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Producer Joe, how are you today?
Well, I'm doing well, young Daniel, yes.
Oh, man, do we got stuff to talk about, folks?
Hey, listen, you know, I told you.
I'm not in a predictions game, I'm not a Vegas bookie, I'm not trying to make you all money on bets about what's going to happen and when it's going to happen, okay?
I'm just telling you that I kind of told you that these guys were going to try to get out of the FBI to beat administrative requirements to testify, and what did we find out yesterday?
Boom.
Booyakasha that what happens, Andy McCabe, the number two, is now on terminal leave until he can get out.
Now, I'm going to explain to you why that matters in a moment.
And I'm also going to explain to you another angle to this that I think is getting lost in this entire story.
Because it's really important.
But I've got so much stuff to get through here.
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So jumping right in.
Here we go.
Folks on the McCabe thing.
I had said to you during a show this week, last week, forgive me, I can't even remember.
They're all blending in now.
Remember the show, Joe, about the difference between administrative testimony and legal testimony?
Yeah.
Let me just explain this as to why Andy McCabe, the deputy director of the FBI, being... There's two different stories around that.
He was asked to leave and the bottom line is they removed him.
What happened is Christopher Wray, the new FBI director, went up to the hill, Joe.
He went up to the hill this weekend, and he read the memo about the abuses of surveillance powers that happened under Donald Trump.
Now, folks, I am not in any way talking down to my audience.
I love you all to death.
I know many of you understand what's going on.
But I'm just, for some of you who are getting lost, because I'm getting a lot of emails, keep in mind, this entire case is about the Obama team spied on Trump, And they're trying to cover it up.
Don't ever forget that.
The memo that's about to be released documents, well, based on sources I have and I'm pretty confident about this, documents, Joe, how the Obama team spied on Trump.
Right.
Remember, it is not in any way at all in dispute that the Obama team spied on Trump.
It's only a question of how they did it, okay?
That's the only open question.
Not that they did it.
How they did it.
The memo from what I'm hearing is apparently very disturbing and describes the way they circumvented the law to get access to Trump team communications and emails and basically to spy on them.
Now, this matters because Andrew McCabe, the deputy director of the FBI, the number two, who, Joe, is leaving the FBI now as of yesterday.
Ray, the director, goes up to read the memo this weekend.
All of a sudden, Andy McCabe's out.
As Joe said to me before the show, there are no coincidences anymore in this case.
There aren't, and Joe's right.
There's a reason for that, folks.
Andy McCabe was involved in this entire fiasco, and not just the spying on Trump disaster here, but also the Hillary email scandal.
Now, it is not Irrelevant to the case here that Andy McCabe's wife, Jill, ran for state senate in the state of Virginia as a Democrat.
There's nothing wrong with her doing that, but she took a rather large amount of money from Terry McAuliffe, who is a known Clinton consigliere.
Now, The fact that Andy McCabe did not recuse himself from the Clinton email investigation while his wife was being supported financially in her campaign by rather large sums of money by Clinton folks, frankly, is a little bit disturbing, folks.
But here's the critical story about McCabe I want you to know about.
McCabe, according to multiple accounts, has been politicking and playing both sides for a long time.
Here's a pretty devastating story that Howie Kurtz, in his new book about the media, Howie Kurtz has a show, Media Buzz, on Fox.
He has a new book out.
Gayle Trotter, who Joe and I both know, she does the show a lot.
But in the book, he recounts a really troubling story.
And if this story is true, folks, it'll tell you everything you need to know about the number two of the FBI who was involved in two Two critical investigations.
Hillary's email investigation and the salacious Trump spying scandal.
The story breaks in the New York Times about Russian contacts between the Trump campaign, Trump team, and Russians show, right?
It's alleged that McCabe goes to the White House for a meeting.
After the meeting, he pulls aside then-Chief of Staff Reince Priebus.
So follow me here.
He says to Priebus, according to the account in this book, this is really disturbing, he says, you know, hey Reince, I just want you to know the New York Times story about the Trump team in communications with Russians, that this is BS, it's crap, this is a nonsense story.
Joe, here's where it gets interesting though.
It goes to show you how duplicitous, if this is true, these guys were.
Priebus then, according to all the accounts of this, that I believe by the way, Priebus says to McCabe, the number two at the FBI, you know, hey Andy, if this is the case, that this is a BS story, can someone come out publicly and just knock this down?
Well, you know, the next day what happens?
Well, was it CNN and the other outlets?
They reported White House trying to, you know, trying to pressure the FBI to knock down Russian contact story.
Folks, that's not what happened!
That's not what happened.
McCabe, according to these accounts, approaches Priebus first.
Now, if these accounts true, and McCabe's the leaker, then think about what's happening here.
He could have walked into Priebus, told Priebus' story, knowing Priebus was gonna say to him, hey, well, if it's not true and you're telling me it's not true, then what's the problem with coming out publicly and saying, hey, we're not investigating, this is not, this story's not in fact true.
The next day, what happens?
A story comes out.
White House trying to pressure McCabe to make story go away to the FBI.
Folks, this is what's been going on with this guy the whole time.
And Sarah Carter broke an incredible story last night too on this.
That if true, we're going to know two things.
That collusion did happen, but then I'm going to get to that in a second.
But the collusion was actually between the Democrats and the Russians, and we're going to know obstruction of justice did happen, but it happened at the upper level management of the FBI.
Now what happened, Joe?
Andrew McCabe, it's alleged, the FBI fills out a report called the 302 after an interview.
Now, we didn't have to do this in the Secret Service.
If you, if I interviewed you, Joe, for jaywalking, and I was a cop, and I want to put you in jail, I can interview you, and we would put notes on a memorandum of report, but there was no formal interview form.
You know, we just take notes on a piece of, you know, loose-leaf paper or whatever.
The FBI has a form for this called the 302.
Sarah Carter dropped the bombshell last night, That Andy McCabe may have asked FBI agents who were engaged in critical interviews in these cases to change 302s.
Yeah, that stinks, Joe.
If I interview you and you tell me, I did this, this, and this.
Interview's now over, Joe.
Yeah.
I go back with the 302 report saying, Joe Armacost said this, this, and this.
And, you know, someone tells me, no, no, you're going to write this, this, and that instead?
Folks, this is a really, really big deal.
From what I'm hearing, the information in the memo about McCabe and Rosenstein both is damning.
He's in a lot of trouble.
So now, getting back quickly to why this matters on the minute, I didn't lose where I was, I just wanted to set that up so you understand the complexities of the story.
I had explained to you a week ago, having been a federal agent, that there are, if you're a federal agent or a federal employee, and I think you were involved in a criminal matter joke, There are basically two ways to get you to talk.
Now keep in mind, you always have your constitutional right to plead the fifth.
Meaning, when I say plead the fifth, I got some emails, some people didn't know what that meant.
The Fifth Amendment prevents the government from coercing you into testifying against yourself.
You're protected against what they call self-incrimination.
So if I want to arrest Joe for jaywalking and I asked Joe in an interview, did you jaywalk?
And Joe says, Hey, go pound sand.
I'm not talking to you.
I cannot force Joe to talk.
Joe has a fifth amendment, right?
No matter what, to not speak anywhere in the constitution of the United States and anywhere in the world.
If interviewed by someone from the United States and the U S justice system, he is a U S citizen.
He is afforded those constitutional rights by this wonderful, amazing document that I love so much, right?
If you are an employee of the federal government, however, you still have that right.
But they're gonna fire your caboose in a heartbeat if you don't talk.
Okay.
You see where I'm going with this show?
This is important.
You understand this distinction, folks.
I described it the other day, and again, I'm not trying to repeat shows, but there's so much going on that if I don't backtrack a bit, none of this will make sense.
That Andy McCabe is getting out now is critical.
He's getting out now because he is not eligible, Joe, for his retirement and his pension for five more weeks.
Five more weeks from now.
Why does that five weeks matter?
Because if Andy McCabe was involved in what I just told you, people are alleging he was involved in the changing of 302s, the manipulation of an investigation to target Donald Trump to circumvent the Constitution.
If he was involved in this stuff, A lot of people strongly believe he was a central figure in.
Joe, there may be criminal liability here.
Now, keep in mind, in order for McCabe to get his pension and retirement, play the game with me folks, he has to make it five more weeks.
He's sprinting to the finish line.
Why, Joe?
Because when he retires in five weeks and he gets his pension and his benefits and all that stuff, The administrative procedures of the FBI largely, not totally, but largely don't apply anymore.
And what do I mean by that?
Again, here's the first track.
The first track to make Andy McCabe talk would be the criminal track.
Andy, we're going to bring you in for a criminal interview, which he's likely to say, if he's smart, folks, he's going to say, you see what I'm doing, Joe?
He's going to give them the double barreled middle finger and go talk to my lawyer.
While he's still an employee of the FBI, there's another track.
It's the administrative one.
They could say, hey Andy, you can have your lawyer present, but you're an employee of the FBI.
If you did something on FBI time and your role is the number two that was untoward or illegal, you're going to talk to us.
Or if you exercise your Fifth Amendment rights and say, I don't want to talk, we can say, all right, Andy, have a nice day, pal.
You're fired.
Now keep in mind, this is from what I know of them.
They're not, they're not poor.
They're upper middle class, probably a little bit wealthy, but this is not, you know, these people aren't on the Forbes 100 list.
His entire life for this pension, thinking he was going to get it.
Now, keep in mind, I'm not saying, I'm not, this guy's not a sympathetic figure.
Don't take my words the wrong way.
I'm just trying to explain to you the financial incentive.
Folks, this guy is racing to the exits.
So what does he do?
Brilliant.
This is a smart move.
I, again, I don't mean that qualitatively, like a good move, but it was a smart move.
He realizes yesterday he's in trouble because Ray, Christopher Ray, the director, read the memo.
Remember, Andy McCabe's the number two at the FBI.
He knows all of what happened here.
All of what I told you about in the spy.
He needs to retain his pension, but he can't quit.
If he quits, he forfeits it.
He's got five weeks to go.
But while he's here, Joe, I'm not losing you, right?
You're cool, man.
We're good?
During this five weeks, he is subjected to the FBI's administrative rules.
Hey, Andy, you're going to talk or we're going to fire you.
He can't lose his pension.
So what does he do?
He goes on terminal leave.
That's a real term, by the way.
That's not made up.
I said terminal leave and someone tweeted me like I was making a threat.
No, that's what it's called.
It's called terminal leave, folks.
What people do in federal agencies and sometimes in law enforcement agencies, local, state as well, is if you have accumulated sick leave, you know, Joe, whatever, you have a month of sick leave or something like that, say you're going to retire in a month, you say, well, I'll retire a month from now and I'm just going to stay on sick leave or annual leave until then.
It's not All that common.
Most people just cash it out at the end, but it does happen.
McCabe had enough accumulated time that he put himself on terminal leave.
Now...
Joe is shaking his head, but I know he's got a question.
I know most of you have a question, too.
What you're probably thinking is, okay, great, he's on terminal leave, but he's still subjected to administrative rules of the FBI.
He's still unemployed.
Yes.
That's what I was thinking, yeah.
As a yoga guy would say, yes!
Yes!
Do it!
Yes!
Right?
He is still subjected to, in other words, even though he's on leave, he can say, the FBI can say to him, Hey Andy, you are going to go up to Capitol Hill and your position is the FBI number two and you're damn well going to talk about what happened to you or you're going to be fired, okay?
But think about it, him being on leave, now he has no requirement to be available for work.
So all I'm telling you now is don't be surprised if Andy McCabe shows up on a vacation in like the Cayman Islands.
Oh, hey, I don't know, man.
I just can't get up there.
I don't know what happened, Joe.
I can't get up to the hill.
I'm in the Caymans and this puddle jumper plane just doesn't work.
I don't know how we're going to get in there.
But do you understand, Armacost, how The distinction between administrative procedures and criminal procedures matter here?
Absolutely, yeah.
And just to sum it up, not to keep repeating, but it's important you understand this.
This was a very smart move he did.
Because a lot of you have emailed me, why doesn't McCabe just resign if he's guilty and just plead the fifth and he's fine?
Well, he's not fine, but he doesn't have to testify against himself.
Because he can't!
He needs his pension.
He is not a multi-billionaire.
He needs his pension.
He shouldn't get it, but he needs it.
He has to ride out these five weeks.
Long story short, bullet point takeaway.
This five weeks is critical.
You have five weeks to get Andy McCabe to talk about his role in both the email scandal and the Trump spying scandal, Obamagate.
If you don't hit him in that five weeks, he may talk later on.
I mean, just because you have the right not to self-incriminate doesn't mean he's not going to.
People testify all the time to try to clear their own names.
I'm just telling you, once this five-week window is up, you are running on fumes.
Because McCabe, in my humble opinion, folks, is going to say, you know what?
Talk to my lawyer.
Not interested.
Thank you.
Have a nice day.
The countdown is on.
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Okay.
A couple more stories I wanted to get to.
I want to tie something in a bit because some people are getting a little lost and I've gotten a few emails from people like, listen, love it, I've been following this now for the last 10 days, but I think you need to go back a bit and explain a few things because I'm starting to get lost in all the details.
Remember what I told you.
All I am trying to explain to you is that the Obama team spied on Trump.
How they did it is the only subject of inquiry right now.
Everybody acknowledges they spied on Trump.
How they did it is what's controversial.
Because remember Joe, just to be clear on this, and I said this on Fox this morning, Spying on Americans through legal avenues is not illegal.
If I suspect Joe of a jaywalking conspiracy, and I get a Title III wiretap on Joe's phone to listen to him talk to his friends about this big jaywalking group they're gonna put together, it's perfectly legal to do that.
We have criminal investigations in the country.
We don't have general warrants.
You know what?
Let me explain that for a second.
This is my beef with this case.
One of the major beefs we had with the crown when we fought the revolution was the application of general warrants.
What were general warrants?
General warrants were basically like the king saying, let's investigate Joe.
For what?
I don't know.
Something.
Like a general warrant.
In the United States, when you swear to a search warrant, Joe, or when you swear to a Title III warrant, you have to be darn specific about what you're saying.
And you personally, Joe Armacost, Agent Joe Armacost, you have to raise your right hand in front of a judge and swear that what you're telling is the truth.
Or that the information you had was verified.
If it turns out later to be false, but you went through appropriate channels, you're fine.
You know, say you verified it through four or five different sources and later on it turns out they were all lying in a conspiracy to you, you're fine.
But basically, we don't do general warrants, we do specific warrants.
Well, you have to come up and you have to say, hey, this is, you know, this is where we're going with this, right?
This is where we're doing.
But keep in mind, this entire scandal is about Trump being spied on by information FBI agents swore to that was not in fact true.
Now, I want to go back and explain something a bit.
This is where we rewind the tape a bit to the beginning.
The first show we did on this, that's going crazy on our platform by the way, it's got mega downloads, where we explain the whole thing from an umbrella view, and I think it's show 628 if I remember correctly.
It's 628 show that's the one we'd spotlighted on SoundCloud go listen to that because it explains the genesis this whole thing and it ties in the bigger picture But one of the things I don't want you to forget is the start of this entire collusion narrative and Folks I'm so sorry, but I'm really this means a lot to me and I really don't want to do you this service by confusing any of you The collusion narrative was always fake.
You get that, right?
The collusion narrative was always a cover to distract people from what?
From what I told you in the beginning mattered.
Obama spied on Trump.
They need a story to cover for this, okay?
Just in case Trump wins so they can cover their tracks.
After Trump wins the election, Hillary's team, they understand that their emails were stolen.
They were not hacked, they were stolen.
Okay?
So I wrote this in an email, right?
Emails are taken, Hillary's emails, the DNC emails, and Potesta's emails.
They know they spied on Trump.
It's awfully convenient then to say what?
Well, who hacked, and I'm using air quotes here folks, who hacked our emails?
How did they?
The Russians did it!
And by the way, who was working with the Russians?
Donald Trump!
Folks, keep in mind, none of that is true.
Do you understand?
None of that was true.
The email system at the DNC, it is still in dispute that it was even hacked at all.
It may have, in fact, been an insider who stole the emails.
We know Podesta was the victim of a phishing scam.
The Democrats made up the hacking narrative the entire time.
The hacking narrative is not true.
They then go on to say, well, the Russians hacked the email now.
Remember, this is all designed to cover and get the collusion narrative going.
So what does it do, Joe?
Look!
Squirrel!
Collusion!
And it takes the eye off the story that is, as I've now said 10 times, Obama spied on Trump and they had to cover it.
So they start talking about collusion.
What comes first in the collusion?
This is important, folks.
Listen, do not forget what I'm about to tell you.
It'll make this entire thing make sense.
We got hacked.
This is what the Dems are telling their focus group.
We're going to tell everybody we got hacked.
Tell everyone the Russians did it.
And I've got an idea.
Since we spied on Trump during the campaign, let's start putting a narrative out there that Trump, quote, colluded with the Russians and it'll make it look like they did this to alter the election and screw over the election.
We didn't really lose to Trump.
I thought they think they thought this will be great.
The media will play along with us.
We'll have this guy impeached in no time.
Don't you worry about it.
Now, how did this start?
This is important.
There was a company that came in, Joe, to analyze the DNC computers.
The DNC computers to determine if, Joe, they were, air quotes here, hacked, right?
Who is that company?
You may say, company?
Wasn't it the FBI?
Surely, Joe, if the DNC computers were hacked in an effort to throw an election by the Russians, the FBI would get in.
No!
No, no, no, no, no, no.
In my best Gollum voice, you would be absolutely wrong.
Hold on, I'm gonna get a drink of water here.
You would be absolutely incorrect.
Who came in to analyze the DNC computers after they were air quotes hacked?
CrowdStrike!
Wow!
Isn't that interesting?
CrowdStrike.
Who's CrowdStrike, and who paid CrowdStrike?
Well, let me read you a line by an Andy McCarthy piece, which will be in the show notes at Bongino.com today.
I know I say it every day, but do not miss the show notes.
This is a must-read piece.
It's an older piece.
Again, I'll put some current news in there, as I always do, but this is an older piece.
But you can't understand the scandal if you don't understand what's in this piece.
This is the end of the Andy McCarthy piece about CrowdStrike.
But it certainly is interesting that we are once again in a case involving alleged Russian espionage, reviewing a situation in which the FBI relied on a contractor, i.e.
CrowdStrike, retained by the DNC's and the Clinton campaign's lawyers at Perkins Coie.
Now, if you listen to yesterday's show and you remember the names, you're like, wait, wait.
What are you saying, Dan?
CrowdStrike was a contractor paid to come in to look at the DNC Joe, air quotes, hack.
No one even knows that the DNC was in fact hacked.
But remember, they're telling you the Russians did it.
The FBI never analyzes these DNC computers, which in an incident like that, Joe, can we both agree, if the Russians hacked a major party in an American presidential election, a major party's web servers, that this would be an FBI investigation?
Yeah.
I'm telling you, and I'm looking you in the eyes right now, telling you the FBI never came in and did this.
They never analyze the computers.
Who comes in?
A private contractor paid by Perkins Coie.
Who was also paying Perkins Coie?
Thank you for everyone who corrected the pronunciation of that, by the way.
I really didn't care that much, but I appreciate it nonetheless.
Perkins Coie.
That's why I didn't look up how it's pronounced.
Perkins-Cooey are the ones that paid Fusion GPS to go gather the dossier on Donald Trump.
Well, who was paying Perkins-Cooey?
Oh, the Clinton campaign and the DNC.
And if you listen to yesterday's show, oh, by the way, who else was paying Perkins-Cooey?
$972,000 in April of 2016.
Oh, Obama for America?
in April of 2016.
Oh, Obama for America?
Obama's campaign arm?
What?
Damn right, Spidey.
Folks, please understand what's going on here.
Obama spied on Trump.
The Democrats know Obama spied on Trump.
They have to run interference and run a distraction and use their media buddies to run an alternate narrative to get Trump out of office quickly, hoping whoever's next, Mike Pence or someone, will move on and let this thing go.
And they invent a counter-narrative based entirely on a narrative created by a private contractor working for the DNC and Hillary who comes in to analyze the hack and says, conveniently, Joe, oh, the Russians did it.
Folks.
Joe, did you follow what I just said?
Yeah, I did.
I'm kind of like ready to puke.
You should be.
Obama spied on Trump.
He spied on Trump using the mechanisms in the FBI.
In the management of the FBI, not the rank-and-file guys.
I can't say that enough.
I love these men and women.
They do a great job.
And from what I'm hearing from the inside, a lot of them are pretty darn pissed off about what happened to their fine agency.
And they should be.
And I'm with you guys.
I want you to know that.
But we should all be angry at these managers.
What they did is they circumvented the probable cause requirements for spying on an American.
Folks, as I said yesterday, you can spy on an American legally one of two ways, okay?
You can put forth enough information to go in front of a judge and swear to him, sorry if I forgot this before, I apologize, I've got so much going on in my head right now.
You can swear to a criminal warrant that I have probable cause that Joe was jaywalking, Or you can swear to a FISA warrant that I have probable cause Joe is acting on behalf of a foreign agent in violation of U.S.
law.
FISA is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.
So that's an intelligence-based warrant.
The other one's a criminal warrant.
Either way, you need probable cause.
I said this on Fox this morning.
Don't forget this.
There was no probable cause.
None.
They were spying on them, basically, and this is why I brought up the General Warrant, using what was essentially, Joe, a General Warrant.
That's where I, sorry if I get it, because there's so much going on.
I'm like, I'm really trying to keep it all on track because I was so excited about doing today's show.
I was going to tape it last night.
I texted Joe.
We escaped the crown to get away from general warrants.
We do them specifically now.
We are investigating this crime about Joe Armacost who did this on this date.
Folks, do you understand none of this happened with Donald Trump?
They, in essence, circumvented the Constitution and issued a general warrant that said go get Donald Trump and his team.
They circumvented all of these circuit breakers.
The circuit breakers.
The FISA court's a circuit breaker.
You have to produce evidence.
They did, and how did they produce the evidence?
Not by doing their own investigation, by basically subcontracting out the FBI to contractors, to private contractors.
Here's what I mean, and this is how this is all going to tie in.
The FBI needs probable cause to swear to a warrant to spy on the Trump team.
They don't have probable cause, but they know the Clinton campaign can find some.
But they can't tell anybody they're working for the Clinton campaign.
So the Clinton campaign hires a law firm, where they can kind of launder the money through.
The law firm is Perkins Coie, who they pay for legal services.
Perkins Coie, remember now, this is a general warrant.
Go get Trump and go find information.
Perkins Coie hires Fusion GPS, who hires Christopher Steele.
They put together this dossier which is exclusively under the control of the Clintons.
The Clintons use the dossier and get it to the FBI.
At the same time, they are getting this information about Trump to the FBI on a basically go-get-Trump warrant.
Keep in mind, folks, these are not FBI agents.
These are private contractors basically hijacking the U.S.
government.
At the same time that channel's going on, Joseph, the Obama campaign arm, OFA, is paying the same law firm ginning up information for a go-get-Trump warrant.
They're paying them $972,000 for legal services.
At the very same time Obama and Hillary are emailing each other on Hillary's email account and at the same time in the same time period in question here that is the very same law firm is paying a company called CrowdStrike to go into the DNC's office, Joe, do a forensic analysis on the air quotes hack And what does CrowdStrike find out?
The Russians did it!
Keep in mind, nobody can verify this.
And even CrowdStrike has had to walk back the fact that the Russians, quote, did the hack.
Do you see what's going on here, folks?
This law firm, and read the McCarthy piece in my show, because he walks through in a little bit more detail the relationship between Perkins Coie.
And CrowdStrike, and I'll also put a Zero Hedge piece in there.
By the way, thanks to Good Catch by Donna, and to Judy.
I got a lot of great researchers out there working overtime on this thing.
I'm getting so much information, it's hard for me to... Really, I get about a thousand emails a day now.
Folks, They needed to find Trump.
They had a general go-get-Trump warrant, but they could not find anything legal.
So for them to swear to it, they had to go find someone to go get information on Trump.
You may say, well, why not just go get it yourselves?
Because, folks, you can't go get it yourselves.
Listen to what I'm telling you.
You're not allowed a general warrant in the United States.
You can't, just as a Secret Service agent, go in front of a judge and say, I need a warrant to go listen in on the phone calls of Joe Armacost.
Why?
Because I think he's doing something wrong.
It doesn't work that way.
But Christopher Steele, who was working for Fusion, who's a political operative now, And Perkins Cooey that's hiring them.
These people are not subjected to any of those rules, Joe.
They're not federal agents.
They can go out and say, I saw Donald Trump transform into a werewolf one night on a full moon.
They don't have to swear to that in court.
But the bureau can say, hey, we heard a guy say that they saw once Donald Trump transform into a werewolf.
Folks.
Big trouble going on here.
Does that make sense, Joe?
So just let me rewind the tape a little bit and just backtrack where we're going.
If you listen to 628, I lay out in a little more detail how the genesis of this The collusion narrative was only an effort to distract from Obama spying on Trump and the fact that, holy crap, we just lost the election.
Now they're gonna find out about this.
They needed a way to get this guy out of office.
A convenient narrative was, let's say the Russians hacked our emails at the DNC.
What's the problem, Joseph?
The Russians didn't hack the emails at the DNC.
So when the FBI says, hey, we'd like to get involved and look at those DNC servers in any normal investigation, Joe, they'd say, yeah, of course, come on in here.
That's not what the DNC said.
The DNC said.
No thanks.
They gave him the Italian, go beat it.
You know, Joe saw what I did.
No thanks, we're good.
We're gonna bring in our own guys.
Oh, who?
CrowdStrike.
Who's paid for by who?
Perkins Coie.
Who paid for what?
Oh, the dossier?
And we're also paid for by Obama for America?
Yeah, let's bring them in.
And what do they find?
Just like magic, they find, look, the Russians hacked it.
Oh my gosh, that's amazing.
What comes next?
Not only do the Russians hack our emails, but Trump colluded with them.
We got him.
The problem is none of it's true.
None of it's true.
The house of cards is coming down.
And folks, McCabe was the number two during all of this.
Now you wondering why McCabe wants to beat that?
He has five weeks, folks.
The countdown is on.
Get him up there right now before he goes to the Cayman Islands or Ibiza.
He'll be like that song, I took a pill in Ibiza.
He'll be gone and you will never see this guy again.
Get him up on the hill now.
Because he can still plead the fifth.
But you can fire his caboose.
He is not entitled to a pension if he abused our system of government, our constitutional republic, to spy on a free American citizen.
Just because Donald Trump was running for president does not mean he's not entitled to constitutional rights, folks.
That's the most beautiful part about this country, is the lowest criminal you can find, a serial killer child molester, even he or she still Has constitutional protections in this wonderful country, so does the most powerful man on earth.
He is an American citizen.
His Fourth Amendment rights against unlawful search and seizure, the stealing of his memos, his emails, his conversations, his team's emails.
Folks, what happened there was an international, intergalactic Disgrace of the highest order and was total BS.
McCabe should not be allowed to walk out the door without, at a minimum, administratively being forced to testify about what happened.
And I want to know, who told you the Russians hacked that email system?
CrowdStrike?
Did you realize CrowdStrike was being paid by Perkins Coie?
Did you realize Perkins Coie was also paying Christopher Steele for the dossier the Clintons controlled they fed to you to swear to in front of a FISA court?
Did you realize any of this?
You were FBI agents!
You were the number two!
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Gosh, there's going to be so much.
But this is important because I want to make sure I tie this all together for you.
So the first point I was trying to make, just to rewind the tape a little bit, Andy McCabe, we're on a five-week deadline.
There are two procedures right now.
Criminal, where he can plead the fifth, say, I'm not going to self-incriminate.
I'm not saying squat.
That's fine.
That's open to him at all times.
But while he's still an employee of the FBI, he can absolutely be compelled to testify to his role in this.
And if he doesn't, see you, buddy.
You're out.
Bottom line, we have five weeks.
Five weeks.
In five weeks, he is going to retire and we are finished.
We will not have that administrative hammer to get this guy with.
And if he had a role in this, we need to know about it.
I say that because Andy McCabe was the number two at the FBI while an abomination of justice happened through a law firm that was paid to invent a fake collusion narrative at the same time the law firm was paying Fusion GPS to generate fake Russian provided intelligence on Donald Trump.
Obama spied on Trump.
They need a counter-narrative.
The counter-narrative was always going to be the Russians hacked us and Donald Trump colluded.
The problem is none of it's true!
This law firm was basically a conduit between Obama for America, their campaign arm, the DNC, Hillary, and it's now clear as day that the FBI was using information from a company they paid to go and look at the DNC stuff.
Why?
Because the FBI never insisted on looking at the DNC servers, they just accepted the CrowdStrike finding that the Russians hacked it.
CrowdStrike was paid for by the same law firm, folks.
Now, why is all of this important?
Chuck Grassley has been all over this.
Chuck Grassley is a Republican senator who has been on this for a long time.
And a little while back, I did a show where I said, hey, one of the best moves anyone's done in this case, very strategically sound on the Republican side, Joe, was when Grassley made a criminal referral for Christopher Steele to the FBI.
Now, I said to you... Yes!
Yes!
Yes!
We love that guy.
He's our favorite.
I was talking about him this morning.
I was talking about my favorite movies.
Yeah, I love that guy.
Do it!
Yes!
Couples Retreat guy.
Graslie sends a criminal referral to the FBI for Christopher Steele for false statements.
Why does any of this matter?
Because, folks, now people are starting to get wind, now that the memo's coming out, If the FBI relied on the statements of Christopher Steele, this former MI6 agent, Joe.
If I'm confusing anyone, Joe, this is your job here, you have to stop me.
Christopher Steele, again, I'm not trying to repeat myself, I don't want to lose anyone.
Christopher Steele's the MI6 agent working for Fusion GPS.
Paid for by Perkins Coie, this law firm, that is being paid by Hillary Clinton.
Bottom line, Hillary, through multiple vehicles, is paying this guy Christopher Steele to go gin up bad information on Trump from fake Russian intelligence sources, right?
Steele is working with the FBI.
This is a setup on Donald Trump the whole time.
They're spying on Trump.
It's a sting operation on him the entire time.
All these people are approaching the Trump team.
Steele and Fusion GPS are somehow connected to these three players in this.
That we have and that we've covered in past shows.
People are approaching the Trump team.
It's not by accident.
They're trying to set them up.
They're constantly coming to Joe's house and saying, you want to rob a bank?
You want to rob a bank?
And are waiting for the Trump team to bite.
Steele is working with the FBI and Fusion GPS, who Steele's working for, has contacts with these people knocking on Joe's door all the time.
Just like these people who are approaching the Trump team.
Okay.
Tracking?
Yep.
For Steele to be working with the FBI and for an FBI agent, Joe, to raise his right hand in court and swear that this, and I said this on Fox this morning, I meant that using Steele as a source, there's nothing wrong with that.
FBI agents, Secret Service agents, DEA agents use sources all the time.
Sure.
But in order to use a source, folks, this is critical.
Don't miss this.
You have to either independently verify his information, Or you have to prove that he's been a reliable source in the past.
Now, why this is controversial, and why Graslie referred Steele to the FBI to investigate, basically said investigate this guy, which would be a genius move.
Is if you have a source on a criminal case at the federal level providing you information, you damn well better tell them if you're working for a political campaign and the media at the same time.
Because Joe, you think that may change a judge's opinion?
He's scratching his face there.
If I go to court, right Joe?
And I say, hey listen, I'm gonna testify against my neighbor Joe Armacost for jaywalking, right?
And I'm just the neighbor.
That information, if it's verified, is credible and an FBI agent can use it to prosecute Joe for jaywalking.
Yeah.
But if I walk into the FBI office and don't disclose to the FBI, that matter of fact, I have a major league lawsuit against Joe for whatever.
And not only that, we don't like each other.
And not only that, I'm running for office and Joe's going to oppose me in six months.
Do you think the judge may look at that information just a tad bit different?
I think that's a fair bet, wouldn't you say, Armacost?
Yeah!
Yeah, you'd be right.
Now, what's the Graslie referral have to do with?
Folks, when Steele was working with the FBI, someone at the FBI, when they were testifying to the Warren Show, some FBI agent or DOJ attorney in conjunction with them, or an FBI attorney, When they walked up in front of the FISA judge, had to swear on their honor, their job, their credibility, everything, that the information they were giving is true.
Do you think, Joe, this is a serious question, that the FBI agent told the FISA judge, oh, and by the way, the guy we got this information from is being paid by the Hillary campaign and the Obama campaign?
You think that happened?
Eh, probably not, Dan.
Yeah, you would be right, Joe.
Joe, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.
Joe's two for two today.
Um, I would say it definitely didn't happen.
So, where am I going with this?
This is what's starting to break now.
And I think there may be some of this in the FISA memo.
Graslie knows this.
So, Graslie is saying, okay, one of you is lying.
Because Steele was talking to the press and working for the Clintons.
In other words, Joe, The FBI either knew this and lied in front of the FISA judge, or Steele lied to the FBI and didn't tell them he was working for Hillary and working for the media.
You see, both of those stories can't be true.
Do you see what I'm talking about?
Because if Steele walked in and said, I'm working for Hillary and I'm talking to the media, which he was, Steele and, well, maybe not Steele personally, but well, yes, he was part of it.
They were briefing people in the media on political research data, okay?
If Steele said that to the FBI, the FBI should have immediately done what, Joe?
Pulled chocks, right?
Yeah.
That was a Secret Service term.
Pull the chocks, we gotta go.
The FBI should have said, hey, brother, we don't start criminal cases on general warrants based on political opposition researchers, which you are, walking into our office and dogging out other political candidates.
I'm sorry.
Oh, hell no!
Oh, hell no is right.
It's not going to happen.
You are never going to get a criminal case like that.
Now, Graslie's point, and this is what I think, because I'm giving you a lot of hypotheticals, here's what I think really happened and what I think Graslie knows.
Graslie knows that the FBI knew that.
And Graslie is putting the FBI now on the spot by saying, well, you went in front of a judge and you didn't say that Steele was talking to the media and was working for the Clinton thing, and you pretended the information was still legit.
So one of you is lying.
So listen, either you admit to lying or you prosecute Christopher Steele for lying to you and making false statements.
You see my point, Joe?
And folks, just so you know what I think really happened, they can't prosecute Steele for false statements.
Because he told them they were working for Hillary in the media and they still took his information Now you see now you see why the McCabe resignation yesterday folks is such a big deal I'm again.
I'm trying to tie all of this together McCabe's the number two at the Bureau.
He knows all this He knows about CrowdStrike.
He knows the FBI didn't see the DNC computers.
He knows CrowdStrike analyzed the DNC computers.
He knows CrowdStrike's paid by a law firm that's working with the Obama campaign arm in Hillary.
He knows that the FBI is going to accept CrowdStrike's opinion that the Russians hacked the DNC servers even though they didn't.
McCabe also knows that Steele is working for the same law firm that's paying CrowdStrike.
The same law firm working for Hillary and being paid by the Obama campaign arm.
He also knows that that same operative, Steele, working for the same people involved in the fake Russian hack narrative and the collusion narrative, he also knows this guy's talking to the media.
He knows this guy's being paid by Hillary, and they let the FBI swear to it anyway in court.
Folks, this thing is just beginning.
And as I said to you during yesterday's show... When I speculate, I want to tell you.
I'm speculating here, but I've been pointed in this direction by a previously reliable person who has very little vested interest in this, that those 30,000 Hillary emails aren't missing, and that may be the keys to the kingdom.
Because remember, if Obama's campaign arm is paying this law firm, Hillary's paying this law firm, The law firm also pays CrowdStrike to go create a fake Russian hacking narrative.
At the same time, they're trying to divert attention from the fact that they were spying on Trump.
We got a lot of problems.
Now let me add one more quick wrinkle to this.
You may say, okay, he was number two.
Who was number one?
Well, it was Jim Comey.
Comey has insisted, repeatedly, that he was not detailing... oh boy, let me just be fair on this.
He's been unclear, let's just say, about how Briefed in, I'm trying to be very delicate with my words, how briefed in Obama was on this.
In other words, trying to detach Obama from the Obamagate spying scandal.
But folks, there are supposedly texts out there, this is amazing, we'll see it, but there are supposedly texts out there about Comey updating Obama on a big investigation repeatedly.
So folks, if those texts are in fact what we think they are, you have a conspiracy of, again it's not a theory if it's actually happening, you have a conspiracy at the highest levels of the United States government to violate the constitutional rights of Donald J. Trump while he was running for president.
And a cover-up later on that is equally as devastating.
Because remember, these are two separate stories, Joe.
Obama spied on Trump.
The cover-up later was Russian collusion.
The genesis of Russian collusion was the crowd-strike narrative that the Russians hacked the DNC and we're going to blame Trump for it.
Don't forget that.
All right, a couple more things, folks.
Hey, some good news.
On the economic front, we had a quarter of—this is important, because the Democrats are jumping all over this.
They're saying now, oh, well, look, the third quarter wasn't 3%.
Remember, one of the statistics I think that is absolutely damning for the Obama administration and the economy and indicates the absolute failure of Obamanomics, Joe, is the fact that Obama is the first president in United States history to never reach annualized.
This is important, folks.
They get a lot of emails on this, not quarterly.
Annualized 3% growth.
In other words, Obama's the only president in U.S.
history to never reach one year of 3% annualized growth.
That's pretty devastating.
Matter of fact, when you measure real GDP growth on average, Obama's fourth from the bottom.
I think he beats out like Herbert Hoover and Andrew Johnson.
I forget the other one.
But Obama's had some really awful economic record.
But it's important because the Democrats are now trying to talk down the economy because what happened?
We had two quarters of three percent growth and as you know Joe and at least in a in a chronological year of course that's four quarters for you know three months each not a big deal so we had two in a row of three percent.
The Obama team is panicking because they knew if we get two more of 3% that what would have happened.
So Obama in eight years never hit annualized growth of 3% one time.
Trump's first year in office he averages 3%.
It would be so obvious that Obama's economy was garbage that it would be hard to run from.
So the Democrats are now celebrating the fact, Joe, that we had the third quarter of Trump's presidency was 2.6.
And of course because they want to talk down the economy.
See where I'm going with this?
Three, three.
If they had another three, they're going to get really nervous because one more, they're going to be like, oh my gosh, we never had 3% one time over a year.
Trump's first year in office, bam.
Don't sweat it.
Here's why I'm telling you not to sweat it.
Number one, that number is going to be revised.
It's going to be revised about four or five times.
And I'm leaning 80, 90% that number is going to be revised above three.
Just trust me on this one.
The data there is strong.
Secondly, One of the components of that number, we measure GDP by this formula, it's a G plus C plus I plus X minus M, government spending, consumption, investment, exports minus imports.
The formula is complex, but one of the components of that formula that is absolutely critical is the I, investment.
Why does investment matter?
Very simply, because if I want to produce more stuff, that's how we measure growth and productivity.
Producing stuff, right?
Medicine, cars, that's how we're economically wealthy.
We have a lot of stuff.
We have to produce stuff.
To produce stuff, we have to invest.
Investment in this quarter, the 2.6 quarter, Joe, was through the roof.
We lost a little bit on the imports versus exports, but investment, you following me?
The I component of GDP in this quarter was astronomically high.
I'm telling you that because even if this quarter is not 3%, if it's not, which I think it's going to be, if it's not revised up and stays at 2.6%, That investment show is going to kick in soon.
Sooner or later, there's going to be a whole lot more Pet Rocks being produced, computers, iPhones.
I'm looking around my office here.
Avion water.
I don't even drink Avion.
I'm in an office.
But do you understand what I'm saying?
That this is going to lead to, in my humble opinion, More explosive growth over the coming quarters.
So even if this isn't revised and we get a quarter of say 4% or 3.9, we can still get that year, that first year average of 3%, which is going to decimate the Obama team because they will have nowhere to run.
Eight years, he couldn't do one year of 3%.
Trump's first year in office, boom, done like that.
Does that make sense, Joe?
Oh yeah.
It's going to take a little while to realize the advantages of the investment.
Exactly.
As always, Joe does a good job in just saying it plainly.
Sometimes I get a little circuitous because I'm trying to explain to you the details, but that's obviously how averages work.
If you have four quarters and you have 1, 1, 2, and 22, it's going to average above 3.
Now Trump had 3, 3, 2.6, but that investment number is key because once that investment kicks in, And those factories start pumping out computers and pet rocks and, you know, medicine products.
Productivity is going to go through the roof.
So these Obama people talking down the economy, I'm just, this is my warning.
Be very careful, because you're about to have a... I mean, you want to talk about scrambled eggs on your face?
I would wait until these quarters before you open your traps again.
All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in.
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