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FAIL: No One Shows Up to Gavin Newsom 'Rally', PANIC Over Trump 2028 | Jasmine CALLED Out to FACE

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chanley painter ▲ ● ▼		Kingsley and Bryant.
		So, governor Newsom's not only he not only railed against Trump at yesterday's rally, he spent significant time announcing his plans to counter Texas loyalty.
		Texas legislators redistricting plan.
		The rally was met with unexpected visitors outside.
		More than a dozen armed and masked border patrol agents could be seen.
		At one point, border patrol agents were seen leading away a man in handcuffs, igniting fury within California leadership.
gavin newsom ▲ ● ▼		I think it's pretty sick and pathetic.
		And it just said everything you need to know, the setting that we're under, that they chose the time, manner and place to send their district director outside right when we're about to have this press conference.
		It said everything you know about Donald Trump's America.
		It said everything you know about the authoritarian tendencies of the United States.ates.
chanley painter ▲ ● ▼		And Governor Newsom firing off this Trump style tweet saying, quote, Donald is finished.
		He is no longer, quote, hot.
		First the hands, so tiny, and now me, Gavin C. Newsom, have taken away his step.
		Many are saying he can't even do the big stairs on Air Force One anymore.
		Uses the little baby stairs now.
		Sad.
		Well, AG Bondi had this warning to lawmakers who say they will not comply with immigration enforcement.
pam bondi ▲ ● ▼		They must comply.
		Yesterday I sent out thirty three letters to mayors around this country.
		I think three or four of them were in California alone, not surprising.
		I sent out letters to all of these mayors and to the governors saying, you must comply.
		We want to know what you're doing to comply with our federal government.
chanley painter ▲ ● ▼		The White House not backing down, guys.
chanley painter ▲ ● ▼		Back to you.
gavin newsom ▲ ● ▼		In recent years, our people faced some of our toughest challenges, and I've been inspired by the courage and resilience of Californians, health workers, teachers, parents and kids.
		You came together.
		And now you're coming back stronger than ever.
		As your governor, I promise you, whatever challenges come our way, I will always lead the California way.
unidentified		Gavin Newsom, courage.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Courage through crisis.
		Oh man, okay.
		Gavin Newsom as the Joker works, man.
		That was great.
		Let's play that again.
		Clip that out.
		I want to play that one again.
		Gavin Newsom works great.
		He works Gavin Newsom as the Joker out of the side of the cop car with his hair flying back.
		That's just pure cinema.
		Pure cinema is going to be today because it is free for all Friday.
unidentified		Yes.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
		We made it, ladies and gentlemen, to Friday, August 16, 2025, Gavin Newsom fails at empty rally, totally pathetic.
		It reminds me of the Kamala Harris stuff.
		It reminds me of the Joe Biden stuff where Joe Biden had more media than he did supporters at his rallies.
		Do you remember those scenes?
		We have a side by side to show you that will shock you.
		Also, Jasmine Crockett roasted to her face based on our reporting.
		Oh baby, we were just in the zone in the flow state.
		That's what you call it.
unidentified		The flow state.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Hopefully you're not in the state of California.
		If you are, we say thank you, Patriots, for staying locked in.
		There's some good data actually coming out of California.
		Very interesting times that we live in.
		And ladies and gentlemen, we will have a rip roaring and rocking show as we just learned that there are multiple grand juries that are sifting through evidence from the DOJ outside of Washington, DC.
		A massive story.
		Hillary Clinton getting on her knees.
		Yikes, you know what I mean?
		Like last summer, Hillary Clinton getting on her knees, begging Donald Trump for a pardon.
		Huh?
		Very interesting stuff that's happening right now.
		Hillary Clinton going to nominate Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.
		I kid you not.
		That's what Hillary said this morning.
		Oh, yeah, we can prove it to you.
		Corey Lewandowski will be on our show.
		Jillian Michaels off one of the straight up.
		Man, she's coming in hot.
		And former CIA officer Brian Dean Wright will be live on the program.
		So, ladies and gentlemen, get yourself right.
		And let's go.
		My name is Benny Johnson, and this is The Benny Show.
		We've talked way too much about what happened to my family in Washington, D.C. this week.
		I was able to explain it on national TV before the eyes of the world at the White House, and it was an honor.
		And so I'm done with the anecdotal stories.
		It's something that means something, it just means something to me, and it happens to be top of the news cycle.
		So I thought I'd share my part in all of this, especially since a bunch of reporters were lying.
		It's so interesting what they told me in the White House press.
		So before and after the press briefing, you get to like, you get to, you get to like chill out with Caroline Levitt.
		So that's what we did.
		We went in and we chilled out with Caroline Levitt.
		Maybe you could, if you could grab the photo, that'd be awesome.
		We chilled out with Caroline and you get to like chat with them, you know, chew the fat and everything.
		I like, I saw them, like I saw them out of the corner of my eye doing the prayer.
		She does a prayer before going out and doing her press conferences.
		And you get to talk with the team.
		You know, it's really unique.
		It's really cool to be there and to get to interface with her and a number of the faces and names that we've worked with over the past couple of years, quite frankly.
		But the point is that her team told me these reporters lie.
		These reporters, and this is the photo, this was actually right before they told me this, multiple members of her staff were on and they were like, these reporters are frauds.
		They're liars.
		They come into our offices and they complain about how dangerous DC is, about the hell'scape of Washington, DC, about how they got robbed, how they got their bike stolen.
		A lot of these reporters ride their bikes, you know, without the seats on them.
		And it's like, these guys have real problems just getting to the White House every single day.
		And then they get given the talking points and they have to like repeat the lines.
		That's how big of cowards, how spineless cowards these people are.
		They are total and complete wastes of space.
		They hissed at me when I walked in the room.
		They lie to you professionally.
		That's literal propaganda.
		And the White House team was like, you have no idea.
		Every one of them, every one of them comes in here and gripes and bitches about how dangerous DC is and now watch them watch them sit there DC is safe DC the crime in DC is down 30% really oh really from like 2023 at all time murder rate highs making the murder rate in DC is higher than like South Sudan Somalia failed states higher than Beirut Caracas the murder rate in DC is higher than
		those places so it's it's down from its all-time high really okay so I'm 500 pounds and I lost 50 pounds well I'm still morbidly obese there's still a problem.
		It doesn't mean like, oh, no, write the headline.
		I look great now.
		All right.
		I didn't be a Lizzo backup dancer.
		No.
		No.
		Anyway, the point is, is that in Washington, D.C., we do not sleep well.
		I had a lot of sleepless nights there, mainly because of the gunfire.
		But here, ladies and gentlemen, we do sleep well.
		because we use the Helix Sleep mattress.
		I use Helix Sleep in my home.
	In fact, my little girls who just moved into their own room, it's like a big moment for parents little girls who moved into their own room use two little girl helix sleep beds that's how much my wife and I love it the helix sleep mattress is like the most important thing that i do every single day like one of the most important purchases of my life i think it's that in the home gym you have to have good sleep you have to have good health health is wealth and you're not going to be able like you're not going to be able to carry on if
	you don't have those two things especially on a schedule like we have today for instance we'll be live at maybe seven i don't know kline seven eight p.m we'll absolutely be live for for putin mageddon all right is what we're going to call it trump putin mageddon so anyway if you're like rip roaring and you're locking in as you should to this great golden era, you've got to be able to get good sleep.
	Ladies and gentlemen, this is a sacred spot for us and for our family.
	Helix Sleep is the mattress that we use.
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	27.
	It's a good number right there.
	What else is a good number?
	Well, holy smokes.
	It seems like Donald Trump has the number of the corrupt officials who tried to take him down and may well be able to get grand jury indictments.
	Again, if you can't return a grand jury indictment, you can't move forward in the prosecution.
	So the grand jury system works.
	The feds are making their case right now in multiple courts around the country outside of DC.
	Now, if somebody like us, community college graduates, can figure this one out, then of course the smartest minds in the world inside of the DOJ and inside of the FBI, inside of Trump's prosecutors can figure this one out, right?
	Stephen Miller running them all.
	And they've been able to impanel grand juries outside of the District of Columbia.
	Thank God, even whilst they are doing a military takeover of the District of Columbia, which is freaking awesome.
	So this is the news.
	I mean, it's off the top.
	You know, this is like breaking.
	This is the news off the top of the show, and it locks in with something that I think is very important from this morning, Hillary Clinton suddenly changing her tune on Donald Trump.
	It's an amazing thing that's happening right now.
	So I want you to see, first off, this important clip from John Solomon where John Solomon talks about the number of grand juries that are currently ready to return indictments outside of Washington, and they're doing this really fast.
	It's an amazing piece of work from the Trump DOJ and his top prosecutors.
	Here we go.
john solomon ▲ ● ▼		And listen, the way you opened your show, there's no better description of what the conspiracy is.
		It's a conspiracy to protect potential of Democrats from potential criminal prosecution and then to violate the civil liberties and privacy and reputations of innocent Republicans to create an alternate story to protect.
		political interest, meaning what's going to happen in the election.
		That's what it is.
		It's not more complicated than I know people say, oh, a conspiracy case is going to be complicated.
		No, it's really not.
		We protected Democrats.
		And the cycle is Hillary has two problems.
		Email, now corruption.
		We can prove that was active at the time.
		Hunter Biden's got corruption in taxes.
		And by the way, the first evidence of that comes in March through May of 2016.
		And then 2019, it's Hunter Biden a lot more.
		And so we impeach the president and we have the government actually creating stories that I think we will prove were false.
		And then in'21 they find...
		It's a wash, rinse and repeat cycle.
		And in the course of that, two potential crimes are occurring.
		Obstruction of legitimate investigations.
		Those are overt acts of a conspiracy.
		And then the violation of innocent people's civil liberties to create a political ruse.
		That is where I believe the Grand Conspiracy case is headed.
		I now believe that there are multiple grand juries that have begun work around this country in multiple jurisdictions outside of Washington where evidence is now being gathered.
		You do?
unidentified		You can report that or you have reason to believe that?
john solomon ▲ ● ▼		No.
		I have confirmed witnesses who have had contact with the grand jury.
		So there are grand jurors in multiple locations.
		Some of those are in Virginia.
		I believe One is going to begin based on early discussions in Pennsylvania.
		There may be one in New York.
		And so the activity has begun.
		And the question now is, and those are probably not going to be the indicting locations.
		I think the more likely thing is you use multiple grand juries just to make it easy to gather lots of information quickly.
		That's the way strike forces work.
		And then you keep working from there.
		But there are multiple locations where pieces of this are being looked at.
		And maybe the grand jurors don't even know it's a grand conspiracy, just looking at some of the overt acts in one of these chapters of this sad story.
		But that is going on.
		And I think it's going to be a process, right?
		It's going to be a six-month process.
		It's a very...
		I wish I knew.
		I don't know the reason.
		I mean, there's lots.
		It could be related to the 2020 election.
pam bondi ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, that's where my mind went.
john solomon ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, yeah.
		So we don't know yet.
		I just know that certain witnesses have been contacted about acceptance of grand jury subpoenas and they're in different locations.
		So the process is beginning.
		But it's a long process.
		And, you know, we won't know a lot about if the Justice Department does the right thing.
		unlike the Obama and Biden justice departments that leaked anything, the grand jury process will be unbelievably secret and will be masked from it because that's the way the process is supposed to work.
		In the meantime, we have an opportunity.
		through the Freedom of Information Act and through our purchases as reporters to go out and try to get the story for the American people so they can understand why this is going on.
		The Democrats who didn't care.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		John Solomon is on a generational run right now.
		Well done, John Solomon.
		So he has confirmed that there are multiple grand jury outside of Washington, DC, which is a critical, critical element that are looking into all manner of fraudulence in the grand criminal conspiracy against President Trump.
		It's happening.
		And at the exact same time that John Solomon reports that exactly five hours later here we have Hillary Clinton calling for the Nobel Peace Prize for Donald Trump.
unidentified		Wow, could it possibly be connected?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Give me a bard and please.
		I back up you.
		Let's read the tweet.
		Hillary Clinton openly admits that she would nominate President Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize if he ends the war in Ukraine.
		Hillary Clinton, of course, adding a rejoinder there trying to be president.
		Hillary Clinton has been president in her own mind.
		for many years.
		Honestly, if he would bring about the end of this terrible war, if he could end it without putting Ukraine in a position where it had to concede territory to the aggressor could really stand up to Putin, something that we haven't seen an opportunity.
		If he were to do that, I would nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize.
		Here's Hillary Clinton begging for a pardon.
		That's what this is.
		We have a clip of Hillary Clinton saying this.
		Do we?
		Yeah.
		Yeah.
		We have a play beside.
		Okay.
		Well, let's go ahead and do that as our salt that lib for the day.
		And then Jillian Michaels is going to join us in just a minute with a – So here's Hillary Clinton.
		Man, I hate doing this to you.
		I hate having to play a Hillary Clinton clip.
		It's just so hard.
		So I apologize if you're hungover, if you haven't had your coffee yet, or, you know, I hate doing this in the morning.
		So maybe we do.
		This is our truncated Salt That Lib.
		Now we have Jillian Michael really salting Libs on CNN.
		Okay, so here's Hillary Clinton saying she's going to nominate Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize.
hillary clinton ▲ ● ▼		If President Trump were the architect of that, I'd nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize.
unidentified		We are on the precipice of a meeting between President Trump and President Putin in Alaska.
		Building on your experience as Secretary of State, if you were on route to Alaska, what would you be looking to get?
		What does an acceptable deal look like?
hillary clinton ▲ ● ▼		He is not meeting with a friend.
		He is meeting with an adversary, and an adversary who wants to see the destruction of the United States and the Western Alliance.
		But if he could bring about the end of this terrible war, where Putin is the aggressor, invading a neighboring country, trying to change the borders, if he could end it without putting you in danger a position where it had to concede its territory to the aggressor had to in a way validate Putin's vision of Greater Russia,
		but instead could really stand up to Putin to make it clear there must be a ceasefire, there will be no exchange of territory, and that over a period of time, Putin should be actually withdrawing from the territory he seized in order to demonstrate good faith efforts, let us say, not to threaten European security.
		If President Trump was the architect of that, I would nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		All right.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Well, salty, salty, salty, lib.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Boy, Hildebee's looking tough, man.
unidentified		I'm just, yikes.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		They shut down Epstein Island, right?
		They end the flow of Adrianachrome, and then suddenly all of these globalists just end up looking like burned oven mitts.
		Like they're all like melting away.
		Have you seen Kathy Griffin recently?
		Holy moly.
		She does.
		She looks like an action figure that you left in the oven.
		Okay.
		Ladies and gentlemen, speaking of melting faces, here's Jillian Michaels, just a...
		taking on, so she's taken on big battles before.
		Here she has taken on like a seven on one on CNN, dropping truth bombs about the status, Sin, sin, of course, this is absolutely absurdist and the exact opposite is true.
		But nevertheless, the Libs on CNN couldn't hear it and decided instead to scream in Gillian's face.
		This was the most viral clip on the entire internet yesterday.
		Here we go.
unidentified		On into the Smithsonian, he effectively now has some random person deciding what is appropriate for the Smithsonian to teach in terms of American history.
		Things that don't offend parts of the MAGA base, right?
		So we're now literally reviewing parts of American history and parts of American culture to make sure it comports with Dear Leader and what the MAGA is doing.
		Can we address some of those things?
		Because have you looked at some of the things that happened in slavery?
		Yeah, slavery was a bad thing to talk about.
		Okay.
		Like, he forgets that.
		He's not whitewashing slavery.
		So he's not.
		He's not.
		No.
		Okay.
		He's not.
		And you cannot tie imperialism and racism and slavery to just one race, which is pretty much what every single exhibit does.
		Well, let's talk about the fact that when you can't tie slavery.
		Let's talk about the fact that slavery in America was.
		But it was a system of white subjectivity.
		Do you know that slavery is thousands of years old?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		White people are white.
unidentified		Do you know who was the first Reese to try to end Slay Rick?
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		Well, what's controversial?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		This is an extraordinary exercise in historical racism.
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		I'm really surprised.
unidentified		Do you realize that?
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		Gillian, I'm surprised that you're trying to litigate who was the beneficiary of slavery and who was the beneficiary of slavery.
unidentified		I'm not.
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		What I'm trying to tell you is in the context of American history, in the context of American history, what are you saying is incorrect by saying that it was white people oppressing white people?
unidentified		Every single thing is like, oh, no, no, no, this is all because white people bad.
		And that's just not the truth.
		Like, for example, every single exhibit I have.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		That clip goes on and on.
		It got millions of views on our channel.
		And we have some major fact checks on this because Jillian, as you will not be surprised to learn, was 100 percent right in that incredible superhero team up that she did, taking on seven psychotic CNN libs as they decided to just scream over her.
		And that's how you know you've won the argument.
		Jillian Michaels joins the program live right now.
unidentified		I think the.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		the scene when Batman like comes up through the floor and there's like seven bad guys and they're like, who is it?
		And the big Batman just takes them all out, right?
		And that was like you on CNN.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		Oh my gosh, Benny, I had zero intention, by the way, of going down that road.
		They ended up taking me down that road.
		And the point that I was initially going to make is that the installations the administration took umbrage with actually had nothing to do with slavery, because when I first heard that we were going to talk about this, I was a little alarmed, I was worried.
		And I thought, God, what is he trying to erase?
		So I had my podcast team reach out to the comms team for Trump.
		And I was like, I really want to understand this so I can speak about this intelligently and factually.
		What things are you referring to that are historically incorrect?
		And they sent me a list.
unidentified		It goes on for pages.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		I pulled out at least ten of them for you.
		If you want to go over some of them a little later what they are.
		But none of them actually address slavery that they sent to me.
		So that's why when I started listing the things, you didn't hear anything about slavery.
		And this woman made it about slavery.
		So I was like, actually, he's not trying to erase slavery.
		And I was about to insert all the things that were not about slavery.
		And then all of a sudden it turned into, you know, white people are slaves.
		And I'm just, I get it.
		It was one of the worst things in our history ever.
		However, to paint all white people with this brush, as pretty much every exhibit does, like the white imperialist, it's constant.
		And again, I could walk you through it in all the different ways and all the different exhibits, but if you take that approach, it's A not true, and it breeds more racial division and more anger when the reality is that two percent of all white Americans owned slaves.
		So then people, of course, turn around and they don't like that number.
		So they're like, actually, it was like twenty five percent of all southern households.
		I'm like, right, but America was not just the South.
		And the reason that you're citing the South is because it was banned by that time in every other area of the country as being morally reprehensible.
		And by the way, let's not forget, 350,000 white people did die for the cause of ending slavery.
		So my point is not that black people were not slaved, not that horrible things did not happen and slavery is disgusting.
		It's that not all white people are bad.
		And the fact that that is a controversial comment when it's fac really scary.
		Scary as hell.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It's the cornerstone, actually, of the race.
		Marxist, which is that we must focus in.
		We must zero in on this very short, de minimis time in American history and obsess over it forever, right?
		And use it for power forever instead of zooming out and looking at one, the honorable sacrifices that were made by hundreds of thousands of Americans to end slavery.
		America and England being the first nations to end slavery.
		And then zooming out on the other side of slavery and looking at the histories of where slavery comes from.
		We just did that actually on Grock.
		Why don't we put it up here?
		So slavery has existed for five thousand years in Africa, shockingly, it still exists today, something they never talk about.
		You know, you'd assume if they were this obsessed with it, that they would go out in order to advocate against the 7 million people that are in slavery in Africa today, like in the current present day, in the year of our Lord, 2025.
		If this is going to be your key, marquee issue, something that was solved in America 150 years ago.
		through the blood of the patriots of America, honorably and nobly.
		You'd assume if that was going to be your deal, you'd like go after the slaves in Africa in the current present.
		day, like that would concern you.
		And also you'd be concerned that like this was a practice that was exported from Africa to the West.
		And you'd say, well, hold on, maybe we should go back to the point of origin and solve slavery there, right?
		Because it's still currently happening there, but they never want to have that conversation.
unidentified		No, it's just like white people bad.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		And it's like, no one's not wanting to take responsibility for this.
		No one is trying to erase what happened.
		But what's alarming is exactly what you're saying when you paint one race with this brush consistently across the board, everywhere from the Smithsonian to CNN, it gets, actually gets racial division and racism.
		And it's funny, I was just talking to Kaizen Essidu, who's often on Piers Morgan.
		I'm a huge fan of him.
		And I watched a clip of him talking about how when you only talk about white supremacy and you don't talk about any black degeneracy, it gets white degeneracy because white people start to get mad.
		And Adam McCorolla talks about this.
		It actually breeds racism within the white community when you do this.
		And my point is simply, nothing good comes from this.
		So let's have a fair and honest and accurate conversation.
		What I really try to understand, Benny, is why we need to hold on to this narrative.
		I think that's what's the most alarming.
		Like I saw this post on X to me and it was, you're denigrating all of humanity and trivializing these atrocities and horrors of slavery when you say it's just, it was just two percent of American whites that owned slaves.
		And it's like, because I'm telling you that the vast majority of white people weren't bad guys and didn't perpetrate evil, that denigrates humanity for you?
		What the hell are we actually trying to say?
		It's crazy.
unidentified		Yeah.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		The vast majority of the peoples that were coming to America were coming to America in order to escape some version of serfdom or chattel slavery or indentured servitude, especially like when you look at Irish immigration, when you look at the levels.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		Hold that out for you.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		Can I run you through some of these things at the Smithsonian?
unidentified		Okay.
corey lewandowski ▲ ● ▼		I love that.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		So let me start with the fact that, first of all, not for Gay Pride Month, when you first walk into the Museum of American History, the first thing you see is a gay flag and it's all about gayy progress, which, listen, as a person in the community, I'm very grateful that we can marry, very grateful that we can adopt kids.
		But it's like, do you need to open the front exhibit is like the gays?
		Like, what about something unifying progress for all Americans?
		Not about that, it's not about slavery.
		So it's like, okay, what's the next thing that the administration sent me?
		They sent me an installation of an exhibit about a Latino history of the United States.
		So it talks about the history of Latinos emigrating to the US.
		And in particular, when it comes to Cuba, they talk about how because of the United States.
		government backing Batista for financial gain, we got this mass exodus from Cubans, and they still suffer from it to this day.
		Was Batista a scumbag?
		Yes.
		Did the administration at the time do that?
		Yes.
		There's no mention of Fidel Castro, who is the key reason for that emigration, who came in in 1959, who was a communist, who started killing people, jailing people, no mention of that.
		So it's just the white devil who backed Batista that got the whole thing.
		So yes, we did it, but it's a huge lie of omission to leave that out.
		Out, because that would make it far more balanced portrayal, right?
		It goes on, just stop me at any time.
		Then it talks about how we all feared, we've always feared non white immigration.
		And there's no mention of the fact that historically people hated the Irish, hated the Eastern Europeans.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Italians were considered non white immigrants.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		That's like, that's an absolute matter of fact, by the way.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		Right.
unidentified		Like, okay.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		Ready for the next one?
		Then there's the one on gender testing.
		And I go on to talk about how it was they perpetrated this.
		essential sexual assault by making these athletes show their genitals.
unidentified		And I'm thinking, this is a cheek swab DNA test.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		Like, what are you talking about?
		Like, trying to imply that gender testing isn't fair.
		And not only that, it's somehow tied to sexual assault and violation.
		And again, not about slavery.
		And then it sort of discusses like how it's bigotted to consider testing for gender in sports.
		The Star Spangle banner.
		They go on to talk about how this guy was like a hugege racist.
		Oh, yeah.
		Oh, my God.
		He was a slave trader, not an abolitionist.
		Okay, hold on.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Then you guys, I mean, I can literally think of the original Betsy Ross because they have the original Betsy Ross flag.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		They have the original, like, Betsy Ross and the Star Spangled banner.
unidentified		They have the original Star Spangled banner.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		They go after that guy in the exhibition.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		Yes, yes, yes.
		They go after him in the exhibition.
		And they're like, the irony is that you would choose this song from this horrible person.
		And it's just like, okay, I mean, I, I get, I like, but where's the part about what it means today?
		There's no balance.
		That's the argument.
		It literally, Benny on and on and on.
		And one of the most kind of concerning is they talk about there's a whole thing about how cell phones, thank God we have cell phones because it catches all of these cops attacking black people and it makes it seem like it's omnipresent.
		It doesn't say, okay, hold on.
		In 2018, and I pulled the statistics for you, I think it was like 2019, I think it was thirteen unarmed black men and like twenty one unarmed white men.
		And in 2020, I think it was like eighteen unarmed black men and thirty something unarmed white men.
		But the point is like this goes on and it particularly for people who are forced to live in the realities of prejudice and aggression in their daily lives.
		And it what it's trying to do is portray this image that all cops are doing this and that all people of color are living in a reality of prejudice and aggression.
		It doesn't say like these horrible things have happened and like all the good work that's been done to turn this around.
		It just paints one picture that's constant and maybe one of the most alarming.
		is a video that essentially takes Jesus Christ and compares him to George Floyd.
		What happened to George Floyd is disgusting and it's devastating.
		But if you really want to upset people who are religious, compare George Floyd to Jesus Christ.
		And that.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Do you have a video of that?
unidentified		I mean, like, I'm going to do a 55 minute video of it.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		So hold on.
		I'll read it to you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Despicable.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		So here we go.
		It's called the National Museum of African Art.
		The exhibit appears at the bottom floor of the African Art Museum 300.
		It's an art museum three levels down from the ground level.
		It's 55 minutes long.
		And it breaks down, right?
		All the horrible things.
		And then there's like a whole video of blacks that have been killed at the hands of law enforcement.
		So it's like Richard Brooks, Breonna Taylor, Adam Toledo, George Floyd, Dante Wright.
		But there's no balance of good cops doing good things.
		It's just videos of this.
		So you're like, all right, well, this happened, like, okay, you know, let's not.
		But then it goes on, okay?
		The film artfully paints a picture that in 2020 systemic oppression was rampant with white supremacists, especially law enforcement, ruthlessly murdering black people and suppressing their protests.
		Which is the part that I take umbrage with.
		If we're going to be totally honest, I don't remember suppressing any protests.
		I remember all these protests happening where everyone else was going to go to church and visit their loved ones.
		So they certainly weren't suppressed.
		And then one segment places images of the death of Jesus Christ, the death of Shea Gulvara, and the death of George Floyd side by side and insinuates similarity between the three historical events.
		So again, I'm not Let me be very clear.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		That's Blasphemous.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I mean, that's Blasphemous.
unidentified		What happened to George Floyd?
unidentified		That's he did.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		It's disgusting, right?
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		It's horrifying.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, it's what happened if George Floyd was a fentanyl overdose.
		So yes, that makes me angry at the Communist Party of China for bringing fentanyl into our streets.
		But that's basically what you see.
		That's what happened to George Floyd.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		So I hear you, but let's just say I want to go there and say I don't want to watch right.
		Like I was very distressed, was very distressed by that whole situation and listen, I horrified by it all across the board.
		But when you compare George Floyd to Jesus, do we think maybe we could revise that?
unidentified		Well, yeah.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		I mean, this is the stuff, like there's no whitening slavery in any of the stuff I told you, is there?
		Did I mess it up?
		Like the issue is is that it's like all white cops are bad.
		There's no counterbalance.
		George Floyd is Jesus, and these are the sinners that killed the Son of God.
		Like, it's the overall arching theme that I was trying to get to the point.
		And then, of course, I was made a racist in the conversation.
		And somehow Abby suggested that I was trying to say, I don't know, I have no idea.
		Honestly, you have to watch.
unidentified		I couldn't be, I don't know.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		You have the moral clarity and conviction to actually speak facts about America's history.
		And there's no such thing as a perfect country, but we have the best country out there that has ever existed for all people and we should be incredibly proud of it.
		And everything from the African American History Museum to, you know, every hall of every to the National Gallery of Art should be in should be in coordination into the celebration of how blessed we are to live currently right now in modern day America.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		What I find is there's none of that.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		There's none of that.
		Exactly.
		Yeah, none of that.
		Like precisely.
		So the entire if there is any talk about slavery, it should be about like how horrible it is that that practice was exported to America, how honorable it is that we put it down quickly and were one of the first nations to do that at.
		at great expense and how it's ongoing practiced in Africa today with seven million people enslaved.
		That should be like the, that should be the thrust that we solved this issue 150 years ago and it's still currently happening in Africa.
		Like that, that should be like, okay, then let's solve the real problem.
unidentified		I'm happy too to like, listen, it's like, it's the same thing with George Floyd.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Like you bring up George Floyd.
		It's like, it's like you, like, it's like the focusing in, it's like the focusing in.
		on like the single ugliest like no one's going to defend it but like the single ugliest like parts of of society and not zooming out and seeing that's the no majesty of the American experiment here.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		That's exactly it.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		That's what you do.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		You do that or you do that.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		Nobody is trying to whitewash it.
		Nobody is saying it didn't happen.
		We're simply saying, like, let's put this in perspective here and let's show the whole picture and let's talk about how we've come together and how the country is a melting pot and how we've evolved and grown and all the incredible things that we've done to collaborate, regardless of your gender, your race, your sexual orientation.
		None of that is there.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		And you were in a relationship with someone if you were in a relationship with somebody and like they couldn't get over something toxic that happened 150 years ago, you know, when Joe Biden first ran for president.
		And you like like if you like the what you did on CNN, like what you did on CNN was correct, you know, is right.
		You brought facts and the fact that they met, you know, this is what amazes amazes me, Jillian.
		They met you with unintelligible shrieking.
unidentified		Exactly.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		they called me a racist basically yeah they kind of debate you they were trying to say racism no No, they weren't trying to debate you.
		No, how dare you question the core tenets of my religion?
		How dare you come into the holy of holies of the race marxist and destroy the central tenet of how we how we get power in modern day America in 2025.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		I I can't figure out is that the answer because the reality is that nothing good comes out of this when you don't show both sides of the story, when you're not honest.
unidentified		And it's funny because I got all of these hateful comments on my Instagram.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		Instagram and well, I have a black daughter and people are like, oh, your daughter's going to grow up and hate you.
		This is this is the world you're raising your daughter.
		And then I thought, if I tell my daughter that the vast majority of whites didn't own slaves and that's true is a bad thing, I I don't know what to tell you.
		I would much prefer my daughter to think that not all white people are bad considering she's being raised by white people and she has her brothers white and she has white friends than her to think all white people are bad.
		But you don't call me crazy, Benny.
		I mean, so what really alarms me about this is actually having.ing a black daughter, I don't want her to think that all white people are the white devil.
		And having a white son, I don't want him to start developing some sort of resentment over this.
		He hasn't.
		But my point is simply, I see a lot of young kids that are and are moving more towards, I'm just being honest, more towards this kind of tribalism.
		It's breeding the wrong things when you do this.
		And that's my true, deep concern.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So that's the result of this.
		That's the intended result, actually.
		You know, critical theory says that they have to come up with something, some type of original sin to prove that the entire society and all of the systems have to be undoneone.
		So this has been written out.
		It's clouded pivot from the 1960s.
		It's been written out.
		They already have a plan for this.
		This is part of it.
		And it's something critical that must be taken on.
		You took it on CNN and it's one of the bravest things I've ever seen happen on cable news.
		Maybe you could conclude here, Gillian, by telling us, what is the Trump administration doing?
		It seems like you're in contact with them.
		What are they doing?
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		They sent a letter to the Smithsonian because I think 62 percent of the Smithsonian's revenue and there's numerous museums under that umbrella, obviously, come from taxpayer dollars.
		The country's 250th birthday is next year and they want to revisit it some of these things.
		And let's add some texture and honesty and show other sides of this story.
		And it's like, there's another one about Benjamin Franklin and how he, oh, he discovered electricity, but he was also a slave owner.
		And it's like, okay, but he also, and then they claim he didn't free his slaves.
		And by the way, he did free his slaves.
		So instead they're like, he gave me electricity.
		He's also a slave owner and he didn't free his slaves.
		It's like, but actually he did.
		He became a huge abolitionist.
		He had a massive personal evolution and all that is not only left out, it's also misrepresented.
		So they're asking to have some factual fairness and accuracy here across the board on some of these exhibits.
		Mention Castro when you talk about people fleeing from Cuba.
		Like, that's what he's asking.
		He's not asking people to pretend like racism didn't exist, but what about the fact that not everyone did it?
		What about the fact that a lot of people banned it?
		What about the fact that we went to war about it?
		You could incorporate that.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Do you think there's anything, do you think there's anything, Jillian, in there about the massive pile of dead bodies left by communist regimes throughout history.
unidentified		Nothing.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		How communist regimes have the single highest death count of anything that we've ever seen.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		I'm going to say I don't think so.
unidentified		Yeah, okay.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		That's funny.
		That's interesting.
		Where's the polkaut?
		Where's the Mao Zedong?
		Where's the Joseph Stalin?
		You know, where's the entire wings devoted to the slaughter that was done by communists?
unidentified		They said that it's not there because it's the American History Museum.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Got it.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		So even when it's tangentially connected like Cuba, it's been left out.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		I really appreciate you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I mean, that's what, you know, it's amazing.
		You can see when the Cuba.ban exhibit that you posted right here, you can tell by who they don't criticize, you can tell by where they're coming from, by whom they do not criticize here, right?
		You can tell it's a communist.
		You can tell it's a filthy communist writing this because they don't see communism as the bad thing.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		They don't even mention Castro, Benny is not even in there.
		It's like, okay, the white government, the US government, which we all know in the 50s was white.
		So clearly white imperialism backed Batista for financial gain, destabilized the developed world and begot the mass emigration from Cuba to the US.
		That's literally what it says.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I'm sorry.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		No engine.
		I mean, I'm laughing because it's so upsetting and so absurd.
		Anyway, I'm going to go up and do this her take thing, but I'm super grateful for you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		They're angry.
		They're angry because you're, you're, like, now they've lost all these other battles.
		This is like the holy of holies.
		This is like the central, the central lie in the central Helms deep, right?
		That they've been like holding on to.
		And now that this is getting the bark ripped off, they're like, they're losing it.
		This, the crime deployments in DC, all like, this was the safe haven for them.
		DC was the capital city for race Marxism and now it's being destroyed and you're a part of that and we're just so grateful for Jillian Michaels.
		Everybody follows Jillian Michaels right here she has millions of Americans that already follow her she's getting ready to do her fantastic her take show and she also has her own podcast which is incredible all the links are right there on her x page ladies and gentlemen let's go ahead and click that and show here's the Jillian Michael page god bless you Jillian thank you so much here's her doing a push up right there good there we go getting prepared for our next CNN panel Thank you so much, babe.
		I app Okay.
		She called me babe.
		I got it.
		I got it on.
		I got it on camera.
		Sorry about that.
		Sorry.
		My producers tell me, stop yapping.
		They said, stop yapping.
		Let her finish talking.
		I apologize for that.
		I never interrupt the guests.
		I know Jillian for a while and she's freaking awesome.
		But I apologize.
		We always make sure that we let the guests speak.
		I just, um.
		George Floyd is not a hero.
unidentified		All right.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I just want to be very clear.
		Okay.
		George Floyd is not here in this household.
		Okay.
		In this household, George Floyd is somebody who overdosed on fentanyl because that's what his autopsy report says.
		That's what the science says.
		In this household, George Floyd, as we know, had a major drug problem.
		Yes, I'm very angry at the Communist Chinese Party for flooding the Mexican drug cartels.
		You want to look at who killed George Floyd?
		Communist Chinese fentanyl brought in here by Mexican drug cartels.
		Yes, we should all be very angry at that.
		Yes, I am furious at those entities.
		And I'm very thankful for Trump for taking those entities out.
		Please.
		So yes, please.
		Thank you.
		Speaking of entities being taken out, goodness gracious.
		And I can't wait to talk with Corey Lewandowski about this.
		But before we get to Corey, I just got to show you.
		Gavin Newsom hosted a fake rally yesterday.
		We have the proof that it's a fake rally.
		Is this a play beside or a throw clip B?
		Okay, let's go.
		Here's the fake rally that Gavin Newsom threw.
		And I have the funniest troll you'll ever see in your life.
		And I have Corey Lewandowski lined up to talk about it.
		It's like the best.
		This is the best intro ever.
		Okay, so here's Gavin Newsom with what looks like.
		Okay, so there's more media.
		This is Joe Biden level.
		There's more media than supporters inside this teeny auditorium.
		I've seen more people in the DMV line.
		I've seen more people in right there.
		I've seen more people standing in a Chick-fil-A line than the people who showed up in the most populous state in America.
		And I say that because they lost a little population yesterday because Department of Homeland Security decided to run some ice raids right outside of where Gavin Newsom was speaking.
unidentified		Here we go.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I love how there's so many criminal aliens in California, they can just go to any spot.
		It just happened to be outside of Gavin Newsom's rally and they can go to any spot and they can just pick up criminal aliens here.
		Well done.
		Well done, DHS.
		So many W's for DHS right now.
		It's hard to really count them all.
		Just a reminder, a fun throwback here from Alex Brusowitz.
		This is what the Joe Biden rally looked like in Philadelphia.
		It's the same thing.
		This is Gavin Newsom has the same energy.
		He has Joe Biden energy.
		Look at this.
		Do you remember this?
		Can we zoom?
		Do you remember this?
		This was like the fake arena rally for Joe Biden.
		This is a high school gymnasium.
		It's completely empty.
		So Gavin Newsom has the same, the exact same energy.
		So Gavin Newsom also said that he has a Trump 2028 hat.
		That was, that's been sent to him.
		This is the last clip we'll play before getting to Corey.
		Just all these things I want him to respond to.
		So here we go.
		Gavin Newsom, please, please help me.
		People are sending me Trump 2028 hats.
gavin newsom ▲ ● ▼		about the fact that we're affirming our independent commission and we're calling for a national independent commission as well.
		Well, I think it's pretty sick and pathetic..
		And it just said everything you need to know, the setting that we're under, that they chose the time, manner and place to send their district director outside, right when we're about to have this press conference.
		She said, Everything you know about Donald Trump's America, and that was top down, you know that for a fact.
		They'll deny it, I'm sure.
		Maybe they won't deny it.
		She said, Everything you know about the authoritarian tendencies of the President of the United States.
		I said in a moment, wake up America, wake up.
		You will not have a country if he rigs this election.
		You will have a president who will be running for a third term.
		Mark my word.
		I wasn't exaggerating when I said that I received in the mail a Trump 2028 hat.
		hat from one of his biggest supporters.
		These guys are not screwing around.
		The rules do not apply to him.
		The most corrupt president in history doesn't believe in free enterprise, crony capitalism.
		He is wrecking this country, wrecking the economy.
		It's a lawless president.
		Wake up, America.
		Wake up to what's going on.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So Governor Gavin Newsom is big mad about DHS enforcing our laws.
		outside of his rally.
		A man who is a special government employee right now, who's also been the campaign manager for Donald Trump.
		Trump for president and a senior advisor to President Trump.
		Horry Lewandowski joins the show live now to respond.
unidentified		you Thank you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Corey, welcome back to the program.
		I would love to get your response to Gavin Newsom.
		He was big hurt and big mad that ICE was enforcing our immigration laws right outside of his little very poorly attended rally.
corey lewandowski ▲ ● ▼		Well, Ben, he was either mad about that or mad about the hat that he received in the mail, which I think is the greatest troll of all time, right?
		I mean, you've got to be kidding me.
		Nobody sees Gavin Newsom as a serious individual anymore because what he has done is he has allowed California to become a hellhole unfortunately.
		It used to be a great state, a great, you know, so many great cities there, San Diego, San Francisco, you know, so many great places.
		And what happens, you go there now, it's riddled with homeless people.
		They've taken over the city.
		They've taken over the communities.
		It's unsafe, just like Washington, D.C. So what has Donald Trump done?
		He's brought the customs and border patrol and the immigration and customs enforcement into Los Angeles to start cracking down.
		And what have we seen?
		Safer communities.
		You know, Benny, a story came out yesterday and it's remarkable since Donald Trump has been in office.
		One point six million.
		1.6 million, 2.2 million total people, but 1.6 million people in the first six months of this administration from January to June is historic.
unidentified		It's unprecedented and it makes our country safer.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		We have the chart going up.
		And since you, here it is right there, we have the chart going up that you just referenced.
		And I'd love to, since you brought it up, Corey, talk through this chart.
		I'm sure you're very proud of it.
		I know you're very proud of it.
		So here you can see for the first time in your lifetime or mine, everyone watching, that the criminal alien population is now collapsing.
		reversing the trend.
		Where do you want this chart to go, Corey?
corey lewandowski ▲ ● ▼		Look, Benny, we should have a country that has no illegal aliens in it.
		And it's very simple.
		If you are fearful because you're in this country illegally, do yourself a favor and self-support.
		We will help you.
		We will give you an opportunity to go to the CBP home app.
		You can apply.
		We'll buy you an airline ticket.
		We'll give you $1,000 so you can get out.
		If you don't, I promise you this, we will find you.
		There is no community.
		There is no place that the long arm of the law, which is now being enforced, cannot go and touch you.
		If you think you're outside of Gavin Newsom rally or maybe inside of Gavin Newsom rally, and we know that you're there illegally, we will come get you.
		We will take you out and we will deport you.
		Stop calling all of these supposed congressmen who are conservatives and senators who are conservatives.
		This guy's a good one.
		That one's a good one.
		Look, you've had the opportunity to do it right.
		And Donald Trump is enforcing the rules.
		Okay.
		I get calls every single day from people across the country.
		Oh, this guy was a great one.
		That one was a great when they were in this country for the last 30 years.
		It's fantastic.
		You came to the country illegally, you're here illegally.
		Nobody is off limits.
		we're going after the worst of the worst first we just picked up two brothers in texas who are both wanted for murder in mexico we have deported gang members rapists child traffickers it will continue to happen and we're only turning this up it's not coming down so if you look at that benny for the first time in modern history we have a net flow deportation of illegals from this country for the first time in American history, it's going to save this country.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		We have that chart on the screen.
		This is perhaps the most important chart out of the Trump administration in the first six months.
		And so this is a really fascinating argument that happens all the time to my timeline, Corey, that you brought up, which is, you know, the argument against all these deportations.
		And it often goes like this, and they can't help themselves.
		Who's going to scrub my toilets?
		This is something that was said on the view a couple of years ago.
		Who's going to pick our crops?
		Both Nancy Pelosi and Jerry Nadler have said, who's going to pick our crops?
		Who's going to be the indentured servitude, exploitative labor that we can manipulate and use and treat as less than human.
		It is a wild.
		It's wild how they argue this, Corey.
corey lewandowski ▲ ● ▼		It's so true.
		And then what do they do?
		They go out and they praise that the crime rate in Washington, D.C. is the lowest it's been in 30 years when the murder rate is higher than any civilized country on the planet.
		It's amazing.
		These guys are continuing to defend the worst of the worst.
		I think they're tone deaf.
		I don't think they truly understand where the American people are.
		Nobody wants criminals, rapists, drug dealers in their communities.
		And so Donald Trump has said, let's use the resources.
		The whole of government approach is what we're using.
		So it's the local law enforcement community in many of these places who are willing to partner with us.
		It's CBP.
		It's ICE.
		It's DEA on the streets.
		It's FBI on the streets in Washington, D.C. And again, what have the Democrats said?
		D.C. does not have a problem.
		We saw yesterday.
		them tearing down these homeless camps.
		We saw for the first time you can walk out of Union Station and not be accosted by a bunch of homeless people and drug addicts and illegal gang members.
		So you know what?
		The communities are safe.
		And listen, you know, Benny, this was maybe precipitated, maybe the, And, you know, Benny, it's crazy because I was on a phone call with some of the members of the White House and they told me the guy's name.
		I said, who the hell is that guy?
		And they said, oh, the guy's name is Big Balls.
		Everyone knows Big Balls, but no one knows his real name.
		But the truth is this, right?
		Hey, everybody loves to have a Big Balls on their team.
		And I will say this.
		This guy took one for the team.
		He was brutally beaten, you know, blood all over the place because all he wanted to do was get in his vehicle.
		And I've got two other people who I know who are young kids who work with us who said on the same evening in two separate parts of Washington, D.C. less than four months ago, they were both attacked.
		at gunpoint.
		They both lost their watches and their gold chains.
		They were coming out of a bar.
		It was about two o'clock in the morning.
		I said, fellow, what are you doing out two in the morning?
		They said, we thought we were in the right neighborhood.
		We thought we were safe.
		We've seen members of Congress attacked.
		We've seen elected officials.
		We saw an individual who worked on Capitol Hill get killed by somebody because they wouldn't turn over their watch.
		I mean, this is not a place where you want to raise your children anymore.
		And so finally, President Trump, Pam Bondi, the Department of Homeland Security stepping up to fix these problems that the federal government is finally allowed to do under this type of leadership.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		We ruffled a few feathers and made some people very mad, Jen Psaki namely off the top, but many libs furious because this week we asked at the press conference about big balls getting the presidential medal of freedom.
		What say you, Corey?
		You've been a very close advisor to the president for a very long time.
corey lewandowski ▲ ● ▼		You know, look, maybe just if we could pick it just on name alone, he absolutely qualifies.
		Just anybody's going to name that good.
		You got to give him something, right?
		He's got to get an award or something good.
		But look, you know, what happened, and it's unfortunate was.
		This kid was put in a situation to be attacked because he wanted to go and protect his girlfriend.
		That could have been anybody.
		The guy was brutally beaten.
		He was bloody all over the place.
		He had a concussion.
		Nobody should have to go through that just because you want to go out and have a good time or go out and have a drink or go out and have dinner with your family.
		Look, I have purposely chosen not to move my family to Washington, D.C., not to raise my kids there.
		We continue to live in the same home we've been in in Hampshire for the last 18 years because we want to be in a safe community.
		And I feel very safe where we are.
		But it's too bad because I spend a lot of time in Washington, D.C. volunteering to be a special government employee, which, you know, maybe you've seen some of the press.
		They don't like the fact that I volunteered, Benny.
		Like, I get they could go after me if I was making money, but for God's sake, I work for free.
		And they're like, oh, you work too many days.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I'm not even there.
corey lewandowski ▲ ● ▼		Jesus, what's that big deal?
		But, you know, everybody wants to attack in.
		I think they want to attack me and what we're doing because of our success, Because they see the Democrats are in panic mode.
		They know that the country is with Donald Trump.
		They know that he is creating peace around the planet and he's creating peace and prosperity here in America.
		And that drives them absolutely crazy.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So we're talking about big balls.
		It takes some real big balls to release a video like you did yesterday, Corey.
		These brand new trucks, DHS getting this incredible makeover.
		Look at this.
		This is iced out.
		Now, I don't know who runs your social media man, but like, don't take his phone.
		Give him ten more phones.
		This is like, this stuff is so crunchy.
		It's so drippy.
		I don't know if you have a hand in it.
		I'm sure you did with this redesign.
		Defend the homeland.
		Corey, this is on the block.
corey lewandowski ▲ ● ▼		Look, Benny, Benny, and look what we're driving.
		We're driving Raptors with the big engine, the six twos in them, okay?
		So I said, hey, you want to go and come and be part of the best law enforcement agency in the world, right?
		You want to come and be part of CBP and ICE and the federal government.
		We're going to give you the resources to be successful.
		So we could have gone out and bought some crappy cars.
		You said, no, no, no, no more Crown VIX, none of that crap.
		Go out and buy the big boys.
		Get the Raptor with the big engine.
		The Mustangs are about to turn out, okay?
		The high-performance Mustangs.
		We're going to give these men and women of law enforcement the tools they need to be successful.
		And what we're also doing, Benny, is we're putting a marker down, okay?
		We've never had ICE decal vehicles before.
		We've always done it behind the scenes.
		We are now in your face.
		You know where we're coming.
		You know where we're going to be.
		And you know if you're here illegally, we will find you.
		So you're going to see 10,000 new officers on the street from ICE by the first of this calendar year coming up.
		We're not waiting two years or three years.
		We've got 120,000 applicants.
		And what we're telling these people is, you come join us.
		We'll give you a bonus.
		We'll pay off your college loans.
		We'll give you a vehicle like this.
		You come and make our cities and our communities safer and stronger, and we'll do it.
		These kids who.
		have the social media expertise, man, I'm jealous.
		You know, I get to meet some of these kids.
		I call them kids because they're like 22, 23 years old.
		Mr. Lewandowski, sir, you're an old head.
		I go, that's true.
		I am an old head, right?
		That's what they call me.
		But I said, man, what you guys are doing is incredible.
		Keep doing all the great work.
		And this is all that social media team at the Department of Homeland Secure that just keeps turning out amazing videos that are eye-catching and drawing people in to be part of this amazing experience.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I think you just broke a little news there.
		We heard that Superman has already signed up to be an ICE agent.
		We know that you've taken away the age restrictions to become an ICE agent.
corey lewandowski ▲ ● ▼		You said there, did I's 100 000 applicants 110 000 applicants have already applied benny what that means is we want to hire a look it's a floor of 10 000 that's what the one big beautiful bill gave us 10 000 officers on the street stephen miller and his team have encouraged us demanded because the president wants it to have those men and women on the job by January 1st of 2026 so we can see real results.
		That means we've got a massive throughput.
		We're going to get you through the law enforcement training.
		You'll do some on-the-job training.
		You'll do your field training officer time.
		You'll get vehicles.
		We're going to have 10,000 law enforcement ICE officers, 1811s, 1801s, badge and gun on the street by January 1st.
		And we cannot, I don't think we could have imagined how successful this recruitment campaign is.
		And I think, Benny, today is Friday.
		The new recruitment ads in the communities that have been most affected by illegal aliens are going up.
		So you'll see them in Los Angeles, in Detroit, in Denver.
		And we are specifically targeting those law enforcement officers who are working at the state and local level and saying, Because you're in sanctuary jurisdictions, if you haven't been able to do your job, come work for ICE, come work for CBP.
		We will take the handcuffs off of you and put them on bad guys and you'll help us do it.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		There it is, straight from the U.S., straight from the ICE account, the official ICE account.
		You got Superman now as an ICE agent.
		There we go.
		Dean Kane has signed up.
		What work is he going to be doing?
corey lewandowski ▲ ● ▼		Look, Dean, Dean, there's a lot of people on the show.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		He's a friend of the show.
		He comes on the show.
		So can you tell us?
corey lewandowski ▲ ● ▼		Do you know how many guys, how many women out there are dying to be part of the law enforcement community?
		By raising that age restriction, if you want to come do it, this is your opportunity.
		We also said, listen, if you're 18 years old and you're a qualified kid, let's come and join us, right?
		If you've had previous law enforcement experience, and this is really where we're seeing a massive increase.
		You know, a lot of law enforcement officers get on the job very early.
		They start in at 20 or 21.
		They get their 20 years and by 40 or 42, they're done.
		They've got their pension, but they got a lot more to give they got a lot of knowledge a lot of experience we said come back and join us we'll waive most of the requirements because you've got that background in law enforcement we'll run you through a quick training program you'll be back on the street and we are seeing a massive massive influx of those previous law enforcement officers who want to continue to serve their country and make our community safe again You brought up something very interesting.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		And since California is in the news right now, I have to ask, because it was pretty rowdy over the last month in Los Angeles.
		We saw an enormous amount of criminal behavior.
		We also saw attempted murder on some of your agents.
		I'm no lawyer, Corey, but when somebody throws, when somebody gets a brick, right, and they chuck it at your car and the car's driving 45 miles per hour, you're trying to murder the driver because that brick goes through the windshield and kills you.
		That's what happens, right?
		So you as a former law enforcement agent, I know that this is going to mean something to you.
		And what I'd like to ask is, will we be seeing those LA-style riots again?
		You said you're going to increase the presence significantly in Los Angeles and in these hotspots.
		What is your message to protesters that are coming out to try and commit attempted murder on your officers?
corey lewandowski ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's very simple.
		And we saw this in Washington, D.C. two days ago.
		If you hit a law enforcement officer with a subway sandwich, a pickle, or anything else, we're going to take you.
		We're going to prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.
		So just understand this.
		You have a right to protest.
		Of course you do, but you will do so in a manner commensurate with what the law allows.
		And as soon as you decide to lay your hands or throw something at law enforcement officer, the president all the way down to the rank and file officer understands what's at stake, which is the protection of our law enforcement community.
		And Jeanine Pirro in Washington, D.C. said an amazing example of this.
		And we've all seen the video now.
		By the way, the Department of Justice employee throws a subway sandwich at a police officer.
		They chase this guy down.
		They charge him with a felony.
		They fire him from his job.
		That's what you can expect.
		When you attack law enforcement, there are repercussions.
		When you throw stones or bricks or anything at a law enforcement vehicle, when you slash their tires, we will charge you to the full extent of law.
		We've got a great U.S. attorney in Los Angeles who continues to prosecute these cases.
		We are going to make sure that if you are doing things against our law enforcement, then you will be held accountable.
		And this is not going to be simply contained in law.
		I want everybody to understand the Trump administration is bringing this path across this country to make sure every sanctuary city understands that we can touch people at any place, at any time, and that the residents who are here legally should have an opportunity to enjoy the freedoms that they deserve.
		And we will do that by putting police officers on the streets to protect them.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Wonderful.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Cora, just like for you to, in conclusion here, because I know your time is very valuable, I'd like for you to respond to Gavin, who again was very upset about your engagement yesterday outside of his little rally, but also very upset about this this is the trump 2028 hat i don't know if this is a i don't know if this is a real video or just a meme maybe it is a meme there's a lot of memes of gabin newsom wearing a trump 2028 hat did you could did you send him the hat was
corey lewandowski ▲ ● ▼		it you corey was it you i wish i did it i would love to take credit for it i probably know who did it i i think i know who did it but uh i'll tell you what it's it's the epic troll and the reality is gavin newsom understands that he continues to promulgate and perpetuate hatred against police officers when you know he's a man who is surrounded by police everywhere he goes, right?
		He is covered up in police at the governor's mansion that no one just shows up at his community, at his home, whenever they feel like it, right?
		If he is so adverse to having police officers everywhere, he is allowed to just wave those individuals.
		He's allowed to drive himself around.
		He's allowed to not live behind those big, beautiful gates that the taxpayers pay for.
		And he's allowed to stay at French laundry anytime he wants and be accosted by all those people, which you know he's never going to do.
		So he is a guy who loves to talk out of both sides of his mouth where he sits there and harasses police officers and tells them they shouldn't be doing their job with him.
		Then he immediately gets in his armored plated car.
		and gets behind his gates as quickly as possible.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Man, it's just wild that you guys knew that there were so many criminal aliens in California and Los Angeles specifically that you could just do an enforcement right out front.
corey lewandowski ▲ ● ▼		There's no shortage of targets, Benny.
		I can tell you that, whether it's at a Gavin Newsom rally.
		So the three people who were inside, two of them are probably illegal.
		So we had a crowd of three, I think.
		Two of them are probably illegal until we scooped those guys out.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		No.
		If you are a criminal alien in this country, listen to what Corey's been telling our program for months and years, actually, that you will be caught and you will be sent home.
		You should listen to him.
		He's an honest man.
		Listen to Corey Lewandowski.
		You can do that every single day by subscribing here to Corey's ex account.
		Here he is.
		This is Corey Lewandowski.
		He's got 600,000 Americans that follow him right here.
		He's a man who's truly fighting to keep America safe again.
		Thank you, Corey.
unidentified		Thanks, Benny.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		you you you Ladies and gentlemen, Corey Lewandowski.
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		Well, ladies and gentlemen, we got something fascinating here.
		Turns out that our reporting is having a real world consequence as Jasmine Crockett has been trolled to her face in Texas.
		This is really exciting for us.
		This is the video.
		Jasmine Crockett gets called out for being a spoiled elitist rich kid from Missouri, which is true.
		And we expose her this week.
		week to the tune of, I think, 20 million total views that video got.
		And now she's being trolled in Texas.
		Now, just a real quick, just a real quick high five to the audience.
		Let's do a high five through the screen.
		There we go.
		You told us that Jasmine Crockett, you wanted her next.
		Go after and expose her next.
		So thanks to you, this is all happening.
		We are honored to be...
		Ladies and gentlemen, it is an honor that we don't take lightly.
		Here's the video of Sarah Gonzalez.
		She's a host from The Blaze.
		trolling Jasmine Crockett and calling her out live at a rally.
unidentified		I used to stay in my grandmother's house.
		She was one of my favorite people in the whole world.
		Jasmine!
		The people of Dallas deserve better than a fake ghetto hood rat.
		walk Do they know you're a rich kid from Missouri?
		Do they know you're a spoiled rich kid from Missouri?
		No, ma'am.
		Do they know you don't touch me?
		No, ma'am.
		Don't touch me.
		Beat your ass out of here.
		Get your ass out of here.
		Get her off me.
		Get off me.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Get off me.
unidentified		I'm standing first.
		Baby.
		Get her off me first.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Thank you, Sarah Gonzalez, for that.
		Here's our original post, ladies and gentlemen.
		Again, it was this chat.
		This chat right here.
		You that allowed us to go, that sent us, actually.
		There's one thing that we are uncompromising on.
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		Support the American Dream and drink blackout blackout coffee.com slash Benny start drinking real coffee please men important it's a moment of men uh right now as president Trump will be meeting with Vladimir Putin that happens at approximately 3 p.m. Eastern Standard Time there's so much at play here why not speak with a former CIA ops officer his name is Brian Dean Wright and he joins the program live now Brian,
		welcome to the show.
		And it's an honor to have you.
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		Pleasure to be here.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
		Okay, so tell me just really quickly, like, what's that at stake tonight with Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump?
		This is going to be a big one.
		You must obviously, since Ukraine is pretty much a CIA cutout, you must obviously know a little bit about what's happening there.
		What do you expect to go down?
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, ten plus CIA bases in Ukraine, as of this moment, we are all in this war.
		President Trump has inherited something that, well, I think we can all say is a mess.
		So we are in this and he's got to find a way to get us out and he's got to find a way to ensure that the American people get their money's worth that we have invested in that country.
		But more importantly, bring about peace.
		Because I think what the White House wants to do is wrap this up and then focus our attention.tion where it should be and that is either on the homeland or China.
		And that's what the White House is trying to do.
		That's what Trump is trying to do with Putin later today.
		He's going to sit down with mister Putin of Russia and figure out what we can do to wrap this up.
		It's stage one.
		There will be multiple stages here on after to see if we can get to Zelensky and the Europeans to the table as well.
		So stage one today.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So we're just praying for peace, right?
		Like I don't I'm so sick of having my tax dollars drained to go build a road somewhere or build a bridge somewhere while there's a massive pothole on my street that my kids have to drive over every day.
		Like it's like Americans are just s sick of it, I think, right?
		And I know that you worked at a clandestine agency and you've got to be outward focused, but the CIA, no one's going to have any power if internally America collapses, right?
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		Well, look, last the last six months of last year, thirty thousand drone incursions came across our southern border, thirty thousand.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Really?
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		So of that, some number are Mexican cartels.
		Some are what?
		Maybe the Chinese, the Russians probing us from the south.
		So look, there are many reasons why the CIA should certainly be looking externally, but there are internal threats as well.
		twelve point five million or so according to the Congressional Budget Office, twelve point five million people in this country now over the.
		Joe Biden era, none of them vetted.
		Well, that seems like a problem.
		So you bet the FBI and the CIA might have, you know, external challenges or needs or demands, but the internal challenges just as real.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		You wrote about the internal challenges given some of the bombshell documentation coming out of the CIA and the greater overall intelligence community.
		You worked for John Brennan, who I find to be just very in his media hits and stuff, just very slithery, very creepy, very strange man.
		And perhaps you could elucidate for us what that was like working for him.
		You write that he belongs in prison here, your former boss.
		Strong words, Brian.
		Please explain.
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		Look, so you asked what he is like as a person.
		Let me tell you about a covert action operation that I briefed him, my team and I, that there was a device that we were going to put inside a missile and it was going to explode that missile.
		Our assumption was there would be a nuclear weapon on top of that missile.
		It would only explode, it would only trigger if that missile was fired, in other words, tens of millions of Americans were about to be slaughtered by that nuclear weapon.
		He turned down that operation because he was more worried about that missile exploding in a foreign country where there might be thousands or tens of thousands of people dead there.
		So he made the choice to protect those people abroad rather than people in this country.
		So that, I think, gives you a really wonderful window into what kind of man he is.
		This is not someone who cares about this country.
		So I will tell you that that is the director of the CIA who was under Obama.
		He's a Hillary Clinton guy as well.
		So that gives you a really good sense of who this dude is.
		Why I think he should rot in prison is very clear, the seditious conspiracy, that is what is very obvious to me, both direct and circumstantial evidence that OD and I Gabbard and CIA Director Ratcliffe and others have exposed with these document reveals.
		It is very clear that there was a seditious conspiracy going back to the summer of 2016.
		Obviously with that Hillary Clinton smear, there was no Trump Russia c collusion, that was obvious.
		Special counsel John Durham, you know, documenting that there was no predicate for crossfire or hurricane.
		But with these latest reveals over the past month or six weeks, what we're seeing very clearly is that even the NSA director raising his hand and saying, Wait a minute, you guys are rushing through this intelligence community assessment, ICA, that normally takes six months to a year.
		Barack Obama says he wants it done in two weeks, absolutely unprecedented.
		And they're not giving the NSA access to the underlying intelligence.
		Well, wait a minute, this sounds kind of like Iraq war stuff.
		How am I supposed to make a determination about Trump Russia collusion or Trump or Putin is firing to help Trump, the allegation goes, if I can't look at the intellect, if I can't make that ultimate judgment, I don't care if it's super top secret stuff.
		You got to show it to me.
		I just can't trust you.
		So that is exactly what James Clapper and John Brennan and ultimately Barack Obama told the then NSA director.
		That's the latest reveal.
		Mike Rogers put that down on paper and it's absolutely shocking.
		So seditious conspiracy, that's why John Brennan should be imprisoned.
		That's why they all should.
		And at the end of the day, the buck stops with Obama.
		He ordered all this knowing that there was no Trump-Russia collusion.
		He knew it and he ordered it anyway.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It's fascinating if you take the names out of it, right?
		So let's delete the names Obama, Clinton, and Trump because everybody brings their priors when you put those two in, those three in.
		So if you just put the facts basis down, and you're the expert, but please tell me if I'm right here.
		A campaign for president pays a man who's on the payroll of a sanctioned Russian oligarch to go to Russian spies to write a dossier.
		of fake disinformation and malinformation in order to pay lawyers to launder that into our federal law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies.
		So they're now poisoning the entire well of credible information and then using that information to try and remove the will of the people in our democracy and kneecap a president.
		It seems like treason to me, man.
		Like, am I did get those details wrong?
		Like, and I'm not understanding that.
		I'm just a simple, you know, I'm just a simple streamer, you know, here.
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		Well, for a simple guy, you nailed the complicated stuff and you bowled it right on down.
		That is absolutely correct.
		You got the facts nailed down precisely.
		Look, for folks who don't understand a lot about Intel, we get all kinds of allegations all the time rumor intelligence they call it rumant right embassy officers will get their CIA operations officers abroad people will email stuff in so it's not to say that you know we don't get stuff that's um you know really scandalous and we got to investigate it yes we do we get that that rumor from all around the world well it was investigated the sealed dossier was investigated and it was all garbage, all of it.
		And yet it was still included in that intelligence community assessment, which is absolutely not how the world of intelligence works at all.
		And of course, they included it so they could leak it and destroy the Trump presidency.
		So you nailed the very complicated story in a very, very simple and straightforward way.
		It was absolutely treasonous.
		I call it seditious conspiracy.
		I don't know what the DOJ is going to call it.
		That's what I want to focus on because these men under the Obama era absolutely committed horrific crimes.
		They certainly broke all kinds of internal rules.
		Ask any CIA guy, not me necessarily, but others as well.
		They'll tell you exactly the same thing.
		I just had a conversation about two days ago with an analyst who was still inside who saw this email from Mike Rogers saying, wait a minute, two weeks.
		You guys have this ICA done and I haven't seen the underlying intelligence.
		This analyst of the agency who's still there was like, that never, that doesn't happen.
		That's unprecedented.
		Very clearly, they were cooking the books and they were trying to.
		hammer President Trump, who was then President Elect.
		It's just very clear.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I mean, it's all in, it's all been documented.
		It's something that we've been speculating for a long time.
		And now to see it in black and white is overwhelming.
		It's bewildering.
		And it's also must be very tragic for you because you're someone who's devoted, did you say, ten years of your life to the CIA?
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		I started just after 9/11.
		Yeah.
		About two months after 9/11.
		And I was there through 2015, December 2015.
		But look, you know, it's a you're right.
		For a long time.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It's embarrassing for you.
		And then this must be something to continue.
		Like, I hate being super anecdotal or like talking about people's feelings, but this must really suck to watch this agency that you would have given your life for, right?
		Because if you're serving that time period, there's a lot of people that couldn't, there's a lot of life or death situations, frankly, that you're dealing with or perhaps a part of.
		And to see it used in this manner must be really demoralizing.
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		I lost friends in the war on terror.
		There are people who should be here who are not.
		And I'm reminded of the oath that we all took, which is to serve the president and the American people.
		That was the job.
		And then to see this go down, you start to ask a lot of tough questions.
		Well, what was my service really all about??
		Like, was I on the right side of a lot of issues?
		Was I part of the good guy team?
		And I think that that's one of the sobering conclusions from this is that not necessarily.
		I wasn't necessarily.
		And I will tell you during the same period for twenty years, I was a Democrat.
		And so I was on the bad guy side twice, all of these people were trying to cook this country by undermining not just a President elected, but the Republic.
		The American people chose Donald Trump in 2016 and they refused to respect that vote.
		So for me, the past ten years have been kind of an eye opening time when I came to realize that I was kind of a part of a bit of a couple of cult.
		One of them being the agency and one of them being the Democratic Party.
		My eyes are open now, but you're right.
		It was a very painful thing to recognize that I was part of a group where there are wonderful, wonderful people, the agency even still, or the FBI doing incredible work.
		But when your tribal chiefs and the senior leadership are doing such horrific things, you have to wonder how many people are really all in on this seditious conspiracy and the rest of your work.
		It makes you question a lot of things.
		So you're right.
		I have wondered a lot if I was on the right side of on the right, on the right team for a long time.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		A little esoteric.
		I'd love to do like we should sit down for a long form podcast and chat about it sometime in person.
		I'd love that.
		If you don't mind some rapid fire things, just very quickly based on what you just said, we asked Tulsi Gabbard about one of the more cult, you called it a cult, one of the more cult like activities of the CIA that was publicized during the church committee hearings during the 70s and 80s about Operation Mockingbird.
		And she sort of shocked the world saying that it's still ongoing today and that she's constantly catching agency heads or analysts or individuals inside of the deep state leaking to the press in order to try and craft a narrative to destroy the duly elected administration.
		I guess I'd like to ask you the same question.
		Did you ever encounter any sort of Operation Mockingbird activities?
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's in the open press now.
		BBC One Radio sat down with the British Intelligence Service and our own at the very beginning of the Ukraine war, and they talked about how they were putting in press placements to encourage people in the West to support the war.
		So they acknowledged it.
		This was about three years ago.
		It's one of the things that I rang the bell on, like, this is so wrong.
		This is not how propaganda operations are supposed to work.
		You're not supposed to go after the American people with your CIA operations, obviously.
		So beyond that, I didn't see any actually officially sanctioned operations, but that's a pretty big one, trying to change everybody's mind on the war in Ukraine through open propaganda.
		So yeah, I think she's right.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I mean, she said we're constantly having to shut this stuff down and catch people and that is ongoing right now.
		You know, it's ongoing.
		It's just unsanctioned, but it's ongoing, which is got to be really tough to I mean, you know, you're fighting yourself there, right?
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		It's wrong.
		You're not trying to use your intelligence agencies to manipulate your own people.
		That is the antithesis of what they're there to do.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
		One thing that we that has been very hot topic over the last month was Jeffrey Epstein, a CIA agent.
		What do you think about that?
		Well, working with the CIA perhaps would be like, you know, from a tertiary standpoint.
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		So one of the things that I have asked or encouraged people to think about is why would he have been?
		What kind of access did he have?
		Did he have access to very important people, very important information, very important facilities?
		If the answer is yes, then he was absolutely on people's radars, whether that be the Israelis or a European service or the CIA.
		So from there, we can probably start to ask reasonable questions about the extent to which he did participate or assist.
		And we got Alex Acosta saying, you know, back years ago during, I think it was 2019, he said to Congress that he couldn't go into further details about that relationship.
		So the point is we've got a very, a lot of very reasonable smoke.
		Do we have a fire?
		Well, let's see what.
		gets revealed, but it's not crazy to suggest that he could have been.
		He certainly had access to information to people.
		And we have that very curious statement by Alex Acosta.
		So it's fair to wonder.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, we asked the Intel agency chairman yesterday on the show about it.
		And he said that he's going to look, he's going to ask.
		I mean, I just don't, that everyone's asked every other law enforcement agency except for the CIA, which if you have a clandestine island in international waters, seems like it would be a good CIA base to me.
		But again, what do I know?
		I just went to community college.
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		What do I know?
		You picked up something good, friend.
		Whatever you got, it's good.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I come from the Hogfields of Iowa.
		I'm going to stick to the moment mud, Benny.
		Okay, so really quickly, muddying up the narratives is something that we've learned the CIA is capable of doing, and they've refused to acknowledge something about Lee Harvey Oswald up until just a few weeks ago, actually, when they acknowledged that they actually bumped Lee Harvey Oswald, made contact with him, were speaking with him before the assassination of JFK.
		And this is fascinating and interesting history.
		They've denied doing this for sixty years.
		Now they're copying to it.
		We learned that in right here.
		Here are the documents.
		Obviously, you weren't, you weren't around back then, and neither was I. But what does this tell you about the agency and what was your reaction to this?
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		Well, I wasn't surprised in that he had a, Harvey Oswald had a very long connection to the Soviets, to the Cubans, so it wasn't surprising to me that our Mexico based officers bumped into him and tried to develop either a relationship, monitor him, surveil him and the rest of it, so that in itself isn't super shocking.
		The question is, what were those additional conversations, if there were any?
		And I have to tell you, one of the things that I have always wondered, how much of this stuff actually got written down?
		Because there are operations where you never write things down.
		There is no paper trail.
		And those are for some of our more sensitive operations where you can't risk that you might have a tech op that blows open your access to your databases or whatnot.
		So there are ops that are off books.
		So how much of that conversation never got written down in terms of any connection to them, relationship with them, et cetera?
		I don't know, but I think it's fair to ask.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, I mean, I think that it's a fascinating time period where there's a lot of disclosures actually happening.
		And what they did with JFK seems to be the gold standard.
		I mean, I'm sure we don't know everything, but we know so much more than we used to and so many people.
		I don't know, it's a nice pressure release valve from my perspective.
		This transparency is great.
		I mean, people get so upset when they feel like their government's lying to them and when they feel like they've been told like a lie out in the open right it's not that we don't know it's that we do know and we're going to tell you the opposite and that's how you create pressure and then doing these kind of disclosures and declassifications is how you you know release that i think it's good actually for our country amen you know look tulsi gabbert i think is doing very important work so is ratcliffe and ultimately the president and saying there are reasons why we need to keep some things classified, completely fair.
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		There are sources and methods that do need to be classified, but that can't be used to hide malbehavior.
		And that's what has happened for years and years.
		And so they're saying, knock it off with excuses.
		Even if we have to burn some sources or methods, we got to do it because we have to regain trust with the American people.
		And that's the moment in which we are living.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		And the moment that we were living with the declassification of all this Obamagate stuff and all this Steel dossier stuff and John Brennan, your old boss.
		What a creepy dude, man.
		What a lispy, creepy weirdo.
unidentified		And it's like, dude, how did guys like that, how did they?
		And then they we found out that week they were going to put Adam Schiff in charge of the CIA.
		Oh my God, like we were we dodged a bullet, bro.
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		Let's say a bomb.
		That wasn't just a bullet.
		That guy, he's about as sharp as a dull pencil on only his neck.
		The point is, can you imagine a guy like that being in charge of an intelligence agency, the Cobraid that's going out there and recruiting spies and stealing secrets.
		That guy leaking classified information.
		We now know he's leaking classified information just to damage Donald Trump.
		He ultimately is the one who politicized a lot of that intellect that we saw in 2016 and 2017 and 2018 and beyond.
		Can you imagine him being in charge of the agency?
		Good Lord, all Friday.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Goodness gracious.
		Well, Brian Dean Wright, you can catch his op-ed here it is on Fox News.
		Actually, you can, here's his op-ed and we're also going to send you to his X account as well.
		And ladies and gentlemen, Brian Dean Wright right here on X. He's got himself almost two hundred thousand subscribers and you got to be one of them is a man who clearly is.
		really is willing to speak and speak freely and honestly.
		He's one of those guys who fights for you and brings a breadth of knowledge.
		And we hope that you'll be back whenever I have these questions.
		You seem to be a pretty, pretty good dude, man.
		So thanks for all the honor show.
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		Anytime.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I'm man.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		All right.
unidentified		See ya.
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		All right.
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		you well.
unidentified		you well.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		you you Oh, ladies and gentlemen, rocking and rolling.
		Ask Benny anything segment.
		Let's go.
		Let's go.
		Rock and roll.
unidentified		Outro Music.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Shannon Wells, what's up?
		Is the Jerry Meme King meme idea?
		Okay, school SNL.
		Okay, school SNL.
		When it was funny, airline stewards, bye-bye for Crockett losing her seat.
		LOL, add other dems losing their seats.
		Jerry, I'm just going to send this one to you from Shannon Wells.
		You're going to have to interpret this.
		Well done.
		And I'm sure that this is like speaking Jerry level autism.
		So I'm sure that you will get it.
		All right.
		Juice Griffin.
		So cool to see you at the press briefing.
		Why are those journalists there so obsessed with Russia and China every single week?
		I know, like, as I was sitting there, I wanted to scream juiced.
		I wanted to be like, what is wrong with all of you?
		Every question.
		And what about Ukraine?
		What about Ukraine?
		You know, ladies and gentlemen, you're living in a war zone in Washington, DC.
		Like, this is an absolute killbot.
		More people have died in DC than the front lines of Ukraine.
		So let's just shut up about Ukraine.
		I'm so sick of hearing about Ukraine.
		I'm so sick of it.
		I'm so disgusted by it.
		Like, I honestly, I just don't care.
		I don't care.
		Oh, does that make you a bad person?
		I don't care, actually.
		I just don't.
unidentified		I don't.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I read my Bible.
		I'm going to be held accountable for like my neighborhood, for the people that I interact with.
		I'm going to be held accountable for the good that we can do here in our own little part of the vineyard, right?
		We're going to tend to our own little part of the vineyard.
		I am so sick of hearing about these foreign countries when our own country is an absolute mess.
		And when I was at the Pride House press briefing, you know, I'm like talking about DC and be like, yo, DC, like let's clean up the city.
		And then every other question, every other question.
		What about a foreign country?
		Just enter foreign country.
		What about Israel?
		What about Gaza?
		What about Ukraine?
		What about Russia?
		What about Belgiumarus?
unidentified		Shut up.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Like we're Americans, man.
		There's so many people that are hurting in this country.
		Like, we can't like focus on them a little bit.
		Yeah.
		Well, anyway, that's what we do around here.
		More to come on that.
		You may be seeing a lot more of us in the press briefing room if you know what I mean.
		Come on, mama.
		Ted Cook says, please look up the 1976 American Freedom Trail.
		You could please ask the Trump administration about having a 2026 American Freedom Trail.
		Absolutely.
		And we know the people that are doing it.
		We know the people that are in charge.
		We know the people that are in charge of the America 250.
		We work with them very closely.
		So yeah, totally.
		We'll do that.
		Thank you, Ted.
		And then a question from me, point of personal privilege.
		Ask Benny anything.
		Benny, what chips do you feed your family?
		Masa chips.
		Those are the chips that I feed my family.
		Just an important question that was asked.
		And the reason why I'm answering it is because I love these things.
		Frickin'love these things.
		All right, I don't know.
		Like, I don't, if you come over to my house for dinner.
		And we had fajita night last night.
		And we just, these are the chips that we use.
		And I get angry because my kids eat them all.
		So they come in these bags, quite a bit of them in the bags.
		And my kids just go berserker mode on these things.
		They love the colors, the bag, the style of chips.
		There are like 20 different types that they send us.
		I actually don't know how many types they send them.
		But the kids love them.
		My wife, who is obsessed with health and being healthy in our family, allows for these chips.
		You won't find Doritos.
		You won't find anything else.
		You'll find masa chips.
		Why?
		Because masa chips are made with three ingredients.
		You got just corn, your salt, your salt.
		and your beef tallow and that's it no seed oils nothing 100% all natural, no crash, no bloat, no sluggishness, no chemicals, just like straight up delicious chips.
		They're extra crunchy because of that too.
		Give masa a try masa chip.comcom slash Benny.
		Use the code Benny for 25% off your order.
		Masa chips.com slash Benny.
		The code is Benny for 25% off your order.
		I assure you you will love them.
		Try the dessert chips.
		There's like a dessert, like cinnamon chip.
		Oh, they're good.
		They're good.
		You can find us on Fajita Night.
		Okay.
		Ladies and gentlemen, verse of the day, rocking and rolling.
unidentified		Oh man.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Exciting times.
		What?
		What is everyone laughing?
		Producers, I just get constantly roasted just constantly roasted what is it is a chat okay all right okay oh my goodness all right jerry goodness gracious we do have the freedom what did we have a freedom trail can we pop that up since we did have that great question from ted here's a freedom trail just in case you guys are y'all are wondering uh what does this look like it's a freedom trail it uh i wasn't around in the 70s But I assume that this is the route that you would go to visit various important
		landmarks throughout American history.
		I believe it goes through perhaps every state.
		Is that correct?
		I mean, it doesn't hit like Alaska or Hawaii.
		But this is going to be this is going to hit every state.
		Which state are you watching in?
		The American Freedom Trails goes through your state.
		I have to yeah, as I'm looking at the map, it looks like it hits absolutely everywhere, right?
		Okay.
		So very cool locations in every single state.
		There's Tampa, that's where we are right now.
		And you maybe we can travel do the American Freedom Trail.
		That would be fun.
		Cool.
		Amazing.
		The Freedom Train.
		There's a Freedom Train.
		That's badass.
		Why don't they have these exhibits at the Smithsonian?
		How cool is that?
		Two national freedom tra Train, the American Freedom Train celebrated the United States Bicentennial.
		Each train had its own red, white, and blue paint scheme, itinerary route.
		It went through 48 contiguous states, stopping so visitors could see the historic artifacts on the train.
		That's awesome.
		What the hell ever happened to this America?
		This is my America.
		This is the America we want.
		How cool that is.
		You scroll down.
		Scroll down to the actual color photos.
		Halfway down the page.
unidentified		There you go.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Too fast.
		Stop doing so many Alps.
		Geez, dude.
unidentified		How did I?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Cut it out.
unidentified		Gosh.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Like an absolute Alp Fest in the studio.
		There's just Alps like flinging.
		I haven't hit by an Alp can.
		Here we go.
		The Freedom Train.
		Look at how cool that looks.
		What if that rolled through your town?
		You'd be like, what's up?
		Freedom Train.
		We need to get back to this.
		Heritage America.
		There you go.
		How do we do it?
		By locking in and ensuring that we have a future.
		That, by the way, rests in the hands of God, that we are locked in spiritually.
		It's one thing we can do that the liv libs won't.
		We can pray.
		And we can give thanks.
		And we can practice gratitude, something that is probably the least practiced virtue in the modern day.
		A little bit of gratitude, please, for this place.
		I have gratitude for you.
		And we show that through our verse of the day.
		Proverbs 4.8.
		The path of the just is like the shining sun that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.
		What a beautiful, beautiful message for us.
		As we...
		I'm not sure we've done this like full announcement yet.
		We're going to be taking someing this is the time when I'm going to take I'm going to take my kids to the beach.
		We're just going to stay in Florida.
		But I'm going to take my kids to the beach.
		We've been rolling and cracking skulls on this program for a long time.
		And I'm going to go into the brighter, into the shining sun that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.
		I'm going to go there.
		I'm going to go into the sun shining in the bright perfect day with my kids actually.
		And spend a little locked in time with my kids over the next two weeks.
		Will we be gone forever?
		No.
		Will we not go live if something huge happens?
		We will probably go live.
		We'll be offline.
		We're going to be like touch and go, right?
		We'll still be in Florida, but I'm going to take some time off to like lock in with my kids.
		I don't want to miss their childhood.
		I only get like an hour a day with them.
		So this has been like in the plans for a long time.
		The last two weeks of August, we're going to like take a little bit of a rest, do a big refurbish of the studio, get some technical problems sorted out.
		And I hope you understand that and that we're not abandoning you.
		And we will be on, the team will be online and covering news and so will will i um again we're not going too far from the studio but the studio needs a real good kick in the tires and so uh and quite frankly, so do we.
		So we're going to go enjoy the shining sun, the path of the shining sun, but the path of the just is like the shining sun that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.
		I'm going to go have some perfect days with my kids.
		You feel me?
		Family show.
		I'm sure you understand.
		And we love you all.
		We'll be live tonight with the Trump-Putin-Mageddon.
		We're going to work on that titling.
		We're going to work.
		Putin-Mageddon.
		It's fine.
		We're working on it.
		It's your boy, Benny.
		Thank you for watching.
		And thank you for helping this show.
		do the work that this country needs.
	It's our great honor to be part of it.
	Just strike a note in that beautiful song.
	Remember, in the end, we win.
	Let's go.
unidentified		See ya.
		See ya.
		Hope the city of Bogdan You're dead.
		You're crazy, Sarah.
		You're dead.
gavin newsom ▲ ● ▼		In recent years, our people have faced some of our toughest challenges.
		And I've been inspired by the courage and resilience of Californians, health workers, teachers, parents and children.
		You came together.
		And now you're coming back stronger than ever.
		As your governor, I promise you, whatever challenges come our way, I will always lead the California way.
corey lewandowski ▲ ● ▼		Gavin Newsom, Courage Through Crisis.
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		And the dying legacy, Media Dillwinds.
		So will the Benny Show come to mine the salt from Liz for fun?
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