Look, I'm I'm also with you, Adam curry, John C. Dvorak.
Sunday, March 5 2017. This is your award winning give on
nation media assassination episode Niner zero Niner. This
is no agenda, tracking bugs
of all varieties since 2007. And broadcasting live from the
darkest corners of the internet here in downtown Austin Tejas
capital, the Tron Star State in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam
curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley where it rained and rained and
rained and rained and filled the reservoirs. But the mud flats
are still there. I'm John Cena. Greg Levin Buzzkill.
Yay for the mudflats.
Was that dramatic enough? No, no. No.
Too rainy here too. And now you know it's raining here. It
always rains this time a year. Because it is time for South by
Southwest. Oh, It
always rains dollars rains and South by Southwest always rains
on South
by Southwest and I used to feel bad. Really?
Now you became a local? Well, there was there was actually I
had like people in Rio do not like Karneval
there was a there was a report I had here we go. This is local
news here from Austin, Texas. As you know, we are a sanctuary
city which is now being defended. We have protest
marches all kinds of stuff going on. You know, the governor of
Texas said no, you really shouldn't be doing that. That's
not how it's gonna work. And now we have resist we much at South
by Southwest
10s of 1000s of people get ready to embark on Austin for South by
Southwest a long list of scheduled performers say they
won't be here. Tonight we learned why the crocodiles
priests and downtown boys are just a few of the 50 Plus bands
opting out of South by Southwest. Making the decision
after musician told slant set on Twitter. After looking at his
contract he's deciding to cancel his performance at South by
Southwest posting this portion that says the conference
reserves the right to alert us immigration authorities about
international artists if they violate their performance
agreement. Entertainment Lawyer Brian Goldstein has been working
with international musicians, actors and live performers for
more than 20 years regularly looking over performance
contracts for his clients. He says the language and told
flames contract is normal because
whether it's an opera company or an orchestra or anybody who's
bringing in a foreign artists to put something in the contract
that says you're responsible for making sure you get your visa
and that you're you know legally authorized to perform and if we
discover that you're not authorized, we have the right to
cancel the show with no damages. What's not normal is they find
out they have somebody who is illegal they get rid of them.
It's very rare, especially the arts that you say and we're
gonna rat you out
South by Southwest
so rare in the arts because in the arts we protect ourselves as
liberal arts that you say and we're gonna rat you out
South by Southwest has released a statement saying the
conference takes a public stance against President Trump's travel
ban. And Senate Bill six going on to say the conference has
never reported anyone to immigration authorities. And the
clause has been in the contract since 2013.
There's your kicker. Yeah, morons here, you know, and it is
absolutely true that all these musicians and all kinds of
people they come here to work and they come in on tourist
visas and if you're making money and you're working I can't do
that in Europe.
No, you can't.
In fact, I have to do all kinds of paperwork with Australia to
do the show from there they're very keen on making sure you
have the appropriate paperwork
you can't do the show for near without paperwork. That's
right. I've received multiple emails of note and warning from
our producers saying dude if you're gonna be making money
well wow big door
caster caster podcast dangers you might be armed.
We've got a podcast caster rogue podcaster
it's rogue podcaster.
The best is that has been in the contracts for for four or five
years now. Okay. Everybody's a resistor. resist,
resist.
We much That's right. Let's resist people. Well, as John
Claude,
as a lot of, you know, this is like, is this When is the media
I guess it's not going to happen? They're going to just
happen this guy.
What can I can I congratulate Let you first of all,
congratulate me. I give you a point a props for being Yes. A
ding for calling the bugging of the White House six weeks ago.
Yes. As a six weeks ago and you were in when you were convinced
then.
Yeah, of course we I mean, you got a single source of where
these leaks are coming from it doesn't seem to be attached to
any individual. It has to be somebody bugged the Oval Office.
Yeah, with permission, apparently.
Well, there was I we did talk about this, too. We talked about
the FISA FISA request. Yeah. And there were two of two of them
and what went through and that was, Why think they may be using
that as the excuse that
was also made possible by Obama's executive order, just
before he left, if you recall, whether you could start sharing
the information, yes, at the lowest common denominator,
so that now streaming the bug taps on the internet.
Yeah, exactly. We should put it on the no agenda stream and be
great
input by current bug taps. Now,
I have a number of very, I think, very interesting clips.
But the one that maybe we should just start off with this because
I think this this kind of sets the, for me at least sets the
tone of why this happened. What happened and what the backstory
is. Dick Morris who used to be an operative for the Clintons,
yes. He
who became an anti Clintonite because he wouldn't, they
wouldn't rehire him.
Yeah. He certainly has his own agenda. Did you see his little
little podcast about what is going on this coup d'etat, as he
called it? You
got me on this one? Oh, my
goodness. Ah. I'll tell you what, I won't even tell you.
Let's just listen to him. He says that he knows the whole
point is to get a special prosecutor in and they set the
Trump appointees up well in advance to make this happen. And
when it comes to theories, I love this one.
What's really going on now is that Obama is leading an
attempted coup d'etat, which we can expect to continue for many
months, which they hope will result in Trump's impeachment.
Here's how the move unfolded. The first step was during the
election, make Russia radioactive any contact with
Russia, blame Russia for all the leaks, which may have been the
case or not. But in any case, they didn't make up the
documents and transform the email scandal and the WikiLeaks
scandal into a Russian attempt to hack the election. And then
on election day, and right after keep up a chorus of accusations
that Russia meddled in our election.
No, I think that's pretty much what happened. So that's good,
then, yeah, the setup is there. The setup is that we're ready to
go
then against that background, have the FBI then under Obama's
control, and still really because they haven't gotten rid
of people and Comey is still in power. They go ahead and tap
everybody's phone all about Trump's incoming people. And of
course, the Russians, and then mousetrap them booby trapped
them, ambush them during the confirmation hearings, and try
to press them into saying things that might not technically be
true, or are true but can be misinterpreted to lay the basis
for future investigations. The first victim was Flynn, what
they wanted to get rid of anyway, not just because he was
Trump's appointee, but because he took a hard line on Iran and
other issues, that Obama's people didn't like that much
tougher line than to listen to Mattis. And then after Flynn,
they're going after sessions. And again, it's based on an
ambush at the confirmation hearing. They asked him, did you
have any contact with the Russian ambassador during the
Trump campaign and the Russians during the Trump campaign? And
he said no, because he assumed that that meant campaign
contacts. As a member of the Armed Services Committee I
ranking. He regularly meets with other ambassadors, his staff
listed 25 sessions, each ad with different investors. And one of
the so called meetings with the Russians was just chatting after
he had finished giving a speech with a bunch of other senators
around then once you trap him into a lie, expose him why get
him to recuse himself which they've done, and then demand a
special prosecutor that is the goal. Because once you have a
special prosecutor, it's it's Katie bar the door can't
possibly limit what he's doing. Because the special prosecutor
has a staff designed for one purpose to get the president and
they can look at anything, any crime or any effort thing that
comes before them. While they're investigating what was the
nominal purpose of the special prosecutor Number Clinton's
special prosecutor was over whitewater and the ended up
trying to impeach him over Monica Lewinsky, which became
whitewater became Paula Jones begin lying under oath became
Lewinsky and this kind of trail can happen any in with any
special prosecutor. So that's their goal, get a special
prosecutor against Trump and try to get him impeached.
I'd like his theory, which is they had all the tapes before
the confirmation hearings. Maybe that's why they delayed it a
little bit. Make sure we get all the right you know, the right
bits that we need. And then trap the trap the appointees into
Santa speak any Russians? No, no, I haven't taught any
Russians. I know what you're talking about. Boom. Ah, yes, we
gotcha. We gotcha. And the whole purpose being get a special
prosecutor in who then can go after all kinds of stuff. I like
it.
Yeah, I like it, too. And I think maybe one of the schemes
going on, in fact, since in fact,
that Flynn's meeting with the Russian ambassador was set up by
the Democrats.
Well, Democrats going crazy after the news broke that
Attorney General Jeff
Sessions met with the Russians are in sessions
not definitely ambassador,
the fact that the Attorney General the top cop in
this, this was great. This is this little montage that FoxNews
put together all the people say, Oh, no such sessions gotta go is
horrible. Is the man so good. The fact that
the Attorney General the top cop top country, lied under oath to
the American people is grounds for him to resign for the good
of the
country. Attorney General Sessions should resign. I think
he should resign.
He certainly should recuse himself. I think he probably
should resign. I think he's got to go I think resignation could
well be on the table here.
I think he should resign.
I think he should get out
talking points had been well distributed. But it turns out
the Obama State Department actually set up the first
meeting between sessions and the Russian diplomat at last year's
RNC
row. Well played No kidding, if true, well played. Really well
done. And you know, just Well, first of all, what are we really
even talking about? So you talk to you he talked to an
ambassador? We have people talking to people all the time.
Yeah, most the time, you can't remember who you talk to you.
But
I mean, when it comes to, you know, people talking to
foreigners, you know, yeah. In potential violation of the of
the Logan Act. The law I mean, seriously, it really is quite
insane that this is even considered a problem. Well,
let's take a look. Let me let me ask you this. So the Russians,
the Russians, they they tried to ruin our elections. They tried
to put their finger on the scale. Did the Mexicans not do
that with the actual president of former President meddling in
our elections by saying screw this guy? He's nuts. He shit. I
think the word shit was actually used.
Yeah, I think so. Is it showing the Europeans Of course, Trudeau
Angela Merkel,
how about Trudeau, I mean, there's a lot of people. But now
this seems to be some incredible issue, which to me means they
know that this is really a non starter, you can slowly slow the
administration down, but maybe that maybe they're going after
something else or just fishing to find something else. And if
you fish long enough, guaranteed you'll find something
guaranteed. But the way it's all of this is viewed was this
Senator Angus King from Maine. He views what the Russians did,
as hacking is as you know, he has an analogy here, which maybe
we should discuss,
Senator is Nick comp, the story, any precedent in American
history for the density of connections between the
President's circle and a hostile foreign power?
I certainly never recall of anything of this nature. The old
the closest I can think of is the connections between Charles
Lindbergh and, and Nazi Germany in the 30s and idle during that
time, but I can never recall anything of this kind. And we've
never seen anything like this. And here's, here's one way I
think we ought to think about it because people say, well, it was
a cyber attack. They hacked the computers. What if a group of
Russian paratroopers and dropped into Washington in the middle of
the night broke into the Democratic National Committee
headquarters, physically taken the computers out, put them
under their arms and escaped in a submarine down in potomac
river or something? I mean, that's essentially what
happened.
It's like just like that. They had a sub in the Potomac. Oh,
man. That's fantastic. So good.
I got a couple of things here. We might want to place like back
back to ROPs one is a very I got a six parter here that kind of
breaks down a CBS and ABC ABC turns out and I just kind of
caught this by accident ABC has really turned on Trump. So
they're they've changed their whole everything. And any any
idea why any reason? I haven't figured it out. But it's I'm
sure it's got something to do
with Disney. Disney. Yeah.
So they've really turned the tables and they're just going
after me with vengeance, vengeance. And so the answer,
they're spending like half of the news, they have, you know, a
half hour news report half of that half hour, which is only 10
minutes, because the commercials have the half hours about Trump.
And they're just slamming him and son, and then they're doing
a lot of bias sociation stuff. In fact, it's so razzmatazz
where they say wanting to say and then and then drawing a
little, like small clip a snippet, and then I'll have some
sound effects in the background of somebody being choked or
something. And just, the whole thing is like, overproduced and
it's just, you know, going right after him as though this is the
the funny thing is about the way they do and you're gonna play
this. You'll play part of this and you'll hear it in David
Muir's voice. There is a in a sense of urgency. This is all
old news. Yeah. repackaged. But they have it as a date. They're
playing it with an urgent breaking whoa, whoa. And they're
talking so fast that you think that there's you know, all
hell's gonna break loose if you're not paying attention to
it. And let's start with you can kind of hear it in the way this
is presented this Russians and the Trump administration on ABC
does a lot this first clips along when we can interrupt it.
Part one. Good evening,
and it's great to have you with us here on a very busy Friday
night and we begin tonight with new questions swirling around
President Trump his team and communications with the Russians
before the election. Today, President Trump firing back
saying Attorney General Jeff Sessions is the victim of a
quote witch hunt. It comes after sessions did not reveal while
under oath to meetings with the Russian ambassador during the
campaign. The President said his attorney general could have been
more clear, but he also lashed out at Democratic leaders
tweeting an image of one of them with Vladimir Putin. ABC senior
White House correspondent Cecilia Vega, leading us off.
Inside the Oval Office today President Trump huddling with
his closest advisors Steve Bannon, son in law Jared Kushner
and daughter Ivanka, the President then heading to his
Florida golf club Mar a Lago for the weekend. But tonight, his
administration in damage control, the President calls it
a witch hunt. But there's a growing list of aides and
advisers who misrepresented their contacts with Russia.
There's Attorney General Jeff Sessions and that bombshell
revelation that he twice met with Russia's ambassador during
the campaign. That's not what he told the Senate
have been called a surrogate at a time or two and that campaign
and I didn't have not have communications with the Russians
by now.
perspective, I should have slowed down and said but I did
meet one Russian official a couple of times, that would be
the ambassador
and former campaign foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
First, this denial.
Did you have any meetings last year with Russian officials in
Russia outside Russia anywhere?
I had no meetings, no meetings
now an admission he met with the Russian ambassador to during the
Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
Did you meet Sergey kislak in Cleveland,
did you talk to him? I'm not gonna deny that I talked with
him at all. I will say that I never met him anywhere outside
of Cleveland, let's let's
know what's really going on here. What I hear continuously,
and it's being said as well. Every journalist wants to have
the Watergate story. And that's why the urgency and they're all
you know, they got little gotchas. And Rachel Maddow
always has some exclusive piece of paper somewhere. They all
want to be Woodward and Bernstein Yes, I
say that my only
Stop, just stop stopped it. I wanted to throw a couple of
things in that had been already mentioned. One of them was the
when she goes on she has this picture from 2003 2007 of
somebody eating a doughnut with Putin. And I was kind of baffled
by that because that is the pic That's Chuck Schumer's not just
any old guy. Oh, and they did not mention his name. And I
thought that was peculiar. Well, no and also this guy Carter
Page. Yeah, yeah. Carter Page came up and I mentioned him this
was like over a month ago Carter Page was a target. Yeah. She
imagined
he got taken down by Cooper.
Yeah, well, he off well, if you want to call it that. Carter
Page was was on a hit. listed the main three it was Flynn
Carter Page and some other guy I'd never heard of. And I never
heard of Carter Page before either and why they knew and
cares. He was like, you know, part time at the Trump campaign
somewhere? Yeah. Yeah, he's maybe could have been on the
transition team. I just find it peculiar who they've chosen
session. None of them surprises me except as these two guys
Carter Page and this other character and I went at the
novel to dig up his name. Why are they on the list? I mean,
what's so important about those two guys is genuine Carter Page.
It's kind of like this lisping kind of fumbling, I guess, I
don't know.
If this character, if this is a true coup d'etat, and it's been
premeditated and set up. Maybe it's just to the first strike
was Flynn successful, and they wanted sessions, and then just,
you know, just do a couple of guys first,
the first strike, in my opinion, which was the first salvo was
Monica Crowley. Monica Crowley predated everybody else, and she
was slated to at least be considered for the
yes, you're right. You're right. You're right for the
spokesman, spokes opposition, and she would have been good at
it. She was outed as a so called plagiarist. And they just would
some some smear pieces that came out. She plagiarized. Does she
plagiarize that and then since she's been, she quit the whole
game. She got out of the campaign cover or out of the
Trump umbrella immediately. It's been great. She's been
reexamined, and she didn't plagiarize anything. Yeah. So
that was just bullcrap. And so that was that seemed to me to be
the opening salvo. Let's see what we can do this just take
this woman out. No problem. It was easy. And so then they went
after Flynn, who they genuinely hated, but they had to do a dry
run right on Crowley to make sure that they didn't have
anybody in the media saying, hey, wait a minute. Yeah, the
media was all in so when they went after Flynn, who's you
know, a guy that people don't like? Because he's a hard ass.
He's probably pretty good at what he does. Yeah, perhaps rid
of him. Well, yeah,
you also have to get you have to get rid of the little the pawns
and lieutenants because I'm sure they're going after a banyan.
Oh, yeah, I think Bania is a huge target. And I've decided
we're gonna have to here's the joke of it. I think they're
gonna have trouble doing anything with Banyan The only
thing they have on him is that he supposedly punched his wife
out one day, you know, 10 years ago when
he honest she deserved it. I mean, come on.
And, and that's not even that's not even
clarify this. Maybe I'm just I've I don't know, is it not?
Are we talking about the same Russian ambassador who recently
died?
No, no, that's a different guy. That's the UN Oh, this is the
fat guy. The guy with a there's no chin. This guy. They I think
they use him as the bait because when you look at him, he reminds
you of that old CEO of, of Exxon Mobil, who will testify before
Congress and he has only a resemblance of a chin and then
there's a huge pile of fat. That cover completely covers his neck
and it's almost like it's something glandular, it doesn't
look like any normal kind of big fat head. Yes. And this Russian
guy who's, who's then this Russian guy who I kind of
clipped with this two,
by the way, I have decided that we're just going to call Steve
Bannon Banyan. It's just much easier than I say banya and I
set you up and I said Banyan, and then you find paid. I'm
keeping it that
way. Okay, Ben is good. Anyway, this Russian guy, and I got a
clip, in this setup here somewhere, which I'm not going
to play now. Where they describe him as a well spoken a great
public speaker, put in mind. You know, get two words out. And so
he's a great public speaker. We might get one of those. So he
came in. So he's also been described as the top recruiter
for spies is yes, yes, of course. Yeah. And it seems to me
that he couldn't recruit much of anything. It's I mean, it looks
like a schmoozer. I really like probably a good guy to have a
vodka with.
Alright, we'll continue with the one
outside of Cleveland, let's let's just say that the only
time that you've met him was in Cleveland. I went that I may
have met him possibly what it might have been in Cleveland as
it comes up. Trump himself insisted nobody on his team met
with the Russians during the campaign. Did you or anyone in
your campaign have any contact with Russia leading up to her
during the campaign? Not at all he said. There was also National
Security Adviser Michael Flynn fired for lying about the nature
of his conversations with that same Russian Ambassador and
Jared Kushner joining a meeting between Flynn and the ambassador
at Trump Tower in December top Democrats calling for a full
independent investigation. The administration clearly cannot be
trusted to investigate itself. But today the President firing
back saying investigate them. Calling Senate Minority Leader
Chuck Schumer a hypocrite tweeting this 2003 photo of
Schumer and Vladimir Putin donut eating donuts together in New
York, as Schumer says that meeting took place in full view
of the press and his 2010 photo of House Minority Leader Nancy
Pelosi at a table with the Russian ambassador and others.
Earlier today. She claimed she never met him. Her spokesman now
says she meant she never had a private meeting. Oh, Lucy
tweeting Donald Trump doesn't know the difference between an
official meeting photographed by the press and a closed secret
meeting his Attorney General lied about under oath.
Now, John, that was good. Yeah, the whole thing is, is if this
indeed is set up this way, and as Dick Morris claims, Valerie
Jarrett and Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are all sitting
there in DC in the in the cackling in the in the War Room.
If that is true, then surely they have something else up
their sleeve. They know that this really won't go anywhere.
They know that there's just really nothing. I mean, I
haven't even seen transcripts that talk about that show that
Flynn discuss sanctions. None of this exists as far as I'm
concerned. It's just not there.
But they need it. You don't need it if you get to medium
understand but to actually have so first of all, you can't have
an independent prosecutor those don't exist anymore. You can
have one that is still under the auspices of the DOJ, Department
of Justice. And so Okay, so he's gonna go out and he's going to
find what this will not be. This is not impeachable. What
happened here? Or no, no, it didn't happen here. So why are
they doing it just just to slow him down? Or do they have
something I think they might have something else up their
sleeve something big.
I think this is a good theory of yours. I mean, I something I
thought of I think they're just trying to keep him from ever
getting traction because like to everything he does is Rooney,
he's, he's tearing down the old establishment,
but they went through FISA court, the first an executive
order to make sure everything could be shared and they got a
rejection on a FISA court warrant. They got an approval in
October. And and here's the thing. The media doesn't care.
It's like crickets. Oh, well, Donald Trump, Donald Trump said
with no evidence. It's evidence from the Muslim majority country
with no evidence.
That with no evidence thing, in fact, I
have the let me see where is he? Former Attorney General for
Bush? Let's see where I have this.
Yeah, we've had this guy's clips on twice. I know who you're
talking about the old guy.
Yeah. Whereas you just see where I have this clip. I have so many
different
every time he's been on. Well, it's okay. Let's Play Part Two
while you're digging. I
have it. I have it. You want to hear
now. Okay. Yeah.
So this is what's this? I like this guy. Yeah. This is Michael
Casey, former Attorney General for Bush, I presume Bush one.
He's
the first time we played his clip, which was about a month
ago, as he said that and that Flynn thing does nothing to it,
right? Wrong. The second time we play was you had another clip of
him about two, three weeks ago.
Was he wrong? Well, I
can't he was he was right. If you listen to him, you change.
Yeah. But what happened was something else so he was wrong.
Well, I do like what he did here because he's got Erin Burnett on
from CNNs. And Bernadette, is she's coming unhinged with some
of the terms she's throwing out there.
Okay. Do you already played this one?
I don't think so. Okay, I don't think so. Is it going to play at
all?
Yeah. And the DOJ after remain independent, but not every
contact is. But every contact is not improper. I have not
examined these in detail. It sounded from reading that, like
he's trying to give himself cover in case something improper
did happen. I mean, this isn't a full throated defense. This is
every contact may not be improper. But I haven't looked
at these.
That's what any person would say in his position. He hasn't
looked at them, nor should he waste his time looking at.
So should he recuse himself into a special investigator as Darryl
Eisah is asking for a special
prosecutor of what, where's the crime? We haven't even named a
crime, let alone suggested the charges are going to say
until Congress comes out and says, here's the proof that we
now see that there was connections between the Trump
campaign and Russians known to us intelligence if and then and
only then then you would say because that would be possibly a
criminal act, right? No, wouldn't even if they had
regular contact talking about working together.
The only thing I know that that conceivably violates is the
Logan Act, which hasn't been prosecuted in 73. And when they
get to Jimmy Carter, Jesse Jackson from talking
about denture policy, but I'm talking about collusion And or
would be great if you could find things on Hillary Clinton those
sorts of conversations that would be that would be treason
right?
Yeah, no, you played this clip I'm making the sure you
I can assure you I have not. Okay. Okay. People
out there you know what to do. But I do like where he goes.
Yeah, I know this is a very funny clip. Here's why again,
though. It's not. He's not right. Is I mean, he is right,
but it's not the way things are going. They're just I think they
I think Trump is being railroaded. I think the whole
administration is and I think Sessions recusing himself.
Here's what they here's what you really has to do right now.
Because of him. recusing himself. Why would he even do
that? Because they were hounding him. I think he knuckled under.
Yeah.
Well, is there a there? There's
a you know, a kind of a gentleman. Okay, well, at least
I can recuse. I'll recuse myself. And then Jake,
apparently Trump got irked by Oh, no, that that's even true.
That could be a lie. Whatever the case, I think that Sessions
should resign just like Flynn did. And they should put in the
second guy and other guy. I hate to say that he should resign
because he's because he screwed up in his testimony, I think was
in some how many hours he was testifying and many other they
did Frank and when I start badgering him now. Remember
that? And so I think I hate to say it because I think it'd be a
good attorney general. But you know
what the worst part is, especially if that clip, man,
Erin Burnett used to be so cute when she was on CNBC. What
happened?
She's working at CNN.
Oh, man, if that's what happened, it's where women go to
die. It's sad.
That clip is interesting in that it's she's just sounds dumb.
And what she says, Well, that's treasonous. How do you come up
with trees? Yeah, trees treasonous.
Let me just start talking trees until you know what it really
means. And that ain't it. That's the problem. All right. Onward
with the AMC takedown. Yes. Clip to two.
So let's go live to Cecilia Vega at the White House tonight. And
facility reporters have also been asking about something
else. Where is the new executive order to replace that travel ban
the White House had indicated was it.
Now let's stop right there. Because they just added an
element. Now this is a very interesting trick. This whole
thing is a reason so long as they for one of the I said it
was like half the show. But this
is deconstruction of something that you know exactly how it
works.
Well, this trick is something I've never used. Although I
might have used it subconsciously. They are.
They're what they're doing is they're it's like getting you
into a mindset to agree with them. And so right now you're at
the point after hearing the first part of this clip that I
know this could be going away. So you just and now do an
immediate association of something you have to agree
with. So you're now at an agreeable mood, and then you
kick it back into the main storyline.
And this is something you believe is done purposely.
Yes, because there's no reason for this element. They dropped
his element in out of the blender. You're talking about
Disney, though, you know, these people do movies. They dropped
his element in which now will change your mindset. Because
it's a it's a genuine it's true what they were they're going to
tell you that Trump promised to do the new executive order
hasn't done it. hasn't got it done and didn't get it done.
said he would didn't get it done. Okay, boom, bang. Yes,
you're right. That's true. So let's play this. Back. I
like it. I like it.
So let's go live to Cecilia Vega at the White House tonight. And
Cecilia reporters have also been asking you about something else?
Where is the new executive order to replace that travel ban? The
White House had indicated it was coming several times before what
have you learned today? David a lot of stops
and starts on that.
So now you're already in agreeable mood. I like that,
John. That's very that's very interesting how that works. I'm
gonna have to try that myself. When I'm doing it before
Congress,
gave it a lot of stops and starts on that front and we're
hearing that it could come next week. But this report out today
from the Department of Homeland Security pushing back on a key
component of that travel ban, basically saying it may be
difficult to find and vet the so called radical Islamic
terrorists but David the White House is pushing back on this
one tonight. Cecilia Vega,
leading us off tonight to Celia thank you and all of this amid
the firestorm over contact with the Russians. Yeah.
Wow. But they throw this extra thing in here. They've got him
they made a mistake in it, which I thought was kind of
interesting. Although it may or may not have been a mistake, but
I don't know what the mechanism is for doing this. Cecilia Vega
was a hit. Man. She says they're finding it difficult to find and
vet the terrorists.
Yeah, that's very sad mean. Yeah. Hey, are you a terrorist?
I want to vet you for a moment.
That is exactly what
she said. She said the training it difficult to find and vet the
terrorists. Thus we can't do anything. I guess I don't even
know what the implication of that is. But that's a confusing
element that is introduced. I don't know if it was done on
purpose. If it was I'm not absolutely sure what the
mechanism. I think he's just a botch, but maybe not it may
actually means it may have been done for a purpose. So
when you have no idea I need to keep her eye on it.
But that's what she said. No, all right, onward,
find and vet the so called radical Islamic terrorists. But
David the White House is pushing back on this one tonight.
Cecilia
Vega, leading us off tonight to Celia. Thank you and all of this
amid the firestorm over contact with the Russians. And tonight
here we ask Who is this Russian ambassador, meeting with at
least five members of President Trump's team? Here's ABCs chief
investigative correspondent Brian Ross, let me get Okay,
stop.
Let me get off the presses. Let me guess he brought in the guy
Is he is he the top spy? He's?
He's no he Brian Ross was actually called out on that show
on PBS on the media, which is a very liberal show, no matter
what anyone likes to believe. And it's not a competitor with
us. No. But he was called out on that show forbidding just lying
through his teeth on and off for whatever purposes. II and he is
the number one hit guy that they have. And he comes on and he's
serious. And he talks about these things and he's got the
perfect voice. Very good broadcasting voice. And
authoritative, authoritative. Yeah, here we go.
As the career Russian diplomat Sergey Kislyak, the ambassador
to the United States, he is skilled at public speaking,
delivering what the FBI calls otter falsehoods.
Government of Russian Federation is not involved in any hacking
prototype you're
taking at Dow the ambassador claims, the beatings he had with
key members of the Trump campaign before and after the
election, were nothing unusual, not connected to the hacking,
we do not interfere into internal affairs of the United
States.
But they have and now the contacts between the Kremlin and
some of Trump's closest advisors are at the center of the FBI and
congressional investigations
we need to know is anyone compromised other risks of the
country because
someone has compromised,
especially because some of the Americans involved are accused
of not telling the truth about their meetings with the
ambassador.
You know, it's really just about time for the new series of the
Americans to be released. I mean, time is
just coming out. Yeah,
they have to do it now, though. That was
a couple of things he's mentioned in here, which I
thought was just beautiful. He says he makes it a matter of
fact, yes. We presented that the hacking Russian. And then he
uses the word that they weren't a he claims they weren't
involved. And he said he uses this term, it's almost worth
playing that law. And again, he says now they have okay, but
there's no evidence of any of this, of course, throughout the
rest of the country because
someone has competence. Before
that. We'll just run it back a little bit. That's Adam Schiff.
The contacts between the Kremlin and some of Trump's closest
advisors are at the center of the FBI and congressional
investigations we
need now maybe it's
for that and it's in there somewhere. But then he also
brings up the FBI and congressional investigations.
Yes. Okay. What what, what in Congressional investigation are
we talking about?
It's the same ones from the majority Muslim countries.
Where,
where, what is FBI investigation? Are we talking
about the FBI doesn't comment on investigation? How's he knows an
investigation at all? Is there an investigation? I don't know
there is. Is there? I don't know. I don't know. Well, he
says there is. He makes it a matter of fact, he makes a
matter of fact that the Russians, matter of fact that
there's these investigations going on. And I think he kind of
clarifies these investigations in his next little segment
the ins with the ambassador. One aspect of the investigation
involves a tight focus on the weak of the Republican
convention in July of last year, July 18. The party's official
platform gives a big victory to Russia by downgrading us support
for Ukraine the champagne costs were going off on that happen
yeah, let's let's go over this a little bit in the
Kremlin. No doubt in the Kremlin champagne,
they downgrade nothing. It's the cam, it's the it's the
convention. Trump hasn't won and wasn't expected to win. How is
this somehow a capitulation to Russia when the guy's not even
the president yet?
Yeah, I heard I heard a whole bunch of pontificating spokes
halls talking about well, you know, Trump said he didn't had
nothing to do with the platform but then he did and I'm so tired
of it all.
So they would this report is there this is one of the most
slanted things I've heard
Everest is good there as well. Disney. They they make fantasies
come true.
They're doing this one as for Sure, okay. Yeah.
Part Five, I guess. Yes.
Well, when that happened July 20, Ambassador Kislyak meets
with Senator Sessions and Trump advisor Carter Page at the
convention. Something
Oh, that's why they wanted him. John. He was there. He's just
he's just collateral damage. Probably.
I think he you know, that might be right. And that's why but,
but they gave their hope scheme away when they put them on the
hit list early on. I agree. I didn't know that. It's just a
he's just a he's collateral. Yeah, he's collateral damage. In
this case, they kind of why is okay. Why is this guy on the
News Hour? He's being interviewed. He's on the shows
because a lot of people I think they made him into a straw man.
He's not even a real personality.
Well, what's what's better what I didn't clip anything, but when
he was on pooper show, he was defending himself against all
the, you know, he has lawsuits running. He's got all kinds of
stuff in his own of his own that are running. And so you know,
he's he's just mincemeat. It's just easy. Just it's like, what
he's what he's done. It's like orcas playing with little
penguins. You know, baby seals just tossing him around. That's
yeah, that's a visual for you.
Yeah. Anyway, yeah.
Is that the end of No, no, no, no. And Trump advisor Carter
Page at the convention, something page later tried
to deny I had no meetings. No.
July 21. Donald Trump accepts the Republican nomination for
president. Thank you.
Thank you very much.
And the very next day, July 22. WikiLeaks post the first of the
hacks Democratic Party email,
oh, there's proof. There's proof they met at the convention a
Hey, comrade, release the documents? As a lot of people do
on timelines,
yeah. Timelines are cool, because you can you can create
scenarios that don't exist. Yeah. And I wonder about some of
the you know, no, one's really I haven't done this either.
carefully examined the timeline, because it's possible that the
timeline is
I have I happen to have a timeline here, actually, that
we're publishing in the show notes. So you want to Well,
let's finish your last clip. This
was the last last
clip and Brian Ross with us here tonight. Brian, we know both
Congress and the FBI are investigating that very timeline
you just reported on where does that stand? Well, right
now that congressional investigations have barely
begun. But the FBI has been at for months now trying to
determine David, if all of this is coincidence or collusion.
Yeah, revealing very little if anything, that's right. Yeah,
there's very little, if any, there was no congressional
investigation going on. And that's what he said. But you
know, meanwhile, he dramatized it during his report. This is
the worst. And, you
know, you know where this comes from, though, what I've tracked
back the the initial Hey, wait a minute that, you know, there's
intelligence on phone calls and meetings being made comes from
Louise mench. Who we've discussed as a possible British
intelligence asset and probably when she was working at Heat
Street, which tells you something about those guys. Huh?
Do you want to here's the here's a timeline I have June June
2016. First FISA court request to spy on Donald Trump. In
October, they as I was denied October 2 request, and that was
approved. Around the same time, the second request wasn't
for Trump, it wasn't for Trump. The second request, my
understanding is was for Manafort and Roger Stone.
Okay, I don't have a copy. Obviously, I understood it was
for Trump specifically.
No, okay. At least that's my understanding, you could be
right but the way I would talk was told the story. It was from
they couldn't get Trump onto his on the on the thing. So they
decided to find somebody that's always talking to him. And they
got Manafort and stone for some reason, because Manafort was
doing a lot of business in Ukraine. I don't know why they
put stone on there. But you know, who knows?
Well, the same time apparently, Ron in October, as the second
vice request was going in Ash Carter and James Clapper tell
President Obama to get rid of NSA Director Mike Rogers. And
this Yeah, that's I didn't know
this. Yes. It was just after that report came out. Were
Rogers wouldn't sign off on it. He says in a debt confident in
October, so yes, yeah. Tell it Yeah. He just Yes. October.
Yeah. It
had to be after October. Yes.
Yes. Because we gotta get the data, that reporting put it in
the timeline. Okay. I'll get that because if it's if that was
right after that timeline, that's when the report came out.
All 17 agencies, right, right. Well, it was only two agencies.
The rest of them just signed off on it because they had nothing
bad But wait here
comes a week after the election, Mike Rogers goes to Trump Tower
without telling clapper. which then results I
guess it's either Yeah.
Let me say then we have the rule changes, which clapper signed
off on December 15. Now this is the you can share this
intelligence broadly with any other agency you want. Right.
Michael Flynn spoke to the Russian ambassador on December
29 2016. And on December 29 2016, is the very same day,
Obama announced sanctions to Russia. So did that come first
or second? I don't know that. But in January No, I'm sorry. In
January is when Obama expand expanded the NSA sharing. There
you go. That happened in January.
The new power that was the last thing he did?
Yes. The new powers and reduce protections make it easier for
intelligence on private citizens to be circulated improperly, or
to be leaked Of course. Then January 3, Loretta Lynch signs
off on the rule changes for phone taps. There's our little
Torp January 12. Whopper Whopper Whopper Whopper Whopper report
some phone calls from anonymous Intel sources, January 15,
pencils on Face the nascent nation which of course you know,
he screwed that up. Then we have the inauguration on the 20th
January 23. FBI reports nothing unlawful in the content of the
Flynn call 26 Sally Yates you remember she was the acting
Attorney General informs President Trump there might be a
conflict between VP pence a stated TV version and what the
intel community communicated to Yates that Flynn actually did
express to Russia. Then on January 27, the White House
Counsel begins investigation. And then we get the New York
Times report. So I think what happened here is Mike Rogers
didn't want to participate in the spying. But this is the guy
that I think we that needs to come to the forefront.
No, he'll never do that. Probably not. Probably, but he's
he still has a job, I think I would presume. Yeah,
if he tried to protect the president before he was
President.
But again, even Mike Rogers may be the guy who said that the
places bugged.
Yes, that would be that would be the guy who would know
obviously. Yes. Although, honestly, you're the guy that
knew at first so that why didn't you go to Trump Tower.
It should have gone in there and looked around at some of those
expensive little bugs. You'd find one of those bugs. They
always read Greek reclaim them. That's ours. Yeah,
likely. I ever obviously have a clip here from Guilfoyle on
Guilfoyle. This news broke or Trump tweeted about a Obama
wiretapping him tapping my wires, and I am again, it seems
like Trump is off the rocker and unhinged. I think everything he
does is very calculated.
I'm his is my favorite word. Yes. And I
but I'm pretty sure that whatever he's tweeting is
thought about and he's, you know, it always comes back like,
oh, man, it was kind of smart. He did that.
Well, after if after watching him go through the entire
primaries, making what everyone said, Oh, he's done. He's done.
Done. And he's never done. Yeah. Some there may be something to
that theory here is, although it could be like an idiot savant
with Twitter.
I don't think so. I don't think so. A debate here's Guilfoyle
who was doing the the weekend shift when the when this news
broke. So she kind of took over was nice to see you're in a in a
role of you know, anchoring, really anchoring. I just had
five stuff. Here she is on the wiretapping. Cathy,
a rue is that Insider. She's a liberal journalist who served as
a senior adviser in the Bush administration. And she joins me
now. So Kathy, what do you know? All right. Well,
my sources this morning, my source from the White House told
me she thinks it's all true. She said, there were concerns that
Trump and this is from the White House and the administration. So
inside the White House, there were concerns that Trump and his
surrogates may have been colluding with the Russians as a
possible bargaining chip to influence the election.
Therefore, the wiretap was, was conducted.
Okay. So the idea is, in fact that they went ahead and
believed that this information was correct. Went to the FISA
court, then based on probable cause, but the evidence for to
say we have this information and belief and therefore we want
this granted, it just seems highly suspicious, because that
seems to be being used for improper means and, in fact, to
say, well, we want to fire them to see what they're doing during
this election process. This this tight race between at the time
And candidate Trump and Hillary Clinton. Right. And
my source believes it after seven and a half years with the
Obama administration. I had heard that there were concerns.
And she said that she is not sure who secured the warrant.
That's her one question, who secured the warrant, but the
White House and the administration, they were
concerned and they did discuss the wiretapping.
No wonder Do you think that's the Torp? You think that's
Lynch?
Well, that's, you know, that guy who came on the great one show,
Mark Levin, Mark Levin.
He also appears in here Mike Levine. He also appears to be
ground zero this whole thing somehow.
Yeah, yes. Well, he's buddy is the reason I think is his pal
that came on the show who is somehow connected to the
community. Yeah. Is the one that for I first heard about this for
him. And I pointed it out on the show a couple, like two three
weeks ago before there was busted out. And even though the
van was I think he even testified about this, but I'm
using this guy's information. The guy I believe mentioned who
it was that made the request, and I forgot
there was a guy though.
I don't remember that either. It came from the president's
office, I think I bet you 10 bucks. Who was the real tour?
What's your name? Valerie?
No, I bet it was valuing Valerie. The other one, you
think it was Condoleezza?
No, no condoms is Susan. Yeah, kinda Lisa's sister Susan Rice.
Yes, that one? Yeah. I think so. Yeah, that's possible. But that
doesn't mean she wasn't directed by Valerie. Valerie be the one
who had combined. She's
that now do you? I mean, I have to say, knowing that she's holed
up in the Obama's house. I mean, you got to think that this
this, definitely that way they can work on these schemes. 24/7
really are doing that. I
mean, I think that's probably true. I was skeptical to hear
they're gonna be that war room. But you know, then hearing that
Valerie Jarrett is gonna live there. Okay. And hi. Two more
positioning clips. I just want to get out of the way regarding
this. This is Robert Wise injure. Former Trump transition
team member not a great appearance on CNN, well, ami,
I'll
spell it out for you. By the way,
CNN will spell it out for you. Let me just tell you what's
going on do
spell it out for you. The allegation is that there were
repeated contacts between high level Trump aides and Russia and
that this was before Mr. Trump was in the White House, which of
course, as we know, there's only one President at a time that
would run afoul of rules and tradition that you don't start
negotiating with Russia
tradition. You don't start negotiating with Russia, first
of all, I mean, aren't 1000s of companies negotiating with
Russia? Isn't MasterCard visa negotiating with Russia right
now?
Yeah, so did our Secretary of State when he was at Exxon, they
are negotiating with Russia all the time, but he's the next to
go beforehand as well to be able to get him? Well,
I'm just saying the premise what they're talking about is who
gives a crap? Who gives a crap? I don't understand. I just don't
understand.
You don't start negotiating with Russia, your hand as well as
because of Mr. Trump's conciliatory tone, perhaps the
relationship was cozy. What we
have is the National Intelligence community with
illegal tapping, letting out that information to the
Washington Post in an effort to take out a former National
Security Adviser Michael Flynn. And I think if you take a step
back at some of the other elections, where allegations
like this had been made, particularly in 96, with
Clinton, gore and the Chinese fundraising, we had actual
evidence of the Chinese trying to influence the election
through financial sanctions. The Vice President was making
fundraising calls out of out of his official office. Those are
real, illegal activities. What we're talking about here, again,
is just very a amorphous, imprecise allegations. And
again, the only real fact that we have is that the National
Intelligence Community illegally tapped, Michael Flynn, a private
citizen having conversations.
Yeah. Which of course, had been legalized by the sitting
president at the time. Well, they
also want to Oh, that was legalized was the sharing the
tap itself was because their argument was it was a tap of the
ambassador was born. It just got caught up in
Flint called all of a sudden we were listening in on the run the
rooskies and then Flynn called Go figure. It's crazy.
Yeah. What are we supposed to do?
Mmm, tell you one more. Noah Rothman and he is I think he's a
columnist, but I thought he had some interesting things to say.
Well, Wednesday night was particularly frenzied because we
had three stories that came out with quick succession, one after
the other, all of them having the quote unquote, former
official former administration of Official the ubiquitous
presence, and they're just about all of them are alleging that
this administration is doing something that we didn't do that
this particular aspect of why the administration functions is
certainly not how we function. I'm not entirely sure it's
destabilizing so much as it is an effort to rehabilitate the
the Obama White House, particularly the foreign policy
establishment with left, which left with a cloud hanging over
it. The context is the Obama administration left a trail of
breadcrumbs for investigators to discover related to this Russia
scandal, if anybody wanted to look into this information, a
lot of it was the classification was reduced, or some of it was,
you know, they just allowed people to see information that
they didn't want to see. And what you're referring to is
transcripts that were apparently taken of calls that were
intercepted to Russian officials, which is apparently
standard, but the fact that those were transcribed and
related to reporters is far from it. This is the kind of thing
that we're talking about. And it's being presented as noble
and virtuous. And it's valuable information. Don't get me wrong,
I'm not making a judgment there. But at the same time, it's not
normal. This is very unique. And that's what's disturbing about
this sort of thing. What we know about the Flynn situation is
that this this information came from likely foreign
administration or for the former administration officials, and
that it was very sensitive, and how did they get their hands on
it? And why did they relate it to the press, we can only know
that it's it's political in nature. I mean, it's presented
as such that this administration is very deeply concerned, the
last administration is very deeply concerned about the
allegiances of members of this current administration. And
that's fine. But we're also not investigating the fact that this
administer, the last administration was criticized
very heavily by members of the press, by people on Capitol Hill
by the Hillary Clinton campaign for not responding as forcefully
as they should have to the Russian attacks, the Russian
hacks rather, so the price, a little bit more scrutiny than
it's received. No, he's done. Yeah, the
last year, the first admit the last administrated by Obama, I
mean, Clinton, I mean, the tax. I mean, there were retreats. I
did. Geez, scatchard doesn't take a pill.
So that's those are the guys out there defending Trump. So I'm
not really great. Great. You should reevaluate
with Trump. I mean, I mean, Obama, I mean, Clinton, I mean,
Trump, I mean, Obama. I mean, a lot of the the taps are they are
they are the case. A lot
of people have problems with the first in the previous
administration, this administration, a lot of people
have that. I've been noticing that some big issue. Now.
Ultimately, John, I guess what we're seeing here is because
there's really doesn't seem like there's any huge any huge fall,
anything illegal from from where I stand, who knows what's going
to be uncovered. But if the media can now play this, because
that's what's happening to the extent that we actually see an
unsealing of a president. That's a much bigger problem.
Well, it's a bigger problem for the country, because what will
happen now to just go back and forth will never get a
president. No, no, it'll be it'll be sane. But and that's
what they're trying to do. The media is they're just naive
about this. I do have two two clips of the story that broke on
Saturday yesterday about the taps. This ran on CBS Weekend
Edition. And it has the CBS slant on the whole thing. And I
think it's worth listening to before we take a little
interlude. And is
this a Trump Trump Trump top one or what is Yeah, Trump cap one
before most Americans have woke Saturday, President Trump was on
Twitter, posting explosive wiretapping accusations against
President Obama. Mr. Trump claims he recently learned Mr.
Obama ordered what Trump describes as a Watergate style
wiretap on Trump Tower in New York. He says it was just before
the election, Mr. Trump offered no evidence, and an Obama
spokesman issued a quick denial. It comes amid growing
controversy over the Trump administration's possible
Russian ties. The President is spending the weekend at his Mar
a Lago resort in Palm Beach. Errol Barnett is there.
President Trump is back on familiar ground here at his Mar
a Lago resort in Florida. And he's back to one of his favorite
activities, stirring up conversations with his tweets.
After a week of speeches and addresses widely regarded as
presidential, Mr. Trump made an explosive allegation that the
Obama administration listened in on him during the election.
From the winter White House,
the winter white so he's calling it this day down there, I think,
you know, they're always mentioned about now they're
making a big bitch and moan about as he's traveling too much
as though you know, he's not traveling with his mother in law
to Europe in the 747. He's just going back and forth to Florida,
which you can take a train to if you wanted, what I like the
best, that far like
the comparison photos of the Oval Office and the President's
desk with Obama behind it, and then with Trump behind it, and
the difference is just mountains of papers, just mountains of
papers that Trump has everywhere. You got a very
unique file Think system. Oh, he's
well that's probably Yeah, somewhat of an archivist in a
way. Yeah. It sounds like
he's like me he's a Pilar you and you put stuff on the pile
and you know exactly where it is in the in the
Hi, everyone should go watch the bank deck with WC Fields and see
how that really how that really works. Guy comes in the fields
to get these piles of paper, they're mile high on the desk
and the guy says, I need this red thing from the I need a
report from March of last year. And he says, Here it is. And he
looks at it and he goes, Oh my God, you're never gonna find any
so and so feels his eye. Yes. And he puts his hand on there.
And he's like, and he makes it like he did he like puts his
hand like on a flat hand and he flips it over and they flips it
over to the end these guys he goes down the pile and then he
moves down a little bit and digs in and pulls it right out. Yeah,
that's how I filed two piles. It it works a bit until somebody
comes in and cleans up your
man and that's the worst. Don't mess with the piles. Yeah, I
thought it just tidied up for you. Oh, no, no, no,
no, no. All right, let's play. This is the this is the I
thought I had a third one. Yeah, the second one. I have a second.
Yeah. The second one. This is this is just as a standalone
clip. This would be called the nut an old fashioned
journalistic term for the number one thing where to everything is
summarized in one little paragraph one little
nugget, the nut the zit, the news secure. This is it. Like my
news. A cue that's a new one against
the president's tweet storm started around 6:35am. This just
found out that Obama had my wires tapped in Trump Tower
nothing found. minutes later he asked Is it legal for a sitting
President to be wiretapping a race for president a new low and
offering no evidence of wiretapping as proof suggested a
good lawyer could make a great case out of the issue. 10
minutes after that he compared the allegation to the Nixon
Watergate scandal, saying President Obama is a quote bad
or sick guy. A spokesman for President Obama released this
statement saying in part, neither President Obama nor any
White House official ever ordered surveillance on any US
citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false.
I'm really liking the no evidence mean.
Yeah, the no evidence meme is a witness to which
he offered no evidence to which he offered no evidence. He said
this offering no evidence.
And Coulter had a mean spirited twitches. Yeah, just like the
New York Times and their evidence of the Russians hacking
the election. No no evidence.
Well, whenever this kind of thing happens, we're always very
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It might be a good day interstitial.
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generator.com. And the I was watching, like kind of fell
asleep and was drifting in and out. There's this documentary
called abstract. I think it's on Netflix or on Amazon. And you
know, there's a lot of it's like The New Yorker magazine is
highlighted in this and how the New Yorker magazine, I don't
think they ever really have words on their front cover.
They're possibly famous for this. They just have an
illustration.
They have plenty of words on the front cover.
Maybe I'm wrong about that. But the illustration is a big deal.
And think about it, you know, album covers magazine covers, it
covers are important and it is such a bastard child of
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got it as a written note. Now you keep letting me know which
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then he retires and dies.
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now have to wear disposable armbands? Jingle requests?
Jingle requests? Yes, job karma. Fear is freedom. And he once
said at the end of the show,
the fear is freedom. Or we can do it here.
Well, he was he says, here's what he wrote jingle requests,
jobs, karma and fears freedom at the end of the show.
Okay, I'll do it at the end of the show. No problem. No, he's
got a day Adam can do that. Thanks again for all these years
of deconstruction. Michael, call me sir. Mugler pronounced
Mugler, McGraw mountain Colorado jobs, current jobs,
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two plus months. Okay, now there's a guy just got on board
recently. And he's already given two good donations. The show has
become and there's plenty of people that have been listening
for eight years and have never coughed up anything. Care. Oh,
this is listening. It would go off the air and we stopped doing
the show. Can you find those somebody find to be fine. Again,
they're gone. Yeah, they were okay. Within a minute. Maybe.
The show is become my salvation as I tried to stay connected to
the news of the World. I love the addition of corporate
affiliations for all news reporters. That is a bit unit
you wanted to do. I believe all reporters should wear racing
jumpsuits would display all the this a great idea. Well, they've
said there's Some politicians to you should do that. Yeah, it's
like NASCAR. Yeah. Yeah. You had to wear the logos on your
jacket. I believe and when you talk you have to say well, I
Yeah, we had a good day in Congress today. I know the Ford
Motor Company would appreciate the fact that there were
everything was running right and of course, Mobil Oil so one of
the really great companies even though they had nothing to do
I think what they should I think what they should do is in
Congress you know, the capitol hill there they should have a
you know, a wall like a Hollywood events and sponsor
sponsor wall. Yeah, you got sponsor wall behind you. And you
can just either make a digital so changes with the sponsors for
the appropriate politician. Yeah, yeah. Why hide it people?
Yeah, if you can't cover they hide it to can't cover it up,
turn it up.
Love the addition of corporate affiliations are all news
reporters. I believe all reporters who were racing
jumpsuits would display all of the ownership and advertising
affiliations of the network they're working for. I spent 13
years in the chemical industry where I witnessed firsthand how
companies such as Honeywell and DuPont control industries by
working directly with government agencies. In my case, the EPA, a
high insider, we have oligarchs in every major industry which
work with the government directly. Which words were the
government creating barriers to entry I'm sorry, dictating
products and attempting to steer public relations in opinion.
This structure undermines business development and more
importantly it hampers product evolution and creation, thus
having the public with fewer and less satisfying product choices.
Also, this creates a hidden tax on the American citizen and
consumers you are correct, sir. Yes, he is correct. And that was
an important note to read. Please provide me with the
following following jingles de douching thanks oh, did we do
Shema already deducing Thanks, Obama jobs karma and please
create a new jingle government is not the solution to our
problems. It is the problem as well that is thrown into the
ether for any any religion Paul, maybe
we'll get on that. Okay, here we go.
You've been D deuced.
You've got karma sorry.
Jobs, jobs and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
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rare double karma with a job squeezed in the middle.
Wow. Yeah, that's the people who really show up they got a
recording of that.
It's a blooper really.
So John Knowles in Murfreesboro, Tennessee part of the clique
down there in Murphysboro area 220 72 just sent me what to read
on the air but he's just donation brings him to Baron
level. Nice. And she he likes some house buying karma and Yoko
Ono with two shots too. They had
he says it always cracks him up. Okay, fair enough. Murfreesboro
we're very happy to do that. Happy to shoot Yoko off of the
donation segment when she's gets started, which is just about
now.
You've got karma. Bada bing.
Bada bing bada bing bada bing bing. Sure. Bill of the rock 200
Jan sense. It's been a while since my last AEP I have a big
week ahead.
What's the key?
I don't know. Oh, Associate
Executive Producer Hulu
Hulu. I have a big week ahead getting married Saturday.
Woohoo. And honeymooning in Paris in London. Yeah. This guy
is this guy. This sir below the rock? Yeah, Rock Hill of the
rock diamond.
Looking for Carmen good wishes in the no agenda community.
Thanks, sir below the rock. Got it, man.
You've got karma. Congratulations
on the pending nuptials.
Yeah, that's for sure. And last but not least, Sir Alan. Bo's
barren of BC. And if I can find my cursor, which seems to have
disappeared completely,
it's on the other pile.
I would like to thank you and Adam for preparing this Canadian
for traveling to the alternative universe. Oh, there's a good
time read this. This is your this is a little just gonna do
it a little long, but it's worth it. That's worth it. I would
like to thank you and Adam for preparing this Canadian for
traveling to the alternate universe. I spent a week on a
boat that was filled with probably 70% Hillary bots and no
way to escape. The musicians in that universe. Were people like
Steve Earle, Chuck cannon and other American style artists,
many of them thought it was a good time to educate the non
progressives and those of us From outside the USA, oh
my goodness, I must have been very match and horrible and
you're on a boat and you're you can't get off the boat.
The facts I learned were not based on reality but you
prepared me for that. I heard 60s protest songs issued reused
against Trump omit 60s protest songs, the theoretical pro war
president, as opposed to the peace loving Obama, who was the
only president who'd ever to be at war every day of his terms?
Yes,
that's a good point, which
is true. I learned that even though the progressives say we
are all is supposed to be equal, all white people were racist,
and that they have no choice about
excuse me, it's racist, racist, racist ish, racist. I
learned that all men are inferior to any woman. I learned
that immigrants and refugees should be allowed into the US
with no questions asked, and asking questions was racist,
racist, I learned. I learned that all immigration has been
stopped and nobody will be allowed in the US in the
foreseeable future. I learned that globalization was good, but
somehow corporations were bad. I learned that memory should not
be running worth money, money, I'm sorry. Oh, yes. I learned
that money should not be required that communism is
great. But please buy my new CD. I learned that the people that
voted for black president, a black president for two terms
have now somehow become racist, racist, racist. I have heard of
what I have heard, I have heard was, Oh, I'm sorry. All I heard
was media talking points with no actual knowledge or information
to back them up to be in a theater with more than 1000
people clapping and shouting approval at any disparaging
remark about the about non progressives was discouraging.
It was like a social justice warrior convention. I'm not
happy that the that I'm not happy in that universe. All I
saw was misunderstanding, distrust and true hate. Yeah,
how could the people that were divided in propagandize pub
politicians in the media for the sole purpose of electioneering,
not wake up to the fact and just learn to accept that we are not
all the same, and then most people are fair and respectful.
I think the only salvation for that universe would be for them
to listen to no agenda, instead of the musicians, politicians
and the media and actors. And actors. I must have distributed
hundreds of my no agenda cards, hopefully, some to the shell
shocked non progressives in that crowd, who had no choice but to
sit in silence, for fear of retribution and ridicule.
He's lucky they didn't make them walk the plank.
They are kind of like get out the alternative universe free
get out of the alternative universe free cards. Thanks
again for keeping me through this insanity. And I'm now
safely back in Canada, although we seem to be getting infected
with this nonsense here as well. And that's true, which is yes.
But again, no agenda works in Canada too.
Well, you know, just on that for one moment in Canada, Navia.
I wrote it. That was a good note.
He has a great note. There's this near this bill, which has
been bumping around his back in the news, which there was parts
of it were secret. M This? Yeah. Oh yeah. M 103. And this is
emotion in the House of Commons, introduced by Iraq collied.
Muslim, a member of the House. And here is the text of the
motion. For Canadian law. That comma and the opinion of the
house the government should recognize the need to quell the
increasing public climate of hate and fear, condemn
Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious
discrimination and take note of House of Commons petition e 411.
And the issues raised by it and request that the Standing
Committee on Canadian Heritage undertake a study on how the
government could develop a whole of government approach to
reducing or eliminating systemic racism and religious
discrimination, including Islamophobia in Canada, while
ensuring a community centered focus with a holistic response
through evidence based policymaking and to collect data
to contextualize hate crime reports and to conduct needs
assessments for impacted communities and that the
community should committee should present its findings and
recommendations to the house no later than two and 40 count
days, blah, blah. So this is the way I read it going to be used
to outlaw free speech in Canada Navia. Because you will not be
allowed to say anything hateful about Islam or, of course,
last is a blasphemy. It's a blasphemy law is what it amounts
to. Is
that do we have those in the United States of Gitmo?
I believe there's a couple of states to may have implemented
but it's not about Islam. They go back to Christian blasphemy
laws.
Well, we'll talk about that in a moment. But we
don't have any No, we have I don't know. I don't believe we
have. They do in England, I think in much of Europe.
Did you want anything to wind up here?
No, I think I'm good. I think now just want to introduce our
last guy.
Let me give you a karma.
You've got karma and
safely Langley.
Okie dokie. I have two PR mentions one is a Michigan
meetup scheduled for March 12 2017 1:30pm 1330 for military
personnel at Smokehouse 52. John, you may want to I'll email
this to you this is from Sir Mark the small wonder wandering
night. Maybe you can send out a something to the on the mailing
list to the Detroit people Michigan people.
Well, the Michigan has local number one, they have a pretty
big list that they use internally. I don't need I need
to do any more for him. I don't think I don't. I have no way to
correspond with them and find
what they want. Okay, good, sir. Mark the small wandering night.
And second. And finally, yes, Steve bosta. Door, set up a new
domain name for us, which I liked very much. factcheck
false.com. Nice. Fact check false.com. Now forwards to the
no agenda show. And we have our check falses.com. And then we
have our little fact check file. See works perfectly outstanding.
And, of course, we want to thank everybody who came in as
executive producer, Associate Executive producer for the
program today. That is highly appreciated. Lots of people
contributed to our value for value model. You doing it this
way. And man, does that make a difference? Thank you so much.
Remember another show coming up on Thursday?
vote.org/n. A and I'm sure
we'll have plenty of stuff for you to deconstruct for the
people that you propagated the formula to our formula
is this. We go out. We had people in the mouth.
Recall, man, this must have been half a year ago when everybody
was talking about Trump being mentally insane. And I brought
up the Goldwater rule. Remember this?
Yeah. Okay. Yes. This is the rule where you store you if
you're a professional psychiatrist. It's, I don't
think it's a gentleman's agreement. I hate to use that
word, because now that's going to be banned.
Yes, no, it has to be a agreement between people. You
can use agreement with between people I have that whole I have
that whole list of crap I have
to listen to. So for dueling list dueling lists, well,
let me give a little background on the Goldwater rule, which has
been broken. According to Larry O'Donnell,
the first time psychiatrists stepped forward to say something
about a presidential candidate was in the nuclear age when
Republican Barry Goldwater seemed all too eager to use
nuclear weapons. 1964 presidential candidate 1189
psychiatrist co signed an article saying that Barry
Goldwater was psychologically unfit to be president. And after
that, the American Psychiatric Association decided to institute
a rule, calling it unethical to offer professional opinions
about someone without the professional examination of that
person. That rule has been broken this year by a number of
psychologists and psychiatrists who have decided that the more
important rule to observe in the case of President Trump is the
duty to warn mental health professionals have a duty to
warn others when they see a danger presented to other
people. They have a duty to violate confidentiality in cases
like that. There are now more than 26,000 signatures on an
online petition entitled mental health professionals declare
Trump is mentally ill and must be removed. The petition cites
the 25th Amendment AHA is the proper procedure for removing a
mentally ill president.
Okay, so it was a gentleman's agreement, although we can't use
that anymore.
By the way, the same guys so when they when they get a
patient in who seems like he might be a serial killer, go
immediately to the police because you need to warn them
that is well now I have now I have a clip from John Gardner
PhD, and he is defending this stance. This guy himself needs
to be checked out. I think if we
could construct a psychiatric Frankenstein monster We could
not create a leader more dangerously mentally ill than
Donald Trump.
I mean, this is from a psychologist. So you have to
take note psychologist or psychiatrist, psychiatrist. I'm
sorry. You have to take note. I mean, he's this is a
Frankenstein monster, the most dangerous man you could imagine
as a president. Oh, you have my attention.
He's a paranoid psychopathic narcissist who is divorced from
reality and lashes out impulsively at his imagined
enemies. And this is someone, as you mentioned, who's handling
the nuclear codes? You know, this Goldwater law rule is,
frankly absurd from three different vantage points. First,
the debacle that took place during Goldwater's era was in
the Freudian time before we have the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual, the great advance of the Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual
is that you can declare anybody sick in the head for anything.
Thank you, especially children
gave us a clear behavioral diagnostic criteria for every
disorder. So whereas these psychiatrists were saying he had
potty training issues and blatant homosexuality issues
that run proved concepts
when it was I presume they were saying that about Goldwater. Did
you ever hear that? He had, I don't remember that at all. He
had potty training issues.
And I was, I was a Democrat at the time, and I would have
remembered that gray area
for every disorder. So whereas these psychiatrists were saying
he had potty training issues, and Layton homosexuality issues
that were unproved concepts, we now know if we can observe
someone's behavior and their words, we know that we can
diagnose them. And actually, this whole idea that the
psychiatric interview is the gold standard for making an
assessment. It's just frankly, not true. Just go
to a speech, go to a speech, and then oh, my diagnosis, why does
anyone even go into one of these offices to get psychoanalyzed?
Just have the guy you know, read something you wrote or a note to
your mom or give a speech or give a talk or put something on
it on a tape recording? Exactly.
Oh, yes, yes. And actually, this whole idea that the psychiatric
interview is the gold standard for making an assessment is just
frankly, not true. Empirical research shows that the
psychiatric interview is one of the least reliable ways of
forming a diagnosis people
out there stop going to see what stop seeing your shrink to stop
immediately take a copy of this recording to your psychologists,
psychiatrists, whatever you do, if you go to what a lot of
people do, and bring it in and say, Look, listen to this. I'm
outta here.
I can't do this. I might, I might incriminate myself and
you'll go off and well
time yet but but according to this guy's does it work anyways,
bullcrap
that the psychiatric interview was one of the least reliable
ways of forming a diagnosis, that it's that behavior and
informants and obviously, we have 1000s of hours of behavior.
And informants are much more accurate. And finally, as far as
ethics, I would argue to my cut
while he said, informants in other words, just say, can you
bring your wife and I'm going to talk to her
behavior. And informants are much more accurate. Oh,
informants are at
this stage coming? Hey, hey, do you know this guy,
this guy, he's crazy. He's crazy.
Tell me about him. So I can give a psychological analysis of him
by you tell him because it's much more reliable. ramble on
and on the guy's
unhinged man, he's unhinged. He's off the hook. He's crazy
performance are much more accurate. And finally, as far as
ethics go, I would argue to my colleagues that those who don't
speak out are being unethical, that if we have some knowledge
and understanding about the unique danger that Donald Trump
presents through our psychiatric training, and we don't say
something about it, history is not going to judge us kindly.
And there's what 26,000 psychiatrists who was signed on
this petition. And you know what that means? You know what the
next thing is the majority. 97% 97% of all psychiatrists say
Donald Trump is insane. Nuts. Yeah, yes, exactly. I am not.
I would do have we got it. Do we have a copy of it to read? What
is it say? Of what? of that document that 90 20,000 People
signed?
No. Well, it's online somewhere. I haven't looked at it. But
we Yeah, okay. Well, the deck show we gotta did discuss
because I'm sure it's pretty funny.
Yeah. Someone will someone else start looking at it that
way. Send it to us in a minute. Hold on. That's a good one.
That's a good clip. Guys. That guy is nuts. Yes.
Well, we have another guy who's interesting. Of course, the
people who really count when it comes to politics in the United
States are actors
willing to in that last clip that you played, there's
somebody coming in with a white coat on and a big better Lynette
at the end.
That's exactly what you envision, isn't it?
Yeah, you do actually has great.
Patrick Stewart, of course, it's a Brit.
Oh, this is great. Yeah, I don't have a clip of this. But this is
fantastic.
Patrick Stewart, John Luke Picard, you know, when it comes
to how the alternate universes work, I'm sure that there are a
lot of people who subconsciously probably think, Oh, I'm so
happy. John, Luke Picard is coming to save us. But John,
Luke Picard, engage, make it show number one, my wife
Sonny hadn't. We had gone to Washington City, good friends of
ours, three different friends who are kind of Washington
insiders, because we wanted to ask them, What do we do? What do
we do? So we had three separate dinners. The first night that we
were in Washington, I have I had the worst night's sleep for
years and years and years. And it was only in the morning when
I got up. And I realized what it might be. It was a fairly
innocent creature. I did not directly insult your president.
I don't know why the clapping I didn't insult your president
directly. Oh, good. Well done. You insulted him without doing
it directly.
has been elected? Yeah.
You like would you like him?
Yeah, he actually he said, No, we got our own problems.
Cause I don't you
like would you like him? We're getting.
We have our but I'm not a citizen. However, there is.
Maybe it's the only good thing as a result of this election. I
am now applying for citizenship. Because I want to be an American
too, because all of my friends in Washington said there is one
thing you can do. Fight, fight, oppose. Do it because
well, knowing a little bit about the immigration system, you're
gonna fail the interview, John, Luke. If you say why do you want
to become an American to fight against against the president?
No,
we don't think I don't think so. I'm thinking now. I doubt it
here.
I have a new term for this. Yeah. What
an idiot.
I have a new term for this. Coming to one coming to us from
one of our producers, Erin Kramer. says Adam, John, I'm a
mental health professional master's degree in clinical
psychology. I love our producers. Yeah, we have rages.
She says so I have standing in this area. I love it. When you
do that. Yes, you have standing. I just want to add a term to
your moral self licensing vocabulary. It's related but
distinct. The term is virtue signaling.
This is Yes, I've heard of this term, this term gets good props
up every once in a while. Well, it's a good one. This is a very
good term.
This is an action taken in order to show others that you are a
virtuous person. Allah, John Luke Picard.
Exactly, that's exactly what he was doing virtue signaling to
his audience of, you know, whatever they are.
And I think this is better than moral self licensing.
Personally, as as Aaron goes on to say usually applies to an
action that doesn't help the problem or cause for which it is
signaling for example, changing a Twitter icon, so a Twitter
icon change would be more virtue signaling, the moral self
licensing, but the two are are intertwined. Agree virtue
signaling is done with the object of changing the way
others to you for the better. By contrast, moral self licensing
doesn't refer to the way an action looks to others, but
rather, the way the action makes you feel about yourself? Yes,
yes, dynamite. Thanks for all you do. I'm
much because you may have no moral self licensing by changing
your icon, because all you're really interested in doing is
saying, Look, I'm I'm also with you. Yes, you said Yeah, yeah,
I'm right. Look, I'm here. I bet a green I can.
Thanks for all you do. I'm much calmer since my husband hit me
in the mouth, says Aaron Kramer. While he didn't need the mouse,
very good, very good. One other resist
climate show. Those two guys said their violence. I got one
more clip here
from the resist category. Hilary Rosen, and she's now a
commentator. Wasn't she a political operative for the
Clintons.
Hillary rose and started off as the Oh no, she was the hatchet
man for the AR i Yes, that's what she's the one who popular
arise by by her stupidity. She's the one who popularized mp3.
Ah, yes, yes she's the one she's the one he's the How does she
popularize mp3 ease
by making? Well, I I haven't written about this recently but
he used to write about all the time because it's like a
favorite re rehashed topic. Go for it. When the first mp3
player came out, which was not the apple it was the reo. Yeah,
bro was a real but there's a few of them that came out the reo
was one of them. Definitely. They were just you know, I
realized they weren't selling like a high river. The I river.
I still haven't got I think there's some before I river. I
really do. But anyway, that's beside the point. These guys
came out with an mp3 player. And I think it was one of the
soundboard companies. And it wasn't a river. I think they
came later. They and actually even before that mp3 is were
being freely traded amongst college kids. Yeah. And this is
in, I think in like 90 to 93
Oh, a little a little later than that.
I think the early days before the mp3 players came out, these
things were being traded. And I would say 93 For sure. Because I
was involved in one of the groups. And it was a long time
ago. It was way before anyone knew what an mp3 was. And it was
an underground thing. It was a way of compressing files so the
kids could trade the songs because you couldn't trade the
wav files or the direct files from the DVD. So they developed
this that it was stolen technology. Yeah. And so they so
nothing happened to somebody somebody started suing the kids.
These are all college kids. And so then it just got a little
attention and then it got the attention of a company's
manufacturers and one of them the sound card company built the
mp3 player and they got sued immediately. Yeah, by the arm.
Oh yes, yes, yes, yes, I
remember and then the lawsuit brought attention to the entire
mp3 Underground I think that nobody knew about his
probably started with when amp
I believe when amp came before the mp3 player did but it did
when amp was one of the early Yes, one of the first players
you could buy and once you had that then you understood you
could play these things and then you find out where to get them
so that when there was nobody wide open it was 96 then 96 Um,
went out came out in 96 They say 97 But I think it was 96 I'm
looking at the Wikipedia
for Winamp Yep. Okay, it could be I'm all three years. I know
it was early though in the scene. Yeah. And maybe there's
more compressed than I thought it was because it happened
really fast because all of a sudden there was mp3 ease out to
go look at my old columns and get some dates Yeah, there was
an mp3 Then there was popularity of mp3 suddenly in the
underground and then all of a sudden mp3 is are mentioned
everywhere. People started looking into it. They saw mp3 is
he's a great boom Napster. And then Napster and then it was all
over. And it was all because of these early lawsuits. Yeah.
Otherwise it would have died on the vine.
I remember they were suing kids in dorm rooms for $10,000 a pop
Yes. Crazy. Yeah, I didn't get a lot of attention. And that was
Hilary Rosen. Yeah, good work hills. Good work.
Then she went into some political action committees or
some I don't know what happened. We can look her up now.
Well, here she is with the you look her up and I'll play her
here with the overnight legend known as Don Lemon on CNN.
I'm sorry, this is a this is a piece of video that she's going
to respond to a white old guy in Walmart saying hey, you know,
look at this loser over here. You know, she comes here
illegally, I pay for her health care. I got to work guys not
happy and racist a
foreigner to come over here to get sick and fat and obese. And
she can't do anything. She can't work. But I have to pay for my
fat and obese I got to work every day. I pay taxes.
Foreigners are living off of us.
This is Archie Bunker to the max right here.
You can find these guys right
now. But the interesting thing is he doesn't say anything about
Trump. But that's what the conversation is going to be
about.
I know you're here to go to your own countries and your own
trying to get your own country to be okay. I want to hear that.
Okay, and she's
gonna help you. Okay, so Hillary CNN has reached out to the
person we think is the man in the video and have not heard
back yet which no kidding. Honestly,
my reaction is, you know, finally this guy has a president
who understands him. There's a there's a there's a cautioning
today that we have seen time and time again. again across this
country, where more people are feeling engaged and privileged
enough to speak out in that way, and I find it nauseating. And I
think that the constant incidents, whether it's anti
semitism or racism, or, you know, the high school principal
this week, who apologized had to apologize for his basketball
team screaming Trump, Trump, Trump at a opposing school
filled with African American kids on their team. It's just,
it's enough, we have a divider in chief as president here in
Fairless.
In fairness, a man never in part of the video that never said.
Yeah,
she has a point to which begs the point to
understand that
done, the man we just saw in that video is vile, he is a
racist. But that in no way means that everyone who supports
Donald Trump is somehow of the same skin. And this is the
problem. No, this is a problem that Democrats isn't saying that
having, but but but you are implying that you're implying
that not because people will support Donald Trump, because
people may have different opinions. No, no, what
I'm saying that Donald Trump encourages that behavior.
That's what CNN is all day long. Yes, it's getting really painful
to listen to. And that's okay.
Here's some little background. Now she came in in 98. And it to
become the CEO. The Ria, yeah, the MPEG one audio layer three,
which mp3 was developed way before that was 1993. And then
it became popular in 95, even before their web layer, and then
the player came out it was it was actually remained fairly
underground, except for the one, the little physical player until
she showed up in 98 and started making a big deal that Streisand
effect basically, then it came Yeah, then it was right. And
then it became a very compressed lawsuit lawsuit lawsuit bust
these kids bang, bang, Napster. And then that was the end. Yeah.
Yeah. Was what Napster would have never been popular if
people didn't know what mp3 is. Were in the first place. I will
take credit for writing the first public article on me on
the mp3 technology. That friend of mine was a DJ who had helped
me
and this is important. Did you say that this was the future?
Yeah. Then that should be touted. No, I'm going to tout it
the man who first identified mp3 is as the future. John mp3
Devorah
Island, I saw it as just a, you know, a new way to move music
around and share of course, and not that I was doing it, but I
just saw what's going on, especially with the kids. Oh,
no, you were you didn't have any Limewire open at any time.
I'd actually never had a Limewire open at any time ever.
Or Kozar or any of those. Yeah, because get on those things. And
they started that's one of the old grandma. Somehow the next
thing you know she boots your computer and she's she's she's a
slime wire running songs all over the place. You remember
when I bought the lady?
Oh, here's some trivia for you. What became of Kazaa? I have no
idea because I became Skype. Are those guys had Kozar?
That's right. It's the same guys.
They were in Amsterdam. I hung out
there. Also the guys who didn't need it other thing. Joomla
Joomla. Tumblr. Juice juice, juice juice juice?
Oh, yeah.
I remember sitting in meetings with Kleiner Perkins when they
invested in pod show. And yeah, it was difficult because we were
changing media, but not the advertising. And it was Trey or
was her name. I remember her last name. One of the partner
limited partners there. Well, you guys should be more like
juiced like no. Yes, juice is the
future. No, and I can't see them believing that they told
though they were all in on juiced juiced. That thing
was dead on arrival the way I saw it dead.
Come on everybody. No magical shapeshifting Jews. That's
right. We got a big Jew problem in America. And the problem is
they're hated here. And, of course, it can only be one man
responsible for the hate and that could be only Donald Trump.
He hates hates him. He's an anti Semite. Banyans and anti Semite.
Everything's bad. Bad news. So I have a little segment here.
Sorry. Good, because when you're done, I got two clips.
Okay, well, let's start where I left off with the view. And the
view brings on Joel Pollak from the from the end He definitely
no, no, he's not. He's a Jew. He's a Juva work for Trump,
Breitbart News scene. He's a Jew who worked for Breitbart. There
you go,
writ large. That was the title you have then you've been with
Breitbart, the website has been described as a platform for the
alt right. Or some people say white supremacists. Well, how
would you describe that?
Breitbart News is a conservative website. And we have a very
diverse group of editors and writers. I'm the Orthodox Jewish
former editor in chief senior editor at large, so not exactly
an accurate description. We call that fake news or fake news
description. But we are
just got what I said. No, no, no, no. The article was fake
news. It's absolutely explained this headline Bill Kristol
Republican spoiler went against you, if you're Jewish,
white, it was written by David Horowitz, who was one of the
most prominent Jewish conservatives and he was
criticizing Bill Kristol for not being Jewish enough. So it was
the opposite of what people described. And we have more than
a dozen Jewish people working at Breitbart, including the CEO,
the CEO, we have black writers, Hispanic, Asian, whatever,
whatever you think, is the rise of anti semitism about in this
country. You know,
I'm really glad the media finally woke up to this
phenomenon because it started quite a long time ago, hung
before Donald Trump ran for president, particularly in
California, where I live on college campuses, there's been a
rising tide of anti semitism linked to criticism of Israel.
And it's very tough to be a Jewish student on some of these
campuses nowadays.
Yeah. But mostly, it seems to me that there's a flurry of them
since Trump
is, I think immediate, just woke up and notice that this is a
problem. And I think that I feel very proud that Donald Trump not
only is one of the most pro Israel presidents that we've
ever had, but that his daughter Ivanka, tonight, will light the
Sabbath candles just like my wife will bring in the Sabbath.
And to me, that's something extraordinary in American
history. On my best, I
don't know why that's extraordinary in American
history, and
was not extraordinary at all, but listening to her. It's
unbelievable. She is a she is a genius. a bigot,
a bigot, a huge bigot. Oh yeah, it gets better
ordinary in American history do
you have some of my best friends are Jewish and it's meaningless,
really, you can still be an anti Semite and have Jewish,
different whites.
You can still be you can still be a Jew and anti semitic. Yeah,
or you or you can have a daughter who's a Jew and be anti
semitic. I'm
not my best friends. A Jewish shouldn't it's meaningless.
Really, you can still be an anti Semite.
One of your best friends have Jewish relatives.
It's different Jewish relatives. Yes. Yes, clap, clap, clap,
clap, clap. I agree with you. And people say my friends are
Jewish. It doesn't really call it a black friend. But when
you're in laws.
You got a little more credibility if you're in laws
are Jewish. Okay. Well, let's continue. Of course, the real
Jew hater. We know inside the administration is Banyan. Those
of you wondering who that is? That is Steve Bannon. His name
is Banyan now.
Yeah, but absolutely a fair minded person. Right. So
we believe when he makes these bigoted statements, is he just
being Are you referring to there's like a laundry list. I'm
sure I can get you a comment I've ever had a headline from
Breitbart. Birth control makes women unattractive and crazy. Do
I look crazy to you? But that's
stop. She on birth control? The look? Yeah. Why Joy? Bihar? I
don't think that's possible.
And talking about a loaded question. Well, he might look
crazy to you. Yeah,
he looked well. He actually answered this very, very
skillfully. Great, fine.
Bearskin control makes women unattractive and crazy. Do I
look crazy to you? But that's
no, just the unattractive part.
But you see how you've shifted the goalposts now? So it's gone
from Steve Bannon says things headline, Steve Bannon has not
said bigoted things. So you've been in the high Andes,
though. What are you talking about?
I've often argued, I mean, I submitted content a long time
ago to Breitbart. And I know Steve and I've often argued that
you know, you can disagree with him and it's tough to disagree
with him because he's he's a very strong headed guy, but I've
often said that I don't believe them to be an anti Semite or
racist or any of those things just to back that up.
Okay, back that up. Now, the bay horn is not getting the traction
she wants. She tries it one more time. And she sets the guy up
for a good answer.
Media, you co wrote a book called how Trump won the inside
story of a revolution. And you say that the biggest reason you
won the election was because he defied the media. He received
more free airtime than any other candidate in American history.
Did he defy them or did he conned them? Yes. Cunning con
con combat?
The answer is yes. He certainly pulled a few tricks on the
media, the most notorious of which was when he called the
press conference and every came there and then we're going to
hear him talk about Obama his birthplace and he spent half an
hour rolling out one military leader after another talking
about what a great commander in chief was going to be in in in
less than 10 seconds he says oh and by the way Obama was born in
Hawaii and then everyone said oh, you know, we got fooled
again we've got conned or whatever but he got all that
free airtime for half an hour it was like a free TV commercial
across the country. He was very clever he knew how to reel them
in and and do that but the bigger part of it was going over
the heads of the media speaking directly to the American people
through Twitter through rallies did do that. Yeah. And I think
the most important
he's a liar you do admit that
admitted he was gonna protect the LGBTQ community and he just
rescinded that protected politician they all lie, lie.
Now, you know why my Tourette's has gotten worse after watching
this horrible like my tics are out of control. But the funniest
thing, which will of course not be covered in great detail, is
that one of the alleged word, attackers have a Judaism such as
synagogues and burial grounds and whatever the hell is going
on and swastikas everywhere is a far left black guy who used to
work for the intercept. We know from
his rather disturbing twitter feed that Thompson hated
President Trump and profess to be a progressive while bigots on
the right have been getting a lot of attention lately. There
certainly is no shortage of anti Semites on the left. Does the
FBI consider his political views of emotive in any way for these
threats?
Well, it appears that the motive at least stated in the criminal
complaint Jake was to get back at that ex lover but love the
anti Defamation League said today Thompson planned on
running for mayor in St. Louis to quote fight back against
Trumpian fascism even tweeted sort of bullet points of what
he'd run his campaign on. He also tweeted a number of times
and join panels even the video you're seeing here on race bias
issues.
Guy Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that guy? Yeah, one Thompson. I followed
this from its outset, when he finally busted him. And I have a
couple of reports. Good. And this is the first one is and
I've read his through his entire Twitter feed and the first
report which is, I believe is on ABC, but this is Black liberal
attack Jews.
A former journalist is in now in now in federal custody for
allegedly sending bomb threats to at least eight Jewish
institutions. One Thompson was arrested in St. Louis.
Authorities say he made the threats and then blamed and ex
girlfriend. Federal investigators cleared evidence
from Thompson's home today. He's also being questioned about
vandalism at a Jewish cemetery outside St. Louis. In all more
than 120 Jewish sites nationwide received threats in recent
weeks.
Now, this guy is a real racist white man hater with the if you
look at I recommend anyone go to his Twitter feed is one M
Thompson. And he you could just scroll down as far as you can
and start listening to him. It's just the F view YT it's just
unbelievable how bad this guy's but but a more apt report
actually came from this this reporter who I'm not a big fan
of because she's an ex lawyer and Impaler Reed, who is now
working on. She's at CBS. I think and she is She did a more
complete report on this guy. And and I don't like the way she
talks and she did a report on something that had to do with
the Trump administration which I may have on my list that and she
just a little to you know, still lawyer you know, she's just not
in broadcasting enough to be on the networks, but she's on the
networks. But this report is quite funny, but it's got bad
information in it. Which just brings me back to the real
problem with the media
we've learned on arrest has been made in a series of bomb threats
targeting Jewish centers, a suspect has been captured and
charged in St. Louis, Missouri, is believed to be linked to
several threats made against these Jewish schools and
facilities. CBS News justice reporter Paul Reed is in
Washington. So Paula, what is the latest?
Well, Vlad, you couldn't make this up if you try 31 year old
one. Thompson has been arrested and charged with making at least
eight of the threats against Jewish centers across the
country. But he was doing it in the course of stalking a former
romantic partner. Here's how it worked. For six months he had
been stalking a form of romantic interest, sending her
threatening emails sending letters to his employer, her
employer. And then more recently, in the past two
months, he decided to shift his cyber stalking allegedly to
making threats against Jewish Community Centers. It's not
clear whether or not he saw other people doing this or
whether he came up with it on his own Vlad, he had two
different types of threats. He made threats in her name. So we
would call it a bomb threat, and then send in a tip saying she
was the one who is called in the threat. Then he also made
threats in his own name, but then called in tip saying she
was framing him and even created a Twitter account to bolster
that she sounds a bit like Kennedy, you know, she doesn't
does
not as smooth does kind of have some flaw Bercy jerk. She's
really is not not handling.
Very unusual set of circumstances.
Absolutely. Unbelievably unusual. Paula, do authorities
believe he was acting alone? Or is? Or is there a sense that he
may or there may be others involved,
based on the criminal complaint that we just got it appears
these particular threats, this was just him in the course of
his six 810 months of stalking this former romantic interest.
But lad, as we've seen, they've been dozens and dozens of
threats made over several months across the country, he is only
charged with making about eight of them. So he is not clearly to
blame for all of the threats that we have seen. And as I
said, it's unclear whether or not he just came up with this
idea. He wanted to make threats, or if it was a copycat because
he saw this happening across the country and wanted her to take
the fall for this. That is not clear from the criminal
complaint. But what is is he's only being charged with a tiny
portion of the threats that we've seen over the past few
weeks.
Oh, it's just it's new. Trump always says he's the least
racist person, which means he's racist, but he's just not that
racist. And this guy is in the same level, just the only eight,
only eight accusation. Well,
this whole story is pretty sketchy. Now this guy for one
thing, the bad information in there was he traded he created a
Twitter account to back himself up. Really, the Twitter account
is from 2010. So he had to have a big foresight here to back
himself up in 2010 is when the Twitter account was created. She
made it sound like was created in 2016. Right? Right. So that's
bullcrap. Now, and the other thing is, there's two sides of
this story. I'm thinking. It's one of those instances where the
two people shouldn't have ever gotten together in the first
place. You can see who's he blames. He says she's stalking
him. And you know, as she claims he's stalking her somebody
stalking somebody. But the point is that this guy's if you read
all his tweets, you got to this guy's insane. He's a real hater.
But why it's hard to go after the Jewish Community Centers is
an issue.
Well, I read this a little differently, and in a bizarre
way, what we're seeing here possibly, not necessarily with
this guy, is this actually directly from Hitler's playbook?
When the Chris Dolma or when the Reichstag fire took place, this
is when a home you know, this is when the whole Jew problem
started in Nazi Germany, and that's when they really took
power. And they immediately curtailed personal freedoms, you
know, which usually starts with what you can and cannot say, in
a very odd and twisted way. This story, which is trying to be
pinned on Trump, personally, and Banyan could actually be
directly out of Hitler's playbook from the Democrats.
Just to use their wisdom.
I would not be surprised. We can have an event this whole thing
is so much misdirection. And we have this story with this black
guy who's a racist. Yeah. And this black guy and this
girlfriend who she was, she figured out who she is. I mean,
sure, if you look up the guy on Google with the go one,
Thompson, Twitter, they have a little excerpt here and he's got
she's a secret, sir. She's a he calls her friend says her name,
a disgusting, nasty, racist white woman who filed a false
claim against me a lie, and she's threatened to kill Trump.
He says she's a social worker for the New York housing
department. And she goes in and there's clips of her videos, she
comes in and helps remove old women. Anyway, here's a tweet
tweet from him. The Secret Service visited me and looked at
my tweets questioned my politics because some awful white woman I
date reported me I won't be silenced. He said, he's actually
reminds me a little bit if you look at his tweets of Keith
Olbermann in his reaction, really interesting. Yeah, he's
got a Keith Olbermann, kind of a voice. It's the only way I can
describe it. I won't be silenced. You know, the
resistance. We
much resist very much everybody. Could a quick update. I got a
number of really, oh, first of all, yes, I errantly said BSD as
Linux on the last show. I'm sorry, I and I actually wrote
down correct that because of course, but as you say, I said V
SD is limited.
I say, oh, yeah, of course. I was talking. I don't remember
you saying that
I did. And I wrote down. Shit. That was wrong. I gotta say,
because it's not Linux. It's a distribution of Unix. So
apologies the hate can stop now about the charter schools and
school vouchers. I was trying to understand why people don't want
why there's such a movement against the vouchers, right? You
brought that up? Yes. And finally understood, what is
being proposed or what has continuously been proposed is to
have vouchers and to include homeschooling. And this is where
the pushback comes from. The homeschoolers. And a voucher is
another word for money. So the roughly the way it works is
here's this federal money it's for schooling. It located you
don't like the school where you go into you can get a voucher,
you can go to a private school, different school in the
neighborhood, charter school, whatever. And it's still paid
for by the Government kind of that's very brief explanation.
homeschoolers detest this idea, which is being written into law
everywhere. And I've learned now that they've been fighting this
for for years and years and years, is every single voucher
program comes with the inclusion of homeschooling. And the
homeschooler said, no, no, we don't want that. Because the
minute you have a law that includes us, then you can
control us. So they do not want any involvement from the
government. And that is the biggest pushback. I didn't
realize that I thought it was so
I'm not convinced of this.
I got a lot of emails
about it. As a former home schooler, and somewhat involved
in that community. I'm not I know what the thinking is. It's
the you know, the basic right wing. Well, are you familiar
with the HLS? Da? No. Okay, well, that you can familiarize
me with it.
Yes, the H LSDA. Advocates for homeschooling since 1983. The
homeschooling something defends something. And this apparently
is an organization that that protects this urgent action
needed Congress attempting to give federal government money to
home schools. And this pertains particularly to hr 610. And that
this seems to be their big issue and I got a lot of emails about
it. So this may not be the issue but that's certainly
well I can understand I know what they're thinking this stems
from the the evangelical right wing Republican notion that once
the government gets in your bed with somebody now you got to do
this what we tell you to do, which is not true. They
certainly they certainly and you will you do not take the money.
How about that? I'm not taking this money. I'm gonna do my own
thing. The problem The real problem is homeschoolers have a
bad reputation. Not because they don't do a great job. And most
kids, for example, who win the spelling bee contests are really
smart kids in college. They're all homeschooled. They Abraham
Lincoln was homeschooled. But there's a bunch of irresponsible
homeschoolers out there that do something called unschooling.
Yeah, I don't like that. I know. unschooling means you don't do
jack, anything, you let them run around. And if they want to
learn how to read, they'll learn how to read. If they want to
learn math, they'll learn math. And kids, of course, don't want
to learn math, no one learn how to speak they don't want to
learn how to play a piano, they don't want to learn to do
anything because you have to kind of make them do some of
this stuff. And so the unschoolers have created a bunch
of little monsters that are useless, they're on social ball,
they have all kinds of issues and social issues and even their
views he kind of dumb right you're
kind of getting off the topic of the vouchers now.
Well, I'm gonna swing it back. Watch this. Okay, and so seeing
this mess the government wants to put some standards in place
for home schooling and they can force the issue with the
vouchers they think I'm because I'm like in Washington state for
example, you have to take your homeschool kid has to take
tests. In California, they don't. Okay. And I think that
they think that they the homeschool is believe that the
vouchers are going to force all of them even though they, they
they'll stand up for these unschoolers they think the
government's gonna force everybody to follows a kind of a
standard government rule and then force a curriculum on the
homeschoolers. Can I
give you one of their points here from the HLS TAS page. They
say section three, page three section 104 requires states to
make certain assurances in order to receive their portion of
federal education dollars. One of the requirements is that
states quote, make it lawful for parents of an eligible child to
elect to homeschool their child. While this sounds good HSL da
has fought successfully for decades to make sure that there
is no quote federal right to homeschool, because what could
be created by a favorable Congress could be regulated by a
future hostile Congress, it is far better and more far more
constitutionally sound for education decisions and
homeschool freedom to be protected at the state level, we
ask our friends at the federal level to simply leave
homeschooling families alone. So they do not want a federal right
to homeschool.
Okay, fine. That's the way it is now.
Well, but this is language that is being proposed continuously.
That's
that language is just said the midst of the states that up to
the states. Does the language say that? Was it? No, this is a
job. That's their language. What is it?
I just read you the language from that you read it off of
their
website is their policy. Now?
It's their it's their issue with the policy.
Okay, read it again.
Page three, section 104 of House resolution 610 require states to
make certain assurances in order to receive their portion of
federal education dollars. One of these is
the where I heard the word states. Yes.
The federal education dollars, one of the requirements is that
state and here's the quote from the bill made it states make it
lawful for parents of an eligible child to elect to
homeschool their child. And what they say is that this creates a
federal right to homeschool.
I'm just telling how do you get from here to there? I
don't see it because it's in a federal bill. I'm just don't
argue with me. I'm not I have no standing.
I'll put it this way. They're fully crap. Okay.
Hey, go. John at divorce iq.org.
You can send all the email you want to me. Give me some
documentation that says the Feds want to actually take over the
home schooling business. It just until I see it this that's not
it. Okay. Do
not send it to me, please. I got enough already. I think
these guys don't want to see I think it's I think it's just the
opposite these guys. I think they're all in on the on the
idea of a big federal government, big federal
Department of Education. Otherwise, why are they fighting
this? It makes no sense. There's nothing really against them in
there and then get some free cash. Who doesn't need that?
They don't want it. The homeschooler say they don't want
I take it? Well, yes. You have to get all mad at me. I'm just
telling you. You're the messenger. I'm die. You're
shooting me. Exactly. Well, then let me give you a different
message. The future of radio, I like to track it a lot,
particularly the big networks. It's your radio. Yeah, the big
networks. Because I know Bob Pitman. Bob is credited as being
one of the founders of MTV. I'll give him that for sure. And a
number of articles in this past week about iHeartMedia. I did
not realize how bad their debt had become. I heard media now
has 846 stations, they had 1100 they had to get rid of a number
of them for them because they have financing issues. A huge
and I'll tell you how huge $20.5 billion in debt. And why yes.
But here's the
problem. I didn't know I Heart Radio owned radio stations.
Yeah, it was clear channel. It was clear channel Gaucho Clear
Channel. Okay, I'm not keeping up obviously. Yeah, it was clear
channel.
And then they had the, you know, the huge leverage buyout and
Pittman at the helm, who was taught his fight his pay is
linked into performance of the company and their debt. But now
every story I read is like this is not going to happen, mainly
because in let's see, 2019 they have a $8.3 billion note coming
due of the 20 and a half billion dollars. And here's actually
here's here's the history of it in 20s 2006. The Mays family who
started a clear channel, agreed to sell the company to two
private equity firms. That was Thomas H. Lee partners, and
you'll remember Bain Capital, Mitt Romney's stomping ground.
And that was for 19 billion. And so under that deal, of course,
you start to rip it apart, they sold off 400 stations. So now
they still have 860 stations, but the $20 billion in debt,
they can't get over it. This is not going to happen. And I don't
know what they're going to do. But I don't see a future. I
mean, they have to go into receivership at a certain point.
We have to buy one of these stations for
and I hear deals are coming up.
Better be good deals.
Now. instead. Cheers keep listening to the best podcast in
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possible. Not really a tech news segment. I do want to just
mention something that I noticed about kind of would like to know
where Elizabeth Warren is in all of this. Snap went public
Snapchat, where they go Thursday, who does that? Know
when did the public? Yeah, I
don't know. There's a there's a front recently. And last few
days.
Yes. And I'm listening to CNBC. And I hear people talking about
oh, you know, all the teenagers, you know, they're investing in
this and yet, right and, and in fact, they were promoting this
idea by saying yeah, kids, you know, you should invest in what
you know, and no terms like this. And then I go over to the
number one trading app amongst the teenagers, which is Robin
Hood. And Robin Hood is interesting because they they
charge no fees. It's completely free every every trade and you
can't do more than five trades in a week that are so called
round trip without being you know, an official day trader and
there's all kinds of rules and money I have to have in an
account. But But these I think this is I don't know if
Elizabeth Warren is still involved in in scams, but he now
Robin Hood, who encouraged children to invest and there
were people just multiple stories. And Uber driver is how
sad is an Uber drivers scraping together 100 bucks to buy four
shares of snap and their money is going to be taken away from
them. And now they have this. Oh, thanks for checking out IPOs
on Robin Hood, they have a pre IPO trading place. They are
ripping kids off who had no idea what they're doing. Really, it's
really disgusting I just story
Robin Hood you say yeah,
I know. I know it that is the worst part of it. That's the
worst part I totally agree. Place Called Robin Hood is
ripping off the kids a little what's the symbol? The symbol is
SN AP snap.
No for Robinhood
Oh Robin I don't know what that I don't that so when you want to
know I don't think there's it's 2x Apple guys and I don't think
they're they're public.
Oh no but they're gonna go IPO sure they went bananas.
I'm sure they will. But holy crap you know they tell your
kids not to do that. Losing their liberty selling
skateboards
who sell anything in this?
Yeah. All right. We just We just had our knighting ceremony I did
want to play a little knighting ceremony that took place on RT
Russia today. You think they don't have any power tonight?
Anybody but they did. And they knighted Nigel Farage as a joke.
Yeah. He set the scene.
Okay, the scene is this in the studio. And haha we're going to
night you as the ambassador to the UK where some some joke like
that. And they bring out this little kid who's dressed poorly
as a queen with a with a blow up sword and fake crown on her
head. And she does this whole business. But you really needed
to wait until the end to hear what she said to Nigel Farage
after she did this makes the barrage if you'd like to nail
that go with it. And by the way, I think our knighting ceremonies
are a little bit better than this. I mean, this is sad. But
he was a good sport. It was a very good sport until he had to
like kick that kid. You
are now Nigel Farage, we're also making you honoree British
ambassador to America and honorary MP for South Dannic
because they let you for real so arise, Sir Nigel, thank you very
much. I'm honored.
My mommy says you hate foreign spies to say that?
The kid off?
My mommy says yes. That was very funny. In fact, I'm surprised I
didn't get that clip.
Oh my god. I love that. It was very Hi. Mommy says you hate
foreigners. All right, who gets get central casting on the line
and fire him.
So so there was a pence scandal they're trying to, you know,
pencils and other target but they can't really get much on
him. And I will reiterate, if you people all want to get
Donald Trump
impeached, you're gonna be careful what you wish for him.
Be careful what you wish for.
So let's play pence pence sneak that comes out of these things
feeling pretty well, but they're trying to make it sound as
though Pence was doing the same thing as Hillary, you know, he's
the governor. But here's pence email ABC.
Thank you. Next tonight, Vice President Mike Pence and New
headlines after his use of private email.
Yeah, that was really tight. I have to say. That was good
advice. Thank
you. Next tonight Vice President Mike Pence and New headlines
after his use of private email for official business while
governor of Indiana Mr. Pence using his AOL address in
addition to a government account, the Indianapolis Star
Reporting his private account was hacked last year. Critics
point out the Vice President was among the many who criticized
Hillary Clinton for her use of private email. Tonight, the vice
president saying the circumstances are very
different. Now there's
no comparison whatsoever. between Hillary Clinton's
practice of having a private server mishandling classified
information destroying emails when they were requested by the
Congress and by officials.
The FBI said no reasonable prosecutor would charge Clinton
and found no evidence Mrs. Clinton's email was ever hacked.
And this photo making headlines late today Secretary Clinton
seen on a plane today reading newspaper headlines. If you look
closely the headlines about Vice President Pence and his private
email.
Oh my god, she's ruining a lot.
Okay, so that's the way they ended that I want to play the
kind
of make one response. Yeah, I feel if you're Vice President of
the United States, you have an AOL account that you should be
impeached.
He wasn't vice president at that time, then he's good to go.
Everyone had an AOL account at one point in their life early
on. Now at the very beginning where says thank you, I think
could be used as an as an ISO.
Hold on a second as possible. Thank you.
Where was it? At the beginning? Hey,
I just got to get the what was the name of the clip on
NC male at ABC ABC.
Okay, we can do this. We can do a thank you. Hold on, since you
asked for it. Okay, we're on Mac, sis. Boom, boom, boom. We
just have to set a few things up. Good. Here we go. And we're
rolling. Thank you. Okay. Let's just roll that back a little
bit. Beautiful. I think you're right, Jonathan. That's a great
ISO. Thank you. Thanks. You Obama is going to put we can put
them together. Hold on a second. Save Selection this will be
Thank you. i So this isn't real time people. We don't have any
other production staff. We do this we can do it. This is what
we do. Here we go. Thank you. i So and then we want to combine
that with Thanks, Obama. So we do this. Thank you. Thanks,
Obama. Okay, not bad.
Yeah. Maybe the other way around might be better. So just
remember the beginning of that clip. And let's move on to the
second part, which is that this is how PBS instead of taking a
giving a gratuitous plug to Hillary, oh, look at Hillary's
in a place staged photo. She's in first class on some plane,
right. And she's got this she's sitting by holds it by herself.
On her right on the other seat. Yeah. Is the newspaper opened up
and she's looking at it. And somebody took this picture and
then sent it to ABC calm my.
So, John, this came right from Hitler's playbook. I tell you,
in
this case, Pence says the same kind of thing, except that he
adds a little extra stuff that they cut out of the ABC thing,
and then they follow it up with a with kind of a more balanced
approach to the story.
mishandling classified information, destroying emails
when they were requested by the Congress and by officials. We
have fully complied with all Indiana's laws. A White House
spokeswoman said Mr. Pence did everything quote to the letter
of the law as governor.
Boom. Yeah, big difference. Yeah.
It's only 17 seconds. That's all
up front. So now here's another one I've got I want to get this
one out of the way because it's pretty funny. This is the
there's a car jacking that took place at ABC decided to make a
whole story out of because they had the clips from the 911
calls. And there's a little little gotcha in here that I
wanted to talk to you about next to my card Jack one ABC as a
card victim making a terrifying 911 Call for help shot and
wounded fearing for his missing girlfriend's life. The murder
suspect had been leading police on a multi state manhunt from
Mississippi to New Mexico to Kansas ABCs Clayton Sandel and
how authorities track him down.
Police say it's right out of a horror movie man just shot me
and my girlfriend 19 year old Devin Philo an 18 year old Sarah
Reeves had just finished a hike near Albuquerque Tuesday when a
man with a gun forced them into the trunk of their car. They
Pull the emergency release to bail out but gets separated as
Philo escapes. The suspect shoots him I don't know. What
they don't know is suspect Alex Deaton is a fugitive on the run
suspected of murdering his girlfriend and another woman
hundreds of miles away in Mississippi also wounding a
jogger. It comes right down. I wouldn't touch it. Okay.
He's left the gun on the passenger seat. Should I pick it
up right now? The 911 operator says I wouldn't touch it. What
would you do in this situation? Grab
that gun. put a cap on that guy's butt.
Yeah. Grab the gun and fire it Adam if you can. What? What's
the new what it is I think 911 gives bad advice because they
have liability issues.
Oh, I'm sure they do.
So you call 911 You that You asked for advice. Should I grab
the gun? If you can grab the gun? It seems to me unless you
don't know how to shoot a gun.
Is it? Does it come to this that we now in in America have to ask
permission for these things from some random person?
That's kind of what I'm thinking. This guy's on the
phone. He's a 19 year old so he's in right in that perfect
age group for being you know, submissive to the government.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Don't touch it. I wouldn't touch it if I were you kid. Yeah, I
wouldn't touch it. We don't have a lot of carjacking.
It's okay as a gay kid get shot because no liability thing after
that.
We don't have a lot of carjackings in Texas.
Right because you everyone's everyone's possibly Thank you.
We also don't have road rage in Texas, for the same reason. Be a
big shootout. Hey, after you, man. Go ahead. You don't want
the house strapped somebody isn't gaming. Go ahead and don't
care. Fine. Enjoy your day. Have a nice day. We're very laid back
here. It works. Hate to say again,
we skipped the second part of this. It's not important. All
right.
Well, then I know I have a few things. Oh, okay. Go. First of
all, just a little call back to Russia. I have this nice
interview with John McCain, who has his own issues with
donations, and not necessarily from Russia bought from Saudi
Arabia. To the McCain institute. This has kind of been bubbling
under if I think the Russians refused to give any money to his
his Institute, but here he is trying to to weasel his way out
of the fact that he's no better or worse than Hillary actually
is worse than the Clintons, because he only got a million
bucks. They did much better. Senator
John McCain is one of the capital's most important voices
on matters of war and peace.
Thank God for the Saudis and Prince Bandar. We're starting to
see a little bit reversal there.
We're now learning the government of Saudi Arabia
donated $1 million to the McCain institute for international
leadership, a nonprofit that bears the Senator's name.
I'm proud that the Institute is named after me, but I have
nothing to do with Oh sure, except that they use my name
which I am honored just as the Goldwater Institute uses.
Goldwater's democratic
diversity while you're at it.
I say that again. Bring up
Trump University while you're doing all these kinds of
explanations with Donald Trump wasn't a professor days just
lended his name to their lend his name to this operation. I
think he had some piece of it.
Institute uses. Goldwater's name
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has
been pummeled over foreign contributions to the nonprofit
Clinton Foundation. McCain left off any comparison,
my friend what he always does
that, my friend, it's better when you look my friend, look,
my friend, look into my friend, you are seeing death.
What Clinton Institute has raised in the form of money. I
mean, come on. There's no connection there. But
so because the Clintons have raised more than him, there's no
connection for him.
I gotta come on. There's no connection there.
But government ethics watchdog say there's a reason the McCain
institute is getting Saudi money and
anyone who's going to give chip in a million dollars or more
until the McCain institute is going to get John McCain's air
McCain's positions on the Middle East largely square with Saudi
Arabia's
this is this is in Saudi Arabia's interest to try to
influence John McCain,
McCain's Republican primary. Kelly ward has questions about
that influence.
And with all the turmoil in the Middle East, I don't want any
any touch of impropriety that could come along with that.
But McCain drew the line on questions about the Saudi
donation. When were questioned by the McCain institute.
They were kind of I've
answered all the questions. I have answered all the questions
I'm going to answer on it
soon established the institute three, four years ago at Arizona
State University with an $8 million gift of cash left over
from his 2008 presidential campaign.
Now you know what happens to that money to you just put it
out? Yes. scam.
You just put it into your little
a million dollars. How about a budget come out after the whole
like, Oh, you got a million leftover? We're gonna do it the
way you had to return it or you got to use it for more
campaigning for the next campaign. Maybe? How about Let's
donate it. To me.
It's one of the best scams I've ever heard. And we've always
wondered what happens with that money. Now, you know,
I can't imagine Hillary had a lot of money leftover from her
campaign to the best. I have somewhere I
have this. This is a great this kind of I should have done this
right
after this is such
a douchebag I'm gonna give him a douche bag. Douche bag. He is
What a douche. That's hate him too. Oh, this was great. This
kind of harkens back to the whole Jew issue but it was a
different take on it because this is more about undocumented
immigrants. I believe this is in Los Angeles or certainly in
California. So your neck of the woods, hounding
Sandy laying the groundwork at this secret home in Los Angeles,
how many families would be about three families that we can host
here Sicilian pastor Ada, Dalian. Tay walks us through one
safe house for the undocumented running from immigration
officers and underground network. What you're doing is
you're trying to hide. That's what that's what we need to do.
Has a community on the other side of La another safe house in
this man's home? We're not naming him or telling you where
he lives because of what's at stake.
It's how it is that you not to think about
yours. I love that there's nothing like that.
It's really hard to tell exactly how many undocumented immigrants
we can house here but it's kind of like an underground network.
You know, like the Jews is like hiding the Jews from the Nazis
because that's what Trump is or other Hitler's people cannot
think about both all the people who did open their doors and
their homes and take risks to safeguard Jews in moments where
they were really vulnerable, as well as those that didn't. We'd
like to be the people who did.
This is beyond sanctuary churches. Well, we've already
seen at this Colorado church offering refuge for an
undocumented woman. Federal agents don't enter religious
houses without approval under a policy put in place during
Obama's presidency. But faith leaders believe that will change
under President Trump. private homes fall under Fourth
Amendment protection and need a warrant before authorities can
enter. Reverend Zach Hoover says faith groups Last Los Angeles
county could hide 100 undocumented immigrants today.
And that number could soon be in the 1000s,
people will be moving into a place so that ice can't find
them. So that they can stay with their family so that they can,
you know, be with their husbands so they can avoid being detained
and deported
people who may not agree with you, but look at what you're
doing and saying you're simply aiding and abetting the
violation of federal law.
I'll speak for myself,
I feel really convicted that I answer to God at the end of the
day, like that's who I'm going to see when I die. And I hope
that, you know, we
can live up to our hope we can live up to who we
are. Oh, my God.
You know, one of the things that one Thompson guy who sent this
stuff to the Jewish community centers are about half of his
tweets, say have the hashtag no border. No border. Yeah, yeah.
Just like that. Yeah. No border, no border.
Sometimes I just come in the studio by myself and just play
with this. I
can imagine you doing that? I do.
Now, on the migration front, I am the canary in the coal mine,
ladies and gentlemen, you saw that I ran into trouble with new
but not really new. But now newly implemented regulations. I
could not fly to Europe.
You could not fly because of I would call it a technicality
a technicality. And although the technicality was not that I
didn't have proper paperwork, they decided to start enforcing
the your paperwork has to be valid, your papers must be valid
for at least six months. The European Parliament he Friday
throws
it away. I think that that's illegal. If you have a passport,
that expires, it part of the passport itself shouldn't be
dependent on the expiration date. You have a passport? Yes,
you should legally be able to go wherever you want. Yeah, that's
why and
I said this many times. And I'm sorry, going Guess what? They
did not give two shits about me. I noticed a lot of European
Union very angry, of course about President Trump's travel
ban from majority Muslim countries. I think actually they
say Muslim majority countries now. That's that's now the
sentence. And I have to say that I will give Poland all the
props. They need not only to President Trump promise to put
them in the Visa Waiver Program. Within two weeks, I think have
beaten being president, he hasn't done that they've been
the polls have been shunned. So the Europeans went, you know,
what, we're gonna require all Americans to have visas Neener
Neener Neener.
And we take note of the resolution voted yesterday by
the European Parliament. As you know, Commissioner mobilus was
in the United States recently on the eighth of February, to
relaunch our efforts to push for full visa reciprocity with the
new US administration. As you know, our approach of continued
engagement and patient diplomatic contacts brought
tangible results on this issue with Canada. And our assessment
of the situation with the United States has not changed and we
will continue constructively with our discussions. At the
same time, of course, the Commission will continue to work
closely with both the European Parliament and the Council, and
will report on further progress before the end of
June. Now, what I like about this is first of all, it shows
you how, how the European Parliament has zero power. Hey,
thanks for your resolution, and we'll just continue to talk
about it. So if they are true representatives of the people,
which I don't think they are, because they're typically not
elected, well, they are elected, but they have no power. So
there's nothing's going to change but the resolution is
there. You don't require yanks to have to have visas to enter
the European Union. And since I was talking about Canada, and
apparently they had some difficulties putting the
Canadian deal together. We also have immigration news from our
neighbors up north
Canada's public safety Minister says Canadian laws are being
enforced in that country as it deals with a growing number of
illegal border crossings from the US into Canada. Ralph
Goodale says more resources will be made available when they're
needed. Today he visited Emerson Manitoba, which has intercepted
183 people illegally crossing the border this year. He said
Manitoba officials represent the quote very best instincts and
values of Canadians for their response to asylum seekers.
We're all in this together. We want the very best possible
human result for everyone. And we will all collaborate and
cooperate with human results. CTV
reports more than 430 people have illegally crossed the
border from the US to Canada this year. It also reports more
than 1700 people went to border crossings to ask for refuge
protection,
Tom are these what kind of people are these?
Your Hollywood is trying to escape Trump?
That's fantastic. Hey, man, you American illegals coming in here
dammit can't have that.
It was,
you know, I discovered, you know, with with my Tourette's
comes come some superpowers. And it hit me something hit me last
night as Linda falling jar. That's one of my superpowers.
Yes, I can catch things in midair quickly. Yeah. I'm also I
can see things in big documents. This is why I'm legislation
analysts. It could be the IMF approved the next tranche of
their bailout of what's this now third or fourth? I believe for
for for Ukraine. Now it should be the second probably. And it's
an additional billion dollars. And I started to look and you
know, because of course, this always comes with well, you
know, if you guys if you really want this money, yeah, we got to
work on your banking sector. And so I went back and looked at the
IMF, E F F, which stands for thing is extended funds,
extended funds, something rather eff not Electronic Frontier
Foundation, I went to look at some of the stipulations of the
agreement. And there's a lot about the banking sector, of
course about recapitalizing and all I'm sure that's all that's
all on the up and up, no doubt about that. But here's what I
noticed, the total amount of the IMF loans is $17.5 billion. As
part of the agreement, they have to privatize all of the state
endorse endorsed organizations, I think they called SEOs, which
are basically, corporations that the state pays for. They are
private corporations, but they pretty much are not profitable.
And you have to think about electric companies and all kinds
of infrastructure. So as a part of the agreement, it says in
black and white, they have to sell up to $17 billion worth of
assets and privatize that. So I'm thinking there you go. 17
billion for the sale, you give you 17 billion back but the gods
17 point 5 billion says 500 million coast and around
somewhere, probably in somebody's pocket. But this just
shows how this is true economic hitman work that's going on
right now. And I'm looking at you Biden, and your kids over
there. If he's not stupid, his sister in law this is this is a
pure, pure quid pro quo, sell it off to us sell it off to our to
our western investors. We'll take all of that. It's going to
be the exact amount you owe and you're good to go.
Sounds right.
Yeah. It's disgusting is what it is. And meanwhile, oh, Putin,
Putin, Ukraine. The real rape is taking place. right under our
noses.
Well, while we're on the subject of lies, although I think we
only have 10 minutes.
Yeah. Yeah, we might have the warning if that's what you're
asking for.
So there's two reports kind of each ran parallel on two
different news outlets. One seemed gratuitous. The other one
kind of related to a news story on the White Helmets. Ah, yes.
Okay, now that you know, I want to so people can contrast.
American promotion for the White Helmets is the CBS report, the
American promotions for the White Helmets and all you know,
this is again, the CIA there's a White House, we already looked
into them. They're supported by the USA Id probably some
intelligence agency, there's American bullcrap.
90% of their money. $100 million is from USA ID. The rest is from
the Brits.
Yeah. And so so the thing is something of a scam, but we
don't know what kind of scam although the CBS doesn't see it
that way. This is just some great operation. Let's listen to
what they have to say.
Last week's Oscar winners did not attend the ceremony they
were saving lives in Syria. This week, Holly Williams met one of
the White Helmets, showing the best of humanity in the worst of
places.
White Helmets did what they always do on Monday, racing to
the aftermath of a deadly airstrike to pull civilians and
bodies from the rubble. Business as usual in the hellish chaos of
serious Civil War. With Syrian regime and Russian airstrikes
destroyed neighborhoods. In Hollywood on Sunday, the
producer and director of the film The White Helmets accepted
the award for Best Documentary reshot here. Two Three of the
film's cameramen are Syrians, who risked their lives to
capture images like the 21 year old Khaled Hatim is one of them
he planned to attend the Academy Awards that was stopped from
boarding the plane at the last minute. He says he still doesn't
know why. I was disappointed he told us, but the most important
thing is that the film won the Oscar. Maybe it'll encourage the
international community to give us more help. It seems in every
30 minutes reported on the heroism and humanity of the
White Helmets last December, the group says it's rescued more
than 80,000 people and that over 100 of its emergency workers
have been killed or rowdy Sarge joined the White Helmets two
years ago.
There's a 50% chance again every operation that I'll live into
50% chance that I'll die you've seen people dying
as an aside, I had my hair cut yesterday I mean go to a woman's
salon Of course. And and the topic came up at the Oscars are
talking about is Oh, and the White Helmets is the White
Helmets. And of course I'm I couldn't stop myself I launched
into it. And these women that were dumbfounded they're like,
what they were they were able to you know, they weren't stuck in
one universe. It was really interesting. Like, wow, I'd
never heard of this that oddly makes kind of sent to
Yeah, I guess because it's make sense. That's why Yeah, I said
Yeah, I think doesn't make sense.
And they recycle the children.
Now, so me whether there's actually a story, this is the
same day they didn't report on this on CBS. There was actually
a kind of a I guess it was a brouhaha Africa, a fractious a
practice in New York regarding the White Helmets and it was
reported on they apparently were giving a playing the band
gasping for money. I'm not sure it's something like that. And
there was a anti white helmets protest from anti war people.
And so this was reported on by RT, this White Helmets report.
And what's interesting about our teachers doesn't just give us
the news report, but they also give us a reminder of the
background of these phony Bologna's so we all remember
that this is not really a legitimate group.
Although a spontaneous music concert in New York's Grand
Central Station, promoting the work of alleged Syrian
humanitarian group White Helmets was disrupted by anti war
protesters. standing among the orchestra, anti war activists
held signs reading White Helmets a US propaganda and no US bases
in Syria. The White Helmets have been glorified in the western
establishment and media for the documentary on their activities,
even winning an Academy Award. And all this comes despite the
group's rather questionable reputation, that's due to
members of the White Helmets being spotted of executions
carried out by jihadists. The group was also caught producing
fake reports like the following one in which it claimed that
Russian jets had killed civilians. Turns out the
photograph was taken well before Russian warplanes even started
flying in Syria. The White Helmets credibility was more
heavily scrutinized after a they staged a so called mannequin
challenge for social media faking this rescue of a person
from rubble.
Yeah. Yes,
sorry. Just remind people, bogus Have you got the one news media
that just wants to whatever the government tells them to say CBS
in particular, and they say it's to keep debris? Oh, yeah, White
Helmets. Great. And then you run into the situation where you're,
you know, some of the truth. You don't know the exact truth,
obviously. But you know, enough to know it's bull crap. And you
told these women and they all bought it because it makes more
sense because it is. It's more logical. Yes. This operation
Calm Mind has run around the White Helmets. It was designed
by a public relations firm. It's fantastic idea.
And the whole idea was to get a no fly zone and they've kind of
failed so far.
Well, yeah, well, there may be one if Hillary had won the
presidency,
we'd have we'd be shooting down Russian jets right now. We'd be
shooting them down. I only have two more clips. I do think it's
important to get them out today. The first one is something very
interesting happening in Sweden. Because of the Russians,
bringing back the draft to keep potential enemies at bay. With
an increasingly assertive Russia just across the Baltic Sea.
Sweden has decided to strengthen its army and that means finding
more troops to fill the ranks. Seven years after abandoning it,
Sweden has made military service mandatory again.
This is a signal that Sweden has been appeared to increase its
military capability. It is a part of the strategy that we
have very clearly put in place.
Like neighboring Norway, both men and women will be part of
the draft. Following a questionnaire the names of
Swedes born in 1999. And after will be added to a lottery 4000
of them will be called up starting next year, the decision
to reactivate conscription has received support from both the
socio democratic government and the opposition. But the news of
11 months of military service came with mixed reviews from
Swedish team.
They spend so much time doing something really don't want to
do, or something you're against. Personally, I don't support
general warfare, or remote lixiong. I think it's great.
I simply think it's a good thing that so many young people will
be able to get some experience of what defense is about. But
how long for decades, Sweden had been decreasing its military
budget. Two years ago, it was just 1% of its GDP. But now it's
earmarked more than $5 billion for this year alone, a shift
that began after Russia annexed Crimea, red flags from Moscow
that Stockholm says they want to be ready for just in case.
How about that, huh? Yeah, that'll change your life as a
tail. Yeah, that'll that'll make you fearful of Russia as a teen.
Yeah, that's the idea. That's some pretty mixed messaging
there.
What you want to play my last thing, which should be the Yemen
update? Yes. Because there's a little gotcha in here this ABC
overseas tonight the US military intensifying airstrikes against
al Qaeda targets in Yemen, more than 30 in the last 48 hours. US
war planes and drones pounding away at fighters weapons and
strategic targets sounding all of this coming one month after
that first and controversial mission ordered by the Trump
administration. The Pentagon again today emphasizing the
value of Intel materials grabbed during that raid. baby seal Ryan
Owens was killed in the raid his father calling for an
investigation is widow Karen was honored during President Trump's
speech to Congress on Tuesday. Now that
is that is so impossible. This had to be going at least a month
before Trump came in at least
as a week after Trump gets in and they have this raid and now
it's his he ordered it.
And you know, what the hell are we doing anyway? Exactly sick
and tired of it. Alright, I just have one quickie just just to
make us happy. Maxine Waters liven things up. Maxine Waters.
She's talking to some Millennials
she's now a little hard to hear she's now onto Maxine. She's
very happy she's reading all these tweets. The young uns are
liking her. And of course, I recognize it. And I was gonna go
once. Of course.
For those who couldn't hear he says I'm a millennial. I was a
millennial. The room goes dead silent.
And the guy behind her who was laughing and he was like a
little cheerleader. He's just like he his smile is frozen on
his face. What I was a millennial once Maxine Waters
voted out
Yeah, she is an idiot vote. I was a World War One veteran once
it's less it's exactly like oh, I have a tip everybody if you
got your your your full load of media deconstruction today,
here's something you can watch. Planet Earth to. That's right,
sir. David Attenborough is back. It's Have you seen raving about
this? Oh my god, this two episodes are out already. And of
course they did the previous one with you know, big lenses and
helicopters. This is all drone footage, remote cameras. It's
spectacular. Spectacular.
Especially if you like seeing bugs eating each other. Uh, how
about Komodo dragons? Whoa, man.
Fabulous.
All right, everybody.
making another attempt at watching lala land. taken three
runs at it and I've yet to.
I expect a full report.
If you're alive. You'll get nothing.
Coming to you from downtown Austin Tay Haas. In the
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