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So we have a lot lot to go over. A lot's happened in
the week since we've spoken, but it seems so long ago, but the
State of the Union actually happened in that timeframe, and I just want to
say, I just listen. I don't like Joe Biden, but I do
try to view these things with an open mind to some extent as much as
I can. And I thought this was the most divisive State of the Union
speech. I had our most partisan political and devisive speech I've ever seen at
a State of the Union that I can remember. I actually always feel like
it's kind of weird that I cover politics because I'm not that excited by politics.
But I kind of feel that opposite of what you just said, which
is state of the unions are usually horrible. There have been some notable exceptions.
Politicians are the worst. Anyone who watches the State of the Union who's
not paid to do it, there's probably something wrong with you. But I
also agree with you that it was a shockingly bad state of the Union and
I had to do a little bit of TV about it in the aftermath,
and it made me feel insane. I would be honest people and they'd be
like, the White House is super excited about this state of the Union.
It showed that Joe Biden can stay awake after dark and he's fiery. Everyone
kept saying he was fiery. Fiery was like the word that you were supposed
to use to describe the completely unhinged hate fest that went on. That was
like just so bizarre and divisive and just mean and weird. It just hit
me that maybe that does reflect the state of the Union in many ways.
We are divided and yeah, fiery energetic. Again, we went over this
before. Just because you're yelling and angry, it doesn't mean that there isn't
something wrong with you. In fact, a lot of people who are aging
and suffering from dementia kind of lash out. But there is a little bit
of something I wanted to talk about here, just a little problem maybe for
Republicans is that the expectations for Biden are so low that he can even be
coherent at all, because we're constantly highlighting how he is incoherent, that when
he does read a teleprompter, everyone's like, man, look at him,
he is sharp, you know. No. I mean, let me just
first off say that the speech was objectively awful. It was horribly written.
It began the State of the Union, began with a call to do nothing
for America and everything for Ukraine. Like it was just a horribly done speech.
Also, the delivery was bad, and you had all these people saying,
oh see, you know, he can function sort of. It wasn't
good at all. And as someone with like slight hearing loss, I couldn't
understand what he was trying to say. He was not actually he did not
actually do anything for the reputation that he's incompetent and possibly has dementia, and
all everyone in media routinely praised it. I was on a Sunday Show,
and the question I was asked was like, so everybody loved the speech.
A Peggy Noonan loved that speech, And I'm like, no, nobody loved
the speech. It was horrible. And the polling is out now and the
polling shows that people hated the speech, and Joe Biden's poll numbers went down.
So no, just because the media, which would be willing to give
him prizes for properly getting a spoon into his mouth, just because they loved
it has nothing to do with whether he met the bar set for competence.
I have to say this as well, and I really have thought about this.
I think he's one of the worst presidents of all time. And I
don't mean that in the way in the ideological or partisan sense. I think
that he is just incredibly incompetent, incredibly divisive in ways that no other president
a long time in my lifetime has ever been. I think he's far worse
than Jimmy Carter was. And yeah, I don't know period. I mean
I just think that that speech proved it. He really had no accomplishments to
speak of none, and these speeches are usually stayed and just milk toast and
annoying. But that was embarrassed saying because you know, maybe he's attacking because
its nothing to defend anyway. I don't want to spend too much time on
it because so much else has happened. One more thing. Yeah, one
of the things I hate about State of the Unions, all of them,
including the ones I've kind of liked, you know, from like a Reagan,
a Clinton, or a Trump, is when they talk about all the
money they're going to spend so that you'll vote for them again. You know,
like we're going to do this and we're going to do that. But
with Biden it was particular. It just really particularly went poorly because he's been
in office for more than three years, he had nothing to brag about.
He was obsessed with his predecessor and was like literally blaming him for the things
that he himself had done, and it just came off even worse three years
in, and by comparison, I do happen to remember the twenty twenty State
of the Union speech for Donald Trump, which was given like the day after
he survived an impeachment vote, and the economy was going great, foreign policy
was going great, and the border was getting under control and like also it
just sort of had been like it was a high mark of the presidency.
And of course everything crashed like the days later with the COVID and everything.
But yeah, it's an opportunity to look presidential, not to look like a
partisan. Yeah, it was braggy, and it was like it definitely fed
his base, Like he gave the award to Rush Lambaugh who died shortly thereafter.
And I mean it had things that were it wasn't like you forgot that
he was a Republican and the things he was bragging about were mostly Republican things.
But like, it just it was it was night and day different.
And by the way, the media hated that speech as much as they loved
Biden's speech. Yeah, and I don't think it matters that State of the
Union matters either way very much anymore, But you know whatever, But you
know, speaking of Joe Biden being the worst president of all time, let's
and again I don't just mean as incompetent president. I don't. I think
there were far worse ideological president. But the Robert her transcripts, so Special
Counsel Robert Her, he investigated the Joe Biden classified document case. He in
February put out a report that said that Joe Biden was a feeble minded man
who could not really stand trial or be convicted. We saw the trand and
and after that, I know, I'm explaining this so so after that,
the media was just incredibled, like they just could not believe that anyone would
say such a thing about Joe Biden. Joe Biden, Joe Biden the world's
most successful president, right. And one of the main one of the incidents
within the transcript that we learned was that Joe Biden did not first of all,
he did not know when he was vice president, but he also did
not know when his son bo had died. So everyone said this was a
lie, including the President, who stood up there and said that that her.
You know, how could he bring such a thing up. It was
out of line. I forget what words he used exactly. So now we
have the transcripts, and before we dive into them, I just want to
get did you read the transcripts? Don't want to put you all. There
were two days of transcript I was trying to read it on the train yesterday
and I made it like halfway through the first one. So no, So
I read them and it's like taking a tour of a weird, bizarre,
demented mind and how it thinks, and how Joe Biden, you know,
talks about, you know, has this way of bragging about things that probably
never happened. He's great at arch I know he one time shot an arrow
something, but how was a great at archery. He talks about his cars,
he brags about his life in a weird way. So there's that part
of it. A lot of it is just like I am doing right now,
complete word salads that are incoherent, barely coherent, and then when he
is coherent, he's just lying. He's lying. So what we learned The
most important, I think thing we learned was that in Tooth that he did
not know when his son died. He said twenty seventeen or twenty eighteen to
her. The lawyers corrected him in set twenty fifteen. Now why this is
important because he used that as an excuse to why he was just overwhelmed and
could not keep track of classified documents, which is just a massive lie because
he's been hoarding them since the seventies probably and it had nothing to do with
his son. But here's my quick theory and then I'll let you speak.
I think maybe he didn't forget. I think maybe he was lying. I
think he uses BO to emotionally manipulate people, the public, and that I
think that he tried to emotionally manipulate the lawyers there by saying that his son
had died and how could they be investigating him when he was just overwhelmed with
stuff and that's why it classified information. What do you think of that theory?
I think that's so. I definitely read enough to get a feel for
how he does this thing. By the way, I don't think this is
unique to Joe Biden. I think all politicians are a bit this way.
But he tells stories in a way that make you feel like he's bringing you
into something or like that he's kind of like, oh, that's a little
different or weird. So do you remember, like right away when he's like,
oh, you were rifling through my beach house in Delaware and I hope
he didn't see any pictures in my supra wife in a bikini, and I
was like, oh, grossly, I just wanted to tell people. He
literally said that. He literally said that. It's not like you're just making
that up because it sounds right. Yeah. I kind of imagine like when
you're thirty eight year old senator or something like that might come off kind of
like, oh, this guy's different, He's not like strom Thermon or whatever,
but like it just comes off so icky when you're an eighty year old
man. Speaking of strom Thurmond, did you catch the part where he bragged
about how he gave a eulogy for strom Thurmond. Yeah, which, yeah,
interesting because I don't know if people remember, but Trent Lott, who
was a senator, had to give up his publican leadership position because he said
something nice about strump Therm. You have this guy the president was a Democrat
bragging well in a year twenty twenty four about Wygus. It was twenty twenty
three, it was when this was done. And it was just also interesting
to me how and having read a lot of these transcripts during the Russia collusion
hooks where FBI people were entrapping their political opponents, did you notice that Robert
Hurr was like, sir, we just need to have a report that we
put out. Like he could not have been signaling more clearly, you are
not in any danger here. He's like, we just need a report,
and we just want to kind of come up with reasons why what you did
was okay while we're going after Donald Trump and trying to destroy his life,
his children's life, his family business, and everything in the country as well.
So they just kept saying over and over like, we just need an
explanation here that we can put in a report. It was so kind.
And when all the people were yelling at Robert Hurr for revealing what everyone knows,
which is Joe Biden has trouble with mental competence, I kept on thinking
it was kind of ungrateful, like he had to deal with the fact that
Joe Biden took classified information gave it to a ghostwriter to make eight million dollars,
also kept everything in these facilities where the Chinese government was paying the organization,
you know, like the Pen the Pen Biden Center, which was like
foreign funded, like all sorts of things that if he were a Republican he
would be shot and killed on site. And he makes it all go away,
and then you have these low IQ House members going after him and yelling
at him. It was just weird. Well, you bring up interesting a
bunch of interesting things there. One I would say that Her is learning what
call me probably learned initially, you know when he let Hillary slide, is
that it's really not worth it for you to do this. It's clear to
me Her doesn't want to go after the president of the United States and recommend
charges. It was clear to me that Comy knew both of them, basically
said that Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden are guilty. In fact, yesterday I
think some congressmen asked her whether he was on a jury he would convict,
and he said yes. But yet in the New York Times and elsewhere and
in Congress, people keep saying that her report exonerated Joe Biden, which is
a complete lie, Charlie Savage. But the New York Times, who,
as you always point out when I mentioned him, was a huge Russia collusion
you know, spreader of that conspiracy theory, claimed that he was exonerated,
which her clearly says he was not. In fact, the only reason they
didn't go forward was because they didn't know they could get They didn't think they
can get a conviction, so it's not worth doing that. But also you
mentioned that, you know, you mentioned the book The Eight million dollar book
deal he had. So here's what he said during the interview. Bin said
he had no He told her, I have no purpose for taking them.
I think it would be inappropriate for me to keep class clearly classified documents.
But there was a purpose, and we learned it later in that transcript.
The purpose was that he shared them with his ghostwriter, and he had eight
million dollars got for that book, fifteen million dollars he made two years Amtrak
Joe made two years after leaving the vice presidency, and he shared them and
then the ghost writer, we learned, tried to destroy the evidence, which
reminds me of Hillary's staffers trying to you know, bleach bit or whatever that
thing was called, the computers and the service she had. That shows that
people are trying to cover up a crime. That means they knew there was
a crime. Isn't that impeachable? If Joe bid knew about that? Why,
I think you forgot the most important part. He's a Democrat. I
did think that it was interesting when the guy just when the ghostwriter destroys evidence
after the investigation begins and nothing happens to him, And you know, I
think the reasoning that the DJ used was that, yes, he destroyed the
audio tape, which we definitely wanted, but there was a transcript still available,
and so we're not going to charge him, which is like totally reasonable
if they weren't going after Republicans for similar things for the last you know,
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I actually don't know what to do about this classified document case. It seems
to me like, yeah, I actually don't care about it at all,
Like I know that Joe Biden stole classified documents to make eight million dollars on
a book. I get that, and that's bad and I but I also
think classification in general is like a system we use to have means to go
after political opponents, and that the whole classification system itself is corrupt. I
am far far more worried about the money going to the Upen Center from China
and the money from all the foreign oligarchs going into the Biden family than I
am like classified document mishandling. But the issue is they're going after Trump on
this issue, and so they just don't get to have this luxury. And
it's happening at the same time, like it is the most you can juxtapose
it literally in real time, and you know, it's the kind of classified
document stuff seems to me to be the kind of weapon that you can use
more easily than perhaps anything else to go after people you don't like in government,
like treus or there was that guy in the Bush administration they went after
get his name. But anyway, so a lot of people say there's a
difference between Trump and Biden. Trump didn't cooperate and Biden cooperated. Well that's
not true. I mean Biden had these documents for decades. He only cooperated
once a lawyer found a box, and by the way, they had been
other lawyers had been stuffing these boxes there to begin with, so it's not
like this is the first time anyone saw it. And then when the FBI
found out, of course he let them search the house because they would have
got a search worn and it anyway look like the president was hiding it.
There's no virtue in cooperating with your suc Exactly, the DOJ is controlled by
Biden. He's cooperating with himself. He knows that nothing's going to happen to
him. Also, like, did you catch that thing about how the from
yesterday about the White House trying to affect the writing of the report, which,
by the way, is like a totally normal thing. You get an
advanced copy of a report and you kind of get to like fight over how
they characterize you. But had that happened for Trump, it would have been
an impeachment. Yeah, I was going to mention that. Yeah, Well,
first of all, not only is there no virtue in cooperating with yourself,
there's nothing wrong with fighting back at getting a lawyer. And you sound
like you care about the Constitution right now, right? How dare you so
just be if you kill someone and I'm not saying this is that bad,
but if you kill someone and cooperate, it doesn't make your you know,
it much better that you cooperate when you're caught. Yeah, so you mentioned
the White House tried to interfere. There's one thing I want to say about
that too. Yesterday Adam Schiff was talking about how I think it was Adam
Schiff. Yeah, I was talking about how there's nothing wrong with the fact
that Joe Biden said I don't know constantly during his interviews, because and in
fact, lawyers recommend you say I don't know. If you don't clearly know
the answer to a question, you shouldn't like start speculating and wandering and whatever.
That's all fun. What's not fine is that Cassidy Hutchinson, who's the
woman who made up all sorts of stories, including she made up a story
about me improperly receiving classified information in a clandestine meeting in Georgetown with Secret Service
officials, which is very exciting but not true. But she's made up She's
made up stories about all sorts of people, not just me. And before
she started making up stories, she was represented by a Trump World lawyer named
Stefan Pasentino, and when he was prepping her for Liz Cheney's like Corrupt J
six hearings, which were complete show trials, he instructed her to say,
I don't know if you don't know clearly, like if you don't clearly remember,
or I don't remember if you don't remember something. And for that crime
that Adam Schiff now says is like the most obvious thing you should do,
and he's actually right on that. Democrats are trying to Democrats instituted proceedings against
Stefan Pasentino. These these these people play for keeps. Yeah, you noticed
that with the left. Now someone takes the fifth, they're guilty. If
someone gets a lawyer, they're guilty. If someone says they don't know,
it means they're guilty, which is just not how it works. Though.
I think Biden did know what he was doing, because I think presidents and
others. He wasn't president by the way Donald Trump was when he took these
classified documents in question all have classes. I bet you, yeah, Obama
had a problem. Clinton had a problem like it happens basically with all of
them. So we should either reform the system or go after everyone, you
know. But I do think in a political sense this diffuses the problem for
Trump because now Trump can say, look, the guy I'm running against it
the same thing, and he was just given a pass. Don't you think,
Well, I think that's why everyone doesn't believe the lawfair against President Trump
is because they see these types of things happening at the same time. Lawfair
matters because it has real consequences. So is it is stunning the coordinated campaign
from Democrats to bankrupt and imprison their political opponent, and it's real. You
know, it's a total joke that Letitia James may invented a crime of repaying
alone with interest where everybody's happy, that's not a crime, that's actually like
what makes the world go round. And yet she made it a crime and
might destroy like a long running family business over it. And on that note,
did you hear the story about the firefighters in New York who were booing
her? Yeah? I saw something about that, and then she kind of
went after them or someone else went after them. Yeah, Now the fire
department is like hunting them down. They literally use the words like, don't
you know, just turn yourself in. We don't want to hunt you down.
And then when everybody was like, wow, that sounds stalinus, they
were like, it's not like we're hunting you down. And it's like,
well, you did say, you did say you were so. But the
thing that bothered me the most about that story wasn't that the firefighters were booing
Letitia James. Everyone in America who cares about the country should be booing her
much more than booing her making her life very, very difficult. She's trying
to destroy the republic and rule of law, and yeah, she's part of
a big group of people doing it, but all sane people who love our
country and love rule of law should be freaking out about it. And so,
yes, people are her. Did you see her imploring Colorado to go
after Jack Phillips. Yes, she's a tyrant on that note. It's making
me crazy how people are like they must fut for Biden ner Iel's the tyrants
will come to power. Oh my goodness. Like you know when you when
you look back in history and you're like, how did the Germans let that
happen? Or you know, you just look at like horrible moments in history.
Oh well, now we know they cheered it on all the way,
just like all these people are cheering on arrests of journalists and suppression of free
speech and suppression of free debate and imprisonment of political opponents and bankruptcy of political
opponents. Like they're not. They're not like, oh, getting caught up,
you know, getting caught up, like like oh, how did this
happen? They're cheering it on. They're giving money for it to happen.
Like it's bad. We whatever we thought we shared as a people, it's
apparently not there. But you know, also on a ground level, they
they do all the stuff they accoust Trump of doing us thinking at this yesterday,
so you know when someone would say like Trump would say something and someone
bring it up later and be like nope, never said it. Everyone like
what they do this all the time. It's clear that Biden lied, right,
it's clear that he lied about not forgetting when his son died. But
they're like nope, all of them, Hundon's the media. They're like nope,
this proves that he was right. And you're like it's right here,
You're like barbadim he did not know, but they will not admit it.
So it feels like even if Biden shot someone on Fifth Avenue, they would
still defend him in the same way, Like, you know, there's nothing
that guy can do that is going to turn his defenders off. The problem
is that they're all in the press and it's their job to be honest.
So anyway, it's my usual daily press complaint. I hate those guys.
I saw a dead Spin, that psychotic, terrible sports site went out of
business, and I tell you when even when places I hated would go under
or I wouldn't celebrate, but now I'm like, I definitely am going to
celebrate this. Those people were evil people, do you know what I mean?
The people who just this year or just last year went after the child
who was a Chiefs fan and tried to destroy his life. That's the one.
Well, and by the way, it didn't. Dead spind wasn't destroyed.
I'm actually kind of confused at what's happening. They just someone bought dead
Spin and fired everybody who worked there. It feels like one of those situations
where someone's buying the name of the place, you know, because there's still
enough hits there if you have no staff to make money, maybe maybe they'll
get artificial intelligence to write the stories like sports illustrate it does. You know,
it's kind of mind boggling that sports is still a big business and you
can have any publications that can stay afloat covering it. It's weird, you
know. Yep, oh oh yeah, yeah, yeah, no, please
sounds like it had something to say. May let's spend a little time talking
about this story you broke, this exclusive story you broke the other day about
Liz Cheney suppressing information as head of the J six committee. Just for a
reminder, Yeah, so Liz Cheney was the actual head of the JA six
committee. She was listed as co chair, but Nancy Pelosi put her in
there. She needed someone who would be willing to run rough shot over all
norms and practices and truth because of her hatred. And that's Liz Cheney.
Not that Bernie Thompson covered himself in glory either. They were co chairs,
but they interviewed. They claim they did a thousand interviews, and they had
all sorts of subpoena power to or they claimed they had, I should say,
because that was actually in dispute, because it was a single party committee.
Just remember Jay six committee was completely handpicked by Nancy Pelosi. There was
not a single Republican appointed member on the committee. Originally there were, but
Nancy Pelosi kicked the members off on the grounds that if you had challenged an
election as a Republican, you couldn't serve on the committee. Now, obviously
you could challenge the election as a Democrat and serve on the committee, and
in fact, any of them who had served in twenty sixteen had done just
that. Well. Bena Thompson voted against certifying the Electoral College right, yes,
exactly, but he was a Democrat. So the standard was if you're
a Republican and you do and you like practice your constitutional right to challenge an
election, then you're disqualified. But if you're a Democrat, you were put
to the top of the line and they put out a They also hired a
TV producer to produce the show trial. It was a show trial. They
literally ran it as a show and I kind of felt the whole time that
kind of felt. I knew, because I have a brain, that you
do not treat something like this as legitimate. Every single media outlet out there
treated it like it was legitimate, and it got to absurd points that just
by way of example, the Cassidy Hutchinson person who I mentioned who made up
stories about me, he's lying about me and was refusing to correct it.
By the way, she told a story about how she claimed she heard from
someone that Donald Trump had overtaken like the driver of the beast and he had
liked the attacked the social superhuman strength and attacked him and like whatever lunged.
And that's an absurd story, like anyone who knows any people knows that's an
absurd story, like like physically absurd, all the ways that it can be
absurd. And yet so many people, so so so many people took it
as the gospel truth. And by the way, it wasn't just The New
York Times, which put it on the front page. It was also National
Review. You know, like the level of idiocy or like feigned idiocy that
it takes to promote this kind of stuff is superhuman. But our journalists are
up for it. Not that they're real journalists, but anyway, I broke
the news that Liz Cheney and her January sixth committee had concealed exculpatory evidence that
did not fit with their narratives, specifically as it related to the issue of
whether the Trump White House had sought additional National Guard troops. So, according
to the committee and their report, they said they found no evidence of this,
and they had evidence. One of their early interviews was the first of
three interviews they did with Tony Ornato, who is the Deputy chief of Staff,
and they asked him, like, you don't have any evidence that Donald
Trump sought ten thousand National Guard troops, did you? And he's like,
actually, that's exactly how many he sought. I happened to overhear a conversation
between Mark Meadows pushing DC mayor Merel Bowser to get more National Guard troops.
He goes into detail about how the White House was really worseorried about oddly enough,
worried about the safety of all the protesters who were coming in because they
also knew Antifa was coming in and they just thought it could get hot and
they wanted to have everybody be protected. So not only does this show that
there was evidence of them seeking the National Guard troops, and there's more on
that and I'll get to it in a second, it also shows that there
was no evidence that they wanted a riot, that they knew there would be
a riot, that they in any way incited a riot. Like the whole
approach was there's a lot of people, there are a lot of people coming,
and we need to make sure that this is protected. Miro Bowser,
of course, going back to Democrats' Summer of twenty Summer of violence in twenty
twenty, had treated National Guard troops like they were stormtroopers. Obviously, Nancy
Pelosi had said similar things, and they had You might remember the New York
Times had a complete Nutter meltdown over Tom Cotton saying that we should bring in
National Guard to quell riots. And so they were all on this message of
that's the worst thing in the world. I'll also point out we later learned
that an op ed that was published in the Washington Post and signed by every
living Secretary of Defense former Secretary of Defense, had been secretly orchestrated by Liz
Cheney, and that op ed was basically like, don't in any way use
any Defense Department resources to deal with election disputes. And it was like a
super high pressure campaign. So the left was so opposed to bringing in National
Guard, but Trump had pushed for it. There are multiple meetings where he
says the number ten thousand is what he thinks. Marion Bowser was specifically asked
to request that amount, and she's like, no, I'm just going to
do like a couple hundred for crowd control. She also wrote a letter publicly
stating that because of that. Toni Ornado also says that Mark Meadows requested that
he put him in contact with the Acting Secretary of Defense so that they could
come up with a quick reaction force. So knowing that, knowing that the
DC mayor wasn't doing anything, they wanted to have something at the ready so
that if something happened they could deploy the National Guard right away. And so
they put together this quick reaction force. Again, the number of ten thousand
is put out there as part of that, and then as the when the
riot begins, it is Mark Meadows who's like reported by all sorts of people
as being constantly like, Okay, we put together this quick reaction force.
Why aren't they out there, why aren't they helping? And so it's a
completely opposite narrative of what Liz Cheney put forward. By the way, I'll
point out Liz Cheney personally orchestrated an attempt to prevent protection. Right, Nancy
Pelosi is personally responsible for the security, and the January sixth committee had one
rule, which is don't talk to Nancy Pelosi about what she failed to do
on January sixth, and so they didn't even look into it. But they
would occasionally have interviews with people who are like, yeah, we were trying
to get Nancy Pelosi to up the protection and she didn't want to for optics
reasons. Was what the chief of police had testified. By the way,
the chief of police this week was on WML talking about how like the JA
six committee was not interested in what he had to say, and he had
a lot to say about security failures. So sorry, that was me going
off for a while. But my point is I broke the story that she
was concealing evidence. Oh and I will point out she then spent all weekend
going on a tear about it. So I like, earlier on Saturday,
I think I'd talked about like how nice everybody is because I'd gotten so many
nice notes from people thanking me, like really nice personal notes where people seem
to understand that what I do takes time and effort and courage, and I
was getting just overwhelmed by these nice notes, and so I just said something
about like how nice everybody was. And then within hours, Liz Cheney was
like repeatedly out there calling me names, and she's telling me bozo, which
is like, not even so silly. She called you boo repeatedly, repeatedly,
but she like wouldn't say my name. But she got in a spat
with Mark Levin because he tweeted out my stuff. But what I loved is
she said to people who were like, why did you conceal this evidence and
not put it in your report, She's like, I would encourage you to
read this section and this section of the report. It's like, honey,
we're not talking about your show trial report and what's in it. We're talking
about what's not in it. And she never she never dealt with the fact
that she had concealed exculpatory evidence, which really had long term ramifications. But
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So obviously, when you have real due process, if you really care about
an issue and you're really trying to get to the bottom of it, it's
important to have people pushing back so that all evidence is out there. So
that didn't happen, and that's why you have things like this. And when
I talked about the long term ramifications, Colorado did their show trial related to
this so that they could take Trump off the ballot. And one of the
people they called to testify was Cash Patel, who worked at the Defense Department,
and he said, actually, Trump requested ten thousand troops. And the
judge in the report was like, this is insane. There is no corroborating
evidence for this, and Cash Ptel was like, oh, also, the
J six Committee is fraudulent and they're not like, reveal all the evidence they
have. And they were like, there's no evidence that the J six Committee
concealed evidence. And so what Liz Cheney did materially affected something that wasted a
lot of people's time, you know, Like, I'm not saying that this
hyperpartisan in Colorado Supreme Court could be stopped from what they were trying to do
to disenfranchise tens of millions of American voters. But had that evidence been in
there and not concealed by Liz Cheney and her people, then it would have
been a different situation in the Colorado. Oh that's another thing, Liz Cheney
said, because I mentioned this in the piece that Cash Ptel had testified to
this. Since then, by the way, multiple people have sent me notes
about other people who testified to this that was also concealed, And if I
get time, I will make all that public as well. But she said,
and so because Cash Pattel made this claim about ten thousand National Guard troops,
and because Liz Cheney had obstructed that evidence from being included in the report,
Colorado said he was not a reliable witness. That was their determination.
So Liz Cheney, when she's out there like having a temper tantrum on me
and calling me names, was like and by the way, Cash Bettel was
viewed as a as an unreliable witness, It's like, honey, because of
what you did, because of what you did to obstruct justice that happened to
him. Go on, So I have a couple of questions. I once
Pelosi threw off the Republicans off that committee, I basically viewed it as just
a political entity. I didn't pay that much attention to it. Also,
I don't think that January sixth was I think it was an ugly day in
American history. I don't view it as a very important day. The idea
that democracy was, you know, a few hours away from falling is nonsense.
But did they interview Mark Meadows, like did he like, has he
confirmed these things that you were saying about the ten thousand and so on?
Hold on because it sounds like a secondhand conversation. These are second hand conversations,
or maybe their people were involved in those conversations. I don't know.
He definitely was interviewed. But here's here's the thing. Okay, So take
Tony Ornado. The first interview. They ask him questions and they don't like
the answers he's giving. One of the things he said, by the way,
was they asked him like, did Trump seem upset that he couldn't go
to the Capitol that dan? He was like, oh no, And I
would have like totally heard if he had been. So. Then later when
Cassie Hutchinson invents her story. She claims Tony Ornado is the one who told
her that. So they realize they have a problem, and so they start
defaming Tony Ornado. They have Maggie Haberman write a hit piece on him in
the New York Times to kind of say, like, he's not a reliable
witness. It's a total total game. But they interview him two more times,
and the next two times they interview him, and I believe both transcripts
are posted publicly. They don't ask him any of the questions where he says
things differently than what their star witnesses say. They just ask him things where
they can kind of like, you know, ask a very limited question so
that it can be viewed as support for their what their determination is already,
and they just kind of keep quickly moving on. So my point was saying
that is that Mark Meadows, I think was interviewed fairly late in the situation,
and it would be interesting to review that transcript and see what was said
and what he was able so you know what he was asked and what he
was able to say. So any evidence that Donald Trump try to herb the
mob or try or thought trouble was coming and try to control people, or
said be calm, be peaceful. Any kind of evidence like that undermines the
insurrection, that he's part of some kind of planned insurrection, which is or
concerted effort to undermine, you know, to overthrow the election in a legal
way, And that just breaks their whole case. I mean, it's just
undermines their entire case for taking them off ballots and so forth. Yeah,
and I will point out that there's were tons of people who were saying things
like Katrina Pearson. Keith Kellogg, who was you know, Cheneese national security
advisor, wrote a book where he included some of this about concern about getting
people out to help protect the capitol right away, But none of that was
included in Cheney's false narrative. So Loci is house leader. She could have
if I have this right, she was in charge of deploying who Let's just
say, she could have deployed resources or she could have requested So you have
on the one side, Trump and his team being like, I think we
need more protection here. On the Democrat side of things, Meryl Bowser and
Nancy Pelosi, they're like, well, we just called National Guard a bunch
of stormtroopers a few months ago. That would look bad if once our property
is in jeopardy, if we started calling them out, it would make our
entire Summer Violence of twenty twenty narrative like fall apart. And so they're pushing
to not have a lot of protection and so, But it is true that
Nancy Pelosi is in charge of the Sergeant of Arms. Actually Mitch McConnell plays
a role there too, and that there has been widespread criticism from people on
the Capital campus who were like, what the heck was she doing. I
still remember one of the things I'd heard early on was that the parking lots,
which are just administrative at Capitol Hill, they sent out warnings like,
hey, this could be a lot of people. You should modify your traffic,
your travel schedule. You should not park above ground, you should make
sure you park below ground. Like they were doing things, but Nancy Pelosi
wasn't. And I don't think that's you know, some people developed elaborate conspiracy
theories about it, you know, about it being that she wanted it to
be that way. I actually think more than anything, she knew it would
make her look like a giant hypocrite if she had condemned the National Guard that
had been brought out to protect the monuments during her party's riots all summer long.
You know, remember there were guard, there was guard at the Lincoln
Memorial and she I think she called them something like thugs. So she just
didn't want to be called on it. And then and then also, you
know, Liz Cheney was doing her part to make sure there was no protection
for the people there. If anybody, if anybody needed to be investigated,
it was these people. And yet they were running the investigation to ensure that
they would not be investigated. Interesting, Yeah, I mean, listen,
people who did things that were criminal. I think you know they're mostly at
fault, But if you're going to investigate something like this, how could you
not call up and look into the people who were in charge with security at
the capitol. I mean, it's incredible, So everyone should read that stories
on the Federalist dot com. It like what crazy viral. I mean,
it was people and there have been other examples of it too, so we
will continue to report on it. This is why people need to subscribe and
help us. There you go, there you go. I have one thing
to say before we go to culture. If that's okay, I want this
grinds my gears, so I just wanted to quickly mention it to people.
So it's off topic from what we've been talking about, but it's about Joe
Biden. And he gave a speech the other day celebrating Ramadan month of Ramadan,
and in it he claimed that thirty thousand Palestinians have been killed, most
of them civilians, including thousands of children. Now this probably escaped a lot
of people's attention, but this is the President of the United States passing along
Hamas propaganda, a blood libel really to the American people, to the world.
Hamas is a terror organization according to his own government, and yet he
did he basically pass this along. And why did he do it? First
of all, there was this great piece and tablet people should read it by
Abraham Weiner is the guy's name. He's a statistics professor at Wharton and he
lays out how the Gazas casualty numbers are impossible because they are they have a
daily uptick that is perfectly aligned every day and does not take it to consideration
the incremental, you know, casualties of battle its's not to say people aren't
dying. They are, but the number is probably far smaller, and a
large number of the people who have died are Hamas fighters. Anyway, So
this is our president, this incompetent, feeble minded boob, who is passing
along a blood libel from Hamas, and no one in the media even challenges
it, you know, talking about establishment media challenges it, talks about it
nothing, and he just does it. And it is one of the worst
I mean, it is the like, if you care about Israel and I
do, this is I think one of the worst things that a president has
ever said about Israel in memory to me. I mean, it's just a
complete lie. And now he's sending supplies they are circumventing Israel to basically it's
going to help Hamas survive longer and along this war. And also we're helping
both sides now, I mean, I think we're now well, we've always
been both both sides. We've always been funding Hamas through our support of UN
humanitarian programs, which we have known for a long time and was confirmed once
again that material is used to do the missile strikes against Israel. We also
help fund Israel's iron dorm, iron dome, and so we and then we
also fund Iran, who funds Hamas, Like we're funding all sides here.
And if you believe that the US government's goal with its military invention interventions is
to make them go on as long as possible, everything makes a lot more
sense, Like you make more money the longer it goes on. Obviously helping
Hamas at this time, like, I don't think we've ever quite done this
thing where we help the enemy with food delivery of our ally, the enemy
of our ally. Well, this is done. This is done tet because
Joe Biden is scared of losing Michigan and he is, you know, appeasing
the dearborn voter who's pro Hamas. Sorry to say, many of them,
not all of them, many of them. Well, and let me see,
I actually do think that. I mean I sort of thought that we
settled the issue of whether to go into Rafa after Israel rescued those two hostages
there. You know, remember, like the one side was saying, like,
why would they go into this town. There's no military there's no military
reason to go into this town. And then Israel rescued two of the Israeli
hostages from that town, and I was like, okay, well, clearly,
clearly they're using that town to harbor hostages, like obviously they can go
in there if they if they need to, and yeah, yeah, no,
no, I'm just you're reminding me of something. Joe Biden was literally
on TV the other day on MSNBC. Someone asked him, does Hamas really
want to cease fire? And he said, of course they do, because
this way they can survive and maybe rebuild. And then he realized what he
was saying was insane. That he was saying that he wants to stop Israel
from destroying Hamas and he went into like gibberish land that he usually goes into,
and you know, it is incredible. But I just want to quickly
say there was that at the State of the Union. There was that fake
hot mic moment where he's talking to Michael Bennett from Colorado and saying, you
know, he's going to bring Netta Yahoo for a come to Jesus moment on
Gaza and all that stuff. He has been going after Netta Nah. I
think I've mentioned this before. Reminds me of how people go after the NRA
because they're too cowardly to go after gun owners, you know, so they
always say NRA and use it as a straw man. It's the same thing
with Netta Nyahu, these people who are constantly talking about how much they love
democracy and want to save Netta ya who is the elected leader of a democratic
country. The people of Israel elected him. They elect him over and over
again. He wants to destroy Hamas because they kill, rape, sexually,
torture and kidnap women and then kidnap kids. And he wants to destroy this
group. And Biden is doing everything he can to stop him. And when
people say he's supporting Israel, let me just tell you something. Israeli AID
is embedded in the infrastructure of how we do things. You might be I
think actually is or should wean itself off this AID because there are people like
Biden who are pushing them to do suicidal things. But that has nothing to
do with Biden. Biden has done very little to help Israel anyway here,
very little anyway. Al I actually did want to say though, that I
think it's beyond legitimate to have it to take issue with the level of destruction
that's happening to Hamas controlled areas right, But the way to do it is
to still work with your ally. You should still work with your ally if
you have a problem with that, or you should put pressure using all the
power of the United States government, put pressure on Egypt to set up some
kind of refugee settlement inside you, you know, do something. You can
do other things without just directly funding both sides. The destruction is on par
with any kind of urban warfare against an enemy terrorist army. In fact that
the ratio casualty number to civilians is actually quite low compared to other similar kind
of events that the United States has been involved and doesn't make it say it's
wrong, and you could say the United States, I'm just saying it's like
a debatable thing, of course, and you have every right to put pressure
on your ally about how you're handling when you're lying, when you lie and
you take Hamas's word by the way you're taking Homas, That's what I'm saying,
Like out helping out both sides is actually like not a reasonable way to
have good resolution to this in my view, and I agree in theory there.
Yeah, So anyway that do you have anything else that was just me
venting about something that's it. Let's talk about culture. You know. I
actually went to the movie theater this week to see a movie called Cabrini about
Mother Cabrini, done by Angel Studios, and I one of my kids went.
We were all going to go, but we couldn't make it work together
as a family, so one of my one of my kids went with their
runs. So I think I liked a lot about it. I would say
I think it was maybe slightly too long. It's like two and a half
hours or something like that. I like to help people who make movies about
people and things that I think are more important than the people and things that
Hollywood usually makes movies about. Though I want to be entertained as well.
So here's what I want to say. This is obviously a movie done by
Angel Studios. It's you know, it's Christian themed and all that. Though
it was weird lead not enough talk about Christianity. Actually, I think in
the movie could consider sounds pretty Roman Catholic to me, just kidding. So
I just say the production value. What I think that Angel Studios has changed
is that the production value of these movies is a very high, like it's
really well done. It's beautiful to look at. I don't know how much
money they spend on these movies, but I also am I'm very interested in
like Turn of the century, eighteenth, nineteenth, I mean nineteenth, twentieth
century New York and things like that. And she built, you know,
she was in New York. She helped kids, and she built a school
system and all that, and people don't know Mother Cabrini is first saint I
think in the United States. Anyway, I thought it was fine, a
fine movie, as good as most of the junk I watch from Hollywood.
You know. Well, my kid really liked it so and accept it.
Yeah, except they thought that it was a bit too feministy, Yeah,
there is that was that was our problem a little bit, you know,
like at the end of the movie, I think, just a slight spoiler,
she says, you know, only a woman could do what we do,
which I don't think is true. But so it felt a little awkward,
you know, a little forced. But overall the message was very nice.
But I will say that she's been talking about it a lot. Yeah,
so I think the woman in it, who plays Mother, she should
be up for an Oscar. I think she does an incredible job and yeah,
but she won't be of course because of the I'm sure I directed that
movie about the child abduction of the trafficking with Jim Couldbie's all the same kind
of hook. I forget what that was called. But yes, I thought
you were going to say see yeah, I thought you were going to say
you saw Dune. I will that'll be. That's something I promised to go
see, and I will when I got a chance. I have some you
know, I don't know, we'll see. I always say that. It's
like I say that and then I'm like, that'll be streaming, and the
streaming I'm like, ah, the moment's past. I just never see these
movies, but now I want to see Doom too. So I rewatched The
Breakfast Club, which just really holds up incredibly well. It's a good film.
It is not what it is not. It is so the way that
they divide the teenagers into such troph like such oh one dimensional the characters like,
oh, here's the job, and then they all learn something about you
know, here's the and they all learn that of them in each of them,
the wisest one is the criminal is always like the dirt ball is the
Wise one. It teaches everyone a little bit about themselves. I'm so angry
with you. I really enjoy everyone in that movie and how they play their
part. You know how old I was when that came out. I was
sixteen, Like I was exactly in the student spot. I saw like three
or four times in the movie theater. You know, they have that Bowie
line about how children are like discarded or something. I forgot at the beginning,
and I had totally forgotten that they had that in there. But I
also the high school library that it's film did because I was filmed in like
nineteen eighty three or nineteen eighty four, it looks so gorgeous. I remember
saying, like, what kind of where are people going to school? This
does not look like my school. This is the most beautiful school ever.
It was like in some Chicago subury, I think. But okay, Well,
Also, I finished louder Milk, which I think you had finished years
ago. It just took took us a while to get through that. And
I really liked it. I liked the subtlety of it, and I feel
like Brian Reagan was amazing in it, and his subplot was really good.
So if you're interested in film or culture about recovery, substance, addiction,
recovery. It's a good thing, I think. I like Thatsha. It
has a good heart and it's it's funny. And then I might have mentioned
that I had started this last week, but I finished Facing Nolan the documentary
Facing Nolan. Have you seen that I have not yet? I highly recommend
it. Highly. It's not just that Nolan Ryan is an amazing subject for
a documentary, and it was like a really the substance of it was really
fun. I am not joking that I laughed so hard at parts I sobbed
at parts. Part of the sobbing, I think is related to the fact
that I stopped watching Major League Baseball when they attacked election integrity, and I
just kind of made a rule for myself that if they didn't stop their politicization,
I would stop watching them. So during again the summer of twenty twenty,
they embraced racism and Marxism and the BLM stuff, and I was very
upset about it, and I had written a note to my team and I
kind of said, like, if you keep doing this, I'm not going
to keep going. And then the very next year they attacked elections, which
just I feel like you have to kind of have a you have to have
a line in the sand, and that was my line. And it hurts
that I have had to give up baseball. Baseball gave me such enjoyment and
I used to be a Cardinals fan and I just loved the game. I
loved going to games, I loved supporting my team, I loved I loved
giving a lot of money to Major League Baseball. But turns out they hate
me. So just like, as a matter of self respect, I haven't
watched it, but seeing these things that I love about the game, like
it's seriously making me cry. It just like hurt to remember, like all
the fun that I had with it, and like just like when you see
someone having an amazing performance and I don't know, it was just it was
like such a well documents, such a well directed documentary too, Like even
if it wasn't a good subject, the guy who did it was really good.
And he also did a Milli Vanilli documentary, so I would watch that
next. And he's done other stuff as well. Oh, I have something
to say, Milli Vanilli, Vanilla, Vanilli Vanilli. I will say this
quickly about that incident with MLB. I don't know if people remember that they
literally to help black people move the All Star Game from the most vibrant black
city in America with a huge middle class that's black, which has tons of
employees in that work for all the companies that would have benefited from there,
to Denver, which has like one of us is a you know, Hardley
had not a huge black population. I don't know what it was. But
also the same voting like basically the same rules for voting as that was in
this bill that they were that they were supposedly you know, protesting everything about
it was wrong. Joe Biden as a fascist you know action, asked his
devotees to boycott the state of Georgia on the grounds that slightly, ever so
slightly improving the security of their elections was Jim Crow like behavior. That was
always a lie. It was also demonstrably proven to be a lie when the
very next elections you had much greater voter participation across the board. But never
should you follow a dictatorial action like, hey, people, if you know
what's good for you, you'll boycott the state of Georgia for Democrat political reasons
like how the how Major League Baseball ever thought that that was in any way
appropriate? I will never understand. And I know that they did that thing
where they're like the next year they come back to Atlanta and they're like,
let's pretend like this is an apology. It's not an apology, like they
need to apologize, and they never will, and I know they won't,
and I know they hate people like me, But I mean, whatever,
sports is an escape from the world and an escape from politics should be and
that's just all a commissioner needs to say. We don't get involved in that
stuff. This is where basically played baseball here. Did they and the Nolan
Ryan documentary have a part. Did they show the fight again that he had
against Robin Ventura, which I love? Yeah, that was amazing. Robin
Ventura was a young, like hot shot player and he charged the mound and
then Nolan Ryan beat the holy ever living beep out of him. It was
brutal. One of their lines in there is that he has all these records
he's broken, so most no hitters, most one hitters, most two hitters,
most three hitters, Like it's insane, just because he played for so
long and he was such a power pitcher. But one of the ones they
said was most most hits thrown. Punch is thrown without being kicked out of
a game? Did he? I think his only World Series win was with
the sixty nine Mets when he was like a rookie, right, Yeah,
that's kind of sad in a way, but yeah, he was. I
mean I was. You know, I watched him pitch. It was always
fun to watch him. It was even there. George W. Bush had
a major role in this documentary, and it was so endearing to see him
remember various moments in the game and his his interaction with Nolan, and it
was I don't know, it was just it was really a good cast of
characters. Although Robin Ventured did not agree to be interviewed for the documentary,
you see, that's awesome. That's exactly no, like Nolan Ryan would would
would do that. So, you know, I used to work for MLB
many years ago. Yeah, you know, they gave me so it was
like they gave me passes. I had to pass that I can go into
any ballpark anytime I wanted and watch a game. It was amazing to have
and I used it zero times because who wants to like watch baseball games.
After working in baseball, I would have I would have gone to every ballpark.
Working in sports made me kind of hate sports. So once I left
working in sports, I started liking It's the way I hate politics. Now.
I watched a show when Netflix is called a Gentleman. So it's a
Guy Ritchie show. Do people you know I saw an ad for that Madonna's
ex husband. Madonna's ex husband. It's it's kind of a crime. It
stinks for him that that's what he's known as, which probably he hasn't been
married to her in what twenty something years, But so it has his style,
which I quite like. But I have to say the story is incredibly
thin and it gets a little boring after a while, so it's style over
substance. It's still if you like Guy Ritchie and you like those early movies
that he had with you know, British Gangsters, and I actually think The
Gentleman was a movie as well with Matthew McConaughey. You know, I'd watch
it. And the only other thing I have is that the other day or
last week, I think we were mocking this in our signal chat. But
you know, when Pamala how Or speaks, I always think of deep thoughts
by Jack Handy. Do you remember those from the cyst Love? So I
went out and I bought some books of Jack Handy to read. Laugh.
So, if you're young and you don't know who Jack Handy was or is,
I actually don't even know if that's the real name of the person or
if he's still around. But they're quite funny. Anything else. No,
I'm gonna go see two different comedy shows this weekend. Oh yeah, you
told me so, tell us the names. Chris Fleming is one of them.
He's super weird. And then Ryan Long. Oh I know Ryan Long.
Yeah, so I've never seen like Ryan Long's stand up. I'm sure
it's pretty funny, right, I have no idea it's gonna be. It's
kind of unfortunate they're both this weekend because I think that's going to be way
too much comedy for me in one weekend, and who knows how that will
go. But we're locked in out it's happening, all right. Well,
we'll expect reviews next next week on the show. Until then, you've also
freedom interest with the outside to break all of that objects through and can't say exactly