What JFK Documents Reveal About CIA; New Info About Mahmoud Khalil’s Views and Character; PLUS: Glenn’s Fox Appearance on Free Speech, Khalil Case
Trump releases all the JFK files which reveal the shocking scope of the security state going back to the 1960's. Plus: pro-Israel fanatics attempt to smear Mahmoud Khalil's character as he remains in detention for political speech.
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Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube.
Tonight, one of President Trump's longtime promises were that he would fully declassify and release the JFK files.
This goes all the way back to the first time he ran.
In 2016, he just made good on that promise.
Over the objections of several key officials in his administration, including CIA Director John Ratcliffe, And while many of the documents were released years ago, many unredacted passages are entirely new.
I wouldn't call any of them a smoking gun.
If those smoking gun documents exist, they would likely have been eliminated a long time ago, but some of them are quite revealing.
One of the most important and interesting ones is a memo from JFK's longtime confidant and advisor, Arthur Schlesinger, who, in the wake of the CIA's botched 1961 invasion of Cuba, In the Bay of Pigs debacle, wrote to the president in a 16-page memo that the CIA had become completely out of control and that it was urgent to impose fundamental reforms and restraints on the agency.
Now, much of this document, like many of them, had been previously released, but key sections had been redacted and are now available.
The CIA at the time was, needless to say, enraged by any suggestion that the agency needed to be reined in.
They were further enraged when JFK fired the father of the CIA, Alan Dulles, who ran the agency from its inception until Kennedy fired him.
Amazingly, that same Alan Dulles ended up on the Warren Commission to investigate who assassinated JFK.
That'd be like putting Ben Shapiro in charge of investigating whether Jeffrey Epstein had any connections with Israeli intelligence.
Something, by the way, we still don't know because those files are yet to see the light of day.
We'll review the document, this Schlesinger memo, and others that have been released as well to explore the role of CIA in general and in connection with the JFK assassination.
Then, in order to justify the deportation of Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil, so much has been said about him that is provably false.
That he's anti-Semitic, that he supports Hamas, that he harassed or blocked the ingress and egress of Jewish students at Columbia.
New evidence has emerged, including a prison letter he dictated yesterday that sheds all new light on who he is and what he believes.
We'll also tell you the latest about what is happening in his case.
And there was Wall Street Journal reporting as well that if someone can get from me that sheds further light on who he is and how he is always.
Argued and engaged in activism, that would be helpful as well.
Finally, much to my surprise, I've been on Fox News twice in the last two weeks to discuss the Khalil case and the broader attack on free speech and protests against Israel's destruction of Gaza.
I've been on Fox News countless times over the last decade to talk about an endless range of topics, but this was, I'm pretty sure, the first time I've ever been asked to go on to talk at all by anyone about Israel.
Last week, I debated a vociferous Israel supporter, Brooke Goldstein, on the Khalil case.
And on Sunday, I was on Fox Media Show, the morning media show, with Howard Kurtz by myself, where I also argued against his deportation and the broader threats to free speech posed by Israel supporters.
We did a separate segment on Trump's speech at the DOJ last week.
We'll show you the key parts of both and break them down for you.
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One of Trump's longtime promises and one of the demands for a long time of the American people is to release all of the JFK files, not just the files the government has thus far deigned to release, but all of them in unredacted form.
And the argument in favor of that is quite obvious, namely the JFK assassination happened in 1963, which is more than 60 years ago, and there's no conceivable argument, no plausible argument.
That releasing the documents could endanger national security or put anyone in danger.
Essentially, everybody, every adult in connection with those files, the important players, are deceased a long time ago.
There may be a few people who are alive and in their 80s or 90s, but really, they would have to have been 18 or 20 or 22, not playing key roles at all.
And there was actually legislation that required All the documents to be released in 2017.
And Trump did release many of those documents in 2017, but withheld many because many in his party, many in the national security state, insisted, screamed bloody murder, that if he were to release all of them in an unredacted form, they would jeopardize national security, put operations at risk,
etc.
All the arguments that they always invoke to keep things secret.
And during the campaign in 2024, Trump repeatedly vowed He's done with that.
He's going to release not just the JFK files, but all the files pertaining to the Martin Luther King assassination, as well as the RFK assassination, as well as the Epstein files.
The Epstein files release, to this point, has been a debacle.
They invited a bunch of conservative influencers to the White House, handed them big binders, and on the outside it said, Epstein files release, part one, and they waved it around.
And a lot of people were like, wow, what's in here?
And as it turned out, essentially every document that they released had already been released, was already publicly available.
There was essentially nothing in there worthwhile in any way.
Whatever interesting documents that there are clearly are the ones still being withheld.
Trump's promising they're going to be released in a timely fashion, as I talked about last night with Ian Carroll.
For me, the primary question in the Epstein case— Obviously, aside from who in power was using or having sex with the minor girls that he trafficked, is whether,
as is extremely likely, he was working with a foreign intelligence agency as an intelligence operation or a blackmail operation to put powerful people in compromising positions so that they would have to serve the agenda toward which he was working.
And by far the most likely...
The intelligence agency that he had connections with for a whole variety of reasons, including the people who are around him who made him rich, was the Mossad, or Israel's intelligence agencies.
And I just don't believe, do not believe at all, that if there are documents corroborating that, that we will ever see them.
Certainly not in the next four years, given how many fanatical Israel supporters populate essentially the entire Trump administration.
But we'll see when those documents are released, if they're released, if they're really all released.
But Trump undeniably deserves real credit for releasing all of the JFK documents, all of them, including unredacting many of the passages of key documents that were released in 2017, but with huge redactions.
They no longer have those redactions.
There are documents historians and others interested in the question of JFK's assassination have long wanted to see.
And now we can...
Compare them side by side and see what was redacted and now was unredacted and see what they wanted to hide and why.
And the answer seems very obvious because there's a lot of illuminating information about that secret part of our government, about other governments, that the CIA is always desperate to hide.
But before we get to that, I just want to show you what Trump had to do in order to— The director of the Central Intelligence Agency emphasized that some documents had nothing to do with the assassinated president,
according to people familiar with the discussions.
Quote, President Trump's national security team was stunned and forced to scramble after he announced on Monday that he would release 80,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy with only 24 hours notice.
Administration officials have been working on releasing the record since January when Mr. Trump signed an executive order mandating it.
But that process was still underway on Monday afternoon when Mr. Trump, during a visit to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, said the files would be made available the next day.
By Tuesday evening, when about 64,000 files were made public, fewer than Mr. Trump had estimated, some of the country's top national security officials have spent hours trying to assess any possible hazards under extreme deadline,
He wanted to make sure that other officials were fully aware of what the files contained and would not be caught off guard, but he was clear that he would not seek to impede any files from being released, the people said, speaking of the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations.
Officials involved in the process of declassification said the number of files had expanded greatly over many decades.
With each investigation into Kennedy-related material, information that had nothing to do with the assassinated president had come under that umbrella.
In some cases, that includes documents created decades after his death, according to one person with knowledge of the process.
For decades, historians and conspiracy theorists alike have clamored for more information on Kennedy's death.
A conspiracy theorist, by the way, It's someone who is open to the possibility or believes the evidence already suggests that there are other actors in the assassination besides this loner, Lee Harvey Oswald,
acting alone.
That's what the New York Times calls a conspiracy theorist.
A 1992 law required the government to release documents related to the killing within 25 years, except documents that could harm national security in 2017, which was the date when they were supposed to be released.
Mr. Trump did release some additional documents, but he also gave the intelligence agencies more time to assess the files and include redactions.
Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News personality, not journalist, personality and associate of Mr. Trump, said the president came to regret that decision.
And Mr. Trump has cast his effort to release the documents as the fulfillment of a long-held promise to the American people.
That's what it is.
It's a long-held promise to the American people made over many decades.
I didn't live through the JFK assassination.
I know everyone who I knew who did, including my parents, found it extremely traumatic.
There was that famous phrase that everybody remembers exactly where they were decades later when they heard the news that President Kennedy had been assassinated.
Obviously an extraordinary event in American political life.
And there were a lot of questions because this was a Democratic president, a young Democratic president.
Who came into office after eight years of Cold War governance by Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican five-star general.
And there were things he wanted to change.
And there were reforms he proposed.
And like I said, he actually fired probably the most powerful person in Washington, Alan Dulles, who was running the CIA for all those years since his inception.
At the same time...
That his brother, John Foster Dulles, was the Secretary of State.
So they had control both of the State Department and the foreign policy run out of that, as well as the CIA.
And Kennedy fired Alan Dulles after the Bay of Pigs debacle, which Kennedy, over the objections of a lot of his aides, was persuaded to sign on to and authorize in order to invade Cuba and get rid of Fidel Castro.
A lot of right-wing Cubans in the United States.
We're fanatical supporters of that idea.
There's certainly a lot of evidence that they had connections to the assassination along with the CIA, along with the mafia, that has always been well documented for a long time.
But of course, people wanted to know, rightly so, whether the real story of the JFK assassination had ever been disclosed.
The Warren Commission, which was created in order to investigate and supposedly tell everybody what happened, Was always suspect from the start for a lot of different reasons, as they said, Alan Dulles, arguably leading suspect, someone who had run the CIA forever,
was put on the Warren Commission, along with a bunch of establishment goons, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Senator Arlen Spector, and they,
of course, concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
Unsurprisingly, they had to explain several bullet trajectories and bullet directions that seemed highly impossible to have come from one gunman.
They invented what is now mockingly called the magic bullet theory.
There's always been questions surrounding that, and the answers have been in the government archives for 60 years.
More than 60 years.
Credit to President Trump for releasing them.
As I said, I wouldn't say that there's a smoking gun in here that says, oh, actually, the mafia killed him or Cuban nationalists in Miami killed him or the CIA killed him or foreign intelligence killed him.
But there's certainly a lot of clues, a lot of important information, which is why these documents have been withheld for so long.
One of the most interesting documents was...
A memo that was written in 1961, shortly after the Bay of Pigs, just humiliation, that was run by the CA.
That's what led Kennedy to fire Alan Dulles and to be enraged by the CA.
And he asked one of his most important advisors, Arthur Schlesinger, who was a historian, professor at Harvard, who left Harvard to go to work for the Kennedy administration to sort of be this floating advisor, somebody who the Kennedys held in extremely high regard.
He wrote a memo in 1961 to JFK about all the ways in which the CIA had become completely out of control, completely anti-democratic, utterly subversive to the American Constitution, and he proposed radical changes for how to rein in the CIA,
basically take away all the autonomy that they had given to themselves from the time it was created basically in 1947 under the National Security Act until 1961.
And one of his main proposals was to transfer a lot of the functions of the CIA to the State Department so that you didn't have two competing agencies in the State Department, in the federal government, the State Department, and the CIA both running their separate foreign policies.
And that was one of the things that was on the agenda.
Obviously, people understood that Kennedy was looking carefully at the CIA.
Here you can see part of the How the redactions work.
There's the 1961 memo.
I can't see that on my screen, so I'm not sure why.
Maybe we can turn that screen on so I can see it.
But you see it on the left, and you see an entire page, which is here, that had been redacted along with this entire section here.
But now...
As a result of President Trump's order, we can read the entire portion and see what it is that they wanted to hide.
And we'll get to that in a second.
There's a lot of other documents like that that have been previously released in partial form.
And now that we have the full unredacted document, we can see exactly what was hidden.
This is true for a document that's called the McCord document as well.
Here on the left.
You can see the description of the CIA program from 1965 to 1966.
That purports to describe what they were doing.
James McCord, by the way, ended up being a leading figure in the Watergate break-in as well.
So lots of connections to the CIA with everything that brought down Richard Nixon.
And they were talking about CIA capability, a new CIA capability that they had developed.
But even when it was released in 2017, it was still redacted, and now you can see the filled-in redactions.
It talks about how the CIA had developed a unique technique in fluoroscopic scanning, which is considered to be a major breakthrough in the detection of clandestine microphones and other devices targeted against the agency.
It gives them, for the first time, the capability to detect hidden technical listening devices.
There's x-rays that are used with it.
I mean, this is 65-year-old technology.
Why did that have to be concealed until now?
Everyone understands the TCI.
Everyone has this technology and far, far more advanced technology.
So a lot of times, and this is one of the things I learned with the Snowden files, obviously the U.S. government abuses their secrecy powers to conceal things from the public that are highly incriminating of the U.S. government.
Things that they don't want the public to know, not because it would endanger the public, but because it would endanger the reputations or even the legal status of the people who are hiding these documents.
That's true for a lot of documents.
Obviously, that was true for a lot of Snowden documents as well, which is why the Snowden story has such implications, such consequences.
But one of the things I learned, I mean, we read through hundreds of thousands, if not more, top-secret documents, documents that have been labeled top-secret.
The vast majority of them were worthless, empty of meaning, totally banal, and yet they were still marked top secret.
Time out how to get parking credentials or how to ask your supervisor for a vacation.
Thousands of just very banal bureaucratic documents day to day that has nothing really to do with the NSA's function or capability, and yet they were all marked top secret.
And the lesson I took from that is that the U.S. government is at a point where it reflexively believes everything it does should be hidden from the public.
If you think about, and I've made this point before, an ideal free society, in that kind of a society, we should basically know everything that the government is doing, with a few exceptions.
If they're in a war, they're planning troop movements.
The invasion of D-Day, things like that.
Obviously, they don't want to disclose that in advance.
There's some legitimate secrecy.
But by and large, we're supposed to know everything the government is doing, because if we don't, there's no meaning to democracy.
We can't decide to vote for or against our government if we don't even know the most consequential things that they're doing.
They're doing them in the dark, behind a wall of secrecy.
And we are at the point where we essentially know nothing they do, except when they WANT TO TELL US WHAT THEY'RE DOING BECAUSE THEY 'VE ERECTED THIS WALL OF SECRECY WHERE ESSENTIALLY ENTIRE PARTS OF THE GOVERNMENT, OBVIOUSLY THE CIA AND THE U.S. SECURITY STATE AND THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX,
JUST USE SECRECY FOR EVERYTHING.
THEY 'VE BECOME TOTALLY OPAQUE.
AND THEN CONVERSELY, THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW MUCH AT ALL ABOUT US.
THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO KEEP DOSSIERS ON US.
THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO SPY ON US.
Again, there's rare exceptions if they go to a court and convince a court that there's probable cause to believe that we're involved in a crime or terrorist organization and therefore surveillance is merited.
But in general, they're not supposed to keep files or dossiers or other data on what we do.
That's why we're called private citizens and they're called public officials.
What they do is supposed to be public, what we do is supposed to be private, and that's been completely reversed.
They keep all kinds of that about us.
They spy on us constantly.
There's very little that you do online that they don't know about.
I don't mean they're watching every second.
I mean they have the capability to do so.
And there's huge parts of what they do, most, in fact, consequential acts that are just kept completely in the dark from.
And seeing these redactions, in some senses, It reveals certain things that they wanted to hide that's meaningful, but in a lot of cases, it just shows that they're reflexively hiding everything, even for 65 years, to the point where even now the CIA director is objecting and saying,
we're not ready for you to release this.
You can't unredact everything.
That's just their instinct.
It's their impulse, and it's a highly authoritarian one and a highly anti-democratic one.
Let's look at Some of this Schlesinger memo, because there's so many interesting passages, some of which had previously been released, many of which had not been, about the CIA.
Remember the time period here.
As I mentioned before, Dwight Eisenhower was leaving office after eight years.
And on his way out, he had about ten minutes on primetime television, on the networks, the three networks, to...
Give his farewell speech and to warn Americans about what he thought they ought to be most aware of.
And one of the things he warned about, in fact, one of the primary things in his speech was what he called the emergence of a military-industrial complex, a fusion of the armed services being so dominant and merging with corporate power.
In a way that, as he described it, that faction of the government is becoming quickly, if they're not already, more powerful than even the highest elected official, which is the president, which was Eisenhower.
And the fact that it came from a war hero of World War II, a five-star general, somebody who had devoted his entire life to the military, made that warning all the more acute, all the more meaningful.
This was not somebody with hostility to the military-industrial complex.
Quite the contrary, but he felt like it had been threatening the democratic order.
And now this memo, warning of the dangers of the CIA and how they're this completely unconstrained and independent agency that basically does whatever it wants with no Democratic supervision, was in 1961 after the Bay of Pigs failure.
So think about all the different ways in which that part of our government, the U.S. military industrial complex and the CIA and the U.S. intelligence community.
Have massively grown since this Eisenhower warning, since the Schlesinger medal.
This was before the war in Vietnam.
We went to war for 12, 13 years in a foreign country and just had massive buildups of the Pentagon, of the military, of corporate power, of arms dealers, of the intelligence community, spying on all the social movements of the 1960s.
Then we had the dirty wars under President Reagan in the 1980s where the CIA was engineered all kinds of coups, engaged in all kinds of terrorist activities in Central America, in places like Nicaragua and El Salvador and Guatemala.
And obviously they needed a lot more power and a lot more budgetary authority to do so.
There was the famous Iran-Contra scandal where the Congress, knowing that the The Reagan administration wanted to overthrow the government of Nicaragua and enacted a law saying you cannot use any funds to finance the rebels in Nicaragua,
who were part of the Contras, who were largely murderous gangs.
I mean, they killed enormous numbers of people.
And then the Reagan White House, and Reagan said he didn't know anything about it, but high-level officials, that was like John Poindexter and Oliver North.
And also George Bush, 41, who had run the CIA previously but now was vice president, sold highly sophisticated weapons secretly to Iran, just flooded Iran with all kinds of highly powerful missiles and tanks,
and then took the money and secretly financed the Contras of Nicaragua, even though the Congress had defunded that and prohibited any money from going there.
That just gives you a sense of how much power this part of the government has, how they run their own policy in secret.
Not just without Congress knowing, but in contravention of what they've done, what the policies they've passed, the laws they've passed.
And then probably most important of all, this of course was before the war on terror and the 20-year war that is really only ending now.
That was largely run through special forces, through the CIA, through the NSA.
And this part of our government grew even more and more and more.
So it's been 60 years of unrestrained growth where they've gotten more and more powerful.
And even before that happened, you had high-level people in both parties who knew everything about the government warning that this was a major threat, this deep state was, to the democratic order.
And I still am amazed.
In 2017, early 2017, when I saw that the CIA and the FBI were behind the Russiagate hoax, and they were essentially looking to sabotage the Trump presidency before it even began, I wrote an article at the intercept with the headline, Deep State Goes to War with the Elected President.
And this is the first time that article, as a lot of people in conservative media, had heard the term Deep State.
Rush Limbaugh started using it.
Sean Hannity started using it.
And as a result, a lot of liberals reacted to this term, the deep state, as though it was some bizarre right-wing fringe conspiracy theory.
When in fact, the deep state in the United States has been central to understanding the U.S. government for decades.
Academics have used it.
In fact, it was a term widely popular on the left that was highly critical of this part of the government for a long time.
But then when they saw that that part of the government was at war with Trump, they started aligning themselves with them, defending them.
And mocking the idea that the United States has a deep state.
Every liberal, every person in the Democratic Party I know mocked that idea, starting in the Trump age.
And yet you have just recent history.
You just have to be knowledgeable and aware of just the most basic part of our history.
We're not fringe conspiracy theorists, but the Republican president of the United States, a five-tar general, issued his warning about this, as did the top advisor, or a top advisor.
Of JFK.
This is what they were most worried about, was the deep state.
And here's the memo that Schlesinger wrote.
Here you see the original memo.
I read through it last night and this morning, and those are my highlights there.
But we're going to put it up on the screen in a way that you can read it as well.
It says, number two.
Covert political operations technically require State Department clearance, but in practice, however, CIA has often been able to seize the initiative in ways which reduce State Department's role almost to that of a rubber stamp.
This has been partly the consequence of the superior drive and activism of CIA personnel, especially compared with the diffidence of State Department personnel.
For example, When men come to CIA with the assignment of developing covert political campaigns or organizing coups for preparing for paramilitary warfare, these men naturally call to work with ingenuity and zeal.
They probably feel that they are not earning their pay, say, unless they organize as many coups as possible.
There you see it on the screen.
The part is highlighted that people go to the CIA, And their role is to develop covert political campaigns inside other countries or organize coups or preparing for military warfare.
In other words, just changing the governments of other countries at will.
And this is why also when this whole Russiagate thing emerged and all these people in the media and the Democratic Party were so aghast, a lot of never-Trump conservatives were as well, that Russia would dare interfere.
in our internal affairs in our sacred democracy and depicted it kind of portrayed it as it was though some unprecedented departure this radical departure from the way that international relations had always been conducted I at the beginning couldn't stop laughing until it got to the point where it actually made me sick to be able to Say that,
that Russia had interfered in this grave, unprecedented way with a few Facebook pages and Twitter bots, when our government, not just in 1961, but through the next 60 years, including up to today, through the CIA and other agencies,
engages in covert political operations.
We discovered with USAID that essentially every independent media outlet in Ukraine is funded by USAID.
And the National Endowment for Democracy.
We've changed governments all around the world.
We continue to do it at will.
The coup in Pakistan that removed the popular leader, Imran Khan, who's now in prison, was given the green light and supported and encouraged, in fact, by the U.S. government under Joe Biden, by the CIA.
This is what we do all the time.
And to act like some Facebook pages and some Twitter bots.
It was a grave threat to our democracy, let alone the reason why in the scheme of all the things that happened in the presidential election Donald Trump won, was so inane, so ignorant, so intellectually stunted, so ahistorical.
And just his memo alone demonstrates that.
Schlesinger goes on, quote, the result of the CIA's initiative in covert political operations has been to create situations which have forced policies on the State Department.
This was not the original idea behind CIA.
As Alan Dulles wrote in his 1947 memorandum to the Senate Armed Services Committee, which is when the CIA was being created, quote, the Central Intelligence Agency should have nothing to do with policy.
Yet, in the years since, CIA has in fact, quote, made policy in many parts of the world.
A number of governments still in power know that they have even been targets of CIA attempts at overthrow.
Not a state of mind calculated to stimulate friendly feelings toward the United States.
Indonesia, of course, is a prime example.
Now, there's another part of this document, I don't think we have it, where Schlesinger describes the CIA as a state within a state.
He says the CIA has basically begun making their own policy, has begun acting completely independent of foreign policy as carried out by the State Department in the White House.
They have their own set of rules.
They operate in secret even from the democratically elected leaders that they have become a state within a state, which is another way of describing a deep state.
Arthur Schlesinger is a beloved figure in American liberalism because of the role he played in Camelot in the royal court of JFK.
He was an academic from Harvard.
He was not a leftist at all, much more a centrist, sport of the Cold War.
But he was warning that the CIA had become what he called a, quote, a state within a state.
And I had to listen for the last 10 years as liberals mocked the idea that we have such a thing as though Sean Hannity invented it as a way of defending Donald Trump.
Here's the conclusion of the memo.
It says, quote, the argument of this memorandum implies a fairly drastic rearrangement of our present intelligence setup.
It also implies the capacity of the State Department to assume command of the situation and to do so in an effective and purposeful way.
If the State Department at present staff is not capable of assuming effective command of the CIA, this is not, in my judgment, an argument against a rational reorganization of intelligence.
It is an argument for a drastic overhaul of the State Department.
Now, this is not, let's call it a smoking gun, that the CIA was responsible for the JFK assassination.
But certainly, this created enormous enmity, enormous antagonism between the CIA and the Kennedy White House.
Not just this memo, but what was perceived to be Kennedy's dangerous attempt to impede the work of the CIA.
And firing Alan Dulles, I think it's hard to convey from a historical perspective how significant that was.
Alan Dulles was.
The most beloved figure of the Cold War.
He worked overseas in secret intelligence operations during World War II.
And throughout the 1950s, he basically ran the government with his brother, who was at the State Department.
And he was a hardcore Cold Warrior.
He was somebody who...
He was perceived as sort of rolling up his sleeves and doing the dirty work that needed to be done for the United States.
And JFK blamed him for the Bay of Pigs invasion and fired him.
And for a long time, JFK opposed the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Schlesinger, in fact, was vehemently opposed to it, as were other top aides of JFK, White House aides, people in the cabinet.
And it was the CIA and the national security state that convinced him to do it, and it was a complete and total disaster.
So the CIA perceived Kennedy as a dangerous impediment to their work, as a threat to what they were doing.
And that culminated in the firing of Alan Dulles, which there's a reason why J. Edgar Hoover was never fired.
He was the director of the FBI for six decades because people were patrified of him.
He ran the CIA for six decades.
He had dossiers on everybody in Washington.
And yet, the firing of Allen Dulles was, you could say, comparable in terms of the earthquake that it created inside of Washington, inside of Washington power circles.
And then you had a perceived resistance on the part of Kennedy to escalate the war in Vietnam.
They knew about these memos, these attempts to reform CIA.
And given that, as Schlesinger described quite presciently, the CIA had paramilitary operations.
They threatened leaders.
They killed leaders.
They overthrew leaders.
Everybody who knows history knows that.
Of course, the CIA has to be a leading suspect in terms of motive and opportunity when it comes to the assassination of JFK.
And yet, as I said, when they created the Warren Commission, Alan Dulles, probably a chief.
Suspect ended up on the Warren Commission to lead the investigation.
And obviously people on that commission deferred to him because this was his area of expertise, his specialty.
And he played a major, major role in the conclusion of the Warren Commission that, oh, it was just Lee Harvey Oswald who acted alone.
And remember, Lee Harvey Oswald was immediately shot and killed by Jack Rubich.
In custody in the police in the U.S. government and he's riding out a hallway and Jack Ruby just walks right up to him and shoots him twice in the abdomen and then he dies and there's no more Lee Harvey Oswald to hear from, to talk to.
I mean, coincidences do happen.
Very strange things happen in the world that are inexplicable.
But believing that the JFK assassination was the work of just some lone person.
Not operating in conjunction with any major power faction, even though he had all kinds of ties to a variety of different places.
There's also a story of a CIA agent.
He actually wasn't a CIA agent.
He was an associate of the CIA, an informant for the CIA.
This has been long known.
Who, in the mid-1960s, was describing how He had proof.
He knew for sure that the CIA was involved in the assassination of JFK.
And you had that New Orleans DA, Jim Garrison, who was the primary character in the film that Oliver Stone made about JFK, where he kind of gave an alternative history of what happened in that assassination.
And that's ultimately what pretty much got one of the most powerful directors, one of the most celebrated directors, Oliver Stone, who had won three Academy Awards.
He essentially canceled, kicked out of Hollywood.
The entire media turned against him because of that film, the JFK film.
But Jim Garrison, the DA, was a real person.
He wanted to interview the CIA associate about his claims that the CIA was involved.
And before he could, he made an appointment before he could.
Just the name is slipping.
The name is a vein in my mind.
Maybe someone can find it.
Yeah, before Jim Garrison could interview him, he was found dead in his house with a bullet to his head.
And there was obviously a lot of speculation.
The autopsy said he committed suicide.
There was a lot of speculation that he didn't.
He talked about how he was so fearful he felt like he had to leave the United States because he was going to be killed for going around saying that the CIA was involved and he was somebody connected to the CIA.
And there's documents about that, too.
I can't say they were super revealing of things that weren't already known.
They quote a left-laying magazine, Ramparts, about that story.
But this story is confirmed.
This is not the stuff of conspiracy theorists.
No, no.
I'm trying to get the name.
It's a CIA associate who killed himself.
I'm sure there are people in the chat who know as well.
In 1965, 1966, he was found dead in his house, right as...
Jim Garrison was about to interview him as part of the investigation that he was conducting.
We'll get back to you on that.
But I'm just saying there's a lot of evidence that suggests CIA involvement or the involvement of other factions as well.
I just showed you one document.
I don't want to pretend that I've gone through the entire archive, that I'm ready to present to you all the revealing documents.
I'm going to take my time and try and read through it all.
But the Schlesinger memo is something that people have known about for a long time.
There are major parts of it redacted now that we have the whole Document, it at least sheds major light on what the CIA was doing well before the U.S. security state had an explosion of power and budget because of all the wars and operations I just reviewed over the next 40 years.
But even back then, at the highest level...
JFK was being told by his most trusted advisors that it was urgent that the CIA be constrained, reigned in, and reformed, put under the auspices of the State Department, transferred to the State Department, essentially.
And there was always this competition between the CIA and the State Department.
The State Department was perceived to be these weaklings, these effete diplomats who didn't want to get their hands dirty.
The CIA were the tough guys, the ones who went over through governments and killed people.
And so the idea of being put under the auspices of the State Department was the CIA was horrifying.
And obviously that was being discussed at the highest levels of JFK's government.
So we will continue to work through these documents.
We will continue to report to them on what it is that we find out.
But I think even these parts that we've seen so far are very interesting and very revealing in lots of different ways.
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Yeah, so the name of that CIA agent whose name was slipping my mind is Gary Underhill.
That's how he's typically referred to in documents.
He's the one who committed suicide or was murdered before he could tell Jim Garrison why he strongly believed, based on his knowledge of the CIA, his connection with the CIA, that the CIA was responsible for JFK's assassination.
Again, coincidences happen.
Maybe he killed himself because he was depressed.
With his marriage or whatever, it just so happened to be just a few days before he was going to talk to a law enforcement officer investigating the JFK assassination who didn't really believe that the Warren Commission had told the whole story.
But I give you his name just so that you can Google it if you want and see how widely documented that case is.
That's not just some whispering conspiracy that only people on the fringes have described.
All right.
The Mahmoud Khalil case continues to proceed in court.
There's a challenge to his detention and to the effort by the U.S. government to deport him, in which many grounds have been raised, including First Amendment grounds.
And it has been maddening, maddening, to listen to all the lies that have been spread about Mahmoud Khalil, about who he is, what he believes, what he did.
Primarily coming from people who pretended for so long to believe in free speech and now who explicitly are on a crusade to crush dissent against Israel and the U.S.-Israeli relationship and particularly to punish those who protested against Israel.
Usually censorship comes from fear.
This is where the censorship is coming from.
They see these polls of young Americans turning against Israel, polling data showing that Israel's support for Israel is at an all-time low in the United States.
We've documented many times before that the perception that TikTok allows too much criticism of Israel is why they banned TikTok.
Something that, by the way, hasn't been implemented even though Congress passed it and the president signed it into law.
But that was the reason.
And obviously why college campuses are the target where there's typically...
We've had these kind of protests of occupying buildings and the like on college campuses forever.
They're part of the fabric of American history.
They're basically iconic.
But only now when the protests about Israel has the government decided that the people involved have to be punished.
I mean, there were some pretty aggressive government acts against the Vietnam War protesters as well, including at Kent State where the National Guard killed three students.
But a systemic crackdown of this kind on people protesting in the tradition of the United States because it's about Israel hasn't been seen before.
And so in order to justify it, since everyone knows the Trump administration is filled with extreme pro-Israel supporters, you have to believe that this is a huge coincidence that they decided that there were immigration problems and national security threats that just so happened to oppose the country they most worship.
Denounce the US government's arming and financing of Israel and the entire government is filled with people who hate that view most.
Obviously, it's driven by their political views and their desire to crush dissent.
And as I said, it's out of fear that this dissent is spreading and working.
And so all kinds of lies were told about Mahmoud Khalil, that he's anti-Semitic, that he supports Hamas, that he justified and defends October 7th, that he harassed Jewish students at Columbia, that he blocked their passage, all of which were out-and-out lies,
completely fabricated.
We're learning a lot more about Mahmoud Khalil.
The reason that he was chosen to serve not as the leader of the Columbia Divestment Group, but as a mediator between the group and the administration, kind of a go-between, because he was trusted by all sides, because he was seen as such a moderating, balanced voice.
He has a green card because he's married to an American citizen.
He didn't deceive anybody.
He said he needed a student visa to go to Columbia.
He got that student visa.
This was well before October 7th.
And the Israeli destruction of Gaza, he couldn't see the future and know that he participated in protests.
He didn't hide anything or lie about anything on his student visa.
He went to Colombia, he completed his studies, got a graduate degree in international relations, now has an American wife and therefore a green card, who's eight months pregnant and about to give birth to their first child.
Something that he will likely not witness.
And he is in a prison, in a detention facility, in Louisiana.
Not because he entered the country illegally.
He was in the country illegally.
Marco Rubio in secret, with no hearing, no evidence, simply canceled his student visa and then his green card and sent ICE agents to arrest him.
And even though they arrested him in New Jersey, where he lives, even though they took him to New York, where Columbia is, they then flew him to Louisiana because they thought that judges in Louisiana and in the Fifth Circuit would be far more Amenable to their claims as to why his deportation is justified and why it's not a free speech violation.
So they took him to a part of the country he had no connection with, just hoping that they would get a better judge.
And we'll tell you about the proceedings in court that happened today, but Mahmoud Khalil issued a statement that he dictated by telephone to, I believe, his lawyer, or maybe a family member.
He titled it, "Letter from a Palestinian political prisoner in Louisiana, dictated over the phone from ICE detention." "My name is Ahmad Khalil and I am a political prisoner.
I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana, where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law.
On March 8th, I was taken by DHS agents who refused to provide a warrant and accosted my wife and me as we returned from dinner.
By now, the footage of that night has been made public.
Before I knew what was happening, agents handcuffed and forced me into an unmarked car.
At that moment, my only concern was for Noor's safety.
I had no idea if she would be taken to since the agents have threatened to arrest her for not leaving my side.
My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech as I advocated for a free Palestine and an end to the genocide in Gaza, which resumed in full force Monday night.
With January's ceasefire now broken, parents in Gaza are once again cradling two small shrouds, and families are forced to weigh starvation and displacement against bombs.
It is our moral imperative to persist in the struggle for their complete freedom.
And just by the way, for those who don't know or haven't heard, free speech and the Bill of Rights is not only for American citizens.
Courts have ruled this for 125 years.
They've specifically said that the 14th Amendment that guarantees the equal protection of law is not written for Americans, but instead to all persons.
And it ruled that it applies to everybody who is under the sovereignty and authority of the U.S. government, inside the United States, citizen or not.
It's why the Supreme Court in Boumediene in 2008 ruled that even Guantanamo detainees who weren't even on American soil...
had the right of habeas corpus because they were under the sovereignty of the United States and the Bill of Rights therefore restrained what the United States could do.
There's no question he has free speech rights, the right of protest, all the other rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, which are not rights given to American citizens.
They're restrictions on what the U.S. government can do with respect to any individual in the United States.
And if you don't believe that, if you think only U.S. citizens have constitutional rights, then just imagine Joe Biden Ordering ICE or the FBI to arrest Jordan Peterson for having criticized Biden foreign policy, which he often did.
He attended protests.
He went on media, spoke out.
Even though he's not a citizen of the United States, he did so on American soil.
Nobody would have any trouble understanding why that would be a violation of the Constitution.
Everyone justifying the deportation of Mahmoud Khalid would be screaming bloody murder every conservative on the planet.
We'll say that Biden was a tyrant.
He was violating the Constitution.
Jordan Peterson had free speech.
That's because everybody knows that people legally in the United States, and even people illegally in the United States, we'll leave that to the side for the moment, have free speech rights, have the right of criticizing the government without being punished, without being deported.
Khalil's letter goes on, quote, I was born in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria to a family which had been displaced from their land since the 1948 Nakba.
Which is the word that Palestinians use for when the State of Israel was being created and they massacred and drove out huge numbers of Palestinians from what had been their homeland for a long time, which is now the State of Israel.
I spent my youth in proximity to yet distant from my homeland.
But being Palestinian is an experience that transcends borders.
I see in my circumstances similarities to Israel's use of administrative detention, imprisonment without trial or charge to strip Palestinians of their rights.
And by the way, when you see Palestinians releasing prisoners in exchange for hostages, these prisoners are Palestinians they just picked up off the street, threw into dungeons, keep them there for years, never with trial,
never with hearings.
Just any suspicion of terrorism or anything connected to terrorism, they just throw people into gulags, horrible gulags where they've been abused and raped and sexually assaulted, humiliated.
We had the American journalist Jeffrey Lafredo on our show right when he got back from Israel where he was detained in the West Bank, and he described the abuse and humiliation he suffered that was an American journalist.
think about what Palestinians they take out of Gaza or the West Bank experience.
He goes on, I think of our friend Omar Khatib, who was incarcerated without charge or trial by Israel as he returned
I have always believed that my duty is not only to liberate myself from the oppressor,
BUT ALSO TO LIBERATE MY OPPRESSORS FROM THEIR HATRED AND FEAR.
MY UNJUST ATTENTION IS INDICATIVE OF THE ANTI-PALESTINIAN RACISM THAT BOTH THE BUSH AND TRUMP ADMINISTRATIONS HAVE DEMONSTRATED OVER THE PAST 16 MONTHS, AS THE U.S. IS CONTINUING TO SPY ISRAEL WITH WEAPONS TO KILL PALESTINIANS AND PREVENT INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION.
For decades, anti-Palestinian racism has driven efforts to expand U.S. laws and practices that are used to violently repress Palestinians, Arab Americans, and other communities.
That is precisely why I am being targeted.
If anything, my detention is a testament to the strength of the student movement in shifting public opinion toward Palestinian liberation.
I think that's exactly right.
That's why they're cracking down, because it's working.
Students have long been at the forefront of change, leading the charge against the Vietnam War, standing on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement, driving the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.
Today, too, even though the public has yet to fully
He seems to know American history better than a lot of his enemies and opponents who want to see him thrown out of the United States.
Because that's exactly right.
It's just true that younger people are more apt to engage in social activism, to go out on the street and protest.
I mean, anyone who's young realizes that when you get older, you have more responsibilities, you have family, you have kids, you have a job.
You don't feel that same flexibility, that same freedom to go out on the street and protest and be part of a radical movement.
It's a natural part of being young, of being a student, of being on a college campus.
It always has been.
That always has been the role that college campuses have played in American political life.
The Trump administration is targeting me as part of a broader strategy to suppress dissent.
Visa holders, green card carriers, and citizens alike will be all targeted for their political beliefs.
In the weeks ahead, students, advocates, and elected officials most unite to defend the right to protest for Palestine.
At stake are not just our voices, but the fundamental civil liberties of all.
Knowing fully that this movement transcends my individual circumstances, I hope nonetheless to be free.
So that's Mahmoud in his own words, the first time we've heard from him since he was, whatever you want to call it, detained, arrested, thrown into a detention facility.
Even though he was in this country illegally, had never been arrested, let alone charged with or convicted of a crime.
His real crime, obviously, is that he opposes the Israeli war in Gaza.
Like I said, there's been so many lies about him being told.
Here's an interview that he gave on CNN in April of 2024.
So this is not something he was saying to get out of his detention or deportation.
This is what he said in April of 2024.
The title is, Columbia has pushed an anti-Palestinian narrative, lead student negotiator tells CNN.
This was in an interview that he gave to Wolf Blitzer.
This is CNN's description, quote, Mahmoud Khalil was also asked what he would say to Jewish students who feel unsafe on campus.
Quote, I would say that the liberation of Palestine and the Palestinians and the Jewish people are intertwined.
They go hand in hand.
Anti-Semitism and any form of racism has no place on campus and in this movement, Khalil said.
Noting that some members of Columbia's encampment are Jewish and held Passover Seders earlier this week, led by Jewish Voices for Peace.
"They are an integral part of this movement," Khalil said of the organization.
Does that sound like someone who subscribes to the ideology of Hamas?
Anti-Semitism has no place in our movement.
The vision is for Not just Palestinians, but also Jews, to be liberated and to be able to live side by side peacefully.
Does that sound like a Hamas member?
This claim that he was pro-Hamas, that he was a spokesperson for, is absolutely false.
There's not a shred of evidence to justify it.
And there's all kinds of evidence that negates it, including what I just read you.
The Wall Street Journal on March 16th published a deeply reported article.
Headline, Letters Offer Contrasting Picture of Detained Columbia Student.
And by contrasting letters, contrasting pictures, they mean letters by the U.S. government on the one hand and letters by students at Columbia, including Jewish students who know Mahmoud Khalil on the other.
U.S. government alleges that Khalil-led activities aligned with Hamas while his friends say he attended Shabbat dinners.
Quote, The U.S. government says the detained Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil might be aligned with terrorists.
But friends and supporters of Khalil who are pleading for his release paint a starkly different portrait of the father-to-be.
The other, from letters submitted to the court by friends, colleagues, and two Columbia University instructors, is of a Khalil who is thoughtful, nuanced campus leader, a thoughtful, nuanced campus leader, skilled at de-escalating tense situations.
Their Khalil is someone who would even step in front of aggressors to protect Jewish students and who is a believer in nonviolence.
"I can state with full confidence that Mahmoud has never expressed support for Hamas," wrote one supporter, who describes herself as a "American Jewish woman who believes in the importance of Israel as a Jewish homeland."
Khalil played a prominent role in the demonstrations, negotiating with the school administrators on behalf of pro-Palestinian groups and speaking to the media.
His participation might have put him in the crosshairs of those who opposed the student encampments on college campuses.
President Trump has criticized Colombia for its alleged failure to protect Jewish students.
Those who know him personally, though, describe him as someone who loved to host dinners and visit friends in different parts of New York City, especially Astoria, where he ate falafel and shawarma sandwiches at a favorite restaurant.
Some of the letter writers who identified themselves as Jewish said he attended Shabbat dinners with them and built a meaningful community for himself in Harlem.
He paid close attention to local politics and looked forward to the day he could vote in U.S. elections, the letter said.
We have interviewed Columbia students over the last year and several months, including ones who participated in the protests.
We once interviewed a Jewish student who is a Leader of the protests, as well as an Arab and Muslim student who was on with him.
We've interviewed other Columbia students.
We've interviewed protesters at Harvard about all the threats they face.
Remember Bill Ackman early on tried to create a blacklist where no corporation or hedge fund or bank would hire any of the people who were signing letters protesting the Israeli war in Gaza.
And...
One of the things you get a sense of is if there are a lot of different types of protesters.
There are ones who are far more radical and far more aggressive in their views.
I have no doubt some of them are anti-Semitic, just like every white-ring protest you go to is going to have some actual racists.
There, some people who protest against immigration do so for very legitimate reasons, the reasons that they give.
Other people, I hope this doesn't come as a shock, oppose immigration for reasons of racism and white nationalism, but that doesn't mean That you say that all opponents of immigration are racist and white nationalists because some of them are.
Khalil deserves to be described in ways that not are justified because of the actions of the worst people at these protests, but by his own actions.
And everything that we've learned about him is that he wasn't the leader of this group.
HE WAS A MEDIATOR BETWEEN THIS GROUP AND THE ADMINISTRATION, DEESCALATING THE TENSES OF SITUATIONS WHICH HE WAS HIGHLY SUITED TO DO BECAUSE HE WAS SUCH A MODERATING VOICE.
EVERYONE TRUSTED HIM, THE ADMINISTRATORS, THE PROTESTERS, THE JEWISH GROUPS AND STUDENTS WHO PARTICIPATED IN THESE PROTESTS.
He's basically the embodiment of the American dream.
Somebody who grows up in a refugee camp, a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria, makes his way to the Ivy League.
In the United States, gets a master's degree in international relations, married to an American woman expecting their first child, exercising his free speech rights that attract a lot of people.
It's one reason why a lot of people want to come to the United States.
But because he had the wrong view and the wrong cause, the cause and views that are hated by the U.S. government and the current administration, he's now sitting in a detention facility, charged with no crime, given not even a hearing.
To contest the things that have been said about him or the accusations against him.
And just to give you the latest news, there was a hearing in his case today.
And the federal judge overseeing it, who is a religious Jew, an Orthodox Jew, appointed by President Obama, has made statements in the past that suggest that there's an abuse of rights taking place here.
The government wanted the case transferred to Louisiana where the detention is precisely because they know that most of the judges in Louisiana are conservatives.
And the Fifth Circuit is the most right-wing pro-Trump appeals court in the country.
That's why they wanted to transfer it to Louisiana.
That's why they brought him to Louisiana.
The judge instead ruled that it doesn't belong in Louisiana, the case, nor does it belong with him in New York City.
It belongs in New Jersey since that's where Khalil lives and that's where the detention took place.
And so he ordered the case to be transferred to a New Jersey judge.
And that's who will decide whether he should be released from detention, whether the Trump administration is justified in deporting him.
Just a quick story about Louisiana, by the way.
I once had a case in the Eastern District of New York, which is Brooklyn.
I represented a nurse who was suing the hospital where she worked.
They had fired her.
When she got a back injury and she was suing for disability discrimination, for failure to give her the accommodations of the Americans with Disabilities Act, she hurt her back while on the job working with a very large patient, trying to hold him down when he was having a seizure.
She worked there for 25 years, best performance reviews, and they fired her because she got a back injury and there were certain things she couldn't do.
And so she wanted to sue under the ADA and that's what we did.
We had a great judge The best case.
He was super favorable to it.
And right as it was going to trial, at the last minute, this judge learned that he was going to have to preside over some big criminal trials.
So they shipped in a judge from Louisiana, from the Shreveport area, because they didn't have many cases.
They had time, so they would ship them to busier districts.
And he hated my client.
He hated the case from the very beginning.
He hated discrimination cases under disability law.
And he basically manipulated the entire trial, gave false jury instructions to the jury.
The jury was basically forced by what he said to rule against her.
We appealed it to the Second Circuit.
The Second Circuit ruled that he made radical mistakes and that she deserved a new trial.
And ultimately, she ended up settling the case for a lot of money.
But it is really true that where you go in the United States will give you radically different judges.
Because of the politics of the state and the people in that state who put people on the bench.
Obviously, Louisiana is a very red state, especially now.
And it is a very pro-Trump state.
And then, as I said, the Fifth Circuit is the most conservative circuit, the one most likely to defer to the executive branch.
That's the only reason he's in Louisiana.
It's just pure forum shopping, as lawyers call it, when you purposely bring it in a court that has nothing to do with your case, but where you think you'd get a favorable outcome from the judge.
So now the case in New Jersey.
It is true that federal courts, especially when it comes to things like immigration, have a history of deferring to the executive branch.
Oh, the State Department is in a much better position to know who's a threat to our national security, who shouldn't be in our country.
But they also take very seriously free speech claims, free speech rights.
And those two things are what are in conflict here.
And ultimately the judge will decide whether the Trump administration violated the First Amendment, regardless of the outcome.
There's no question that this is all part of a broader attack on free speech aimed particularly at people who are opposed to the U.S. relationship with Israel, the U.S. financing and arming of Israel and Israel and its wars itself.
Now, speaking of that, I was on Fox News twice in the last two weeks, much to my surprise, where I was invited to talk about Israel and the Mahmoud Khalil case and free speech.
I've been on Fox News literally countless times.
I mean, dozens and dozens, I'm sure over 100 in the last 10 years, talk about many, many different topics.
I had never been asked to go on and talk about Israel.
Even after October 7th, I was on many times once Tucker Carlson was fired.
That was typically the show I did most, but I've done Jesse Waters' show, I've done Laura Ingraham's show, I've done Howie Kurtz's weekend show, I've done many shows on Fox.
I was in New York a couple months ago where I did Fox and Friends in the morning, and that kind of surprised me because we were talking there about the deep state and the dangers posed by the CIA and USAID and National Endowment for Democracy,
which, I mean...
If you watch Fox News at any time in the last 25 years, that is not something that has ever been said.
But I've still never been asked to go on and talk about Israel, not throughout the entire destruction of Gaza, Biden's support for it, the protests, even though I've obviously covered that and talked about it quite a bit.
The first time I was asked to go on Fox News was when Will Cain, who I've known for a long time, I really like him and have a lot of respect for him, invited me on to debate the Mahmoud Khalil case with a very...
Let's call it a passionate supporter of Israel for Goldstein and I was given a lot of time and he was quite respectful and I was able to tell a Fox audience the arguments about why if they care about free speech they should object to this and then over the weekend I went on the Sunday morning show with Howie Kurtz,
the media show, by myself.
We did one segment on Trump's DOJ speech and the grievances he expressed against how the Justice Department had been weaponized against him.
I think Howie Kurtz was a little skeptical of those claims.
I actually defended Trump there.
But in a separate segment that was much longer, eight minutes, we talked solely about the Khalil case and the free speech assault.
I wanted to go over and break them down.
We don't really have time to do that.
We're going to put them on locals for the next 24 hours.
We'll post them to Rumble as well.
The segment itself where I do that on Fox News, I'll put that in all of our social media as well.
So if you're interested in that, and it was a really interesting segment, look out for that.
We'll post that first on Locals and then a day or so on Rumble and elsewhere.
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Finally, as independent journalists, as independent media, we really do rely on our supporters and viewers to enable us to do the independent journalism that we do every night.
It comes in the form of joining our Locals community, which you can do by clicking the Join button right below the video player on the Rumble page, and it'll take you directly there.
That gives you access to a whole range of interactive features that we have there to hear from you.
We do a Q&A now every Friday night where we take questions from our Locals members exclusively.
We answer them on this show.
We put a lot of original exclusive video interviews and video segments on the Locals platform.
A lot of times when we're running out of time on this show, we do a third segment that we stream exclusively on Locals for our Locals members.
We have other features as well, like written, professionalized transcripts of every show we produce here.
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