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seven zero eleven ten If you want to call in
and be part of the program. At the end of
the hour, as we always do on Friday, we'll chat
with Brett Winterble for a little segment we like to
call Pregaming with Brett And What's today? Is today a
day that ends in the letter Why? Yes? Yes, it is? Okay, good.
So it's another day that ends in the letter Why.
And so we have another story on another batch of
declassified documents from our Intel agencies. Yes, I'm not going
to stop covering this, folks, I'm not going to stop
highlighting that we were right. This is a weaponized quote
unquote deep state. It was targeting Trump and his campaign,
his aids, his advisors.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 1: It was weaponized by Obama. It was weaponized by these
intel chiefs and people in the top ranks of the government.
And many of those people are actually still in government,
and a lot of them are in their shadow government
posts in universities and think tanks and NGOs, just waiting
for a Democrat to regain the White House and then
they will all move right back in. That's their system.
Republicans do not have this kind of a system. What
little elements they do have are little. Okay, they may
have a couple of think tanks here and there, but
they do not have the university posts. They don't get
the John Edwards treatment. You know, the former US senator
ran for president and then vice president, right and after
he was out of the US Senate, they gave him
a soft landing pad at UNC Chapel Hill for him
to do his you know, poverty work and all of that.
But that was just a placeholder, give him a paycheck
until he could then turn around and run for office
again and lose. But he But the point is like
same thing with Roy Cooper going up to Harvard, former
Governor Bev Purdue going also to Harvard. Right, they get
them these posts, they pay them a bunch of money,
and then they get some breathing room to chart their
course for the next uh, for the next run. So
the latest now we have is declassified emails from James Clapper.
Former Director of National Intelligence. James Clapp was adamant about
sticking to the narrative that Russia interfered in the twenty
sixteen election to help President Trump, despite concerns raised by
a top intelligence official. Clapper described the Obama administration's effort
to revamp an intelligence community assessment called the ICA on
this ICA was about Russia election medaling, and he described
the effort as a quote unquote team sport and one
that may require the intelligence community to quote compromise its
own standards. This latest intelligence declassification provided by the Office
of the Director of National Intelligence Telsea Gabbard. Former National
Security Agency Director Mike Rogers, a Republican, warned at the
time that his team had concerns about this rush that
Clapper and Obama and Brennan, the head of the CIA,
that they were in this rush to get the ICA
to get this report out as quickly as they wanted to.
You know your recall, we went over this timeline like
a week and a half ago or so, right when
the timeline became clear thanks to another batch of declassified
intel and memos and emails, right that the timeline was
in December. The key dates are in December, from mid
to late December of twenty sixteen, So after Trump beat
Hillary and before he gets inaugurated and takes office, you
have this intelligence community assessment that was worked up and
given to Obama. Believe the date was December ninth, twenty sixteen,
and it is then pulled back and a new one
is rushed through, And the new one that is rushed
through is now representing a higher level of confidence in
this assertion that Putin wanted Trump to win, and that
Putin directly had involvement in hacking the DNC, ordering the
hack of the DNC's emails and servers in order to
help Trump win. Right, And that was all based on
the Steele dossier, which Brennan at the CIA refused to
let other people look at, and didn't he classified it
at the highest level and then buried the thing, so
people could not see the original source material. So the
analysts in all of the you know, fifteen other intel
agencies couldn't see the source material. They just had to
take Bread word for it. That got released too a
couple of weeks ago. See, so we're putting together the
timeline of events here, and we're filling in these gaps,
and so this rush to redo the assessment to include
the Steele Dosier and then also to include representations made
to Brennan by a source of his that he never
would disclose. It was just trust me, and he literally
said this, doesn't it sound true? And what is now
understood is that that source was a guy named Igor Denchenko,
and Brennan said he could not tell anybody who his
source was because Putin would have him whacked. And that
does sound like Putin. That's very on brand for Puti Puot,
you know. But slight problem. Denchenko is actually like living
out in the open. He's not in hiding or anything.
And like his home addresses Lissi's in Northern Virginia and whatever.
So it's not even like, yeah, it's not like he's
in hiding from Putin. He's doesn't seem to be terribly afraid,
and either way, it's like, that's not whatever he told
Brennan allegedly, which I think that came out. I'm trying
to remember if Denchhenko was attributed with this information, but
he actually claims to have not said any of this. Anyway,
that's what gets used to prop up this false narrative
that Trump is Putin's puppet, and Putin wanted Trump to win,
and the timeline has to be accelerated because the president
gets a thing called the PDB, the Presidential Daily Briefing,
President's Daily Briefing comes in and it's based on these icas,
these intelligence community assessments. And the problem was that they
had been running around accusing Trump of being this Russian
asset based on the Hillary Clinton campaign lies, their opo
smears and stuff that were developed during the campaign, and
they had been planning for months. She loses, and now
Trump is getting access to the pdbs because he's the
president elect, and so they now start looping in the
president elect before he actually takes office. So this way
he's not walking in the door blind to the last month,
month and a half of intelligence community assessment reports. So
now they know he needs to be he's going to
be included, So that's when they falsify the reports. That's
when they start adding this stuff in while masking through
classification status masking the root sources in order to convey
this idea that the intelligence community believes Putin wanted Trump
to win and helped him do so when it was
never true and they knew it wasn't true. But that,
of course is then used to launch crossfire Hurricane, the
investigation of Donald Trump, the wiretapping of his campaign, all
the people around him, and it is used to hobble
any efforts that he may have had in making success
or delivering results on his make America Great Again agenda.
It was to hobble his administration's first term and maybe
get him impeached, right because they hated Trump so much,
they viewed him as an existential threat, so everything was
justified in taking him out. Mike Rogers at the NSA
said his team has concerns about this rush to get
the report out so fast and the fact that they
couldn't see the underlying intelligence that was used to produce
this product, so they were very hesitant to sign on
to it because we couldn't We can't say we have
a high confidence in this assessment because we don't have that.
We don't know what you know, and the CIA wouldn't
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So this is a story at the New York Post
from Victor Nava, and it's called Declassified Emails show James
Clapper's dismissive response to Intel community concerns over Russia election
interference report. Former NSA director Mike Rodgers was telling Clapper
that he and his intel people are concerned about this
rush to put out this report, this ICA, the intelligence
community assessment, the timing of it was of concern, but
also that his own people could not get access to
the underlying intel that was used to produce this ICA,
and specifically the part where they were accusing Russia of
hacking the DNC and the d Triple C and getting
all their emails and stuff right, He said, I'm concerned
about the expedited nature of this activity. Clapper urged Rogers
to fall in line, saying, quote, understand your concern. It
is essential that we be on the same page and
are all supportive of the report in the highest tradition
of that's our story, and we're sticking to it like
what's he's describing there, like that when the legend becomes truth,
print the legend. That's what he's saying. This is our
story and we're sticking to it. But it's our story. See.
He went on to shut down any more talk of
any more time being needed to produce this. He said,
we will facilitate as much mutual transparency as possible as
we complete the report, but more time is not negotiable.
We may have to compromise on our normal modalities since
we must do this on such a compressed schedule. This
is one project that has to be a team sport.
This exchange over email came a couple of days after
that December ninth, twenty sixteen meeting between former President Barack Obama,
Clapper Brennan, and other top administration officials, during which the
president demanded a report detailing the tools that Moscow used
and actions it took to influence the twenty sixteen election
to help Trump win. The previous intel the ICA Intelligence
Community assessment that was rejected by Obama determined that quote
Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election
results by conducting malicious cyberac activities against election infrastructure. So
the new Ica said the opposite, and it was based
on nothing, nothing that was not debunked, nothing that was provable.
The NSA would actually go on to sign off on
the new report. Tulci Gabbert has been on the warpath
against the actors behind the Trump Russia collusion narrative and
said Clapper's email reinforces what we already exposed. The decision
to compromise standards and violate protocols in the creation of
the twenty seventeen manufactured Intelligence Assessment was deliberate and came
from the very top. Now there's another, Uh, there's another
related story here, and this comes from the Federalist piece
by Hans mankey Menca Monk Mahnke. I don't know how
he pronounce it. It's m ah n Cke, probably man.
He's an in house council at a global business advisory firm,
so a lawyer guy, and he's the author of Swift
Voting America exposing the Russia Gate fraud and the Steele
dossier to the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation. He's been covering
this for years at the Federalist. And there's a larger
point here. Beyond just our internal national politics and the
corruption of our intelligence services. Right in releasing these two
emails and doing it when she did it. Tolcy Gabbard, I,
according to him, and I agree with him, thinks she
did this when she did this because Trump is in
Alaska meeting with Putin their meeting they should be meeting. Well, yeah,
looks like he has arrived now in Alaska. Right, it
comes just two days before the release of the emails,
was just two days ago before this summit. These emails
again reveal that Clapper pushed the fraudulent narrative that Russia
hacked the DNC. He overrided objections from the NSA and
the timing manners because this very narrative, this claim that
Russia hacked the DNC to help Trump, was used to
sabotage the twenty eighteen Trump Putin summit in Helsinki. Three
days before that meeting, in twenty eighteen, Special Council Robert
Muller indicted twelve Russian nationals on charges of hacking the DNC.
The indictment was designed to create political chaos. Muller knew
that the twelve Russians were located in Russia and would
never stand trial, meaning he would never need to prove
his case. The result of the indictments was exactly what Muller,
his team, and any yet to be identified coconine spirators intended,
which was to sabotage the summit and defectively criminalize diplomacy
with Russia. Trump addressed the hacking directly at that summit
when he was up there. He took questions because Trump,
you know, and what Trump said at the summit sparked
all sorts of outrage and consternation. He said, you have
groups that are wondering why the FBI never took the
server from the DNC. Right, the FBI never got ahold
of that server. The DNC said it was hacked, and
the FBI comes in and says, well, all right, we're
going to do an analysis on that. Let's get access
to your computers and servers whatever. They're like, no, we'll
do it ourselves and then we'll tell you what we get.
But the government, the Intel community, they never got access
to the company that they used was called CrowdStrike, and
the Intel agencies and they never got access to the
CrowdStrike data. CrowdStrike just told them it was Russia. And
the Intel people were like, we can't confirm this low confidence.
We can't confirm it. They won't show us anything. Basically,
we don't believe it to be true. It might be true,
but we don't believe it's true right now because there's
no evidence. They presented no evidence to us. But that
two got changed, completely flipped around, and that was then
cited that it is high confidence. Remember we covered that
one a couple weeks ago, that declassified dump, which was
they switched it from a low confidence assessment to a
high confidence assessment based on nothing, based on pressure from
the top. And so when Trump is asked about this,
he says, people are wondering, why didn't the FBI take
the server. Why haven't they taken the server? Why was
the FBI told to leave the office of the Democrat
National Committee. It was never examined by the FBI or
any other US government agency, and people went nuts. This
proves he's in the pocket of Putin and at tanked
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News Talk eleven, ten ninety nine to three WBT. On
the text line, Jeff says, could we could ask the
DNC crowd strike and whomever else was in on the
coup if they feel bad about the fact that their
lie led to the depths of how many hundreds of
thousands or maybe millions of people in Russia and Ukraine.
They'd probably answer, well, he didn't win, did he? Well?
Slight problem there is that Trump actually did win, and
he can't use the Harry Lyon read that he used
in defending the lie and smear against Mitt Romney on
his tax returns. So at this Helsinki summit in twenty eighteen,
he got the whole Russia Gate thing swirling all around Trump,
and he's asked about it, and he points out that
the FBI never got a hold of the server from
the DNC to prove that they were actually hacked, and
he's like, what's up with that? Outrage ensues. He's labeled
a trader for refusing to accept the truth capital t truth,
the Russian hacked narrative without any evidence, even his own
DNI at the time, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coates,
as well as a lot of Republicans publicly pushed back
against him. But as it turns out, Trump was right,
and the newly released emails from Tolsey Gabbert now confirmed
that his skepticism was one hundred percent justified. The fact
that Clapper was pushing a false narrative to undermine Trump
is further corroborated by an earlier DNI report released by Gabbard.
It was from twenty sixteen that stated the FBI in
the NSA lacked sufficient technical details to correlate the information
posted online to Russian state sponsored actors, meaning there was
no way to determine whether Russia had actually hacked the DNC.
The fact that the DNC hack, if it indeed even
was a hack, as opposed to some internal leak that
has never been resolved, has much to do with how
it was initially handled. When the issue first arose. Rather
than calling in the FBI, they called in Clinton's campaign lawyer,
Michael Sussman. He brought in the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. Now
what is clear is that Sussman would later funnel a
fabricated story about secret Trump putent communications via Russian's Alpha Bank.
Susman was the guy who gave that lie to the
FBI to get them to investigate it, because Susman used
to work for the FBI and knew what was the
guy's name, James Baker I believe was his name. CrowdStrike
quickly and very publicly then proclaimed that Russian state actors
were responsible. However, when the head of CrowdStrike, the chief
security officer, Sean Henry, was called to testify under oath
in twenty seventeen before the House Intelligence Committee, which was
led at that time by Republican Devin Nuness, he said
CrowdStrike had quote no direct evidence that any data had
actually been exfiltrated, in other words, removed. Well, if you
are going to hack the DNC servers get all the
information in order to help Trump, why wouldn't you take it?
Why wouldn't you take the information? Why would you just
gain access and not take anything in order to help Trump? Right?
I mean, like, I'm no spy expert here, but it
seems like if you hack in the purposes to then
take stuff and bring it out and then you can
use it to help Trump. If you don't take the
stuff out, then there's like, what's the point. This new
release of classified declassified intel by Tulsa Gabbart is a
vindication for Trump. It strengthens Trump's position ahead of the
upcoming summit. Actually, no longer will he need to contend
with fake hoaxes dominating the agenda. He can focus on
the task at hand, which is bringing peace to Ukraine.
The release also serves as maybe a bit of an
olive branch to Russia, effectively amounting to an admission by
the US intel community that the people who ran it
knowingly advanced a false claim trying to under mind Trump
and sabotage US Russian relations. So I thought this was
interesting that the timing of this two days before the
summit may actually be an attempt to strengthen Trump's position
as he goes in there for that meeting with Putin.
We shall see. He has arrived in Alaska. He's sitting
on the tarmac right now, and it's totally something that
I think Trump would do, is to make Putin wait
a while, you know, or no, you know, maybe he's
on the tarmac chatting it up with Loretta Lynch, showing
pictures of their grand babies or something that could be it.
I don't know.
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Talk eleven ten ninety nine, three WBT and every single Friday.
At this time we do a little thing we like
to call pregaming with Brett. It's Brett winter Bowl three
to six right here on WBT. Brett is live and
in poison out at truest Field, Bread winter Ble. Howdy,
how are you.
Speaker 3: It's good to be with you. I really appreciate the opportunity.
Speaker 1: It's good to be with So what are you doing
out there at the ballfield? Are you in the starting
lineup or something? No, we're not in the starting lineup.
We are celebrating here today. We've got this is.
Speaker 3: Particularly of interest to you because we are gonna be.
Speaker 2: Watching the night's take on the Memphis Redbirds, and you've
got a tribute.
Speaker 3: Show going on here tonight.
Speaker 1: Oh grateful dudes.
Speaker 2: Yes, your guys, no, man, there you go. So it's
gonna be a wonderful night, very exciting. I always love
being here in the early part of the day because
it's just you can really take everything in and it's
it's just really remarkable, and then who knows what's gonna
end up happening. We have to hop a jet and
head up to Alaska and see what we can do
to kind of, you know, officiate the Sitch.
Speaker 1: Are you being summoned? Are you summoned to Alaska? Have
they asked for your your expertise and.
Speaker 2: Your d But I think you and I would be
the perfect team to go up there and kind of
put things together.
Speaker 1: Because I but I don't speak Russian.
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: He doesn't either, right, So this is my concern, like
we don't like I heard like at some other meetup,
I think it was witkof met with some Russian guy
and they used the Russian translator, like the guy from Russia,
they used him as their translator. Like that's not wise, Like,
please hire your own Russian translator, who is not going
to be like telling you something different than what Putin
is saying, you know, because Putin speaks English, so he
doesn't even need the translator.
Speaker 2: He does he does you look, you saw him in
that movie with Rocky I Must Break You.
Speaker 3: That's true, that's that's it.
Speaker 1: Very clean. Yeah, he's very clean. He knows a lot
of English. So yeah, I would just that that would
be like my one piece of advice is bring your
own Russian translator.
Speaker 3: I think that's really smart.
Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, if you were if you
were in charge of sending somebody with Trump into the
room from his administration, okay.
Speaker 3: From the administration.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who would you have riding in that second chair
with President Trump?
Speaker 1: Hmmm, I don't know, well I would, yes, Yeah, so
Rubio crossed my mind. But also Steven Miller because that guy, Wow,
he's like he's like the Iceman. He strikes me as
somebody who could get into a staring contest with Putin
and the and like it would last probably weeks. You know, Yes,
that's really good. I don't know why you would need
a staring contest in order to get anything done, but
you never know, like that might pop up at some
point where it's like this is the way we settle
things in Russia, you know, staring contest. Or then again,
you may want to go with somebody who's a bit
more jacked, because maybe it's like an arm wrestling kind
of a deal. Maybe that's the way they settle stuff. Yeah, yeah,
who would you take?
Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, man, I think I would take
the guy who's doing all the deals around the world.
Speaker 3: I'm driving a blank on his name wi cough No,
not no, Wick cough. Is that is the nice guy? Uh?
The other guy the other guy that yells all the time.
Speaker 2: Uh you know, no, oh God Navarro, no never never
the uh here, hold on a second.
Speaker 3: The trade who's the trade who's the trade guy for Trump? Uh? Tariffs?
I'm looking this up in real time because I know
it's I can see his face. He's balding. He's an
older guy. That's that's not with cough gets is a
much more sedate Nah. Yeah, you know, I mean it's
it's you know who.
Speaker 1: I'm oh, you the Alex Jones.
Speaker 3: It's not Alex Joe.
Speaker 1: I would know. I'm saying, maybe maybe bring Alex Jones.
Why just for just just to create chaos.
Speaker 2: He's gonna deny that there's a meeting, like you know,
he's he's the denier.
Speaker 1: Now if they bust out some babies to be eating, oh,
Circle of Live. Yeah, how did you find the guy yet?
The guy you're trying to name, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Isn't it. It's not Wick. It's not Wick cough. It's uh,
it's the other guy, all right, that guy, the other guy?
Speaker 1: All right, Well, maybe Brett we'll find out before his
show starts. Momentarily, I'm better reveal it at the out
of the box, all right, I'll do it for this episode.
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