1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on? Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:18,719 my daily show prep with all of the links, become 6 00:00:18,719 --> 00:00:22,359 a patron, go to dpeatclendershow dot com. Make sure you 7 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:24,920 hit the subscribe button. Get every episode for free right 8 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:27,320 to your smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so 9 00:00:27,399 --> 00:00:30,359 much for your support. So let me reset this for 10 00:00:30,719 --> 00:00:34,520 the new hour for people who are just joining. The 11 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:40,280 New York Post reports on a new CIA review. Central 12 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:44,240 Intelligence Agency, under the leadership of John Radcliffe, did a 13 00:00:44,280 --> 00:00:51,799 review of the tradecraft how the Intelligence Community Assessment the 14 00:00:52,079 --> 00:01:01,119 ICA was developed. The ICA specifically about Trump Russia collusion 15 00:01:01,719 --> 00:01:07,319 from back in twenty sixteen, and according to the review, 16 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:13,079 it said that on December sixth, twenty sixteen, six weeks 17 00:01:13,079 --> 00:01:17,519 before his presidency ended, Barack Obama ordered the assessment, which 18 00:01:17,560 --> 00:01:22,799 concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin aspired to help Trump 19 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,719 win the election. Okay, However, the review that the CIA 20 00:01:27,799 --> 00:01:32,920 has just published said that then CIA Director John Brennan, 21 00:01:33,519 --> 00:01:37,879 FBI Director James Comy, and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, 22 00:01:38,439 --> 00:01:43,040 were excessively involved in its drafting, rushed its completion in 23 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:49,879 a chaotic, atypical, and markedly unconventional process that raises questions 24 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:54,680 of a potential political motive. And we've been going over 25 00:01:54,760 --> 00:01:58,840 all of the various details that are now in this report. 26 00:01:58,920 --> 00:02:01,680 Now one of the things that that left unclear, and 27 00:02:01,719 --> 00:02:03,400 we've got a call from Bain at the end of 28 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:07,640 the last hour asking this question about, you know, whether 29 00:02:07,719 --> 00:02:11,159 Obama ordered it or it was like, was it his idea? 30 00:02:11,400 --> 00:02:14,159 Was it the Intel chiefs that came to him and 31 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,800 asked for the i c A to be done? And 32 00:02:16,879 --> 00:02:21,520 I just saw this. This is from Lee Smith, who 33 00:02:21,520 --> 00:02:27,400 has written three books about all of this stuff, and 34 00:02:27,639 --> 00:02:31,080 I've interviewed him in the past and you can follow 35 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,759 him on Twitter Lee Smith DC. He's also got a 36 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,879 locals page as well. His His newest book is called 37 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:44,159 Disappearing the President. And so he is now responding to 38 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:50,319 this this c I A review and he says useful 39 00:02:50,360 --> 00:02:53,960 details but misses the crucial fact that I have reported 40 00:02:54,080 --> 00:03:01,000 in three books. Obama ordered the ICA and by August 41 00:03:01,080 --> 00:03:05,159 of twenty sixteen, so that would be six months or so, 42 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:11,360 or well yeah, about five months before ordering the ICA 43 00:03:12,599 --> 00:03:17,639 that he knew in August the only intel tying Trump 44 00:03:17,719 --> 00:03:23,120 to Russia was the Steele dossier. He says, That's the scandal, 45 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:28,240 not bad trade craft or stove piping the intel, et cetera, 46 00:03:28,319 --> 00:03:34,560 et cetera. It is that Obama framed Trump. That's the scandal. 47 00:03:34,680 --> 00:03:41,280 According to Lee Smith, there was only one meeting at 48 00:03:41,319 --> 00:03:47,919 which the intelligence community analysts could coordinate before this thing 49 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:51,199 got published. This ICA got published. But the day before 50 00:03:51,240 --> 00:03:55,159 the meeting, John Brennan sent a note to the CIA 51 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:59,639 workforce saying he had already met with James Clapper and 52 00:03:59,719 --> 00:04:04,560 Jim and that quote, there is strong consensus among us 53 00:04:05,199 --> 00:04:09,319 on the scope, nature, and intent of Russian interference in 54 00:04:09,479 --> 00:04:14,960 our recent presidential election. So we told his staffers, we already, 55 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:21,439 we already have an idea of what happened. So just like, 56 00:04:21,519 --> 00:04:25,720 finish your report. The two senior leaders of the CIA 57 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:32,040 Mission Center responsible for Russia argued jointly against including the 58 00:04:32,160 --> 00:04:36,720 line the judgment that Putin aspired to help Trump win. 59 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:39,920 They couldn't prove that they had no evidence of that. 60 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:46,680 In an email to Brennan on December thirtieth, they stated, 61 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:51,160 these two senior leaders that are responsible for the mission 62 00:04:51,240 --> 00:04:55,120 center regarding Russia, so these are the experts. They sent 63 00:04:55,160 --> 00:04:58,839 an email to Brennan saying the judgment should be removed 64 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:04,160 because it was both weekly supported and unnecessary given the 65 00:05:04,199 --> 00:05:07,920 strengthen logic of the papers other findings on intent. They 66 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,720 warned that including it would open up a line of 67 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:16,800 very politicized inquiry. It remained. They kept it in because 68 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:21,199 that was the point. Ratcliffe points to the inclusion of 69 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:25,000 the Steele dossier as a sign that it was a 70 00:05:25,040 --> 00:05:31,600 politically corrupted document. He says that the career professionals at 71 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:34,759 the CIA who did this review that's now been published 72 00:05:35,319 --> 00:05:40,160 are quote, just appalled. He drew the comparison between the 73 00:05:40,160 --> 00:05:42,920 bogus Ica and the cover up of the Hunter Biden 74 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:46,319 laptop by fifty one former Intel officials who falsely claimed 75 00:05:46,319 --> 00:05:49,759 before the twenty twenty election that this was Russian disinformation. 76 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,560 He said, the comparison would be the Hunter Biden laptop. 77 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,279 It's the same people. In the Hunter Biden case, it's 78 00:05:57,480 --> 00:06:00,480 we've got to lie to win the election, and in 79 00:06:00,519 --> 00:06:03,519 this case with Trump, it was we failed to influence 80 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:06,319 the election, and after we failed, we're going to handicap 81 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:09,839 the president so we can win the next election by 82 00:06:09,879 --> 00:06:13,279 polluting the Well, they were trying to ruin the presidency 83 00:06:13,439 --> 00:06:18,800 after the fact, and they would have gotten away with 84 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:23,560 it too, Right, but for Hunter Biden on the laptop story. 85 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:26,800 But for him leaving that laptop in a shop someplace 86 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:33,959 in Delaware, right, we would not have known. All right, 87 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,439 let me go over and get Tim on. Hello, Tim, 88 00:06:36,439 --> 00:06:37,240 welcome to the show. 89 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:41,759 Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon, Good afternoon. How are you pretty good? 90 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:45,240 You know, I'm just tired of listening to this stuff 91 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:50,360 all the time and no results from Barack Obama all 92 00:06:50,399 --> 00:06:54,319 the way to today. The other side are nothing but traders, 93 00:06:54,439 --> 00:06:58,560 low lives, and liars and that's all they are. And 94 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:01,680 they're glad to tell you they are. And do we 95 00:07:01,759 --> 00:07:05,879 have any judges that aren't cowards? Yeah? 96 00:07:06,319 --> 00:07:06,920 Speaker 1: I believe so. 97 00:07:08,519 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 2: Well, how can we don't hear from them judges? Yes? 98 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:15,839 Speaker 1: Well, I mean judges don't usually like what do you mean, 99 00:07:15,879 --> 00:07:17,600 hear from them because they don't usually come out and 100 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:19,319 make pronouncements on things like they do. 101 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:22,759 Speaker 2: Unless they're a Democrat judge against my president, then you 102 00:07:22,800 --> 00:07:23,879 hear from them every week. 103 00:07:24,319 --> 00:07:25,759 Speaker 1: Well, are you talking about rulings? 104 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,759 Speaker 2: I'm just talking about it generally speaking, and like all 105 00:07:29,759 --> 00:07:31,879 these judges under injunctions, Yeah. 106 00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:33,759 Speaker 1: Those are rulings. So it's not like I mean, they're 107 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:36,959 not going out given speeches that would be right, right, so, 108 00:07:37,199 --> 00:07:40,079 because then they would be removed from cases and stuff. So, right, 109 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:42,879 You've got a handful of these judges that are doing 110 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:45,959 these injunctions and then they got smacked down by the 111 00:07:45,959 --> 00:07:48,720 Supreme Court. Although I now see somebody another judge, I 112 00:07:48,759 --> 00:07:52,800 think it's actually a Republican appointment who just did another 113 00:07:52,839 --> 00:07:56,560 one through the very loophole that sam Alito noted a 114 00:07:56,639 --> 00:07:59,800 judge could exploit. And so a judge has already exploited 115 00:07:59,800 --> 00:08:01,560 that pophols and now the Supreme Court's gonna have to 116 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:04,319 smack them, Uh, smack that down as well. I guess 117 00:08:05,519 --> 00:08:07,360 you know what what what needs to happen now? Our 118 00:08:07,439 --> 00:08:09,680 charges need to be brought. There need to be charges 119 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:14,199 brought against uh Coy, Jim Comey and John Brennan and 120 00:08:14,279 --> 00:08:15,360 James Clapper. 121 00:08:15,879 --> 00:08:18,959 Speaker 2: And Barack Obama and hideous Hillary and on and on 122 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:19,279 and on. 123 00:08:19,439 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 3: Yeah. 124 00:08:19,639 --> 00:08:21,240 Speaker 1: I mean, if you can charge them with if you 125 00:08:21,240 --> 00:08:23,720 can prove the wrongdoing, if you can prove that that 126 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,879 they've committed a crime, and the CIA seems like the 127 00:08:27,920 --> 00:08:31,199 CIA review seems like there's a pretty good indication that 128 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:34,879 they can probably find a crime. So I think that 129 00:08:34,879 --> 00:08:35,759 would be the next step. 130 00:08:36,639 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 2: Well, you know, we're tired of waiting because that's. 131 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,000 Speaker 1: On the Obama or that's on the Trump administration to 132 00:08:42,039 --> 00:08:44,360 do right, the dj would have to bring that Pam 133 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:48,360 BONDI would have to bring charges or cash Betel or somebody. 134 00:08:48,519 --> 00:08:52,440 Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate that, and I understand that. I just 135 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:56,519 I'm just making a point that this side, the Republican side, 136 00:08:56,600 --> 00:08:59,960 is dragging their feet getting it done. They've done nothing, 137 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:02,320 I think because they don't want to do anything. When 138 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:07,720 when Hussein Obama was in office, when Joe Biden was 139 00:09:07,759 --> 00:09:11,039 in office, they failed to want to do anything. When 140 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:13,360 they had they have the doors open, they should have 141 00:09:13,399 --> 00:09:16,759 done stuff to fight back, but they didn't. And that's 142 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:19,200 that's all I'm saying. I just think that the other 143 00:09:19,279 --> 00:09:23,759 side is far more enthusiastic about their points than we are. 144 00:09:24,039 --> 00:09:25,240 We just are afraid. 145 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:30,200 Speaker 1: I don't that, Tim, I don't know. Like we've got 146 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,720 We've got the Trump big beautiful bill that's making its 147 00:09:33,759 --> 00:09:34,919 way through Congress. 148 00:09:35,360 --> 00:09:35,559 Speaker 2: Right. 149 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:38,519 Speaker 1: All of the Republicans are falling in line for that. 150 00:09:38,759 --> 00:09:42,600 I mean, we the Republicans control the House and the 151 00:09:42,639 --> 00:09:44,919 Senate and the Presidency. You've got a six to three 152 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:48,559 majority on the Supreme Court. Like, I don't think. I 153 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,360 don't think Democrats are racking up tons of wins right now. 154 00:09:52,919 --> 00:09:55,240 Well right, I'm just saying, maybe maybe look at the 155 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:59,039 glass as not completely empty. Maybe you know, it could 156 00:09:59,039 --> 00:10:01,320 be it could be ha empty, and you know, maybe 157 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:03,159 someday you can view it as half full. But like 158 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:05,759 baby steps here, So I don't think it's an empty glass. 159 00:10:05,799 --> 00:10:08,320 I think, you know, because the Democrats say the same thing. 160 00:10:08,519 --> 00:10:11,279 Democrats say the exact same thing you just said. They 161 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:13,799 say the same thing about Republicans. They think the Republicans 162 00:10:14,360 --> 00:10:17,519 are just you know, are just bulldozing over all of 163 00:10:17,559 --> 00:10:19,639 them all the time, and they're all coded, the Republicans 164 00:10:19,679 --> 00:10:23,759 are all coordinated. They always they lie about all this stuff. 165 00:10:23,799 --> 00:10:26,320 And yeah, they say the same thing. 166 00:10:28,159 --> 00:10:30,399 Speaker 2: Well, anybody with half a brain knows that they're lying. 167 00:10:30,799 --> 00:10:33,399 Speaker 1: And look, they say the same thing. That's my point though, 168 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:35,000 they say the exact same thing. 169 00:10:36,200 --> 00:10:39,200 Speaker 2: So you know, something from an old school okay, and 170 00:10:39,240 --> 00:10:41,559 you may not like it. If I was in Congress, 171 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,559 would I kick the living snot out of a bunch 172 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,159 of those Democrats gone to jail and got right back 173 00:10:47,159 --> 00:10:48,000 out and done it again. 174 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:50,799 Speaker 1: And do you think that would be you think, yeah, 175 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:52,000 you think that would be helpful. 176 00:10:52,639 --> 00:10:57,080 Speaker 2: Oh I do for what? Well, back in the old days, 177 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:58,559 long as you know, they used to cane the crap 178 00:10:58,639 --> 00:11:00,000 buy them when they didn't like each other. 179 00:11:00,080 --> 00:11:02,639 Speaker 1: They happened once. Yea, that happened once. 180 00:11:03,639 --> 00:11:05,639 Speaker 2: I think it would, you know, I think it would. 181 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,440 I think it'd help out because they don't have any 182 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:12,519 fear of anything, and they make Americans go around in 183 00:11:12,639 --> 00:11:15,600 fear with all this craft in the streets, thinking pared 184 00:11:15,639 --> 00:11:17,519 of being bulldozed. Its some pop problem. 185 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:20,759 Speaker 1: They say the same thing, and that's how they justified this. 186 00:11:21,279 --> 00:11:25,320 That's how they justified this action and others against Donald Trump. 187 00:11:25,639 --> 00:11:28,759 That's exactly the same thing they said. That's why I'm 188 00:11:28,840 --> 00:11:32,879 urging you to to to change course on this line 189 00:11:32,919 --> 00:11:36,080 of thinking, because when you start thinking like that, you 190 00:11:36,159 --> 00:11:39,600 then begin to justify almost any kind of bad behavior 191 00:11:39,679 --> 00:11:42,480 you wish to engage in. That's what the left has 192 00:11:42,559 --> 00:11:46,120 done with their whole resistance. And he's literally Hitler and 193 00:11:46,440 --> 00:11:49,799 fascism and democracy and all of that. When you give 194 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:54,600 yourself the permission structure to engage in bad acts because 195 00:11:54,639 --> 00:11:56,159 you feel it's justified. 196 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:56,759 Speaker 2: Right. 197 00:11:56,840 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: If everybody were to live by that, we would not 198 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:02,320 have a function in society. And the left has shown 199 00:12:02,399 --> 00:12:04,519 us this is where it takes them, this is where 200 00:12:04,519 --> 00:12:08,320 it took them and us. And I'm urging you and 201 00:12:08,399 --> 00:12:10,480 everybody on the right as well as on the left, 202 00:12:10,879 --> 00:12:13,799 to not view these things as you're viewing them, because 203 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,240 that's what you're I fear that's what you're going to 204 00:12:16,279 --> 00:12:19,440 do for yourself is create yourself a permission structure like 205 00:12:19,480 --> 00:12:21,320 you just did to say I'm going to go around 206 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:25,799 beating people up like that's not helpful. And I completely 207 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,279 disavow that approach, but I appreciate the call. 208 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:29,000 Speaker 2: Tim. 209 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:32,639 Speaker 1: I just would urge, you know, put down the black pills. 210 00:12:32,679 --> 00:12:35,320 That's what it's called black pilling. It's basically like all 211 00:12:35,399 --> 00:12:38,600 is lost and what's the point of anything anymore. You've 212 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:41,240 heard of red pill, the blue pill. You know, you 213 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:44,960 get red pilled and you wake up from the matrix. 214 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:49,120 But there's also black pilling where you become basically a nihilist. 215 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:53,720 And I am not in that camp. I do not 216 00:12:53,799 --> 00:12:56,440 advocate going down that path. 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Sparent We'll 238 00:14:01,159 --> 00:14:03,879 jump over to the phones again and talk with Matt. Hello, Matt, 239 00:14:04,000 --> 00:14:04,759 welcome to the show. 240 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:11,000 Speaker 3: Hey, great show as usual. Man, Thank you. Listen, you 241 00:14:11,039 --> 00:14:13,919 and I are close to the same age. You remember 242 00:14:13,960 --> 00:14:16,159 that one episode to Leave It to Beaver where his 243 00:14:16,200 --> 00:14:18,720 buddy came over like his best friend, and they spent 244 00:14:18,799 --> 00:14:21,799 too much time together and then started fighting and ended 245 00:14:21,879 --> 00:14:23,000 up not liking each other. 246 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:27,919 Speaker 1: I have to admit I may have seen like two 247 00:14:28,039 --> 00:14:31,720 minutes of Leave It to Beaver in my entire life. 248 00:14:32,240 --> 00:14:35,559 Speaker 3: It just, you know. And I'm not picking on Trump 249 00:14:35,639 --> 00:14:40,519 because I voted for him twice and I don't disagree. 250 00:14:40,559 --> 00:14:42,759 I'm not even talking about his policies. I think his 251 00:14:42,840 --> 00:14:46,320 policies regardless of what I think of him, I think 252 00:14:46,360 --> 00:14:48,759 he has America's best interests in mind. 253 00:14:48,919 --> 00:14:49,480 Speaker 1: I agree with that. 254 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:57,759 Speaker 3: But I saw this little bromance between him and Elon Musk. 255 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:01,639 I saw this going south the minute it started. Yeah, 256 00:15:01,840 --> 00:15:06,120 there's no way that these two egotistical billionaires were going 257 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:09,519 to get along for any period of time. And my 258 00:15:09,559 --> 00:15:13,440 wife's like, now they both agree on everything. You wait and. 259 00:15:13,440 --> 00:15:17,279 Speaker 1: See now, And I'm with you. I thought the same thing. 260 00:15:17,039 --> 00:15:21,120 Speaker 3: And yeah, and right like you saw it coming, even 261 00:15:21,159 --> 00:15:23,120 though you didn't say it because you didn't have any proof. 262 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:25,519 I didn't either, but I said it to my wife. 263 00:15:25,559 --> 00:15:27,200 Speaker 1: So I mean, I think I said it on the air. 264 00:15:27,240 --> 00:15:27,840 Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. 265 00:15:27,919 --> 00:15:29,039 Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I think I said it on the air. 266 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:30,720 Speaker 2: I was like, i'd say it on the No, I 267 00:15:30,799 --> 00:15:31,240 think I did. 268 00:15:31,279 --> 00:15:32,799 Speaker 1: I was like, I don't see these two guys being 269 00:15:32,840 --> 00:15:36,000 able to get along for a long time, but we'll 270 00:15:36,039 --> 00:15:37,559 take it while it's while it's good. 271 00:15:38,679 --> 00:15:43,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know, now it's turning into a blank 272 00:15:43,519 --> 00:15:46,320 throwing contest, you know what I mean, Like, like, these 273 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,720 guys are really going at it, and I don't know. 274 00:15:49,879 --> 00:15:53,080 I think I think Musk could do some damage if 275 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:56,559 he really wanted to, if he wanted to start funding 276 00:15:57,559 --> 00:16:01,759 let's say, bad characters to take all office, which I 277 00:16:01,799 --> 00:16:05,320 think is what he's planning to do. I think he's 278 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:07,240 got you know, he's the richest man in the world. 279 00:16:07,279 --> 00:16:09,679 I think he can actually achieve that. 280 00:16:10,240 --> 00:16:14,080 Speaker 1: Well, let's let's say this. Let me say this that 281 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:17,000 and I have not covered all of the fighting between 282 00:16:17,080 --> 00:16:19,200 Musk and Trump because it's to me, it's like I 283 00:16:19,240 --> 00:16:21,600 don't really care. It doesn't matter to me. Okay, they 284 00:16:21,639 --> 00:16:25,159 have their personalities and they're in conflict whatever. But to 285 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:28,039 your point that this could have larger implications is that, 286 00:16:29,440 --> 00:16:32,399 first off, Elon Musk is brilliant, and he's obviously the 287 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:35,320 richest guy in the world, but that doesn't make him 288 00:16:35,519 --> 00:16:39,799 brilliant at politics. In fact, from what I've seen with 289 00:16:39,879 --> 00:16:44,120 his behavior, he's not particularly good at politics. Trump, on 290 00:16:44,159 --> 00:16:47,000 the other hand, is good at politics, and I think 291 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:47,759 that's because. 292 00:16:47,519 --> 00:16:49,919 Speaker 3: Well, you've got your personality the richest man in the 293 00:16:49,919 --> 00:16:52,799 world and the most powerful man in the world, and 294 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:54,519 there's a distinction between those two. 295 00:16:54,679 --> 00:16:58,159 Speaker 1: Sure, sure, so can can Elon Musk fund campaigns and 296 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,440 try to primary a bunch of republiclkins, Yeah he could. 297 00:17:02,440 --> 00:17:04,359 We'll see what happens. But that means he's going to 298 00:17:04,400 --> 00:17:06,279 have to vet candidates and do all of that. And 299 00:17:06,319 --> 00:17:09,640 like I just said, he's not particularly adept at playing 300 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:11,960 the political game. Now, that doesn't mean he can't learn. 301 00:17:12,359 --> 00:17:14,559 I just I don't know if he has the interest 302 00:17:14,640 --> 00:17:18,799 or desire to do that. But you know, we'll see, 303 00:17:18,880 --> 00:17:21,599 you know, because I don't know, And I think that 304 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:25,359 these guys like Trump will forgive people that they get 305 00:17:25,359 --> 00:17:26,960 into fights and then they make up. I mean, he's 306 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:28,480 got a bunch of them around him. I mean, he's 307 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:31,960 got Marco Rubio doing like seventeen jobs and they had 308 00:17:31,960 --> 00:17:35,519 a really nasty fight, you know, during the primary in 309 00:17:35,599 --> 00:17:38,799 twenty fifteen. So you know, Trump will welcome him back 310 00:17:38,839 --> 00:17:41,279 into the good graces at some point. If Elon wants 311 00:17:41,319 --> 00:17:43,200 to be back in the good graces and you know whatever, 312 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:45,799 we'll see what happens. So, but Matt, I appreciate the call. 313 00:17:45,839 --> 00:17:48,880 Man heik, great show, Thanks sir, Take care, have a 314 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:51,880 great weekend, Happy Independence Day. Here's a great idea. How 315 00:17:51,960 --> 00:17:55,039 about making an escape to a really special and secluded 316 00:17:55,079 --> 00:17:57,880 getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up 317 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:01,079 the mountain and Cabins of Ashville is your connection. 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It's from Eric, who says Obama did not 338 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:11,799 need to direct the CIA to join his and his 339 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:15,359 party's campaign against Trump, just as he did not need 340 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,880 to explicitly direct Lowis Learner to hamstring the Tea party. 341 00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:21,680 They're on the same side, which is why she was 342 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:28,839 allowed to retire with zero consequences. Yeah, Like, I talked 343 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:33,480 about this when the whole you know, IRS scandal erupted 344 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:36,359 and all of that. Yeah, Like Barack Obama made his 345 00:19:36,400 --> 00:19:38,640 comments at a State of the Union speech in front 346 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:42,319 of the entire nation about the Citizens United case, and 347 00:19:43,319 --> 00:19:46,039 it's like, there doesn't need to be a direct memo 348 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:49,200 saying this is what we're going to do, right, you 349 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:51,960 don't to spell it out. Everybody understands, you know what 350 00:19:52,319 --> 00:19:54,720 the game plan needs to be. And in this case 351 00:19:54,960 --> 00:20:00,720 regarding the Trump Russia collusion lie that they fabricated and 352 00:20:00,759 --> 00:20:05,319 then they ran through this Intelligence community assessment process that 353 00:20:05,440 --> 00:20:09,720 was compressed down to like two weeks. It was manipulated, 354 00:20:10,079 --> 00:20:13,599 it was kept away from thirteen of the seventeen Intel 355 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:18,440 agencies for review or participation, and it was managed by 356 00:20:18,559 --> 00:20:25,400 directly Jim Comey, James Clapper, and John Brennan. So like 357 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,279 I see people saying, oh, we already knew all of 358 00:20:28,279 --> 00:20:31,839 this stuff. But yeah, but now like the CIA has 359 00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:36,680 put out this review tracing the origins, there is no 360 00:20:36,759 --> 00:20:40,200 longer any doubt. And now I want to see something 361 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:43,480 come of this. I want to see something come of this, 362 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:49,880 because otherwise why else would you do this review. Let 363 00:20:49,920 --> 00:20:52,440 me get to some emails. This is from Bob who says, 364 00:20:52,680 --> 00:20:56,599 I enjoy your show. You do a great job informing 365 00:20:56,599 --> 00:20:58,559 your audience. Keep up the good work, and he also 366 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:00,960 really likes the Bump tunes. Okay, well, thank you, Bob. 367 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:04,200 I appreciate that. This is from Dennis, who says the 368 00:21:04,240 --> 00:21:08,400 story about the finding of Obama comy Brennan Clapper twenty sixteen, 369 00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:11,960 which hunt against Trump, just reconfirms the axiom that whatever 370 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:15,079 they accused Trump of doing was exactly what they were 371 00:21:15,079 --> 00:21:19,759 guilty of the entire time. That is called the woke sorry, 372 00:21:20,559 --> 00:21:27,559 the iron law of woke projection. They are guilty of 373 00:21:27,599 --> 00:21:31,519 that which they accuse you, John says, seems to me 374 00:21:31,640 --> 00:21:35,119 that there is enough traceability to bring legal action against many. 375 00:21:35,400 --> 00:21:38,400 I wonder if anybody will ever pay for this though, 376 00:21:38,799 --> 00:21:42,640 have a great vacation, Thank you, sir. Let me go 377 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:46,680 over and get to the WBT text line driven by 378 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:51,680 Liberty Buick GMC. This is from Joseph, who says, regarding 379 00:21:51,799 --> 00:21:57,319 Tim's call from earlier in the hour, his frustration is understandable. Bannon, 380 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:00,440 Navarro and a few thousand protesters spend time in jail, 381 00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,400 while the worst that's happened to any Russia hoaxer is 382 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:07,319 a half assed law license suspension. We want revenge and look, 383 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:12,440 and I get that. What I was trying to convey 384 00:22:12,559 --> 00:22:17,519 to Tim was to get off of the course of nihilism, 385 00:22:18,799 --> 00:22:22,440 the belief that values are baseless, nothing can be known 386 00:22:22,519 --> 00:22:27,880 or communicated. According to you know, the philosophy, It's often 387 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:33,559 associated with extreme pessimism, a radical skepticism that condemns existence. 388 00:22:35,279 --> 00:22:38,640 A true nihilist believes in nothing, has no loyalties. And 389 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:40,599 I'm not saying that, but like this is part of 390 00:22:40,599 --> 00:22:45,759 that path. And you know, in Nietzsche, the philosopher wrote 391 00:22:45,799 --> 00:22:50,400 about this and explored nihilism and its implications for civilization. 392 00:22:51,519 --> 00:22:54,759 He predicted that nihilism's impact on the culture and the 393 00:22:54,880 --> 00:23:00,720 values of the twentieth century has been pervasive. Apocalypse tenor 394 00:23:00,799 --> 00:23:05,880 that spawns a mood of gloom, a good deal of anxiety, 395 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:12,200 anger and terror. So it's like it's just it's not 396 00:23:12,279 --> 00:23:16,799 a healthy path for a society to to proceed down. 397 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:20,039 That's that's what I was just urging Tim about. I 398 00:23:20,079 --> 00:23:27,079 understand the anger and frustration, absolutely completely agree, But but 399 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:32,200 you don't want to lose the civilization in the process. Right, Yes, 400 00:23:32,319 --> 00:23:38,559 punishment and justice, but off the path of nihilism. Let 401 00:23:38,599 --> 00:23:40,720 me go over to JR. Here, Hello, Jr. Welcome to 402 00:23:40,759 --> 00:23:41,039 the show. 403 00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:47,640 Speaker 4: Oh thanks, Yeah about Alon, isn't there? His beaf with 404 00:23:47,960 --> 00:23:54,119 Trump is too much spending? Yes, okay, So why are 405 00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:56,920 Republicans worried? I mean if he will go to Democrats, 406 00:23:57,440 --> 00:24:01,160 I mean not likely, not likely, And he's getting and 407 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:05,319 he's getting mad at the Freedom Caucus like Ralph. Now 408 00:24:05,319 --> 00:24:07,759 I know Ralph Norman, and I know he's not crazy 409 00:24:07,759 --> 00:24:10,000 about this bill, but he's voting for it. He would 410 00:24:10,079 --> 00:24:12,759 he is a budget hawk and wet let's see the guts. 411 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:16,359 He understands as I do that one day it's going 412 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:20,359 to come crashing down. And I think that's what Elon sees. 413 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,319 I mean, it's Elon's smart. We need a hundred more 414 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:28,079 Ralph Norman. We need a hundred more guys that are 415 00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,920 budget hawks, not what we have now is like maybe fifty. 416 00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:35,359 Speaker 1: And you have to also run it through a process 417 00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:38,720 that allows you to make these cuts and do them permanently. Right, 418 00:24:38,759 --> 00:24:41,799 that's the problem with the doing it the way they're 419 00:24:41,799 --> 00:24:45,519 doing it through this you know the the I forget 420 00:24:45,519 --> 00:24:48,200 what the process is called now, but they're they're running 421 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:54,160 it through this process that is not conducive to a 422 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:57,200 budget process. Right, They're not in regular order. They haven't 423 00:24:57,240 --> 00:24:59,640 done a budget in like I don't even know how long, 424 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:02,200 fifty years or something. That's what they need to get 425 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:05,200 back to. And that's where you would actually codify the 426 00:25:05,279 --> 00:25:09,119 cuts and the program changes and the and the dissolving 427 00:25:09,279 --> 00:25:14,000 of entire departments and stuff like. That's what Congress needs 428 00:25:14,039 --> 00:25:18,279 to do. And so I totally understand Elon's frustration with that. 429 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:21,359 He basically did a speed run through the entire Republican 430 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:25,079 conservative experience right where you're like, oh, yes, this is awesome, 431 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:26,880 and then it's like, oh my gosh, this is terrible, 432 00:25:26,920 --> 00:25:28,720 and then it's like vote them all out right. It's 433 00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:31,160 he just did it in a very compressed timeline. Most 434 00:25:31,279 --> 00:25:33,759 of us took about, you know, a couple of years 435 00:25:33,799 --> 00:25:34,440 to run through that. 436 00:25:34,599 --> 00:25:36,920 Speaker 4: Ye guy, he'll figure it out. 437 00:25:37,039 --> 00:25:37,799 Speaker 2: Yeah, I just. 438 00:25:39,799 --> 00:25:41,839 Speaker 4: You know, I you know, I'm not worried about him 439 00:25:41,839 --> 00:25:45,880 going and sending billions to support Democrats, is there. I mean, 440 00:25:46,039 --> 00:25:47,599 they spend more than anybody. 441 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,160 Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you JR. Thanks for the call, man, 442 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:52,759 I appreciate it. You know, stories are powerful. They help 443 00:25:52,839 --> 00:25:56,559 us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect 444 00:25:56,640 --> 00:25:59,480 us to the people of our past. 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I knew what it was. 465 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,720 If you want all of my thoughts on the the 466 00:27:07,759 --> 00:27:11,079 BBB and all of that, I covered it in depth. 467 00:27:11,119 --> 00:27:14,359 I guess it was yesterday or day before. But you 468 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,799 can get the podcast at the peatpod dot com or 469 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:23,079 WBT dot com or any podcasting platform actually, so let 470 00:27:23,079 --> 00:27:26,039 me read this tweet here real quick. This is from 471 00:27:26,839 --> 00:27:33,559 Catherine Herridge from Fox News. The report from the CIA, 472 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,400 this review, and this is why it's like, I understand 473 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:41,359 there are people that they're downplaying it, They're minimizing this, 474 00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:45,359 this report from the CIA that we've you know, been 475 00:27:45,759 --> 00:27:48,039 I've been bringing in the details on it now, you know, 476 00:27:48,079 --> 00:27:51,000 for the first hour and now into the second hour. 477 00:27:51,240 --> 00:27:53,319 I was going to move on. But it's fine. So 478 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:58,720 the the there is a sentiment that we already knew 479 00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,880 a lot of this stuff. People had, you know, journalists 480 00:28:01,920 --> 00:28:04,960 had you know, had reported on some of this stuff 481 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,200 and wrote books about it. I mentioned Lee Smith and 482 00:28:08,279 --> 00:28:10,480 he's written books about it, and other reporters are saying 483 00:28:10,519 --> 00:28:12,480 the same thing, like, oh, I did all of this work, 484 00:28:12,519 --> 00:28:14,759 and you know I reported on all of this before. 485 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:19,599 And part of that I think is, you know, hey, 486 00:28:19,839 --> 00:28:22,599 I have a book. You can buy my book and 487 00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:26,960 a little bit of is maybe ego, like I was 488 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,119 telling you all of this two years ago and nobody 489 00:28:30,279 --> 00:28:33,599 you know, was listening to me or whatever. But I 490 00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:38,240 look at it as this CIA report. I look at 491 00:28:38,279 --> 00:28:43,759 it as confirmation, validation for the journalists that did this 492 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:48,680 work for so long and did not have you know, uh, 493 00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:55,160 wide distribution of their product because of the scandalous nature 494 00:28:55,279 --> 00:29:00,920 of the content. Right, So this is validation for them, 495 00:29:01,319 --> 00:29:07,079 and I would encourage people to see it in that light. 496 00:29:07,119 --> 00:29:11,759 And now you can actually cite the CIA report. And 497 00:29:11,799 --> 00:29:15,839 there are people to this day, basically half of all 498 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:21,640 Democrats still believe the Trump Russia collusion hoax. They believe 499 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:26,000 that it's not a hoax. They believe it's true and 500 00:29:26,079 --> 00:29:30,160 it's not and it never was. And the people at 501 00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:35,960 the CIA that pushed this hoax knew it wasn't true 502 00:29:36,119 --> 00:29:42,960 and developed a fake intelligence community assessment, this ICA that 503 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:48,680 they then used to convince Americans of something that was 504 00:29:48,759 --> 00:29:52,880 not true. But here's the thing, And I played the 505 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:58,240 audio from Yuri Besmanov, the KGB defector from the seventies 506 00:29:58,279 --> 00:30:00,839 and eighties. I played audio from HA the other day 507 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:05,759 about the demoralization psychological operation that the Soviets were running 508 00:30:05,759 --> 00:30:09,519 the communists, the communists, the world Communist project runs on, 509 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:14,880 and it's this demoralization, and it's the point is to 510 00:30:15,799 --> 00:30:20,000 demoralize a people so they will not even defend themselves 511 00:30:20,599 --> 00:30:26,279 or their country, because what's it all for? Who cares? Everything? Stings? 512 00:30:26,319 --> 00:30:31,759 We'd oppressors, you know whatever. It takes many different forms, right, 513 00:30:31,839 --> 00:30:33,720 the issue is never the issue. The issue is always 514 00:30:33,759 --> 00:30:38,000 the revolution. So I just I want people to maybe 515 00:30:38,079 --> 00:30:40,680 look at things a little bit on the brighter side 516 00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:42,559 of things. I can't believe I am saying that, but 517 00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:47,160 it's true. It's it's difficult. Limboy used to talk about 518 00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:49,319 this all the time, that it You know, the natural 519 00:30:49,319 --> 00:30:54,359 default position for people or mentality is pessimism because it's 520 00:30:54,359 --> 00:30:58,839 a in large parts, it's a survival technique. Right, If 521 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:00,759 you assume bad things are going to happen, you'll be 522 00:31:00,759 --> 00:31:02,519 better prepared for them when they do. And that kind 523 00:31:02,559 --> 00:31:06,079 of thinking can save your life sometimes. But you have 524 00:31:06,119 --> 00:31:08,640 to choose to be more positive and so like this 525 00:31:08,839 --> 00:31:13,599 in this example, it's yes, like I'm mad at the corruption, 526 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:18,359 I'm mad at these these intel chiefs, I'm mad at Obama. 527 00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:20,680 I'm yes, I'm mad at the media that helped advance 528 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:26,279 this narrative. Absolutely, I want there to be punishment. But 529 00:31:26,359 --> 00:31:29,079 the bright side of this report is that we have 530 00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,759 the confirmation of the things that we believed to be 531 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,599 true based on, you know, the pieces of evidence that 532 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:39,200 we had collected and other journalists had collected and advanced. 533 00:31:39,519 --> 00:31:43,160 Now it's like this is further confirmation that we weren't crazy, 534 00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:49,920 that this actually was a conspiracy. Herriage reports on this 535 00:31:50,039 --> 00:31:54,960 report that it concludes that in twenty sixteen, then CIA 536 00:31:55,039 --> 00:31:59,000 Director John Brennan and others rushed the Russia election interference 537 00:31:59,039 --> 00:32:03,640 intelligence assessment. Brennan dismissed high level warnings that the Clinton 538 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:08,960 campaign OPO research the Steele dossier did not meet intelligence 539 00:32:09,039 --> 00:32:15,240 collection standards and risked credibility. Handling of the Steele dossier 540 00:32:15,359 --> 00:32:20,000 was highly irregular and limit and of limited analytic rigor. 541 00:32:21,160 --> 00:32:26,160 Media leaks reinforced the narrative with high confidence, the high 542 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:30,640 confidence narrative that Russia intervened to help Trump again. Half 543 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,880 a Democrats still believe this. Two senior leaders of the 544 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:37,599 CIA Mission Center responsible for Russia strongly opposed including the 545 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:41,319 Steele dossier, saying it did not meet even the most 546 00:32:41,319 --> 00:32:48,960 basic tradecraft standards meaning collection methods, techniques, and operations, and 547 00:32:49,559 --> 00:32:53,000 that John Brennan, the head of the CIA, formerly a 548 00:32:53,039 --> 00:32:57,839 communist by the way, showed a preference for narrative consistency 549 00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:03,079 over analytical soundness. Brennan ultimately formalized his position in writing 550 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:06,839 stating quote, my bottom line is that I believe that 551 00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:11,200 the information warrants inclusion in the report. See this is 552 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,559 what happens. This is Trump derangement syndrome. But this is 553 00:33:13,559 --> 00:33:20,559 what happens when you hyperboleze and catastrophize your political opponent 554 00:33:21,039 --> 00:33:24,480 into the second coming of Hitler. You give yourself permission 555 00:33:24,519 --> 00:33:26,839 to engage in all of this kind of activity because 556 00:33:26,839 --> 00:33:31,720 you're saving democracy. All right, that'll do it for this episode. 557 00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:33,799 Thank you so much for listening. I could not do 558 00:33:33,839 --> 00:33:36,000 the show without your support and the support of the 559 00:33:36,039 --> 00:33:39,079 businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, 560 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,319 please support them too and tell them you heard it here. 561 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:43,960 You can also become a patron at my Patreon page 562 00:33:44,079 --> 00:33:47,640 or go to thepetecallanershow dot com. 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