1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:07,160 Speaker 1: What's going on. Thank you so much for listening to 2 00:00:07,200 --> 00:00:09,640 this podcast. It is heard live every day from noon 3 00:00:09,679 --> 00:00:12,519 to three on WBT Radio in Charlotte. And if you 4 00:00:12,560 --> 00:00:16,719 want exclusive content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, 5 00:00:16,760 --> 00:00:19,239 my daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 6 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,600 go to dpeakclendarshow 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 --> 00:00:35,719 your support. All Right, deep breath, everybody, let's talk about Signal. Well, 10 00:00:35,759 --> 00:00:39,320 not actually the platform. I don't really know anything about it. 11 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:43,200 It's just like a messaging platform. And apparently it promises 12 00:00:43,719 --> 00:00:48,200 like you know, encryption, so it's more secure something and 13 00:00:48,439 --> 00:00:51,000 you can have all of your conversations deleted on a 14 00:00:51,039 --> 00:00:53,799 schedule or deleted immediately, that kind of thing. It's like 15 00:00:53,840 --> 00:00:56,880 what's app? Doesn't what? Or no, sorry, Snapchat does that too? 16 00:00:56,960 --> 00:00:57,119 Speaker 2: Right? 17 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:04,200 Speaker 1: The messages delete. So apparently there was a snap Chat, 18 00:01:04,280 --> 00:01:06,400 so if you're not aware or not Snapchat, there was 19 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:12,840 a Signal group chat that was set up and a 20 00:01:12,879 --> 00:01:16,000 bunch of people in the Trump administration cabinet level, like 21 00:01:16,439 --> 00:01:20,959 top officials, were in this group chat and they were 22 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:25,599 going over the plan to bomb the Houties. No Blowfish 23 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:30,640 were harmed in any of the bombing runs. Okay, the 24 00:01:30,719 --> 00:01:34,879 Hooties over in Yemen. These are the Islamists who literally 25 00:01:34,879 --> 00:01:37,280 have on their flag like death to the Jews and 26 00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:41,480 death to America. Like literally it says that on their flick. 27 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:45,840 So we may never know what their motivations are for 28 00:01:46,079 --> 00:01:52,159 why they started, you know, lobbing rockets at the shipping lanes, 29 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:56,599 trying to hit all sorts of commercial and private and 30 00:01:56,719 --> 00:02:02,280 even military ships. I think it might have something to 31 00:02:02,319 --> 00:02:04,280 do with their religion, but I'm not sure. I don't 32 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:08,159 want to just be you know, spitballing with wild accusations. 33 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:13,439 So they have. They've been engaged in this campaign basically 34 00:02:13,479 --> 00:02:17,960 since October seventh because they stand in solidarity with the 35 00:02:18,039 --> 00:02:23,680 HAMAS terrorists, the designated Foreign terrorist Organization HAMAS. They stand 36 00:02:23,719 --> 00:02:26,800 with HAMAS, and so they are they're also like a 37 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:33,599 proxy of Iran, much like Hezbollah, who also started shelling Israel. 38 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:38,280 That was the whole point of HAMAS launching its incursion 39 00:02:38,439 --> 00:02:42,719 into Israel, massacring a bunch of Israelis and whoever happened 40 00:02:42,719 --> 00:02:45,199 to be in their way, just murdering and raping all 41 00:02:45,240 --> 00:02:49,800 the way through the area. And then the idea was 42 00:02:49,879 --> 00:02:56,560 to draw all of their Iranian allies, Iranian backed allies 43 00:02:57,080 --> 00:03:01,719 into a fight against Israel. Why. Well, the conventional wisdom, 44 00:03:02,639 --> 00:03:07,840 the thinking is that the Abraham Accords that Trump signed 45 00:03:08,719 --> 00:03:13,719 four years prior has been bearing fruit, and it is 46 00:03:14,759 --> 00:03:19,879 warming relations with certain Muslim countries in the Middle East. 47 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:24,759 And so these countries that are warming to America and 48 00:03:25,479 --> 00:03:29,759 even to Israel, that that is an existential threat to 49 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:35,360 the Iranian regime. They are opposite of the Sunni Muslim 50 00:03:35,759 --> 00:03:38,960 countries because Iran is Shia. By the way, you should 51 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:43,560 just eliminate the word Shi'ite from your vocabulary. It's apparently 52 00:03:43,599 --> 00:03:49,919 not a They're Shia, Shia, and Sunni. So you've got 53 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,280 this power dynamic in the Middle East. Iran wants to 54 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:56,759 be more of a regional power, and the other Muslim 55 00:03:56,759 --> 00:04:00,199 countries do not want to see that. And so as 56 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:05,960 they begin warming to America and Israel, Iran's like, oh, 57 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,120 we can't have that. And so this was supposed to 58 00:04:09,159 --> 00:04:13,599 trigger a larger conflagration in the area and to prevent 59 00:04:13,680 --> 00:04:19,480 anybody from dealing positively with Israel. So that's what the 60 00:04:19,519 --> 00:04:22,319 Hooties are doing this for right. They're there and they're 61 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:25,800 launching all of these rockets, usually from the shores, I 62 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:32,279 understand it into the shipping lanes. So America decides we're 63 00:04:32,319 --> 00:04:34,160 going to protect the shipping lanes. And by the way, 64 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:38,199 if you don't understand the importance of protecting international shipping 65 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,800 like this is the stuff that leads to large scale war. 66 00:04:44,879 --> 00:04:48,040 If you if you cannot protect maritime vessels that you 67 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:53,120 need to have free passage in the in the waters, 68 00:04:53,519 --> 00:04:58,839 if there is no penalty for piracy, then international trade 69 00:04:58,879 --> 00:05:02,360 is done. Basically, you got to have the ability to 70 00:05:02,439 --> 00:05:05,920 float through without with all of the merchandise going someplae 71 00:05:06,199 --> 00:05:10,639 and so America has protected those maritime passages for a 72 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,839 very long time, along with some help from allies. But 73 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:17,360 basically it's fallen onto America. And you may not like that, 74 00:05:18,920 --> 00:05:20,639 but that is kind of the way it's been. 75 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:20,879 Speaker 3: Right. 76 00:05:21,319 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: So this this meeting is set up, this chat group 77 00:05:29,199 --> 00:05:35,879 chat is set up apparently by Michael Waltz. That's the understanding. 78 00:05:35,879 --> 00:05:44,839 Michael Waltz. He is Donald Trump's national security advisor. I 79 00:05:44,879 --> 00:05:46,639 don't know if it was him, I don't know if 80 00:05:46,639 --> 00:05:49,560 it was one of his people. Here's another thing, I've 81 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:52,879 not seen is whether or not they used a pre 82 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:58,480 existing group, right, a pre existing group that was already 83 00:05:58,519 --> 00:06:00,759 set up. I don't know. I don't think that could 84 00:06:00,759 --> 00:06:04,360 be the case. But to me, I would like to 85 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:09,120 know who the hell has Jeffrey Goldberg's name in their 86 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:13,000 contacts list? Why would you have that guy in your 87 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:16,319 contacts list? You know who Goldberg is, right, Goldberg is 88 00:06:16,319 --> 00:06:18,959 the guy that wrote the story about the suckers and losers, 89 00:06:19,199 --> 00:06:26,959 remember that one, the discredited story, And he wrote that story. 90 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,120 This is Jeffrey Goldberger. And like a lot of people suggest, 91 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:32,040 I have no idea if this is true, that he's 92 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:38,560 a cutout basically for the Obama CIA crew. So whenever 93 00:06:38,560 --> 00:06:41,439 they want to leak stuff through into the media that 94 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:43,560 comes out of the intelligence community, if you're in the 95 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:49,759 Obama wing, then you go through Goldberg among others. Somehow 96 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:53,120 or another, Goldberg gets added to this group, probably because 97 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:55,959 he's got the same initials as somebody else that was 98 00:06:55,959 --> 00:07:00,360 supposed to be invited but wasn't. JAG. And so when 99 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:02,680 I guess on the app, when you're looking to add people, 100 00:07:02,759 --> 00:07:05,040 you see the little circle and they have the initials 101 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:08,839 JG or whatever, and you click on, and so they 102 00:07:08,959 --> 00:07:12,920 added Jeffrey Goldberg. It seems to me like the most 103 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:16,120 because I'm an Okkham's raiser kind of a guy. The 104 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:20,839 most obvious answer is probably the simplest one, which is 105 00:07:20,839 --> 00:07:22,240 that they did not mean to put him in that 106 00:07:22,279 --> 00:07:26,319 group chat. That was unintentional. They fat fingered the thing, 107 00:07:27,319 --> 00:07:30,120 or they you know, maybe he didn't have his readers on, 108 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:32,199 and so he just he looked at the phone and 109 00:07:32,279 --> 00:07:36,759 hit the wrong person whatever, and they add in Jeffrey Goldberg. 110 00:07:37,079 --> 00:07:41,800 And now he sees this stuff, and he at first 111 00:07:41,879 --> 00:07:46,199 says he at first does not believe that this was 112 00:07:46,279 --> 00:07:50,720 actually the people that it now turns out it was. 113 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:54,399 He thought that it was. It could be like a scam, 114 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:56,680 It could be like a James O'Keefe kind of an 115 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:02,680 operation to make him do a story that wasn't true. 116 00:08:02,839 --> 00:08:06,480 But it turns out it was true. This actually did occur. 117 00:08:06,519 --> 00:08:08,240 There was a group chat message, and he was added 118 00:08:08,279 --> 00:08:12,240 incorrectly into it, erroneously into it, and then he got 119 00:08:12,279 --> 00:08:17,720 apprized of all of these plans. And so now the 120 00:08:17,839 --> 00:08:22,040 outrage right, and so Democrats are all about getting themselves 121 00:08:22,079 --> 00:08:24,480 another impeachment against Donald Trump, who, by the way, was 122 00:08:24,519 --> 00:08:27,720 not part of the group chat. They they're they're calling 123 00:08:27,759 --> 00:08:31,000 for everybody to quit. They want yeah, they want resignations 124 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:33,279 from everybody that was involved. By the way, the operation 125 00:08:33,440 --> 00:08:37,159 was a success. It went off without a hitch. That 126 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,039 that doesn't mean it wasn't compromised. It was because you 127 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:43,120 brought in Jeffrey Goldberg. But Goldberg didn't report on any 128 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:45,200 of this stuff. Now, maybe that's because he thought it 129 00:08:45,240 --> 00:08:47,519 was all a scam. Maybe he thought it was a lie. 130 00:08:47,519 --> 00:08:49,440 He wasn't sure. But when he saw that they were 131 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:52,519 getting ready to launch in about two hours, he says, 132 00:08:52,519 --> 00:08:54,840 he hung out in a parking lot at some grocery 133 00:08:54,879 --> 00:09:02,080 store and he went on to x Twitter and he 134 00:09:02,120 --> 00:09:04,120 saw that we were bombing and that's when he knew 135 00:09:04,120 --> 00:09:06,320 it was real. So he only knew what was real 136 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:12,320 after and then he wrote a story about it, and 137 00:09:12,399 --> 00:09:17,320 this story was published yesterday, And that's what everybody is 138 00:09:17,360 --> 00:09:22,000 focused on now, is about how could this have happened? Well, 139 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,039 obviously I think it was a mistake. Surely they would 140 00:09:25,039 --> 00:09:27,120 not have put him in the group chat. There's no 141 00:09:27,159 --> 00:09:29,639 reason to put him in the group chat, right unless 142 00:09:29,639 --> 00:09:31,720 you were trying to what leak the plans ahead of 143 00:09:31,759 --> 00:09:38,480 time to Jeffrey Goldberg. The FBI says it's doing an investigation. 144 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:40,559 Cash Mattel said that today when he was up on 145 00:09:40,600 --> 00:09:43,679 Capitol Hill at a hearing, Tolcy Gabbert says there was 146 00:09:43,679 --> 00:09:47,480 no classified information in it. Pointing out here, I feel 147 00:09:47,480 --> 00:09:52,679 it's necessary got to point out that just because well, 148 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:56,519 a thing is not classified because it is marked classified, 149 00:09:56,799 --> 00:10:02,080 it is classified because of the nature of the And 150 00:10:02,320 --> 00:10:06,120 I am consistent on this explanation, which by the way, 151 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:10,159 goes back to twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, when it was 152 00:10:10,399 --> 00:10:14,799 Hillary Clinton and she had exposed all sorts of classified 153 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:20,440 information on her server that had like no security on 154 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:24,919 it whatsoever. So like the stuff that was classified that 155 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:28,360 was moving through her server via the emails and such. Yeah, 156 00:10:28,399 --> 00:10:30,360 so Democrats are now saying we don't ever want to 157 00:10:30,360 --> 00:10:32,960 hear anything else about Hillary's emails because you guys did 158 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:37,000 it too. Now, I think there is a difference in 159 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:43,039 erroneously including a guy in a group chat and creating 160 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:47,559 building a home brew server so you can control all 161 00:10:47,559 --> 00:10:50,480 the information and then you can wipe it all away 162 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:54,759 and it's irretrievable. That's the point of creating a server, 163 00:10:55,639 --> 00:10:58,000 not using like a Gmail account or something, because that's 164 00:10:58,039 --> 00:11:02,320 Google servers now. They share a similarity in that they 165 00:11:02,360 --> 00:11:07,679 expose the classified material or the sensitive material. They expose 166 00:11:07,720 --> 00:11:12,720 it to potential hackers. 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We shall 193 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:43,240 go to the phones now, Tom, Welcome to the program. 194 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:46,559 Hello Tom, Hello, how you thank you so much, sir, 195 00:12:46,639 --> 00:12:46,919 thank you. 196 00:12:47,919 --> 00:12:53,240 Speaker 4: Listen, let's just be perfectly clear. Headspaff and his staff, 197 00:12:53,279 --> 00:12:56,360 they dropped the ball. They put on nation at risk, 198 00:12:56,960 --> 00:13:01,120 and people are wondering, well, he still is drinking or not, 199 00:13:01,279 --> 00:13:03,320 So we'll make it fair whether he's drinking or not. 200 00:13:03,799 --> 00:13:07,879 They dropped the ball. And national security is not a 201 00:13:07,879 --> 00:13:12,320 democratic thing, left or right or Republican thing. National security 202 00:13:12,440 --> 00:13:16,240 covers all Americans so they made a mistake. And I 203 00:13:16,279 --> 00:13:20,919 think about President Biden's chief of staff that had the 204 00:13:20,919 --> 00:13:24,840 same job that Husteff had when he was sick and 205 00:13:24,879 --> 00:13:26,600 went to the hospital and didn't report it. They made 206 00:13:26,639 --> 00:13:28,080 a big federal case out of it. 207 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:32,080 Speaker 1: It wasn't a federal case. There was no federal case. 208 00:13:32,120 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 4: Now congressional case. 209 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:37,039 Speaker 1: He yeah, they wanted to know why you went a wall, 210 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:38,360 which is the big deal. 211 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:41,399 Speaker 4: And we're wondering why these guys put our nation at risk, 212 00:13:41,399 --> 00:13:44,159 and there's no excuse for it. There's no excuse, not 213 00:13:44,240 --> 00:13:45,240 Democratic Republicans. 214 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:47,559 Speaker 1: So real just hang on toime, let me hang on toime. 215 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,120 They got to stop you real quick because you've said 216 00:13:50,120 --> 00:13:52,440 it his name a couple of times. Pete Hegseth. He's 217 00:13:52,480 --> 00:13:57,320 the Defense Secretary. But the guy who created the group chat, 218 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:02,519 that would be Michael Waltz, the National Security Advices. 219 00:14:02,639 --> 00:14:05,039 Speaker 4: All of them who were in that group chat should 220 00:14:05,039 --> 00:14:07,480 be reprimanded, all of them and the guy have put 221 00:14:07,519 --> 00:14:10,000 together and I thank god the man brought it out. 222 00:14:10,360 --> 00:14:13,440 It's wrong and it's not a Democrat or a Republican thing. 223 00:14:13,519 --> 00:14:15,799 But the bottom line is this, did you have. 224 00:14:15,759 --> 00:14:21,080 Speaker 1: A problem with the Defense secretary going a wall? With 225 00:14:21,519 --> 00:14:24,080 hushtaff doing no, no, no, no, I mean Tom, I'm 226 00:14:24,080 --> 00:14:27,000 asking whether or not you have a consistent standard. Basically, 227 00:14:27,600 --> 00:14:29,720 were you mad? Were you angry. 228 00:14:29,679 --> 00:14:33,559 Speaker 4: That I think that he should have apologized and he did, 229 00:14:33,639 --> 00:14:35,919 and I think these guys should apologize. I'm not trying 230 00:14:35,919 --> 00:14:38,440 to play word games, because I'm just straight up to 231 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:41,320 the point. I'm a loyal American before I'm a Democrat. 232 00:14:41,440 --> 00:14:43,519 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I'm asking. That's why I was asking you 233 00:14:43,559 --> 00:14:45,799 straight up whether or not you had a problem with 234 00:14:45,879 --> 00:14:48,799 the Defense Secretary going a wall while we were in 235 00:14:48,840 --> 00:14:53,080 the middle of three different international operations. 236 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:54,840 Speaker 4: As to the American people like he was supposed when 237 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:57,639 these guys need to apologize and they need to be reprimanded. 238 00:14:57,679 --> 00:15:00,159 But let me finish this and then I'll let you 239 00:15:00,919 --> 00:15:03,159 twisted or spend however you want to do it. D 240 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:03,639 e I. 241 00:15:03,879 --> 00:15:06,320 Speaker 1: It seems like a good faith argument. Yeah, go ahead. 242 00:15:06,759 --> 00:15:13,039 Speaker 4: These DEI guys, these DEI guys, they could have did 243 00:15:13,080 --> 00:15:17,519 a much better job than this group chat playing. And 244 00:15:17,559 --> 00:15:20,559 I thank god that this report or whoever he was, 245 00:15:21,039 --> 00:15:23,039 brought it forth. And that's all I gotta play. And 246 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,080 that's my story, and I promise you I'm sticking to it. 247 00:15:25,440 --> 00:15:27,919 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fantastic. Uh huh, all right, Tom, I appreciate 248 00:15:27,919 --> 00:15:30,279 the call. See here's the thing, Tom, you would do 249 00:15:30,639 --> 00:15:35,600 way better in those types of conversations if you approached 250 00:15:35,639 --> 00:15:39,120 it at least with the sort of facade of a 251 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:46,960 good faith mentality, Because here's the thing, like, I I 252 00:15:47,279 --> 00:15:48,960 want to know what happened as well, and what have 253 00:15:49,039 --> 00:15:52,000 I always cautioned here, Like, let's give it a minute, 254 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:56,840 Let's find out what happened, and hopefully we get some clarity, 255 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:00,600 and when we know what occurred, then we'll be able 256 00:16:00,639 --> 00:16:05,399 to say what we think should happen. It does seem 257 00:16:05,519 --> 00:16:08,879 to me like it was a mistake. But there's also 258 00:16:09,000 --> 00:16:11,720 the larger question of why are they doing this stuff 259 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:16,679 in the signal group messaging, And to me, they're doing 260 00:16:16,720 --> 00:16:21,480 that in order to avoid having that having those discussions 261 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:27,559 ever become preserved as part of the record, and that's 262 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:32,000 a problem for me. That should, like these types of 263 00:16:32,039 --> 00:16:36,000 discussions should be held in a skiff in a secure 264 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:42,840 location over secured comms, and then the records preserved. Now 265 00:16:42,879 --> 00:16:45,039 I don't know, nobody knows at this point whether or 266 00:16:45,080 --> 00:16:48,320 not they did make a record of this conversation and 267 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:50,879 then preserve it, which you could do in order to 268 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:53,279 preserve the records, like that's possible, but we don't know 269 00:16:53,399 --> 00:16:56,240 if that occurred. All right, if you're listening to this show, 270 00:16:56,279 --> 00:16:57,799 you know I try to keep up with all sorts 271 00:16:57,840 --> 00:16:59,799 of current events, and I know you do too, And 272 00:17:00,039 --> 00:17:03,360 you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. 273 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:07,119 Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which 274 00:17:07,160 --> 00:17:10,079 is why I've been so impressed with ground News. 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Subscribe through that link 286 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,799 and you'll get fifteen percent off any subscription. I use 287 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:52,000 the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature 288 00:17:52,200 --> 00:17:54,960 your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it 289 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:58,160 also supports ground news as they make the media landscape 290 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:01,359 more transparent. Let's head over to the phones again and 291 00:18:01,599 --> 00:18:04,160 get Joey on. Hello, Joey, Welcome to the show. 292 00:18:05,039 --> 00:18:08,640 Speaker 5: Hey Pete. First of all, I wonder if mister Tom 293 00:18:08,680 --> 00:18:11,720 got this upset when we lost thirteen of our heroes 294 00:18:11,759 --> 00:18:15,400 from the incompetence of the Biden administration. I highly doubt it. 295 00:18:15,559 --> 00:18:17,079 Speaker 1: Nobody lost their jobs for that. 296 00:18:18,319 --> 00:18:22,519 Speaker 5: Nope, nope, nope. So I'm calling about the you know, 297 00:18:22,559 --> 00:18:25,079 the CJ initials and all that, and I think there's 298 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:28,759 only two options here. Either there's a male within with 299 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:32,039 I hope not and I doubt it, or there was 300 00:18:32,039 --> 00:18:35,039 a mistake made with whoever you know the initials of CJ. 301 00:18:35,279 --> 00:18:37,200 And if that's the mistake, let's find out who the 302 00:18:37,200 --> 00:18:38,680 real CJ is they. 303 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:42,400 Speaker 1: I have seen the name. It's the Yeah, the initials 304 00:18:42,960 --> 00:18:45,559 are the same as somebody else who is in the 305 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:49,240 security apparatus. I forget her name, but she yeah, so 306 00:18:49,480 --> 00:18:52,279 like that's it is likely that's what occurred that they 307 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:58,440 they fat fingered the contact list and added JG. Jeffrey 308 00:18:58,440 --> 00:19:01,559 Goldberg when they should have. I forget her name. I 309 00:19:01,599 --> 00:19:04,839 had never heard of her before. But uh, there's some 310 00:19:04,920 --> 00:19:09,200 of the internet salutes have deduced who she who she is, 311 00:19:09,279 --> 00:19:11,240 and and that that's who should have been in the 312 00:19:11,240 --> 00:19:11,759 group chat. 313 00:19:12,599 --> 00:19:14,920 Speaker 5: Oh good, Well that's the answer. I think they should 314 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:17,359 say that under oath when they're up there doing that, right, 315 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:19,400 it was a mistake and that's who it should have been, 316 00:19:19,440 --> 00:19:22,039 and and answered my question. 317 00:19:22,279 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel I mean, I'm. 318 00:19:24,599 --> 00:19:26,440 Speaker 5: I'm glad there is to hear one with that initial 319 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:26,880 that should have. 320 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:28,880 Speaker 1: Been on it. Yeah, that's the way it appears at 321 00:19:28,880 --> 00:19:32,559 this point, Joey. I appreciate the call, but I sir, uh, 322 00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:37,559 this is a message from tim Otao who says, dear Democrats, sorry, 323 00:19:37,799 --> 00:19:40,839 it was a mistake. It will be addressed and remedied. No, 324 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,240 we are not going to empty Trump's cabinet to further 325 00:19:43,319 --> 00:19:47,759 the Democrats' agenda. Get over it, right, Let's just apply 326 00:19:48,359 --> 00:19:54,799 the Democrats standard, shall we. Yeah, I'm okay with that. Look, 327 00:19:55,359 --> 00:19:58,480 I did not approve of the Democrats standard when the 328 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:03,039 Democrats were behaving badly. I didn't approve of that. But 329 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,880 I lost that argument to Democrats and the media. But 330 00:20:06,960 --> 00:20:09,599 I repeat myself, and so here we are, and I 331 00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:13,839 warned people. You're not going to like it when this 332 00:20:14,039 --> 00:20:17,240 is the new standard. Right. That's the thing about slippery 333 00:20:17,279 --> 00:20:22,799 slopes when you have as Jeffrey Goldberg I think in 334 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:27,440 his piece he even mentions, I think you mentioned or no, 335 00:20:27,559 --> 00:20:30,119 maybe no, it was the AP. I think it was 336 00:20:30,160 --> 00:20:30,559 the AP. 337 00:20:32,079 --> 00:20:32,279 Speaker 3: Yeah. 338 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:36,400 Speaker 1: The handling of national defense information is strictly governed by 339 00:20:36,559 --> 00:20:40,480 law under the century old Espionage Act, including provisions then 340 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:42,839 make it a crime to remove such information from its 341 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,759 quote proper place of custody, even through an act of 342 00:20:45,799 --> 00:20:49,640 gross negligence. The Justice Department in twenty fifteen and twenty 343 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:53,960 sixteen investigated whether former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton broke 344 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:58,200 the law by communicating about classified information with her AIDS 345 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:01,119 on a private email server that she had set up, 346 00:21:01,519 --> 00:21:06,759 though the FBI ultimately recommended against charges and none were brought. 347 00:21:08,440 --> 00:21:13,799 And so that's the standard. I'm sorry, did you guys 348 00:21:13,839 --> 00:21:16,319 not want that standard, because it seemed like you really 349 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:21,319 really wanted that standard. Everybody seemed to say that it 350 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:24,440 was all getting blown out of proportion. Oh, bottery emails 351 00:21:24,519 --> 00:21:28,960 and all this stuff. They didn't bring charges, She didn't 352 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:34,480 suffer any penalty legally, I mean, she lost her run 353 00:21:34,559 --> 00:21:37,599 for president and they blamed Jim Comey, which I think 354 00:21:37,680 --> 00:21:40,920 is pretty instructive and illustrative of the point I am making, 355 00:21:40,960 --> 00:21:44,240 which is that the Democrats did not feel that she 356 00:21:44,319 --> 00:21:47,839 should be punished whatsoever. And the fact that she lost 357 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:53,400 and they blamed somebody else for investigating her crime, which 358 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:57,799 she was never prosecuted for, right that that's somehow the reason, 359 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:01,920 not the fact that she engaged in the behavior. Also, 360 00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:04,880 she was just a terrible candidate and didn't campaign in Wisconsin, 361 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:07,920 so there are a lot of different reasons why she lost. 362 00:22:08,200 --> 00:22:13,400 But that's the standard you guys set, and I'm not 363 00:22:13,640 --> 00:22:20,720 really interested now in hearing your demands to revert to 364 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:25,559 the standard that existed prior to your gal getting caught. 365 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:28,920 Right If that's the If the argument is that they 366 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:33,440 should not have been using the signaled app well, I 367 00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:36,759 agree with that. I don't think they should have been 368 00:22:36,799 --> 00:22:38,519 using that they should have been doing this stuff over 369 00:22:38,559 --> 00:22:45,359 a secure, secure communication channel. But when you're doing it 370 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,759 and then you get caught doing it, the standard is 371 00:22:48,799 --> 00:22:52,640 that you don't suffer any kind of repercussions. And there 372 00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:55,599 are all sorts of examples of this over the last 373 00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:02,039 ten years since the Hillary Clinton server story, blew up. 374 00:23:04,319 --> 00:23:10,880 Anybody ever get punished for the botched withdrawal in Afghanistan? No, 375 00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:15,319 no repercussions for that. Thirteen service members were killed. Nobody 376 00:23:15,319 --> 00:23:24,839 who's punished? They never even mentioned it again. Um caller 377 00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:27,839 Tom mentioned Lloyd Austin, the former Secretary of Defense who 378 00:23:27,839 --> 00:23:32,599 went a wall for weeks during three different operations that 379 00:23:32,599 --> 00:23:36,119 were ongoing at the time. Nobody knew where he was, 380 00:23:36,519 --> 00:23:39,160 not even the President. No, to be fair, the president 381 00:23:39,160 --> 00:23:42,119 didn't really know where he was, so alone Lloyd Austin. 382 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:44,720 But still like, you should be able to get in 383 00:23:44,759 --> 00:23:47,759 contact with the Defense secretary while you're running these ops. 384 00:23:48,319 --> 00:23:52,160 They and they didn't, They couldn't. He just apologized, he 385 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,759 said I'm sorry, and that was it. It's okay, that's 386 00:23:54,799 --> 00:23:57,960 the standard now, just say you're sorry, guys, sorry, are bad, 387 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:06,519 won't do it again. Okay, let's move on. Right to me, 388 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:11,400 it seems like that's the standard that now applies to me. Also, 389 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:16,000 the bigger issue is why did whoever set this group 390 00:24:16,079 --> 00:24:18,039 chat up? Which we don't know, but it seems to 391 00:24:18,079 --> 00:24:24,039 track back to Michael Waltz, the NSA, the National Security Advisor. 392 00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:31,039 It seemed like that was the origin, the creator of 393 00:24:31,119 --> 00:24:35,240 the group. Did he do that? Did he create the group? 394 00:24:35,920 --> 00:24:38,119 Or did he have some underling do it? Did he 395 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,880 have some aid? Do it? Is that the person who 396 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:44,160 gets thrown under the bus? Does anybody get thrown under 397 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:48,920 the bus? Like democrats? Dare I say it? I know 398 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:52,279 this might be a bit controversial, but I'm gonna say it. 399 00:24:53,759 --> 00:24:58,920 Democrats seem to be pouncing. I'm just saying they seem 400 00:24:59,039 --> 00:25:03,480 a little bit pouncy right now. They're seizing on it. Now, 401 00:25:03,559 --> 00:25:06,440 not that that's being used in any of the the 402 00:25:06,559 --> 00:25:10,319 articles about this, but they're they're simply according to the media, 403 00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:13,680 they're calling on and they're they're saying they're not pouncing 404 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,880 and they're not seizing. But I got to tell you, 405 00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:19,400 I feel like they're pouncing and seizing. Maybe they maybe 406 00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:22,240 they take it to like seizing level two or something, 407 00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:24,160 and that's when we'll start seeing this word used. But 408 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:31,400 they are demanding that people resign and get impeached and 409 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:34,359 get charged and all of that, and like those are 410 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:37,559 the old standards. Guys, you blow those up. It's like 411 00:25:37,599 --> 00:25:41,200 the filibuster. Remember when y'all blew that up? 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Mail orders are 433 00:26:53,599 --> 00:26:56,799 accepted to get all the details that create a video. 434 00:26:57,039 --> 00:27:02,079 Dot com. Democrats are calling for Pete Hagg's have to resign. No, 435 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:06,200 he should not resign based on the standard of Hillary 436 00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:09,519 Clinton and the Democrats and the media. Right, that's the standard. 437 00:27:09,880 --> 00:27:12,880 You don't have to suffer any kind of repercussions for 438 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,200 doing this sort of thing. None. They gave out pardons 439 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:20,599 to Chelsea Manning so or what was his name before 440 00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:28,079 the sex change? I forget. I totally would have dead 441 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:30,000 named him if I remembered, but I just don't even 442 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:34,799 remember his name anyway. Then there's this the guy who 443 00:27:34,839 --> 00:27:37,240 wrote this piece, Jeffrey Goldberg. I mentioned he was the 444 00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,960 one who did the story at the Atlantic. He is 445 00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:44,599 the editor in chief of the Atlantic, and he was 446 00:27:44,599 --> 00:27:47,519 the one that did the story about how Donald Trump 447 00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:55,359 told his chief of staff a decorated Marine Corps veteran 448 00:27:55,640 --> 00:28:00,079 Kelly was his last name, forget his first name, Richard maybe. 449 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:06,839 And they're standing in Arlington National Cemetery and Trump says, 450 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:10,200 look at all the suckers and losers, What did they'd 451 00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,119 even die for? What was the point of it? Or 452 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:17,680 whatever like and that story. And then when Goldberg, when 453 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,640 people went on the record and said that never happened, 454 00:28:21,759 --> 00:28:26,079 Goldberg claimed that he had other sources and then never 455 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:30,160 produced them. And so now Goldberg is saying that there 456 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:35,720 was classified information in the in the text messaging, but 457 00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:40,559 the Trump administration officials, Tulsa Gabbard specifically said there was 458 00:28:40,599 --> 00:28:49,319 not any classified information in the text messages. So who's who? Okay, 459 00:28:49,359 --> 00:28:53,079 so there's no classified information, So Goldberg should release them. 460 00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:58,000 He should release what he's got. He took screenshots, so 461 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:02,920 release them. They just said it's not classified. The attack 462 00:29:03,000 --> 00:29:07,720 already occurred, right, this was what ten days ago, so 463 00:29:07,759 --> 00:29:10,720 it already happened. You're not jeopardizing anybody now, So go 464 00:29:10,759 --> 00:29:13,480 ahead and show us what you have, Goldberg. Or is 465 00:29:13,519 --> 00:29:17,839 this another suckers and losers thing where you get some 466 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,920 information and then you spin out a whole yarn piggybacking 467 00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:28,039 off of this one thing. Yeah, and here's the thing, 468 00:29:28,079 --> 00:29:34,880 hag Seth coming out and attacking Goldberg as a deceitful 469 00:29:35,759 --> 00:29:37,880 so called journalist or whatever it was, that I have 470 00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:46,839 it here someplace? The uh hm, where was it here? Well, 471 00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:54,119 it doesn't matter, haig Seth trashed Goldberg, and that's just 472 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:58,759 attacking the messenger, right, and there's no benefit in doing 473 00:29:58,799 --> 00:30:03,039 that because he was in the group chat. He was there. 474 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:07,480 The officials have confirmed it, the White House confirmed it. 475 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:19,519 When Goldberg left the group chat. He then sent messages 476 00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:26,319 to the National Security Council, and Brian Hughes said, quote, 477 00:30:26,359 --> 00:30:29,039 this appears to be an authentic message chain, and we 478 00:30:29,079 --> 00:30:32,839 are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain. 479 00:30:33,359 --> 00:30:35,759 The thread is a demonstration of the deep and thoughtful 480 00:30:35,759 --> 00:30:39,200 policy coordination between senior officials. The ongoing success of the 481 00:30:39,319 --> 00:30:42,599 Uti operation demonstrates that there were no threats to troops 482 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:46,279 or national security, which, by the way, that's something also 483 00:30:46,319 --> 00:30:52,559 to keep in mind here is that it was a success, right. 484 00:30:52,599 --> 00:30:56,440 I mean, the Trump administration is saying the Huti terrorist 485 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,160 since twenty twenty three attacked US Navy warships one hundred 486 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,279 and seventy four times, attacked commercial shipping vessels one hundred 487 00:31:02,319 --> 00:31:05,240 and forty five times, and as a result, seventy five 488 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,720 percent of US flag shipping has been forced to navigate 489 00:31:08,759 --> 00:31:12,319 the southern coast of Africa rather than through the Suez Canal. 490 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:20,440 And so it was a successful operation. But attacking Goldberg 491 00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:23,680 like that. You should have just said, yeah, I don't know. 492 00:31:23,720 --> 00:31:27,079 I was in the group chat, and if somebody got added, 493 00:31:27,079 --> 00:31:28,920 they weren't supposed to be in there, that's you know 494 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:32,119 that I didn't add them. But yeah, obviously that was 495 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,599 a mistake. Just say, oh it was a mistake. Move on. 496 00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:37,960 All right, Let's see what Alex has to say. Hello, Alex, 497 00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:38,720 welcome to the show. 498 00:31:39,559 --> 00:31:42,119 Speaker 2: Oh yeah, hi Pete. Yeah, I was listening to you 499 00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:46,960 talk about this message and one kind of get put 500 00:31:47,079 --> 00:31:49,319 a few cents cents then I'm actually listened to some 501 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:54,039 of the testimony. Tilta Garberg chicklare refuse to answer really 502 00:31:54,119 --> 00:31:55,680 a lot of any questions about that. 503 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:59,559 Speaker 1: What did she answerr? What did she answer about the classified. 504 00:32:00,119 --> 00:32:03,039 Speaker 2: He refused to answer. That's that's being reviewed right now. 505 00:32:03,200 --> 00:32:05,839 Speaker 1: Now that's not true, I mean, Alex, that's not true. No, Alex, 506 00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,599 that's not true. I literally watched it. I watched it 507 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,279 as I was sitting in the studio. Oh no, I mean, 508 00:32:11,319 --> 00:32:13,359 I'm pretty good at watching government meetings. I've been doing 509 00:32:13,359 --> 00:32:16,119 it for almost thirty years, so I'm pretty good at 510 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,160 listening to people say what they say. And she said 511 00:32:18,319 --> 00:32:20,160 there was no classified information in there. 512 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:22,960 Speaker 3: Okay, well here here's the thing though, But they are 513 00:32:23,039 --> 00:32:25,839 using this app that they were not supposed to use, right, No, 514 00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:27,000 I agree with that Trump. 515 00:32:27,319 --> 00:32:27,519 Speaker 4: Yeah. 516 00:32:27,559 --> 00:32:29,519 Speaker 2: So if Trump is you know, I mean, he's on 517 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,599 record saying that anybody in my administration's called using any 518 00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:36,519 kind of apps that unapproved, there's going to be consequences. 519 00:32:36,519 --> 00:32:37,640 But there are no consequences. 520 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:39,559 Speaker 3: And I guess where you're coming from with regards to 521 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,960 Hillary and whatnot, that Democrats didn't do anything. But then 522 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:46,799 you know, of course Trump did win the election after that, 523 00:32:46,920 --> 00:32:48,759 and he didn't do anything at Clinton. 524 00:32:49,039 --> 00:32:50,119 Speaker 2: That's besides the point. 525 00:32:50,759 --> 00:32:54,880 Speaker 3: So I guess my question is, you know, if Republicans 526 00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,960 claiming to be better than Democrats in this particular situation, 527 00:32:59,039 --> 00:33:01,640 why wouldn't they act so what they said they would do. 528 00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,160 Speaker 1: Because I can answer, I'll answer you. Yeah, I can 529 00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:07,240 answer that real quickly. For you, the charge of hypocrisy 530 00:33:07,319 --> 00:33:11,200 carries no purchase any longer. None of that matters because 531 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:14,799 because Republicans tried to play along with this idea that 532 00:33:15,079 --> 00:33:17,680 if you said one thing but did the opposite, that 533 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:21,279 you would get pillar read for it in the media 534 00:33:21,559 --> 00:33:24,839 and in elections and such. And then they learned very 535 00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,319 quickly that that's not the case. They were disabused of 536 00:33:27,319 --> 00:33:32,480 that in the twenty ten to twenty sixteen timeframe, and 537 00:33:32,519 --> 00:33:34,680 again that's how you got Donald Trump. And then it 538 00:33:34,720 --> 00:33:37,559 only got worse after that. So Republicans are no longer 539 00:33:37,599 --> 00:33:40,720 playing by the old rules. They're playing by the Democrats rules. 540 00:33:40,759 --> 00:33:42,160 And I said, you're not going to like it when 541 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,400 they're all playing by the same rules. 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