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Okay, so the paperwork came out.
A lot of stuff to get to, but the paperwork came out from Mike Flynn yesterday, the sentencing paperwork, and there's a couple of really just disturbing things in there.
Now, the first about 10 to 15 pages of the sentencing paperwork contains some real explosive stuff.
Folks, now just for those of you missing the background on this, most of you know the general story, but remember Mike Flynn was the appointed National Security Advisor for President Donald Trump.
He had a conversation in January with the Russian ambassador.
That conversation was listened to by the Obama administration.
Mike Flynn's name was leaked to the Washington Post through a reporter, David Ignatius.
And one of the most disgusting episodes of spying on an American citizen we've ever seen in our lives, right?
So not only are the people who were spying on Mike Flynn not prosecuted, but they've decided it'd be a good idea to prosecute Mike Flynn himself.
So, yeah, the FBI, in an effort to trap Flynn in a perjury trap, sends agents over to the White House to interview Mike Flynn.
Now, what came out yesterday, and we kind of had an inkling of before, but it's now confirmed by the sentencing paperwork, is, according to Andy McCabe, who was the number two at the FBI, Joe, And this is according to Byron York at the Washington Examiner.
McKay, by his own account, urged Flynn to talk to agents alone, without a lawyer present.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is... Now, does this happen?
Yes.
Yeah, of course this happens.
I'm not going to lie to you and say, you know, every federal... I was a federal agent.
You know, I never urged my clients, not clients, the people I was investigating, like urged them, like pushed them to talk without a lawyer, but I would tell them that it is their option.
It is your option to talk with or without a lawyer.
You don't have to have a lawyer present.
A lot of people choose not to because they want to cooperate and get it out of the way.
But for a case of such profound significance, do you think it's a good idea for the FBI to, quote, urge him?
To talk alone without a lawyer present?
Hell no!
And you're darn right!
And McCabe, the number two, keep in mind, is no big fan of Mike Flynn because Flynn is involved in this case as a character witness against a woman who had made accusations against Andy McCabe of some type of discriminatory work environment accusation that's out there.
So Flynn and Andy McCabe are not friends.
So we tracking folks, McCabe's the number two at the FBI when this is going down.
McCabe's wife is a Democrat or was a Democrat candidate for office who had received money from Hillary Clinton Associated People, right?
McCabe does not like Flynn.
Flynn provided character witness, basically a character witness deposition or a statement on behalf of someone who was making a complaint against Andy McCabe.
So McCabe says, this is according to McCabe's account of this, that I explained that I thought the quickest way to get this done, the interview with Flynn by the way, was to have a conversation between Flynn and the agents only.
McCabe further wrote, I stated that if Lieutenant General Flynn wished to include anyone else in the meeting, like the White House counsel for instance, that I would need to involve the Department of Justice.
Flynn, this is why I know Flynn was not being dishonest, Flynn stated this would not be necessary and agreed to meet with the agents without any additional participants.
Folks, this was a setup from the start.
They walked in there with a transcript of the conversation Mike Flynn had, knowing from the moment they got in there that Flynn had no idea this was going to be some kind of criminal interview.
Now, I'm hearing from reliable people out there, and I'll leave it at that.
That Flynn never, ever, ever viewed the FBI as... How do we say this?
As being on the opposite side of where he was.
Flynn never viewed them, he viewed them as allies, Joe.
He didn't view them as confrontational or anything like that.
Flynn always viewed the FBI as allies.
So understand where Flynn is.
He's the incoming National Security Advisor.
He does this interview at the White House.
They say they want to talk about a conversation with the Russians, right?
Yeah.
Flynn is under the assumption as a National Security Advisor, this probably has to do with international geopolitics, right?
Yeah.
Why wouldn't he?
He's never had an issue with the FBI before.
They're all good guys, man.
They're all good guys, he thinks.
Right.
Well, who shows up?
Peter Stroke and another guy, I believe it was Bianca, who shows up for this interview.
They show up for the interview with Flynn.
All of a sudden, they tell him, you know, don't worry, you don't need a lawyer for this, no big deal.
Not only that, according to this new reporting, and I have this up in an article to show notes, please read it because it shows the disgrace what happened to Mike Flynn.
Joe, they failed to warn him about Title 18 USC 1001.
In other words, they failed to warn him that if he made statements that were contradictory to the information they have, that he could be charged with false statements.
Again, is it mandatory that they warn him?
No.
Do you think in a case of such a high profile nature, it's probably a good idea That you ask him to have a lawyer present or you at least suggest it or at a minimum you suggest to him that the conversation you're having can be used against him and they could prosecute him with false statements charges.
You think in a case like this that may be the ethical thing to do?
I don't know just throwing that out there.
It says Joe not only they fail to warn him but that they failed to warn him because they wanted him to be quote more relaxed.
And in the actual sentencing paperwork, this is devastating.
It says, Joe, that Flynn clearly saw the FBI agents as allies.
Do you believe this?
What happened to this guy?
More relaxed.
They wanted him more relaxed so that he would open up about this conversation he had with the Russians.
Flynn failed to recall specific details about the conversation.
There's nothing unusual about that, folks.
Nothing.
How about he pled guilty?
Yeah, they were threatening to bankrupt him.
They did bankrupt him, actually, and go after his family, too.
Don't tell me he pled guilty without understanding and putting that context.
You don't know what you're talking about.
Of course Flynn wasn't going to remember every single detail of the conversation.
Granted, I accept it.
They were important details.
But I've already explained to you repeatedly on the show why I think Flynn did not recall every single detail of that conversation.
Of course Peter Stroke and the other agent interviewing Flynn can recall every detail of it.
Why, Joe?
They had the transcript!
Sure!
Yeah, right in front of them!
They can just read it!
Why not just give him the transcript?
And let him look at it.
And review what he said.
Because they didn't want that.
They wanted to nail him on a false statement charge.
Folks, he was vacationing in the Dominican Republic.
When the call, Mike Flynn, when the call with the Russian ambassador came up.
What do people do on vacation?
They relax.
Maybe they have a few adult sodas or something.
Maybe they don't recall every single sentence that they uttered.
This guy got screwed.
McCabe set him up.
Oh, you don't need a lawyer here, no big deal.
Just a friendly conversation.
Quote, Mike Flynn clearly saw the FBI aiding his allies.
They didn't tell him about the false statements potential because they quote, wanted him relaxed.
Now, Another piece of information.
It's not new.
We've been on this for a while, but it was now that the sentencing paperwork is out.
Joe, this interview with Flynn happened in January of 2017.
All right.
Here's what's really, really kind of baking my bagels a little bit, folks.
The 302, in other words, the summary, that's an FBI numerical denomination for a summary report of the interview.
Remember that?
These are typically issued Stat, right away after the interview.
They put a 302, because when?
Because why?
Because your memory's best after the interview.
You're not going to write a report of an interview you did six months later.
Or are you?
Why is the FBI 302 in this case?
Why does it have a date of August 22nd, 2017?
Ah, come on!
Yeah, no, no, I'm not kidding.
Seven months later.
Yes, August 22nd.
What happened, folks?
I'll tell you what happened.
It's becoming clear as day what happened.
There was probably, likely, highly likely, an initial 302.
A summary of what Flynn said.
The summary of what Flynn said did not indicate deception.
How do we know that?
Because Jim Comey has already told people up on the Hill and others that the agents who interviewed Flynn did not detect deception.
This is a matter of public record.
You can look at it yourself.
Well, Joe, if you were intending on charging someone with false statements, do you think you want it on the record that you don't think he was being deceptive?
Of course not.
You look like a fool.
So now all of a sudden, mysteriously, we see a 302 with an August 22nd, 2017 date.
Were they revised?
Were they changed?
Was there an amendment?
What happened?
Was the story changed to make it appear that Mike Flynn was being dishonest when he wasn't?
We still haven't seen those 302s.
I have a question for you.
Yes.
With the 302s, if there was going to be a revision, is there a process for that?
Is there notations for that?
You know, to be candidly, good question.
In the Secret Service, we had memorandum reports, and there was a reporting, I think it was every three months, you had to update the case.
And even if there was nothing to report, you'd say, there's nothing to report.
Bingo.
I'm not exactly sure what the process with the FBI 302 here is.
But it's clear as day that this August 22nd, 2017, 302 must have had some information, Joe, that indicated that now they thought Flynn was being deceptive, despite the fact that they didn't think he was being deceptive before.
That's why this one is so critical.
But as for the clear reporting requirements, I'm not sure.
I know there's a paper trail, that I'm sure of.
That I've got from my friends, because I was not an FBI agent.
That's where I was going with that, yeah.
Yeah, but my friends, let's just say, have told me, no, there's clearly going to be a record, regardless of what the original and what either the amendment or the follow-up said on it.
But this August 22nd, 2017 thing, I want to see the originals.
Folks, this is incredible.
So let's just walk through this again before I move on.
The number two at the FBI, who already doesn't like Flynn because of Flynn's involvement in this other case against McCabe, right?
Sends two FBI agents to the White House to interview him about perfectly legal behavior.
Mike Flynn, the incoming National Security Advisor, talking to the Russians.
He recommends that they don't talk to a lawyer during this interview despite the grave importance of what Flynn's about to say.
Nobody tells Flynn this is a criminal investigation.
Matter of fact, they don't even warn him about false statements because they say, well, we wanted him more relaxed.
Even worse, they say Flynn clearly saw them as allies, meaning they were baiting him in a little bit of social engineering on their part to get him to talk, to be more quote relaxed.
Finally, we have a 3-0-2 with an 8-22-2017 date despite the fact that the interview happened in January.
What is that?
What's in that?
Now, one thing on this as well.
This is why I believe Mueller is a genuinely bad guy right now.
It was not the Department of Justice that sought prosecution against Mike Flynn.
None of this happened until Mueller jumped on the scene.
And my guess is they thought Flynn had some integral role in a Russian collusion scandal.
And when the collusion scandal fell apart, they had to get Flynn to shut up about what happened to him and all the footprints left behind.
The Sally Yates stuff.
So to get Flynn to shut up, what do you do?
You prosecute him on false statements and you bankrupt him.
To get him to shut his mouth.
They said, well, Flynn will talk later.
Ladies and gentlemen, Flynn was going to talk later anyway.
Yeah.
The point is the further, the longer you can delay this past elections and everything else to give some breathing room for Hillary Clinton and others, the better.
I think they were hoping the scandal would die down over time.
You got me?
Everybody's gonna talk anyway.
All you need to do is buy time.
It's like someone talking now about details about Watergate.
You'd be like, really?
Wow, that's a great story.
It'd probably be front page news for a day.
But no one would care anymore.
They need to buy time.
Mueller was clearly buying time by prosecuting Mike Flynn on a made-up, fabricated false statements charge.
Pled guilty.
Of course he did.
He was saving his family.
Guy was bankrupted by this.
Remember, Tom Fitton from Judicial Watch always says, he says it best.
I can't say this enough.
He says the process for the liberals, Joe, is punishment.
It is punishment.
They use the process to bankrupt you.
The government has endless legal resources, endless legal resources to prosecute you.
You do not.
You will eventually run out of money and you will be forced to plead guilty.
Folks, I know it.
I've seen it in the system I worked in.
Eventually, people stress out, they run out of patience, they run out of time, they run out of money, and people wind up pleading.
Now, I've never oversaw a case, obviously, where someone pled guilty to a crime they wouldn't commit.
That would not only be illegal for us to sign on to that, but unethical.
But I'm telling you, having seen it as a matter of fact, the process is punishment in and of itself.
The left knows that.
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Hey Joe, did you see yesterday, did you see Trump owning the libs in the Oval Office?
Did you catch this?
I'm so busy traveling.
Poor Joe, man.
Joe's feisty today.
He's back home in his domain.
Trump was in the Oval Office yesterday, folks.
I don't know if you caught this or not.
He's here with Chuck Schumer and he's here with Nancy Pelosi.
And he does this genius move where he brings the press in to negotiate with these two far-left radicals, Pelosi and Schumer.
And they're in the Oval Office and Nancy Pelosi starts, you can see her squirming because she's uncomfortable that the press is there.
Bottom line is, Trump winds up getting into an argument in front of the press with them, which is a beautiful thing, over a government shutdown and border security.
Here's the rub.
Trump wants $5 billion for border security to build the fence.
So track these numbers because this is going to be important when I get to how Trump totally owned the libs in this one.
Trump wants $5 billion to build the wall.
The Democrats only want to do $1.6 billion, which is not enough.
Trump wants $5, Democrats want $1.6.
So he gets into a debate in front of the press about this, about the logistics of it and getting it done, and Pelosi's like, well, you got the Republican votes, you should do it, and Trump brings up the very accurate point that, well, we don't have enough votes in the Senate to overcome you Democrats, so why would I get a bill passed in the, or try to get a bill passed in the House of Representatives with our Republican allies over there, Joe, if it's just gonna die in the Senate?
So Pelosi, of course, has no answer, and then he baits Chuck Schumer into an argument about a government shutdown over it, and he gets Schumer He baits them into an argument about border security and Trump says, I will secure the border, I will shut the government down if it means securing the border.
Folks.
The liberals, people like Chris Eliza and others who have been wrong on just about every- These are political prognosticators who have a 100% success record of failure.
They have failed on nearly every prediction.
We're all over Twitter.
Oh my gosh, Schumer got Trump to own the government shutdown.
They missed the whole thing.
He entirely owned them yesterday.
Getting Schumer on the record that they are not for border security, And that if the government shuts down, it's about border security, was a genius move by Trump.
So I've got a couple of points.
One, I want to show you that Saliza and these other, you know, guys who have been, again, these prognosticators, liberal prognosticators who are wrong on everything, showing you and demonstrating to you that they were wrong.
What happened immediately after Schumer and Pelosi left the Oval Office where they claimed victory?
We got Trump to admit he'll shut the government down over border security.
Well, what happened?
Pelosi and Schumer, Joe, could not run to the cameras quick enough.
You saw press conferences on the Oval Office South Grounds.
You saw another presser up on Capitol Hill.
Folks, they were in a panic to reframe this thing.
In a panic.
The Democrats, just to be clear, Trump said this.
He basically made the narrative that the media now has to report, yes, I will secure the border or we'll shut this thing down.
The Democrats think that's a win.
The Democrats in the media, I mean.
But the Democrats up on Capitol Hill know it's a big L!
L!
They lost!
They ran to the cameras!
They ran to the cameras!
This is the Trump shutdown!
We're for border security too!
We're for border security too!
Now they know this shutdown, if it happens, In the coming days.
If this government shutdown happens, over this funding, the Democrats know they are screwed and they are desperate to reframe this.
Now, so that's point number one.
There are multiple press conferences in a desperate effort to shut down the narrative Trump has now put out there in the media.
Because the media can't ignore Trump.
He's the president, right?
The government will be shut down because we can't secure the border.
Trump wants that!
He totally owned them.
Second, I actually have a I actually have three points about this.
Secondly, Pelosi halfway through starts saying, hey, can we get the press out of here?
Can we get the press?
Can we get the press?
She was freaking out.
Now, folks.
Joe, how many politicians over the years at WCBM have you guys interviewed?
Maybe a couple thousand?
Yeah, probably in the thousands, right?
Yeah, man.
Joe, have you ever known a politician who did not like free press coverage?
No, no, I'm not making up.
Have you ever met one?
No, of course he hasn't.
That's why he's laughing, because it's such a stupid question.
Joe at WCBM in Baltimore, if you call any politician, go, can you come on this morning?
Unless they are dying or in a hospital, they'll be like, you're damn right I can.
Why would Pelosi want the cameras out of the Oval?
Because unlike Chris, who is a failed political prognosticator, Pelosi realized right away that an argument over shutting down the government to secure our border is a big loser for her.
We need to get the press out of here.
She was freaking out.
We need to do this in private.
"Nah, that's okay, Nance, we're good."
And then Trump comes right back and goes, "Nah, it's all about transparency."
(laughing)
What a- I mean, this was like hashtag epic ownership of the Lib right there.
Ownership of the Lib, chapter one.
Get them on camera admitting they don't want to secure the border and are willing to shut the government over- shut the government down over it.
This is how you own the Libs!
So what- number one, they ran in front of the press to reframe it because they lost.
Secondly, She wanted the press out of there stat because she realized this was going badly.
Third, Joe, what happened?
The minute they walked out of there with the Republicans in Congress, the Republicans in Congress who were getting wobbly, don't get wobbly.
That's your, right?
They were getting wobbly.
The Republicans were not fighting for the 5 billion for the wall.
That's why I said this number was going to come up again.
The Republicans were sticking to the 1.6 because a lot of them are wobbly and they're fake Republicans, right?
Well, what happened?
The minute Pelosi left, the Republicans came out and said, yeah, we're going to go for that $5 billion out of the wall right now.
Boom!
Yeah, baby.
Oh yeah, that was nice.
The Republicans up on the hill, some good ones, but most of them don't have any spines, saw Trump completely decimate these two, because he's a great negotiator, in front of the cameras in the Oval, and instead of the 1.6 billion dollars that they were fighting for, they said, you know what, now let's go for that 5, because now we've got him in a corner.
And yet you'll see the Salizas and others of the world insisting somehow Schumer and Pelosi came out of that fully intact and had won that interaction.
Folks, they dropped a huge L on that one.
They lost big.
Now, I want to bring up one final point on this.
Trump is entirely strategically unpredictable.
He is, folks.
Again, I don't want to golden calf anyone.
That's not my intention.
Or genuflect in front of any politician.
But I've noticed this about Trump.
That politicians have become used to the standard boxing rules over the years.
Three minute rounds.
A minute rest.
No rocks inside your gloves, whatever they box with 12-ounce gloves now.
No kidney punches, no punches below the belt.
Certainly no takedowns or grappling when the referee breaks you.
When you're clinching, you break, right?
Follow me, because this is important.
This shows you how Trump so easily manipulated two senior-level politicians who have been at this their entire lives and just broke them in front of the cameras yesterday.
Trump does not follow the rules.
He just doesn't.
You may not like it.
You may think it's chaotic.
How you describe it is up to you.
I call it strategically unpredictable.
He doesn't follow the rules.
The referee comes in, like the media yesterday at the Oval Office, and says, OK, break.
And in the standard rules, the Republican would break, and the Democrat would break.
And they would say, OK, media, can you leave?
We'll do this behind closed doors.
The referee, in this case, tells Trump to break.
Trump backs away for a second, and then goes in and bites everybody.
Mike Tyson style.
And then he takes, and he does, he shoots for a double leg on Chuck Schumer, like, this is boxing!
This isn't MMA!
They don't know what to do.
They're in a panic.
They're calling out to the ref in the media.
Save us!
Save us!
Get out of here!
No transparency!
And nobody's responding.
The ref is leaving them alone.
He is entirely strategically unpredictable.
And it doesn't allow them time to formulate out a plan to anticipate his next response because they don't know what his next response is ever going to be.
They don't get it.
I used this analogy on Hannity last night.
I think it was Hannity last night.
Yeah.
I said it.
It reminds me a bit of the first UFC.
For those of you who missed the first UFC, the ultimate fighting championship, the first one, right?
It was the best thing ever.
Because the first UFC, nobody knew, everybody thought karate worked.
I mean, worked like in the movies.
You know, Machida actually showed some forms of karate can work in UFC.
But, ironically, everybody thought like, oh man, I saw those Chuck Norris movies, you wear a black belt in karate, you know, only a ninja can kill a ninja.
Remember those ninja movies?
No, I assure you that's not true.
We don't want to kill ninjas, but only a ninja can kill a ninja is not true.
Now, I'm sure there are some liberals who probably believe that because they have a problem with facts, but that's the thing.
With the first UFC, nobody knew what to expect from the other guy.
And Hoyce Gracie came in with this almost mystical form of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, mystical because nobody understood it.
He beat guys twice his size like that, lickety split.
They were panicked in the ring because they didn't know what to expect.
The problem, Joe, by UFC 3 and 4, people understood what grappling was about and kind of had an idea.
I love Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and it works, but they had an idea at a minimum how to counteract it a bit.
Grab, clinch, hold on the ground, pull guard, whatever.
The Democrats, my point is, they're not at the UFC 3 stage yet.
They're still at UFC 1, where they have not figured out, going into the ring, how Trump is ever going to respond.
He is entirely strategically unpredictable, and what it does is it forces them into these errors in front of everyone.
As I've said repeatedly, it forces them to show their butts.
And they overreact to Trump.
Instead of yesterday just playing it cool in the Oval Office show, right?
Instead of playing it cool, they hate this guy so much.
And he's so strategically unpredictable that instead of just allowing him to dance around a ring a little bit and playing it safe, they go in for the attack and they get armbarred!
Every.
Single.
Time.
They're so angry, instead of just shutting up, letting the press leave and digest it, they have to- Joe, do you understand they have to respond?
They hate this guy so much and they know their donors do too.
So what does he do?
He just turns around and owns him.
Triangle, Kimura, Double leg, single, it's every time.
Scarf holds if you want to get fancy.
Catch wrestling.
The guy will do anything.
He's a guerrilla negotiator.
He is!
A hundred percent!
He is!
He like, he is not into like, let's line up, load your muskets.
He pops out of the jungle like, ahh!
Gatling gun!
Like, who was it?
Remember in Predator, was it Bill Duke picks up Jesse Ventura's gatling gun, he's like, and he starts mowing the whole forest down.
That's Trump!
He just burns the whole forest down, and the Democrats, instead of just sitting there, they just have to respond, and they get burned!
Now they're on the record, we do not support border security, and we're willing to shut the government down over it, and liberal prognosticators like Saliza are still insisting somehow, I know, that they want this interaction.
It is so embarrassing!
He owned you yesterday, completely owned you.
Completely.
All right.
I had a lot of fun with that segment, just for what it's worth.
All right, I got a couple more things to talk about.
It's been a busy news week.
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I've got a couple other stories to cover today as well.
There's a great, great, great story by Paul Sperry at Real Clear Investigations, who's been doing some really excellent work.
And he talks about a subject we brought up often, but now that the Cohen sentencing is happening actually right now in US District Court up in New York, Michael Cohen, Trump's former lawyer.
I think it's important that we put this out there.
Folks, the sentencing paperwork on Cohen is out, and it is crystal clear, as Berry points out, that there is a major, major explosive miss in there.
Now you say, how can he have an explosive piece of information that's not in there?
Explain, Danny.
Joe, Michael Cohen, who has been charged with some taxicab medallion stuff and some basically some false statements type stuff, Michael Cohen, The whole case against Donald Trump, I hate to keep reiterating this, but it's important you understand this.
The entire case against Donald Trump and his team, it's appearing clear as day right now, is based on this dossier paid for by Hillary Clinton.
We know that, right?
The dossier has been Largely discredited.
Now that it's been discredited, one of the liberal arguments has been, repeatedly, they've said, well, you can't disprove it, as if the new standard of justice in the United States is just level an allegation and as long as it can't be disproved, then you're guilty.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's what police states do, I think we know that, but liberals are police staters.
Now, I said to you that they were going to evolve.
They were going to evolve from, you know, when the FISA documents are exposed, they're going to evolve from, well, even though the FISA documents use the dossier, the real explosive stuff is in the redactions.
Well, Trump wants the redactions released and liberals don't, which should say to you that that's nonsense, that the redactions probably back up Trump's version of events, that the dossier was the bedrock of their case and the dossier is in fact false.
I'd also said to you that then they're going to fall back on, well, you know, they didn't really need the dossier because it's fake.
So liberals will say they didn't need the dossier to prosecute Trump, which again is false because Andrew McCabe, the number two in the FBI, who clearly went after Mike Flynn, as we addressed in the beginning of the show too, the number two in the FBI is on the record saying that the case would not have existed in the FISA courts without the dossier.
So all of that is false.
The fact that the explosive stuff is in the redactions.
They don't know that.
Why would Trump want it out then?
What are you, an idiot?
I mean, seriously, I'm sorry.
You can't be that dumb.
And they'll say, you know, uh, no.
So now they'll move on after those two things, uh, those two things died down.
Sorry, I got a little bit distracted.
I'm looking at this Flynn stuff right now and this Cohen stuff on TV.
Now they're gonna say, well, just because the dossier may not be true, doesn't mean you can't disprove it and they shouldn't have used it.
Now, why is this important in relationship to the Sperry piece and how I set this up?
Because the core tenet of the dossier, as I've said repeatedly to you folks, is this allegation in there that Michael Cohen, Trump's lawyer, went to Prague to work with these Kremlin-associated officials To have them hack Hillary's emails, that's the whole story!
Do you get what I'm saying?
They were gonna, once the dossier's been discredited, they're gonna say, well, you can't prove the whole thing was false.
Folks, the entire dossier centers on this story that Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, the guy being sentenced today, went to Prague to coordinate this entire intrusion into the DNC email systems to attack Hillary.
What's the problem?
Let me quote Michael Cohen.
This is gonna, I promise you, this is gonna really irk you today.
Michael Cohen's statement.
I have never in my life been to Prague or anywhere in the Czech Republic.
Uh-oh.
Folks, the whole dossier, the whole Trump colluded with the Russians dossier is bedrocked in this one idea, this allegation that Mike Flynn went to Prague to get this stuff.
Mike Flynn has never been to Prague.
What does that have to do with the sentencing today and Paul Sperry's piece and why does this matter to you?
Because the sentencing documents indicate that Cohen is cooperating on the, quote, Russia probe, Joe.
And yet nowhere, anywhere in any of the sentencing documents or any of the false statements charges is Michael Cohen's statement that he's never been to Prague challenged.
Nowhere.
Matter of fact, ladies and gentlemen, the word Prague appears nowhere in the sentencing documents.
So put this together.
I hope you see I'm leading you down this road.
Read this Paul Sperry piece in the show notes.
If the dossier was true and collusion was real, Michael Cohen would have already admitted to have gone to Prague.
He hasn't.
He has said, not only have I never been to Prague, I've never been anywhere in the Czech Republic.
And although Mueller's charged him with false statements, Joe, he hasn't charged him with a false statement on that one.
Which says what?
Michael Cohen is telling the truth.
The dossier is bunk.
So now, see how I led you here?
Now, we've reached the, we're at the end of the yellow brick road.
Now, when your liberal friends, in their last-ditch attempts at reclaiming the setup of Donald Trump through the dossier, it's been a fake case the whole time, they'll say to you, well, you can't disprove it.
You can say, actually, we can, because the core focus of the dossier is a Cohen trip to Prague that never happened.
Never happened.
Mueller never charged him with a false statement on that, ladies and gentlemen.
Not only that, the only false statement they charged him with was the false statement about ongoing conversations about this Moscow Trump Tower project that never came to fruition, which has nothing at all to do with collusion at all.
But there's another statement Cohen made, Joe, that again, Mueller has never charged him with being false.
So this dossier has been discredited and has been debunked.
The conspiracy theorists just won't admit it.
He said, at one point, I got a photo of this.
Let me just read it direct because sometimes I want to make sure I get this right.
This is in Paul Sperry's piece today, I'm real clear.
Here's another statement by Michael Cohen which says Mueller has not charged him with being false.
In other words, it's true!
They have no evidence it's false at all, just like the Prague thing.
Cohen, I have never engaged with, been paid by, paid for, or conversed with any member of the Russian Federation or anyone else to hack or interfere with the election, Cohen told the Senate.
I emphatically state that I had nothing to do with any Russian involvement in our electoral process.
That has not been challenged anywhere!
So you've got a guy cooperating.
You know he's cooperating.
You've indicated, Mueller, that he's cooperating on a Russia probe.
He made this statement and it's never challenged?
I should tell you it's true.
He added, quote Cohen they're talking about, that he saw not a hint of anything.
That demonstrated Trump's involvement in Russian interference in the election either.
Ladies and gentlemen, this case is BS.
The reason none of this is challenged in the Cohen paperwork, the reason he wasn't charged with false statements about, I've never been to Prague, I don't know anything about Russian interference in the election, the reason he was never charged is because there's absolutely no evidence he was lying about it.
Michael Cohen may be guilty of taxicab medallion stuff.
He may be guilty of a bunch of stuff.
I'm not sure.
I don't know.
But I can tell you right now, Michael Cohen, by nature of the sentencing paperwork and the charges against him, is absolutely not guilty of making false statements when he says, I haven't been to Prague and I don't know anything about Russian interference.
Because he would never have been given a false statement charge if that was the case.
On something else, but not that.
Does that make sense, Joe?
Yeah, man.
Good catch.
Yeah.
Beautiful.
I hinted at this before, but Sperry sums it up really elegantly in his piece today and real clear.
Do you understand how important this is?
The entire case against Trump, the collusion myth, is the dossier, ladies and gentlemen.
We know that because Andy McCabe, the deputy director of the FBI coordinating all this, has already told us that was the whole case.
The whole case in the dossier is bedrocked in this trip to Prague that never happened.
And now we know the sentencing paperwork is out.
Now we know it never happened.
Because it's never been challenged.
Prague appears nowhere in the sentencing paperwork.
It gets worse.
Believe it or not.
According to Christopher Steele himself, The guy who puts together the fake dossier used to politically persecute Donald Trump.
Right, right.
Joe, the Prague rumor was sourced to an anonymous friend of an unnamed Kremlin insider.
Oh, even worse!
So now you've accused, falsely so, you've accused Donald Trump of colluding with the Russians, correct?
That has now been thoroughly and entirely debunked.
The dossier is discredited.
It's nonsensical.
The only part of it we know is true is that Carter Page took a trip to Russia, which is in no way illegal.
Not even close to illegal.
Nothing of substance in that dossier is true.
One piece of it, Mueller, clearly could not prove this trip to Prague.
He couldn't even prove... I mean, this would be easy enough to figure out.
But Cohen showed his passport.
He's never been to Prague.
Dude, you know how bad I want to cuss right now.
I know, I know, because it's like, this can't be happening in the United States of America, but it is.
But this is the crazy part about the whole thing.
Not only has the Russian collusion thing been entirely debunked now, but now we're starting to figure out slowly that everybody who colluded with the Russians was in the Clinton space.
She hired Christopher Steele, who admitted he got it from an unnamed Kremlin insider.
Ladies and gentlemen, what does that tell you?
I know a lot of you are thinking this right now.
Was this a Russian operation the entire time?
Yeah.
Kind of hurts, doesn't it?
You know, I always say we got played, but I don't want you to think we got played, meaning like the Democrats weren't willing participants.
The Obama administration used Russian... This is what I absolutely believe now, and if you read my book, by the way, this is the conclusion we come to at the end of a lot of these chapters as well.
I believe the Russians, Joe, looking to sow electoral chaos in the United States, because that's what they do, did not care who won.
All they cared about was chaos, internal destruction in the United States.
Fed a series of nonsensical, debunked, easily disproved false stories to a source Christopher Steele knew.
Steele used that Russian compromise, that fake compromise, this false nonsense.
They used it, which the Russians knew would sow discord, to put into a dossier which Hillary Clinton's team actively sought out.
That dossier bypassed intelligence channels.
Why would it do that, Joe?
Because the intelligence people and the working men and women at the ground level would have caught it as being total garbage.
Unnamed sources, unnamed Kremlin insiders, second- and third-hand information.
No serious CIA, DIA, NSA analyst would have given this information an ounce of integrity.
But they bypassed official channels and mainlined it like an intravenous drug right into the upper levels of the DOJ and the FBI.
How do we know that?
Because we have some more breaking news yesterday.
Some revelations from Christopher Steele's testimony in another case, Joe, that came out yesterday.
Apparently, Christopher Steele, the guy who took this Russian disinformation and put it in this dossier that's now been discredited, told the United Kingdom court on August 1st that he gave some of this information, anti-Trump information, to Strobe Talbot.
Oh!
Oh, some of you are like, who the hell is Strobe Talbot?
Some of you are like, wow, really?
Because you remember the names.
Now, instead of Christopher Steele giving the information to actual intelligence assets in the United Kingdom who would pass it to their intelligence counterparts in the United States, which would have debunked this nonsense immediately, second or third hand sources, the guy in the corner told the guy in the corner told the barber.
No, no, no.
Christopher Steele gives it right to Strobe Talbot.
Who was Strobe Talbot?
Oh, he was an upper level State Department official for Bill Clinton.
Oh, nice!
Oh, and who is Strobe Talbot's brother-in-law?
Oh, Cody Scheer, who's business partners with Hillary Clinton's fixer, Sid Vicious Blumenthal!
Strobe Talbot was Bill Clinton's, he was the, what was he, like the number two or three in the State Department under Bill Clinton.
So Steele walks this fake Russian information, not through intelligence channels, it'll be debunked.
He gives it to a guy he knows is deeply connected to the Hillary space, Strobe Talbot, who magically, magically finds a way To get this information with others.
Steele, I'm talking about.
Do them.
Into the FISA courts through nothing but political hacks connected to the Hillary Clinton space.
Strobe Talbott, his brother-in-law, is a Clinton fixer.
Cody Shear.
Strobe Talbott, that's his brother-in-law!
Yeah!
Who was Strobe Talbott's chief of staff?
Victoria Nuland, who's an upper-level manager in the State Department during Hillary's time, who's Hillary Clinton's fixer.
Victoria Nuland, the same one who said, oh, there's multiple dossiers.
Really?
Were there?
Victoria Nuland involved in the Benghazi talking points, too.
They all had something to hide.
So what did they do?
They went to this former British spy.
Don't pass that information to Intel.
Just give it to us.
Don't worry.
We'll get it to the FBI.
And that's exactly what they did.
Listen to how detailed this is.
This is how Steele... I drew a little chart here for myself today.
This is how many different contacts Christopher Steele, who keep in mind is being paid by the Hillary team to gin up fake information on Trump.
This is how many contacts he had outside of standard intelligence channels, Joe.
He met with the State Department.
That's a fact on the record.
Christopher Steele met with the FBI.
Well, that would be a formal intelligence channel.
But he met with the FBI, pumping his information to the Bureau.
I'm going to tell you why he's doing this in a minute.
He met with Bruce Ohr at the DOJ.
Not a formal intelligence channel.
Ohr had nothing to do with Crossfire Hurricane, the investigation into Trump.
Or his wife worked with Steele at Fusion GPS, but we'll forget that for now.
Steele met with Jonathan Weiner, another State Department official.
Fact!
Weiner already wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post admitting he did this.
Steele also met, now we know, with Strobe Talbott, brother-in-law to Cody Scheer, the Clinton fixer.
Why would Steele meet with all these people, including people from Yahoo News and the media?
Why would he do that?
Joe, let me ask you a simple question.
Try to think this through as an honorary federal agent for the day.
If you had information you knew was likely false, but you needed this information to be perceived as true, does it benefit you or not benefit you to have that information flow through multiple channels or single channels?
Let me clear this up for you because that was a complicated way of saying it.
If you want information to ultimately go where?
Into the FISA court, right?
Or the courts to prosecute your political enemy.
But you know the information is false.
You know it has to get into the court and people have to swear to it and people will have to believe it's true.
They're not going to knowingly swear to a false document.
So do you think it benefits you to have multiple people tell that same version of events to the guy or woman swearing out the document or just one?
I think the help of the media would be very beneficial.
Yes!
Yes!
Ladies and gentlemen, it is obvious what Christopher Steele did.
This guy's got an intelligence background.
He took information in the dossier he got from Russians, which is obviously fake.
It is disinformation.
It's a chaos campaign.
And instead of walking it through proper intelligence channels like he should have, give it to the Brits, the Brits will give it to our intel, we'll vet it.
That is not what he did.
He knew it was false, but he didn't want it debunked.
So he gave it to multiple people, knowing those people would all contact the FBI and say, hey, I heard a rumor Donald Trump was born on Mars.
I heard that too.
I heard that too.
By the fourth or fifth time, the FBI is thinking, wow, this has to be true.
The source is the same guy.
It's Marvin the Martian.
Marvin the Martian the whole time is the source.
And Marvin the Martian is Christopher Steele.
That's true.
That was good.
You're down.
He gives it to the State Department.
They bring it to the FBI.
Steele gives it to the FBI himself.
He gives it to Bruce Ohr.
He gives it to the FBI.
He gives it to Jonathan Weiner at State.
They give it to the FBI.
He gives it to Strobe Talbott.
Clinton acolyte.
It makes it to the FBI from there.
He gives it to the media.
They write about it.
All of a sudden, the same piece of BS garbage appears to be true.
But it's not true.
Michael Cohen's never been to Prague.
This piece of information he got from quote, unnamed Kremlin insiders about Cohen going to Prague to set up this collusion scandal is a lie.
It's entirely, completely made up.
It is a fabrication.
It is a myth.
Bob Mueller's sentencing paperwork is the biggest red flag I have ever seen regarding this dossier.
There is nothing in there on Prague at all.
And there's never been a false statement charge leveled against Cohen for saying he's never been there.
Ever!
They've got nothing.
Zippo.
Ah, I'm loving this show.
Damn, I'm loving this show.
Because it's so easy to nail these people to the wall.
So stupid.
All right, let me do this final read.
I got another, just one more story I want to get through.
It's a pretty good one.
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Okay, before we get to our last story, the meme winner for the day is Steve!
Steve, I will put the meme up on Instagram.
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Steve sent a...
Steve sent a meme over of me taking off the set from Shud Janine last week when I was debating Ari.
Ari, who had a very spicy appearance, let's say.
Joe saw it.
Yeah, Joe's giving me the look.
And the meme says, Gosh, I never thought this, but we miss Chris Hahn.
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I'm going to put that up on Instagram.
We got, my wife got a kick out of it.
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So Steve, good job.
Uh, we will reach out, get your address.
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Keep submitting those memes folks.
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Nice work, Steve.
Okay, last story of the day, another good one here.
So, the Washington Post seems to have lost its mind, and Matt Palumbo has a great debunked this piece, which is up on my show notes now, about how the Trump administration is, quote, engaged in the foxification of the White House.
His story is hilarious in its lack of self-reflection.
Folks, nobody takes the media seriously.
I kind of covered that yesterday with how they wrote a completely entirely fake news story about me and RATV.
I was made up.
I don't know where their sources are from, but it doesn't matter.
But the media does this all the time.
They have no ability to self-reflect at all.
So the gist of the Washington Post story Is it?
Oh, this is really awful.
Trump has all these people formerly associated with Fox News on the station.
Heather Nauert, excuse me, in his administration.
John Bolton, who was a contributor, and they go through this list of names.
Of course, Matt, who picked this up immediately.
Finds it absolutely hilarious that the Washington Post left this little tidbit out, Joe.
So just to be clear, Joe, the Washington Post principles are what?
That this is a really bad thing that they hired all these media people?
Let me quote Matt from his piece on our website today.
But Obama hired at least 23 journalists, and hilariously hired nearly as many solely from the Washington Post as Trump has hired exclusively from Fox.
Matt goes down the list.
Samantha Power, speechwriter Destin Thompson, John Kerry, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs.
He goes down this list of all these people associated with both liberal outlets or the Washington Post.
So then, just to be clear, the Washington Post, this is the Foxification of the White House, hiring all these Fox people.
Obama hired almost as many people from The Post alone!
That doesn't even count people from other liberal outlets!
This is a total joke.
It's a farce.
It's a made-up story, but this is what the media does, ladies and gentlemen.
And for those of you who have a problem, some of the liberals will email me after the show and say, well, that's, excuse me, they'll say, that's whataboutism again.
Folks, I can't say this enough.
Yes, of course it is.
Of course it is.
The reason I constantly point out things that the Obama and Clinton administrations did that the media didn't care about, but now seem to care about now with Donald Trump, is not to say those things are right or wrong, hiring people or not hiring people from the media.
It's to highlight what phonies and frauds the media are themselves.
Because when you have principles like we as conservatives do, Which is fighting and advocating for the preservation of life, fighting and advocating for our Second Amendment rights, fighting and advocating for economic freedom and school choice.
Those principles don't matter who's in office, Republican, Democrat, Conservative, Libertarian, or otherwise.
That's because we are principled people.
The media are not.
If their principles are hiring people from the media is bad, then I would expect a series of exposés.
And to be fair, some did write about Obama's hiring, that it looked bad, to be, you know, because again, we're fair, they're not.
But the level of attention given to Heather Nauert, And her selection as the United States Ambassador to the UN.
She has to, you know, she's gonna have to be confirmed still.
But the level of attention is in no way commensurate to the constant hiring by Obama of people entirely unqualified from the media in those positions.
Now it is qualified, by the way.
They weren't.
And why didn't they focus on this?
Hiring of media people?
Because it's not one of their principles.
Their principles are what, Joe?
Attack Republicans!
That's their principle.
Don't run away from whataboutism.
Ever.
Because the whataboutism is what about the principles.
Don't ever forget that.
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