WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:02.279 Takes a lot of bandwidth for all this beauty. Steve, 2 00:00:02.919 --> 00:00:06.160 I know, Oh are you recording whiskey? 3 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:11.160 Come and take my pay the money ry, oh whiskey. 4 00:00:12.000 --> 00:00:14.400 Why think alone when you can drink it all in 5 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:19.879 with Ricochet's Three Whiskey Happy Hour. Join your bartenders, Steve Hayward, John, 6 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:30.120 You and the international woman of Mystery, Lucretia. 7 00:00:27.480 --> 00:00:30.320 Where they slapped it up and David, ain't you easy 8 00:00:30.440 --> 00:00:31.359 on the souldiers? 9 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:37.079 Tap got a giving? Well, the dog days of summer 10 00:00:37.119 --> 00:00:39.799 are upon us, but there's no letup for the swilling 11 00:00:39.880 --> 00:00:42.719 hounds of the three Whiskey Happy Hour. Hi, everybody, it's 12 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:46.159 Steve here out in California. John is in Texas, and 13 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:49.679 Lucretia is at her undisclosed location where he catches her 14 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:53.039 international plots of mystery. Hi guys, how are you not 15 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:53.520 so bad? 16 00:00:53.640 --> 00:00:55.840 Not so well, Steve, because I have to tell you 17 00:00:55.880 --> 00:00:57.119 I have no Internet. 18 00:00:57.359 --> 00:00:59.759 Yeah, I know, you're on your phone and Starling is 19 00:00:59.799 --> 00:01:02.079 down and the creation I both use Starlink most of 20 00:01:02.079 --> 00:01:03.960 the time, and I have a backup, and she's on 21 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:07.079 her phone so we can't see her today. 22 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:10.879 And all I'm gonna say, it's harder to launch international 23 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:17.840 plots when you have no starlink, it's very darlint. 24 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:20.560 Starlink is an international. 25 00:01:21.680 --> 00:01:23.920 For months, John, and this is the first and only 26 00:01:23.959 --> 00:01:26.599 time I've ever even had the slightest issue with it. 27 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:29.640 And it's down everywhere, as you pointed, out throughout the world. 28 00:01:29.719 --> 00:01:32.439 So hopefully comes back up soon. Elon, if you're out there, 29 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:33.079 get busy. 30 00:01:33.599 --> 00:01:35.599 Yeah, something's up with this. I think this will be 31 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:38.400 a big story when we find out what's happening. So 32 00:01:38.439 --> 00:01:40.280 what we're doing listeners today is we're going to do 33 00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:44.239 our round robin format where we really do share hosting duties. 34 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:46.640 Each one of us in turn will pick one story 35 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:49.560 or issue of the week. But first before we start 36 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:54.200 into that, formerly a few quick news updates and announcements. 37 00:01:54.519 --> 00:01:57.079 The first one I'm pleased to say is that Hadley 38 00:01:57.159 --> 00:02:00.840 Arkis has started his own podcast along with Gerard Bradley 39 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:04.480 at the James Wilson Institute about our natural law moment. 40 00:02:04.599 --> 00:02:06.519 And we're going to take complete credit for them doing 41 00:02:06.519 --> 00:02:08.680 this because we have been, you know, using and abusing 42 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:11.199 Hadley here for weeks and we did we still want 43 00:02:11.199 --> 00:02:13.520 to have him on here, and we just had scheduling problems. 44 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:16.639 But I'm included the show notes a link to the 45 00:02:16.680 --> 00:02:20.400 new podcast where Hadley takes out his revenge on us 46 00:02:20.439 --> 00:02:24.080 for abusing him, and everyone should bookmark that and drop 47 00:02:24.159 --> 00:02:27.719 in who are interested in the subject. Second item, good 48 00:02:27.800 --> 00:02:31.840 news for you. John McDonald's announced earlier this week that 49 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:37.080 they are going to test market dirty it is, which 50 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:39.000 I'm not sure what that is, but it's its flavored 51 00:02:39.039 --> 00:02:42.759 cold brews. And you know, pictures they show look like 52 00:02:42.840 --> 00:02:46.240 pina coladas and Cosmount or something. I don't know, but 53 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:49.000 I figured that's probably welcome. An important news for you. 54 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:52.120 We'll go great with mcgribb. 55 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:55.000 If you, I don't know if you've seen these things. 56 00:02:55.120 --> 00:02:57.039 You know, if you go to these I frequent these 57 00:02:57.800 --> 00:03:02.120 Asian drink places where they mix coffee and sweet sometimes 58 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:04.719 fruits and then weird jello shots and all in one 59 00:03:04.759 --> 00:03:09.840 giant drink. It's like Steven Linda's grad school days and drank. 60 00:03:12.120 --> 00:03:12.199 No. 61 00:03:12.439 --> 00:03:16.240 You know, I welcome this. I welcome this on McDonald's part. 62 00:03:16.360 --> 00:03:16.719 Thank you. 63 00:03:17.479 --> 00:03:20.120 I'll have you and listeners know that I gave up 64 00:03:20.759 --> 00:03:24.479 dak reeves and any drinks with red coloring and umbrellas. 65 00:03:24.479 --> 00:03:27.479 And before Ronald Reagan was sworn in for his first term. 66 00:03:27.520 --> 00:03:30.120 So anyway, and I'll have you all know I never 67 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:34.400 drank them. I just drank Scotch and black coffee from 68 00:03:34.400 --> 00:03:36.120 the time I was fourteen years old. 69 00:03:37.400 --> 00:03:39.520 Really, why does that not surprise me? 70 00:03:39.879 --> 00:03:44.000 I know because my dad. You know, I'll be honest 71 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:46.360 with you. I also Steve can attest to this. He 72 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:48.719 used to smoke many years ago. And I used to 73 00:03:48.719 --> 00:03:51.000 get up with my dad in the morning because in 74 00:03:51.039 --> 00:03:54.680 the summers I worked at his glass manufacturing plant, where 75 00:03:54.840 --> 00:03:56.879 it wasn't his he but he was a plan engineer, 76 00:03:57.479 --> 00:03:59.759 and we would get up really early in the morning, 77 00:04:00.280 --> 00:04:03.520 lovely view of the valley of this huge picture window, 78 00:04:03.520 --> 00:04:05.439 and we would have what my dad referred to as 79 00:04:05.479 --> 00:04:10.000 a whorse breakfast, which was two cups of coffee and 80 00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:10.800 three cigarettes. 81 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:16.160 Wait, why why don't why don't they eat better than that? 82 00:04:16.759 --> 00:04:22.560 Come on, well, I actually still have that minus a cigarette. 83 00:04:22.600 --> 00:04:26.680 So wow, Well I just see I imagine fourteen year 84 00:04:26.680 --> 00:04:30.800 old Lucretia drinking black coffee and scotch and smoking while 85 00:04:30.839 --> 00:04:31.879 she's cleaning a rifle. 86 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:33.040 So that's what I imagined. 87 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:36.600 It was California, so rifles were a little harder to 88 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:37.199 come by then. 89 00:04:37.879 --> 00:04:42.120 Well, you know, my mentor Stan Evans like to say 90 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:46.279 that his favorite breakfast was coffee and cigarettes, one a 91 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:49.800 leafy vegetable and the other a lugume, because breakfast is 92 00:04:49.800 --> 00:04:56.040 the most important meal of the day. Okay, next night. 93 00:04:56.160 --> 00:04:58.480 It's an update for something, Lucretia, you brought up last 94 00:04:58.519 --> 00:05:01.079 week and you made a passing car meant that the 95 00:05:01.160 --> 00:05:06.680 Progressives like AOC in particular. And your favorite person, miss 96 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:10.040 a sturdy eyelashes herself, Jasmine Crockett. We're raising money hand 97 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:13.639 over fist. Well, the numbers are out today and the 98 00:05:13.800 --> 00:05:16.399 top money raiser in the House of Representatives is in 99 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:21.439 fact AOC, with nearly fifteen million dollars raised this year alone. 100 00:05:21.879 --> 00:05:24.040 That is twice as much as the Speaker of the House, 101 00:05:24.079 --> 00:05:27.519 Mike Johnson, and it's more than twice as much as 102 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:29.959 any other Democrat, including I think it's four times as 103 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:32.839 much as hockeying Jeffries, who would be Speaker of the 104 00:05:32.839 --> 00:05:36.600 House if Democrats won a majority. And if the person 105 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:39.279 I think most astonished by that or worried about it, 106 00:05:39.319 --> 00:05:41.360 I should say, or most anxious about it, has to 107 00:05:41.399 --> 00:05:46.240 be Chuck Schumer, because AOC can pretty much take all 108 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:48.199 of that money and put it into a Senate race 109 00:05:48.240 --> 00:05:50.360 if she wants to. There are a couple wrinkles between 110 00:05:50.360 --> 00:05:53.199 House committees and Senate committees, but they're easily overcome, I think. 111 00:05:53.319 --> 00:05:55.759 And so she's got a big war chest for whatever 112 00:05:55.800 --> 00:05:58.920 she wants to do, and I suspect she will do 113 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:04.639 it right anyway. And overall the Progressives are if you 114 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:07.519 sort of total up all the people along the Progressive Caucus, 115 00:06:07.920 --> 00:06:10.040 it's like two thirds of all the money the Democrats 116 00:06:10.079 --> 00:06:12.839 have raised so far in a selection cycle. So not 117 00:06:12.959 --> 00:06:14.879 good news for people to want to move the Democratic 118 00:06:14.920 --> 00:06:16.920 Party back toward the center, whatever that would be. 119 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:20.160 Steve Can I ask you a question about that. Sure, 120 00:06:20.199 --> 00:06:21.319 Where did you read it. 121 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:23.120 Morning? 122 00:06:23.360 --> 00:06:25.399 Well, yeah, that's where I read it too, And what 123 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:29.240 was interesting to me was the usual pandering to the 124 00:06:29.319 --> 00:06:31.600 left that we have come to expect from the once 125 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:37.040 vaunted Wall Street Journal that well, no, wait, My point 126 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:39.639 is that they had to put in there that all 127 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:44.199 of her money came from this new grassroots effort to 128 00:06:44.279 --> 00:06:46.959 get small donors. So they make it sound like all 129 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:50.319 of the poor people in the United States all sent 130 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:54.160 her a dollar because they think she's going to be 131 00:06:54.199 --> 00:06:57.199 the person who saves them from their poverty and of course, 132 00:06:57.240 --> 00:07:00.519 the point of the matter is she's getting huge, huge 133 00:07:00.560 --> 00:07:04.360 contributions from stupid leftists with more money than brains, and 134 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:06.040 that's what I really want. 135 00:07:06.040 --> 00:07:08.439 We'll say about that, that's not I mean, that's not well, 136 00:07:08.759 --> 00:07:12.120 part of that's right. She actually can't. Her own committee 137 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:15.600 is bound by the contribution limits. Now whether now a 138 00:07:15.639 --> 00:07:18.480 separate independent pack can take, you know, unlimited amounts from 139 00:07:18.480 --> 00:07:19.959 George Soros or something like that. 140 00:07:20.639 --> 00:07:24.199 But we know that Act Blue was really good at all. 141 00:07:24.480 --> 00:07:27.160 Yes, yeah, no, you're right there. I'm quite sure that 142 00:07:27.199 --> 00:07:30.240 Act Blue and others are bundling lots of small contributions 143 00:07:30.240 --> 00:07:34.839 for her and Rocanna and Jasmine Crockett and so forth. However, 144 00:07:34.920 --> 00:07:37.920 it's significant, I think politically that she is getting these 145 00:07:38.040 --> 00:07:41.160 individual donations and not from packs the party leaders. They 146 00:07:41.160 --> 00:07:43.040 always get the money from the corporate packs and the 147 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:47.040 labor unions. And the fact that that AOC is getting 148 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:51.160 contributions from individuals, even if bundled by Act Blue, tells 149 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:53.480 you where the center of gravity the Democratic Party is 150 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:55.639 and where the energy is. And that should be very 151 00:07:55.720 --> 00:08:00.959 worrying to everybody. That's all anyway, Two more quick things 152 00:08:02.199 --> 00:08:05.120 also out today. Joe Biden has sold his Memoirs for 153 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:08.240 ten million dollars, which a is less than Clinton, and 154 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:11.639 the Obama's got by quite a bit, and no one's 155 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:14.279 going to read that book. Point two, we all want 156 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:17.279 the film version of Hunter Biden's memoirs, except we already 157 00:08:17.319 --> 00:08:18.959 saw the film version a few days ago, if you 158 00:08:19.040 --> 00:08:20.560 caught any of that tube. 159 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:24.480 So which publishing company was stupid enough to spend ten 160 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:27.199 million dollars in a campaign contribution to somebody who can't 161 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:28.000 run for president? 162 00:08:28.319 --> 00:08:31.079 Yeah, well it's the Hashet Book Group, which is now 163 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:32.720 owns a whole lot of the big imprints. So I 164 00:08:32.720 --> 00:08:34.919 don't know if it's going to be Hashet itself or 165 00:08:34.960 --> 00:08:36.759 one of their I forget who they own, but they 166 00:08:36.759 --> 00:08:39.279 own a lot of the prominent names, and so you 167 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:41.279 know it doesn't matter. I mean, it'll be one of them, 168 00:08:41.320 --> 00:08:44.120 and that book will be on the remainder table at 169 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:49.039 Costco probably the afternoon it comes out. So there's all that. 170 00:08:49.559 --> 00:08:51.879 And then finally before we take a break, before we 171 00:08:51.919 --> 00:08:54.679 get into our main topics today, John, we have a 172 00:08:54.759 --> 00:08:58.720 question for you from several listeners and readers, So be 173 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:01.080 sure to turn your microphone back gone and don't fall 174 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:04.879 asleep on us. There's this crazy story, crazy to us 175 00:09:04.919 --> 00:09:06.879 lay people out of what New Jersey where a bunch 176 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:09.960 of federal judges are saying, no, we are not going 177 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:13.360 to accept Alena Habba, you know, Trump's former personal lawyer 178 00:09:13.679 --> 00:09:17.559 as the acting US attorney for our district. And the 179 00:09:17.679 --> 00:09:20.320 question people are saying is can judges do that? Is 180 00:09:20.360 --> 00:09:22.840 it this a separation of powers problem? Is there some 181 00:09:22.919 --> 00:09:25.360 statute that I have missed or that we've all missed 182 00:09:25.360 --> 00:09:28.759 that gives the judges some say and who can represent 183 00:09:28.799 --> 00:09:32.639 the government in their courtrooms? What's going on. 184 00:09:32.679 --> 00:09:35.480 Here as usual? Steve? 185 00:09:36.000 --> 00:09:38.399 You think because it's not in the Clean Air Act, 186 00:09:38.480 --> 00:09:42.120 something that is going on. Come on, come on, man, 187 00:09:42.159 --> 00:09:45.480 there's another statue. 188 00:09:45.600 --> 00:09:46.919 There's lots of other statues. 189 00:09:47.039 --> 00:09:50.679 So this one's called the Vacancy's Act, And actually she's 190 00:09:50.759 --> 00:09:54.399 just being treated normally as anybody else would be in 191 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:57.519 the under Vacancy Is Act, and she's just not getting 192 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:01.879 the benefit of a special provision that only applies to prosecutors. 193 00:10:02.159 --> 00:10:03.559 So just explain it real quickly. 194 00:10:04.519 --> 00:10:07.879 Anytime there's a vacancy in a position for which the 195 00:10:07.919 --> 00:10:12.480 President nominates and the Senate confirms, the president can put 196 00:10:12.480 --> 00:10:14.720 someone in their acting for I think one hundred and 197 00:10:14.759 --> 00:10:17.399 twenty days, and so she's just reached the end of 198 00:10:17.440 --> 00:10:21.000 her period. Usually at the end of that period, then 199 00:10:21.080 --> 00:10:24.759 the career person who's in that office becomes the acting 200 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:27.840 And you know what, this was changed so that President 201 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:32.360 Clinton could not keep repeatedly making someone acting head of 202 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:35.039 the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Apartment, someone who 203 00:10:35.039 --> 00:10:38.879 the Senate kept rejecting over and over again. So there's 204 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:42.879 this twist for prosecutors, for US attorneys. This is I've 205 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:45.559 always thought this violates a separation of powers, but it's 206 00:10:45.639 --> 00:10:48.840 been with us since the founding. The courts are allowed 207 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:52.279 to appoint someone to be the US attorney in a 208 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:55.519 district if there's a failure like this, And so all 209 00:10:55.559 --> 00:10:57.840 that's happened here is that district judges there have said, no, 210 00:10:58.039 --> 00:10:59.960 we're not going to use that special power. 211 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:01.559 Go point at somebody else. 212 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:04.240 But it is a sign that the judges there have 213 00:11:04.600 --> 00:11:08.639 don't have much respect for Billina Habba, because if they 214 00:11:08.679 --> 00:11:10.840 did respect her, they would have they could have made 215 00:11:10.840 --> 00:11:13.039 a permanent It's actually one of the few areas in 216 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:16.440 the executive branch where the judges can actually appoint the 217 00:11:16.440 --> 00:11:19.639 permanent official. It's as if the president and the Senate 218 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:23.799 had advised and consented. It's this weird wrinkle in the 219 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:27.399 appointments process. It doesn't apply to any other official in 220 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:29.000 the executive branch as far as I know. 221 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:33.480 And so there you have the rhino explanation at the 222 00:11:33.600 --> 00:11:37.200 very end, which says it's because they have something against 223 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:41.639 her and not because they're all rabid anti Trumpers that 224 00:11:42.159 --> 00:11:42.679 they decide. 225 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:46.639 I mean, she's manifestly unqualified for the job. I mean, 226 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:49.759 did you see what she did before she represented Trump? 227 00:11:49.799 --> 00:11:52.960 I mean, come on, I don't think she'd ever appeared 228 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:53.639 in court ever. 229 00:11:55.960 --> 00:11:58.320 I kind of giggled. 230 00:11:58.360 --> 00:12:01.240 I mean, I'm laughing because I mean, it's appropriate that 231 00:12:01.279 --> 00:12:02.399 she would be put in New Jersey. 232 00:12:02.480 --> 00:12:04.039 New Jersey deserves things like this. 233 00:12:05.919 --> 00:12:09.039 Right. Well, I'll just mention in passing that my late 234 00:12:09.159 --> 00:12:12.600 father in law was US attorney and Reno, Nevada under 235 00:12:12.639 --> 00:12:15.159 President Eisenhower, I think at the age of thirty four. 236 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:20.600 Wow Eisenhower. Oh yeah, yes, by Eisenhower. 237 00:12:21.240 --> 00:12:23.519 You know there are only ten people lived in Reno 238 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:25.519 in the fifty access. That's really true. 239 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:27.960 He was in the middle of the ten people lived there, 240 00:12:27.960 --> 00:12:29.480 and eight of them were under investigation. 241 00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:33.080 Just oh no, no, that was he was you know, 242 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:36.639 authorizing and supervising wiretaps of some of the mob people 243 00:12:36.679 --> 00:12:38.799 in Reno and stuff. And no, he was involved a 244 00:12:38.840 --> 00:12:40.720 lot of the mob busting that went on in Nevada 245 00:12:40.759 --> 00:12:43.799 in the fifties. So anyway, so I don't know, if 246 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:45.919 you know, I don't know what his courtroom experience had 247 00:12:45.919 --> 00:12:47.879 been at that point. But still thirty four is pretty 248 00:12:47.919 --> 00:12:49.759 I think he's like one of the youngest ever appointed 249 00:12:49.759 --> 00:12:52.039 to be US attorney at the time. 250 00:12:52.159 --> 00:12:54.720 So we will point out that because New Jersey is 251 00:12:54.799 --> 00:12:58.720 filled with criminals and robbers, right being from Philadelphia, we 252 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:02.159 watched them from across the river. Her it's actually been 253 00:13:02.200 --> 00:13:05.559 a great launching pad for US attorneys. You know who's 254 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:10.360 amongst Alena Haveba's distinguished predecessors were Samuel. 255 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:11.960 Alito and Michael. 256 00:13:13.679 --> 00:13:16.480 Like some of the greatest US attorneys you know that 257 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:18.080 I've ever run into. 258 00:13:18.159 --> 00:13:19.240 And then Alena Habas. 259 00:13:19.320 --> 00:13:21.879 So I could see why the judges were not impressed. Well, 260 00:13:21.960 --> 00:13:27.120 Chris Christie was Chris yes, Chris yes, Chris Christy too. 261 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:30.759 Sorry, there's a lot of hacks out there, and don't 262 00:13:30.799 --> 00:13:35.519 forget that that are US attorneys. I know some of them, 263 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:38.000 and I won't bring up their names here, but remember 264 00:13:38.039 --> 00:13:42.519 that you're forgetting part of the story, which was Hakeem 265 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:48.720 Jeffries sending a letter to those judges telling them that 266 00:13:48.799 --> 00:13:51.039 she was, you know, pro Trump and this and that, 267 00:13:51.200 --> 00:13:56.360 and that they needed to uh that she was partisan 268 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:59.360 and therefore they needed to vote against her. And that 269 00:13:59.519 --> 00:14:02.679 was a complet I mean, it turned it all into 270 00:14:02.720 --> 00:14:06.799 a partisan game. And you know, for that reason, they 271 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:08.759 should have said, no, we're not going to listen to 272 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:12.159 Hakeem Jeffries and kept her. That's what I think. Well 273 00:14:12.360 --> 00:14:16.039 they didn't because they're all scum Democrats. 274 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:19.279 Some other time, because John was so young, then I 275 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:21.840 might go back and revisit the Marston affair from the 276 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:24.960 nineteen seventies. He was the US attorney for Philadelphia that 277 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:26.240 Jimmy Carter wanted to get rid of. 278 00:14:28.440 --> 00:14:30.919 You will be shocked, I know that very well because 279 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:32.000 I dated his daughter. 280 00:14:32.879 --> 00:14:36.200 Oh my god, this we will have to hear him, 281 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:39.120 but not this week. And now we're going to go 282 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:40.559 to a quick break and we'll come back and get 283 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:42.919 started on what we had in mind all along. Don't 284 00:14:42.919 --> 00:14:50.720 go away, all right, Lucretia, I want to toss first 285 00:14:50.720 --> 00:14:52.480 to you today to find out what's on your mind. 286 00:14:52.519 --> 00:14:54.000 I think I know what's on your mind. And the 287 00:14:54.000 --> 00:14:57.120 good news listeners is Lucretia does not even need her 288 00:14:57.159 --> 00:15:00.720 tinfoil hat today for this story. Lucretia, I think. 289 00:15:00.600 --> 00:15:03.559 I'm still gonna need it because there's still a lot 290 00:15:03.600 --> 00:15:07.799 of obfuscating going on. But so the revelations that have 291 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:12.320 come out from the D and I Telsea Gabbard regarding 292 00:15:12.519 --> 00:15:16.879 what most of us knew really happened anyway, was, you know, 293 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:22.919 the entire corruption of our intelligence services by Obama and 294 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:27.600 Hillary Clinton. That they were also upset when Trump actually won. 295 00:15:28.159 --> 00:15:31.840 They were all shocked and dismayed. And Obama, of course, 296 00:15:32.039 --> 00:15:38.240 the narcissistic little that he is, couldn't even bear the 297 00:15:38.279 --> 00:15:40.679 thought that he was not going to have another four 298 00:15:40.759 --> 00:15:45.240 years in office. Through Hillary, that they launched what has 299 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:50.639 to be the most treasonous set of activities ever committed 300 00:15:50.679 --> 00:15:53.360 by a president. And I know a lot of the 301 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:56.200 ones that you know reading being a sort of a 302 00:15:56.240 --> 00:15:58.960 presidential scholar, I know a lot of the things that 303 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:02.279 went on. I can't ever anything worse. So what really happened? 304 00:16:03.679 --> 00:16:09.399 There were allegations that the Russians and helped me, Steve, 305 00:16:09.399 --> 00:16:11.440 if I get this wrong, because I don't have the 306 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:15.159 ability to pull up all of my sources here to 307 00:16:15.279 --> 00:16:17.200 get the steps in the right order. So if I 308 00:16:17.240 --> 00:16:22.519 do this wrong, help. So the intelligence community put together 309 00:16:22.720 --> 00:16:29.480 an intelligence community of assessment that said that the Russians 310 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:33.759 had been involved in it, had involved themselves in our election, 311 00:16:35.120 --> 00:16:37.879 and ultimately it was concluded that it didn't make a 312 00:16:37.879 --> 00:16:41.720 difference that Russian the Russians and others always involved themselves 313 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:45.399 in other countries' elections for their own purposes. But then 314 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:50.080 some things came up about Hillary Clinton's emails. Remember Hillary 315 00:16:50.159 --> 00:16:53.720 Clinton never was never executed for the crime of treason 316 00:16:53.840 --> 00:16:59.279 for keeping her servers in a bathroom and allowing them 317 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:02.840 to be hacked by the Russians, which we know they were. 318 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:09.079 And Steve wanted me to mention that the Russians say it, Steve, 319 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:11.240 because I forget exactly how it went out. 320 00:17:11.559 --> 00:17:11.720 Well. 321 00:17:11.759 --> 00:17:14.279 Well, some of the materially found is that the Russians 322 00:17:14.319 --> 00:17:17.200 believed or thought they actually had the solid evidence to 323 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:20.920 say that Hillary Clinton has serious health problems. She's prone 324 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:25.279 to rages of temper, she's on the tranquilizers a lot, 325 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:30.200 and I mean and everyone now immediately remembers the September eleventh, 326 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:33.599 twenty sixteen episode when she was had to be propped 327 00:17:33.680 --> 00:17:35.599 up and put in the you know, falling down and 328 00:17:35.640 --> 00:17:38.519 you know see later a few hours said, I was dehydrated, 329 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:42.279 right and anyway, I thought, well that's interesting. And there's 330 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:44.039 also why didn't they release it? 331 00:17:44.079 --> 00:17:46.279 Though, Steve there was a reason. I don't remember why. 332 00:17:46.519 --> 00:17:49.079 I don't know why. I don't know why. Yeah, it 333 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:51.440 was what a Senator House Committee report had all this, 334 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:54.640 But I mean, I think the salient points are, First, 335 00:17:54.680 --> 00:17:57.720 Obama was up to his neck in this point number one. 336 00:17:57.759 --> 00:18:00.720 Point number two, they knew it was true, and they 337 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:02.839 knew that the thesis of the Russian interference in the 338 00:18:02.839 --> 00:18:05.920 election was untrue. But that makes the point three, which 339 00:18:05.960 --> 00:18:08.119 is they went forward with it anyway in a deliberate 340 00:18:08.160 --> 00:18:12.240 attempt hobble Trump once he took office, which you know, 341 00:18:12.359 --> 00:18:16.960 they it's hard to hobble Trump because he's unhobbleable' is 342 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:19.799 that a word, but it's certain. Look, when you're under 343 00:18:20.000 --> 00:18:22.759 a Special Council investigation, as John knows, it really slows 344 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:25.160 things down. It dominates too much attention to White House 345 00:18:25.200 --> 00:18:28.400 staff and so forth. So that seems to me as 346 00:18:28.440 --> 00:18:30.559 bad as anything. Nixon is alleged to have done in 347 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:32.559 Watergate and did do right and went all the way 348 00:18:32.599 --> 00:18:34.920 to the top. And yeah, so. 349 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:39.000 Yeah, and there's a lot more to it. You've got 350 00:18:39.039 --> 00:18:42.799 the who actually released some of those emails from the 351 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:46.559 DNC and and was it you know, Julian Assan just 352 00:18:46.599 --> 00:18:51.839 said all along it was never ever ever Russia, And 353 00:18:52.039 --> 00:18:55.039 it was probably something that what was the name of 354 00:18:55.079 --> 00:18:59.519 the young man seth Rich seth Rich killed in a 355 00:18:59.519 --> 00:19:04.039 burglary that didn't take the burglar, the robber didn't take 356 00:19:04.079 --> 00:19:07.000 his wallet or anything else. And you know, there's just 357 00:19:07.319 --> 00:19:12.200 it's so ugly when anything is involved with the Obama 358 00:19:12.279 --> 00:19:15.640 or the Clintons. But ultimately so they not only did 359 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:19.119 they publish things that they were untrue, they published things 360 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:22.200 that they knew the opposite were true. And then of 361 00:19:22.279 --> 00:19:23.640 course go ahead. 362 00:19:23.720 --> 00:19:27.000 Well there's that seems to me there are three questions here, 363 00:19:27.119 --> 00:19:29.400 and let you start first and then we're going to 364 00:19:29.440 --> 00:19:32.599 get John in on this too. One is is you know, 365 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:36.440 what are the criminal vulnerabilities of people in the whole 366 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:41.079 chain of all this? And then second is President Obama, 367 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:45.000 as they say in legal historicals, stopped from being prosecuted 368 00:19:45.599 --> 00:19:48.599 because of the immunity ruling that Trump won last year 369 00:19:48.599 --> 00:19:51.079 to the Supreme Court. And finally, you mentioned treason. I 370 00:19:51.119 --> 00:19:54.279 want to talk a little bit about that, because I mean, 371 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:57.319 is this what foreign country are they working on? Behalf 372 00:19:57.359 --> 00:19:59.319 of I think it was a party interest. So and 373 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:03.039 then there's the of how treason is defined in the Constitution. 374 00:20:03.519 --> 00:20:07.480 It's the only criminal matter discussed directly with litery, peculiar 375 00:20:07.559 --> 00:20:10.960 and interesting conditions. So anyway, whatever order order you want, 376 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:11.599 whoever you want to. 377 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:17.480 Take that, Okay. So the probably the most explosive part 378 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:22.440 about Gabbard's revelations was in fact not only that Obama 379 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:25.319 was involved in him but probably directing it. And so 380 00:20:25.400 --> 00:20:29.200 the inclusion of things in that intelligence community assessment, the 381 00:20:29.400 --> 00:20:33.440 exclusion of things, you know, the role of the Peepee 382 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:36.880 tape as it's often called, the role of Christopher Steele, 383 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:41.279 the role of the Clinton campaign, and the role of 384 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:46.119 crowd strike, all of these readers, we don't have time 385 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:47.960 to listeners, we don't have time to go through all 386 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:50.279 of it. But I think what it ultimately comes down 387 00:20:50.319 --> 00:20:54.480 to is what do you do about probably most specifically Obama, 388 00:20:55.240 --> 00:20:59.039 Brennan and Komy. And this is where I have to 389 00:20:59.079 --> 00:21:03.119 reach to John and say, if you falsify intelligence and 390 00:21:03.119 --> 00:21:07.000 then leak that falsified intelligence with the purpose of either 391 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:11.119 affecting an election or damaging a president, is there any 392 00:21:11.400 --> 00:21:12.119 crime there? 393 00:21:12.599 --> 00:21:14.960 Yeah, there's a question between whether there's anything new and 394 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:18.519 what Gabert released. And then you're you're hypothetical which is 395 00:21:18.519 --> 00:21:21.400 different to me than what Gabret actually shows, but s 396 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:24.519 your hypothetical is well, so first there's a crime in 397 00:21:24.640 --> 00:21:28.880 just releasing a classified right classified document. Leaking that is 398 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:32.480 a violation of the Espionage Act, and that's criminal. But 399 00:21:32.720 --> 00:21:37.799 it's even Oh no, people get prosecuted for the I mean. 400 00:21:37.839 --> 00:21:40.519 Comy wasn't prosecuted in for instance, for doing it. 401 00:21:41.559 --> 00:21:42.680