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 --> 00:00:12,480 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 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,640 go to thepeakclendarshow dot com make sure you hit the 7 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,679 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 9 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,280 your support our number three, the final hour of the 10 00:00:30,320 --> 00:00:33,560 week here on the Peate Calendar Show. Thanks a lot 11 00:00:33,600 --> 00:00:35,960 for hanging out. I appreciate it. Seven oh four five, 12 00:00:36,119 --> 00:00:38,439 seven zero eleven ten If you want to call in 13 00:00:38,479 --> 00:00:40,799 and be part of the program. At the end of 14 00:00:40,799 --> 00:00:42,719 the hour, as we always do on Friday, we'll chat 15 00:00:42,759 --> 00:00:46,200 with Brett Winterble for a little segment we like to 16 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:53,039 call Pregaming with Brett And What's today? Is today a 17 00:00:53,159 --> 00:00:57,359 day that ends in the letter Why? Yes? Yes, it is? Okay, good. 18 00:00:57,439 --> 00:00:59,960 So it's another day that ends in the letter Why. 19 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:04,280 And so we have another story on another batch of 20 00:01:04,400 --> 00:01:11,359 declassified documents from our Intel agencies. Yes, I'm not going 21 00:01:11,439 --> 00:01:13,760 to stop covering this, folks, I'm not going to stop 22 00:01:13,840 --> 00:01:17,920 highlighting that we were right. This is a weaponized quote 23 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:22,000 unquote deep state. It was targeting Trump and his campaign, 24 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:23,760 his aids, his advisors. 25 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:24,280 Speaker 2: Right. 26 00:01:24,640 --> 00:01:27,760 Speaker 1: It was weaponized by Obama. It was weaponized by these 27 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,560 intel chiefs and people in the top ranks of the government. 28 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:34,359 And many of those people are actually still in government, 29 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:36,920 and a lot of them are in their shadow government 30 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:41,879 posts in universities and think tanks and NGOs, just waiting 31 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:45,079 for a Democrat to regain the White House and then 32 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:48,519 they will all move right back in. That's their system. 33 00:01:49,359 --> 00:01:52,840 Republicans do not have this kind of a system. What 34 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:57,560 little elements they do have are little. Okay, they may 35 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:59,519 have a couple of think tanks here and there, but 36 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:02,799 they do not have the university posts. They don't get 37 00:02:02,799 --> 00:02:05,840 the John Edwards treatment. You know, the former US senator 38 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:10,680 ran for president and then vice president, right and after 39 00:02:10,719 --> 00:02:13,840 he was out of the US Senate, they gave him 40 00:02:13,879 --> 00:02:17,360 a soft landing pad at UNC Chapel Hill for him 41 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:19,520 to do his you know, poverty work and all of that. 42 00:02:20,159 --> 00:02:22,639 But that was just a placeholder, give him a paycheck 43 00:02:22,719 --> 00:02:25,159 until he could then turn around and run for office 44 00:02:25,199 --> 00:02:28,159 again and lose. But he But the point is like 45 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:32,599 same thing with Roy Cooper going up to Harvard, former 46 00:02:32,639 --> 00:02:37,159 Governor Bev Purdue going also to Harvard. Right, they get 47 00:02:37,199 --> 00:02:39,479 them these posts, they pay them a bunch of money, 48 00:02:39,719 --> 00:02:42,719 and then they get some breathing room to chart their 49 00:02:42,759 --> 00:02:48,120 course for the next uh, for the next run. So 50 00:02:49,319 --> 00:02:55,680 the latest now we have is declassified emails from James Clapper. 51 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:02,960 Former Director of National Intelligence. James Clapp was adamant about 52 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:07,280 sticking to the narrative that Russia interfered in the twenty 53 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:13,479 sixteen election to help President Trump, despite concerns raised by 54 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:19,919 a top intelligence official. Clapper described the Obama administration's effort 55 00:03:20,319 --> 00:03:25,719 to revamp an intelligence community assessment called the ICA on 56 00:03:26,159 --> 00:03:31,599 this ICA was about Russia election medaling, and he described 57 00:03:31,639 --> 00:03:36,439 the effort as a quote unquote team sport and one 58 00:03:36,479 --> 00:03:41,879 that may require the intelligence community to quote compromise its 59 00:03:41,879 --> 00:03:49,759 own standards. This latest intelligence declassification provided by the Office 60 00:03:49,759 --> 00:03:56,080 of the Director of National Intelligence Telsea Gabbard. Former National 61 00:03:56,080 --> 00:04:02,199 Security Agency Director Mike Rogers, a Republican, warned at the 62 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:07,479 time that his team had concerns about this rush that 63 00:04:07,639 --> 00:04:11,599 Clapper and Obama and Brennan, the head of the CIA, 64 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:16,160 that they were in this rush to get the ICA 65 00:04:16,439 --> 00:04:20,759 to get this report out as quickly as they wanted to. 66 00:04:21,399 --> 00:04:24,040 You know your recall, we went over this timeline like 67 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:26,879 a week and a half ago or so, right when 68 00:04:26,920 --> 00:04:30,920 the timeline became clear thanks to another batch of declassified 69 00:04:30,959 --> 00:04:37,360 intel and memos and emails, right that the timeline was 70 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:42,839 in December. The key dates are in December, from mid 71 00:04:42,959 --> 00:04:48,240 to late December of twenty sixteen, So after Trump beat 72 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:53,720 Hillary and before he gets inaugurated and takes office, you 73 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,759 have this intelligence community assessment that was worked up and 74 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,199 given to Obama. Believe the date was December ninth, twenty sixteen, 75 00:05:02,199 --> 00:05:07,800 and it is then pulled back and a new one 76 00:05:07,959 --> 00:05:11,079 is rushed through, And the new one that is rushed 77 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:18,040 through is now representing a higher level of confidence in 78 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:22,879 this assertion that Putin wanted Trump to win, and that 79 00:05:22,920 --> 00:05:27,279 Putin directly had involvement in hacking the DNC, ordering the 80 00:05:27,319 --> 00:05:31,360 hack of the DNC's emails and servers in order to 81 00:05:31,439 --> 00:05:35,439 help Trump win. Right, And that was all based on 82 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:41,879 the Steele dossier, which Brennan at the CIA refused to 83 00:05:41,959 --> 00:05:45,800 let other people look at, and didn't he classified it 84 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:47,720 at the highest level and then buried the thing, so 85 00:05:47,759 --> 00:05:51,839 people could not see the original source material. So the 86 00:05:51,879 --> 00:05:55,600 analysts in all of the you know, fifteen other intel 87 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,600 agencies couldn't see the source material. They just had to 88 00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:04,399 take Bread word for it. That got released too a 89 00:06:04,399 --> 00:06:07,000 couple of weeks ago. See, so we're putting together the 90 00:06:07,040 --> 00:06:10,759 timeline of events here, and we're filling in these gaps, 91 00:06:11,439 --> 00:06:16,480 and so this rush to redo the assessment to include 92 00:06:16,480 --> 00:06:22,040 the Steele Dosier and then also to include representations made 93 00:06:22,279 --> 00:06:25,199 to Brennan by a source of his that he never 94 00:06:25,199 --> 00:06:29,680 would disclose. It was just trust me, and he literally 95 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:35,680 said this, doesn't it sound true? And what is now 96 00:06:35,759 --> 00:06:39,480 understood is that that source was a guy named Igor Denchenko, 97 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:45,560 and Brennan said he could not tell anybody who his 98 00:06:45,639 --> 00:06:49,199 source was because Putin would have him whacked. And that 99 00:06:49,279 --> 00:06:52,279 does sound like Putin. That's very on brand for Puti Puot, 100 00:06:52,360 --> 00:06:59,600 you know. But slight problem. Denchenko is actually like living 101 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:01,720 out in the open. He's not in hiding or anything. 102 00:07:01,959 --> 00:07:05,959 And like his home addresses Lissi's in Northern Virginia and whatever. 103 00:07:06,040 --> 00:07:09,839 So it's not even like, yeah, it's not like he's 104 00:07:10,120 --> 00:07:12,680 in hiding from Putin. He's doesn't seem to be terribly afraid, 105 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:15,639 and either way, it's like, that's not whatever he told 106 00:07:15,680 --> 00:07:20,639 Brennan allegedly, which I think that came out. I'm trying 107 00:07:20,639 --> 00:07:24,519 to remember if Denchhenko was attributed with this information, but 108 00:07:24,680 --> 00:07:28,319 he actually claims to have not said any of this. Anyway, 109 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:31,800 that's what gets used to prop up this false narrative 110 00:07:31,839 --> 00:07:35,680 that Trump is Putin's puppet, and Putin wanted Trump to win, 111 00:07:37,079 --> 00:07:41,639 and the timeline has to be accelerated because the president 112 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:45,000 gets a thing called the PDB, the Presidential Daily Briefing, 113 00:07:45,319 --> 00:07:49,560 President's Daily Briefing comes in and it's based on these icas, 114 00:07:49,639 --> 00:07:55,519 these intelligence community assessments. And the problem was that they 115 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:58,560 had been running around accusing Trump of being this Russian 116 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:03,240 asset based on the Hillary Clinton campaign lies, their opo 117 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:07,240 smears and stuff that were developed during the campaign, and 118 00:08:07,279 --> 00:08:12,600 they had been planning for months. She loses, and now 119 00:08:12,639 --> 00:08:16,079 Trump is getting access to the pdbs because he's the 120 00:08:16,079 --> 00:08:20,519 president elect, and so they now start looping in the 121 00:08:20,519 --> 00:08:24,040 president elect before he actually takes office. So this way 122 00:08:24,079 --> 00:08:27,720 he's not walking in the door blind to the last month, 123 00:08:27,839 --> 00:08:33,440 month and a half of intelligence community assessment reports. So 124 00:08:33,519 --> 00:08:36,000 now they know he needs to be he's going to 125 00:08:36,039 --> 00:08:40,240 be included, So that's when they falsify the reports. That's 126 00:08:40,279 --> 00:08:43,559 when they start adding this stuff in while masking through 127 00:08:43,559 --> 00:08:48,399 classification status masking the root sources in order to convey 128 00:08:48,480 --> 00:08:54,000 this idea that the intelligence community believes Putin wanted Trump 129 00:08:54,039 --> 00:08:57,039 to win and helped him do so when it was 130 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:00,960 never true and they knew it wasn't true. But that, 131 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:04,919 of course is then used to launch crossfire Hurricane, the 132 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:09,000 investigation of Donald Trump, the wiretapping of his campaign, all 133 00:09:09,039 --> 00:09:11,720 the people around him, and it is used to hobble 134 00:09:12,159 --> 00:09:17,399 any efforts that he may have had in making success 135 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:23,720 or delivering results on his make America Great Again agenda. 136 00:09:24,120 --> 00:09:28,240 It was to hobble his administration's first term and maybe 137 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:31,960 get him impeached, right because they hated Trump so much, 138 00:09:32,039 --> 00:09:35,039 they viewed him as an existential threat, so everything was 139 00:09:35,159 --> 00:09:38,759 justified in taking him out. Mike Rogers at the NSA 140 00:09:39,879 --> 00:09:43,480 said his team has concerns about this rush to get 141 00:09:43,480 --> 00:09:46,200 the report out so fast and the fact that they 142 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:49,279 couldn't see the underlying intelligence that was used to produce 143 00:09:49,639 --> 00:09:52,360 this product, so they were very hesitant to sign on 144 00:09:52,399 --> 00:09:54,200 to it because we couldn't We can't say we have 145 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:57,960 a high confidence in this assessment because we don't have that. 146 00:09:58,159 --> 00:10:02,440 We don't know what you know, and the CIA wouldn't 147 00:10:02,440 --> 00:10:04,320 tell them. 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News Talk eleven, ten ninety nine to three WBT. 169 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:13,639 So this is a story at the New York Post 170 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:19,679 from Victor Nava, and it's called Declassified Emails show James 171 00:11:19,759 --> 00:11:24,320 Clapper's dismissive response to Intel community concerns over Russia election 172 00:11:24,519 --> 00:11:32,559 interference report. Former NSA director Mike Rodgers was telling Clapper 173 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:39,559 that he and his intel people are concerned about this 174 00:11:39,759 --> 00:11:44,320 rush to put out this report, this ICA, the intelligence 175 00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:48,519 community assessment, the timing of it was of concern, but 176 00:11:48,559 --> 00:11:51,360 also that his own people could not get access to 177 00:11:51,399 --> 00:11:56,320 the underlying intel that was used to produce this ICA, 178 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:02,399 and specifically the part where they were accusing Russia of 179 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:07,080 hacking the DNC and the d Triple C and getting 180 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:13,799 all their emails and stuff right, He said, I'm concerned 181 00:12:14,399 --> 00:12:19,240 about the expedited nature of this activity. Clapper urged Rogers 182 00:12:19,320 --> 00:12:23,720 to fall in line, saying, quote, understand your concern. It 183 00:12:23,799 --> 00:12:27,399 is essential that we be on the same page and 184 00:12:27,519 --> 00:12:30,799 are all supportive of the report in the highest tradition 185 00:12:30,960 --> 00:12:37,399 of that's our story, and we're sticking to it like 186 00:12:37,440 --> 00:12:42,320 what's he's describing there, like that when the legend becomes truth, 187 00:12:42,399 --> 00:12:45,120 print the legend. That's what he's saying. This is our 188 00:12:45,200 --> 00:12:48,639 story and we're sticking to it. But it's our story. See. 189 00:12:49,679 --> 00:12:53,360 He went on to shut down any more talk of 190 00:12:53,399 --> 00:12:55,679 any more time being needed to produce this. He said, 191 00:12:55,720 --> 00:13:00,120 we will facilitate as much mutual transparency as possible as 192 00:13:00,159 --> 00:13:03,279 we complete the report, but more time is not negotiable. 193 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:07,840 We may have to compromise on our normal modalities since 194 00:13:07,879 --> 00:13:11,080 we must do this on such a compressed schedule. This 195 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:16,519 is one project that has to be a team sport. 196 00:13:17,000 --> 00:13:22,279 This exchange over email came a couple of days after 197 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:27,519 that December ninth, twenty sixteen meeting between former President Barack Obama, 198 00:13:27,759 --> 00:13:31,279 Clapper Brennan, and other top administration officials, during which the 199 00:13:31,320 --> 00:13:35,480 president demanded a report detailing the tools that Moscow used 200 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:38,840 and actions it took to influence the twenty sixteen election 201 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:45,120 to help Trump win. The previous intel the ICA Intelligence 202 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:50,639 Community assessment that was rejected by Obama determined that quote 203 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:56,559 Russian and criminal actors did not impact recent US election 204 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:04,519 results by conducting malicious cyberac activities against election infrastructure. So 205 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:08,360 the new Ica said the opposite, and it was based 206 00:14:08,399 --> 00:14:16,919 on nothing, nothing that was not debunked, nothing that was provable. 207 00:14:17,960 --> 00:14:21,600 The NSA would actually go on to sign off on 208 00:14:21,639 --> 00:14:25,399 the new report. Tulci Gabbert has been on the warpath 209 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:28,759 against the actors behind the Trump Russia collusion narrative and 210 00:14:28,799 --> 00:14:33,120 said Clapper's email reinforces what we already exposed. The decision 211 00:14:33,159 --> 00:14:36,320 to compromise standards and violate protocols in the creation of 212 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:41,440 the twenty seventeen manufactured Intelligence Assessment was deliberate and came 213 00:14:41,559 --> 00:14:46,960 from the very top. Now there's another, Uh, there's another 214 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:49,600 related story here, and this comes from the Federalist piece 215 00:14:49,679 --> 00:14:56,399 by Hans mankey Menca Monk Mahnke. I don't know how 216 00:14:56,440 --> 00:14:59,840 he pronounce it. It's m ah n Cke, probably man. 217 00:15:00,639 --> 00:15:06,039 He's an in house council at a global business advisory firm, 218 00:15:06,159 --> 00:15:09,399 so a lawyer guy, and he's the author of Swift 219 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:12,600 Voting America exposing the Russia Gate fraud and the Steele 220 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:16,879 dossier to the FBI's Crossfire Hurricane investigation. He's been covering 221 00:15:16,919 --> 00:15:21,039 this for years at the Federalist. And there's a larger 222 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:25,879 point here. Beyond just our internal national politics and the 223 00:15:25,919 --> 00:15:31,000 corruption of our intelligence services. Right in releasing these two 224 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:39,679 emails and doing it when she did it. Tolcy Gabbard, I, 225 00:15:39,919 --> 00:15:43,080 according to him, and I agree with him, thinks she 226 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:47,440 did this when she did this because Trump is in 227 00:15:47,519 --> 00:15:52,039 Alaska meeting with Putin their meeting they should be meeting. Well, yeah, 228 00:15:52,159 --> 00:15:57,000 looks like he has arrived now in Alaska. Right, it 229 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:01,879 comes just two days before the release of the emails, 230 00:16:01,919 --> 00:16:06,919 was just two days ago before this summit. These emails 231 00:16:06,960 --> 00:16:11,120 again reveal that Clapper pushed the fraudulent narrative that Russia 232 00:16:11,159 --> 00:16:16,200 hacked the DNC. He overrided objections from the NSA and 233 00:16:16,279 --> 00:16:20,600 the timing manners because this very narrative, this claim that 234 00:16:20,679 --> 00:16:23,679 Russia hacked the DNC to help Trump, was used to 235 00:16:23,799 --> 00:16:31,720 sabotage the twenty eighteen Trump Putin summit in Helsinki. Three 236 00:16:31,879 --> 00:16:36,480 days before that meeting, in twenty eighteen, Special Council Robert 237 00:16:36,559 --> 00:16:42,360 Muller indicted twelve Russian nationals on charges of hacking the DNC. 238 00:16:42,879 --> 00:16:47,360 The indictment was designed to create political chaos. Muller knew 239 00:16:47,639 --> 00:16:50,799 that the twelve Russians were located in Russia and would 240 00:16:50,840 --> 00:16:53,559 never stand trial, meaning he would never need to prove 241 00:16:53,600 --> 00:16:57,120 his case. The result of the indictments was exactly what Muller, 242 00:16:57,279 --> 00:17:01,159 his team, and any yet to be identified coconine spirators intended, 243 00:17:01,200 --> 00:17:07,599 which was to sabotage the summit and defectively criminalize diplomacy 244 00:17:07,839 --> 00:17:14,559 with Russia. Trump addressed the hacking directly at that summit 245 00:17:15,279 --> 00:17:18,279 when he was up there. He took questions because Trump, 246 00:17:18,359 --> 00:17:23,279 you know, and what Trump said at the summit sparked 247 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:26,759 all sorts of outrage and consternation. He said, you have 248 00:17:26,799 --> 00:17:32,400 groups that are wondering why the FBI never took the 249 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:37,720 server from the DNC. Right, the FBI never got ahold 250 00:17:37,799 --> 00:17:40,720 of that server. The DNC said it was hacked, and 251 00:17:40,759 --> 00:17:42,440 the FBI comes in and says, well, all right, we're 252 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:44,519 going to do an analysis on that. Let's get access 253 00:17:44,559 --> 00:17:48,839 to your computers and servers whatever. They're like, no, we'll 254 00:17:48,839 --> 00:17:52,359 do it ourselves and then we'll tell you what we get. 255 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:58,400 But the government, the Intel community, they never got access 256 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,799 to the company that they used was called CrowdStrike, and 257 00:18:01,839 --> 00:18:04,559 the Intel agencies and they never got access to the 258 00:18:04,559 --> 00:18:10,640 CrowdStrike data. CrowdStrike just told them it was Russia. And 259 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:14,720 the Intel people were like, we can't confirm this low confidence. 260 00:18:15,319 --> 00:18:18,279 We can't confirm it. They won't show us anything. Basically, 261 00:18:18,279 --> 00:18:20,640 we don't believe it to be true. It might be true, 262 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:22,720 but we don't believe it's true right now because there's 263 00:18:22,720 --> 00:18:27,039 no evidence. They presented no evidence to us. But that 264 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:32,079 two got changed, completely flipped around, and that was then 265 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:35,720 cited that it is high confidence. Remember we covered that 266 00:18:35,759 --> 00:18:39,119 one a couple weeks ago, that declassified dump, which was 267 00:18:39,279 --> 00:18:42,200 they switched it from a low confidence assessment to a 268 00:18:42,319 --> 00:18:47,319 high confidence assessment based on nothing, based on pressure from 269 00:18:47,319 --> 00:18:51,039 the top. And so when Trump is asked about this, 270 00:18:51,359 --> 00:18:54,839 he says, people are wondering, why didn't the FBI take 271 00:18:54,880 --> 00:18:57,440 the server. Why haven't they taken the server? Why was 272 00:18:57,480 --> 00:19:00,200 the FBI told to leave the office of the Democrat 273 00:19:00,279 --> 00:19:04,480 National Committee. It was never examined by the FBI or 274 00:19:04,519 --> 00:19:09,960 any other US government agency, and people went nuts. This 275 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:14,480 proves he's in the pocket of Putin and at tanked 276 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:17,079 the summit. Here's a great idea. How about making an 277 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,400 escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western 278 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:22,920 North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and 279 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:27,000 cabins of Ashville is your connection. 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On 299 00:20:33,599 --> 00:20:38,400 the text line, Jeff says, could we could ask the 300 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,279 DNC crowd strike and whomever else was in on the 301 00:20:41,319 --> 00:20:43,519 coup if they feel bad about the fact that their 302 00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:46,039 lie led to the depths of how many hundreds of 303 00:20:46,079 --> 00:20:50,279 thousands or maybe millions of people in Russia and Ukraine. 304 00:20:50,359 --> 00:20:56,200 They'd probably answer, well, he didn't win, did he? Well? 305 00:20:57,279 --> 00:21:00,039 Slight problem there is that Trump actually did win, and 306 00:21:01,480 --> 00:21:03,599 he can't use the Harry Lyon read that he used 307 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:07,599 in defending the lie and smear against Mitt Romney on 308 00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:12,160 his tax returns. So at this Helsinki summit in twenty eighteen, 309 00:21:13,079 --> 00:21:15,920 he got the whole Russia Gate thing swirling all around Trump, 310 00:21:16,319 --> 00:21:18,720 and he's asked about it, and he points out that 311 00:21:19,400 --> 00:21:21,759 the FBI never got a hold of the server from 312 00:21:21,799 --> 00:21:24,559 the DNC to prove that they were actually hacked, and 313 00:21:24,559 --> 00:21:28,359 he's like, what's up with that? Outrage ensues. He's labeled 314 00:21:28,359 --> 00:21:33,319 a trader for refusing to accept the truth capital t truth, 315 00:21:33,759 --> 00:21:37,359 the Russian hacked narrative without any evidence, even his own 316 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:41,039 DNI at the time, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coates, 317 00:21:41,319 --> 00:21:44,720 as well as a lot of Republicans publicly pushed back 318 00:21:44,759 --> 00:21:48,759 against him. But as it turns out, Trump was right, 319 00:21:49,559 --> 00:21:52,519 and the newly released emails from Tolsey Gabbert now confirmed 320 00:21:52,559 --> 00:21:57,039 that his skepticism was one hundred percent justified. The fact 321 00:21:57,039 --> 00:22:00,480 that Clapper was pushing a false narrative to undermine Trump 322 00:22:00,519 --> 00:22:05,160 is further corroborated by an earlier DNI report released by Gabbard. 323 00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:08,160 It was from twenty sixteen that stated the FBI in 324 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:12,839 the NSA lacked sufficient technical details to correlate the information 325 00:22:12,960 --> 00:22:16,880 posted online to Russian state sponsored actors, meaning there was 326 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:20,519 no way to determine whether Russia had actually hacked the DNC. 327 00:22:21,559 --> 00:22:24,880 The fact that the DNC hack, if it indeed even 328 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,119 was a hack, as opposed to some internal leak that 329 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:30,440 has never been resolved, has much to do with how 330 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:35,759 it was initially handled. When the issue first arose. Rather 331 00:22:35,799 --> 00:22:39,839 than calling in the FBI, they called in Clinton's campaign lawyer, 332 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:45,839 Michael Sussman. He brought in the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. Now 333 00:22:45,920 --> 00:22:48,960 what is clear is that Sussman would later funnel a 334 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:56,240 fabricated story about secret Trump putent communications via Russian's Alpha Bank. 335 00:22:57,079 --> 00:22:59,880 Susman was the guy who gave that lie to the 336 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,920 FBI to get them to investigate it, because Susman used 337 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:06,559 to work for the FBI and knew what was the 338 00:23:06,559 --> 00:23:10,359 guy's name, James Baker I believe was his name. CrowdStrike 339 00:23:11,079 --> 00:23:15,240 quickly and very publicly then proclaimed that Russian state actors 340 00:23:15,359 --> 00:23:19,839 were responsible. However, when the head of CrowdStrike, the chief 341 00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:23,319 security officer, Sean Henry, was called to testify under oath 342 00:23:23,359 --> 00:23:26,319 in twenty seventeen before the House Intelligence Committee, which was 343 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,880 led at that time by Republican Devin Nuness, he said 344 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:36,640 CrowdStrike had quote no direct evidence that any data had 345 00:23:36,759 --> 00:23:44,039 actually been exfiltrated, in other words, removed. Well, if you 346 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:48,799 are going to hack the DNC servers get all the 347 00:23:48,799 --> 00:23:53,880 information in order to help Trump, why wouldn't you take it? 348 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:58,039 Why wouldn't you take the information? Why would you just 349 00:23:58,039 --> 00:24:06,279 gain access and not take anything in order to help Trump? Right? 350 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:09,839 I mean, like, I'm no spy expert here, but it 351 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:14,519 seems like if you hack in the purposes to then 352 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,839 take stuff and bring it out and then you can 353 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:19,839 use it to help Trump. If you don't take the 354 00:24:19,839 --> 00:24:24,880 stuff out, then there's like, what's the point. This new 355 00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:28,039 release of classified declassified intel by Tulsa Gabbart is a 356 00:24:28,079 --> 00:24:32,240 vindication for Trump. It strengthens Trump's position ahead of the 357 00:24:32,319 --> 00:24:36,319 upcoming summit. Actually, no longer will he need to contend 358 00:24:36,559 --> 00:24:40,240 with fake hoaxes dominating the agenda. He can focus on 359 00:24:40,279 --> 00:24:44,960 the task at hand, which is bringing peace to Ukraine. 360 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:47,559 The release also serves as maybe a bit of an 361 00:24:47,599 --> 00:24:52,079 olive branch to Russia, effectively amounting to an admission by 362 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:56,279 the US intel community that the people who ran it 363 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:00,640 knowingly advanced a false claim trying to under mind Trump 364 00:25:00,839 --> 00:25:05,599 and sabotage US Russian relations. So I thought this was 365 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:11,200 interesting that the timing of this two days before the 366 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:16,160 summit may actually be an attempt to strengthen Trump's position 367 00:25:16,319 --> 00:25:19,000 as he goes in there for that meeting with Putin. 368 00:25:19,720 --> 00:25:21,920 We shall see. He has arrived in Alaska. He's sitting 369 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,319 on the tarmac right now, and it's totally something that 370 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,480 I think Trump would do, is to make Putin wait 371 00:25:26,519 --> 00:25:30,759 a while, you know, or no, you know, maybe he's 372 00:25:30,799 --> 00:25:35,359 on the tarmac chatting it up with Loretta Lynch, showing 373 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:37,480 pictures of their grand babies or something that could be it. 374 00:25:37,519 --> 00:25:37,920 I don't know. 375 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:38,400 Speaker 2: You know. 376 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,000 Speaker 1: Stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, 377 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,440 to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of 378 00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,799 our past while transcending generations. They help us process the 379 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:51,279 meaning of life and our stories are told through images 380 00:25:51,319 --> 00:25:55,119 and videos. 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Brett is live and 399 00:26:57,319 --> 00:27:01,640 in poison out at truest Field, Bread winter Ble. Howdy, 400 00:27:01,759 --> 00:27:02,200 how are you. 401 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,559 Speaker 3: It's good to be with you. I really appreciate the opportunity. 402 00:27:05,559 --> 00:27:09,119 Speaker 1: It's good to be with So what are you doing 403 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,200 out there at the ballfield? Are you in the starting 404 00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,680 lineup or something? No, we're not in the starting lineup. 405 00:27:13,759 --> 00:27:18,279 We are celebrating here today. We've got this is. 406 00:27:18,279 --> 00:27:22,039 Speaker 3: Particularly of interest to you because we are gonna be. 407 00:27:22,039 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 2: Watching the night's take on the Memphis Redbirds, and you've 408 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:30,519 got a tribute. 409 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,440 Speaker 3: Show going on here tonight. 410 00:27:32,559 --> 00:27:34,359 Speaker 1: Oh grateful dudes. 411 00:27:35,000 --> 00:27:38,440 Speaker 2: Yes, your guys, no, man, there you go. So it's 412 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:42,160 gonna be a wonderful night, very exciting. I always love 413 00:27:42,279 --> 00:27:45,640 being here in the early part of the day because 414 00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:48,359 it's just you can really take everything in and it's 415 00:27:48,559 --> 00:27:51,680 it's just really remarkable, and then who knows what's gonna 416 00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:54,440 end up happening. We have to hop a jet and 417 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,680 head up to Alaska and see what we can do 418 00:27:57,759 --> 00:28:00,279 to kind of, you know, officiate the Sitch. 419 00:28:00,279 --> 00:28:03,160 Speaker 1: Are you being summoned? Are you summoned to Alaska? Have 420 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:05,440 they asked for your your expertise and. 421 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,079 Speaker 2: Your d But I think you and I would be 422 00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:10,640 the perfect team to go up there and kind of 423 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:11,599 put things together. 424 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,400 Speaker 1: Because I but I don't speak Russian. 425 00:28:13,799 --> 00:28:14,440 Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. 426 00:28:14,599 --> 00:28:17,839 Speaker 1: He doesn't either, right, So this is my concern, like 427 00:28:18,319 --> 00:28:22,920 we don't like I heard like at some other meetup, 428 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:25,960 I think it was witkof met with some Russian guy 429 00:28:26,319 --> 00:28:31,720 and they used the Russian translator, like the guy from Russia, 430 00:28:31,799 --> 00:28:35,359 they used him as their translator. Like that's not wise, Like, 431 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:39,799 please hire your own Russian translator, who is not going 432 00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:44,680 to be like telling you something different than what Putin 433 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,480 is saying, you know, because Putin speaks English, so he 434 00:28:47,519 --> 00:28:49,000 doesn't even need the translator. 435 00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,640 Speaker 2: He does he does you look, you saw him in 436 00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,759 that movie with Rocky I Must Break You. 437 00:28:53,839 --> 00:28:55,279 Speaker 3: That's true, that's that's it. 438 00:28:55,519 --> 00:28:58,319 Speaker 1: Very clean. Yeah, he's very clean. He knows a lot 439 00:28:58,359 --> 00:29:00,759 of English. So yeah, I would just that that would 440 00:29:00,799 --> 00:29:03,160 be like my one piece of advice is bring your 441 00:29:03,160 --> 00:29:04,440 own Russian translator. 442 00:29:05,359 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 3: I think that's really smart. 443 00:29:07,319 --> 00:29:09,400 Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, if you were if you 444 00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:14,599 were in charge of sending somebody with Trump into the 445 00:29:14,799 --> 00:29:17,440 room from his administration, okay. 446 00:29:17,440 --> 00:29:18,400 Speaker 3: From the administration. 447 00:29:18,519 --> 00:29:22,240 Speaker 2: Yeah, who would you have riding in that second chair 448 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:23,680 with President Trump? 449 00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:31,920 Speaker 1: Hmmm, I don't know, well I would, yes, Yeah, so 450 00:29:32,039 --> 00:29:37,480 Rubio crossed my mind. But also Steven Miller because that guy, Wow, 451 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:42,000 he's like he's like the Iceman. He strikes me as 452 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,559 somebody who could get into a staring contest with Putin 453 00:29:46,079 --> 00:29:50,599 and the and like it would last probably weeks. You know, Yes, 454 00:29:51,319 --> 00:29:54,160 that's really good. I don't know why you would need 455 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,599 a staring contest in order to get anything done, but 456 00:29:56,640 --> 00:29:59,119 you never know, like that might pop up at some 457 00:29:59,160 --> 00:30:01,480 point where it's like this is the way we settle 458 00:30:01,519 --> 00:30:04,759 things in Russia, you know, staring contest. Or then again, 459 00:30:05,039 --> 00:30:07,599 you may want to go with somebody who's a bit 460 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:11,920 more jacked, because maybe it's like an arm wrestling kind 461 00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:15,160 of a deal. Maybe that's the way they settle stuff. Yeah, yeah, 462 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:15,880 who would you take? 463 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,240 Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, man, I think I would take 464 00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:23,160 the guy who's doing all the deals around the world. 465 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,319 Speaker 3: I'm driving a blank on his name wi cough No, 466 00:30:27,359 --> 00:30:30,759 not no, Wick cough. Is that is the nice guy? Uh? 467 00:30:30,799 --> 00:30:33,440 The other guy the other guy that yells all the time. 468 00:30:34,119 --> 00:30:39,799 Speaker 2: Uh you know, no, oh God Navarro, no never never 469 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,400 the uh here, hold on a second. 470 00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:48,640 Speaker 3: The trade who's the trade who's the trade guy for Trump? Uh? Tariffs? 471 00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:50,720 I'm looking this up in real time because I know 472 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:54,039 it's I can see his face. He's balding. He's an 473 00:30:54,039 --> 00:30:58,799 older guy. That's that's not with cough gets is a 474 00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:02,799 much more sedate Nah. Yeah, you know, I mean it's 475 00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:03,920 it's you know who. 476 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,519 Speaker 1: I'm oh, you the Alex Jones. 477 00:31:07,279 --> 00:31:08,359 Speaker 3: It's not Alex Joe. 478 00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,960 Speaker 1: I would know. I'm saying, maybe maybe bring Alex Jones. 479 00:31:13,279 --> 00:31:18,839 Why just for just just to create chaos. 480 00:31:19,319 --> 00:31:23,160 Speaker 2: He's gonna deny that there's a meeting, like you know, 481 00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:24,160 he's he's the denier. 482 00:31:24,279 --> 00:31:28,440 Speaker 1: Now if they bust out some babies to be eating, oh, 483 00:31:29,079 --> 00:31:33,400 Circle of Live. Yeah, how did you find the guy yet? 484 00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,119 The guy you're trying to name, Yeah. 485 00:31:35,039 --> 00:31:37,799 Speaker 3: Isn't it. It's not Wick. It's not Wick cough. It's uh, 486 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,319 it's the other guy, all right, that guy, the other guy? 487 00:31:40,319 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 1: All right, Well, maybe Brett we'll find out before his 488 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,519 show starts. Momentarily, I'm better reveal it at the out 489 00:31:44,519 --> 00:31:46,880 of the box, all right, I'll do it for this episode. 490 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:49,039 Thank you so much for listening. I could not do 491 00:31:49,079 --> 00:31:51,240 the show without your support and the support of the 492 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,279 businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, 493 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,519 please support them too and tell them you heard it here. 494 00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,200 You can also become a patron at my Patreon page 495 00:31:59,319 --> 00:32:02,720 or go to the epclenarshow dot com. Again, thank you 496 00:32:02,799 --> 00:32:06,400 so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.