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Feb. 25, 2025 - The Benny Show - Benny Johnson
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🚨Deep State DESTROYING Evidence!? FBI Caught DELETING Files, Epstein List COVERUP | Investigate NOW
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anna paulina luna
17:03
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benny johnson
47:28
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eric schmitt
11:23
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steve friend
11:08
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amy robach
01:15
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garret oboyle
01:30
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brian kilmeade
00:47
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john roberts
00:19
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pam bondi
00:33
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vivek ramaswamy
00:31
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brian kilmeade
It's hours away, hours away from a congressional hearing examining if the Biden-Harris administration weaponized the Justice Department for political purposes.
Some of the instances we're expected to hear about are the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Russian collusion, the multiple FISA warrants targeting former Trump advisor Carter Page in the alleged suppression of the investigation into the Biden family.
Former Assistant FBI Director Chris Swecker will be testifying at the hearing.
Will join us now.
Chris.
There are investigations that look political that aren't, and there are ones that look political and were.
First off, on the ones you think were, Crossfire Hurricane, did that file under the yes, it was political?
unidentified
No doubt about it, Brian.
I mean, when you look back at the origins of Crossfire Hurricane, and the DOJ Inspector General said this.
It was an unpredicated investigation.
That means that there wasn't sufficient facts to open up a full FBI investigation.
So that, you know, we know now, Peter Strzok, Page, McCabe, Comey, they had a personal animus towards Donald Trump.
And if you remember the text between Page and Strzok, we will stop him.
And that just resonates in my mind, and it did at the time when I heard about it.
That's personal animus.
That's injecting your own personal opinion and politics into a full FBI investigation that it turns out wasn't predicated.
Then they went on to lie on FISA applications using that discredited Steele dossier.
That would have never happened under an FBI that wasn't led by Jim Comey.
I can guarantee you that.
This is what a life of a real FBI director looks like.
At 4 o 'clock in the morning, I start my coffee, and I check my Border Patrol app to see how many people I get to deport today.
Skip the shower, fix my tie, and now I'm ready.
On the way to work, I have a sensible donut, sip my coffee, and listen to the police scanner for any crime.
At 6 o 'clock, it's time to get to work.
I walk through the Hoover building, checking under the desk for anyone crying.
Those people go straight to jail.
At 12 o 'clock, I have a lunch break.
The leftover chicken marsala give me the energy to finish the day.
At 1 o 'clock, I like to call Adam Schiff's cell phone and play a recording of a clock ticking.
At 5 o 'clock, it is time to go home.
I slap Dan Bongino's ass and say good game.
When I get home, I eat more chicken marsala and then go to bed with my deck of cards.
And that is.
I have a killer show for you today, Jerry.
benny johnson
I want to watch more.
It's like a sitcom.
I want to watch the full sitcom of Kash Patel's Day in the Life, of an FBI agent, the FBI director, Day in the Life.
Jerry, that's a work of art.
Oh, man.
Let's make sure that sucker gets tweeted right freaking now.
Man.
Ladies and gentlemen, not too far off, though.
Actually, not too far off.
Cash Patel slapping Dan Bongino right in the ass saying, good game, here we freaking go.
It is Tuesday, February 25th, 2025.
Rogue FBI and CIA employees exposed for destroying evidence?
Is this why we don't have the Jeffrey Epstein list?
We're going to dive into it, ladies and gentlemen.
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Okay.
I want to begin by establishing something very quickly here.
That we love you.
And nothing but hearts out to the chat.
Okay?
I freaking love the chat.
We love you.
We love the chat.
We're here for you.
Can we get some Cash Patels in the chat?
Give me some of those sweet Cash Patel emojis in the chat.
We'll put them up on screen.
We want to encourage our federal government.
We want to encourage them to do the right thing.
Now our chat, regularly and consistently, the followers of this show say, where the hell is the Epstein list?
Why is our federal government protecting pederasts?
Now we have a responsibility to be your voice.
We're you.
I'm just like a dad.
Getting up and grinding just like you.
I just want to protect my family just like you do.
And the idea that my tax dollars are going to pay for some Predators Island and Ranch in New Mexico and Brownstone multi-million dollar mansion in Manhattan and that we were funding that in order to create some type of honeypot?
Like, that is morally repugnant and odious to me.
And so we ask everyone about Epstein.
We ask everybody in power about Epstein.
You've heard me ask it.
Dude.
How much do we ask about this?
We were...
Kline and I screamed.
We were live during Kash Patel's confirmation hearing and one of the senators like, you said this on the Benny show.
On the Benny show.
Amy Klobuchar comes after us.
It's great.
It's like an honor of our lives, actually.
The reason why is because we actually are not scared to ask these questions.
We asked this question of Pam Bondi, the top law enforcement...
Agent in, I think you could argue, the world, right?
Pam Bondi is in charge of the entire DOJ.
She's our friend and we freaking love Pam.
And we asked her this question and we were the first people to ask her about the Epstein list since she got in the chair.
And here's what she had to say just two days ago when we asked her in Washington, D.C. This created quite the news cycle.
Hey guys, I think Cash has talked about a lot, and you have, when it comes to Jeffrey Epstein and the people who are predators in this country.
They've been given a pass, and a lot of Americans think these guys have got to pass for a long time, and maybe even are still being protected right now.
Where are we at with the Jeffrey Epstein list, the documents?
And Cash has made a lot of public statements about this.
unidentified
Where are we at?
pam bondi
I was briefed on that yesterday.
I can't talk about that publicly, but President Trump has given a very strong directive, and that's going to be followed.
unidentified
Wow.
Okay.
pam bondi
A lot of documents.
Yeah.
unidentified
Okay.
benny johnson
All right.
So people can expect actual movement on this.
It's not just empty promises.
pam bondi
Oh.
Donald Trump doesn't make empty promises.
benny johnson
Yeah, all right.
pam bondi
I think promises made, promises kept.
benny johnson
We're trying to insult anyone.
We weren't trying to like, you know, obviously we're just trying to push on behalf of the chat, on behalf of the audience.
Once again, hearts out to the chat.
We listen to you, we hear you, and guess what happens when you ask a question like that?
Well, first off, the original post goes thermonuclear.
I don't know how many millions and millions and millions of views it has on it, but since we had the balls, big balls, just like those, since we had the balls to go in and actually ask these questions, right?
Maybe we're the only show on Earth that isn't compromised by these people or being funded by the people who are funding Epstein, but we're not, okay?
We can tell you this.
We're not.
You won't see my name on any of this garbage.
You won't see my name on any of these little disclosure lists, right?
Any of these USAID stuff.
I guess we're the only show on earth that isn't funded by USAID or some campaign or Pfizer, right?
And we're proud of that.
Anyway, we got no change to hold us down.
So we can ask these questions.
Well, it creates quite the news cycle.
One, it absolutely like...
Blew up the betting markets.
I guess people are making a fortune off of this.
FBI whistleblowers now claim the FBI is deleting files connected to Jeffrey Epstein.
What are the odds that they are going to be released?
The odds are now, this show is now influencing the betting markets.
We're getting ahead of ourselves.
Here's Fox News.
The day after we asked Pam Bondi this question, Fox News comes in over the top and says the same thing.
Goes, hold up.
Apparently...
Apparently, there's a lot of files sitting on your desk right now.
What are you going to do with them?
Let's go.
john roberts
I saw your appearance at CPAC with Ben and with Ted Cruz.
And one of the things that you alluded to, and this is something Donald Trump has talked about, the DOJ may be releasing the list of Jeffrey Epstein's clients.
Will that really happen?
pam bondi
It's sitting on my desk right now to review.
That's been a directive by President Trump.
I'm reviewing that.
I'm reviewing JFK files, MLK files.
That's all in the process of being reviewed because that was done at the directive of the president from all of these agencies.
john roberts
So have you seen anything that you said, oh my gosh?
pam bondi
Not yet.
john roberts
Okay.
Well, we'll check back with you.
benny johnson
So that among many other large cascades of dominoes have begun to fall.
And many people are starting to ask, like, wait a second.
So if the Epstein list is sitting on the desk, well, maybe it's time for us to get this out and published.
Why isn't it being published?
And more importantly, who's actually in charge of these files exactly?
And this is something that Cash has said he's going to do on day one.
This is something that Donald Trump has said many, many times.
We don't have time to play you all of the videos.
I can just tell you that we have, on this program, ALX, we have at least like a half a dozen times that Cash Patel has said, I'm going to release the Epstein list.
So this is like the, and the Diddy list.
And Diddy's lawyer quit!
So Cash Patel and Dan Bongino get into the chair at the FBI, and then Diddy's lawyer up and quits.
That day.
And says he can no longer, in good conscience, defend this client.
This is a guy who defended Osama Bin Laden, I kid you not.
Diddy's lawyer, his name is Tony Rico, is a guy who defended Osama Bin Laden, and he up and quits the moment that Cash Patel and Dan Bongino gets in there.
So something crazy is happening.
There's this huge, huge energy struggle right now at the FBI, and lo and behold, we've done it again.
Ladies and gentlemen, we've created a massive news cycle.
By continuing this story, We had a whistleblower named Garrett O 'Boyle on the show yesterday who blew our minds by saying that he has sources inside the FBI.
This is a dude who worked in the FBI.
Worked in data collection at the FBI.
So you have to just take him at his word that he knows what he's talking about.
He says that there are secured servers at the FBI that are currently being destroyed right now and being wiped.
And that's where some of this information might be kept.
So we're just putting the pieces together.
Ping, ping, ping, ping, ping.
Put the pieces together like...
Maybe this is the reason why it's taking so long is that they're actually having to rush in to try and like get this information out while the agencies are actively destroying it inside these little cluster cells.
Here's what Garrett said yesterday on our program.
We're going to talk through what massive cascade of news this has created.
unidentified
Let's go.
benny johnson
Maybe give us a closer in perspective as to what the subversion is happening inside of the building right now.
I mean, it's obviously you're going to have like an antibody reaction to somebody like Cash.
garret oboyle
I'll give you a big one that I heard recently, which was already passed on, is that there are FBI servers that are sort of standalone.
And people inside the FBI have been working night and day to destroy files on these servers.
And I was told that once these files are destroyed, the way they are set up, that even Elon Musk could not restore them.
So that's happening right now, as we speak.
That's happening with...
Kash Patel being the director, it was happening before he got there.
And so that subversion, like I said, started immediately.
And it's only going to continue.
Here's another example, I was told.
Last week, right out of the gates, Kash Patel came out and said 1,500 people, 500, you're going to Alabama.
You're still going to be headquarters personnel, you're going to Alabama.
1,000 of you, you're going out to the field.
He said this long before the election even.
He said if he was in charge, he would say, Let cops be cops, and so go.
Go out and be cops.
Already, people are saying, we are not going to comply with that.
We are going to make it seem as if we transferred.
We're going to do what they call, quote-unquote, paper transfer.
benny johnson
So, Garrett O 'Boyle is an FBI whistleblower, and he made monster news on our program.
This, again, went thermonuclear viral, millions and millions of views.
The FBI has a secret server that they are deleting the evidence on, and there's no digital forensics.
So you, I mean, there's a way to do it.
It's a very, very sophisticated process, but there's digital forensics.
You can really set something up that when it's deleted, it really is truly deleted.
Not like Hunter Biden laptop kind of stuff, right?
Where you can do all these backups, but you can actually like really make sure that you're atomizing information and data.
What data are they atomizing?
We asked Garrett yesterday.
Here we go.
Somebody who works inside of the West Wing.
Came up to us in a private setting when we were in D.C. and said, you would not believe the number of times that my office has to be swept for bugs.
garret oboyle
That's crazy.
benny johnson
Inside the White House has to be swept by agencies to figure out if there's electronic monitoring that's happening to us on a daily basis.
It's crazy.
Any idea what's on the servers?
That's so damning that it has to be siloed into such a secure facility.
With the lack of redundancy or capacity for anybody to go through and sort of forensic, like digital forensics, right?
You can uncover most of this data, most data that's deleted, you can uncover it in some capacity.
So somebody's worked very hard to make sure that this data that you're talking about can be deleted and destroyed forever.
Any idea what it is?
garret oboyle
No idea on what it is.
I can only speculate.
But you mentioned the Epstein list.
I'd imagine it's cases like that.
It's intel cases that are very siloed, very secretive, and I'm sure there's probably even information regarding the FBI's own subversive measures against Americans.
benny johnson
Hold up.
Wait a second.
So here you have the FBI whistleblower who's testified before Congress, who was in charge of data collection at the FBI, telling us there's a secret server that's being actively deleted and that the Epstein files are on that server.
And at the same time, in this lane, you have this, like, Problem where we haven't gotten the Epstein files yet.
Is it because the Trump team is playing like ketchup?
Where are the files?
Is it because the deep state might be actively subverting them?
Well, this is, of course, a massive problem.
Let's begin here with Michael Schellenberger, one of the best reporters in the world, confirming our scoop yesterday.
Here's Schellenberger.
Saying, an FBI whistleblower, this is Garrett O 'Boyle, right here that he tags, confirmed to me that a source inside of the FBI has confirmed that FBI employees are destroying evidence on servers.
He has informed Cash Patel of this.
I hope he and Pam Bondi, John Ratcliffe, Elon Musk, are preventing this.
We urgently need disclosure, says Schellenberger.
As he quote tweets, Anna Polina Luna.
Anna Luna.
This is one of the dear friends of the show and who's leading, of course, the task force for declassification here, quoting our tweet on this bombshell saying, who ordered the destruction of these documents?
Cassius Hill has to get to the bottom of this.
Now, the congresswoman will join our program in just a moment to talk about the potential penalties for the destruction of these kind of documents.
But it gets worse!
It always gets worse.
It gets worse!
Here we go!
Breaking as an addendum to the news that we broke on the show yesterday via the FBI whistleblower at The Federalist.
Ladies and gentlemen, deep state bureaucrats threaten to sell state secrets if Trump isn't nice to them.
Say what now?
CNN warns that the intelligence employees who get the axe are valuable and...
That those same employees will sell national secrets if fired.
Huh?
Okay, here we go.
Brace yourself as the propaganda press tries to stop Donald Trump from calling corruption inside of the deep state.
Expect news stories screaming about ordinary budget and staff cuts that would have happened in any bloated private business under Trump that will be described as unfair and dangerous.
Take, for example, on February 24th, a number...
From CNN.
How Trump's government-cutting moves risk exposing the CIA's secrets.
What is this?
The short report required four CNN writers, many of them who have been involved in deep state leaking activity, which found...
Oh man, and then Natasha Bertrand.
Oh no.
Yikes.
Okay.
Talk about literally sleeping with the enemy there.
Not enough time to actually get into that one.
Wait for a later date.
Okay, we gotcha.
Exposing CIA secrets?
That sounds pretty dangerous.
How much danger are we in?
In a piece, CNN warned, as the CIA weighs staff cuts, current and former intelligence officials say that mass firings could offer a rich recruitment opportunity for foreign intelligence services like China or Russia, who may seek to exploit financially vulnerable or resentful former employees.
The piece goes on.
The CIA's seventh floor, home to top leadership, some officers are also quietly discussing how mass firings and the buyouts already offered to staff risk creating a group of disgruntled former employees who might be motivated to take what they know to a foreign intelligence service.
So apparently CNN is pushing the creation of a fifth column.
Inside of the federal government.
There's a fifth column of CIA agents and foreign agents that are going to now work literally with Russia or China to sell our state secrets, to undermine President Trump, doing the exact thing they accused Donald Trump of doing, and CNN is doing predictive programming here.
So understand how this all works.
Understand how the media landscape works on these things.
They go to the known deep state agents at CNN.
The byline is just like a rat's nest of deep state leakers.
They go there and they say, this is what we're going to do.
We're going to create predictive programming.
This entire thing is a hack and leak operation against President Trump.
They're effectively using this...
As leverage to say this is what we are planning on doing, we're going to create a fifth column.
We're going to take all of our knowledge and we're going to sell it.
We're going to sell it to America's enemies.
Like, say what now?
The deep state is everything that we always thought it was.
These people don't love America.
They hate America.
And the moment that they get an opportunity to betray this country, they will.
Is that a threat from the CIA?
Is CNN reporting that Trump should keep everybody employed because if he doesn't, CIA agents will spill America's secrets?
Or worse yet, create a fifth column to sabotage America?
These people are effing traitors!
If that's the case, these are exactly the employees who should be fired.
Those with too little integrity to exit with grace should not be employed in the jobs with access to America's secrets.
CIA employees, as CNN describes, should not be trusted with any secrets.
Within the piece, CNN ridiculously makes it sound as if valued, modeled intelligence employees will get the axe.
These same ones that are planning on running a hack-and-leak operation against America to give all of our secrets to our enemies?
Like traitors?
Like the frickin' Rosenbergs?
This is insane!
Annapolino Luna, okay, quoting this, and quoting Charlie Kirk.
Okay, let's start with Charlie Kirk, and then Congresswoman will be joining us.
Okay?
We'll be joining us.
Let's freaking go.
Charlie Kirk saying, CNN is now saying that top leadership of the CIA is worried about anti-Trump personnel may be motivated to sell out America to a foreign power.
In other words, these people who created the Russia hoax are now planning on selling America's secrets literally to Russia, and they're about to blame Trump.
Get ready.
The new op just dropped.
Congresswoman Paulina Luna saying there is a massive war happening right now in the intelligence agencies.
The corruption is being exposed.
This is actual, literal treason.
Burning files, destroying evidence, selling America's secrets to our enemies.
The deep state is everything we always said it was and more and worse.
And ladies and gentlemen, joining us right now, Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna.
unidentified
Let's go.
you Thank you.
benny johnson
Congresswoman, thank you for being on the program.
Pretty alarming series of news bombshells over the last 24 hours.
I guess let's begin with the FBI presumably destroying evidence.
Can you talk us through if that is in fact happening?
Schellenberger backed up our reporting yesterday.
What would be the penalties for that?
Have you been in contact with the cash teller or anybody in the FBI?
It seems to be something that would immediately halt your investigation into classified evidence.
anna paulina luna
Yeah, of course.
So I actually have a call set up right after this hit with the actual whistleblower that you were talking to yesterday to get some more information.
And then I had a meeting this morning with the task force and our attorneys at task force.
Look, it's very possible.
First of all, we don't know who it is yet.
And obviously, we want to run down the sources.
But if this is happening, first of all, it's obstructing Congress in our investigation.
So you're talking about obstruction of Congress.
That's obviously contempt charge, and so we would be bringing that forward if we can find out who it is.
But I have the utmost faith in Kash Patel and Jan Bongino to find this, but I just want to be clear about something.
From the get-go, from the start of us announcing this committee, we had anticipated that with President Trump's order to declassify documents, that it would be a difficult task.
We know that when President Trump was previously in office, he was actually blocked from releasing the remaining JFK files by the former Secretary of State.
And so we know that President Trump wanted this done.
And so Speaker Johnson, Chairman Comer, set up the task force to aid the president's efforts.
Now, to be clear, we don't hold declassification authority, but we are the action arm and the punitive action arm of the president in the event that stuff like this would happen.
And so what you saw was, basically, I think it was an effort to discredit the task force.
Why would you not want there to be oversight into the declassification process, right?
Then we find out that with everything that was happening, We weren't really getting the responses that we wanted.
We have government agencies that are obviously getting ready to give us briefings this week.
But I did think it was a little bit peculiar that some of the documents that should have been released immediately weren't.
And so I started getting vocal about that.
Obviously, there's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that people don't know about, so we have to create paper trails, etc.
But long story short, when we saw that information coming out yesterday, unfortunately, it doesn't surprise me.
Obviously, seeing what CNN is reporting coming out of the CIA is absolutely alarming.
But I want people to remember that this embedded corruption has been there for generations.
It's been kind of how Washington's been run, I would argue, since.
JFK was in office.
And so there's a lot of work to do.
But just remember that this is not by accident that this is all happening right now.
And I would like to also let you guys know that I actually just met with the National Archives.
And even they said that they're actually weeding out people at the archives that were obstructionists.
And so President Trump definitely getting in, I would argue, has saved the country.
We would not have known how bad it was had he not taken...
The executive branch.
But again, it's alarming.
It's disheartening.
And I fully back my words that I said earlier that what the CIA is talking about right now, if people sell secrets to a foreign government, you will be charged with treason.
So do not do that.
Do not burn documents.
You will be held accountable.
We will find you.
So just don't even do it.
benny johnson
So, yeah, let's talk about some of the punishments for treason or for destroying evidence that is under subpoena or you have a right, as Article 1 of the Constitution, to see and to oversee.
These are obviously massive penalties.
I think the penalty for treason is death.
anna paulina luna
Yeah, so especially if you're in the military, it is death.
benny johnson
And you are in the military.
He is, right?
So you and your husband have both served in the military, so you're well aware of this.
anna paulina luna
We were a vet.
So if you're in the military and you're doing that, yes, the punishment can be death.
Also, too, though, the current statute for a federal employee destroying evidence is a fine, and there's a minimum three years for prison.
But what I will tell you is that's unacceptable, especially when you're looking at the evidence that potentially they're destroying.
The whole purpose of this was to set up transparency so that the American people, A, would know what happened, so it never happens again, right?
If you're informed on history, it doesn't repeat itself if you take that seriously.
But then you see this type of stuff happen, so I believe that those punitive sentencing needs to increase, and that's something that my office is looking into.
But then we're also finding out, Benny, that the actual declassification process for documents that have been FOIA'd, that's in itself a nightmare as well.
Even though the president might authorize something to be declassified, then it then kicks over to the agencies that has jurisdiction of which the document came from for final review of the declassification efforts.
In my opinion, if something's declassified by the president, that's it.
It doesn't need to go back to another agency, another bureaucrat for declassification.
And then the next thing would be is, why is it that all these documents are scattered to the wind?
It needs to be in just one central location.
So the National Archives is actively, as we speak, working on setting up a one-page landing spot for all the declassified...
Go direct.
It's not going to be released as soon as they start to upload those documents, digitize them.
They'll be on that website for the American people to know.
But just know that I'm very serious.
Right now, what's happening with the intelligence war happening, it's very real and it's very sporty.
benny johnson
So, I mean, again, like when you made your announcement, this is the first time I've ever heard a member of Congress come out and say at a public dais, like...
Hey, there were two shooters with JFK.
It's pretty obvious.
Now, the American people believe that, but I've never had anybody come out in Congress on an official seal, you know, and say, no, this is actually what I believe, in fact.
anna paulina luna
One, there's Democrats that also believe that.
And I think that going back to why we wanted to, again, establish the task force, it's not right for government to gaslight the American people, but also, too, let's talk about the evidence that was there.
The whole purpose and objective of this task force, to be clear, is to ensure President Trump's documents are declassified.
We are the action arm for the president.
We don't have declassification authority, but we are the bulldogs.
We are the attack dogs that will be going after people that block and obstruct, and we will be making their names known to the American people.
Now, to be clear, Congress also should follow up, though, on some of these new findings because, in my opinion, it does history a disservice when you're putting out wrong information.
benny johnson
So, have you experienced I mean, it's quite interesting.
You announced your task force.
A week later, less than a week later, we have FBI whistleblowers coming on this program being like, they're destroying the evidence.
anna paulina luna
It wasn't just, look, the day I announced the task force and I announced other members, first of all, there was absolute, I would say, an op to try to discredit the task force, which is weird because you would want there to be a task force to be the attack dog for the president to ensure that these documents are actually being declassified.
Remember, we don't hold declassification authority, but we can brief punitive action if people are blocking, right?
So that's the first thing.
Also, too, pushing for more transparency and requesting other documents like UAP, like the 9-11, like COVID-19 to be declassified.
Which, by the way, Benny, I spoke to some of the families that are suing, some of the 9-11 families, and I was told, okay, not just me, but our investigative attorneys on oversight were told that the FBI mishandled evidence.
In regards to people that actually aided some of the 9-11 plane hijackers, they lost evidence.
They did not respond to these families to inquiry.
They blockaded them.
So the FBI, in my opinion right now, is in very bad shape.
And Cash and Dan Bongino have their work cut out for them, although I think they're very qualified.
And they're going to have to root out some systemic corruption because it's there.
And it's obvious to me.
But what I will also say is that...
No sooner did we announce it, was there the effort to obviously discredit.
And then probably about a day later, we found out that the FBI found thousands of pages of JFK, MLK, RFK documents.
benny johnson
The timing, Congresswoman!
anna paulina luna
And so while we're doing all this, then we're also, too, dealing with getting the briefings for members from these other agencies that are compliant, saying, hey, look, we're trying to find we need to declass this.
We want to work with President Trump's agenda.
And then we find out from the whistleblower, of which I'm talking to right after this hit, that there's destruction of evidence at the FBI.
Then we find out that the CIA is potentially going, you know, there's rogue agents that they're worried about are going to be selling information, which is actual treason, to foreign adversaries.
I mean, this is all...
Very serious stuff.
This is not just, you know, a plot on a sitcom.
This is scary.
And so what I will tell you is beware of people that were intentionally trying to spread disinformation because those people have said nothing about destruction of evidence by people that weren't tied to this task force.
So you guys should be able to know who it is, okay?
So let's all say that about that.
benny johnson
So let's focus in on the Epstein list.
This is something, obviously, that has been such a nexus point for everything from conspiracy to wild accusation to potentially entrapping royals and American presidents, right?
And there are clearly very powerful vested interests in ensuring that everybody who ever went to Epstein's Islands or flew on the Lolita Express, that they never get exposed.
But what's beginning to appear as a material accusation against Jeffrey Epstein was that he was being run as a foreign intelligence op and that a foreign government was allowed to come into an American jail and kill him with the permission of Bill Barr and our own government.
Matt Gaetz told us that on...
And then yesterday we have FBI whistleblowers saying absolutely this is the kind of thing that a Mossad, right, would be able to engage in, a foreign intelligence agency would be able to engage in this and would be able to run an op like this, and the American government is protecting that.
And perhaps those are the reinforced layers that are preventing the full explanation of Jeffrey Epstein from...
anna paulina luna
Well, to be clear, I have not seen anything in regards to Epstein, hence why we're pushing for declassification.
But to be clear, I believe that if there is protections, it's not coming from your overall general American government.
It would be from rogue actors.
And to be also clear, I do not believe that if people are, you know, protecting...
Whoever might be involved.
Look, these people were adults.
They made decisions that brought them to that situation.
If they're genuinely afraid about what might be coming out about that information, maybe they shouldn't have done it in the first place.
But ultimately, this is about transparency.
So if you want to restore trust within the government, you have to release everything.
No matter who that implicates, whatever it might be.
So we're pushing for that.
But Betty, given your whistleblower coming forward and given the reports that we're finding.
Are we ever going to see the true declassified stuff?
I don't know, because I don't know what's been destroyed.
I also am going to be reaching out to Kash Patel, and I have faith that Kash will likely be responding, or at least if this is true, if it's not true.
I mean, we all have questions.
And so, look, there's a lot of moving pieces.
President Trump getting into office.
If you think for a fact that he was...
Trying to protect someone, you're wrong.
As you can see, they try to assassinate the man.
As you can also see, he's been under great scrutiny by the leftist media.
They're not wanting to talk about the wins.
But the fact is that he chose to stand up.
You know, the declassification efforts because he wants to restore that trust.
And so, look, we're not in the interest of protecting anyone except for the American people.
And so I'm trying to push for that declassification.
Obviously, I don't have the authority to do it.
But I assure whatever I come across, you guys will be knowing and you guys will probably get it at the same time we do.
benny johnson
So can you just lay out the landscape here?
So what are you pushing for first?
What documents do you want first?
Can you tell us as much as you can right now?
anna paulina luna
I want any of the documents.
Whenever they're available.
I don't have a particular order.
If I were to get, you know, if Cash Patel releases or Pan Bondi releases Epstein stuff first, we'll look into that.
If we get the National Archives to put up publicly the documents on JFK, we're going to look into that.
I can tell you that how it was supposed to work for President Trump's executive order is that you would have JFK files released first, followed by RFK and MLK.
Okay, so the reason why the task force again is set up is so that we can pressure people to do their jobs to release that information to the American people.
Now, what I'm finding is that a the archives process is a complete disaster, which President Trump has rightfully appointed a new person to take that over.
I did meet with the archives.
They are going to have a website and a landing page where everyone can go directly.
As soon as those documents are scanned, they will be available on the National Archives.
So that will be for the American people to see.
We're not stonewalling or gatekeeping anything.
That will be directly for you to look into.
Also, too, though, I do think it's important for Congress to correct the wrongdoings of previous commissions.
The Warren Commission, in my opinion, was.
I think that they pushed a narrative, and I think that narrative was to probably reinstill faith in the American people, because at that time in history, it was very volatile.
But I would argue, too, right now, what we're finding and what we're seeing, the levels of corruption that exists in intelligence agencies, that restoration of trust needs to be there as well.
So that's why you're actually seeing this as a bipartisan effort.
Now, to be clear, I think it's very, very shady and very scary what happened with Jeffrey Epstein, okay?
I do not believe that he killed himself, and I don't think other members of Congress believe that.
I think that there's very powerful entities at play here.
Frankly, I want to find out exactly what happened at the FBI, because if they are actually doing what this whistleblower alleges that they're doing, without government oversight, they're literally operating rogue, then those people are enemies of the state, and I believe that.
benny johnson
It's so interesting that you brought this up, and I did want to ask directly about the CIA, but Congresswoman, we have so many pieces of evidence.
I mean, you have photographs and videos of the FBI raiding Jeffrey Epstein's home, bringing out entire terabytes of data, hard drives, CDs, video cassette tapes.
We know everything's on film.
We know everything's on camera.
Tucker said it a million times.
We have heard from our own whistleblowers.
There's so much evidence there.
And we've seen nothing.
Like nothing.
anna paulina luna
That makes two of us.
And then we're finding out again.
So going back to, you know, we set up the task force, thought that we might be blockaded.
And then we're finding out that there's destruction of evidence.
benny johnson
OK, so very quickly here, a federal agent decides that they According to CNN, CIA spooks are planning on selling America's secrets.
To foreign powers.
This is clearly going to be something that someone like you, who's a veteran, takes very seriously.
What will be the consequences if this report plays out?
And the reason why we're taking it with seriousness is the byline of that CNN report are like all of the deep state leakers and reporters who do hack and leak operations regularly on behalf of the deep state.
Clearly somebody is doing predictive programming.
Saying this is what we're planning on doing.
What's your message to them?
anna paulina luna
Well, first and foremost, if you leak classified intelligence information to a foreign adversary of the United States, that is treason.
That is by definition treason.
And you will be held accountable.
This is not the same Department of Justice that was under the Biden administration or the same FBI or the same CIA.
To be clear, there is both good and bad, not just in Congress.
But also in these intelligence agencies.
So you have people that are true believers, believe in the Constitution, like this whistleblower that came forward, right?
He came forward to Congress and testified previously, credible whistleblower.
But what we have here is the CIA needs to go through and flush this out because this type of behavior basically politically motivated treason against the American people.
In my opinion, if you have been entrusted to do this and you would put American lives in danger that could get us involved in another war.
I believe that that should be treated as a capital punishment.
benny johnson
That should be the death penalty.
What is the deterrent, then, at this point?
anna paulina luna
The UCMJ.
The UCMJ is separate from the rights that we have as civilians under the Constitution.
But if you are releasing classified information that would put Americans in harm's way, in my opinion, and you're doing it because you don't like the president, capital punishment.
benny johnson
So in closing, in conclusion here, Congresswoman, what is the best way that our audience can help out your task force?
What is the best way for us to apply pressure?
Because what you're talking about here is the most important work, I would say, arguably, to restore trust in the American people in their government.
anna paulina luna
Well, and I want to let people know that this is not just like us.
There's other members of Congress, Democrats, that say, yo, JFK was a Democrat.
MLK did amazing things for the civil rights movement.
RFK, all of these people historically, why is it that this has been so compartmentalized that the American people have been shut off?
These were our heroes, public people to us.
We deserve to know the truth.
So stop silent.
So the best thing that you can do is listen to this segment.
Share the correct information.
Because I can tell you that the minute, the minute, I'm one of the most conservative members of Congress.
The minute that I announced this, I had a barrage of fake attacks.
I mean, it was wild to see happen in real time.
I don't care because I'm a member, but I'm letting you guys know it was intentional to try to discredit the task force.
And then look at what we're finding out is happening.
People, I think, are shocked about it because it's just happening so blatantly in their face.
And so just remember, there's a lot going on in Washington.
Just because you're not up here doesn't mean that you can't help fight the good fight.
So obviously spread the correct information, but then also to keep the pressure on.
benny johnson
It's like amazing.
We haven't seen anything move since Tucker Carlson saying the CIA source told him that the CIA had a hand in JFK's assassination.
Tucker went forward with that reporting and then his show was offline like a week later.
It's like unbelievable.
anna paulina luna
Tucker Carlson, too, has put out a lot of good information.
And we've seen that Tucker Carlson, I think, was also being monitored by the intelligence agencies.
And so why would you at all want to attack someone like Tucker Carlson?
That was me.
benny johnson
Yeah.
Well, we look forward to it.
We appreciate your bravery.
Never heard a member of Congress be like, yeah, totally, there were two shooters.
Duh.
Everyone can see there's a Pruder film.
anna paulina luna
I actually had the opportunity, and I'm going to be putting this up, I actually just spoke to an engineer that was able to actually, someone connected to Janet Reno, who was investigating on one of the previous investigating...
The JFK assassination had actually asked that this engineering firm put together a rendering using modern day technology.
And so they actually went and took an entire digital image using mathematical points.
I think it was over a million points.
And they were actually able to put forward the theory on the single bullet theory and actually disproved it with modern day technology.
benny johnson
So where's that report go?
unidentified
And I was like, we'll be sharing all that information with you guys.
anna paulina luna
As soon as we get the digitized, Digitized video that we need for it.
Look, there are so many good people, investigative journalists, people that have dedicated their lives to Uncovering the truth to the American people.
And it was the fault of the federal government for not releasing it as they should have.
Do I think that there are rogue actors in the CIA and intelligence agencies that do bad things?
100%.
But that is exactly why we have to have accountability and why we need to have transparency.
And so it's good to hear that the National Archives is working with us because they hold a lot of this evidence.
And the fact that they're getting a landing page up and ready for everyone to go to directly, to be able to have access to information directly and making it easy, that's the first phase, right?
Second phase is we need to ensure that we have these different agencies completing President Trump's task, which is where we come in.
We've asked for the documentation and the implementation of President Trump's executive order.
And so if we don't see people are complying with that, we're going to let you know.
benny johnson
All right.
Well, we're open for business, right?
And we're very happy to be creating some of these news cycles, applying pressure from the outside.
And we very much look we very much look forward to the answers to these questions because you can't have a real government if you constantly keep if you can kill presidents.
Right.
And if you can keep these secrets from the American people, it's not a real representative.
anna paulina luna
Remember, remember, everyone, they try to kill Trump not once but twice.
benny johnson
Yeah.
anna paulina luna
Very radical, fringe leftist.
Look, the fact that we still don't know much about the initial assassination attempt on President Trump is disturbing.
Why did we hear nothing?
benny johnson
Again, like, again, it's like not...
When you see the actual powers that had the ability to go in and kill a president in the 1960s, and then those powers remained unchecked for the next 60 years.
Well, of course, there there are motivations to kill.
anna paulina luna
You know, what's interesting is actually met someone that was actually a cryptologist at the Bay of Pigs a couple of days ago.
And he said that there was right when the Bay of Pigs was happening, that they received a encrypted signal that was not possible to be actually.
And so someone, it was at the time the UN Secretary had actually allegedly had ties, this was under Kennedy's administration, to the Communist Party and actually was trying to...
Interfere with that entire operation.
And so this is, mind you, someone who was there.
Okay, so this is, I'm just telling you what I heard.
And allegedly was responsible for that switch.
And the guy said, I was basically told to kind of be quiet and promoted to shut up.
I actually resigned my commission in the Navy after that occurred.
So I think that there's a lot that we're unpacking.
I think that a lot of questions people are asking.
I think that those are right questions to be asking.
And at the end of the day, remember that, you know, At the time, before we had the tech that we have now, there was a lot that could be gotten away with without there being accountability.
Now it's a little bit harder because of forensics, all of that.
But it's an interesting time to be alive, and definitely I'm happy that I've been given this task force.
However, let me tell you, me being able to witness the intel fight happen in real time is pretty wild to see.
benny johnson
Yeah.
In the heart of darkness, ladies and gentlemen, give power to the people who are fighting for the light.
Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna.
Obviously followed by three quarters of a million.
We're on our way to a million.
Here we go.
780,000 Americans.
Can't be wrong.
Follow the Congresswoman, an actual agent for light in Washington, D.C. Godspeed, Congresswoman.
unidentified
Thank you.
you you Man, oh man.
benny johnson
I just got to bring up one thing.
Just got to bring up one small thing on all this.
Something that popped.
And to our feed this morning as we've started a sort of larger national conversation as to where is the Epstein list?
The indomitable James O 'Keefe cracking this story wide open some six to seven years ago with a clip from ABC News, a reporter.
Very respected at the time, named Amy Rohrbach, ABC News, complaining and mewling off camera that the executives at ABC had the Epstein list.
They had Bill Clinton.
They had the royal family.
They had all of the evidence.
And that it was killed from on top.
Somebody came down and took this reporter's work and silenced her.
Who has the power to do that exactly?
And what a strange new world that we live in because at this point you would have to assume that the reporter would be so angry she'd go to social media.
But there didn't really exist the same social media ecosystem at the time.
And this just shows you the vested powers in all of this.
Ask yourself this.
Who has the power at ABC News to say, kill it?
Who has the power, more importantly, zoom out?
Who has the power to tell ABC News, which, of course, the only reason you have a CBS, NBC, and ABC, is because of the operations of American intelligence agencies, putting old generals, right, or old agency heads in charge of these three major news outlets as they were originally formed, and then giving them, on a silver platter, access to America's broadcast waves.
Who has the power to tell ABC News to shut up and to kill a story?
Now you're getting there.
So then who did it exactly?
Here's the clip.
It will haunt me.
It will haunt my dreams.
James O 'Keefe breaking this news story years ago and now it's come roaring back into the top of my feed because it shows you how the entire bloody operation works.
amy robach
I've had the story for three years.
I've had this interview with Virginia Roberts.
We would not put it on the air.
First of all, I was told, who's Jeffrey Epstein?
No one knows who that is.
This is a stupid story.
Then the palace found out that we had her whole allegations about Prince Andrew and threatened us a million different ways.
We were so afraid we wouldn't be able to interview Kate.
I will.
That also quashed the story.
And then Alan Dershowitz was also implicated in it because of the planes.
She told me everything.
She had pictures.
She had everything.
She was in hiding for 12 years.
We convinced her to come out.
We convinced her to talk to us.
It was unbelievable what we had.
Clinton.
We had everything.
I tried for three years to get it on.
To no avail.
And now it's all coming out and it's like these new revelations and I freaking had all of it.
I'm so pissed right now.
Like every day I get more and more pissed because I'm just like, oh my God.
What we had was unreal.
Other women backing it up.
Hey, yep.
Brad Edwards, the attorney, three years ago saying, there will come a day where we will realize Jeffrey Epstein was the most prolific pedophile this country has ever known.
I had it all three years ago.
benny johnson
I had it all three years ago.
Clinton, the royal family, and somebody came in and killed it.
They came in over the top and killed it.
Now, they told the reporter who, I don't know Amy Rohrbach, okay?
But good for her for getting all of this.
When this clip became published, she had to apologize, right?
They forced her to apologize.
This is the evil of corporate media.
The corporate control of what we can say and how we can think, which really, it's all about thought process.
That's why this is such an important topic to talk about.
Because if they can block you from thinking about it, they can just kill Epstein in a cell and let a foreign government do it, then you don't actually have a justice system here.
We don't actually live in the world.
The world that we think we live in is fake if they can do this.
If they can just, if you're so inconvenient, if you...
Or your child becomes so inconvenient to the state that they can just allow a federal...
They can allow a foreign country to go into a federal courthouse and murder you?
You don't live in a real country!
The laws don't matter!
That's what's so scary about this Epstein thing.
This is why they're fighting so hard to stop this information from coming out.
And that's why they shut down Amy Rohrbach there at ABC News, who I think was doing an honest...
Legitimate investigation.
We had the Clintons.
Notice how she said it.
The Clintons.
Not Bill.
We had them both.
It's too much.
I can't wait.
We have the great Senator Eric Schmidt on and we're going to talk with him about this and everything that's going on in the Senate with D-Class and some of the incredible work there.
But it's worth noting this.
Hey, Alex, just grab really, really fast.
The one asset I'm going to ask for today.
Donald Trump at CPAC 10 years ago.
I must have that clip, okay?
President Trump, this is why I have hope, all right?
President Trump, possibly the first promise he ever made to you and the American people, and why we are fighting so hard for this, is that Donald Trump stood up at CPAC before that clip, before any of this reporting, stood up at CPAC a decade ago.
And was asked by Sean Hannity, who didn't know what the hell he was talking about, what do you think about Bill Clinton?
And Donald Trump comes over the top with this answer that stunned the American people.
Everyone was left gasping because nobody really knew anything about Jeffrey Epstein.
Jeffrey Epstein was, of course, alive at the time, was still operational, right?
Jeffrey Epstein was operating in the country.
The entire thing was still going on.
If you believe it's a Mossad op, if you believe this is a foreign thing, if you believe this is something run by our CIA, there's a lot of converging theories now.
But here comes Trump in the year 2015, out of nowhere, saying Jeffrey Epstein is a predator who's ensnared an American president in some of the sickest crimes imaginable.
Listen to your boy.
Here we go.
brian kilmeade
Bill Clinton.
Nice guy.
unidentified
Got a lot of problems coming up, in my opinion, with the famous island with Jeffrey Epstein.
A lot of problems.
benny johnson
Sean Hannity.
Whatever.
Right?
Whatever.
We're not trying to flame Sean.
This was President Trump beginning to tell the American public what's happening, what your federal government does, who they protect.
The kind of monsters they protect!
And then Trump, of course, has gone forward and promised the release of this stuff and then appointed people like Cash Patel and Dan Bojanow.
He didn't have to.
He didn't have to.
We were at Mar-a-Lago for those days.
We were standing beside Cash Patel when Cash went in to do his first interview for FBI director.
We were there.
I was physically his hype man at Mar-a-Lago for this.
We can finally tell this story because we won, right?
There were a lot of people that didn't want Cash in there.
Cash is somebody who's promised this on our pro.
And Trump didn't have to put him in that chair and didn't have to do the same thing with Bongino.
Clip going viral of Bongino on Tim Pool's show being like, yeah, you know, Epstein was a foreign op and was killed by a foreign government.
Whoa, what?
And then he says a Middle Eastern government.
OK, well, let's zoom in here.
At least we can ask these questions.
And the reason why we ask them is because if you expose this, you'll expose exactly the nature of your federal government.
Who they protect, why they protect them, and that these people are—you destroy the entire system there.
Because once the American people, once the American public can lock in the evils that these people are willing to perpetrate, well, then you can destroy the entire system.
And that's what President Trump's been doing, and he's been doing this work for 10 years.
10 years.
Final note, that Donald Trump was the only person that testified against Jeffrey Epstein when he was catching a case in 2009.
In Palm Beach.
Talk to the lawyers.
The lawyers that put Jeffrey Epstein away and then the government let him out of jail.
Isn't that amazing?
Jeffrey Epstein was caught a case and was sentenced and found guilty in Palm Beach in 2009.
He caught a case and was found guilty of child sex trafficking.
In America, government lets him free.
Lets him out.
Right?
The only person that testified against...
Jeffrey Epstein in that entire community of rich people was Donald Trump.
So in case you're wondering who's on the side of righteousness and light here, you're on the right side.
If you were part of that vote right there, if you're part of making the country look like that, you're on the right side.
Okay?
And Christ is pretty brutal when it comes to what should happen to people that harm children.
All right?
You can go read the scriptures.
Big old rocks tied around your neck, chuck them into the ocean.
That's what that's...
That's what the scriptures say, okay?
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Okay, ladies and gentlemen.
Jumping over.
My apologies.
I'm off my soapbox here.
We have the great Senator Eric Schmidt from the state of Missouri joining us live right now.
unidentified
Thank you.
Thank you.
benny johnson
you you Senator, I get so hot under the collar about these things.
I'm a parent.
I know you're a parent.
You have this beautiful young family.
And it just seems like such a moral issue, right?
Like, why does the federal government protect predators, right?
It's like, it shouldn't be.
eric schmitt
Well, I think, by the way, I was listening to that segment.
I need you as my hype man.
Can you do that?
unidentified
Totally.
benny johnson
Anytime, Senator.
eric schmitt
I mean, brother.
I love it.
Yeah, it's disgusting, and this all needs to be exposed, which is, I know, one of the reasons why you're so high on cash, and so am I. Dan Bongino now coming in.
President Trump, I think what makes this so unique is people are used to politicians running a certain way and then governing a different way.
Like they can't be in a certain way and they don't actually do what they say they want to do on the campaign trail.
President Trump's doing all of that, right?
He's actually said he's going to be the ultimate disruptor to a corrupt system.
And he's actually going to disrupt the corrupt system.
And every day now we see the Democrats and their left-wing media allies.
Complaining about it.
You should see Capitol Hill today.
I mean, these folks are like beside themselves that we're actually trying to save money, right?
Or that there might be bloat in the federal government.
But the people are with us.
President Trump's doing it, and it's an exciting time.
But Kath Patel, to answer your question, I think he's going to expose all of this, which is about time.
benny johnson
We watched you vote in favor of Kash Patel.
Just a couple days ago, we were actually broadcasting live.
I'm sorry that we didn't get a chance to connect on Capitol Hill.
We were broadcasting live from Mark Wayne Mullen's office with Senator Lee.
And it was a historic moment.
It was amazing.
It was pretty shocking to see the number of people voting against Kash Patel, voting against this level of transparency.
There seems to be a lot of vested interest in keeping secrets from the American people.
You've obviously, as Attorney General in the state of Missouri, you worked so hard to stop censorship, to stop Dr. Fauci.
You won.
You've been successful in it.
I mean, it's got to be great to bring that to the federal level.
And, like, what would you like, what are you going to be fighting with now that we have Cash in the chair, now that we have Pam Bondi there, Dan Bongino's coming in.
What are some of the first things you want to see from a federal level?
eric schmitt
Yeah, I think that it's interesting.
So during Cash Patel's hearing, I got a chance to introduce Pam Bondi, you know, before the Judiciary Committee, and then she passed, and when Cash came up, it's this, in those two hearings, It was really interesting.
The Democrats really exposed what they're really afraid of.
They're afraid of the weaponization that we've seen over the last four years, right?
And both Pam and Cash both said, look, we're going to get back to crime fighting.
We're going to end this nonsense.
And I just sort of tried to make the point, I guess it went a little bit viral, but to make the point like, look, the Democrats, I just don't think they've come to grips, Benny, with the idea that they're in this position.
Think about what they tried to do.
They tried to demonize half of America.
Their opening and closing argument was that President Trump was a threat to democracy.
The Americans sat in that jury box and they rendered their own verdict.
They rejected all of their nonsense.
They tried to tarnish Kash Patel.
They tried to, again, demonize half the country.
And we won.
And now these people are in charge of really important agencies, and I think they're going to restore faith in the FBI.
Restore faith in the Department of Justice.
And the Democrats don't like it because they've been able to use these institutions against the American people and go after their political enemies.
I mean, this censorship enterprise that we talked about, you and I talked about on the show when I was AG and now in this role, we're not done exposing this.
I mean, I'm the subcommittee chair of the Constitution subcommittee and the Judiciary Committee as jurisdiction over the First Amendment.
We're going to start looking at NGOs.
Like, what role did they play?
The University of Washington and Stanford were used by the federal government to help flag undesirable language and censor conservatives and feed that to big tech companies.
I think until we really appreciate the extent to which they went to suppress individual rights in this country, we're never going to fully reject it.
Until everybody sees just how bad it was.
So I think that them coming into their roles, they can further amplify that.
But again, get back to fighting crime.
Cash, I think one of the most powerful things in this testimony, Benny, was when he said a third of all FBI agents are in Washington, D.C. He wants to get them out there to go after gangs, to go after drug cartels, you know, sort of get back to the core mission of law enforcement.
So I'm excited about Cash being in that role.
benny johnson
We've had some reports and FBI whistleblowers on this program saying that there might be an active destruction campaign for various files and evidence inside of the FBI.
Have you heard anything about that?
I mean, and the judiciary, you would obviously have jurisdiction there and the capacity to really investigate that.
Concurrently, there's also...
Reporting from CNN saying that CIA agents may go rogue and start leaking America's secrets to our enemies because they're pissed off they got fired, creating like a fifth column in our own federal government.
eric schmitt
It's crazy.
And you saw these people walking out of the USAID offices with these, you know, messages.
And, you know, I think what's so great about this, the Democrats can't help themselves.
Like, they're swinging at every pitch here.
They cannot help themselves.
The American people do not want millions of dollars to go to Guatemalan sex changes.
They don't want DEI trainings in Burma.
They don't want their tax dollars to pay for LGBTQIA Sesame Street in Iraq.
And this is what was happening.
You know, like, I think we just got to keep laying it out and talk about all the ridiculousness that has happened.
And they could have...
I posted this on X, I think, yesterday.
The Democrats...
They could have just let him go off into the sunset, but they couldn't help himself, right?
They could not help themselves.
And now President Trump is back, and he's going to change this corrupt system forever.
And I'm excited about it.
It's a pretty unique time to be here in the Senate, and we've just got to keep pushing not only the people that he wants in place, his team, to go do that, but then also as we go into reconciliation, a lot of things we're going to do in the Senate to put meat on the bones of that agenda that the American people are desperate for.
benny johnson
Yeah.
So, okay.
How do we break through the sort of declassification wall that is going to happen with these giant black documents that will be handed?
Right?
You'll be handed them.
You'll go down into a skiff, all right?
And then you'll see nothing.
And it'll just be a giant blank document.
Like, is there any thought process?
And I know that Chairman Grassley is obviously the biggest thorn in his paw has been this.
Lack of transparency inside of these agencies.
Is there a plan with Republicans to actually break through that wall?
eric schmitt
Yeah, and I think that if you notice a lot of the hearings, Chairman Grassley, he talked a lot about that because he's got a lot of credibility with these whistleblowers over the years.
They felt comfortable coming to him.
And even when it came to the Hunter Biden laptop stuff, I mean, he was sort of in the middle of all that when it happened, where people started to come forward on the nonsense that the Biden administration...
When they came into office, whether it was IRS agents or whatever, the things that were happening.
But as it relates to declassification, they're beginning that process.
And my hope is that it's not another, and I don't have any reason to believe this because I think President Trump is committed to this and Tulsi Gabbard and the whole team is going to have a role in all this, that we actually...
If there is something new to learn, that we actually learn it.
You know, that this doesn't get buried in, as you mentioned, sort of like total redactions.
And look, maybe everything is what they said it was on the Kennedy assassination.
I doubt that's true.
But I think the American people, you know, what are we, 60 years later?
Deserve answers here on the MLK assassination.
Deserve answers.
The Jeffrey Epstein list that you were just talking about, there's no reason why that should be secret.
You know what I mean?
So I think this transparency is a new era.
And by the way, for Republicans, it's a great way for us to continue to wear the white hats.
We're wearing the white hats on free speech.
We're wearing the white hats on reining in the excesses of government.
We should be wearing the white hats on transparency.
Let the Democrats defend permanent Washington.
Let them defend the status quo that people are frustrated by.
And I think that's the dynamic that's being set up right now.
benny johnson
Yes.
I mean, thank God.
It's so wonderful to hear it.
It's such an obvious win.
As a parent, as a father, it's such an obvious win.
No, actually, your tax dollars aren't going to be paying to protect pederasts, and it's not going to be paying to ensure that these people can run these ops, right?
It's a moral question, actually, about the nature of our government, that we actually stand against these things, and we want these people to...
Be prosecuted and face justice.
eric schmitt
And what you're hitting on, too, is, I think, this sort of two tiers of justice.
You don't want to have one tier for political enemies and for everybody else.
Or you don't want to have a tier for the powerful or the elites, right?
And everybody else has a different standard of justice.
I think at the heart of what you're talking about and why people deserve to know that justice is being meted out fairly and evenly and that nobody's getting special status here.
benny johnson
Yes.
Okay, so final question for you, Senator, because it's something that has clearly been a bee in your bonnet, as they would say back in the Midwest, as my grandmother would say.
Dr. Fauci got himself a pardon.
In the, of course, the small hours of the last hours of Joe Biden's administration, which is crazy.
First off, I think that should be patently illegal.
If he hasn't been charged with a crime, you can't just like blanket pardon somebody.
Every president from now on is just going to pardon everyone he's ever known forever.
It's insane.
And I think they're going to try and memory hole this guy.
Now, you kicked his ass in the state of Missouri.
And you were able to actually, one of the few people I think on Earth that were able to actually depose Dr. Fauci.
Where does this stand?
I mean, will the American people ever get any type of closure for what this bastard did?
And, you know, like, are you going to lead any investigation?
Because you can still investigate the guy.
You can still, like, tell people.
You can still destroy his legacy.
Even if he doesn't wind up behind bars, which would be great.
But, like, you can still destroy him.
Actually.
And it's what the left would do to us.
So why not use those tactics against them?
eric schmitt
Well, I do think there's a lot more to be done here.
And I think that you made this point about first point on these pardons.
You know, the Democrats would always argue that Trump was breaking all these norms.
Actually, that's not true at all.
What they did, though, they bulldozed all norms, laws, constitutional protections to get their way.
And they protected this guy.
In a way that, like, this blanket pardon for things that he's never even been charged with is unheard of.
Like, it's totally unheard of.
But you've got to remember, he holds like a cult-like status, cult leader-like status with the Democrats.
They had Fauci candles.
Remember, they were lighting Fauci candles.
Like, it was totally insane.
Some of it was Trump derangement syndrome, but it was also this abandonment of what science really is.
And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. talked about this in his hearing, and he and I talked about it on the campaign trail.
Science is always questioning assumptions, right?
There's no settled science.
Science is always challenging things you think to be true to make sure you have the most accurate information possible and then the best treatments that are possible that flow from that, right?
What they effectively did with Fauci was they said he is this lord of medicine.
What did he say?
He said, I am the science, I think, in one interview at the time.
And the damage that he caused is immense.
It's almost incalculable.
This idea...
That, you know, in the deposition, we confronted him with the idea, you know, we asked him about how he feels about masks.
You know, he's, oh, masks are 100% effective.
Well, we showed him an email to a friend of his in April of 2020 who emailed him and said, hey, I'm getting on a plane.
COVID is running rampant.
Should I wear a mask?
And his response was, no, masks aren't effective.
You don't need to wear a mask.
And yet, he goes out there in this assemblage of power that he was able to get by standing at the podium time after time or going on network after network and lying to people.
I mean, he knew that the vaccine or the shot couldn't prevent transmission.
He knew that it wasn't going to prevent you from getting it in the first place, right?
But he was out there arguing it, and nobody's safe until everybody's safe.
Benny, this kind of groupthink that we experienced through COVID, we can never let them memory hold it.
They had police tape around playgrounds.
They were boarding up basketball rooms.
They were telling people you couldn't see a loved one when they were dying.
You couldn't see your family during Christmas.
This was insane.
Totally insane.
And so Fauci's got a lot to answer to.
And by the way, just because he's gotten the pardon, it doesn't mean he can't be compelled to testify and he can't take the Fifth Amendment because he can't be prosecuted.
So let's lay it all out there and let's bring Fauci back in.
benny johnson
Good.
Okay, fantastic.
Are you going to lead that effort?
eric schmitt
Yeah, sure.
Well, some of this, I'm not on the health committee, so it'll be the committees of jurisdiction.
But you know me, like I've got a history with this guy.
unidentified
Yeah.
eric schmitt
I work as closely with Rand Paul on this stuff as possible to hold this guy to account.
benny johnson
Fantastic.
And here's the proof of what you just said.
Here's Dr. Fauci with a votive candle of himself in his own office.
He's sitting there in his own office.
eric schmitt
I mean, he was so smug in the deposition that we came back from a break.
I may have told you the story.
And this was in November of 2022, okay?
This is not like March of 2020.
The court reporter sneezed, and he was so, like, taken aback by it that he asked her to put a mask on, okay?
This was the guy in charge of our public health.
He was so rattled by this that he was, you know, asking the court reporter to put a mask on.
He said he didn't recall 180-something times, even though he claimed he was the science.
He's a total fraud.
benny johnson
Yeah, these people.
Rat bastards.
And we often say that the problem with these people is actually they don't know God.
They don't have any faith.
They don't believe in a higher power.
They believe they are the highest power.
And this is like the kind of sickness you have when you put your own face on a votive candle and then put it in your office to worship yourself.
One of the many little pieces of iconography in Dr. Fauci's office that has his own face on it.
People are sick, man.
eric schmitt
Well, it's like that meme, like the next thing, when you've got the left, it's like always the next thing, whether it's Ukraine, or it's climate alarmism, or it's COVID, like when there's no anchors.
And by the way, this is what the left does, right?
You cut all the anchors that tie you together.
Family, faith.
Your country.
If you disconnect people from those things that we know bring people together, the left then has the avenue to put all these issues in front of people and drive them astray.
And so it was a very instructive time.
It was power doesn't necessarily corrupt, but it certainly reveals.
And way too many people had way too much power that they never should have had during COVID, that's for sure, including Fauci.
benny johnson
Yeah.
Everybody follow the senator.
Just crazy, Senator, that as soon as John Ratcliffe takes over the CIA, they change their tune on COVID.
Wow, isn't that amazing?
What timing?
Really, Senator?
eric schmitt
That's right.
So that's the official one.
They can also find me on X on Eric underscore Schmidt, which is...
My personal one.
And we try to do a lot of updates about what's going on in the Senate, too.
I think it's a good way to stay connected.
Your show does a great job with that.
But there's a lot going on right now.
It's an exciting time.
And we just try to keep people in the loop.
benny johnson
Look at that.
Great family there.
Are you on the field there?
eric schmitt
I got to throw out the first pitch.
benny johnson
Come on, man.
eric schmitt
It was a strike.
It was a strike, and I don't get nervous about a lot of things, but walking up on the mound, I was like, you know, the downside's a lot bigger than the upside here.
But it worked out.
benny johnson
You didn't Barack Obama it with the Dan Bones?
unidentified
No.
benny johnson
You didn't Barack Obama that sucker?
Okay, good for you.
We'll find the footage.
Next time you're on, Senator, we'll find the clip, okay?
We'll put it up and tell everybody, follow the man.
Right there.
200,000 Americans.
Can't be wrong.
Follow Senator Eric Schmidt.
He's a real fighter.
eric schmitt
All right, brother.
benny johnson
Thanks.
unidentified
See you.
you you Amen.
Amen.
benny johnson
Ladies and gentlemen, we're really excited to talk to our next guest and we appreciate the patience here, which is so much to discuss today.
Somebody who's been a friend of the show.
Forgive me, okay?
But I just can't help myself.
I'm a dad, and I look for low-hanging dad puns.
I'm getting booed from inside of the studio.
The boos are coming from inside the studio.
A friend of the program, Steve Friend, former FBI agent, FBI whistleblower, and the man who knows where a lot of bodies are buried, Steve Friend, live now.
unidentified
Now.
benny johnson
you you Steve, what's going on, man?
A lot of news.
A lot of news about the FBI over the last couple of days.
Drinking from a fire hose, and we want to speak to people that actually have authority on these topics, and you're one of them.
So thank you for being on the program.
steve friend
Great to be here.
And how do you know you've just heard a dad joke?
When it becomes apparent.
benny johnson
Steve Friend, ladies and gentlemen.
Please follow him.
He's great.
steve friend
I'm just kidding.
benny johnson
That's good.
In a different news cycle, we'll just do a whole show on dad jokes, but this stuff is crazy dark, man.
We've had whistleblowers coming on saying that there's destruction of evidence.
There's an enormous amount of panic going on inside of the FBI.
Just this morning, right before the show, Andrew McCabe is up in my feed.
Andrew McCabe filming some weepy...
Screechy video about Dan Bongino.
And McCabe's like losing his mind.
So I'm thinking, wow, maybe we're over the target here.
Let's start with Bongino and the cash selection.
Based on your sources, is there panic going on inside of the FBI right now?
steve friend
There's basically two camps, right?
There's the door kickers, the actual agents who want to do the work of protecting the American people against fraud and force.
And they're doing backflips over Cash Patel becoming the director.
The selection of Dan Bongino as the deputy director now, because I think they are breaking the mold for what you would expect from positions of leadership.
There was a lot of people I know that tossed in their resumes hoping to get to become either the director or the deputy director.
I know Cash was fielding a lot of those.
And I mean, this the hubris and the lack of self-awareness in those people who were touting the fact that they'd been in the FBI for 15, 20, 25 years.
I mean, that to me is a confession that you helped to oversee the devolution of the agency to become this weaponized apparatchik, the American Stasi.
But they just never occurred to them.
And then you contrast the real meat eater investigators with the left of center, we'll say, the communist support staff and the intel analysts who are weeping with the fact that now they're on the chopping block because the intelligence branch is probably going to be done away with entirely as it should.
And these are people who get paid.
I mean, they research whatever topic they find to be interesting, and they use whatever sources they want, like the Southern Poverty Law Center or the Atlantic.
And that's how you get an intelligence product that says that we should go and infiltrate into Catholic parishes, particularly people who like to go to Latin Mass because they're pro-life, pro-traditional marriage, pro-Second Amendment, pro-sovereignty, making them anti-government extremists who we should try to arrest as domestic terrorists.
benny johnson
The intel section cluster, let's call it, of the FBI, and that there might be a splintered group inside of the FBI that are going to do everything they possibly can to sabotage President Trump and to potentially engage in activity that may be illegal.
Some people are, some people, Garrett O 'Boyle, whistleblower, saying on our program yesterday, followed up by Michael Schellenberger's reporting, That there may be active destruction of evidence going on right now inside of the FBI.
This is classified evidence, maybe on servers that don't have any type of digital forensics and may be atomized.
Have you ever seen anything like that?
Have you heard of anything like that?
steve friend
I have no reason to doubt the veracity of what Garrett's saying.
I mean, he's a buddy of mine and his sources are...
Pretty much impeccable.
And he's not a bomb thrower.
I believe him 100%.
But I am very familiar with the subterfuge that's going on, that's been going on just even outside of the context of destroying classified material.
You talk about the ICE raids and the fact that all the different federal law enforcement agencies have been tapped to assist with the deportations of the illegal aliens and the resistance that has existed inside my ex-girlfriend over at the FBI.
I've heard different people have come to me with stories about the fact that there are open conversations in the office where they say, well, if you don't want to do it, if you have a moral objection, you don't have to do it.
um and what are your thoughts on people who do and then people will openly say i think you're a nazi if you do that and then after that they'll say hey by the way we're looking for a volunteer who wants to go on this raid so if you raise your hand everybody just says oh that's a mega nazi and you're gonna have the target on your back at that point and then you have other offices where senior executives are saying things like well we're not gonna comply with that we're we're gonna opt out of
And then as you're on the way, driving in transit to go to the raid, then we'll get the phone call and say, yeah, we're going to back out so we can throw a disruption to this entire thing.
Or then you go to the bureaucratic nature of it, the way that people are personally trying to enrich themselves, still using a quota system, making up new quotas for themselves.
So I've heard that there's now a quota for the number of times that a senior executive actually attends the raid.
They're getting a participation quota, and they will get bonuses for hitting that quota.
We're also hearing that the FBI is opening a terrorist case every single time that they have to participate in one of these ICE raids.
And that's how they're going to boost their terrorist numbers so that they can say, look at all this terrorist problem that we have here, and we're going to need more resources and capabilities to spy on the American people.
benny johnson
Okay, I wanted to let you finish there, but what you said off the top was insane.
You were telling me that the FBI is being used as almost like a...
Salon.
Like a hair salon with a bunch of people, a bunch of like women who may just want to opt out and not follow orders.
You're telling me that inside the FBI, an order comes down and there are leaders at the FBI that are saying, if you don't feel like it, you don't have to follow the order.
If this doesn't match your...
Emotions of the day.
You don't have to go deport this criminal alien.
Did you just make that contention, Steve?
steve friend
It's not just a contention.
It's actually been reported to me by multiple people in multiple offices across the country that that is going on here.
And look, there's always the allegation that I've contended with and other whistleblowers have contended with.
Well, you know, you were given a directive and you didn't follow it.
And here's the difference.
I mean, you have to assess that directive and see, is it constitutional?
Is it legal?
Is it ethical?
Is it moral?
But when it comes to assisting with ICE with a lawful deportation of an illegal alien, there's not a whole lot you can do.
I mean, you maybe could object to some sort of risk to the public safety that you find unnecessary if it gets to that level.
But here, just basically on your principles saying, like, I think the illegal alien should get to stay here.
That's not acceptable, and that's the person that needs to be actually spotlighted.
Not the person who says, I'm willing to go along.
I mean, that's the most fun part of your job.
The illusion, the myth of the FBI is that what goes on on TV shows and movies happens every single day.
Most FBI agents sit in a cubicle.
They arrive to the office, they take their gun off, and they put it in their desk drawer, if they even have it on to begin with.
This is your opportunity to kit up where all your gear, there's no paperwork because ICE is handling all of it, and just going out and grabbing the bad guy and then you're going and getting breakfast and going back to the office to go do high fives and talk about how awesome your job is.
But they don't want to do that.
They want to get back to the office so they can, I don't know, entrap people who are emotionally disturbed online and then open up unnecessary terrorist investigations where they convince a person to do their worst idea, which they weren't predisposed or capable of even doing to begin with.
And then we say, oh, you provided material support to terrorism, which is why 90% plus of counterterrorism cases the FBI has carried forward in the last couple decades are entrapment cases just like that.
benny johnson
Wow.
So, okay.
That just seems crazy to me, understanding the constitutional order, that an agent can sit there and be like, no, I don't like this, and I'm just not going to do it.
It seems like that's exactly what happened with this ICE raid that became quite publicized.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chrissy Noem was on TV last night saying that they found the leaker.
And Tom Homan saying the leaker was within the FBI and that there was someone within the FBI tipping off Trendy Aragua that there's going to be an ICE raid.
Do you know anything about that, Steve?
Like, do you know that there has any action been taken on this?
Does this regularly happen?
steve friend
I haven't heard any sort of disciplinary action taken in.
Now, look, we have to give Kash Patel and Dan Baigino a little bit of latitude.
I mean, they've been on the job for less than a week.
But if they have been able to identify this, and it's not limited to just the Los Angeles raid.
I believe that other ones happened in Illinois and Colorado as well.
And I think as a society – There were tips that led to the...
Basically aborting the mission that they were doing.
Because there's a risk to the agents at that point, right?
I mean, the element of surprise is massive.
It's speed, surprise, violence of action.
Those are the three elements that you have to use in order to bring somebody who can be considered dangerous.
And I think Trendy Aragua fits the bill.
And they made that assessment that that was unnecessary.
So I think at large, there needs to be a serious discussion that if you're going to hit this level of subterfuge...
Then we need to have a discussion about maybe we just abandon these blue areas.
Like, you don't get any federal resources at this point.
We make the Martha's Vineyard, where Texas and Florida sent busloads of illegals there, and they freaked out.
We'll make that in your entire state.
And then when your people cry out, finally, for the relief, then maybe you'll come back into compliance, and then the balkanization might be able to reunite.
benny johnson
Obviously, you've done intelligence work.
You've been on our program talking about your extensive knowledge of how this operates.
We cover the news ecosystem, and we know when there are specific reporters on bylines at CNN that this is something that's predictive programming is coming directly from the calcified intel agencies that are balkanizing against President Trump.
There's this CNN report that went thermonuclear viral yesterday about how the CIA and fired agents at the CIA may well be planning to create a fifth column in this country and sell out the American government and our secrets to the highest bidder.
I do believe it.
steve friend
I think that that's accurate.
I mean, the Federalist does really sewn up, buttoned up.
Reporting on this one.
And here's the problem that exists in the intelligence space.
The people that are working on that, they truly believe that that is their information.
Their work product belongs to them as opposed to the American people, which is why you're seeing all the congressional committees that are talking about releasing some of the documents.
And they're sort of treating it like a game show to a certain extent.
And I'm just of the opinion of that's our information to begin with.
It should be revealed to us.
But in the intelligence space, they are not viewing the American people as their customers, people who they're theoretically supposed to protect to drive the mission forward.
They look at the American people as an opportunity.
As an opportunity to write their next intelligence product, and it's just whether or not they have a problem with you, and then they can have their man and then find their crime to drive this entire mission forward.
This does not surprise me that this is the mindset that they have.
I mean, look, you had the 51 Spies Who Lies, who put out a fake letter in the lead-up to the 2020 election about the Hunter Biden laptop being Russian disinformation, and then the FBI, which had the laptop in its possession.
Send Elvis Chan out to social media companies to suppress that.
This is the level of control that they feel that they have, and there's just never been accountability for any of them when it's been brought to bear.
Well, now we're in a new time.
The level of transparency that we're seeing in the last month of the Trump administration, and hopefully that we're going to continue to see, is a good thing.
I mean, that's what the doge is exposing, and people having the scales fall away from their eyes across the entire federal government.
But when it comes to the intelligence space, there needs to be actual accountability.
There need to be people who are put into orange jumpsuits at the end of an L-shaped hallway in solitary confinement for the rest of their life, Robert Hansen style, because that is tantamount to treason.
benny johnson
This is the only way that you're going to get deterrence from this happening throughout the entire Trump era, because this entire machine, you're right, seems to operate totally outside of the federal government, outside of the constitutional boundaries.
And it's gotten so wildly out of control.
And they are very dangerous, these individuals.
What would you like to see?
In conclusion here, Steve, what is the striking at the heart of darkness that would really set the tone here?
What documents could be released?
What secrets could be revealed?
What punitive actions could be taken to show that there really actually is new power in charge?
And this isn't just window dressing.
steve friend
I mean, I'll just go to one specific one, and there's a lot you can pull from.
I mean, like, I want to find out about the Vegas shooting and the JFK files.
I want the Butler assassination attempt completely opened up.
And I say that because the FBI, the deputy director at the time, Paula Bate, went into a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing and told Lindsey Graham and the rest of them that they were treating this...
This assassination attempt as potential domestic terrorism.
And the reason they did that was because the FBI ruled that the congressional baseball shooting where the Bernie Sanders supporter arrived asked where are the Republicans and that one tried to kill the entire caucus.
That wasn't an assassination attempt.
The FBI said, because they weren't politicized at the time, of course, that that was suicide by cop.
So now, now we're going to take the blinders off, investigate it as domestic terrorism.
Well, that means there's a classified marking on it.
And I'm sorry, we can't comment on that.
It's an ongoing investigation.
You don't have the need to know.
I want to see that full report opened up.
Because I alluded to the entrapment playbook the FBI likes to run where they find a vulnerable person.
One of the shortfalls of the plan, because of the FBI's hubris, is they keep that person at arm's length, but they're not really gettable all the time.
And they think, well, of course they're going to follow the plan for us to entrap them.
And they never think for a moment, maybe that person will go off script.
Like grab dad's deer rifle and climb on top of a slightly sloped roof.
I think there's...
All the hallmarks, we'll say.
We'll keep with the 51 spies who lies motif.
All the hallmarks of an FBI entrapment scheme align with that, which might explain why they might have wanted to make it a domestic terrorism case because they already had a domestic terrorist case open, which is what my contention has been from the beginning.
I know it's a little bit conspiratorial, but let's assuage me of that suspicion.
Let's see that fully opened up and transparent.
And the victim of that case is the current occupant of the Oval Office, the most powerful human in the history of the planet, because with every evolution of the presidency, the next president is the most powerful.
Man, so do you think that Matthew Thomas Crooks was an op?
I think it was a failed op.
I think it was a failed terrorism playbook where they were going to try to get him for supporting ISIS or Boko Haram or whatever they wanted to get.
Maybe potentially white supremacy because that's the term du jour of the day.
And I think that he just didn't follow all the breadcrumbs and he went off script and they probably already had an open assessment.
And that way they could justify having that assessment open to begin with and bury it.
benny johnson
Incredible.
And that's why all the weird things, no social media presence.
He was on the phone with someone.
We have photos of him on the phone with somebody before the assassination.
He's sitting there.
He's on a call and we have nothing about that.
Of course we have something.
Of course there's carrier and there's metadata associated with that call.
And of course the FBI has his phone, obviously, right?
Of course they can hack into his phone.
That's insane.
Why didn't his house have any silverware?
Why has nobody interviewed his parents?
Like we haven't heard anything from his parents.
The whole thing is bananas stuff.
steve friend
Steve, as is the fact that the January 6th pipe bomber from the RNC and the DNC was basically the sole weapons of mass destruction terrorist actor on January 6th, 2021, and never struck again in the last four years and don't know him, can't tell anything about it.
I'm sorry, the cell phone data was We're going to have our work cut out for us, man.
benny johnson
There's a lot of outside pressure we want to apply, but we think we have the right people in the chair.
Well, we talk to the right people on the program.
Like Steve Friend, who actually knows what he's talking about here.
He's one of the bravest FBI whistleblowers out there who's been speaking the truth about this agency for a long time.
And we'd really like to see what he's talking about, especially with the Trump assassination.
JFK is like so long ago, everyone's dead.
Trump assassination happened six months ago.
It's insane, the timeline here.
Happened six months ago, and we still know nothing.
Everybody follow Steve Friend.
Get in there and make sure that the people that are here that are able to speak truth can and have the largest possible following so that we can collapse the corporate media and can actually create our own news cycles, which is what we're constantly doing on this program.
Thank you, Steve.
steve friend
You got it.
Have a good day.
unidentified
Bye.
Bye.
benny johnson
you you you you Ooh, man, ladies and gentlemen, got some breaking news on Vivek, a friend of the program, someone who we've done a lot of work with.
Vivek has announced he will be running for the governor of Ohio, something we've told you was going to happen for nearly months at this point.
Vivek immediately picked up an Elon endorsement and a Donald Trump endorsement.
So I think, quite frankly, it's pretty obvious you're looking at the next governor.
vivek ramaswamy
I am honored to announce my candidacy to serve as the next governor of the state of Ohio.
President Trump is reviving our conviction in America.
We require a leader here at home who will revive our conviction in Ohio.
And that is why today I am honored to announce that I am running to be the next governor of a great state at the heart of the greatest nation known to mankind.
The state...
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Boom.
benny johnson
Proud of Avake.
Proud of Avake.
All of our friends are rockin' and rollin', man.
We're proud of him.
We support him.
We endorse him.
Tomorrow we will have a man who is running for governor of Florida on the show, Byron Donalds, so don't miss that!
And expect many, many questions about Jeffrey Epstein.
We won't stop, okay?
It happened here in Florida, right?
Let's release all the documents.
Let's freaking go.
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unidentified
See ya.
This is what a life of a real FBI director looks like.
At 4 o 'clock in the morning, I start my coffee, and I check my Border Patrol app to see how many people I get to deport today.
Skip the shower, fix my tie, and now I'm ready.
On the way to work, I have a sensible donut, sip my coffee, and listen to the police scanner for any crime.
At 6 o 'clock, it's time to get to work.
I walk through the Hoover building, checking under the desk for anyone crying.
Those people go straight to jail.
At 12 o 'clock, I have a lunch break.
The leftover chicken marsala give me the energy to finish the day.
At 1 o 'clock, I like to call Adam Schiff's cell phone and play a recording of a clock ticking.
At 5 o 'clock, it is time to go home.
I slap Dan Bongino's ass and say good game.
When I get home, I eat more chicken marsala and then go to bed with my deck of cards.
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