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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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01:08

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chanley painter ▲ ● ▼		So Governor Newsom's not only railed against Trump at yesterday's rally, he spent significant time announcing his plans to counter Texas lawmakers' redistricting plan.
		But 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 cut.
		She said everything you know about Donald Trump's America.
		Said everything you know about the authoritarian tendencies of the president of the United States.
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, A.G. Bondi had this warning to lawmakers who say they will not comply with immigration enforcement.
pam bondi ▲ ● ▼		They must comply.
		Yesterday, I sent out 33 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 through crisis.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Oh, man.
unidentified		Okay.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		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.
		Gavin Newsom as the Joker out of the side of the cop car with his hair flying back.
		It's just pure cinema.
		Pure cinema is going to be today because it is free-for-all Friday.
		Yes, we made it, ladies and gentlemen, to Friday, August 16th, 2025.
		Gavin Newsom fails at empty rally.
		Totally pathetic.
		It reminds me of the Kamala Harris.
		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 are just in the zone in the flow state.
		That's what you call it.
		The flow state.
		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, D.C. A massive story.
		Hillary Clinton getting on her knees.
		Yikes, you know what I mean?
		Like last time.
		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 heater on CNN.
		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 like chill out with Caroline Levitt.
		So, that's what we did.
		We went in and we chilled out with Caroline Levitt.
		Maybe if you could grab the photo, it'd be awesome.
		We chilled out with Caroline.
		I mean, you get to like chat with them, you know, chew the fat and everything.
		I saw him out of the corner of my eye doing the prayer.
		She has 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 D.C. is, about the hellscape of Washington, D.C., 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, that's how big a 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.
	Crime in DC is down 30%.
	Really?
	Oh, really?
	From like 2023 at all-time murder rate highs, making the murder rate in D.C. is higher than like South Sudan, Somalia, failed states, higher than Beirut, Caracas.
	The murder rate in D.C. is higher than those places.
	So 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.
	Write the headline.
	I look great now.
	All right.
	I'm going to be a Lizzo backup dancer.
	No.
	No.
	Anyway, the point is, is that in Washington, D.C., we did 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.
	My 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 klein seven eight p.m we'll absolutely be live for for putin magedden all right is what we're going to call it trump putin magedden so anyway if you're like rip roaring and you're like and you're locking in as you should to this great golden era you got to be able to
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	It's a good number right there.
	Well, 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.
	That's how 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 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 to 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 ▲ ● ▼		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 interests, meaning what's going to happen in the election.
		That's what it is.
		It's not more complicated.
		And 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 in March and March through May of 2016.
		And then 2019, it's Hunter Biden a lot more.
		And so we impeached the president and we have the government actually creating stories that I think we will prove were false.
		And then in 21, they find Joe Biden's classified documents at UPenn office in Washington and his garage.
		And they got to make Donald Trump look like he's the classified guy first before they can let the cat out of the bag that Joe Biden has the same problem.
		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 cases headed.
		I now believe that there are multiple grand juries that that have begun work around this country in multiple jurisdictions outside of washington where evidence is now being gathered you do you you can report that or you have reason to believe that nope i have confirmed witnesses and who've 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 uh 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 situation.
		Pennsylvania.
		I don't know the reason yet.
		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 money is.
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.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		The Democrats who didn't care about John Solomon is on a generational run right now.
		Well done, John Solomon.
		So he has confirmed that there are multiple grand juries outside of Washington, D.C., 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.
		Wow.
		Could it possibly be connected?
		Give me a pardon, 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 that's saying.
		We have a clip of Hillary Clinton saying this.
		Do we?
		Yeah.
		Yeah, we have a play beside.
unidentified		Okay.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Well, let's go ahead and do that as our salt that lib for the day.
		And then Jillian Michael's going to join us in just a minute with a boy, I got to tell you, like the single saltiest, the single saltiest lib takedown we've ever seen, which is remarkable.
		So here's, so here's Hillary Clinton.
		Ah, man, I hate doing this too.
		I hate having to play a Hillary Clinton clip.
		It's just so, it's just so hard.
		So just, I apologize if you're hungover or if you haven't had your coffee yet or, you know, I just hate doing this in the morning.
		So maybe we, 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.
unidentified		Demonic music Yeah!
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.
		Drawing on your experience as Secretary of State, if you were en 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 to this terrible war where Putin is the aggressor invading a neighbor country, trying to change the borders, if he could end it without putting Ukraine in 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.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Well, that's not the matter.
hillary clinton ▲ ● ▼		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.
hillary clinton ▲ ● ▼		If President Trump were the architect of that, I'd nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		All right.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Well, salty, salty, salty, lib.
		Also, Hillary looking, boy, Hildebye's looking tough, man.
		It's just yikes.
		They shut down Epstein Island, right?
		They end the flow of adrenochrome, and then suddenly all of these globalists just end up looking like burned oven mitts.
		They're all like melting away.
		Have you seen Kathy Griffin recently?
		Holy moly.
unidentified		She does.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		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 an absolute kick-ass friend of the show.
		Somebody who's a total legend in the space, somebody who's, as of late, become incredibly famous for standing up for women's sports, pretty much the first person to stand up for women's sports to get men out of women's sports.
		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 central lie of the race Marxist, which is that slavery is a uniquely American and white person sin.
		Of course, this is absolutely absurdist, and the exact opposite is true.
		But nonetheless, the libs on CNN couldn't hear it and decided to instead scream in Jillian's face.
		This was the most viral clip on the entire internet yesterday.
		Here we go.
julie roginsky ▲ ● ▼		On into the Smithsonian, and he's 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?
julie roginsky ▲ ● ▼		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 community says.
unidentified		Some of those things that are out there.
unidentified		Because have you looked at some of the things that slavery?
julie roginsky ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, slavery was a bad thing that we should talk about.
julie roginsky ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		He's not whitewashing slavery.
julie roginsky ▲ ● ▼		He's not.
unidentified		He's not.
		No, 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.
		But let's talk about the fact that when you meet anti-slavery, let's talk about the fact that we unite slavery.
		But it was a system of white.
		You know how that slavery is thousands of years old?
		White people were slavery.
		You know who's in the world?
		And we're the first race to try to end slavery.
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		Well, what's coming from this?
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		I'm very surprised.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It's an extraordinary exercise in historical racism.
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		I'm really surprised.
unidentified		Do you realize that?
abby phillip ▲ ● ▼		Jillian, I'm surprised that you're trying to litigate 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 every single thing is like, oh, no, no, no, this is all because white people bad.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		And that's just not the truth.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		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% 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		you you Thank you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Like the scene when Batman comes up through the floor and there's like seven bad guys and they're like, and the big Batman just takes them all out, right?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		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 bit alarmed.
		I was worried.
		And I thought, God, you know, 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 on this intelligently and factually.
		What things are you referencing that are historically incorrect?
		And they sent me a list.
		It goes on for pages.
		I pulled out at least 10 of them for you if you want to go over some of them a little later on, 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.
unidentified		And this woman made it about slavery.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		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 slavers.
		And I'm just, I get it.
		It was one of the worst things in our history.
		Everyone knows this.
		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 in 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 2% 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 25% of all Southern households.
		I'm like, great, 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 enslaved, 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 factually 100% accurate is 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 Grok.
		Why don't we put it up here?
		So slavery has existed for 5,000 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 like, 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.
		But they never want to have that conversation.
unidentified		No, it's just only like white people bad.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		And no one's not wanting to take responsibility for this.
		Nobody 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 begets, actually begets racial division and racism.
		And it's funny, I was just talking to Kaisen Ecidu, who's often on Piers Morgan.
		I'm a huge fan of his.
		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 begets white degeneracy because white people start to get mad.
		And Adam Corolla 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'm really trying to understand, though, 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 2% 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 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 up for you.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		Can I run you through some of these things of the Smithsonian?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
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 gay progress, which, listen, as a person in the community, I'm very grateful that we can marry, very grateful we can adopt kids.
		But it's like, do you need to open the front exhibit is like the gays, like how about something unifying progress for all Americans?
		Not about, that'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 U.S. And in particular, when it comes to Cuba, they talk about how because of the United States government backing Batista for financial gain, we begot this mass exodus from Cubans and they still suffer from it to this day.
		Now, was Batista Escombach?
unidentified		Yes.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		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 begot the whole thing.
		So yes, we did it, but it's a huge lie of omission to leave that out because that would make it far more balanced portrayal, right?
		It goes on and 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.
unidentified		Right.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Ready for the next one?
		Then there's the one on gender testing.
		And they go on to talk about how 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 somewhat tied to sexual assault and violation.
		And again, not about slavery.
		And then it sort of discusses like how it's bigoted to consider testing for gender in sports.
		The Star Spangled Banner.
		They go on to talk about how this guy was like a huge racist.
		And yeah, Oh my God.
		He was a slaver and not an abolitionist.
		Okay, hold on.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Then you've got, I mean, I can literally under the original Betsy Ross, because they had the original Betsy Ross flag.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		They had the original like Betsy Ross and the Star Spangled Banner.
unidentified		They had the original Star Spangled Star-Spangled banner.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		They go after that guy in the exhibit.
unidentified		Yes.
unidentified		Yes, yes.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		They go after him in the exhibit.
		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 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 was 13 unarmed black men and like 21 unarmed white men.
		And in 2020, I think it was like 18 unarmed black men and 30-something unarmed white men.
		But the point is like this goes on, and particularly for people who are forced to live in the realities of prejudice and aggression in their daily lives.
		And 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, you know, and like all of the good work that's been done to turn this around.
		Like it's, 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.
unidentified		What happened to George Floyd is disgusting and it's devastating.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		But if you really want to upset people who are religious, compare George Floyd to Jesus Christ.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		And that do you have video of that?
unidentified		I mean, like, there's a 55-minute video of it.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		So hang 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, 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 Brichard Brooks, Breonna Taylor, Adam Toledo, George Floyd, Dante Wright.
		But there's no balance of like 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.
		Then it goes on.
unidentified		Okay.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		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 this is the part that I take umbrage with.
		If we're going to be dead honest, I don't remember suppressing any protests.
		I remember all these protests happening where everybody else is going to go to church and visit their loved ones.
unidentified		So they certainly weren't suppressed.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		And then one segment places images of the death of Jesus Christ, the death of Shea Guevara, and the death of George Floyd side by side and insinuates similarity between the three historical events.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		So again, I'm not, let me be very clear.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		That's happening to George Floyd.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I mean, that's black.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		What happened to George Floyd?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		That's he did.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		It's disgusting, right?
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		It's horrifying.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, 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 autopsy.
		That's what happened to George Floyd.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		I hear you, but let's just say, I want to go there and say, I don't want to watch right.
		Like, I very distressed, was very distressed by that whole situation.
		And listen, I'm horrified by it all across the board.
unidentified		But when you compare George Floyd to Jesus, do we think maybe we could revise that?
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		Well, yeah, I mean, like, this is the stuff, like, there's no whitewashing slavery in any of the stuff I told you.
unidentified		Is there?
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		Did I admit, did I screw it up?
unidentified		Like, the issue is that it's like all white cops are bad.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		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.
unidentified		And somehow Travi suggested that I was trying to say, I don't know, I have no idea.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		Honestly, you have to watch.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		I couldn't even.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I don't know.
		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 the National Gallery of Art should be in coordination into the celebration of how blessed we are to live currently right now in modern day America.
unidentified		What if there's none of that?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Exactly.
		Yeah, none of that.
		Like, precisely.
		So the entire, if there is any talk about slavery, it should be about 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 great expense.
		And how it's ongoing practiced in Africa today with 7 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, now let's solve the real problem.
unidentified		I'm totally happy too.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		It's the same thing with George Floyd.
		Like you bring up Judge 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 society and not zooming out and seeing everything, the majesty of the American experiment here.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		That's exactly it.
unidentified		You don't need to do that.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		You do that on a single thing.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		No one is trying to whitewash it.
		No one 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 of 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 if you're in a relationship with someone, if you're 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, what you did on CNN, like what you did on CNN was correct.
		You know, it was right.
		You brought facts.
		And the fact that they met, you know, this is what amazes me, Jillian.
		They met you with unintelligible shrieking.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		And they called me a racist, basically.
unidentified		Yeah, they weren't trying to debate you.
unidentified		They were trying to say racism.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		No, they weren't trying to debate you.
		They were like, 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 get power in modern day America in 2025.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		I don't, I can't figure out, is that the answer?
		Because the reality is that nothing good comes of this when you don't show both sides of the story, when you're not honest.
		And it's funny because I got all of these hateful comments on my Instagram.
unidentified		And well, I have a black daughter and people are like, oh, your daughter's going to grow up and hate you.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		This is the world you're raising your daughter.
		And I thought, if me telling my daughter that the vast majority of whites didn't own slaves, and that's true, is a bad thing.
		I don't know what to tell you.
		I would much prefer my daughter think that not all white people are bad, considering she's being raised by white people and she has your 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 truly alarms me about this is actually having 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 the, 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.
		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 undone.
		So this has been written out.
		It's Cloward Pivin from the 1960s.
		It's been written out.
		They already have a plan for this.
		This is part of it.
		And it is something critical that must be taken on.
		You took it on on CNN, and it's one of the bravest things I've ever seen happen on cable news.
		Maybe you could conclude here, Jillian, 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% 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 some of these things.
		And like, let's add some texture and honesty and show other sides of this story.
		And 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 invented 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 of that is not only misrepresented, 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 how about the fact that not everybody did it?
		How about the fact that a lot of people banned it?
		How about the fact that we went to war over it?
		You could, you could incorporate that.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Do you think there's any, 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 pole pot?
		Where's the Mao Se Tong?
		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.
unidentified		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 that's what, you know, it's amazing.
		You can see when you, when the Cuban, the Cuban exhibit that you posted right here, you can tell by who they don't criticize.
		You can tell 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.
unidentified		He's not even in there.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		It's like, okay, the white government, the U.S. government, which we all know in the 50s was white.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		So clearly white imperialism backed Batista for financial gain, destabilized the developed world, and begot the mass emigration from Cuba to the U.S. That's literally what it says.
unidentified		No vengeance.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		I mean, I'm laughing because it's so upsetting and so absurd.
jillian michaels ▲ ● ▼		Anyway, I'm going to jump and do this her take thing, but I'm super grateful for you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		They're angry.
		They're angry because 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 part of that.
		And we're just so thankful for Jillian Michaels.
		Everybody follow 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 ex page.
		Ladies and gentlemen, let's go ahead and click that and show.
		Here's the Jillian Michael.
		God bless you, Jillian.
		Thank you so much.
		Here's her doing a push-up right there.
unidentified		Good.
unidentified		There we go.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Getting prepared for our next CNN panel.
unidentified		Thank you so much, babe.
unidentified		I appreciate you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		All right.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		See you, Jillian.
unidentified		See you, Jillian.
unidentified		you you you you Amen.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		She called me babe.
		Okay.
		She called me babe.
		I got it.
		I got it on.
		I got it on camera.
		Sorry about the.
		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've known Jillian for a while and she's freaking awesome.
		But I apologize.
		We always make sure that we let the guests speak.
		I just 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, 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, man, 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 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 Newsome 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 the Department of Homeland Security decided to run some ICE raids right outside of where Gavin Newsom was speaking.
		Here we go.
unidentified		What fuck is wrong with you?
unidentified		People parking.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		He's a criminal alien.
unidentified		You guys are fucking cowards.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
unidentified		All of you are fucking cowards.
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.
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		Look at this.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		You remember this?
		Can we zoom?
		You remember this?
		This was like the, this was, 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 Gavin Newsom has the same, the exact same energy.
		So Gavin Newsom also said that he has a Trump 2028 hat that was 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.
gavin newsom ▲ ● ▼		People have sent people are sending me Trump 2028 hats 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 said everything you know about the authoritarian tendencies of the president of the united states i said it a moment ago 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 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.
		He'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.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		A man who is a special government employee right now, who's also been the campaign manager for Donald J. Trump for president and a senior advisor to President Trump, Corey Lewandowski joins the show live now to respond.
unidentified		you you you you you you you you Thank you.
unidentified		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, Benny, 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.
unidentified		Right?
corey lewandowski ▲ ● ▼		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, 1.6 million illegals have deported from this country, either through the CBP home app or self-deported.
		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.
		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 loved it 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.
		It's 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-deport.
		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 or 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 a Gavin Newsom rally or maybe inside a Gavin Newsome 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.
		Look, this guy's a good one, or 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 one.
		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.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		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 we have that chart on 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 in 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 both 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.
		You know, 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 piece that put this over the top was Big Balls getting attacked that night, but it was long coming.
		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, fellas, 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.
		Gen Saki, 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 who'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 New 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 volunteer, 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.
		Too many days.
		I'm not even there.
		Jesus, what's that big deal?
		But 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 10 more phones.
		This is like, this stuff is so crunky.
		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 6ix2s in them.
		Okay.
		So they say, 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.
		Say, 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.
		You said there, did I get this number right?
		You said there's 100,000 applicants?
corey lewandowski ▲ ● ▼		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.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		He's a friend of the show.
		He's a friend of the show.
		He comes on the show.
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 there 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.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		You brought up something very interesting.
		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.
		That's what I call it.
		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 is 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 a 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 Janine Pirro in Washington, D.C., said an amazing example this week.
		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 fullest extent of the 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 Los Angeles.
		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, anytime, 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.
		Corey, I'd 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 real video or just a meme.
		Maybe it is a meme.
		There's a lot of memes of Gavin Newsome wearing a Trump 2028 hat.
		Did you send him the hat?
		Was it you, Corey?
		Was it you who sent him the hat with that?
corey lewandowski ▲ ● ▼		I wish I did it.
		I would love to take credit for it.
		I probably know who did it.
		I think I know who did it, but I'll tell you what.
		It's the epic troll.
		And the reality is, Gavin Newsom understands that he continues to promulgate and perpetuate hatred against police officers when 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 waive 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 armor-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 Newsome rally, so the three people who were inside, two of them are probably illegal.
		So he had a crowd of three, I think.
		Two of them were probably illegal, and so we scooped those guys up.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		No, if you are a criminal alien in this country, listen to what Corey has 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 X 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 cooking this morning.
		You should be cooking and ensuring that you have a solid future financially.
		You can't, well, do everything, can you?
		I can't.
		We outcha!
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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 exposed her this week to the tune of, I think, 20 million total views that video got.
		And now she's being trolled in Texas.
		Now, just real quick, just 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, well, your vehicle in all of this.
		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 granny's house.
		She was one of my favorite people in the entire world.
		Jasmine!
		The people of Dallas deserve better than a fake ghetto hood rat.
		Wow.
		Do they know you're a rich kid from Missouri?
		Do they know you're a spoiled rich kid from Missouri?
		Don't touch me.
		Don't touch me.
		Get your ass out.
		Get her off.
		Get off me.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		You know, get off me.
unidentified		I'm on.
unidentified		Get off Andy's films.
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.
		We will, there's one thing that we are uncompromising on.
		When you tell us to go, we will go.
		We will be the most locked in and the most connected with our chat.
		There is not going to be another channel.
		There's not going to be another creator that is going to be more tied in and more connected.
		You show up for us.
		We show up for you.
		And we're just very thankful for it.
		Look at that.
		Millions of views, 14,000 reposts, 37,000 likes, 2.6,000 comments, and 4,000 saves.
		Yeah, baby.
		We cooked her.
		She cooked.
		And now she's getting roasted to her face.
		We got an amazing next guest, ladies and gentlemen.
		We've got somebody who I've been wanting to talk to for a while, former CIA agent, somebody who is, I hope, going to be bringing some very hot takes.
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		Men, important.
		It's a moment of men 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.
		you you you Brian, welcome to the show, and it's an honor to have you.
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		Pleasure to be here.
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		Thank you.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Okay, so tell me just really quickly, like what's 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, 10-plus CIA bases in Ukraine.
		As of this moment, we are all in on this war.
		President Trump has inherited something that, well, I think we can all say is a mess.
		So we are into 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 into 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 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 Mr. Putin of Russia and figure out what we can do to wrap this up.
		It's stage one.
		There are going to be multiple stages here on after to see if we can't get Zelensky and the Europeans to the table as well.
		So stage one today.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So, I mean, 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 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, the last six months of last year, 30,000 drone incursions came across our southern border.
		30,000.
		Really?
		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.
		12.5 million or so, according to the Congressional Budget Office, 12.5 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 external challenges or needs or demands, but the internal challenge is 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, he's 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's 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 of 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 were 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 over 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 somebody 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 ODNI 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 collusion.
		That was obvious.
		Special Counsel John Durham documenting that there was no predicate for a crossfire 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 intel.
		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 intel, 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 in prison.
		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.
		Seems like treason to me, man.
		Like, did I get those details wrong?
		Like, you're 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 of the time, rumor intelligence, they call it rumint, right?
		Embassy officers will get the CIA operations officers abroad.
		People will email stuff in.
		So it's not to say that we don't get stuff that's really scandalous and we got to investigate it.
		Yes, we do.
		We get that rumor from all around the world.
		Well, it was investigated.
		The CEO 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 Intel 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 the exact 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 Intel.
		This analyst at 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 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 also must be very tragic for you because you're somebody who's devoted, did you say, 10 years of your life to the CIA?
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		I started just after 9-11.
		Yep.
		About two months after 9-11, and I was there through 2015, December 2015.
		But look, you're right for a lot of us.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		This is embarrassing for you.
		And then this must be something to continue.
		I hate being super anecdotal or like talk 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 20 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-elect, but the Republic.
		The American people chose Donald Trump in 2016, and they refused to respect that vote.
		So for me, the past 10 years has 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 cults, 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 all 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 got 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 the right team for a long time.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		A little esoteric.
		I'd love to do it.
		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 call 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 want 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.
		I'm like, this is so wrong.
		This is not how propaganda ops are supposed to work.
		You're not supposed to go after the American people with your CIA ops, obviously.
		So, you know, 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, 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 has 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 intellagencies to manipulate your own people.
		That is the antithesis of what they're there to do.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
		One thing that has been a very hot topic over the last month was Jeffrey Epstein, a CIA agent.
		What do you think about that?
		Or was he working with the CIA, perhaps would be like, you know, from a, 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 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 the access to information of 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, 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'd 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.
		Stick to the 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 60 years.
		Now they're copying to it.
		We learned that in right here.
		Here are the documents.
		Obviously, 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 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, surveill him, and the rest of it.
		So that in and of itself isn't super shocking.
		The question is, what were those additional conversations, if there were any?
		And I got 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 him, relationship with him, 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 release that.
		I think it's good, actually, for our country.
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		Amen.
		You know, look, Tulsi Gabbard, I think, is doing very important work.
		So is Ratcliffe and ultimately the president in saying there are reasons why we need to keep some things classified.
		Completely fair.
		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 ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
		And the moment that we're living with the declassification of all this ObamaGate stuff and all of this steel dossier stuff, 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 had a guy?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		And then we found out this week they were going to put Adam Schiff in charge of the CIA.
		Oh my God.
		We dodged a bullet, bro.
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		Yo.
		Let's say a bomb.
		That wasn't just a bullet.
		That guy, he's about as sharp as a dull pencil on his neck.
		The point is, can you imagine a guy like that being in charge of an intelligence agency, the cod rate 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 intel that we saw in 2016 and 2017 and 2018 and beyond.
		Can you imagine him being in charge 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.
		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 200,000 subscribers.
		And you got to be one of them, is a man who clearly 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 a lot.
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		Anytime.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I'm in.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		All right.
unidentified		See ya.
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		All right.
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		Be well.
unidentified		Be well.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		you you 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, okayed 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 this is like speaking Jerry level autism.
		So I'm sure that you will get it.
bryan dean wright ▲ ● ▼		All right.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Just Griffin.
		So cool to see you in 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.
		What about Ukraine?
		You know, ladies and gentlemen, you're living in a war zone in Washington, D.C. Like, this is an absolute killbot.
		More people have died in D.C. 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, that makes you a bad person.
		I don't care, actually.
		I just don't.
		I don't.
		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, D.C., 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 Belarus?
		Shut up.
		Like, we're Americans, man.
		There's so many people that are hurting in this country.
		Like, we can't 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 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 beat my family.
		Just an important question that was asked.
		And the reason why I'm answering it is because I love these things.
		Freaking love these things.
		All right.
unidentified		I don't know.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Like, I don't, if you cut, so 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, 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.
		Masachip.com/slash Benny.
		Use the code Benny for 25% off your order.
		Masachips.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 cinnamony chip.
		Ah, 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.
		Oh, man.
		Exciting times.
		What?
		What is everyone?
		Is everyone laughing?
		Producer, I just get constantly roasted.
		Just constantly roast.
		What is this?
		Is this chat?
unidentified		Okay.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		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, what does this look like?
		It's a Freedom Trail.
		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 has got 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 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 trains toured the United States.
		The Freedom Train, the American Freedom Train, celebrated the United States Bicentennial.
		Each train has 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.
		Cool that is.
		You scroll down.
		Scroll down to the actual color photos.
		Halfway down the page.
unidentified		There we go.
unidentified		There you go.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Too fast.
		Decline.
		Stop down.
		Stop doing so many Alps.
		Jeez, dude.
		Cut it out.
		Gosh.
		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 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 peace out into Alex.
		I'm not sure we've done this like full announcement yet.
		We are going to be taking some time off the show.
		We're going to be taking, 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.
		I'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.
		And 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 I. Again, we're not going too far from the studio, but the studio needs a real good kick in the tires.
		And so, 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 workshopping 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.
		The dead.
		You're a crazy son of a b****.
		You're dead.
gavin newsom ▲ ● ▼		In recent years, our people have all faced some of our toughest challenges.
gavin newsom ▲ ● ▼		And I've been inspired by the courage and resilience of Californians.
unidentified		Health workers, teachers, parents, and kids.
gavin newsom ▲ ● ▼		You came together, and now you're coming back stronger than ever.
gavin newsom ▲ ● ▼		As your governor, I promise you, whatever challenges come our way, I will always lead the California way.
unidentified		Gavin Newsom, Courage through Crisis.
		The biggest ships in the sea, all owned by the oldest kings.
		And a dying legacy, media Dilweeds.
		Soon will the Benny Show come to mind the salt from Lives for Fun.
		Leave the gold and bring the gun.
		We sail for number one Soon will the Benny Show come to mind the salt from Lives for Fun.
		Leave the gold and bring the gun.
		We sail for number one.

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