Tucker Takes On Kristi Noem In Must See Video (Ep 1483)
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So is this the end of the line for South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem?
You're like, what?
Just a couple of weeks ago, she was potentially the next president of the United States or vice presidential candidate for Donald Trump if he runs again.
And, you know, we fall in love with these politicians all the time.
We want to, you know, we want to believe But as my good friend Ginny Thomas once said to me, you know, we're the leaders we've been waiting for.
Putting your faith in some of these other people can always fail you.
Now, I'm not ready to give up on Governor Kristi Noem just yet.
I have my issues with her, especially some of the votes when she was in Congress.
But is this the end of the line?
What happened?
I'll get to that story today.
And is this the first battle in the, I have this in quotes, the GOP is tired of the BS war.
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Spygate and Mike Flynn.
The framing of Mike Flynn just got even uglier, believe it or not.
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Alright, let's do it.
So, is this the end of the line for Governor Kristi Noem?
The short answer is, I don't know.
I refuse to be reactionary about candidates on the positive or the negative.
Candidates and political office holders.
I'm not going to do it.
I never got too into the Kristi Noem thing.
When she was trending as a potential presidential candidate in 2024 if President Trump doesn't run.
And I'm not going to get too down on her because maybe she can fix what happened.
But I will tell you this, and I'll explain what happened in a minute using this great article in The Federalist by the fantastic Margo Cleveland.
Who, by the way, just a side note, was great on the Mike Flynn case, too, because she's wonderful and super smart and a brilliant legal mind.
But I will tell you this.
This is, I believe, the first battle in the new, the GOP is tired of the BS war.
You know, folks, if there's one thing Donald Trump taught Republican voters, It's that we should dump the sellouts.
That you can fight back.
You don't have to accept the first media narrative you hear.
You don't have to apologize if you didn't do anything wrong.
As a matter of fact, not only do you not have to apologize if you did nothing wrong, Trump lesson number one was flip everyone the double-barreled middle finger back if you didn't do anything wrong and they demand you apologize.
Here's what you're gonna get.
You're gonna get the double-barreled instead.
Trump left a legacy in the GOP.
He may reignite if he runs again in 2024.
But I'll tell you right now, the rank and file MAGA voters and the Republican crowd out there now that showed up in numbers 75 million plus to vote for Donald Trump are tired of sellouts.
And I'll say to Kristi Noem or anyone else out there, I'm not trying to bash her or pile on.
If you think you are going to be a leader in the Republican Party going forward, and you don't stand on principle, that the GOP is ready to throw you overboard like that!
Gone!
See you later!
Have a nice day!
Don't let the door hit you in the, you know, kaboosarooski on the way out!
People are tired of it.
If there was a biological mechanism known as a BS meter, The GOP voter's BS meter is absolutely pegged.
So what happened?
Check out this article at The Federalist.
Bowing to corporate demands for watered-down bill, Governor Kristi Noem sells out women's sports.
This is by Margo Cleveland.
What happened was Governor Noem in South Dakota was presented a bill, HB 1217.
HB 1217.
HB 1217 did something that would have been, I mean, entirely uncontroversial
and totally unnecessary two decades ago.
Said, you know, we think women should compete in women's sports because it's for women.
You're like, wait, what?
Yes.
Yes.
That's, that was the bill.
So Governor Noem didn't want to sign the bill.
So, Margo Cleveland has a really thorough piece.
Now, I'm going to give you both sides of this.
I'm going to give you Kristi Noem's side as well, why she refused to sign the bill.
And I'm going to give you Margo Cleveland's side as to why this is ridiculous.
I'm going to play a cut of Horan Tucker Carlson unless I try to defend it.
But here's what this bill did.
As finalized by the South Dakota legislature, Section 1 of HB 1217 provided that athletic teams and sports in the state of South Dakota, including at institutions of higher learning, must be expressly designated as male, female, or co-educational.
It also stipulated that teams or sports designated as female must be available only to participants who are female based on their biological sex.
Again, this bill just a few years ago would have been entirely uncontroversial and maybe unnecessary because people would have been like, wait, of course women are to compete in women's sports.
Well, you would think Governor Noem would have signed that bill right away.
I mean, this is a hot issue in the culture wars right now.
Well, she didn't.
Which a lot of conservatives, again in the opening salvo of the Republicans and conservatives are tired of the BS war.
A lot of conservatives upon hearing she refused to sign, she didn't veto the bill, precision matters, she refused to sign it as it was sent to her desk.
Conservatives erupted on social media and are now ready to throw Kristi Noem completely if there was a ship at sea.
Right?
A ship at sea.
Presidential candidates for 2024 or 2028 if Donald Trump doesn't run in 2024, right?
That, Kristi Noem was thrown right overboard.
The outcry on social media was really something to behold.
What was Kristi Noem's reasoning for not signing a bill requiring women to compete in women's sports?
Here's Kristi Noem on Tucker last night, and again, I'm not trying to pile on, I mean it.
I like Kristi Noem, I don't... Some of her votes in Congress when she was the representative for South Dakota in the House of Representatives were disastrous.
Her record is on votes.
While a congresswoman was not particularly conservative, it's important we put that out there, but I'm always willing to give someone a second look.
I want to be fair.
So here's Christine Olmles in what I think any reasonable person would deem a disastrous appearance on the Tucker Carlson show.
Basically last night saying legal scholars and the NCAA influenced her decision to not sign the bill.
It didn't go well.
Check this out.
Because what it would do is it would put a law in the books that would allow the NCAA to take punitive action against our state.
And we're a small state, Tucker.
We've had to fight hard to get any tournaments to come to South Dakota.
When they took punitive action against us, we would have to litigate.
And legal scholars that I have been consulting with for many, many months say that I would very likely lose those litigation efforts.
And I don't think that families in South Dakota— Oh, so you're saying, so hold on, just to be clear, it's not the bill.
I don't think that people should have to sue many times over and over again.
But wait, wait, wait.
So you're saying the NCAA threatened you, and you don't think you can win that fight.
They said, if you sign this, we won't allow girls in South Dakota to play.
And you don't think you can win in court, even though the public overwhelmingly supports you nationally.
And so you're caving to the NCAA.
I think that's what you're saying.
No, that's not right at all, Tucker.
In fact, you're wrong completely.
I've been working on this issue for years.
In fact, several years ago, I fought USDA to make sure that 4-H rodeo and that the sport of rodeo could keep girls' events, girls' events, and boys' events, boys' events.
So I've been working on this for many, many years.
And back since November, I've been consulting with legal scholars and professors across the country, asking them, how do I protect women's sports?
And they've gone through the steps.
That's weak.
I'm really sorry.
Again, I'm not trying to pile on Kristi Noem.
I don't like Republican on Republican political attacks if they're not necessary.
I believe we need to keep our eyes on the real prize here, but that was weak.
That's why today I launched defendtitleninenow.com.
That's weak.
I'm really sorry.
I don't, again, I'm not trying to pile on Kristi Noem.
I don't like Republican on Republican political attacks if they're not necessary.
I believe we need to keep our eyes on the real prize here, but that was weak.
I'm very sorry.
You know, I'll invite.
How do you feel about this, Guy?
We'll invite Kristi Noem publicly on the show.
You cool with that?
Joe, how do you feel about that?
Bring it on!
Bring it on, right?
Fine.
I'll invite you on the show, you're happy to spend, but that was very weak.
Yeah.
Legal scholars and the NCAA have somehow got between you and the bill and your pen and signing it.
Now, while, again, I told you I'd give both sides.
While there may be a specific legal issue with the bill targeting women's sports and preventing biological males from playing in women's sports, and in other words, not preventing biological women from playing in men's sports, There may be some due process issue there, some equal opportunity issue there that would find its way to courts.
While that may be the case, and maybe it could have been written a little clearer, and I have no problem with that portion of it to make it stand that maybe a few edits, that does not excuse, I believe, what Kristi Noem did in striking, as Margot Cleveland says, two full sections of the bill.
She's saying, well, I don't think it's going to stand in court because the NCAA will sue us, and legal scholars told me so.
All right.
Well, maybe you address and tinker around the edges with some of the writing there to make sure it keeps men and men's sports, women and women's sports, boys and boys' sports, girls and girls' sports, and if not, that the teams are deemed co-ed.
You know, men and women play in sports together all the time.
They're men and women's softball teams, soccer teams, whatever it may be.
Volleyball teams.
It's not a huge deal.
But that's not what she did.
As Margo Cleveland points out, let's go to screenshot two from her excellent piece.
A really brilliant legal mind.
She says, "First, Kristi Noem requested the legislature strike Section 2 of the bill,
which would have required students to annually verify their age, biological sex based on
genetics and reproductive biology, and attest that they had not taken performance-enhancing
drugs, including anabolic steroids, in the preceding 12 months.
Noem justified deleting this provision because it created an unworkable administrative burden
on schools, who under its terms must collect verification forms from every student-athlete
This rationale seems suspect given that schools usually already collect parental permission forms and medical certification to allow students to participate in athletics every year.
Further noting in Section 2, it requires schools to, quote, monitor these disclosures throughout the year, although Noam suggested it did.
Oh, excuse me.
Further nothing in Section 2 requires schools to monitor these disclosures, although Noam suggested it did.
So, is Kristi Noam being straight about Section 2 of the bill?
And my candid answer here Is I don't think she is.
These forms are already on file.
You already have to do some form of a medical disclosure to play college sports, high school sports.
Even, uh, I believe of my daughter in grammar school played volleyball.
She had to get a checkup first.
There's nothing in that paper in that Billy that requires this monitoring, like Kristi Noem said either.
So again, I don't believe she's being straight.
This is a really hot issue right now, ladies and gentlemen.
I'd like to see both sides of it.
I don't pile on anyone unnecessarily, but honesty does matter here.
And it seems like that's not exactly what we got there.
So not only did she strike section one, section two, excuse me, but there were other portions of the bill she struck out of it too, and refusing to sign it.
Back to the Margo Cleveland piece.
She says, in other words, Section 1 demanded schools, including colleges, limit women's sports to women.
If an education institution violated that mandate and allowed a male student to join a female team, Section 4 of the South Dakota bill provides that a female athlete injured by that violation could sue the school and obtain an injunction to prevent a continued violation and damages to remedy the harm.
Section 4 of the bill added a second protection for South Dakota student-athletes.
It also protected students from retaliation if they report violations of the act to a school rep or state or federal government entity with oversight authority or an athletic association.
Thus, for instance, if a female basketball player complained to an athletic department that a coach had allowed a male athlete to join her team and the school responded by banning the student from school sports, the female student would be entitled to sue the school for retaliation.
So Section 4 gives some legal teeth to the bill.
If a female who's injured by a male in female sports reports this violation, it gives her the ability to sue.
So why did Kristi Noem then take out and strike from Section 4 the college athletes portion of it?
The college portion of it.
In other words, not making this bill apply to colleges.
I don't know, ladies and gentlemen.
I'm puzzled by it.
Because she's suggesting somehow that, and she suggested in that video, in that audio you heard from Tucker Carlson, her interview last night, if you watch the whole thing, it's seven minutes long, and you can check it out.
If you'd like to.
She seems to suggest that the NCAA, she's afraid of the NCAA suing her.
As if they're violating some policy by keeping, just to be clear, by keeping women in women's sports and girls in girls sports and designated co-ed teams as such.
But that's not what's going to happen.
The NCAA, the ACLU and others may sue South Dakota, but Kristi Noem doesn't seem familiar with the NCAA's actual rules on women in women's sports.
Margo Cleveland to the rescue again.
She says, quote, the NCAA does allow a male, quote, student athlete being treated with testosterone suppression medication for gender identity disorder or gender dysphoria to compete on a woman's team after completing one calendar year of testosterone suppression treatment.
That's the NCAA rule.
Everybody tracking?
However, however, Nothing in this NCAA policy requires a college or university to treat a male student-athlete as female.
Given the number of religiously affiliated colleges and universities participating in NCAA sports, any such mandate would face tough opposition and likely be unworkable.
Here's the key here.
The NCAA also does not ban college athletes from events or championship competitions if their schools do not allow transgender athletes to compete on teams of the opposite sex.
That's why when Idaho passed a bill last year, similar to the bill in South Dakota, nothing of the sort happened in Idaho.
Ladies and gentlemen, it appears to be a dodge by Kristi Noem.
It will not ban athletes in South Dakota from participating.
That is factually inaccurate.
That is not correct.
So while I believe to give you both sides, and I'm going to get to my second sponsor here, To give you both sides of it, while I believe Kristi Noem may have a point with the loose legal language in the bill, and that could be changed to cover both women and men's sports too, so it doesn't seem like it's singling out biological men and women's sports, and that can be fixed.
I believe her framing of it last night on the Tucker Carlson thing that, oh, this is an NCAA thing.
It'll prevent South Dakota residents and athletes and colleges from competing in NCAA sports.
That's not true.
That's not what the bill says.
Read that piece of my newsletter by Margo Cleveland.
It's excellent.
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It's worth your time.
This is going to become a hot issue in the next few days for a couple of reasons.
That issue alone, biological men competing in women's sports, is huge.
But secondly, Kristi Noem was a rising star just a few weeks ago, now seems to be a casualty of her own decision-making in the first battle of the GOP voters are tired of the BS war.
All right, coming back after this break, we gotta cover this immigration crisis again, how it's degenerating badly, and President Trump, former President Trump, has sensed an opportunity here, just like I said he would.
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So folks, have you heard of what does the, um, Metric called the social intelligence.
I mean, we all know what an intelligence quotient is, right?
And IQ.
Have you heard of the social intelligence quotient?
Social IQ is a fascinating concept.
The idea that there are some people who are just naturals in a social situation.
I've always attributed it to this.
You ever been in a group of people, you're at some party or whatever it may be, and you only know a few people there.
And I've been at these parties with my wife quite a bit.
And, you know, my wife go off and talk to her friends, a couple of guys and wind up circling around.
Come on, you've all been there.
You all know, it's happening to you, right?
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You've seen the circle, right?
They all gravitate around the circle.
A little bit of man-space, whatever it is.
It's a way to maximize man-space while still being able to hear people.
And you're talking in the circle, and there's always the one dude, that one cat in the circle, who just talks too much, and he doesn't seem to be able to see himself as other people see him.
And everybody in the circle of dudes is uncom- the circ- the circ- Circle of dudes.
Remember the Lion King and the Circle of Life?
It's a circle of dudes.
I know my voice is terrible and I can't stop singing.
I'm sorry, Joe.
Joe is a professional musician.
Joe is a talented singer, producer, Joe.
Not me.
Oh, right.
We're in this, right?
Marky constantly, Dan Bongino.
We're in this circle of dudes.
And the one guy, everybody knows he's talking too much, but him.
And right, you're thinking to yourself, Why can't this guy shut up?
Does he not know everybody's annoyed?
Does he not see everybody like... Does he not see everybody looking around, checking their phones as the dude is talking?
No?
That's a person with a low social IQ.
Is there anyone with a lower social IQ in politics?
Or someone more awkward in a group of people than Kamala Harris?
Is there anyone?
Is there any...
I'm serious.
Is there anyone out there?
She wouldn't be in the group of dudes.
She'd be in a group of people and she's just constantly, always awkward.
Why is she always laughing?
Why?
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She's always like, haha, haha, haha.
It makes me think of when, when I get blood taken, which given my recent health scare was sadly all too often.
I hate getting blood taken.
I'm a big wuss bag.
Okay.
Huge wuss bag on a scale of wuss bags with blood taken.
If there's, If it's a, let's make it different than a hundred, if it's a 97.5 scale, I'm a 97.4 on the Wussbag scale.
So when I go to get blood taken, I laugh inappropriately because if not, I'll probably cry.
Yes.
I hate it.
And I, and the needle goes in.
Yeah.
Why is Kamala Harris always laughing?
What's so funny?
It's weird.
Video from yesterday.
We have a massive crisis at the border, right?
Massive crisis at the border.
Hundreds of thousands of people we don't know entering the country illegally.
The Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris, has asked about it.
And here we go again with low social IQ Kamala Harris.
Check it out.
Do you plan to visit the border?
Not today.
But, um, I have before and I'm sure I will again.
I, I, I, I don't, I don't get it.
I don't understand.
I don't get it.
What is she always laughing about?
What's so funny?
This is not funny.
They go back and forth between laughing to like the euphemisms game.
It's not a crisis.
It's a circumstance.
You don't believe he looks Fox news headline.
Be in my newsletter today.
Crisis at the border.
Jen Psaki, what was her word the other day?
Joe, you remember?
What was her word the other day?
It wasn't circumstance.
Challenge.
Yes.
Thank you guys.
The other day, it wasn't a crisis.
Jen Psaki, White House spokeswoman.
It wasn't a crisis.
It was a challenge.
Thank you guys.
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Border influx, not a crisis, but a circumstance.
Now, it was a challenge.
Today's a circumstance.
What is it going to be tomorrow?
Someone should ask Kamala.
Is it a challenge or a circumstance?
She's going to be like... Can you get a hold of yourself?
I don't mean to rant.
I'm sorry.
They play the euphemisms game.
Nobody does it worse than Democrats.
I was going to say better, because it is a skill.
But it's worse because it's tragic that they can't just tell you the truth.
Here's Peter Doocy, who's been doing a great job as the White House correspondent for Fox News.
Peter gives exactly zero.
Rhymes with hits.
About playing this euphemisms game.
And he tries to get Psaki on the record about this crisis that's developing.
And watch her do the dance again.
They can't answer a question about the crisis at the border.
Check this out.
So now that border patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley are letting adult migrants go without even issuing notices to appear, is the immigration policy just becoming more of like the honor system?
That is an inaccurate depiction of what's happening at the border.
So there's no change in policy.
The border remains closed.
Families and single adults are being expelled under Title 42 and should not attempt to cross illegally.
In the narrow, narrow circumstances in which families can't be expelled, the family is tested and quarantined as needed and placed in immigration proceedings to commence.
In some cases, families are placed in removal proceedings further along in the release process.
How did she answer that question?
How is that an answer?
Peter Doocy at the White House says, listen, we are letting people enter the country illegally.
To migrate to the United States and not follow any of our immigration laws.
We're then releasing them into the country and asking them not to appear in court but to contact ICE at a later date and set up your own court date?
Do they get to pick the judge too?
Do they get to pick a guy from the neighborhood and give him like a gavel and be like, You're going to adjudicate my case, Tony.
I mean, is this for real?
And notice how she doesn't answer it at all.
She goes right to the talking points.
Washington examiner piece.
Trump gets what's going on.
And I said if, I don't know, last week or whatever, that Trump needs going forward.
Forget this whole former presidents are supposed to stay quiet.
That's not going to work.
Those days are over.
No one gave President Trump a honeymoon, and Biden's not getting one either.
Those days are now over.
We're in a 24-7 news environment.
The only foil with a microphone big enough to constantly call out Joe Biden's nonsense and get the media to cover it is Donald Trump.
Listen, ladies and gentlemen, I love my show.
I love Levin's show, Hannity's show, I loved Rush's show, I love all the shows out there.
We do not even together, because Shapiro's show, have the combined voice that Donald Trump does to create the foil every time.
We can cover it all the time, but Trump has, the media has to cover everything he says.
Watch the Inexaminer.
Trump sees an opening to damage Biden on the border crisis.
James Antle III, who, Politics Senator, he's the third.
Interesting.
W. James Antle.
I don't know James Antle, but that's a very serious sounding name.
Trump gets it.
There's no time to stay quiet.
Forget that nonsense.
Former presidents usually keep quiet.
Nah, not in this case.
Thanks.
Whenever we see Biden do something stupid, which is just about every day, and Kamala laughs about it, Trump should put out a statement.
It should be a constant foil the entire time, because no one else has a microphone big enough to get it into the mainstream media side like Donald Trump does.
Brilliant strategy.
Brilliant.
All right, let me get to my third sponsor.
And on the other side of this, I have been quiet about Spygate for a long time and Mike Flynn, but ladies and gentlemen, the framing of Mike Flynn is the Most fascinating in a tragic way.
Spy story I've ever heard.
And we got some new information yesterday from John Solomon.
I'm going to tie into a neat little ball for you, showing how ugly the framing of Lieutenant General Mike Flynn really was.
Now, Joe knows this story because he's heard it probably close to 5,000 times, although there is some new info on it.
Yeah.
He has not.
So Joe, I've never relinquished your audience on Budsman Roll.
I'm going to have to turn it over to Guy for this segment and this segment only.
It's a, it's a, it's just a one-time transfer.
We transfer right back because Guy hasn't heard it.
And I want to see if he gets it.
Everybody agree?
Joe?
I'm good.
By the way, everyone, so who's Guy?
Guy's the new video producer in the background.
I got that question.
I'm sorry.
Maybe I should have introduced him.
Sometime you got to come over and wave to the audience.
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The Mike Flynn story.
It's back.
It is back.
We have not covered a lot of Spygate stuff.
Hat tip blast from the past.
My buddy, the greatest source in the history of law enforcement sources.
He's back, Joe.
Who is it?
279er.
The 279er is back.
For you new listeners who are like, who the hell's the 279er?
279 is a source of mine, with a vast trove of law enforcement experience, who almost single-handedly helped me break down the Spygate scandal and make it understandable.
He's a genius.
I met him once at a book signing.
In person.
We try to minimize person-to-person contact.
And he showed up.
And he was real cryptic.
He showed up.
I had not seen his face.
This is a true story.
In a book signing.
In Huntington.
And he wrote in a book.
279.
And I looked and recognized his voice right away.
So what happened?
What's going on and how does the greatest source in the history of law enforcement, the famous 279er, fit into this?
Well, few people in modern history have been screwed over as badly by their government.
Then Lieutenant General Michael Flynn.
Eh, that story's nothing new.
Why are we talking about that now?
Because Just The News, John Solomon's excellent site, John Solomon has been all over Spygate as well, has a story that is just fascinating.
From March 23rd.
Is today March 23rd?
Yes it is!
This is from this morning, I didn't even realize that.
FBI had doubts about the Russian informants' allegation that helped prompt Mike Flynn's probe.
Stephen Halper's story of Flynn's trip with a Russian woman was deemed not plausible, not accurate.
Ladies and gentlemen, bottom line up front, Mike Flynn was framed by the U.S.
government by a source, the FBI.
We now know, this is the breaking news portion of it, we now know the FBI deemed the source not even plausible.
So now not only was Mike Flynn totally, completely screwed over, set up, and framed by the Obama administration, I'll give you the why in a moment, but he was done and framed, done in, by a source they deemed, whose information they deemed not plausible!
And not accurate!
Why was Flynn framed?
Anybody remember in the listening audience?
Audience Archivist Judy, who's been there from the beginning, you're going to have to sit this one out.
From some of our Lua listeners, do you have any idea why Mike Flynn was framed and made to be out to be some Russian stooge when it was all, all of it was made up?
Anybody?
Because Mike Flynn had called out members of the intelligence community for what he felt was terrible tradecraft.
Mike Flynn had a lot of enemies in the intelligence community.
A lot.
Obama didn't like that either.
Thought Flynn was kind of a know-it-all.
Defense Intelligence Agency under the Obama administration.
Obama didn't like that either. Thought Flynn was kind of a know-it-all.
But why else did they hate Mike Flynn?
Because Mike Flynn was a big opponent of what?
The Iran deal!
He hated it.
Iran deal?
You just said he was Obama's DIA director.
He was.
You getting it?
Kind of a disconnect?
Obama.
I love the Iran deal.
Mike Flynn.
Iran deal's no good.
Let's not give money to the Death to America crowd.
Not a good idea.
Those two ideas were never ever going to meld.
So they hated Flynn.
So they had to make sure Flynn was discredited.
And what better way to discredit Flynn than to paint him as a Russian stooge?
Gosh, that'll work out great.
Now we find out the information they used to paint Flynn as a Russian stooge was deemed, quote, not plausible and not accurate.
Read this story in my newsletter today.
John Solomon's site.
Again, Bongino.com slash newsletter to get these articles every day.
Quote, Five days before the FBI formally opened up the Michael Flynn probe in the summer of 2016, a confidential informant alleged to agents that Donald Trump's national security advisor, Flynn, had left a 2014 foreign meeting alone with a Russian woman.
Oh my gosh, really?
It goes on.
FBI agents ultimately deemed the account not plausible and not accurate, but proceeded to investigate Flynn anyway.
Newly declassified documents show.
So folks, what happened to Flynn?
Well, back in 2014, when Obama was still in charge, they wanted to discredit Flynn.
They had to discredit Flynn.
And then it came up later on, of course, that they would use this information to tie Mike Flynn to Donald Trump and the collusion hoax.
So they needed anyone associated with Trump to be associated with Russia.
Everybody digging?
Guy, you digging?
Audience ombudsman for this segment?
They made up this fairy tale, Trump was colluding with the Russians, and they had to tie anyone around Trump to Russia, even if no tie existed.
So they went back and said, oh my gosh, I remember in 2014, Mike Flynn went to this seminar over at Cambridge University, 2014, when Obama was in charge.
And it's weird, he left the event with a Russian woman, Svetlana Lakova.
He did!
Well, what happened?
Well, apparently that information that they got from the source, Stefan Halper, about that interaction Flynn had with the Russian woman, they never deemed it plausible or accurate.
Why?
Because he didn't leave with the Russian woman.
So now let's explain what really happened.
I want you to pay very close attention here to two dates, August 10th and August 16th.
So just to be crystal clear, Obama hates Flynn, hates him for the Iran deal, for calling out the Iran deal.
Flynn then joins the Trump team.
Flynn goes out and starts campaigning for Trump.
Flynn then becomes public enemy number one on Dianabol, on steroids, because now Obama really hates him.
They have to make up the peepee hoax and the Russia hoax, and they got to find a way to tie Mike Flynn to Russia, even though they don't have it.
So what happens?
Well, on August 10th, the FBI opens up.
This is from the IG report, by the way, up on the screen.
By August 10th, 2016, the FBI had assembled an investigative team of special agents, analysts, and supervisory special agents and conducted an initial analysis of the links between Trump campaign members and Russia.
This is August 10th of 2016, in the heat of the presidential campaign.
Based upon this analysis, the FBI opened individual cases on three U.S.
persons.
Papadopoulos, Carter, Page, and Paul Manafort.
So by August 10th of 2016, all of these efforts to tie Mike Flynn to Russia aren't working because they can't get the FBI, these political hacks trying to frame Mike Flynn, they still can't get them to open up a case against Flynn because they don't have anything.
All they have is this rumor of back in 2014, he left an event with a Russian woman.
Oh, oh, back to the IG report.
This gets weird.
So someone gets wind apparently that the FBI is not going to open up a case on Mike Flynn.
They only opened up on Papadopoulos, Page and Manafort.
Well, what happened six days later on August 16th?
Oh, the FBI did open up a fourth case on Mike Flynn under the crossfire hurricane umbrella, who was serving at the time as the Trump campaign's national security advisor.
So ladies and gentlemen, what happens between August 10th when they don't open up a case on Mike Flynn, despite the people targeting Mike Flynn almost demanding it be so, what happens on August 16th when they do?
Open up a case.
Keep in mind, why is this all hot as of August 10th?
Because President Trump accepts the Republican nomination for president on July 21st, just a few weeks earlier.
Now the FBI and the spygate hoaxers and the collusion hoaxers and the peepee tape hoaxers are in a full panic because they really have got to get Mike Flynn now, but they don't have anything.
They don't have anything.
So somebody working with the Spygate hoaxers, Christopher Steele, Stephen Halper, this network of people who are producing information for Fusion GPS, a Democrat-linked law firm, somebody gets wind and says, hey, they didn't open up a case on Mike Flynn.
Oh, look what appears, folks!
Look what appears!
One of the Steele dossiers!
You know, the Steele dossiers with the fake pee-pee stuff and all that other stuff.
And look at this.
Look how weird this is.
In the summary section, it says Kremlin's engaging with several high-profile U.S.
players, including Stein, Jill Stein, Carter Page, and former D.I.A.
director Michael Flynn, and funding their recent visits to Moscow.
What's the date of this report?
Oh, gosh!
How did that happen?
August 10, 2016.
Can you imagine what's happening right now in the FBI, Spygate, PP, Hoaxer office?
They're like, The political people in the Obama administration and the Hillary Clinton campaign, it's the heat of the campaign in 2016, really need to take out Donald Trump.
They're like, we gotta just move with this collusion hoax and tie Trump to Russia.
Trump doesn't have anything to do with Russia.
It doesn't matter, we'll just make it up.
We've got this Christopher Steele dossier, and don't worry, we haven't verified any of this stuff, but we'll just produce it.
Okay, so we've got enough, the FBI opens cases on August 10th, but not on Flynn.
Don't worry, we'll go to Steele, and a Steele dossier magically appears that same day implicating Michael Flynn to Russia.
And what's really weird if you're watching the Rumble is you'll notice on that dossier that what's the one name, again, that's not capitalized in that Steele dossier?
What's the one name?
Is it Jill Stein?
Carter Page?
No, no, it's Michael Flynn.
Where am I going with this?
Is it possible that that Steele dossier, when they got wind that the FBI wasn't going to open up a case on Mike Flynn, that the people who hated Flynn got pissed off and told the author of the Steele dossier, Hey, you might want to throw Mike Flynn in there.
And in their eagerness to throw him in that dossier at the last minute, they forgot to capitalize his name.
Hmm.
Strange, huh?
And then mysteriously, after that dossier shows up just six days later, the FBI starts opening up a case against Mike Flynn.
Now, here's where our buddy 279er enters.
This was an email he had sent to me a while ago.
He's okay with me sharing.
It's not his email address on there or anything.
He was kind enough to cut the identifiers out.
But he shared a pretty fascinating email with me about the timeline, about these key dates, August 10th and August 16th.
He said, here's some bullets for you, Dan.
August 10th, they go up on Page Manafort in Papadopoulos.
That means they got Pfizer.
They're getting a...
They were monitoring their transactions at that point.
Okay.
August 10th, the dossier reports the names Flynn, obviously backdated at least a day or two, which is what he thinks.
And Flynn was probably added based on the Halper meeting.
Maybe.
August 11th, the FBI meets with Halper in the office.
August 11th to 15th, there's a meeting in Andy's office.
Andy McCabe, the deputy director of the FBI.
Remember that meeting?
The insurance policy meeting?
August 16th, They open up the case on Flynn.
August 17th, they send FBI agent Joe Bianca to do that fake defensive briefing to Trump, Mike Flynn, and Chris Christie.
August 10th through August 16th, this is when the whole plan materializes to go after Trump and Flynn.
And the insurance policy was a number of things, I believe, but I believe one component was they were always going to link Flynn to Russia.
And when they couldn't find anything, they went back to the 2014 Cambridge University event where Mike Flynn was at the event and supposedly left in a cab with Svetlana Lukova.
I want to get back to that in a minute.
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So getting back to this, folks.
Flynn was framed because Obama hated him.
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So getting back to this, folks, Flynn was framed because Obama hated him.
Flynn was then framed again because they hated Trump and needed to take him out before the
election and they needed to tie Flynn to Russia, but they didn't have any way to tie Flynn
So they went back to a 2014 seminar where this...
What do we call... I mean, what's the euphemism they're using for Stephen Halper as a spy?
A confidential informant said Flynn got in a car with a Russian woman in 2014.
That's the extent of his collusion with Russia.
So back to the John Solomon's piece.
The problem with that story is, number one, getting in a car with a Russian woman is not illegal.
There's nothing wrong with that in the circumstance they described.
But the problem with the story is it didn't even happen!
This is what we now know from the John Solomon piece.
The CHS, alleged to be Halper, the confidential human source, relayed an incident he witnessed when Crossfire Razor spoke at this Cambridge event.
The CHS was unsure of the date, but noted that Flynn was still in his position with the intelligence community.
The informant report relayed that the CHS told the team that after Flynn spoke and socialized with, it's assumed to be Lakova, over dinner and drinks, Flynn got a cab to take, the woman got a cab to take Flynn to the train station to bring her to London.
The event Flynn attended in 2014 was part of the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar.
It says that this source, believed to be Halper, stated that a woman, Svetlana Lakova, surprised everyone and got into Flynn's cab and joined Flynn on the train ride to London.
The CHS stated that he's somewhat suspicious of Lakova.
She's been affiliated with several prominent members of Redacted.
The source believes Lakova's father may be a Russian oligarch living in London.
Oh my gosh!
Flynn got in a cab with a Russian woman whose dad was Russian.
Well, what's the problem with that story?
The problem with that story, ladies and gentlemen, is it never happened.
Multiple witnesses showed that Flynn didn't get in a car with Svetlana Lakova at all.
As a matter of fact, Svetlana Lakova's boyfriend has already repeatedly stated that he picked her up from the event.
That'd be kind of awkward getting in the car with the Russian woman and the boyfriend.
It'd be really awkward considering that never actually happened.
And what's even more awkward is if that confidential human source is Stefan Halper, as many reporters believe it to be, how would Stefan Halper know that Mike Flynn got into a cab with a Russian woman if he wasn't there?
Any ideas how we would know that?
Joe, any ideas how we would know that if he wasn't actually... Remote viewing?
I don't know.
Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
[INAUDIBLE]
[LAUGHTER]
[INAUDIBLE]
Maybe!
It's more plausible than that story.
You figuring out what happens now?
Obama hates Flynn.
Trump gets the nomination for the Republican Party in July.
Everybody at the FBI and the Obama administration panics.
They panic even more when the guy they hate, Mike Flynn, joins the Trump team and starts campaigning for him.
Now they really got to take Trump and Flynn down.
They can't find anything connecting either of them to Russia.
So the FBI goes back to a source they've been using, believed to be Halper.
Halper says, yes, yes, I've got something.
Flynn got in a cab in 2014 with a Russian woman, and her dad was Russian!
The FBI, we now know, this is the part breaking, said that one of their agents, this guy Barnett, Agent Barnett, said, that information's not credible about Flynn getting in the cab.
We don't believe that.
Doesn't even matter.
They open up a case anyway on August 16th because magically this dossier appears saying Flynn's working with Russians.
We think that appears the same day that the FBI doesn't open up a case against Flynn.
I guess it's insurance, maybe an insurance policy.
Oh, that happened the same week too.
Maybe it's insurance that they would open up a case against Mike Flynn.
Is there anyone in America who's been screwed over worse than Lieutenant General Mike Flynn by his own peeps?
The answer?
I don't think so.
It's disgusting.
Read that story by John Solomon if you want to get even more aggravated at what happened to Mike Flynn.
All right, I promised you yesterday I'd cover this.
It's my last story.
And then we do have a real, real hero of the day.
Sometimes we play it sarcastically, but this one's the real deal.
You're not going to want to miss it.
I told you, I just mentioned this story.
It's an important one.
Wall Street Journal had a fascinating story changing gears a bit about the housing boom.
Excuse me, going on right now.
Folks, if you live anywhere in Florida, the housing prices down here are through the roof.
There is a house in a neighborhood not far from me.
That was on the market for like $2 million or something.
I live near this water place, so anything under water is expensive in Florida.
And obviously there's limited amounts of land.
The house, I think, just sold a year ago.
The house was back on the market for $4 million.
A little bit of a markup, a little bit.
Prices down here are crazy.
They're insane.
Florida is like, It's like the wild west for housing again.
People, remember they were like, go out west and you can take a claim to this land.
That's what's happening in flagship.
There's no claim you got to pay for.
So my wife and I need a bigger studio.
So we're looking around and we've been asking real estate people like, Hey, is this market ever going to calm down?
And shockingly, a number of real estate folks I talked to said, maybe not.
Well, here's why.
So if you're in the market for a house and you're waiting for this downturn, it may happen.
I mean, maybe, or maybe just as I'm toed off and, and, and not rise as much, but the journalist interesting piece, the pandemic ignited a housing boom.
But it's different from the last one.
It says residential home sales are hitting peaks last seen in 2006 before the bubble burst.
But this time, mortgages are stricter, down payments are higher, and a tight supply is supporting prices.
Yes, the real estate people told me this.
Folks, remember the housing crisis last time in 2006?
It was obvious what happened.
People bought a lot of home, a lot of home they couldn't afford, prices came down, people were underwater, had negative equity in their homes, had to get out.
And when they got out, they had nothing left.
So you put down, say, $100,000 on a million-dollar home in 2006.
The million-dollar home after the market crashes is worth $600,000.
You don't have enough.
You owe $900,000 on the home.
The home's only worth $600,000.
Even if you sell it, you're still down $300,000, because you still got to pay the bank.
Well, the real estate people were telling me that's different now.
Quote from the journal piece.
Here's what's going on.
Buyers have higher credit ratings these days.
They're flusher and are putting down more cash up front.
On $1 million purchases, people are putting down $500,000, this realtor said.
You didn't see that before.
In 2020, sales of previously owned U.S.
homes surged to their highest level in 14 years, and many economists forecast sales to rise again this year.
So folks, listen, the worst part about predicting economics and economic crises and booms and busts is that old line that they're like, yeah, great economists, you know, they've picked, they've forecasted 22 out of the last three recessions.
Anybody can say anything about it.
There's going to be a recession.
Eventually you'll be right.
I'm giving you both sides.
Cause I don't know what's going to happen with the market, obviously, but I'm reasonably confident if we do have a decrease in housing prices, it's not going to be the collapse.
It wasn't 2006 because people who were underwater in their homes in 2006, cause they didn't put enough money down.
Like the example I just gave you were obviously in a rush to get out or got foreclosed upon because they had nothing in the home.
Even if property values go down 20% now and you have a million dollar home and you put down $500,000, you still have equity in the house.
Where are you going to leave for?
There's not going to be any rush to sell or get out or for banks to foreclose.
We'll see what happens.
All right, folks, a sad story.
You heard about the tragedy in Boulder.
Some maniac walks in, starts shooting up a King Super supermarket.
I mean, these, these stories are tough to talk about.
We're still waiting to hear what happened.
Motivation.
One of the suspects is a suspect is in custody.
So I'm sure we'll get more news about this story.
And I'll, of course, I'll cover it as the, um, as that news materializes.
But I just wanted to put up the social media post by the Boulder Police Department.
We lost a real hero.
Matter of fact, in honor of this hero, there'll be no more heroes this week because this is our hero of the week, not just the day.
Officer Eric Talley, T-A-L-L-E-Y, ran in while the shooting was going on, tragically lost his life.
A father of seven, Boulder Police Department, Put up a post saying, rest in peace, officer Eric Talley, your service will never be forgotten.
You can see the photo of this hero there.
But just a reminder, ladies and gentlemen, that, you know, when those rounds start whizzing by people's heads and tragic incidents like this, you know, everybody's running away, which is the smart thing to do.
There are very few people running towards that gunfire.
And those people are almost always the police officers.
And because of that decision to do that, and to try to stop this tragedy, Officer Talley lost his life.
