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Yesterday? 11 00:00:41,359 --> 00:00:48,240 Chuck Grassley, US Senator from Iowa was joined by I 12 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:52,000 don't know, probably half a dozen maybe more of his 13 00:00:52,159 --> 00:01:00,799 senate colleagues in releasing another trove of documents tained through 14 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:06,319 a whistleblower inside the DOJ. And this is once again 15 00:01:06,719 --> 00:01:14,120 connected to the Biden era FBI investigation called Arctic Frost. 16 00:01:15,799 --> 00:01:21,599 Arctic Frost was a pro was an investigation into President 17 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:28,239 Trump and the broader Republican Party's role in the January 18 00:01:28,640 --> 00:01:45,680 sixth riot. Right, So apparently it was more wide ranging 19 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:51,319 than previously disclosed. According to newly released documents showing that 20 00:01:51,359 --> 00:01:56,760 the FBI issued almost two hundred subpoenas targeting more than 21 00:01:56,920 --> 00:02:04,519 four hundred Republican entities and individuals as part of the probe. 22 00:02:06,079 --> 00:02:09,840 Mike Bens, who is the host of a podcast called 23 00:02:09,879 --> 00:02:16,199 The Gray Zone, and he has a screenshot here from 24 00:02:16,479 --> 00:02:21,759 the This is from I think this is from the Yeah, 25 00:02:21,800 --> 00:02:25,919 this is from the report that was put out. So 26 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:30,039 here are some of the names that were targeted. Okay, 27 00:02:31,719 --> 00:02:33,560 I don't know all of the people on this list. 28 00:02:34,680 --> 00:02:41,039 Larry Weitzner, the RNC, Save America, Save America Joint Fundraising Committee, 29 00:02:41,319 --> 00:02:45,680 Trump Make America Great Again Committee, Make America Great Again Pack, 30 00:02:45,960 --> 00:02:49,960 Donald J. Trump for a President, Jason Miller, Jared Kushner, 31 00:02:50,879 --> 00:02:54,400 Carlos Cruz and or any other person that worked for 32 00:02:54,800 --> 00:02:59,800 or with Jamestown Associates. Benjamin Angel, Gary Kobe, Alex Cannons 33 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:05,240 or At Croslin, Boris a feistein whatever, James Fitzpatrick, Newt Gingridge, 34 00:03:05,319 --> 00:03:10,000 Rudy Giuliani, Ken Curson, Jared Kushner again just for good measure, 35 00:03:10,039 --> 00:03:13,960 I guess Ron McDaniel, John McLoughlin, Mark Meadows, Molly Michael, 36 00:03:14,120 --> 00:03:19,520 Jason Miller, Tim Murtau, Zach Parkinson, Michael Roman. You get 37 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:29,039 the idea, but get this any media buyer. So another 38 00:03:29,199 --> 00:03:32,800 media buyer is like an ad agency kind of a 39 00:03:32,879 --> 00:03:36,599 role somebody who like if I were a media buyer, 40 00:03:36,759 --> 00:03:39,120 I could go you know, have some clients and I 41 00:03:39,159 --> 00:03:41,159 would go place their ads. I would I would deal 42 00:03:41,199 --> 00:03:44,199 with the media companies like we deal with media buyers. 43 00:03:44,319 --> 00:03:49,120 They place ads on WBT usually you know, national level ads. 44 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:55,319 So any media buyer or representative or agent thereof, and 45 00:03:55,639 --> 00:04:02,520 or any media outlet or representative or agent of any 46 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:10,000 media outlet, including but not limited to, CBS, RFDTV never 47 00:04:10,039 --> 00:04:13,560 heard of it, Fox News, Fox Business News, o AN 48 00:04:13,840 --> 00:04:21,519 and newsmax and or Sinclair. So they were subpoena ing 49 00:04:24,079 --> 00:04:27,360 media companies and people who worked in media companies. Oh 50 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:29,800 and by the way, when they went to they also 51 00:04:29,839 --> 00:04:34,720 went to telecom companies AT and T, Verizon to subpoena 52 00:04:35,079 --> 00:04:42,360 records from people's phones, and a judge allowed that to 53 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:47,079 be hidden from the targets of the subpoenas for a year. 54 00:04:49,759 --> 00:04:50,160 Speaker 3: Mm hmm. 55 00:04:52,079 --> 00:04:52,560 Speaker 1: You know who the. 56 00:04:52,560 --> 00:05:03,199 Speaker 2: Judge was, Bosberg, Yeah, Judge Boasberg as I call him. 57 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:06,439 Senator Chuck Grassley released the records yesterday, showing one hundred 58 00:05:06,439 --> 00:05:09,600 and ninety seven subpoenas were issued to individuals and businesses 59 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:13,519 during the FBI's Arctic Frost investigation targeting four hundred and 60 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:18,000 thirty GOP individuals and entities. He obtained the records through 61 00:05:18,079 --> 00:05:21,959 protected whistleblower disclosures. So keep this in mind. This did 62 00:05:21,959 --> 00:05:24,720 not come from the DOJ. This did not come directly 63 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:28,800 from anybody inside the DOJ. This came from a whistleblower. 64 00:05:30,720 --> 00:05:38,720 Financial institutions, Trump aligned political organizations and operatives, conservative think tanks, 65 00:05:38,759 --> 00:05:42,600 and payroll companies were all among the subpoena recipients, according 66 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:46,079 to a list compiled by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Federal 67 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:50,759 investigators sought communications between the targeted individuals and media companies, 68 00:05:51,399 --> 00:05:57,000 prominent Trump World officials, even legislative staffers. The investigative efforts 69 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:03,560 also encompassed MAGA fundraising efforts and donors. Let's get to 70 00:06:03,600 --> 00:06:06,839 some audio, shall we? I watch the press conference actually 71 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:12,600 twice and these were all members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. 72 00:06:12,639 --> 00:06:17,680 These are Republicans on the committee. Ron Johnson from Wisconsin 73 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,079 said the Judiciary Committee needs to do everything it can 74 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:24,399 now to help Cash Betel and Pam Bondi take control 75 00:06:24,639 --> 00:06:29,800 of their respective agencies because they are being sabotaged from within. 76 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:32,839 Speaker 4: I think it's important to note that the records that 77 00:06:32,879 --> 00:06:37,439 we are now making public and personal transparency were not 78 00:06:37,519 --> 00:06:43,199 obtained from the agency. They are obtained through a whistle blower. 79 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,319 So from our first point is we need more whistle blowers. 80 00:06:47,319 --> 00:06:49,920 We need people men and women inside these agencies who 81 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:54,120 have integrity, who want to see the integrity, incredibility, credibility 82 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:58,199 of the Department Justice of the FBI restored. Come forward 83 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,040 because right now, I think cash Tail, Pam BONDI are 84 00:07:01,079 --> 00:07:05,120 overwhelmed by all the messages they're trying to clean up. 85 00:07:05,959 --> 00:07:08,720 The agencies have been lost, a lot of personnel. People 86 00:07:08,759 --> 00:07:12,519 simply couldn't serve the Trump administration. It's hard to hire 87 00:07:12,519 --> 00:07:15,800 people because of all the lawfare, and they're still partisan 88 00:07:15,800 --> 00:07:20,319 actors burrowed in trying to sabotage their efforts. So we 89 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:22,959 need whistle blowers. The reason they come forward to Chairman 90 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,519 Grassley is because he's been such a champion of whistleblowers, 91 00:07:26,519 --> 00:07:27,839 So again I thank him for that. 92 00:07:28,839 --> 00:07:31,959 Speaker 2: Johnson went on to say that what is revealed in 93 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:39,360 this latest trove of documents is nothing short of a 94 00:07:39,519 --> 00:07:43,519 Nixonian Biden administration enemies list. 95 00:07:44,079 --> 00:07:47,920 Speaker 4: The best way to describe President Biden's attitude his exact quotes. 96 00:07:48,879 --> 00:07:52,560 He thought basically half America were domestic terrorists. In September 97 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:54,680 twenty twenty two, in front of in Penn's Hall, he said, 98 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:58,560 Donald Trump and the Maga Republicans represent an extremism that 99 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:02,879 thrends the very foundation of our republic. You later in 100 00:08:02,920 --> 00:08:05,720 New York City, Donald Trump is meg Republicans are determined 101 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:10,319 to destroy American democracy. Now, nothing could be further from 102 00:08:10,399 --> 00:08:16,519 the truth. As a level of paranoia, that's actually astonishing. 103 00:08:16,720 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 2: Right, I mean, well, that's assuming that Biden actually believed 104 00:08:20,199 --> 00:08:22,600 any of that, or as speech writers actually. 105 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:23,079 Speaker 1: Believe any of that. 106 00:08:24,879 --> 00:08:27,160 Speaker 2: And I don't know. I mean, I guess everybody is different. 107 00:08:27,240 --> 00:08:29,399 I don't want to ascribe motive to every single person 108 00:08:29,480 --> 00:08:34,159 that uh, you know that agreed with Biden, but those 109 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:36,320 who do think that that's true. Yes, that is a 110 00:08:36,399 --> 00:08:40,159 level of paranoia that is astonishing. That there are a 111 00:08:40,200 --> 00:08:43,679 lot of people that are just using these rhetorical devices 112 00:08:43,679 --> 00:08:47,399 in order to gin up anger in a base that 113 00:08:47,600 --> 00:08:52,720 is otherwise you know, searching for a leader is discouraged 114 00:08:52,759 --> 00:08:56,799 and dispirited. That the orange hitler man has has been 115 00:08:57,320 --> 00:09:02,440 you know, re elected. The Arctic Frost investigation looked into 116 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:06,080 the role President Trump played in the Capitol riot. That 117 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,720 was ostensibly what the purpose of the probe was about. 118 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:15,600 This is according to an article at National Review by 119 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:20,200 James Lynch. The probe eventually, though, morphed into Special counsel 120 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:27,120 Jack Smith's Washington DC criminal case against Donald Trump, and 121 00:09:27,200 --> 00:09:31,039 the timing is, as the kids would say, a bit sus. 122 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:33,519 All right, if you're listening to this show, you know 123 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:35,559 I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, 124 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:37,679 and I know you do too, And you've probably heard 125 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:41,799 me say get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, 126 00:09:41,799 --> 00:09:44,519 because it's how you detect media bias, which is why 127 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:47,759 I've been so impressed with ground News. 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Subscribe through that link and you'll 139 00:10:23,320 --> 00:10:26,519 get fifteen percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage 140 00:10:26,519 --> 00:10:30,000 plan to get unlimited access to every feature your subscription 141 00:10:30,120 --> 00:10:32,799 then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports 142 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:36,080 Ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. 143 00:10:37,200 --> 00:10:42,000 Piece at National Review by James Lynch. Then Attorney General 144 00:10:42,039 --> 00:10:47,120 Merrick Garland, and then FBI Director Christopher Ray personally signed 145 00:10:47,159 --> 00:10:51,120 off on the investigation This Arctic Frost investigation when it 146 00:10:51,159 --> 00:10:54,919 was launched in twenty twenty two. According to a decision 147 00:10:55,000 --> 00:11:01,320 memo that Chuck Grassley revealed last week, Frost investigation has 148 00:11:01,320 --> 00:11:06,080 come under Republican scrutiny because of its wide ranging scope. 149 00:11:06,159 --> 00:11:11,519 The FBI targeted eight GOP senators that they believed may 150 00:11:11,519 --> 00:11:15,720 have been involved in a scheme to install fraudulent electors 151 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:21,080 to secure Trump's victory, subpoenaing phone companies for the lawmakers 152 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:25,559 records from January fourth through the seventh of the year 153 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:26,759 twenty twenty one. 154 00:11:26,759 --> 00:11:29,440 Speaker 1: Which would have been obviously right around. 155 00:11:29,159 --> 00:11:34,960 Speaker 2: The certification of the vote January sixth, and so those 156 00:11:35,039 --> 00:11:41,679 records show who the target of the subpoena spoke with 157 00:11:41,759 --> 00:11:44,759 on the phone, but not the contents of their calls. 158 00:11:45,279 --> 00:11:51,000 Representative Mike Pelley was also mentioned. He's a Republican from Pennsylvania. 159 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:53,639 He was also mentioned in the FBI records that Grassley 160 00:11:53,679 --> 00:11:58,360 disclosed now at the press conference yesterday. Senator John Cornyn 161 00:11:58,399 --> 00:12:03,240 from Texas. The prosecutor in this case, Jack Smith, did 162 00:12:03,279 --> 00:12:06,919 not act alone, after all, he was appointed by Merrick Garland. 163 00:12:07,399 --> 00:12:11,279 Speaker 5: And here, to me is the most troublesome part of 164 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:16,080 all this. If they would do that to the President 165 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:20,559 of the United States, if they would do this to 166 00:12:20,720 --> 00:12:24,799 United States senators and members of Congress, what would they 167 00:12:24,840 --> 00:12:25,320 do to you? 168 00:12:27,279 --> 00:12:31,399 Speaker 2: That's a fair question, which, by the way, Senator Ashley Moody, 169 00:12:32,279 --> 00:12:37,960 who is the newly appointed US Senator from Florida, she said, 170 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:38,919 they did do it to you. 171 00:12:41,279 --> 00:12:43,600 Speaker 1: This is not a hypothetical. They did. 172 00:12:44,679 --> 00:12:49,960 Speaker 2: Because this list of hundreds of targets include just regular 173 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:54,320 people donors, just people who donated money to a think 174 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:57,879 tank or a nonprofit or a political action group or 175 00:12:57,919 --> 00:13:03,240 a campaign account like they were targeted as well. Senator 176 00:13:03,279 --> 00:13:07,080 Ted Cruz, one of the targets of the subpoenas. He 177 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:12,600 called Merrick Garland and Jack Smith both fundamentally corrupt, and 178 00:13:12,639 --> 00:13:14,440 he said this is worse than. 179 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:20,080 Speaker 6: Watergate one hundred and ninety seven subpoenas for four hundred 180 00:13:20,159 --> 00:13:26,559 and thirty Republican entities and individuals. That is an absolute 181 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:32,000 and egregious abuse of power. The Biden Justice Department signed 182 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:37,519 off on issuing subpoenas for the phone records of at 183 00:13:37,639 --> 00:13:44,840 least nine US senators, twenty percent of the Republicans in 184 00:13:44,879 --> 00:13:49,600 the United States Senate where the target of this fishing expedition. 185 00:13:51,039 --> 00:13:57,759 They did so in complete contravention of the Constitution of 186 00:13:57,840 --> 00:14:02,879 separation of powers of speech in debate clause of free 187 00:14:02,879 --> 00:14:07,960 speech of basic rights of privacy. This is an executive 188 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:11,759 who believes it is justified spying on their opponents in 189 00:14:11,799 --> 00:14:18,399 the legislature because they convinced themselves the ends justify the means. 190 00:14:19,039 --> 00:14:23,000 Speaker 2: Does this sound familiar, this kind of tactic? Does this 191 00:14:23,080 --> 00:14:26,200 sound familiar? I feel like this is familiar. I feel 192 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:32,600 like I remember, Oh that's right, crossfire, hurricane, right, this 193 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:35,679 is this is what the DOJ did to Trump the 194 00:14:35,679 --> 00:14:38,039 first time, and they did it again. 195 00:14:39,159 --> 00:14:39,960 Speaker 1: They did it again. 196 00:14:41,960 --> 00:14:44,559 Speaker 2: They used J six as the predicate, and then they 197 00:14:44,559 --> 00:14:46,960 went after not just Trump, but all sorts of other 198 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:50,480 people that are now in you know, Trump's wider orbit, 199 00:14:51,759 --> 00:14:54,120 because in the first round it was just you know, 200 00:14:54,159 --> 00:14:57,000 Trump's campaign. You had to get people that were really 201 00:14:57,039 --> 00:14:59,600 close to Trump at that point. But after he became 202 00:14:59,639 --> 00:15:04,720 president and then you've got you know, these lawmakers and 203 00:15:04,759 --> 00:15:07,879 everybody kind of coalesces around MAGA and Donald Trump. And 204 00:15:07,919 --> 00:15:13,320 so now that that universe becomes much bigger. Ted Cruz, 205 00:15:13,519 --> 00:15:15,840 who I would point out Ted Cruz, and this is 206 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:18,919 important to note here when listening to this next clip, 207 00:15:19,639 --> 00:15:23,879 Ted Cruz has argued in front of the US Supreme Court. Right, 208 00:15:23,919 --> 00:15:27,399 Ted Cruz is a lawyer. Ted Cruse is a constitutional lawyer. 209 00:15:27,559 --> 00:15:29,600 He's had a lot of experience as an officer of 210 00:15:29,639 --> 00:15:32,759 the court. And listen to this. He says that AT 211 00:15:32,919 --> 00:15:37,919 and T refused to comply with the subpoena based on 212 00:15:38,080 --> 00:15:38,879 legal grounds. 213 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:44,320 Speaker 6: Accompanying the subpoena was an order which I have in 214 00:15:44,320 --> 00:15:48,639 my hand right here, an order that was signed by 215 00:15:48,759 --> 00:15:53,320 Judge James E. Bosberg Bosberg who is Bosburg. Bosburg is 216 00:15:53,399 --> 00:15:57,879 that radical leftist judge who is out of control, who 217 00:15:57,960 --> 00:16:02,679 has been issuing nationwide injunctions one after the other, trying 218 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:05,600 to stop President Trump from carrying out his mandate. 219 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:05,919 Speaker 7: From the voters. 220 00:16:07,919 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 6: Judge Boseburg issued an order to the US to AT 221 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:15,240 and T and sign that order prohibiting AT and T 222 00:16:15,480 --> 00:16:19,039 from informing me of this subpoena for at least one year. 223 00:16:20,840 --> 00:16:24,759 And Judge Boseburg gave the basis for that order. And 224 00:16:24,759 --> 00:16:27,320 I'm going to quote from the order Judge Boseburg signed. 225 00:16:28,519 --> 00:16:34,039 The Court finds reasonable grounds to believe that such disclosure 226 00:16:34,440 --> 00:16:42,000 will result in destruction of or tampering with evidence, intimidation 227 00:16:42,159 --> 00:16:49,360 of potential witnesses, and serious jeopardy to the investigation. That's 228 00:16:49,399 --> 00:16:50,519 an order a judge sign. 229 00:16:50,519 --> 00:16:50,600 Speaker 8: Now. 230 00:16:50,639 --> 00:16:54,200 Speaker 6: I can tell you right now there is precisely zero 231 00:16:54,320 --> 00:17:00,799 evidence to conclude that I am likely to destroy or 232 00:17:00,840 --> 00:17:07,680 tamper with evidence or to intimidate potential witnesses, Zero evidentiary 233 00:17:07,759 --> 00:17:11,759 basis for that. This order is an abusive power. This 234 00:17:12,079 --> 00:17:17,799 order is a weaponized legal system. 235 00:17:17,839 --> 00:17:24,400 Speaker 2: That's amazing that the grounds, the reasonable grounds that the 236 00:17:24,519 --> 00:17:28,599 judge ordered AT and T to not disclose the subpoena 237 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:29,960 to Ted Cruz. 238 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:32,079 Speaker 1: Was that doing so. 239 00:17:33,799 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 2: Reasonably could be predicted that the result would be that 240 00:17:38,559 --> 00:17:43,200 he would intimidate witnesses and destroy or tamper with evidence. 241 00:17:45,240 --> 00:17:45,960 Speaker 1: That's nuts. 242 00:17:46,559 --> 00:17:49,839 Speaker 2: Again, this is Ted Cruz, this guy like people have 243 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:54,200 talked about him as a Supreme Court nominee. What grounds 244 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:59,000 do you have to make that an assumption? It's just nuts. 245 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:02,640 Here's a great idea. 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Yesterday, at a press conference, 273 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:47,240 Chuck Grassley was joined by the other members the Republican 274 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:52,160 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Now, Grassley had previously 275 00:19:52,200 --> 00:19:55,839 released records showing the FBI investigation targeted more than ninety 276 00:19:55,880 --> 00:20:00,599 two Republican organizations as well as Republican linked operatives, including 277 00:20:01,079 --> 00:20:05,599 Turning Point USA, as well as the Republican National Committee. 278 00:20:05,720 --> 00:20:09,079 Yesterday or on Tuesday, rather, the House Judiciary Committee released 279 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:13,119 records indicating that the FBI was potentially investigating dozens of 280 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:17,640 GOP operatives and former Trump administration officials. The House panels 281 00:20:17,799 --> 00:20:21,960 revelations were similar to the disclosures that Chuck Grassley unveiled 282 00:20:22,039 --> 00:20:25,240 back in March about the scope of the anti Trump 283 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:29,279 investigation and the FBI's acquisition of the government phones used 284 00:20:29,319 --> 00:20:33,079 by Trump and then Vice President Mike Pence. The FBI 285 00:20:33,119 --> 00:20:37,240 conducted more than forty interviews and collaborated with field offices 286 00:20:37,279 --> 00:20:41,559 all across America to carry out the Arctic frost probe. 287 00:20:41,599 --> 00:20:46,200 Back in September, FBI Director Cash Patel fired agents in 288 00:20:46,319 --> 00:20:50,400 the Washington field office and closed the unit that was 289 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:55,279 responsible for conducting the Arctic frost investigation. Patel has worked 290 00:20:55,319 --> 00:20:58,599 closely with his Senate and House counterparts to release FBI 291 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:03,680 records and root out what he considers institutionalized corruption at 292 00:21:03,799 --> 00:21:07,400 the Bureau. Again, this is from National Reviews write up 293 00:21:07,519 --> 00:21:11,440 a piece by James Lynch. At the press conference yesterday, 294 00:21:11,839 --> 00:21:15,039 Lindsey Graham, I know, I know it's Lindsey Graham. But 295 00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:19,400 Lindsey Graham sometimes like you never know with Lindsay, sometimes 296 00:21:19,759 --> 00:21:22,079 you get the Lindsey Graham that it's like yes, and 297 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:25,359 sometimes it's like, oh, you know, well, this is one 298 00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:30,400 of the yes Lindsey Graham moments. He wondered whether or 299 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:33,319 not if Trump had run for reelection, would any of 300 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:34,480 this have happened. 301 00:21:34,799 --> 00:21:38,720 Speaker 8: Within several days of him announcing I'm going to seek 302 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:44,400 the White House again, an avalanche began to form. And 303 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,720 I really do believe that none of this would have 304 00:21:47,759 --> 00:21:51,839 been happening if Trump had set out the twenty twenty 305 00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:55,759 four cycle. Well, once he announced I'll have my own 306 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:58,799 chart one day, we'll show you what happened, and when 307 00:21:58,839 --> 00:22:03,000 it happened good. In about eight months of announcing, he 308 00:22:03,039 --> 00:22:07,759 had ninety one felony charges against him and Georgia and 309 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:12,000 New York and other places. So here's what I think 310 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,400 that when he said he wanted to have a political comeback, 311 00:22:15,839 --> 00:22:21,759 it triggered the democratic machine to destroy him before he 312 00:22:21,799 --> 00:22:25,400 could ever get started. And in their effort to destroy him, 313 00:22:25,839 --> 00:22:30,119 there were no boundaries. The goal was to stop Trump 314 00:22:30,440 --> 00:22:33,119 and to look at anything and everything that could stop 315 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,119 Trump and ignore the Constitution. 316 00:22:35,920 --> 00:22:37,039 Speaker 1: I agree. 317 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:40,279 Speaker 2: I look forward to seeing the timeline that is I 318 00:22:40,279 --> 00:22:45,200 think going to be very illuminating. He said he wants 319 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:48,720 to see how system wide this really was. 320 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,359 Speaker 8: Was there contact between Jack Smith and Fanny Willis? I 321 00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,319 got caught up in that crap. I'd just been over 322 00:22:54,319 --> 00:22:57,880 a million dollars. Now she's been kicked off the case. 323 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:03,440 Was there coordination between Jack Smith, Fanny Willis, Alvin Bragg, 324 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:04,960 Letitia James? 325 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,759 Speaker 7: Did they talk? Did they share information? 326 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,759 Speaker 8: Is it just an accident that all this happened within 327 00:23:12,359 --> 00:23:16,680 days of Trump announcing and within eight or nine months 328 00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:22,039 the Republican candidate, one of the candidates for president, had 329 00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:26,880 ninety one felony charges and the deepest blue districts in 330 00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:28,279 the frigid country. 331 00:23:29,000 --> 00:23:30,799 Speaker 7: You think that happened by accident. 332 00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,079 Speaker 1: No, I don't think so neither. 333 00:23:33,319 --> 00:23:34,799 Speaker 7: And we're going to get to the bottom of it, 334 00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:36,319 and I want to know. 335 00:23:36,559 --> 00:23:39,880 Speaker 8: Was there any coordination between Fanny Willis and New York 336 00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:44,279 by Jack Smith. We're going to get every piece of 337 00:23:44,279 --> 00:23:47,319 paper we can get, and I want Jack Smith to 338 00:23:47,319 --> 00:23:50,480 come forward, but I want the information first. He's not 339 00:23:50,680 --> 00:23:55,480 coming and testify when we're in the dark. To the 340 00:23:55,559 --> 00:24:00,519 Justice Department, please expedite the requests made by Center, Grassley 341 00:24:00,799 --> 00:24:03,920 and Johnson to give us any information that may exist 342 00:24:04,279 --> 00:24:07,720 between Jack Smith and Fanny Willis Alvin Bragg and Letitia 343 00:24:07,799 --> 00:24:09,000 James right. 344 00:24:09,039 --> 00:24:13,039 Speaker 2: So his reference there to hearing from Jack Smith. That's 345 00:24:13,039 --> 00:24:16,759 a response to the offer that Smith has made to 346 00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:20,799 come testify, but to do so publicly before the House 347 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:24,880 and Senate Judiciary committees so he can defend his record 348 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,920 from what he argues are these unfounded Republican attacks. So 349 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,319 he wants to come, but he wants to do it publicly, 350 00:24:31,559 --> 00:24:34,680 and he wants to do it soon. And what Graham 351 00:24:34,759 --> 00:24:37,920 is saying there is like, no, I'm not going to 352 00:24:38,039 --> 00:24:41,599 let you walk in and spend some tails and we 353 00:24:41,680 --> 00:24:45,400 don't know all this information, and so you get to 354 00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,960 then ignore stuff and omit things, and we don't know 355 00:24:49,079 --> 00:24:52,799 what we don't know. So he wants the Justice Department 356 00:24:52,839 --> 00:24:57,720 to expedite the investigation into these connections, and I think 357 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:03,000 that's completely appropriate. Smith has defended the Arctic Frost Investigation's 358 00:25:03,039 --> 00:25:06,079 decision to obtain the phone records of GOP senators, calling 359 00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:11,599 it lawful activity permitted under Justice Department policy. Lindsey Graham 360 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,319 also noted that if this can happen to Trump, it 361 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:18,319 can happen to anyone that the system doesn't like, and 362 00:25:18,359 --> 00:25:19,440 it can come after you. 363 00:25:19,799 --> 00:25:20,240 Speaker 1: He said. 364 00:25:20,480 --> 00:25:23,039 Speaker 2: People need to pay a price for their behavior in 365 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:26,359 this be it firings or imprisonment. 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Next one is from Eric Schmidt. 392 00:27:00,119 --> 00:27:04,160 He is the senator from Missouri, I believe former attorney 393 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:08,720 general down there. He pointed out that three days after 394 00:27:08,799 --> 00:27:15,039 Trump announced his re election campaign that the DOJ system 395 00:27:15,839 --> 00:27:19,799 was weaponized against Trump. It just it took three days. 396 00:27:19,799 --> 00:27:23,640 Speaker 9: He says, Jack Smith, who is notorious in prosecutor world 397 00:27:23,839 --> 00:27:27,000 as being a stalin. Like show me the man, I'll 398 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,480 show you the crime prosecutor. That's the guy you appoint 399 00:27:30,599 --> 00:27:33,160 when you want to get your political opponent. He's a 400 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,680 dirt bag. Nope, a dirt bag. And I hope he 401 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:39,079 comes before this committee. He's got a lot to answer to. 402 00:27:39,599 --> 00:27:42,279 He not only went after President Trump, he went after 403 00:27:42,319 --> 00:27:44,720 sitting senators at the time, I was the chairman of 404 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,440 the Republican Attorney's General Association. Ashley Moody was also on 405 00:27:47,440 --> 00:27:51,160 the executive board. He came after us and also hundreds 406 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,359 of other people who happened to be Republicans in the 407 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:58,240 United States of America. What else happened? The number two 408 00:27:58,319 --> 00:28:02,200 prosecutor in Atlanta a state prosecution of President Trump, which 409 00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:05,440 was ridiculous to begin with, somehow meets with the White House. 410 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,440 The number three person at the Department of Justice leaves 411 00:28:10,559 --> 00:28:13,319 the number three job at the Department of Justice to 412 00:28:13,440 --> 00:28:16,720 go work for Alvin Bragg, a state prosecutor. Why is 413 00:28:16,759 --> 00:28:22,160 that this was an effort to go after political opponents 414 00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,880 in America like we have never seen before. It can 415 00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,480 never happen again. And let me pull a couple of 416 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:31,440 people out outside of Jack Smith, Judge Boseberg. Judge Boseberg 417 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:36,440 gave a speech about how he was going toward the 418 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:41,039 Trump agenda before he got those cases. He was not 419 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:45,519 the assignment judge at the DC courts have a daily 420 00:28:45,519 --> 00:28:48,880 assignment judge. He wasn't the assignment judge. He's on vacation. 421 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,599 Somehow gets these cases at one in the morning. Was 422 00:28:53,599 --> 00:28:56,079 he tipped off. Did somebody tell him these cases against 423 00:28:56,079 --> 00:28:58,920 President Trump and his agenda now we're coming. I don't know, 424 00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,680 we should find that out mm hmm. But Judge Boseberg 425 00:29:02,119 --> 00:29:04,920 that what he did to President Orts, what he did 426 00:29:04,920 --> 00:29:08,599 to Senator Cruz and maybe other centers, absolutely, and I 427 00:29:08,599 --> 00:29:11,839 don't say this slightly, absolutely is worthy of impeachment proceedings. 428 00:29:12,799 --> 00:29:15,880 There has to be accountability. The American people have heard 429 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,240 a lot about this, and you're gonna hear more. We 430 00:29:18,319 --> 00:29:23,759 should have Watergate style hearings on this for months. If 431 00:29:23,759 --> 00:29:26,000 we're ever going to root this out, we have to 432 00:29:26,039 --> 00:29:31,039 be serious about it, and consequences have to follow. Resignations, firings, 433 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:32,440 criminal prosecutions. 434 00:29:32,519 --> 00:29:37,680 Speaker 1: Here here I agree, Will it happen? Don't know it? 435 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,039 Should it? Absolutely should. 436 00:29:42,279 --> 00:29:45,039 Speaker 2: You have to force the legacy media outlets to cover 437 00:29:45,119 --> 00:29:47,640 this stuff. You've got to force them to do it 438 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,480 because they will just move past this stuff because you know, 439 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:54,839 in the news cycle that we live in, you know, 440 00:29:54,839 --> 00:29:57,640 it's drinking from a fire hose. There's stuff every day, 441 00:29:57,759 --> 00:29:59,960 all the time. A lot of that is, you know, 442 00:30:00,119 --> 00:30:04,759 driven by Donald Trump. So you've got to you've got 443 00:30:04,799 --> 00:30:09,079 to do something to make this thing stand out and 444 00:30:09,119 --> 00:30:11,400 for a lot of people on the right, they're pretty 445 00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:15,880 sick and tired of just having press conferences and hearings 446 00:30:16,359 --> 00:30:20,000 that don't lead to any kind of actual punishment. All right, 447 00:30:20,039 --> 00:30:24,279 and here's Ashley Moody. She's a former federal prosecutor, former 448 00:30:24,319 --> 00:30:27,359 attorney general. She was also a judge for over a decade. 449 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,440 She says she has been shocked since she's gotten to 450 00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:35,960 the US Senate and seeing these developments. 451 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:36,160 Speaker 9: Here. 452 00:30:36,559 --> 00:30:41,839 Speaker 3: You heard Senator Cruz tell you that a judge said 453 00:30:41,839 --> 00:30:44,319 that he may destroy evidence. This is one of the 454 00:30:44,400 --> 00:30:48,200 pre eminent lawyers in our country, who argued in front 455 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:52,119 of the Supreme Court, who has dedicated his life to service, 456 00:30:53,559 --> 00:30:57,079 who fights for the future of this country, and you 457 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:01,440 had an administration go after him. If you are issuing subpoenas, 458 00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:04,720 you're saying they're related to a criminal investigation, and you 459 00:31:04,799 --> 00:31:10,240 had a judge say that he could destroy evidence, think 460 00:31:10,279 --> 00:31:15,079 about that. They were trying to wipe out the leaders 461 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:20,279 of a cause for a next generation, from elected leaders 462 00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:26,559 to news media, multiple outlets, journalists, even donors. If you're 463 00:31:26,599 --> 00:31:29,599 watching this right now, oh yes, there were even subpoenas 464 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:33,920 issued on donors your information if you believed in a 465 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:36,559 cause and thought so highly of it, those things that 466 00:31:36,599 --> 00:31:38,839 we stood for. And you put your money where your 467 00:31:38,839 --> 00:31:43,920 mouth was, your information was sought. So when you hear 468 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,759 them say, imagine that they're doing this to us, They 469 00:31:46,759 --> 00:31:48,680 could do this to you. They did do it to you. 470 00:31:49,799 --> 00:31:53,599 And we only know this because the president was elected again. 471 00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,480 And I can tell you right now you've heard them say, 472 00:31:58,519 --> 00:32:00,599 we need to do our jobs and peace needs to 473 00:32:00,599 --> 00:32:04,400 be on the table. Impeachment wasn't just a theory or 474 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:09,000 an idea or some hypothetical. One day, if there was 475 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:13,319 ever an instance to root out judges that were not 476 00:32:13,519 --> 00:32:15,720 following the law or not being independent, or we're not 477 00:32:15,799 --> 00:32:19,599 living up to their oath, this is it. Impeachment cannot 478 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:24,960 be a scarecrow. We must use that tool to make 479 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,559 sure the public can trust in our judiciary again, can 480 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,039 trust in our justice system again. Because if you ask 481 00:32:33,119 --> 00:32:36,400 the Supreme Court justice, the justices that fled to the 482 00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,599 United States from Venezuela, they would tell you when their 483 00:32:39,759 --> 00:32:43,000 justice system went, when the people no longer trusted that 484 00:32:43,039 --> 00:32:45,839 it was independent, they lost their nation. 485 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:51,759 Speaker 2: What a great line. Impeachment cannot be just a scarecrow. 486 00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,480 It's a great line. I'm going to use it from 487 00:32:55,519 --> 00:32:59,440 now on without giving her credit, of course, no, it 488 00:32:59,519 --> 00:33:02,400 is it. This is the thing people talk about impeaching 489 00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,680 officials all the time, and nothing ever seems to come 490 00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:09,119 of it except if you're Donald Trump obviously and Democrats 491 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:09,839 control the House. 492 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,000 Speaker 1: But other than that, it never happens. 493 00:33:13,559 --> 00:33:18,119 Speaker 2: And it probably needs to start happening now because for 494 00:33:18,359 --> 00:33:23,039 my entire lifetime, and it seems like, you know, for 495 00:33:23,759 --> 00:33:27,039 most of American history, there was this sort of understanding 496 00:33:27,119 --> 00:33:30,200 that you don't want to be impeached and that this 497 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,720 would be something that would be shameful to you. But 498 00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,640 nowadays and doesn't seem like there are any guardrails left, 499 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:40,079 and people don't fear these ramifications because they haven't been employed, 500 00:33:40,079 --> 00:33:44,720 and maybe we need to start employing them. All right, 501 00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:46,240 that'll do it for this episode. 502 00:33:46,319 --> 00:33:47,680 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. 503 00:33:47,799 --> 00:33:49,920 Speaker 2: I could not do the show without your support and 504 00:33:49,960 --> 00:33:52,680 the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, 505 00:33:53,039 --> 00:33:55,119 so if you'd like, please support them too and tell 506 00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:56,880 them you heard it here. You can also become a 507 00:33:56,880 --> 00:33:59,680 patron at my Patreon page or go to the Peak 508 00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:02,480 on our show dot com. 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