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Alrighty, so the FBI, really, I think, you know, 12 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:37,759 after the attack in New Orleans, the terrorist attack in 13 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:40,520 New Orleans, I think, you know, there needs to be 14 00:00:40,640 --> 00:00:45,719 some appreciation for, you know, the the burden that the 15 00:00:45,799 --> 00:00:48,719 FBI is bearing in all of this. It's very difficult 16 00:00:48,719 --> 00:00:51,880 for them. It's tough. It's a tough situation for them 17 00:00:51,920 --> 00:00:54,359 to be in through no fault of their own. Obviously, 18 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:00,320 as the Associated Press reports, the New Orleans attack came 19 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:04,680 as the FBI was facing political heat and bracing for 20 00:01:04,840 --> 00:01:05,519 a transition. 21 00:01:06,879 --> 00:01:14,359 Speaker 1: All this poor BI, this is getting scrutiny. 22 00:01:15,120 --> 00:01:20,120 Speaker 2: Yeah, the So it always astounds me when people put 23 00:01:20,159 --> 00:01:25,920 forth these types of narratives that are designed to try 24 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:33,239 to elicit empathy for people or an organization that is 25 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:37,120 in a situation that it itself does or they themselves do. 26 00:01:39,159 --> 00:01:41,680 I'm not this is not this is not a corollary. 27 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,159 I'm just saying an analogy here. As an analogy, it's 28 00:01:45,159 --> 00:01:50,079 like whenever you start talking about teacher pay and trying 29 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:54,280 to figure out a way for there to be some 30 00:01:54,319 --> 00:02:02,400 sort of a merit based compensation system developed to find out, 31 00:02:02,439 --> 00:02:05,040 you know, which teachers are quote good, which ones aren't, 32 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:06,959 and that sort of thing, and then to reward the 33 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:11,560 best teachers in some sort of a meritocracy compensation plan. 34 00:02:12,120 --> 00:02:14,960 And we are always told they cannot do that because 35 00:02:15,960 --> 00:02:19,879 there's no way to gauge and to compare and to 36 00:02:19,960 --> 00:02:23,639 test and to figure out and dissess and whatever. 37 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:27,400 Speaker 1: But isn't that what you guys do. 38 00:02:28,280 --> 00:02:32,479 Speaker 2: It's literally what you do, right, You teach, But then 39 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,680 you also have to figure out whether or not the person. 40 00:02:37,199 --> 00:02:39,000 Speaker 1: I was going to say passed. But I don't do 41 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:40,919 we do that anymore? I'm not even sure. 42 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:45,159 Speaker 2: So that's the analogy that I thought of when I 43 00:02:45,199 --> 00:02:47,680 was reading this piece by the Associated Press, that here 44 00:02:47,759 --> 00:02:51,520 is the FBI getting this you know, sympathetic piece from 45 00:02:51,599 --> 00:02:54,800 the Associated Press. That's oh, they're you know, poor guys 46 00:02:54,840 --> 00:02:58,240 that they're facing political heat. Yet talk to anybody that's 47 00:02:58,240 --> 00:03:02,560 ever had to deal with the FBI. Right, FBI comes 48 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:07,120 knocking and they bring all the pressure down on you. 49 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:10,319 Speaker 1: Right. Look at the J six crowd. 50 00:03:10,879 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 2: A lot of the people that went, you know, stayed 51 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:16,639 behind the velvet velvet ropes and walked on through the 52 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:22,319 capitol and they got charged with felonies. So I don't 53 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,520 have a whole lot of sympathy for the FBI as 54 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:25,280 an institution. 55 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:26,080 Speaker 1: I really don't. 56 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 2: And I know that people have said, well, you know, 57 00:03:28,599 --> 00:03:30,879 they're you know, good field agents and all that, but 58 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:32,919 Andy McCarthy's got a point on that too. 59 00:03:33,039 --> 00:03:37,560 Speaker 1: So I think the the. 60 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:43,400 Speaker 2: Further down the the DEI path we go here, you know, 61 00:03:43,439 --> 00:03:47,719 when with the rot the institutional corruption that has been 62 00:03:47,759 --> 00:03:53,439 allowed to occur in these agencies, I don't know how 63 00:03:53,479 --> 00:03:58,120 many of those people are left. I don't I'm not 64 00:03:58,159 --> 00:04:02,439 saying there aren't any saying I don't know. And that's unsettling. 65 00:04:03,879 --> 00:04:08,479 You know, people that are infected with this oppressor oppressed 66 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:13,080 victim mindset that are now walking all of the holes. 67 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:15,840 I mean, if you want an example of it, take 68 00:04:15,840 --> 00:04:17,720 a look at what's happening over in the UK with 69 00:04:17,759 --> 00:04:22,560 their police forces. Yeah, I mean that is it's an embarrassment. 70 00:04:23,639 --> 00:04:28,000 It's an embarrassment. They don't investigate actual crimes. They devote 71 00:04:28,000 --> 00:04:31,399 all their energies to tracking down people who make mean tweets. 72 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:38,079 I'm not even kidding about that. It's unreal. So the 73 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,759 longer you have this rot that's eating away at your institution, 74 00:04:42,879 --> 00:04:45,279 though more and more likely it is that you have, 75 00:04:45,959 --> 00:04:50,199 you know, staff that knows how to operate inside the rot, 76 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:55,920 and those are not generally like the best kinds of staff, 77 00:04:55,959 --> 00:05:01,879 I would submit, So let's pick up this SAP story. 78 00:05:02,079 --> 00:05:07,160 Louisiana's junior Republican Senator John Kennedy implored the FBI to 79 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:10,000 catch these people when he was talking about the attack 80 00:05:10,439 --> 00:05:13,720 on Bourbon Street on New Year's He says, after we 81 00:05:13,759 --> 00:05:15,480 get to the bottom of this, we need to tell 82 00:05:15,519 --> 00:05:16,959 the American people the truth. 83 00:05:18,160 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 1: Oh sorry, we can't do that. No, can we handle 84 00:05:29,879 --> 00:05:31,759 the truth? Yes, we can handle the truth. 85 00:05:31,759 --> 00:05:34,519 Speaker 2: In fact, I would submit, in this day and age, 86 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:38,199 now we're at the point where it's just best to 87 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:41,319 tell the truth because the lie will always come out 88 00:05:41,399 --> 00:05:44,040 and the cover up is what does you in and 89 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:45,920 That's why the FBI is in all of the mess 90 00:05:45,959 --> 00:05:48,360 that it's in is because this is what it traffics in. 91 00:05:48,399 --> 00:05:51,600 It has for decades, and now you just can't keep 92 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,879 all of these secrets anymore and people can see what's happening. 93 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,439 So the comment, according to the Associated Press, appeared to 94 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:04,319 allude to, at least in part, to an FBI official's 95 00:06:04,639 --> 00:06:10,439 erroneous assertion hours earlier that the Bourbon Street rampage was 96 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:14,240 quote not a terrorist event. Remember that that was their 97 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:17,040 first statement when they came out, came out and made 98 00:06:17,079 --> 00:06:19,399 a statement. They were like, this is not a terrorist event. 99 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:24,399 And then like the mayor like stood up at the 100 00:06:24,399 --> 00:06:27,959 podium and was like, oh yeah, it's totally a terrorist 101 00:06:28,399 --> 00:06:29,920 And then the FBI had to come back and walk 102 00:06:29,959 --> 00:06:32,800 get back like oh okay, I mean the ISIS flag 103 00:06:33,319 --> 00:06:36,519 that is clearly visible on the back of the truck. Okay, 104 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:42,079 you got us. I find maybe a little terroristy. There 105 00:06:42,079 --> 00:06:44,319 was a misstep that the FBI tried to clean up 106 00:06:44,360 --> 00:06:46,519 with a follow up statement that said the bureau was 107 00:06:46,839 --> 00:06:50,959 indeed investigating the Islamic State Group inspired attack as an 108 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:54,759 act of terrorism, but more broadly, the suggestion that federal 109 00:06:54,759 --> 00:06:58,879 officials might obscure the truth of the investigation, and Kennedy's 110 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:02,839 warning that he would raise fresh hell if they did 111 00:07:03,439 --> 00:07:07,079 reflected the uneasy position the FBI had already found itself 112 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:11,240 in by the time of last week's attack. So once again, 113 00:07:11,319 --> 00:07:16,480 note the framing, right, that there's this suggestion that the 114 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:26,319 FBI might obscure the truth. That's not okay, So that 115 00:07:26,439 --> 00:07:28,680 is not for the obscuring of the truth part, because 116 00:07:29,480 --> 00:07:32,319 that was for the belief that they might do such 117 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:35,319 a thing. Oh my gosh, I can't believe the FBI 118 00:07:35,399 --> 00:07:36,120 would do that. 119 00:07:36,399 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: No way. 120 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:39,879 Speaker 2: By the way, have you heard that Facebook is now 121 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:45,279 going to follow the path of X aka Twitter x 122 00:07:45,319 --> 00:07:47,360 Twitter or Twitter x. 123 00:07:49,160 --> 00:07:50,720 Speaker 1: In doing community. 124 00:07:50,199 --> 00:07:55,439 Speaker 2: Notes rather than the paid quote unquote journalists that do 125 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:59,040 the fact checking. Yeah, so we'll get to that too. 126 00:07:59,439 --> 00:08:03,680 But yeah, this idea here that the federal officials might 127 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:09,279 obscure the truth of the investigation, which is that is 128 00:08:09,319 --> 00:08:12,240 a thought that the FBI would obscure the truth of 129 00:08:12,240 --> 00:08:15,639 an investigation. That is a thought that is I'm going 130 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:17,920 to just tick a wild guess here and say at 131 00:08:17,959 --> 00:08:21,560 least half of America, at least half of America thinks 132 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:25,399 that the FBI lies that the FBI covers up stuff, 133 00:08:26,240 --> 00:08:28,639 that they do things. And this is not a new 134 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,839 belief either. I am old enough to remember all of 135 00:08:31,879 --> 00:08:34,720 the stories that the boomer's told about j Edgar Hoover 136 00:08:34,879 --> 00:08:38,279 and MLK and all of that, right, So don't tell 137 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:40,320 me that this is some sort of a new phenomena 138 00:08:40,399 --> 00:08:42,480 where all of a sudden people are like, oh my gosh, 139 00:08:42,519 --> 00:08:44,360 I don't have any trust in the FBI. It's been 140 00:08:44,399 --> 00:08:47,039 that way for a long time among a lot of Americans. 141 00:08:47,279 --> 00:08:51,480 It has gotten worse, and it is largely, if not completely, 142 00:08:51,639 --> 00:08:58,279 due too the FBI their behavior. So I have no 143 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,480 sympathy for them that now they're getting this kind of 144 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:05,200 scrutiny which pales in comparison to the kind of scrutiny 145 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:15,759 that they dish out on Americans for minimally supported reasons. Okay, 146 00:09:16,279 --> 00:09:23,360 but the poor FBI, they are now finding itself buffeted 147 00:09:23,600 --> 00:09:29,360 by suspicion and public criticism from lawmakers, especially allies of 148 00:09:29,440 --> 00:09:33,480 President elect Donald Trump, and bracing for a leadership change 149 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:39,039 expected to produce dramatic upheaval at the nation's premier federal 150 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:40,240 law enforcement agency. 151 00:09:40,240 --> 00:09:40,919 Speaker 1: Now think about that. 152 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 2: Okay, So you got guys going down guys and gals 153 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,519 going down to Bourbon Street to investigate a terrorist attack, 154 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:49,559 and you're telling me that the thing that they're worried 155 00:09:49,559 --> 00:09:53,200 about is cash ptel, then they don't need to be 156 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:55,679 doing their jobs because that's not part of their jobs. 157 00:09:55,879 --> 00:09:58,559 Their job is to investigate that crime. 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So the Associated Press has a 200 00:12:25,039 --> 00:12:30,799 big story talking about the difficulty that the FBI, the 201 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:34,559 poor FBI is facing because they've got a new director 202 00:12:34,559 --> 00:12:38,960 coming in, Cash Patel, and the FBI director now, Christopher Ray, 203 00:12:39,159 --> 00:12:41,840 is planning to resign his position to make way for 204 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,559 Cash Pattel, and so this is a difficult time for 205 00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,639 the FBI. And I don't know, maybe that's why they 206 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:51,720 came out initially after the attack in New Orleans where 207 00:12:51,879 --> 00:12:55,159 the guy was running around murdering people, screaming something that 208 00:12:55,279 --> 00:12:59,000 sounded like a Loha snack bar. And we may never 209 00:12:59,039 --> 00:13:02,039 know what motivated them, but they initially came out and 210 00:13:02,039 --> 00:13:07,279 said not a terrorist attack. Look, honestly, whenever you hear 211 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:13,720 car plows into crowded street partiers, there really are only 212 00:13:13,759 --> 00:13:20,799 two explanations. I mean, honestly, just given the history of 213 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:26,480 these types of incidents. Number one is some sort of 214 00:13:26,519 --> 00:13:30,240 gee hottist attack, and that is usually the one that 215 00:13:30,320 --> 00:13:34,480 is correct. And number two, old person that forgets the 216 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:36,600 gas pedal is on the right side and the break 217 00:13:36,679 --> 00:13:39,399 is in the middle or on the left side if 218 00:13:39,399 --> 00:13:42,360 you don't have a stick shift, which I did see 219 00:13:42,360 --> 00:13:44,840 somebody mention the other day they're thinking of restricting their 220 00:13:44,879 --> 00:13:50,039 Twitter feed to only people who can drive stick so 221 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:53,279 that would be one way to clean up your timeline. 222 00:13:53,519 --> 00:13:57,200 So really, like when you hear of a vehicle plowing 223 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:03,320 through pedestrians, those are really the two explanations that historically 224 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:06,919 are the case. And most of the time it's a 225 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,600 jihatist and that's what it looks like. This guy was 226 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:13,559 now you know, obviously in the immediate aftermath, and if 227 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:15,279 I was on the air, I would have told you 228 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,360 the same thing I say after all of these types 229 00:14:17,399 --> 00:14:23,360 of events, whether it's a shooting, you know, a rampage 230 00:14:23,360 --> 00:14:28,480 of some kind vehicular or with a weapon, I always say, 231 00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:33,360 wait at least twenty four hours. You don't need to 232 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:36,240 rush in and say you know what happened, because you 233 00:14:36,279 --> 00:14:39,720 don't know what happened. And a lot of people pretend 234 00:14:39,720 --> 00:14:41,519 that they do know what happened, and they put it 235 00:14:41,519 --> 00:14:44,080 in the phrase of I'm just asking questions, you know, 236 00:14:45,399 --> 00:14:48,120 But you want to be able to keep your mind 237 00:14:48,159 --> 00:14:51,840 open so when new evidence emerges, you can then plug 238 00:14:51,879 --> 00:14:55,360 in the new information. If you get you know, your 239 00:14:55,440 --> 00:15:01,039 brain wedded to a particular story, or it becomes more 240 00:15:01,080 --> 00:15:04,600 difficult than to backtrack on that, and you don't want 241 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,120 to admit you were wrong and all of that kind 242 00:15:06,159 --> 00:15:08,840 of things, so it's just easier to just say, well, 243 00:15:08,879 --> 00:15:10,519 let's wait for more information to come in. 244 00:15:10,559 --> 00:15:12,519 Speaker 1: This could have been it, this could have been it. Whatever. 245 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:16,799 Speaker 2: But yeah, the ISIS flag was a pretty That was 246 00:15:16,840 --> 00:15:19,240 a pretty big giveaway to me. But again I was 247 00:15:19,279 --> 00:15:22,080 willing to maybe somebody came along and stuck it on 248 00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:25,360 there after the fact, I don't know, Like the same 249 00:15:25,399 --> 00:15:28,200 thing with the cooler. You hear about the cooler with 250 00:15:28,279 --> 00:15:31,960 the ied in it, and some people were moving it around. 251 00:15:33,320 --> 00:15:35,320 Speaker 1: They were just drunks. All right. 252 00:15:35,399 --> 00:15:38,080 Speaker 2: I hope you had a happy holiday season, But tell 253 00:15:38,120 --> 00:15:40,639 me if something like this happened at your house, your 254 00:15:40,679 --> 00:15:43,159 family and friends are gathered around, maybe y'all are in 255 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:46,799 the living room, you're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing, and then 256 00:15:46,840 --> 00:15:50,799 somebody says, hey, Dad, remember those old VHS tapes? Did 257 00:15:50,840 --> 00:15:53,440 you ever get them transferred? And then the room gets 258 00:15:53,480 --> 00:15:57,039 all quiet. All eyes are on Dad, who says, oh, 259 00:15:57,120 --> 00:15:59,120 you know, well, I've been meaning too, but I just 260 00:15:59,159 --> 00:16:02,159 having gotten around to it. Look, don't let those priceless 261 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:04,759 memories sit in a box for another year. 262 00:16:04,799 --> 00:16:05,120 Speaker 1: All right. 263 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 2: Create a Video has been helping families in the Charlotte 264 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:11,919 area preserve their history since nineteen ninety seven. Simply bring 265 00:16:11,919 --> 00:16:15,360 in your old camquarder tapes and Creative Video will transfer 266 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:18,639 them to a USB flash drive for just fourteen ninety 267 00:16:18,639 --> 00:16:21,000 five per tape. You have a big collection. They've got 268 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:24,120 a discount for you. And next year, instead of talking 269 00:16:24,159 --> 00:16:28,919 about those memories, imagine gathering the family to watch them together. 270 00:16:29,159 --> 00:16:31,840 Talk about a memorable gift. So do what I did. 271 00:16:31,879 --> 00:16:35,720 Trust the experts at Creative Video, conveniently located in Mint 272 00:16:35,759 --> 00:16:38,600 Hill right off I four eighty five and online at 273 00:16:38,639 --> 00:16:41,600 create a Video dot Com. Let's head over to the 274 00:16:41,679 --> 00:16:43,519 phone lines and take oh this is that might be 275 00:16:43,559 --> 00:16:46,120 the first call of yeah, because I don't think I 276 00:16:46,159 --> 00:16:46,879 took one yesterday. 277 00:16:46,879 --> 00:16:48,519 Speaker 1: Match, Welcome to the show. The first call of twenty 278 00:16:48,559 --> 00:16:49,000 twenty five. 279 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:51,799 Speaker 4: How are you, hey, bat? Thank you? I'm all right, man. 280 00:16:52,159 --> 00:16:55,759 Speaker 2: There is no financial reward for being the first caller 281 00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:59,320 of twenty twenty five to be on the air, Okay. 282 00:16:59,159 --> 00:16:59,960 Speaker 1: I'm just I want that. 283 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:01,519 Speaker 4: Should I hang up and drag him? 284 00:17:01,559 --> 00:17:04,920 Speaker 1: No, it's no reward for second caller either, So. 285 00:17:06,599 --> 00:17:11,160 Speaker 4: Dang it. Well, I was just going to tell you 286 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:14,559 why I have no sympathy for anybody in the FBI 287 00:17:14,759 --> 00:17:18,400 being scrutinized, whether it's leadership or rank and file. Just 288 00:17:18,599 --> 00:17:23,240 three quick, easy ones right off the top of my head. Trump, Russia, collusion, 289 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:27,519 awful lives told, the treatment of pro life Americans, and 290 00:17:27,559 --> 00:17:31,920 collusion with the DJ awful, and then everything to do 291 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,599 with the racket that they ran to protect Tunner and 292 00:17:34,680 --> 00:17:38,400 Joe Biden from their crimes. And the reason I, including 293 00:17:38,400 --> 00:17:40,319 the rank and file, a lot of people just want 294 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:42,920 to go. Leadership. The rank and file should have either 295 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:46,799 been quitting in droves or coming out in droves to go. 296 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:51,000 This is awful. They decided to protect their jobs instead 297 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,079 of doing their duty of protecting the constitutions. I've got 298 00:17:54,119 --> 00:17:55,240 no simply for any. 299 00:17:55,039 --> 00:17:56,160 Speaker 1: Of them, all, I hear you. 300 00:17:56,680 --> 00:17:59,640 Speaker 2: And it's difficult for me to argue otherwise, you know. 301 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:03,720 And now did you see this? The National Archives finally 302 00:18:03,759 --> 00:18:08,200 released photos from way back in twenty thirteen, So photos 303 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:11,720 that are almost twelve years old from Joe Biden when 304 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:16,079 he was Vice president. Joe Biden's visit to China, where 305 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,799 Hunter Biden hitched a ride on Air Force two for 306 00:18:19,920 --> 00:18:20,359 the trip. 307 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:22,599 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, and it shows. 308 00:18:22,599 --> 00:18:28,400 Speaker 2: Hunter and Joe meeting with Hunter Biden's business associates in China. 309 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:31,599 Speaker 4: Yeah. I would tell anybody in the FBF they couldn't 310 00:18:31,599 --> 00:18:34,799 figure out that Joe and Hunter Biden were selling his 311 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:37,799 name and his positions that they all just need to 312 00:18:37,880 --> 00:18:40,599 quit right now. Yeah, but I think they knew all 313 00:18:40,599 --> 00:18:41,480 along time. 314 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:43,519 Speaker 2: Right, and maybe they keep it under wraps so they 315 00:18:43,519 --> 00:18:46,559 could use it as leverage for whatever they Yeah, they 316 00:18:46,559 --> 00:18:48,720 want to use it as leverage for I don't know, 317 00:18:48,839 --> 00:18:50,200 is it for you know, funding? 318 00:18:50,359 --> 00:18:52,240 Speaker 4: Is it looks like they did though, looks like they 319 00:18:52,319 --> 00:18:53,200 just protected him. 320 00:18:53,279 --> 00:18:53,559 Speaker 1: Yeah. 321 00:18:53,599 --> 00:18:55,880 Speaker 2: Maybe maybe because they thought, you know, he's better than 322 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:56,559 the Orange Man. 323 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:58,839 Speaker 1: So well, you know, I don't know. 324 00:18:59,119 --> 00:19:02,680 Speaker 4: Protect than the Orange Man's been around, so I really 325 00:19:02,720 --> 00:19:03,400 don't know why. 326 00:19:03,839 --> 00:19:06,400 Speaker 2: No, it's true, I got you, Mitch. I appreciate the 327 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:09,680 call sir again. No financial reward for being first caller, 328 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,640 because really it was my fault because I didn't really 329 00:19:12,720 --> 00:19:15,000 solicit phone calls yesterday, now that I think about did 330 00:19:15,039 --> 00:19:18,039 I I mean I think I gave the number out 331 00:19:18,079 --> 00:19:23,400 once or twice. But yeah, so that actually did happen. 332 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:28,839 The the Joe Biden trip from twenty thirteen. This is 333 00:19:28,839 --> 00:19:33,000 from AG Hamilton at the AG Report. What's most revealing 334 00:19:33,119 --> 00:19:37,039 about this is that Joe Biden has extensively denied any 335 00:19:37,079 --> 00:19:40,720 involvement in Hunter Biden's business dealings, despite extensive evidence to 336 00:19:40,759 --> 00:19:46,640 the contrary. These photos definitively undermine those denials. Given that 337 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:49,680 Hunter Biden was engaged in influence pedaling to foreign interests 338 00:19:49,680 --> 00:19:51,920 by leveraging his father's position, this should have been a 339 00:19:51,920 --> 00:19:54,640 major scandal and a continuous story. Instead, it was mostly 340 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:58,240 treated as a partisan attack and dismissed until now. And 341 00:19:58,359 --> 00:20:01,960 to Mitch's point, yeah, I mean, where were all of 342 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:03,960 the whistleblowers right? 343 00:20:04,799 --> 00:20:06,200 Speaker 1: Not blowing whistles exactly? 344 00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:12,400 Speaker 2: The Associated Press reports a former Justice Department National security prosecutor, 345 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:16,519 Cash Ptel has appeared repeatedly on podcasts before he was 346 00:20:16,559 --> 00:20:20,079 selected as the director, where he has spoken of his 347 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:23,160 belief that the FBI needed a major overhaul, but he's 348 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:26,200 been less specific about how as director he would protect 349 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:28,599 the homeland. 350 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,559 Speaker 1: Well, why would he have done that? 351 00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,680 Speaker 2: In the podcasts he was talking about he wrote a 352 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:38,359 whole book, by the way, but he wasn't writing it 353 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:41,039 as sort of his launching pad to be the director. 354 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,440 He had no idea he would be tapped for this gig. 355 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,319 One area he has discussed is significant reforms on how 356 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:52,559 agents and analysts make use of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act 357 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:59,039 evesdropping powers or FISA powers in national security investigations. He 358 00:20:59,079 --> 00:21:01,839 had spoken all of a desire to break out the 359 00:21:01,880 --> 00:21:06,759 FBI's intel shops from the rest of its crime fighting activities. 360 00:21:06,960 --> 00:21:09,880 A person familiar with Patel's positions, who has sat in 361 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:12,720 on his meetings with senators and who spoke to the 362 00:21:12,759 --> 00:21:16,680 Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the private conversations, 363 00:21:16,799 --> 00:21:20,240 said that Patel wants to ensure quote, there's better intel 364 00:21:20,279 --> 00:21:23,880 sharing across agencies, but is not calling for the elimination 365 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:25,240 of spy powers. 366 00:21:26,039 --> 00:21:31,200 Speaker 1: So yeah, h Well, it was good while lasted. 367 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 2: There's no question that each action by the FBI is 368 00:21:36,519 --> 00:21:39,160 magnified at a time when its work in public statements 369 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:42,160 are so intensely under the microscope as a result of 370 00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:46,160 politically charged investigations, as well as the aftermath of controversial 371 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:49,839 decisions like a Justice Department memo directing the FBI to 372 00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:54,640 address threatening rhetoric at school board meetings and a sense 373 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:58,839 withdrawn Field Office memo that warned of potential Catholic extremists. 374 00:22:00,559 --> 00:22:05,000 Chris Piota, a former executive assistant director of the FBI 375 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:08,079 who retired in twenty twenty, said he believed that the 376 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:11,960 FBI had become distracted in recent years by political and 377 00:22:12,039 --> 00:22:18,039 social agendas versus addressing the actual emerging threat environment. No, 378 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:23,200 some imperfect communication on the first day after the New 379 00:22:23,319 --> 00:22:28,759 Orleans terrorist attack did color public perception of the response, 380 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:32,880 says the Associated Press. Some imperfect communication is what they 381 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:38,559 call it. That's like the in artful words. I may 382 00:22:38,559 --> 00:22:41,640 have been in artful in my words. Now, yeah, you 383 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:45,759 were bassing, like you just were spouting crap. That's not 384 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:49,720 in artful. It's not imperfect communication. You flat out said 385 00:22:49,720 --> 00:22:52,880 it's not a terrorist attack, and then within minutes the 386 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:55,119 mayor is up there like, oh yeah, it's a terrorist attack. 387 00:22:55,240 --> 00:22:58,480 Speaker 1: That's not imperfect communication. 388 00:22:58,279 --> 00:22:58,599 Speaker 3: All right. 389 00:22:58,599 --> 00:22:59,799 Speaker 1: If you're listening to this show. 390 00:22:59,799 --> 00:23:01,119 Speaker 2: You you know I try to keep up with all 391 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:03,119 sorts of current events, and I know you do too. 392 00:23:03,279 --> 00:23:05,799 And you've probably heard me say get your news from 393 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:10,440 multiple sources. 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And this was the original 413 00:24:09,799 --> 00:24:17,200 confusion over whether or not the attacker down there had accomplices, 414 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,599 and I'm still not sure he didn't, but the ones 415 00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:24,960 that were spotted on the cameras messing around with coolers. 416 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,680 According to TMZ, because this is the world we live 417 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:33,880 in now, TMZ has the federal sources that say that 418 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:37,000 the confusion started when investigators looked at surveillance video from 419 00:24:37,039 --> 00:24:39,559 the Bourbon Street area noticed three men and a woman 420 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:43,640 peering inside two coolers in which the attacker had planted 421 00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:49,880 homemade bombs. The sources told TMZ that investigators ultimately determined 422 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:53,920 these people were not terrorists at all. Rather, they were drunks. 423 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:56,920 They were just checking the coolers to see if there 424 00:24:56,960 --> 00:25:01,599 was any alcohol in them, and they said they now 425 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,440 believe the people had no clue that they were staring 426 00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:10,759 at explosive devices, possibly because they were drunk. So that's 427 00:25:10,799 --> 00:25:14,839 the update from TMZ. John, Welcome to the show. 428 00:25:14,839 --> 00:25:15,799 Speaker 1: Hello John. 429 00:25:17,319 --> 00:25:20,720 Speaker 5: Yo, Hey, Happy new year. Yes sir you too, Hey, 430 00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:26,680 lest caller just positive the question about why they Biden 431 00:25:26,759 --> 00:25:29,680 was allowed to remain in office, and I. 432 00:25:29,599 --> 00:25:36,559 Speaker 6: Mean, take your pick, amiable Dunce idiot, a full useful idiot, 433 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:41,839 and because he was a puppet for the left whoever 434 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:44,319 was calling the shot, so he was very useful to 435 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,640 keep in that position so that they could get their agenda. 436 00:25:49,599 --> 00:25:53,160 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, But also don't overlook at the FBI 437 00:25:53,519 --> 00:25:57,559 and whatever the leadership team is motivated by. They have 438 00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:01,799 their own incentives for keeping that kind of a figurehead 439 00:26:01,799 --> 00:26:04,680 in place too, because if they've got stuff that they 440 00:26:04,759 --> 00:26:09,279 want done, whether it's budgetary or more power or whatever. Right, 441 00:26:09,519 --> 00:26:11,559 they want to know everything about everybody so they can 442 00:26:11,920 --> 00:26:14,559 use it against anybody at any given time when they 443 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:16,319 need to use it to get what they want to. 444 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,720 Speaker 6: Well, I wonder who the true puppet master is because 445 00:26:20,759 --> 00:26:24,119 then it's a collusion certainly between those that are using 446 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,039 Biden and then making deals with the FBI so that 447 00:26:27,039 --> 00:26:30,279 the FBI gets what they want. So, I mean, it's 448 00:26:30,279 --> 00:26:34,920 intriguing who is the master behind all this. 449 00:26:35,079 --> 00:26:37,839 Speaker 2: I don't think it's one person, I really don't. I mean, 450 00:26:37,839 --> 00:26:41,720 I've heard it referred to as the blob, right that 451 00:26:41,759 --> 00:26:45,839 there are so many people in different positions of power 452 00:26:46,759 --> 00:26:50,960 that seek to protect their own power and influence and income. Right, 453 00:26:51,079 --> 00:26:53,920 So I think they are just a lot of different people, 454 00:26:53,920 --> 00:26:58,759 but they all sort of unite in their incentives to 455 00:26:58,839 --> 00:27:01,839 keep themselves right in power, and they work with people 456 00:27:02,319 --> 00:27:05,480 that are also incentivized by those same things. 457 00:27:06,079 --> 00:27:10,359 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like a NonStop cancer. 458 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:15,519 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's rotting. Yeah, the institutional rot is. It's 459 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,440 it is pervasive, and it is infecting the entire society. 460 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,519 Speaker 1: So John, I appreciate the call. And this isn't new either. 461 00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:29,240 Speaker 2: Kirk points out, let's not forget Ruby Ridge, Waco, j 462 00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:33,160 Edgar Hoover had extensive files on political enemies as well, right, 463 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:36,400 and what was the point of having all of those files? 464 00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:38,720 Speaker 1: Extortion? 465 00:27:39,319 --> 00:27:39,519 Speaker 6: Right? 466 00:27:40,480 --> 00:27:41,480 Speaker 1: I mean that's the whole thing. 467 00:27:41,519 --> 00:27:45,359 Speaker 2: Like, if you're the FBI and you know that Joe 468 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:49,319 Biden is compromised, what do you do with that information? 469 00:27:50,079 --> 00:27:50,319 Speaker 1: Right? 470 00:27:50,759 --> 00:27:56,160 Speaker 2: Do you bust him, take him out and stop the 471 00:27:56,880 --> 00:28:00,880 damage or do you and do you have the hubris 472 00:28:01,279 --> 00:28:06,480 and arrogance to think that you can basically just monitor 473 00:28:06,599 --> 00:28:09,920 all of the dealings and such and then you can 474 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:14,279 use him through that leverage because you know all of 475 00:28:14,319 --> 00:28:18,079 these secrets and you just say like, look, we know 476 00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:20,920 that you're jammed up, we know that you're compromised by 477 00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:26,240 you know, Barisma Ukrainians, corrupt oligarchs over there, the Chinese. 478 00:28:26,319 --> 00:28:29,200 Speaker 1: Right, we know all about this stuff. So here's what 479 00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:29,720 you're gonna do. 480 00:28:29,799 --> 00:28:34,400 Speaker 2: You're gonna do xyz for us, right, and if you 481 00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:37,440 think that juice is worth the squeeze, I think you 482 00:28:37,519 --> 00:28:38,319 do that. 483 00:28:38,319 --> 00:28:39,240 Speaker 1: That's what Hoover was. 484 00:28:39,279 --> 00:28:43,200 Speaker 2: Keeping all the files for extortion basically, not for money 485 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,519 that I'm aware of. Maybe there's some budgetary you know, 486 00:28:46,599 --> 00:28:49,160 extortion going on there to get more funding for the agency, 487 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,759 but also to protect it and to make it feared. 488 00:28:52,039 --> 00:28:54,359 All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 489 00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,400 so much for listening. 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