someone's thinking of something right now. But my first look at this tells me it's not a criminal case. It's a political one. It's it's an accountability story like these guys. And trust me, I'm wide open to the possible legal theories against these people. I would frankly love to see them suffer.

1:14:46And I have said since Trump was running, this must be done if there's a colorable claim that you don't make it up. But if there is a colorable claim, their people must be put through what Trump was put through. They must or they will not learn. They will do it to the right again. So I'm totally in favor of making them suffer if there's an actual good faith basis to do so. But just my initial instinct is this is probably just the truth coming out and that the remedy is to rub their noses in it publicly and shame them and understand how much wrong was done to President Trump and frankly is still being done to President Trump by these lunatics who want us to think they're the virtuous ones.

1:15:29Yep. Yeah. I mean, it may be subject to like some kind of legislation or something. I mean, something needs to change where the system in and of itself. I think legislation, that kind of stuff is it's way too slow. It does. It does not. I'm talking about the accountability on this. I'm just saying any time. First, for example, if you have a director of the CIA that is interfacing with a campaign at any point during the final weeks of the campaign and they're having gives and takes like we know that they're about a campaign plan. something needs to change. Something needs to insulate a process of intelligence.

1:16:04Let me give you one more from from the documents. It was in our AM update podcast this morning. There's another piece of evidence in there in what just got released from that House report from 2020 that was in the vault that Loretta Lynch, Barack Obama's attorney general, who oversees FBI was allegedly informing the Clinton campaign of what the FBI was doing and where its investigation into her stood and keeping tabs on the FBI agent who was running it and on Comey. I mean, I mean, that's my point, Megan. We don't know that's true, but that's one of the allegations. Keep going. If that's not prosecutable, we need to make a law to make it prosecutable because that is wildly inappropriate.

1:16:53It has to change. It goes beyond just the loss of trust in our institutions. I mean, thank God we were not attacked in a significant way during that period of time. I mean, aren't they supposed to be doing their day jobs to keep us safe instead of playing grab ass with reporters and like pretend like moonlighting his campaign operatives? I mean, what was the one thing that we learned ahead of 9-11 that all of these all of these entities were out for their own benefit and they weren't talking to each other. And therefore, it led to a cataclysmic result in New York. And in the months, in the years, in the weeks after 9-11, all of the intel communities came together and they were sharing information and they took it very seriously that we need to protect this country.

1:17:36Somehow, when Obama became president, they all became campaign operatives and took their eye off the ball. I just have to say, Like from a national security perspective, I think this is a very, very important issue. And the thing is, by the way, John Brennan is still to this day an MSNBC contributor. That's the thing is the only way behavior changes is when there are consequences. That's the only teacher that people understand and learn lessons from. There have to be dire consequences. There have to be charges brought up against these people. I don't care whether we think they'll see the inside of a jail cell or not.

1:18:09I want the Justice Department to use everything in its power. I mean, when the government sues you, it's a problem because they've got more money and resources. They bankrupt people. Let's bankrupt all these people. He sold his soul for an MSNBC contributorship. I want him bankrupted at the very least. I pray to God he sees a jail cell. He'd still have a security clearance if it wasn't for Trump, by the way. We need those other agents who warned him to be subpoenaed. You know, those are the agents we want to hear from. There needs to be some sort of congressional proceeding where we hear directly from them.

1:18:40And because apparently there are now multiple, I mean, I've heard the word dozens in some of these reports who are ready to at least behind the scenes stand up and say, I tried to tell them not to do this and they didn't listen to me. I mean, it was a John Brennan special from all accounts and a Jim Comey special. That's why there's no accident that that's why the CIA referred those two. Yes, they found some recent grounds apparently to do it. But I mean, I'm sure it's related to their ongoing deceit campaign against the government. I mean, in fairness, I guess, yes, the press, too, though the press's job is not to just be stenographers for the intel community.

1:19:17And they did at WAPO and they did at New York Times and they did a Politico and they did at CNN and the American public, most importantly of all, just completely misled. And then they'll put like Obama's like, oh, we did more. We did no more than conclude what everyone knows. We said Russia interfered. How does everyone know that, President Obama? How does everyone know? Because you and your people spread the lie. You put it in these intel reports. You leaked it to every media outlet in the country. You beat the drum for years. and people don't have enough time to run down these massive lies, especially when you take the proof that they're lies and shove them in vaults in Langley.

1:19:57My imaginary viewer, Madge in Iowa, she doesn't have access to that, nor does she have the fucking time or inclination to go try to figure this shit out. It's ridiculous. Right. Now there needs to be accountability and it needs that. Look, it's going to take hard work by shows like yours, shows like ours and independent media and everything else, because as a evidence of what we're talking about, all the people who created the problem are still in on it. Yep. And you're not going to find it this on CNN. You're not going to find this. If you find it on CNN, it'll be Barack Obama's triumphant slap back.

1:20:34Yeah. Yeah. Of the lunatic Tulsi. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Through a spokesperson. Right. And it's just it's nonsense. It's garbage. Can I ask you about, because I asked Taibbi about this, but you're of the Senate. What do you make? Because this is emerging as a principled defense. The pod save guys, McCarthy and others pointing to the fact that the Senate Intel Committee did its own investigation into the Russian interference. and they say under Marco Rubio as chair concluded that that intelligence community assessment was right, that there was interference meant to help Trump. And both, you know, Molly has serious, Molly Hemingway, I pointed out to Matt has serious doubts about how they got there.

1:21:18Did they rely on the same Intel? Did they just do the rubber stamping or you're saying they did their other, they did their own Intel. Matt Taibbi suggested that they did their own, but Matt's point was it was very flimsy at best because the main guy they were basing a lot of it on was never even contacted by anybody on that committee. So what do you say to the left's chief tool in trying to bat down the Tulsi story by saying, look at the Senate, the Senate, the Senate, the Senate? Yeah, I think it's two different issues, right? They were trying to figure out whether there was significant action by Russia that affected the outcome of the 2016 campaign in many ways.

1:21:54Their conclusion on that, by the way, was it did not. It did not. What they're pointing to, what the left is pointing to, is the conclusion that Russia, in fact, did have some involvement. Again, I think you mentioned it at the top of the show, and I know Duncan just talked about it. Can you argue whether or not$150 ,000 or$200 ,000 worth of Facebook ads affected an election? No, you certainly can't. Can you argue that$150 ,000 or$200 ,000 worth of Facebook ads trying to sow discord was interference? I mean, technically you could, just because that did happen. Sure, that's their bread and butter.

1:22:27Yeah, I mean, and they do that, like you said, in every election in probably every country across the - No, I'm pretty sure that's how I lost the fifth grade presidency. I had a very solid platform. Right, right. Which, by the way, the Obama administration was doing in Israel to try to oust Netanyahu at the time with far greater resources than 150 to 200 ,000. Yeah. How about Ukraine? I mean, you name it, you name it. Right. I mean, so the idea that this is somehow a novel concept that Russia was just trying to do this with the United States is insane. But I think that their conclusion, what they were attempting to conclude in that Senate report is totally irrelevant from the conversation that we're having now.

1:23:07If they were tasked at actually finding out how all of this became part of the public lexicon, they probably would have found out what we're talking about now, that this thing is buried, that this somehow was conjured up by Brennan and co. To try to figure out how to perpetuate a narrative to delegitimize the Trump administration. That wasn't the remit at the time. And so I just find it hilarious that they're trying to use that as somehow an insulation to the intelligence that we now know for the first time is the American public, but was there since 2016. seen. The only way we're really going to get this nailed down, I mean, with more documents that are in the public and the newspapers have to cover is if there is a criminal charge because everyone's ignoring it.

1:23:53I mean, I listened to the New York times is the daily, you know, often they haven't touched it. I know I do it because I like to keep an eye on both sides. You know, I don't want anybody corrupting my mind, but they haven't touched it. They haven't touched it. That's the The New York Times' daily news podcast has not touched it. And the only way of making these newspapers who were complicit start covering it, I do think, are actual charges. Not just investigations, not referrals. Actual charges. By the way, we need to hire more lawyers at the DOJ ASAP. They are understaffed. All right, stand by.

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1:28:02USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! Wow. What a moment that was. And, I mean, unbelievable. Gone too soon. Hulk Hogan died today at age 71 per TMZ and WWE confirming it now. They say, according to TMZ, that medics were dispatched to his home in Clearwater, Florida, early Thursday morning. Operators stating that it was regarding a cardiac arrest. A slew of police cars and EMTs were packed outside of his home. He was carried on a stretcher and into an ambulance just a few weeks ago. his wife denied rumors that he was in a coma stating his heart was strong as he recovered from surgeries. TMZ saying there had been rumblings that Hogan was dying, but then they were told that he was just dealing with a symptom of the symptoms following a neck procedure he underwent in May.

1:29:00But that guy transformed professional wrestling. I mean, even for people like me who don't know much about it, that's the name, you know, he was a larger than life figure. His, you know, enthusiasm, his love of country, how fun he was, was obvious to anybody who spent two minutes with this guy. He used to go on Fox a lot. Um, what do you make of it? Cause now we've had three losses, guys of, you know, well-known people in the past few days, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Ozzy Osbourne, and now Hulk. Yeah. I mean, it looked tough week for children of the eighties. No question. Yeah. On on on the Hulkster in particular, it is hard to fully encapsulate and explain what a cultural icon that guy was.

1:29:46You know, I think to people are just sort of becoming aware of him or were unaware of the 80s and 90s. You know, you think of the political context or in that that big speech. But this guy transformed not only wrestling everything. I mean, he was wrap your flag and around it sort of symbolic of the rise of the Reagan era and into the 90s and the whole wrestling culture. And I mean, this guy was America, always was. And I mean, we were down on the floor during the convention watching him deliver that speech that you just played. It was electric seeing it in person because you remember as a kid seeing him during the Reagan era.

1:30:30It's perfect comparison because he was like a symbol of American greatness and Americans feeling great and coming back from the malaise and that America is number one. And he was always so patriotic. And then for it to come full circle and see him there at the convention yet again, taking a stand for America, making America great again. It was electric. And the audience just starts chanting USA. It was an incredible moment. He'd always been a huge patriot and an inspiration to Americans of how great a country we have. And it's also important to remember one of his many patriotic things is he destroyed Gawker, a fake news organization, taught him a lesson that you can't get away with printing lies.

1:31:11And the more consequences, you know, the fake news gets, the better. Yeah, I think it was one of those because it was this celebrity salacious news tabloid website. that was just absolutely vicious. And they printed a story about, they were airing sex tapes, if memory serves, of him with a woman he was having an affair with. She was the wife of his friend, Bubba somebody. Bubba the Love Sponge. Bubba the Love Sponge, as Steve reminds me. Bubba, of course, how did I forget? And he was one of the first celebrities to sort of stand up and say, you can't do this to me. And we later found out, I believe it was bankrolled by Peter Thiel, right?

1:31:49who was like in favor of taking a stand on this. And he brought down Gawker. I mean, it was not a victory for free speech, but free speech, even in America has some limitations. You cannot just go as a news person and openly actively invade somebody's private life with defamatory material, uh, to that degree and not expect to pay a penalty. And that was made clear by the courts. Keep going. We are going to say something, Duncan. Yeah. It was just sort of a surreal moment there at the convention because you know back to holmes's point he really was a cultural icon even be just beyond wrestling he was like you know he was such a commodity too i remember growing up and having a wrestle buddy which was basically like this like this pillow that is like sort of formed to his body and i remember being a little kid and we had one of those and one of the macho man randy savage ones and like you could put him in a headlock and so like sitting there you know at the convention in 2020 being like the the wrestle buddy guy that i grew up on is now on this stage talking about how we have to elect donald trump was just sort of a surreal moment and just it speaks to like how he he endured as that cultural icon for decades which is an incredible thing to do in entertainment yeah i think he was more than just a a cultural icon too and a big personality the guy obviously had a very big heart you've seen all the videos you've heard all the stories.

1:33:13It's one of my favorite videos is when this dad is walking in like two or three years ago, he's walking into an autograph signing session. He's got his six year old kid with him and a six year old kid comes in and he's like getting ready to beat up Hulkamania and Hulk Hogan gets up and he's like, he's going to fight him back again. And it's just like, you put yourself in the shoes of that dad. You grew up every Saturday morning, rooting on Hulk Hogan, fighting against the Iron Sheik and, you know, macho man and everybody. And you watch your kid get up there and just do the muscles and Hulkamania reacts.

1:33:45Like this is a guy who had a very, very big heart and cared about people. I mean, it seems like it's always the ones with the big hearts that go by cardiac arrest for some reason. And it just seems like this bitter irony that those big hearts wind up failing them. He was a giant, you know, of a man. Terry Bollea was his real name and he's really going to be missed. It's sad to see your icons die. It's sad to see, even if you have no personal connection with them. like Ozzy Osbourne too. I didn't know Ozzy at all. I'm not one of those people who had met him, but I knew Sharon. I know Sharon. She's a delight.

1:34:19I love her. She's been on the show. She's just so sweet. She's so fun. Those two had a real love affair. I mean, legit. And despite all of his successes and riches, he said to his dying day, the best thing he ever did in his life was marry Sharon Osbourne. And just in the past couple of days, watching the tributes to them, to him come out. It's been so entertaining because I didn't know that much about Ozzy. I wasn't like a black Sabbath fan, but I liked him as a personality. And he, he just always seemed so funny. One of the clips they surfaced was of him on his reality show with her. They, they kind of invented reality TV, um, where she was like, Oh, the truck driver, he's been issued a citation.

1:34:59Oh yeah. Yeah. He says, well, how come? Well, it turns out he was getting a blowjob while he was driving the truck. Yeah. Sounds about right. Yeah. Yeah. And he was entirely naked. Okay. Well, that'll do it. That'll do it. Ozzy Osbourne's not shocked at all or horrified that his employee was caught in this condition. Just a Tuesday at the Osbournes. Yes. Right. Like these rock stars, like our true rock stars, ours, the UK's, whatever, they've had these huge lives right you kind of forget like how mega those lives can go to where can you imagine like duncan coming home and finding out like one of the ruthless producers was pulled over we try to live the exact same way megan that's you know we we've got a big tent can i bring up something uh i didn't know i didn't see it was mentioned as one of the possible topics, but I'd be remiss if I didn't bring this up.

1:35:57You completely destroyed Doug Emhoff's ex on Twitter. Did you guys see this? I haven't. I mean, I I'm honestly an expert in Twitter history. I think that's the most brutal body bagging. Oh, thank you. Yes. Do you believe this person? The nerve of Doug Emhoff's ex-wife to try to shit stir with me? Step away, madam. Huge mistake. mistake she doesn't listen to the show evidently exactly simple google search would have told her it's not a good idea um i'm going to hurt you and it's it's going to be painful she jumped in from the train was like i got this those who didn't see it hold on a second i'll find it um god let's see she okay her name is kirsten emhoff k-e-r-s-t-i-n which is already where she's a problem.

1:36:54Nobody should spell their name Kirsten. And she, she was mad about my JLo commentary the other day where I said, she's too old at 55 to be making her living solely on being this sex kitten who people want to F. I'm sorry. I just think it's sad. It's like even the greatest sex kitten of all time, Ann Margaret understood by her mid fifties to approach life with a bit more class. She was still sexy as hell, but she knew people were going to want to hear her talk and hear her speak more than they were going to just want her shake, see her shake her boobs at them. JLo hasn't gotten the message and is still out there literally half naked, shoving her vag into the faces of her dancers on stage.

1:37:42It's too much. That was my commentary. Kirsten didn't like it. So she tweeted out without CCing me, without adding me. I bet tons of people look at JLo and want to have sex with her. Megan spelled wrong. If you actually think post menopausal women can't be sexual, you are missing out. You can close up your 55 year old shop while the rest of us are open for business. But this is one of the most unattractive people on Twitter. I'm sorry. The thought of Kirsten Emhoff being open for business is jarring and upsetting in and of itself. And my response for the record was, He's already dead, Megan.

1:38:25You were too chicken shit to actually CC me on your post, Kirsten. But let's just say I'm sexy enough to keep my husband from sleeping with the nanny. Unlike J-Lo, however, I don't feel the need to fake hump a bunch of strangers to prove I've still got it. I believe that's pretty much the end of Kirsten Emhoff, as it should be. I think you look care of that. Holy smokes. Well, look, reasonable people can disagree about whether J.Lo doing on stage is something we'd like to see or not. But I think we can all conclude that you probably shouldn't come at Megan with something like that. And the video you had, it's like very clear, like, okay, this is a bit out of pocket.

1:39:08You make a great point. Why would she jump in on this? That guy needs a snorkel. I have no idea. And by the way, I've been told by reliable sources, Kirsten Emhoff plays for the other team. I don't even think she, if she's open for business, nothing's going in. Oh my God. I have it on good authority. But look, this is a woman who was married to a man who turned out to be a woman abuser, a real shit of a person, and reportedly cheated on her while they were married with the nanny. which is an extra bonus. I mean, look, I realize some marriages break up, but there's a real question about why she's out there.

1:39:48Was she out there during the campaign defending him? And by the way, Kirsten, now that you've rattled my cage, I'm looking into exactly why you did that and what favors Doug Emhoff and his wife Kamala Harris may have done for you in your legal life, because she's been involved in some legal battles that possibly led to your adoration. So keep coming for me, madam. I'm here. I'm looking forward to it. all soon as the sleeping dogs let them lie oh my gosh that's incredible i mean to be honest married to like a woman abuser and a serial cheater from what we hear and somebody who allegedly impregnated the nanny but certainly seems to have at least been sleeping with her wants to run out there talking to others about their about how sexy they are to their husbands My God, woman, stop.

1:40:39Slow your roll. Makes no sense. Makes no sense. I will say like, I'm going to have to take your word on her sexual orientation. I don't know anything about that. But if you marry Doug Amhoff, I get it. Right. I get it. Like, it's pretty tough to stay on the same squad if that's your only frame of reference. He could turn you. He could turn you. Maybe we should be feeling sorry for her. Though she's standing by, you know, she stood by him at that campaign. She looked at him with the doe-eyed, uh, you know, look at the convention. And, um, now I'm really interested why she did that. Now I suddenly do care, Kirsten, why you did that.

1:41:16And, um, I'm going to try to find out. Okay. So thank you for bringing that up, Smug, because that was a fun thing that we didn't officially have on the agenda, but why not? Why shouldn't we? Okay. Lastly, Epstein, the, um, deputy attorney general is meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell Well, today, which ought to be potentially interesting for him, query whether we can really believe a thing she says because she's going to want to cop a deal to get out of prison early. But it's happening. The House has also, I think, either issued a subpoena or settled on a plan to try to depose her in front of Congress.

1:41:51may still have some similar problems as the Wall Street Journal offers its second attack on Trump and Epstein, saying Trump was told in May by his Justice Department, I think Pam Bondi, that he is allegedly in the Epstein files, which is supposed to be a big headline. But didn't Elon Musk tell us all that prior to then? We've known that thanks to Elon. And this all, the Wall Street Journal, you know, publishing that thing about his alleged letter to Epstein and now publishing that he was allegedly told he's in the files, along with hundreds of others, by the way, has led to this moment on The View today.

1:42:31Watch. And before we go on hiatus, we only have one more show after this. I'm allowed to say that, right? Too late now. So it doesn't really matter. Yeah. Before we go, I wanted to tell people that the tide is turning. The tide is turning. and things are changing. I mean, the ultimate irony would be that Rupert Murdoch will take him down. Yeah. Fox News, who created the monster, will take him down. OK, so Fox News is going to take him down because he Rupert owns Fox and Rupert owns the journal. And now she's determined, I guess, that Rupert's going to end Trump. This will be the thing that does it because Rupert's journal will continue reporting that the Epstein scandal, as the left is now trying to make it is all about DJT.

1:43:17Your thoughts? It's just so dumb. I mean, this thing is veered so far off the tracks. It's it, you almost have to have like a full SSRI prescription just to begin discussing where the left has taken the, I mean, my patience for anyone like Joey, Joey Behar, uh, to even weigh in on this or any Democrats in Congress to weigh in on this is infinitely small. They had 12 long years to try to examine anything they wanted to examine with the Epstein files. By the way, this brought what, 80 charges, 80 different indictments against Donald Trump in the process while they're sitting on all this information.

1:43:57Somehow this like lost the graph. And so now their newfound interest is simply political, right? And I think this is the problem that we find ourselves at. Like there are answers that need to be done. I think the Trump figure out exactly because now we need transparency on everything. What happened here? But like the fact that this is political, it's truly, I hate it. I just hate it. Yep. Well, I think it kind of goes left. They never cared about it and they still don't care. If they still cared about it, they wouldn't be trying to make it political and all about Trump. Go ahead, Michael. Well, I was going to say, it's just like Russia hacked the election.

1:44:34Like Epstein files has become for the liberals, this catch all thing where they feel like they can get Trump. I mean, we know from like we know from the Glenn Maxwell trial and the depositions and stuff that Trump, you know, had some interactions with Jeffrey Epstein. No, but but when I think of Epstein files, I think of like, here are the people who did old kids. Right. Like not like hearsay from some court document, you know, no one. Right. No one saying believes there's anything damning about Trump in the Epstein. Exactly. The Biden administration would have released it. Fellas, wonderful to see you.

1:45:07Thanks for being here. Gotta run back tomorrow with new revelations about Brian Kohlberger from the just released police docs. Thanks for listening to The Megyn Kelly Show. No BS, no agenda, and no fear.

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