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🚨Trump Assassin BOMBSHELL: FBI Coverup EXPOSED By Tucker, Online Footprint REVEALED | 'Dark Truth…'

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01:51

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madeleine rivera ▲ ● ▼		Good morning, Carly and Todd.
		Vice President JD Vance says there's still a long road ahead, but he thinks the Trump administration has been chipping away at the affordability issue after years of painful inflation.
		Vance says, top of mind is housing costs.
jd vance ▲ ● ▼		Under the Biden administration, the price of a new home literally doubled in four years.
		It went up 100%.
		Under the Trump administration, housing and rent prices are up about 1% to 2%.
		That's actually in line with what you would like to see.
		So again, we inherited a disaster.
		We're very mindful of the fact that there's a lot of work to do, but I think that we've made great progress.
madeleine rivera ▲ ● ▼		Data from the National Association of Realtors shows the qualifying income needed to afford a median-priced home has jumped to more than $100,000 in 2024, up from about $85,000 in 2022.
		Meantime, the median personal income has not caught up.
		It was about $45,000 in 2024, and about 24% of U.S. households say they live paycheck to paycheck per the Bank of America Institute.
		Vance suggests one way to address the crisis.
jd vance ▲ ● ▼		The most important way to fix this affordability crisis is to make people's wages go up.
jd vance ▲ ● ▼		That's how we ultimately chip away at the Biden affordability crisis, is that we make an economy where people can afford to buy the things that they need.
madeleine rivera ▲ ● ▼		Vance also addressed to some extent his 2028 plans, saying he will have a conversation with President Trump about that election cycle.
madeleine rivera ▲ ● ▼		But first, they need to get through the midterms.
jd vance ▲ ● ▼		Here's why the presidential focus, the 2028 focus, I think is bad, is because if you wake up in my job or anybody else's job, asking yourself, what's good for my future a few years down the road, you're not going to do a good job right now.
madeleine rivera ▲ ● ▼		Vance says he's also been asked whether he sees Secretary of State Marco Rubio as a potential rival in 2028.
		Vance dismissed the notion, saying both of them would be entitled to run.
		A new story has broke.
unidentified		We need to cover.
		Divert power to the thumb drive and load the meme cannons.
		Jerry, those memes better be good.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		They're as good as they're going to get, boss.
unidentified		Danny, full power on the reactor core.
		I am giving it all she got, Captain.
		The thumb drive is ready, sir.
		Jamie add Elon Musk Make it go.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Freaking go It's literally our morning Jerry, the meme is literally the morning, like what we've been doing all morning long.
		I'm yelling at Jamie about the cover image.
		ALX is throwing the show together.
		Klein's just like Klein's just redlining.
		I come in here with like, I get in because we got in at like 1 a.m. last night after the speech.
		I come into the studio with just a few minutes ahead of the show.
		Klein has nothing loaded.
		We're just like raging and getting it all going.
		Whatever.
		You know what?
		You know what?
		You'll be sad when it's over, won't you?
		You'll be sad.
		You'll be sad when it's boring, won't it?
		Won't you be sad?
		That's right.
		This is just the way that we rock and roll.
		This is, you nailed it, Jerry.
		You nailed it.
		You literally perfectly nailed it.
		Jamie, I still want the new cover image.
		Let's rock and roll.
		Today is Friday, November 14th, 2025.
unidentified		And we are ready for free-for-all, Friday.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Let's freaking go.
		Tucker Carlson is out with a monster report on Thomas Crooks.
		Thomas Crooks, the man who changed the history of Western civilization by hitting Trump in the head with a bullet.
		You know, he intended to kill Donald Trump, but what, man intends for evil, God intends for good.
		And what that ended up doing is actually solidifying all of President Trump's support with Elon Musk, RFK Jr., making Donald Trump a legendary figure and then vaulting him, I would argue, in a much more aggressive manner into the presidency.
		Amazing how God works.
		But it's also amazing how evil works.
		We know nothing about Thomas Crooks.
		And Tucker Carlson has Thomas Crooks' metadata and released it this morning.
		And it is shocking.
		And more importantly, it shows that there was a massive cover-up.
		And why does the federal government cover something up?
		In order to hide things from you, in order to hide typically their activities or the activities of another nation state from you.
		This is what happened with Epstein.
		This is what's happening with Thomas Crooks.
		This is what happened with 9-11.
		This is what's happening right now.
		And Tucker Carlson just blew the freaking doors off of the Thomas Crooks story.
		There is so much more to learn.
		Ladies and gentlemen, we are going to cover all of it this morning because we have been obsessive about this story.
		We went to Butler.
		We were the only people that went to Butler.
		We were the only people on the ground in Butler.
		I've seen the blood splatter from Thomas Crooks' dead body on that rooftop.
		And I am one of the few men on earth that can say that.
		And so we are not going to quit.
		We are thrilled that a whistleblower came to Tucker Carlson and gave him some remarkable evidence this morning about who Thomas Crooks was and what may have happened on that dark day.
		New bombshell report exposes Comey cover-up of Hillary Clinton investigation.
		And hot damn, did I just get off the phone with a very close DOJ source and expect a lot more from this, ladies and gentlemen.
		The Trump administration is just about ready to drop the bombshell of all bombshells.
		Hot damn.
		Don't want to get ahead of myself, but here we go.
		Tim Burchett joins the show along with what I believe will be a number of other guests.
		But we are whipping the show.
		We were whipping the show together.
		It changed everything because Tucker dropped his expose just minutes ago.
		And we are going to cover all of it right now.
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		Just really quickly off the top of the dome, we had a turning point event last night.
		Indeed, this is the only one you need to show.
		This is all we need to put up.
		I want to get to everything.
		We have so much of a show to do today.
		And I just cannot express enough how thankful we are to the hundreds of students that showed up last night.
		Absolutely packed out and such a dynamic audience.
		Great questions with Byron Donald's.
		A huge, can you click on the photo, please?
	A huge, huge event that was just like really great to just vibe with the students.
	This is at University of Florida, a place called Gainesville.
	We had Byron Donalds on stage and we just took questions for like two hours.
	That's it.
	Stop lecturing these kids.
	Stop barking at them.
	Stop treating them like they're dumb.
	Why don't you we listen to them?
	This is what Charlie did and did it.
	It was majestic.
	His capacity to actually lock in and listen and pray, frankly, with some of the students.
	We did prayer last night.
	One of the students came up to me and just wanted to pray over us and with us.
	It's just our great and distinct honor.
	And, you know, it's, I did a lot of FaceTimes with a lot of moms last night.
	I don't know how to explain that other than to just tell you about this.
	We have a lot of important news to get to today, but like there's a phenomenon now where kids are coming up to me with their phones and they're like, hey, I got my mom.
	I got my mom here on FaceTime.
	Can you talk to my mom or my dad?
	You know what?
	We got multi-generational appeal here.
	So we were happy to do it to all the moms last night who got a what's up from us.
	Byron Donalds was very, very strong.
	They're coming after Byron Donald's for some old clip about H1Bs.
	Byron Donald's like straight up is like net zero immigration, no H-1Bs, destroy that program.
	And we can do a lot of work on that on a state level.
	I'm more confident than ever in this man's ability to lead our great state of Florida.
	Ladies and gentlemen, the primary isn't until months from now.
	I think it's in August of next, August of 2026.
	So what's up?
	But now is the time.
	Now is the time to like get the energy moving.
	Expect more tours from us.
	I would love to see you out on the road.
	We're going to be going to Clemson next week, actually.
	And we're going to be doing a lot more on the road.
	We want to bring this show on the road.
	We have a lot of partners who we're working with and developing some exciting new projects to go on the road.
	I don't want to get ahead of myself here, but my dream project, I'll just straight up say it.
	My dream project is I want to go around and do a bunch of fireside chats with the VP.
	That's what I want.
	I was able to lock in and chill with JD Vance before his, I flew down with JD Vance to the old miss event and not a flex.
	It's not because I'm so powerful or important.
	I like asked to get an opportunity to just speak on behalf of affordability, homeownership crisis, young people.
	And that is where my heart is.
	And I can't wait to talk about Thomas Crooks.
	So let me just get this out of the way.
	It is an, I've said it for years on this program, and I say it to you.
	It is an immorality.
	It is indefensible for a generation to close the door on the next generation, to pull the ladder up.
	It is immoral.
	You are not a Christian country if you do that.
	You are not a moral or good people if you do that.
	I think that's been done, frankly.
	And it has happened right now.
	And I have all the available data to prove that.
	And I don't want to continue that trend.
	It's awful.
	The generations, America is a great country because generations give of themselves and sacrifice for those who come after them, for their children.
	And I do this show and we build all of this.
	All of this is just for my kids, all of it, so that my kids can have a functional country.
	Your kids, do you have grandkids?
	Do you have kids?
	Do you want kids?
	So that you can have a functional country to leave to them.
	And that can be our legacy is to reverse that trend of selfishness and bitterness and gimme, gimme, gimme, and taking and actually giving.
	And so the best way to do that is to sit with Gen Z, Gen Alpha, and the younger generations.
	I'm a millennial and to sit with these generations and to listen to their concerns and then to take those concerns into the halls of power.
	And so that's what we're doing.
	Obviously, the biggest concern, of course, is H-1B visas, mass deportations, foreigners taking our jobs, foreigners taking our homes, private equity buying our homes, the inability of our political leadership to do anything about it.
	It needs to be snapped in half and we need to return the American dream to young people.
	And that comes in the form of home ownership to start families, raise children, have that American dream.
	That's what makes our country different is we can actually do those things.
	You can just do things.
	So ladies and gentlemen, that expect us to be at a tour stop near you.
	We're putting this all together and we're excited about it.
	We're here to save the country for our children.
	That is the purpose of this show.
	Let's freaking get started.
	Speaking of you can just do things, here's Tucker Carlson's report from this morning.
	Now, I teased this out last night.
	And I want to be fair to the FBI, Alex, we have that FBI tweet out here.
	It's interesting.
	The FBI started a rapid response account just in order to respond to this.
	Yikes.
	So they must be very, very concerned about what Tucker Carlson has to say.
	And Tucker released this at 8 a.m., as promised last night.
	And it is an absolute and total, complete bombshell.
	It's bombshell for us because we've been covering this from the get and we have gone through excruciatingly every single detail that is available to us.
	So let me just give you a really quick build up to where we were in order for Tucker Carlson to do this report because what Tucker gets access to is all of Matthew Thomas Crooks' comments and some of the metadata from his Google Drive.
	So all of his comments on various social media platforms that really give you an insight into who Thomas Crooks was and something very dark that happened to him.
	And then what Tucker does is he sort of like fillets federal investigators, the FBI, for covering so much of this up because what the FBI is doing is now sitting on a mountain of data from other accounts that were encrypted or deleted, like Thomas Crooks' Snapchat, for instance, like there's nothing there, nothing available.
	There was a absolute wipe clean operation here that is extremely strange on a digital perspective and a physical perspective.
	Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
	Let's start from where we were before this report dropped to build up to Tucker's new revelations and allegations and questions.
	So, where we were up to this point.
	And do we have some of our documentary footage in there?
	Maybe you can just play that.
	Just do that as a play to slide.
	Where we were up to this point, and in some part, thanks to you, you, you, the chat.
	We love you.
	We thank you for giving us the power and the ability to do investigations like this one.
	Within a week of President Trump getting a bullet through his head and the death of Corey Comprontour and the shooting of other members of the MAGA movement, we were able to get on a rooftop in Butler and investigate ourselves.
	We brought our cameras to Butler and we saw something absolutely and totally chilling.
	We saw nothing.
	Do you understand?
	We were there within a week of this happening and we saw nothing.
	I stood, you could still see the blood splatter all over the rooftop of Thomas Crooks's brains.
	We went there, of course, with Navy SEALs and military veterans who've been on battlefields, Corey Mills and Eli Crane, two members of Congress.
	And we did a full-scale investigation.
	Everything was gone.
	Now, I know murder scenes.
	Why do I know them?
	Because I lived in Washington, D.C., the murder capital of America, at the height of the worst murder spree in D.C. history.
	And I literally witnessed murders.
	I heard them.
	They are on my ring camera on my block and I saw the police response to them.
	What police would do in these murders, which were just like gangbangers, right?
	Druggies, junkies, gangbangers shooting each other.
	What police would do is they would lock down the blocks for days sometimes.
	Days.
	This is for your average junkie, your average druggie.
	Like whatever.
	All human life is precious.
	That is something that's so important for Christians.
	We are all created in the image of God.
	I'm not saying that someone's life is worth more.
	What I am saying is from a law enforcement perspective, clearly the shooting of a president in the head merits an absolute and total lockdown of the would-be murder scene and murder scene of Corey Comprontour.
	Everything preserved, all available data, trapped, encased in glass.
	And when I went there a week, Donald Trump, a week after he got hit in the head with a bullet, nothing.
	The entire place had been scrubbed and scraped clean.
	That was so strange to witness.
	And we detailed in our documentary, which stands up and I'm so proud of, everything that was available at the time and showed the extreme peculiarities of what leads up to President Trump getting shot.
	And here's something that was bewildering to us and to the snipers that were there working with us because we went there with trained snipers is that the security protocol for this event was maliciously eroded to ensure that if something bad were to happen, that it did.
	And it could.
	We focused on the watchtower up here.
	You can see here a water tower that has Overwatch.
	Everybody knows this.
	It's been, it's been, this has been a principle of warfighting and of establishing dominance in a secured area, whether on a battlefield or in a security protocol, that you need a place to watch what is happening, to see all available threats.
	Not only was there nobody up on the water tower here in order to like what you could have easily seen Thomas Crook, you could have yeeted Thomas Crooks minutes before he even had eyesight of Donald Trump.
	Not only was nobody available, this is our drone footage, by the way.
	Not only was nobody up there, but there was no drone coverage at all.
	The Secret Service had no interest in watching the skies, in watching potential threats to Donald Trump.
	Thomas Crooks was lumbering into security forces that day.
	Thomas Crooks tried to enter the rally with a rangefinder.
	Thomas Crooks flew his own drone over the rally right as the anti-drone protocol system went down.
	Do you know this?
	That Thomas Crooks were doing his own drone reconnaissance to try and kill Donald Trump.
	And the way he was able to do it, not even the most incompetent of morons in the federal government know that you have to have anti-drone technology, right, when the president's about to speak or the assumed president.
	Remember, at this time, like at this time, like Donald Trump was still was doing great.
	I mean, it's not like Donald Trump was a laggard at all.
	People assumed that President Trump was going to win at this time.
	But nonetheless, he is the candidate for one of two major parties.
	And what they ended up doing was shutting the system off as Thomas Crooks flew his drone.
	Then Thomas Crooks, gangly, lumbering, goofball-y.
	ALS, can you find that funny photo of him just like wobbling around outside of the Trump rally?
	I mean, it's just a good example of Thomas Crooks.
	There's a famous photo of like somebody was just captured him.
	And he's just like, he's just like lunking around, slamming into security forces.
	So he got turned away for a rangefinder.
	He got into like an altercation with a local cop.
	He got put a mark on him by the police.
	They were trailing him and his strange black backpack.
	Then he climbs up on top of the radiator.
	We actually went and saw it.
	You could see his footprints.
	I looked at the man's footprints on the air conditioning unit.
	Thomas Crooks lumbers up onto the rooftop.
	There you go.
	Perfect.
	Thank you.
	Here he is.
	There's Thomas Crooks.
unidentified		There you go.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Like, really trying, like, Thomas Crust really trying to, like, really secretive there.
		Might as well be in a ghillie suit, like a real, real, a real proper trained to fly under the radar.
		This is, of course, Thomas Crooks getting turned away from security after they spotted him with a rangefinder, a drone, trying to get into the rally.
		He'd been marked by local law enforcement and still, and still, was able to climb up.
		Here's a photo of it right before.
		Was able to climb up onto the rooftop.
		And then, amazingly, when he was on the rooftop, there was a sniper position that would have easily been able to take out Thomas Crooks.
		Both those snipers got recalled.
		Why the hell did that happen?
		The official story is that they got locked out of the building.
		Well, who controlled the key cards to the building?
		How the hell did the local sniper team not have Overwatch?
		Even if they weren't up in the water tower, why didn't they have, why didn't they see Tom?
		They were sitting there right in a window.
		I know we have the footage buried somewhere.
		They were sitting there right in the Eli Crane footage.
		They were sitting there right in a window that they could have seen, they could have seen Thomas Crooks.
		They could have taken him out.
		You know, people were on the ground.
		People were on the ground looking up at Thomas Crooks filming him.
		Saying there's a sniper on the roof.
		That's how obvious this all was.
		This is what an obvious op it all was.
		So many concurrent miracles had to occur for Thomas Crooks to be able to get those shots off.
		A hundred miracles had to occur in sequence for Thomas Crooks to be able to actually fire his weapon and not get killed on his way or arrested, which is presumably what should have happened.
		This is such a damning video.
		This is the video of where the sniper's nest was on the rooftop that would have clearly shown.
		There it is, right there.
		There we go.
		This is the video where the local police had a sniper position that could have yeeted Thomas Crooks.
		Get me the video from the ground.
		I want the video from the ground.
		This is my Zapruder film, guys.
		I want the video from the ground from the people filming Thomas Crooks.
		You can see him, because I've been up on this roof.
		You can see him walking over this kind of, this, this hallway section here, this sort of middle div right before the roof line.
		That easement, you could see him like falling and like, and again, like he's not a particularly athletic person.
		It's kind of like lumbering through it.
		People were filming it from the ground.
		Do you have that climb when you have it?
		Throw it up.
		You could see it.
		Like right here, there was a sniper.
		This is the sniper position.
		Both these local cops would have been able to absolutely end Thomas Crooks.
		Plenty of time to eliminate the threat.
		Listen to this.
		Listen.
		Listen.
unidentified		Someone's on top of the roof.
unidentified		Look.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		This is Trump talking.
unidentified		Listen.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		They'll never show you this.
unidentified		Yeah, someone's on top of the roof.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Look.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		There he is right there.
unidentified		Right there.
		See him?
		He's laying down.
		See him?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		He's laying down What's happening Hundreds of people were there filming Thomas Crooks.
		Look at him.
		Look at that.
		Look at that right there.
		Look at him.
		Look at this.
		What I'm saying is that, like, what I'm saying is that unlike I hate to do this.
unidentified		I hate to do this because it's still so fresh, dude.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Unlike Charlie, where we actually, and there's so many questions about this.
		But we actually don't have any video of the shooter, like at all.
		We have shockingly and chillingly little footage of the shooter and their activities that day.
		And I pray that all of it comes out in trial and it is beyond a shadow of a doubt and it is demonstrable.
		I pray for that.
		But like, we don't have footage like this at all with President Trump.
		There's just, there's no question what happened when it comes to how Thomas Crooks got where he got.
		He was allowed to do this.
		I'll say it.
		Thomas Crooks was a runway was created by 100 concurrent miracles for Thomas Crooks to fall ass backwards onto that rooftop to get these shots off.
		And here he is, ladies and gentlemen.
		Look at the number of people.
		Look at the number of people.
		Dozens?
		Hundreds maybe?
		That just saw the shooter.
		That were filming the shooter.
		Look at this lady.
		This lady in the Harley Davidson shirt.
		Look at that.
		Look how obvious it is.
		There's another, there's other footage.
		Hey, LX.
		Thank you.
		Thank you.
		Man, dude, sometimes it's just the ALX AI, the Klein AI, Kleini.
unidentified		Kleini.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Look at this.
		This lady is filming from her Nokia flip phone, 1080p.
		This is like the most, this is not high quality, high deaf.
		She doesn't have a telephoto lens.
		This is amateur footage from someone with their, I don't know, old, old iPhone, no camera update.
		And you're, they're able to see Thomas Crooks.
		I'm sorry that I'm belaboring the point.
		I'm going to get to the Tucker stuff.
unidentified		I'm sorry.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I apologize.
		I just want to build up the case.
		And the case that Tucker presents is so critical.
		You have to understand what a catastrophic failure of security this all was.
		And when you learn what we just learned about Thomas Crooks in this Tucker documentary, you will, you will want to claw your eyes out.
		You'll be in red.
		Your blood will boil because you'll say, this was all an inside job.
		And that's just the only conclusion that there is left.
		There's no other conclusion left.
		I want to just bring up one final important thing.
		Just one final thing.
		That not only is this an unguarded rooftop, but it wasn't.
		Can you show the sniper footage one more time?
		Not only is this an unguarded rooftop, and thank you.
		That was also a great.
		This also totally worthwhile video.
		But like, can you show the sniper footage, the sniper nest?
		It was a guarded rooftop.
		And the people that were there guarded, the local snipers that were there guarding it had no communication with the Secret Service, had no comms on the ground, and had been locked out of their sniper nest.
		They'd been locked out.
		This is where they had a full sniper kit set up.
		In fact, this sniper took this photo of Thomas Crooks looking at his phone.
		And we've asked everyone we could possibly ask on planet earth, what was he doing?
		Who was he speaking with?
		What was Thomas Crooks doing in this moment?
		Who was giving him orders?
		Who was telling Thomas Crooks where all of the security vulnerabilities were that day?
		Who was designing Thomas Crooks's movements?
		Who was controlling him?
		Something happened that day where Thomas Crooks, in spite of himself being a lumbering dumbass, slamming into security, slamming into the Secret Service, making himself as obvious of a target as possible.
		Something happened that day where Thomas Crooks was able to penetrate and perfectly get to this location without being blown to smithereens by the snipers that protect President Trump or the local snipers and teams that were there to guard this rooftop.
		One final thing before we move on.
		If you will please go to the fence line, go to maybe some of the maybe that footage of me there from the fence line because I went there, right?
		Okay, so here, so here I am talking about the rooftop.
		And I want to show you guys something.
		Where I was, this is the fence line here.
		You'll notice the red barns, kind of, it's iconic because it's in all the, this is in all the footage, obviously, of this day.
		There was no security here.
		This fence line, and let's go ahead and show you where Trump was.
		Okay, so obviously you see, you recognize this, right?
		Everyone recognizes those two red barns.
		It's burned to the back of our brains.
		Look at that.
		Look at that.
		Look at this.
		That's how close you could get to Trump with no security.
		I know, I know.
		Stop screaming.
		But it still makes my blood boil.
		This is how close there was zero security screening up to this fence line.
		Let me prove it to you.
		Here is some of the footage from the people, and either the Fox footage or the amateur footage.
		Here's some of the footage of people there with their coolers and their lawn chairs.
		They're there to see Trump.
		And they just rolled in Yeti, full of Cooler's Light.
		Freaking, sounds like an awesome afternoon.
		And I don't blame them for it.
		It's a great afternoon.
		And they don't have to stand in any security line.
		They don't have to be touched by Secret Service.
		They can just park their car in the ditch and they could just roll up to that fence line with no security, with nobody checking what they were bringing.
		They could have been bringing IEDs.
		They could have been bringing a rocket-propelled grenade.
		They could have been bringing a sniper rifle.
	They could have been wheeling C4.
	They could have brought a bag of grenades.
	They could have brought deadly weapons that I'm sure I don't even know about that are available right now that are classified that are the most dangerous weapons on earth.
	They could have brought it right up to that fence.
jd vance ▲ ● ▼		Line.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Let's go ahead and right there.
		This is the perfect freeze frame right there.
		There's the famous American flag.
		There's President Trump.
		Obviously, President Trump is right under that American flag.
		Look at all the people standing along the fence line.
		None of them were vetted.
		None of those people were vetted.
		Not a single one of them touched a security perimeter or protocol.
		All of those people were sitting there with an eyeline of President Trump that day without any screening from the Secret Service.
		And you wonder, how did Thomas Crooks do it?
		Well, look, look, look.
		It could have been any of them.
		What if that day, any power on earth, any nation on earth, had decided to just put five well-trained snipers right along that fence line and create a killbox for Donald Trump that he definitely wouldn't have escaped?
		What if they were like true, true military-trained snipers?
		Look at that.
unidentified		Perfect.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		This is obscene.
		They had Trump in a killbox.
		That's why we named our documentary Killbox.
		Enough ranting.
		I'm just, I'm so angry about it.
		One final, very peculiar thing that we learned was that Thomas Crooks trained at a gun range that was a gun range that was regularly used by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.
		It's called the Clarion Sportsman Club.
		And this is a club that has Homeland Security Special Investigation units that train at it.
		And those were the units that were protecting Trump that day.
		Trump had his Secret Service underfunded and understaffed.
		And DHS was backfilling the agents that day.
		And they happen to come from the HSI Homeland Security team that also just so happens to train at the Clarion Sports Club at the exact same time that Thomas Crooks was learning how to shoot there.
		That's interesting.
unidentified		It's very strange.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		You can actually see Thomas Crooks on the same line as DHS.
		Would you look at that?
		Thomas Crooks on the phone.
		One of the most chilling photos I think ever taken from a sniper that was eventually locked out of his sniper position so Thomas Crooks could get to the killbox.
		Who was speaking to Thomas Crooks?
		We finally have some evidence of who Thomas Crooks was online.
		Tucker Carlson, ladies and gentlemen, in his bombshell report today, details and proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that he has Tucker, that he has the messages, the comments, the YouTube comments and user comments of Thomas Crooks.
		That Thomas Crooks had a extensive digital footprint.
		And that while he started off as a very dangerous and seemingly manic Trump supporter, he flipped on Trump in the year 2020 after COVID.
		Something terrible happened to Thomas Crooks.
		His brain broke.
		And then he began espousing violence against the right and the federal government.
		He did espouse violence against the left.
		He did make racist comments online.
		But something happened in the year 2020, a full four years before the shooting, where Thomas Crooks became a rabid, radical, and very violent leftist.
		Something extremely dark happened.
		Here we go.
		Tone switch.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		On various occasions, Crooks openly said things like, Mueller should be hanged along with the rest of the Democrats involved in that witch hunt.
		I always believed being patriotic was lining up a bunch of socialist Jews like the ones who booed Trump and blasting their useless brains out with an AR.
		And yet in early 2020, Crooks seemed to change radically.
		On January 23rd of that year, he referred to, quote, Trump's stupidity.
		He began to mock the concept of the deep state.
		He suggested it was a code word used by Trump supporters for quote, anyone who disagrees with the right wing.
		Suddenly, he sounded like an MSNBC commentator.
		In February of 2020, he called out Trump supporters as, quote, too brainwashed to realize how dumb you are.
		I mean, literally, you guys sound like a cult at times.
		That same day, he called Trump and his supporters, quote, racist.
		It was an amazing transformation.
		That April, during the peak phase of the coronavirus lockdowns, Crooks wrote, quote, it seems that you people don't understand that sometimes public safety comes before your personal rights.
		Are you not willing to quarantine one member of your family to save the rest?
		If so, you are not a patriot and you aren't protecting anything.
		Around this time, the new left-wing version of Thomas Crooks became very critical of conservative media.
		He said at one point, quote, going to a Chinese New Year's party in America isn't putting you at risk for coronavirus because, believe it or not, viruses don't spread through race, like Tucker Carlson probably told you.
		That May, as state officials across the country overhauled election systems to promote mail-in voting, Crooks attacked Republican concerns about voter fraud as, quote, ignorant.
		Four months later, in August 2020, his tone had shifted even further to the left.
		He said, quote, I believe the outcome will be irrelevant.
		In response to the same video, Thomas Crooks issued what sounds a lot like a digital manifesto, quote, In my opinion, the only way to fight the government is with terrorism-style attacks.
		Sneak a bomb into an essential building and set it off before anyone sees you, track down any important people or politicians, military leaders, et cetera, and try to assassinate them.
		Any sort of head-to-head fight is suicide, and even ambush or surprise attacks likely aren't going to end well.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		Thomas Crookes broke hard left during COVID.
		There are many people who had their brains broken by COVID.
		What Tucker Carlson's reporting here proves is that Thomas Crooks was a violent person who had very dark thoughts about attacking members of the government, whether they are members of Congress, the president, or federal law enforcement.
		That is the theme.
		Whether he was supporting Trump or whether he was turning on Trump, whether he was attacking Trump, and he eventually led to him trying to murder Trump, hitting President Trump in the head with a bullet.
		That is a consistent and present theme in just one of his social media accounts.
		Tucker uncovered over a dozen social media accounts.
		All of them have been scrubbed.
		But then there's something very concerning.
		They all go dark when a very mysterious account that seems to be of a foreign user tied to some very radical groups, very strange groups, violent groups, terrorist groups, contacts Crooks.
		What happens in these scenarios is there are forces in this world.
		I'm not going to suggest who was behind this.
		But when you see someone like Thomas Crooks online, you groom him.
		You see the rage and the anger inside of this young American.
		You see them outwardly projecting this, a call and a cry for help.
		And if you are a dark enough and sinister enough force, then you take them under your wing and you begin to manipulate them.
		You begin to control them.
		You can channel that rage and that anger into a real-world result.
		And that is what I believe Tucker is getting at here.
		And that is also what I believe the current FBI and the Biden FBI is covering up.
		Here we go.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		At that point, a new character emerged into the conversation, a user named Willie Tepez, who started pressuring Crooks to commit violence.
		For example, quote, if a gun and a badge is all that is needed, then authority obviously comes from the barrel of a gun.
		We have more guns than they do.
		There is no way we can avoid a war at this point, so you better just get used to the idea.
		We have nothing to lose and everything to win.
		And the alternative, a global police state, is unacceptable.
		Nothing in life is simple, but that is no argument against doing it.
		So who is this Willie Tepez?
		Unfortunately, we don't know.
		The FBI hasn't made any mention of him in public, although they certainly know he exists.
		Just days after the shooting, somebody screenshotted Tepis' YouTube account page, despite the fact he had very few followers.
		To the extent that he can be traced online now, you can find his username being used on a foreign Antifa website.
		Those sites link him to the Nordic resistance movement, which has been designated a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department.
		That's all we know.
		We do know, however, that Crooks' online footprint abruptly ends after his encounter with this mysterious figure, Willie Tepez.
		Regardless of whoever Willie Tepez is or was and what his motives may have been, who he may have been working for, there is no doubt that Crooks was ripe for recruitment by someone.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Tucker goes on to say that the behavior of the FBI after the murder of Corey Comperon Tour and the shooting of President Trump is strange in the extreme.
		That they scrubbed all available evidence, never allowed for an independent toxicology report, cremated the body instantly, power washed the roof.
		They accessed Thomas Crookes' phone.
		Almost immediately were able to get inside of it and were able to uncover a treasure trove of messages, documents, searches, and potential co-conspirators.
		All of this evidence is available at Quantico, including, hopefully, preserved biological evidence, spinal fluid, blood samples, brain tissue samples.
		All of these things you would assume would be preserved by the FBI.
		Have they been?
		Let's watch.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		The shooting, the FBI sent Crooks' phone to the Bureau's laboratory at Quantico, Virginia.
		Agents there were able to open it in less than 40 minutes using technology from an Israeli tech firm called Celebrate.
		According to the Post, FBI officials who served under President Joe Biden accessed Crooks' phone, computer, and his encrypted messaging apps in Belgium, New Zealand, and Germany.
		Yet none of the online activity the FBI has discovered was referred to in any way in the final congressional report that was released in December of 2024.
unidentified		By the way, why do we still know nothing about that guy in Buddha?
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		What's going on?
		That was a good question, a question that most people thought would be answered by the new administration.
		Within weeks of retaking office, Donald Trump told the New York Post Miranda Devine that he had, quote, ordered the Secret Service on Friday to provide him every bit of information about his two would-be assassins.
bret baier ▲ ● ▼		You've had two assassination attempts.
		One, obviously, where you got hit by that bullet in Butler.
		There's a lot of frustration that we still don't know about that shooter in Butler, and we don't know about his communications.
		We get stonewalled all the time asking questions about it.
		Is there frustration on your part?
		Will we get transparency?
		Will we know the bottom-line story?
		It's very interesting because we have great people.
unidentified		I think Pam is incredible.
bret baier ▲ ● ▼		I think Cash is incredible.
		And they're doing a great job.
		They're being recognized as doing a great job.
		You're the president.
unidentified		I know, no, I know, I know, I know.
unidentified		I'm relying on my people to tell me what it is.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		But his people insist there's nothing there, and they don't seem interested in finding out more.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		But there is something there.
		There has to be.
		Because even in this very short expose, it's about 30 minutes long.
		And the major new information brought to bear were some new videos of Thomas Crookes, pretty benign videos of Thomas Crooks, some videos of him dry firing his firearm and some just other weird stuff.
		But really, it's the YouTube comments, the comments of Thomas Crooks that paint the picture of a very radicalized and violent and dangerous young man who made constant and consistent threats against the federal government, sometimes in favor of Donald Trump, against Trump's enemies, but then shifting rapidly against President Trump and his supporters.
		And then the FBI lies.
		That's what's so remarkable about all of this and why Cash and Dan must act on revealing who Thomas Crooks truly was.
		Because the FBI went before Congress and the former assistant director of the FBI said that Thomas Matthew Crooks was a right-wing radical.
		Christopher Wray went before Congress and questioned whether Donald Trump was even shot at all.
		Maybe it might have been a piece of glass, says Christopher Wray.
		The FBI literally hosed down the building the day after the shooting.
		This is not normal for the FBI.
		The FBI doesn't do, like, doesn't do crime scene cleanup.
		What the hell is going on here?
		Why have we never seen any blood samples?
		Why have we never seen any tissue samples?
		Why have we never seen any toxicology reports?
		Why don't we know anything about Matthew Thomas Crooks, what drugs he was on, who was controlling him, what was inside of those devices?
		Who was he talking to before he shot Trump?
		How did he know every single security vulnerability on the building?
		So obtuse was his movements that day that hundreds of Trump supporters filmed him from their cell phones in their lawn chairs.
		And Tucker's saying, listen, this is clearly an inside job by the federal government.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		Here we go.
		The reality is that the FBI, as of today, is not only stonewalling, but is actively preventing an honest look at what happened in Butler.
		Within days of the shooting, FBI agents collected all the relevant surveillance footage.
		That includes footage from local businesses, the state police, and critically, the gun range where Thomas Crooks trained.
		Did he train alone?
		We don't know because to this day, the FBI refuses to release the footage.
		They confirmed it exists.
		They confirmed the existence of one gaming account, and then publicly said a few days later the account wasn't real.
		Was that incompetence or they lying?
		Within a day of the shooting, the social media companies that hosted Crooks' comments took his accounts offline.
		In some cases, the records of those comments in the internet archive were also erased.
		Did the FBI order that too?
		What we do know is that on the day of the attacks, Thomas Crooks got extremely lucky, miraculously lucky.
		After he arrived at the Butler County Fairgrounds on the morning of the shooting, Thomas Crooks conducted surveillance by flying his drone over the rally site.
		He flew that drone for 11 minutes.
		It just so happened the Secret Service's anti-drone system were down at exactly the same moment.
		What are the odds?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		That's something I can't square.
		You really want to know who's protected by our federal government?
		Who are the people that are really running things?
		You need to ask the question: who and what can't I criticize?
		In order to find that out, you need to go into the Wayback Archive.
		That's something that we use.
		It's very niche.
		It's boutique.
		That is something that we use all the time on this program.
		The reason why is that the internet is forever and there is an archive.
		There are multiple archive sites, but the Wayback Archive is a very popular site that logs all available user data.
		Like, let's say you delete a tweet.
		Well, you can still go find it if you have the right metadata.
		And it doesn't matter.
		The history, the internet is forever, right?
		According to the Wayback Archive, this is what we use right here.
		You can see it on your screen.
		It's available for everyone to use.
		It's just a way of holding people accountable.
		We use it all the time.
		Except for in this case, because we went and checked.
		Tucker's 100% correct.
		Someone has been manipulating the Wayback Archive.
		Someone ordered all of Thomas Crooks's available metadata, comments, and activity online wiped.
		Well, who's in charge of all of this?
		Well, it's a very shady group of NGOs and nonprofits, but of course, it all stems directly through USAID and federal funding.
		These are leverage points.
		Who has the power to erase the internet?
		And that's what happened here with Thomas Crooks.
		Why?
		Who ordered that?
		These are a series of questions that have to be answered.
		And for the good of the country, they must be answered now.
		For the life of me, I don't know why.
		The FBI, DOJ, would be sitting on all available evidence.
		Thomas Crooks is dead.
		There is no trial.
		He's not sitting there with the presumption of innocence, awaiting what a jury will find.
unidentified		He's dead.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		His body was rushed and cremated faster than a household goldfish that was found floating belly up in the tank.
		Apparently, Thomas Crooks' home where his therapist parents lived who didn't know about their son dry firing and ordering explosive materials, firearms, training at a gun range, making all these violent comments.
		They didn't see anything.
		They're both professional therapists.
		They knew nothing.
unidentified		That's weird to believe.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		He was getting explosives, explosive materials delivered to his home.
		That's what they found when they searched his room.
		His boxes of explosives.
		His parents didn't get concerned about that?
		His parents immediately hired a high-priced lawyer, like a very high-priced defense attorney.
		And then when his father was asked a question about it, his dad said, I need to go piss.
		This is all true.
		Everything I'm telling you.
		Thomas Crooks' house had no silverware in it.
		It was like a medical laboratory.
		It had been scrubbed clean.
		This is according to federal investigators.
		What's going on?
		What's happening here?
		Stop lying to us.
		And these are the final questions.
		We have the great Congressman Tim Burchett on deck, and he's the perfect booking to talk about all of this.
		But I want to like leave you with Tucker's rapid-fire questions that he has.
		And I'm like a huge credit to Tucker for actually going forward with this report and for showing us for the first time some new information on Thomas Crooks and who he was and how he must have been on a federal registry.
		He must have been based on all of his searches, his search history, his comment history, his violent history.
		Something dark happened here.
		And then him going silent for four years.
		Something very bad happened here.
		And it's being covered up.
		Here's Tucker's final series of questions on what occurred.
tucker carlson ▲ ● ▼		The leadership of the FBI and the DOJ had any desire whatsoever to prove to the public that there is in fact nothing there, they could do that.
		But first, they would have to answer these questions.
		Was Thomas Crooks known to federal law enforcement before the shooting?
		Was he known to local law enforcement before the shooting?
		And if not, why not?
		Who is Willie Tepis?
		And was he known to federal law enforcement?
		Is Willie Tepez linked to any violent organizations?
		Is he linked to any governments?
		And if so, then around the time of the shooting, did the FBI have assets inside those organizations?
		If Crooks wasn't known to anyone in authority before the shooting, how was he able to post hundreds of violent extremist comments under his real name between 2019 and 2020 without being detected by law enforcement or Intel agencies at a time we know they were monitoring social media.
		Were those comments, including specific assassination threats against specific public officials, ever reported to YouTube?
		Other users complained about them.
		Did YouTube know?
		Why is the FBI telling us that they'll release this information, quote, after the trial, when there is no trial?
		Why did an FBI agent from the Technical Hazards Response Unit hose down the crime scene the day after the attack?
		That seems very strange.
		What happened on the roof of the American Glass Research Building for the 10 seconds after Crooks' last shot until he was killed by the Secret Service?
		Does the FBI have surveillance footage of Thomas Crooks' shooting that day?
		Was the FBI present at the medical examiner's autopsy?
		Are there still blood samples?
		Can they be examined by outside authorities?
		When Congress demanded the autopsy, did the FBI restrict what the examiner could tell the Congress?
		When the FBI cleared the corner to release Crooks' body for cremation, did they keep tissue samples, brain tissue samples, spinal cord samples, or spinal fluid samples?
		Law enforcement sources told us that in a typical investigation in a crime of this nature, it would be normal to preserve all of that.
		Those samples.
		If the FBI didn't, why not?
		And who made that decision to destroy what could be critical evidence in an attempted murder case?
		FBI agents went to the same gun range that Thomas Crooks was using.
		Who are those agents and did any of them at any time have any contact with Thomas Crooks?
		Who did he train with exactly?
		And why can't we know?
		Was Thomas Crooks taking drugs that might have turned up on the toxicology report but that weren't listed somehow?
		On what date specifically did FBI agents stop investigating Thomas Crooks' online presence?
		Why did the former deputy director of the FBI, Paula Bate, suggest to Congress that Crooks was a right-winger when he clearly wasn't?
		Was the FBI aware of Crooks' public comments before the shooting, many of which are openly violent, that included specific assassination attempts involving public officials?
		Who was Thomas Crooks in communication with in the days before the attack?
		What does his burner phone show?
		And in fact, why did he have a burner phone and encrypted foreign email accounts?
		Who are the government officials trying to link Iran to the shooting?
		Why did the FBI suggest that he had no digital footprint in the first place when the FBI had a great deal of evidence, hundreds and hundreds of comments from his digital activity?
		And what's on the other dozen accounts that the FBI clearly had access to?
		How long had Thomas Crooks been planning to commit an assassination?
		If there's nothing there, if they tell you this is just a lone nut who gave no indication he might do this, then what is stopping the FBI from at least giving the facts to Congress?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Again, ladies and gentlemen, Tucker Carlson's full investigation is 30 minutes long.
		We've gone into our own version of explaining what we saw when we were in Butler and sort of tying in our investigations with Tucker's.
		And we have the exact same questions, ladies and gentlemen.
		It's been a wild morning.
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		A man who's always spitting, and I'm sure has plenty to say on all of this, the great Congressman Tim Burchett from Tennessee.
		Congressman, thank you for your patience this morning as we sort of worked through and digested all that Tucker Carlson laid out for us.
		It seems like the federal government is lying to those who have oversight as to who Thomas Crooks actually was, who was his potential handler, and what his motivations might be.
		The floor is yours.
		What's your takeaway here?
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Well, you had an inept person at the hell of that agency at the time under Biden.
		If I remember correctly, she came from some soft drink company, if I'm remembering correctly.
		I think I was quoted as saying that she was a DEI horror story.
		And a lot of people made fun of me when I said that, but that's that gummy turns out to be the truth.
		But here's what I think, real quick.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Emily Cheadle, right?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, Emily Cheadle.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		That's who her name was.
unidentified		That's right.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		You got a great memory.
		But I think that it happened and why it happened was pretty easy to figure out.
		The CIAs had a program in place that they said they didn't have.
		And then they were sued and came out and said, oh, in fact, we did have that program, but we no longer use it, which to me is bogus.
		But you didn't believe them before.
		Why the hell would I believe them now?
		And what that did was program people, brainwashed type thing.
		Yeah, you've seen the move.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Guys, producers, producers, grab Burchett.
		Tell him for some reason the audio is off.
		We got to get that.
		Sorry, he was cooking there.
		Stop it.
		I'm just going to wait.
		We're just going to be great Tim Burchett.
		Producers, grab him.
		Test that audio.
		Every single time that somebody is talking about something having to do with CIA or some type of sinister plot for the government, the entire feed goes down like that.
		So I don't know why we lost Tim Burchett's audio, but boys, get them locked in.
		And we'll jump right back into the what I believe was going to be an MKUltra conversation.
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		Okay, my producers are telling me that we need a second in order to get Burchett back up and running.
		It looks like his connection dropped again.
		This always happens.
		This always happens when we're doing shows like this.
		But they're working on the problem right now.
		Remarkable.
		Truly, utterly remarkable.
		What did we, what do we have in our show if we don't have consistency, authenticity, and never, ever, ever lying to you?
		We may not know all the answers.
		We don't know many answers at all, but we'll never lie to you and we will always be in search of the truth.
		In an interview with Christy Noam from a matter of months ago, I believe this was in February, we asked about Thomas Crookes.
		We didn't give up on this.
		Dog with bone.
		And we're just as concerned about it today.
		You deserve the answers.
		Given all the new information, let's go ahead and re-listen to Christy Noam's answer on Thomas Crooks as, again, we await Tim Burchett and our producers getting him set up.
		Let's go.
		Your service has bad advertisements, right?
		Like the assassination attempt in Butler.
unidentified		Yes.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		And many people, especially in our audience, are frustrated at the lack of understanding of what the motivation was, who was Matthew Thomas Crooks talking to on the phone, what was happening behind the scenes.
		Some investigators are out saying he might not have acted alone.
		Again, what people want, I think, is just information because it seems so strange.
		This guy almost started a civil war, changed the course of human history with eight shots on the president.
kristi noem ▲ ● ▼		But we need to know the truth.
		Americans deserve the truth.
		They really do.
		Yeah, and that is all information that the president will be fully briefed on and will know and that the American public will know.
		What I will say also is that what we have seen continuously and what I see as a fundamental flaw is a breakdown in communication.
		And it's part of my job at DHS is to help streamline that.
		If you look at that situation in Butler, the communication between Secret Service, the local law enforcement, the state law enforcement, all the agencies that were there, it was a breakdown in how they communicate and how they do it in a situation like that.
		But we see the same thing happening in a crisis that could be in response to a natural disaster.
		You know, how the federal responders communicate with the state responders, with the local emergency management operators.
		A lot of times when we see failures in FEMA or in failures in other departments and agencies, it's because they weren't communicating.
		And for me, my job, what I believe needs to happen so many times, is a pre-education and a structure for how we communicate and how we do things before they happen.
		Sean knows that part of that training that needs to happen is educating folks on how we're going to work with local law enforcement before that event ever comes and spending time to create those communication structures.
		Because if you go back through the investigations that the House and the Senate have done into Butler, a lot of it was they weren't talking to each other.
		They weren't cooperating together.
		Therefore, their assets weren't fully utilized.
		And how did that happen?
		How did eight shots get off?
		And is he acting alone?
		We still don't have the answers because we weren't talking to each other.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So you don't know if he was acting alone.
kristi noem ▲ ● ▼		Well, it's not my purview to say to you today what all of that, but I will say that it all is information that the American public will have at the appropriate time.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So there is an investigation going on.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Oh, and we'll learn a lot more.
kristi noem ▲ ● ▼		And members of Congress are still working on that as well, too.
kristi noem ▲ ● ▼		So it's not just an investigation, you know, with law enforcement entities in the country, but also Congress is still very much on top of it.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So he wasn't acting alone.
		I mean, I'm not going to apologize for just being bloody consistent on all of this because ever since this all happened, we have stood in awe of the hundreds, if not thousands, of aligned miracles that needed to happen for Thomas Crooks to be able to shoot President Trump in the head that day.
		Whether through malevolence or incompetence, and I'm leaning towards malevolence, the federal agencies that are given billions of dollars to protect the president decided to open up a lane and allow for Thomas Crooks to shoot Trump in the head.
		They allowed it.
		They let it happen.
		They invited it to happen by the design of the event, by the collapse of the security protocols, and more importantly, now that what we've learned, the total and complete ignoring of Thomas Crooks writing in his own name threats against President Trump.
		Ladies and gentlemen, we have been covering for a while.
		And my team is telling me that Tim Burchett believes is set now.
		Since we have, let's have those cops.
		Let's have those cops up and loaded, please.
		You have that?
		All right.
		We'll get this clip and we'll go right back to Burchett, okay?
		Here's, you know, we've just played Christy Noam saying we had a communications collapse.
		Did we have a communication collapse or did you have a sabotaged communication where the local police officers who are here on your screen received nothing from the Secret Service and the Secret Service didn't brief them on anything and the Secret Service skipped all their briefings.
unidentified		Here we go.
		We're supposed to get a face-to-face briefing with the Secret Service snipers whenever they arrived and that never happened.
		So I think that that was probably a pivotal point where I started thinking things were wrong because that never happened and we had no communication with the Secret Service.
		You had no communication with the Secret Service at all on that Saturday.
		Not until after the shooting.
		And by then, it was too late.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		How is this not the biggest story?
		I mean, this needs to be the biggest story on earth right now.
		And maybe we'll make it the biggest story on earth.
		With Tim Burchett back in the saddle.
		Let's rock and roll.
		Hey, Congressman, how are you?
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Good.
		I moved out of my lead line room.
		So maybe we're getting, maybe that was the problem.
		No, I don't know.
		It seems like every time you and I start talking about something hot, this one it happens with.
		I mean, you got their number.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Isn't that something?
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Yeah.
		Anyway, I don't believe in coincidence.
		MK Ultra.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Oh, I tossed to you.
		That's right.
		Yep.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		They got sued.
		They said it didn't exist.
		And then they got sued.
		And they said, oh, it exists, but we don't use it anymore.
		So I don't believe them as far as I can throw the dome off the dadgum capital, Benny.
		Look, this is what I saw during COVID.
		If I could just go back a little.
		I met with a constituent.
		They said, oh, you're going to cut my child's health care off.
		I said, what are you talking about?
		And they said, you're not going to allow them to get a sex change surgery.
		And I said, well, I don't want the taxpayers paying for it.
		I said, and you're probably wondering, where is this going?
		And I said, well, let me ask you, how was your child diagnosed as whatever it is, transgender?
		And they said, oh, they self-diagnosed.
		And I said, really?
		How'd they do that?
		They said, over the internet, they were contacted by a group.
		And I thought, oh, well, and that goes right back to what you were saying.
		You got a kid who's got access to guns or has some simple knowledge of a firearm.
		He was programmed.
		You're exactly right.
		They programmed this kid and Christy Noam and Cash and Bongino and the rest are reporting the facts as they know them.
		The facts have been buried or burned or whoever knew is either sitting on a beach somewhere and enjoying a fruity drink or they're dead.
		I would suggest they're probably dead.
		And this is what happens.
		You claim it doesn't.
		They label me and you conspiracy theorists, but this is exactly what we see happen.
		And it happens in Washington.
		It's happening now.
		It's too deep.
		And that's why I said, I wish they could go in and just fire everybody and then just start back.
		But you can't do that because of security.
		You're going to fire some good people that are clearly have their thumb in the dike on terrorists or what have you.
		And that's where we're at.
		That's why Kash Patel and Bongino are having such a hard time.
		I don't, Christy Noam, I don't, either way, I don't, I don't give a rip either way.
		But I think at their level, that's what's happened.
		And that's, that's, I don't care.
		You can call me a lunatic.
		But when the CIA says this thing, we don't have this thing.
		And then they're brought in, their asses are brought into court of law and they say, well, we have it, but we don't use it anymore.
		Apparently somebody's using it.
		They know to contact these people.
		If you look at the Muslim radicals and how they recruited them, you remember they had the American Taliban or whatever, that kid they caught, and nobody talks about that anymore.
		Nobody even remembers it.
		I think he was, his parents were Americans.
		They went to the Greek church or something.
		That kid was programmed.
		And, you know, and you're right.
		They watched the crime scene.
		I live in Knoxville, Tennessee, brother.
		If there's a murder out here, our sheriff's department's got that thing blocked off.
		They got a tarp over it and they've got it, you know, cleared.
		Nobody can get up on it.
		Nobody can contaminate the crime scene.
		This is Knox County Sheriff's Department in the city of Knoxville police.
		And I guarantee you, my Blunt County Sheriff's Department, Sheriff Barong, all those people always close off the crime scene.
		This is case book.
		And also one other thing.
		I sponsored some legislation deal with cremation.
		So I know a little bit about the, you know, when they bring a body in.
		There are probably laws in that state that they violated because they cremated that kid, I think, pretty quick, if I'm not correct.
		You might 11 days.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yes.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Okay.
		And if there was an investigation going on, there's probably something in the law that says you cannot dispose of the body.
		And I think you're right.
		I think all of it, it was washed.
		It was planned.
		And we just got lucky.
		Very close and related to a Marine sniper.
		And I called him after that.
		I said, what do you think?
		He said, Tim, I could have made that shot with iron sights without a scope with all that stuff.
		We just got damn lucky.
		God shined his favor upon us that day.
		I clearly, if you don't believe that, I mean, the Bible talks about God knows if a sparrow falls from the sky or how many hairs are on your head.
		That gum, I believe it.
		And we just, if Trump had not turned his head a quarter of an inch, it'd have been all over.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, what man intends for evil, God intends for good.
		And I believe that.
		And that's how we started the show, but it still doesn't really explain the activity of the federal government that day, which seems to correct what we shouldn't have to.
		Yeah, that's exactly.
		We shouldn't have to depend on the miracles of our Lord and Savior moving a bullet in time and space in or, you know, one centimeter more, and Trump's dead and he's dead on a live stream for the world to see in a message that I personally believe, Congressman, they wanted to send that message.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		That was the message.
		That was the message.
		And they were sending it clearly.
		And they always use a Patsy.
		And that's what they had in this kid.
		And he was, they knew he'd be shot apparently right.
		You know, I mean, of course he's going to be shot.
		And you're right.
		Bringing coolers in, what the hell?
		They could have had a, I mean, just a half-ass nail bomb.
		You know, the mob uses those.
		You know, you could have taken out 20 people right in that circumference.
		You could have been on the front row with a with a cooler or a satchel charger, walked in a suicide bomber with something, and they had a group of, look like a group of pygmies guarding the president.
		I mean, give me a freaking break.
		It was the perfect storm and they blew it.
		And then they almost blew it again, you know, on that golf course.
		It just doesn't make sense.
		You've got these people and they trigger them.
		It's just like when they run these campaigns with this dark money, they run 20 across the country for Congress and then they hit two or three good ones.
		And that's, and that's their Manchurian candidates.
		And they've got them.
		And that's what they're doing with these kids.
		They're programming them.
		Sure as the world.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Now, that's going to make a ton of news, Congressman.
		So let's dive in.
		So you are alleging that Thomas Crooks was groomed by some type of dark intel program, MK Ultra or otherwise, in order to commit on that day the act of an assassination.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I think so.
		I've said that all along.
		I've said that.
		And I'm glad somebody with Tucker's credibility, you know, his ability to, and it's my dog snores over there.
		Sorry for that.
		With his credibility has brought it out because I've, you know, I yell this stuff all the time and people just perch it.
		But look at the history.
		Look at where we're at in this country.
		Look at the deep state, the sewer as it is.
		And it's disgusting.
		And this is what happens, dude, when 12% of the population goes to the polls.
		They know we're so vulnerable and we have very, very few people in the lineup that could do the damage to them like Trump.
		Trump's right.
		They're not after him.
		They're after us.
		He's just standing in the way.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		So these are really powerful allegations from a member of Congress.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Clearly, there would have to be some major answers to this that are available.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		There never will be.
		There never will be.
		There never will be because the people in charge are great patriots, no question.
		I mean, I know Cash sort of, but Bongino, I consider a friend.
		But they, they, you can just see the frustration in their faces just because the lack, I feel like the lack of support they get because, you know, once they get there, I mean, the files have been destroyed.
		You'll never find this stuff out.
		It's like Kennedy.
		I mean, we're just now finding out stuff about Kennedy through the hearing.
		And guess what?
		Nobody gives a rip.
		Nobody gives a rip.
		That should have the hearing we had on Kennedy that Representative Luna helped orchestrate.
		You know, she does her dead gum research, man.
		And we asked, and I asked some tough questions.
		asked the physician and he said, yes, definitely two bullet, two, two different, two different entry wounds and exit wounds.
		Didn't even make the news.
		And this is what will happen with this.
		This is on the, this is already over.
		You will never get the answers.
		And again, 12% of the population, this country sits on our lazy asses and we're going to lose it.
		We are going to lose it.
		You know, Reagan talked about losing it in a generation.
		We could lose it in a few days.
		I remember my dad in a World War II Marine when the elections were going bad one night.
		He said, buddy, let me say the prayer.
		And I looked over at him.
		I said, wow, freaking United States Marine fought in the Pacific during the Second World War, the worst Pelelu, Okinawa, worst combat of anybody, saw horrible things.
		His heart was breaking.
		And he said this simple prayer.
		He said, Lord, please don't let us lose our country.
		Amen.
		And I thought, you know, I registered that in my brain.
		And it still brings tears to my eyes because that is where we're at, because this country is lazy.
		We're sitting on our asses and we're going to let them take our country.
		And I'm not talking about armed insurrection by a bunch of conservative folks that they always say.
		I'm talking about getting to the dadgum polls, getting to church, standing up for what's right in this dadgum country.
		Quit allowing these gutless preachers to quit preaching the gospel, hold them accountable, hold your friends accountable.
		When they run this country down and you're walking by, I don't have time to deal with that.
		Get time to deal with it.
		You know, that's why I go on CNN and the people don't like it in our party.
		I go on all these other stations that a lot of people won't do it.
		And I'll take the fight to them.
		Somebody screams at me on a street corner, dadgum, I'm getting in their face.
		We've got to take our country back, Benny.
		Sorry, I rant.
		Sorry, I get excited.
		You're the man.
		I like it.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I like your street videos.
		I love your street videos.
		I like the knocks on the guy's mom's basement, you know, and his hot pockets and his hot pockets and his.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		I made him a national figure and he hates.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Pizza rolls.
		Yeah.
		Okay.
		So, you know, people are going to say, Burchett, you're nuts.
		And how dare Benny, like, platform such a crazy person without understanding that the current HHS secretary believes that Sirhan Sirhan, who killed his father, was part of this program.
		He straight up says it.
		He believes that this was a massive conspiracy and that clearly this was somebody that was under mind control.
		RFK Jr. will just straight up tell you that.
		He's HHS secretary.
		They forget that what we've learned about the Gretchen Whitmer fednapping, where I believe it was something like eight out of 12 of the kidnappers were federal agents or informants that were there to psychologically operate on the four other doofuses who are there not realizing that all their little meetings were designed by the federal, by the federal government, to create, to like plant the seed for a violent kidnapping.
		This is what the FBI this is what the FBI was was actively doing, and that there is a A list as long as my arm, Congressman, of the FBI encouraging and or allowing political violence and instigating it in this country.
		And that just seems like the foremost evil.
		It seems like you clearly don't love your country if you're doing that.
		But more importantly, you're trying to manipulate the electorate in order to think that the governor of Michigan is going to be kidnapped, or that there's an insurrection on January 6th, or that here's a lone wolf that just decided to get angry at Donald Trump.
		Oh, and he's a right-winger and he just got a couple pot shots off.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Can I say one more thing?
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Can I say one more thing?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Of course.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		It's jogged a memory.
		I had breakfast with a, I'll just say a former leader of one of our alphabet agencies.
		This was years ago, I guess.
		And I remember him saying, look, and he was just talking about the Chinese.
		He said, look, they're at the PTA level.
		They're infiltrating elections or kids at the level of student government.
		They put so many out there that they have that, you know, one of them eventually hits.
		And that's the access.
		And the access is there because of the greed of congressmen not having the guts of China because they control the internet.
		They control a lot of this.
		I'm not saying they were part of this deal.
		I think it was deep within our own country.
		But I don't think we'll ever know.
		And for the record, I love Jesus.
		I love my family.
		And I'm not suicidal.
		And I don't, and I don't walk around cliffs and I don't stand near open cockpits of airplanes.
		So just for the record, I do ride the skateboard occasionally and I ride motorcycles, but I do that unannounced.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, well, that probably will just end up with a raspberry or scraped knee and not actually Tim Burchett getting suicided.
		So thank you for that disclaimer.
		And we'll make sure.
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Hey, Benny, I just want you to know how proud I am of you.
		Man, you've taken up the mantle hardcore.
		I've seen you in a lot of, God has put you in that place.
		I know you probably think it's because of your good looks and superior intellect, but there's, as I like to say, there's 300,000 people out in the second congressional district that could do this job, but just for some reason, God let me do it.
		And so you have an incredible gift, but you also have an incredible responsibility.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		I always appreciate these proud surrogate father talks from you, Congressman.
		It is actually the highlight of my day.
		Hopefully we can just book you every single Friday so I can get one because it always lifts my spirits.
		I also am well aware that I have the most punchable face on the internet and a room temperature IQ.
		But even I, functioning with those modest gifts given to me by our Lord and Savior, can understand that what's happening here in what happened here in Butler doesn't square.
		And I just have to ask, I mean, there's a your mentality is that we'll never see anything, but we got to see something.
		And our people are in charge.
		What the, you know, the FBI has his phone.
		The FBI has his phone.
		The FBI hasn't answered the question as to whether they have spinal fluid, brain tissue, blood samples.
		Your colleague, Clay Higgins, who's a very respected former law enforcement professional, he's said that he's been stonewalled and they lit the body on fire before he could ever get to it.
		You know, Congress could really make a scene here and could true, could ask and demand that all of this information be released.
		What do you think should happen next?
		Ladies and gentlemen, once again, once again, we have a frozen, we have a frozen Tim Burchett.
		I don't know why this is happening today.
		It always happens in these conversations.
		Isn't it remarkable?
		At some point, you know, it's like watching a man in a like, it's like watching a man in a fedora and a trench coat, you know, smoking a cigarette at the end of a dark alley.
		And you see that guy on your way out of work and you see him again at the end of your block when you come home.
		And then you see him again outside of your kids' daycare.
		And then you see him again outside of your favorite coffee shop.
		And you like, you start seeing the same pattern.
		You start seeing this.
		And you start getting like a little, you start getting a little like, your skin starts to crawl and you're like, who is this?
		What is this?
		Is somebody following me?
		Is something going on?
		I'm not saying they're trying to make me go insane.
		But every flipping time.
		Don't curse, Benny.
		Don't curse.
		Every flipping time that we start talking about MKUltra or a CIA program on this show, the stream, the guest crashes.
		Our stream doesn't crash.
		The guest crashes.
		Every time that we talk about China's involvement in these kind of like large-scale ops, guest crashes.
		We should make a super cut of these coincidences that happen when we start to talk about this stuff.
		Goodness.
		All right.
		I don't know, boys.
		I don't know.
		I don't know if we like, if we effort, if we effort Burchett, I mean, he's, he, you know, this is the second crash out, so it's not a, it's not the end of the world.
		I mean, I think we got, I wanted to get what he wants next, what he wants next to happen.
		I mean, I guess the, the, you know, final thing that I would want, I mean, the major thing that I would want answered is why was Trump put in a killbox that day?
		Because again, for Thomas Crooks to be able to even get those shots off, so many failures needed to happen all at once.
		And we're obsessed over this.
		I mean, I'll straight up tell you, I'm unhealthily obsessed over what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, and you should be too.
		Never has there been a more mask off, bald-faced shriek of evil.
		And they were sloppy about it.
		Here's just one very short clip from our documentary that really goes into detail about how much they wanted to kill Trump that day.
		You know, I'm telling you, your local bank, if you bank at a community bank, was more secure than President Trump's rally that day.
		My event last night, with just a couple hundred kids at the University of Florida, was more secure than Trump's rally that day.
		Was it not, Klein?
		We were like, we were inside of it, we were inside of an enclosed room.
		There was checkpoints everywhere.
		There were police officers, cops, private security.
		Everything was checked.
		Everything was vetted.
		Everything was thorough.
		We had a great time.
		We rocked.
unidentified		We rolled.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		We had a ball with the kids.
		But like, dude, my event last night, our humble little event at the University of Florida was far more secure than the president of the United States standing in an open field.
		I can prove it right here.
		A security dead zone is an area at an event where the general public can enter and exit without ever being screened by security.
		Did you know that there was a three-acre security dead zone 80 yards away from President Trump with clear line of sight to the stage that conveniently happened to be right in front of the AGR manufacturing building?
		The chaos that this security dead zone created allowed for Thomas Crooks to scope out the building with a rangefinder and eventually climb up to his sniper's nest and shoot President Trump.
		So anyone carrying any bag or anything could have walked right up to this fence line?
tim burchett ▲ ● ▼		Yeah, they were all.
unidentified		Yeah, they were all in.
unidentified		And if you look at where that orange flag is on the ground, I mean, that's essentially the stage area.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Any person, let's just assume that person is a paramilitary trained individual with terrorist connections who walked across our southern border.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Just for worst case scenario, any group or anyone could have walked right up to this fence line and been how far away from the president?
unidentified		Roughly from here.
		What do you got?
		One 100 yards?
		You've got a backpack with a concealed collapsible that you set down, unzip, and pull from here.
		You're 100 yards.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		And what's to stop 15 men from doing that?
		Nothing.
		At the same time.
unidentified		They could have parked on the side of the road, walked that back path by the water tower and come straight to this point and you're 100 yards without even have every touch of security element.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		There are plenty of people who are willing to die to take a shot at the president, no matter who the president is.
unidentified		That's right.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		President Trump's particularly high target, high value target.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		There's no doubt that there would be 15 men with terrorist associations in the country right now.
unidentified		Well, I think that if you look at the 400 plus who's crossed our open borders on the non-terrorist watch list, I think that it's very self-evident that we all know that they're here.
unidentified		It's just a matter of if and when.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		What are we even doing here, man?
		It makes me fear for Trump's life every single day, honestly.
		What they were able to pull off here, it makes me fear for his life every day.
		I don't know exactly who.
		You know, it would be Sean Curan.
		I hear that he's good.
		He's in charge of the Secret Service now.
		But man, like, just pray for President Trump.
		Pray for President Trump through all this.
		It has been, it has been just wild to watch.
		I just, I can't help myself.
		Just one.
		I can't help myself.
		Just one more.
		Ladies and gentlemen.
		It's just something that you, that, that is in, that is utterly inconceivable to me that we found when we were there in Butler.
unidentified		The Overwatch collapse here.
unidentified		It is, it is, it is despicable.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Having the high ground is the most important element of any fortress.
		It's why castles were built.
		It's why turrets were built.
		It's how Obi-Wan won against Anakin.
		Here we go.
		The assassin would have been easily identified and tracked with modern Overwatch capabilities.
		Yet drone technology was not used by the Secret Service and was turned down when locals offered.
		This is why Crooks was hard to follow on the ground and on the rooftop.
		But even without drones, the shooter could have easily been neutralized by correctly positioned sniper teams.
		The water tower in Butler is a point of great controversy, not because there was a shooter there, but because there wasn't.
		Why was there no sniper team positioned as Overwatch on the highest point in the entire county during the Trump rally?
unidentified		Anybody even get up in that water tower to check lines of sight angle?
		Again, look around you guys.
		It is the highest point on this entire observation point on this entire property.
		Did anybody even get up and do a sight survey on that water tower?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Our drone footage of the water tower shows what a perfect location this would be for Overwatch.
		This simple graphic shows how easy it would have been for a sniper positioned on the water tower to have tracked, engaged, and neutralized crooks before he ever got a shot off on President Trump.
		I don't have a security background.
		I've never been in the armed forces.
		I've never been in law enforcement.
		This is like the simplest three-year-old could understand this.
		They do, by the way.
		You ever watch kids play?
		They're constantly seeking out the high ground in order to attack their siblings.
		How stupid are we, man?
		So I don't know, man.
		it's looking to me like thomas crux was groomed i've asked It's not like I haven't asked.
		I've asked.
		I've got nothing.
		I've got nothing.
		I have been told that the FBI has a ton, an enormous amount of evidence that hasn't been released and that it's being held up for what exactly?
		Unlike in Charlie's situation, there is no trial.
		There is no one in handcuffs in a prison cell.
		There is no one in one of those like little jackets they put you in, like awaiting trial with lawyers arguing this and that.
		Nothing.
		This is what happened.
		It is on camera from 50 different angles.
		We do see the shooting from 50 different angles.
		You can see everything that's happening that day.
		And now they're either hiding or destroying evidence.
		And why would they do that if it was just a lone wolf douchebag?
		If it was just some douche, last thing I'll say on it, last thing I'll say on it.
		I know, I know, I know.
		We spent the whole show on this.
		I do obsess over this.
		If this was some loner douche, even if he had turned against Trump, right?
		He suddenly becomes anti-Trump.
		He was pro-Trump, then becomes anti-Trump.
		If this was some loner scumbag and he really did just luck out that day, why conceal all the evidence?
		Why destroy all the evidence?
		Just out with it.
		Oh, yeah, here he is talking in his stupid Discord.
		And here's his dumb jokes.
		And here's his comments.
		And here's everything.
		You know, and then, yeah, he, you know, it's a huge security failure.
		I'm going to resign.
		She's going to resign.
		That's too bad.
		We fall on our, you know, we fall on our swords.
		We get hoisted on our petards.
		You know, and it is a failure of all of us because this absolute douche nozzle was able to come through and get a couple shots off of the president.
		And we failed.
		Here's all the evidence.
		Here's who he was.
		Here's what's going on.
		Here's the Pox College report.
		You know, the only thing he did was hit a vape every once in a while.
		Why not do that?
		Why not do that?
		Why delete the Wayback Archives?
		Why go into the archives of the Wayback Machine and shut them all down?
		You know how powerful you have to be to be able to do that?
		Do you know how connected you have to be to be able to wipe someone from the internet?
		To not even have the Wayback.
		Like if I tweet something stupid, a photo of my foot or something, like my kids sometimes grab my phone, they put something up.
		You know, they pound the numbers and that go.
		That's all logged.
		Everything I ever put up is logged.
	Everything.
	Delete it.
	Doesn't matter.
	It's logged.
	Except for Thomas Crooks.
	He gets protected.
	And what are you doing?
	Who has the power to do that exactly?
	The final thing I'll say on this is then why?
	Why?
	What are you hiding?
	The dude got yeeted.
	He got his head blown off.
	And so what are you hiding exactly?
	That guy, his like, you know, school teacher, school counselor, parents, you know, lived in this like little home, you know, in Butler, Pennsylvania.
	Like, what exactly are you hiding here?
	What they're hiding, what's obvious, is they're hiding a network that groomed and or directed this activity from this broken young man.
	That's what's being hidden.
	And if I'm wrong, which I have been before, then prove it.
	Release everything.
	Show me that he just somehow radicalized himself and flipped on President Trump all by himself and bought a bunch of bombs all by himself and bought a bunch of rifles all by himself and trained with the FBI all by himself and trained with the Department of Homeland Security all by himself and came up with these ideas himself and that he just like straight up lucked out that day.
	Last thing I'll show you, and you should burn this into the back of your skull like I have, burn this in the back of your skull, the image of him on his phone.
	The image of Thomas Matthew Crooks in the minutes leading up to him killing Trump.
	I'm sorry, him killing Trump, him killing Corey Confrontor and nearly killing Trump, hitting Trump in the head with a bullet.
	In the minutes before that happened, a sniper who was then inexplicably locked out of his sniper nest so that he couldn't kill, so they couldn't neutralize Crooks.
	Crooks was on his phone with someone.
	What was he doing?
	Who is he on the phone with?
	Who is he talking with?
	Who is he getting orders from here?
	Who's he getting directions from?
	What the hell was going on on his phone in that second?
	We deserve to know.
	It is our right as Americans to know.
	This greasy scum changed the course of history.
	He nearly changed the course.
	No, he changed the course of history.
	Okay, he hit President Trump in the head with a bullet.
	That changed history.
	We deserve to know who was giving him orders that day.
	Who was allowing him to fly his drone?
	Who was telling him where the security weaknesses were?
	Who was telling him that the snipers would be locked out of their sniper nest?
	Or that there was no Overwatch?
	Or that he was free to fly the drone?
	Or that they'd take his tail off him?
	There's footage.
	I haven't seen it in a long time.
	And I'm not asking Alex to find it.
	This is a tough one.
	There's footage of a police officer who was set with the mission to actually take Crooks, who was a person of interest that day, obviously.
	He'd been flagged that day by the Secret Service.
	Don't let this guy in.
	He's behaving very strange.
	There's a police officer that was trailing him.
	And there's footage from the police car.
	There's a, from the police cruiser of Crooks, again, lumbering and lunking around with his black backpack.
	And he's skulking all around the AGR building.
	American Glass Research Building, where he fired the shots from.
	Why didn't that cop follow him?
	Why did that cop just let him go?
	Why didn't that cop do more things?
	Who called that cop off?
	Who told that cop to go away?
	Who canceled the investigation into the J6 pipe bomber?
	Same person, I'm sure.
	All right.
	Why do we go off on this kind of stuff?
	Go off on this kind of stuff because it's how we lose the country, dude.
	I'll just say it and I'll just roll it up like I'll roll it up like this.
	I'm no doomer.
	I like a white pill, you know.
	I don't like dooming on the audience, blackpilling the audience.
	I'm saying this kind of stuff because it actually is endemic to the collapse of a country.
	The ways a country collapses goes like this.
	The institutions built by good and decent and honorable men that are created in order for the public trust to do one thing, which is to serve the people of the nation.
	That's the sole and only purpose of your government.
	Those institutions slowly get eroded.
	People stop believing in them.
	Those institutions, which are properly formed, the architecture of which point up, obviously, in our country to a God and a higher power.
	The people who overtake those institutions start believing their God.
	They start acting like gods.
	They believe that they're in charge of truth, that they answer to no one.
	They don't answer to a higher power.
	They don't answer to us, the American people.
	They believe they can do whatever they want.
	John Kennedy, he becomes inconvenient, murder him.
	Trump, he's running.
	He's a threat to our power.
	Murder him.
	January 6th, stage a riot.
	Plant fake bombs.
	Lock everyone up.
	Deny the National Guard.
	We need a terrorist event.
	Well, the right's not violent, but we need a terrorist event.
	Okay, we'll make one up with Gretchen Whitmer.
	We'll create the conditions for terrorist events throughout the country for my entire life, which they've done, by the way.
	And they've never apologized for it.
	We'll lie to the American people about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
	And we'll constantly and further erode the faith of these institutions by raiding President Trump's house at Mar-a-Lago and allowing even after Thomas Crookes takes pashas at the president, another deranged lunatic that was clearly under the control of the CIA and foreign governments based on his neurotic obsession with Ukraine and his travel to Ukraine and his usage of Ukraine warfighting methods.
	We'll let this guy also try and kill Trump.
unidentified		We'll let it all happen.
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		Those kind of evil people that think like that, they take over the government institutions.
		Those institutions get corrupted so much that no one can believe anything that's coming out of them.
		And we lose all trust in our society.
		We lose trust in the things that bind us together.
		If we lose trust in our government, what else is left to bind us together?
		Well, a common heritage, a common religion.
		Well, we don't have that anymore in this country.
		They've whittled that down to nothing as well.
		This is the practice of atomization.
		Diversity is our strength.
		Bullshit.
		No, strength is our strength.
		Diversity is not your strength.
		Diversity is not your strength in your marriage.
		It's not your strength if you take an Uber somewhere and the guy doesn't speak English.
		It's not your strength with Mohammed.
		That's your DoorDash driver.
		No, it's not.
		They atomize everything.
		They're like grinding it all into the ground.
		And then you have nothing left in common with your fellow man in your country.
		You don't trust your government.
		You don't believe the elections are real.
		You don't believe any of the numbers are real.
		You don't believe any of the data is real.
		And you isolate and then you atomize.
		You can create the environment for a civil war, which is, of course, what they were trying to do by killing Trump.
		You create the environment for secretarian violence for full and complete and total state control.
		You come in and then you seize, you undergird all of those things.
		You create the circumstances for mass government, for mass totalitarian control.
		It's happened before in history.
		It's happening here right now.
		And of course, the final leg that they kick out is open immigration.
		Flood the country with third world masses that come in and change the culture forever, that no one trusts, that behave criminally, that agitate, and that then oppress eventually arise up and oppress the natives and heritage members of that nation who had gotten fat, happy, lazy, slovenly, and had lost all trust in the institutions anyway.
		That's how you topple a good and well-founded nation.
		It's happened in Rome.
		It's happened in Greece.
		It's happened in micro-nations all throughout and micro-empires all throughout human history.
		And it's happening here right now.
		And so I spend all day on this and obsess over this in Butler because it is a marquee moment for the federal government to say, you can trust us.
		We believe that you can handle it.
		You're big boys.
		Same thing with Epstein.
		Honestly, same thing with Epstein.
		It's the same thing.
		We believe that you can handle it.
		So we're going to give you all of the information.
		You may not like it.
		You may hurt your feelings.
		But yes, yes, Thomas Crooks was being groomed and mind-controlled by these dark and mysterious entities from either abroad or domestically.
		And yes, it was being funded by USAID the whole time or whatever.
		Yes, we did know Matthew Thomas Crookes ahead of time.
		We did nothing to stop it.
		The agents involved are now under federal investigation.
		This goes way deeper than you know.
		Here's all the available evidence.
		That's how you actually restore trust.
		You can't restore trust any other way.
		Absolute and total openness.
		That's how you restore trust in a relationship with your wife, your girlfriend.
		You have absolute and total candor.
		You don't lie to them.
		And most importantly, you don't continue lies, right?
		As you gain trust with people, you want to establish a perfect and clean slate where you're being totally forthright and they can trust you and you can trust them.
	That's what we're calling for here.
	And that's why we obsess over these kinds of stories, ladies and gentlemen.
	Anyway, let's change topics.
	I want to talk about Christmas.
	I do.
	I indeed want to talk about Christmas.
	Here are my Christmas ornaments.
	I have a box of them here.
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	They are the Benny Christmas Ornament Store.
	It has so many special things that can bless your Christmas tree this year.
	Know this, that these ornaments are made.
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	You can get all 12.
	You get two free if you do that.
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	How can you make an ornament here for five bucks, Penny?
	Well, you must have gone to filthy, dirty China in order to do that.
	Nope, we make them right here in America.
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	And we wish to bring you Yuletide cheer and greetings with our sweet Christmas ornaments.
	We will be heading to hopefully the White House to put some on the White House Christmas tree.
	And then we'll be going to Trump Tower in the coming week.
	And we'll be putting one on the Trump Tower tree.
	So we're excited about all of that.
	Ladies and gentlemen, excited for you.
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	Ladies and gentlemen, we have our polls for the day.
	We are entering into an election.
	It is now officially election season.
	So we head into our election season by doing our polymarket to the polls.
	Check the polls segment.
	Let's go.
	All right.
	Will President Trump and Putin meet next week?
	We'll see.
	What do the odds say here, Klein?
unidentified		Where will they meet?
benny johnson ▲ ● ▼		44% on another EU country.
		Ah, okay.
		Where will they meet?
		Sorry about that.
		Where will Trump and Putin meet?
		Okay.
		5%.
		I kind of want, like, I really kind of want this to happen.
		I'm kind of sick, frankly, of so much of our time and energy being spent on international issues.
		We have a lot of issues here at home.
		So let's go to the next one, honestly.
		I don't even like it.
		I don't like it, honestly.
		I don't really like it.
		Will there be nuclear detonations in 2025?
		Trump says he's going to start testing nuclear weapons again.
		That's down to a 3% chance.
		I think that's a good thing.
		I want more nuclear power, not more nuclear weapons.
		But nonetheless, I understand President Trump as a negotiating tactic, talking about nuclear.
		So I get it.
		But once again, I want our focus to be on the domestic issues of this nation and the critical problems they're in.
		And so, ladies and gentlemen, we get to our Ask Benny Anything question of the day from the brigade and from the chat.
		I love that.
		I love that.
		I love that sticker.
		All right, here we go.
		I have a question in regards to the turning point event at Clemson University.
		I live 30 minutes away and I really want to go.
		My question is, where do I buy a couple of tickets to show my support?
		The event link is in the description right there.
		You don't have to buy anything, Megan.
		And I look forward to meeting you.
		But the event link is in the description.
		And you can get to it at events at tpusa.com.
		Events at tupusa.com.
		From Just Griffin.
		Benny, what do you predict?
		The first thing is going wrong in New York will be.
		Well, it's already gone wrong, Just.
		What's gone wrong in New York is that the entire tax base is fleeing.
		And New York has lost trillions of dollars in their tax base.
		And they've lost hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people, residents.
		These are the high-income residents.
		And when you run out of those people to tax, well, what are you going to do?
		They've all fled.
		And it's going to accelerate, obviously.
		Photos of Mamdani meeting with Elizabeth Warren.
		You're going to have like an entire city run by Elizabeth Warren.
		Get ready.
		Anthony Romano says, I don't have a question.
		Indeed, I just need to tell you, thank you.
		Been subscribed to you on YouTube for a long time.
		Your impact in life has been a grace from God.
		Your verse of the day and your messaging, oath to the truth, respectfully, I love all that you do for us.
		Well, thank you, Anthony.
		We are humbled by God's grace.
		I love what the congressman said.
		I don't know why I get to be the congressman, but that's just what God's called me to do.
		I don't know why we're here.
		It's just like when you're a believer, I firmly and truthfully believe as a simple Christian in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
		When you are a believer, what you do is you just walk, walk, walk, walk.
		And God opens doors or closes them, sometimes gently, sometimes really harshly.
		And when things are opened unto you, God demands action.
	He demands that you continue to move in that direction.
	And that's what we've been doing.
	We don't know what happens next.
	We're excited for the future.
	There are a lot of really exciting things happening.
	I can't wait to share them all with you.
	But it's all because of you joining together in this chat, in this movement, and all of us fighting together to save the country for our kids.
	And that's what this is all about.
	The Trump assassination stories, the glorious election night evenings, and the battles that lay ahead.
	That's what this is all about.
	So now it's time to put the pedal to metal, hit the bricks, and go do the work.
	And we're going to be there for you.
	And we're going to fight with you, Anthony.
	It's our great honor to do so.
	Our verse of the day.
	Let's go.
	Speaking of, Anthony Romanos.
	Shout out to our verse of the day from Psalm 118.
	Oh, good Psalm.
	It is the day that the Lord has made.
	Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
	The old Bible school, Sunday school song.
	It is the day the Lord has made.
	Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
	Ladies and gentlemen, we are glad.
	We're trying our level-headed best to just practice gratitude and something that I think is probably the virtue in shortest supply in modern America.
	Where neuroticism and envy reigns supreme, we are trying our hardest and our level-headed best to simply practice gratitude.
	And so, let me say this: I rejoice.
	I rejoice in this day.
	I rejoice in what God is doing.
	I rejoice in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
	I rejoice in this audience.
	I rejoice in the team at this company that makes all of this possible.
	That, of course, puts the show together, redlining virtually every single morning to make sure that we can deliver for you.
	We are 100% independent.
	We have no corporate donors or hedge funds or people who own the company.
	We secretly own this company.
	No, it's us.
	You're looking at them.
	And behind me is a stacked group of incredible creators and artists and news junkies and autists who make this show happen every single day for you and makes the channels happen every single day for you.
	And is our, it is our, as God is my witness, it is our honor to serve you every day in this space.
	And so go forth and have a wonderful weekend.
	And this is the greatest country on earth.
	Still, certainly gifted by God.
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