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	Thank you.
	Today, I'm honored to welcome the cast of The L Word and Generation Q, two Showtime series that chronicle the friendship, the love, the challenges, and the triumphs of strong, funny, and resilient queer women.
	Sorry, you're inviting to the White House to stand behind the podium actors who played lesbians on a TV show?
	That's the priority of this administration.
	Greetings.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
	This is America First.
	110,000 deaths from drug overdoses in 12 months A war in Europe Maternity clinics being bombed by Russia Communist China flying a surveillance platform across the whole of America Scooping up our intelligence
	Oh, at the same time that a 21-year-old National Guard airman Is releasing top-secret SCI information Including human intelligence information That will probably lead to the deaths of people providing us information to keep you safe - Yeah.
	Leaking that onto internet chat rooms for people who play video games.
	Train derailments.
	Baby formula running out across America.
	The re-militarization of our enemies.
	Iran.
	The Jihadis.
	Oh, ISIS in Afghanistan.
	The surrender of Afghanistan.
	But lesbian visibility?
	That's the priority?
	What did President Trump say yesterday in that clip we played from my friend Greg Kelly's show?
	He said, we're being run by socialists.
	In fact, probably Marxists.
	At the same time, that Karine Jean-Pierre's boss, the current president, actually said from the podium, yeah, the state, the nation owns your children, not you.
	It's time to wake up.
	It's time to say, No, this isn't politics as usual.
	Tucker Carlson, who's in the news and will be for some while, made a very important point on Friday when he gave the keynote lecture at the Heritage Foundation's 50th anniversary gala here in the Swamp.
	10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, What was politics about?
	Especially under the Cold War, there was some common denominator between left and right, especially when you had the existential threat from the outside of mutually assured destruction and nuclear Armageddon from the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.
	So politics was about what?
	We both wanted the same things, the two political parties.
	In broad terms, we wanted safety, And we wanted prosperity for all Americans.
	What was the disagreement?
	What was the argument over?
	The modalities, to use a Washington phrase.
	The methods by which we arrive at those destinations, and of course the definitions of those destinations wouldn't be the same.
	Yeah, Conservatives' definition of prosperity and safety probably a little bit different from a Democrat, a hardcore Democrat of the 1950s or 60s.
	But the difference would be, you know, nugatory.
	It would be on the fringes.
	It's just how we get there.
	Today, We don't share the same end state.
	It's not just a disagreement on methods, of technicalities, how we arrive at the same place.
	Because the other side of the aisle doesn't want safety and prosperity.
	The other side of the aisle, to use Tucker's example, when it comes to our children, is the mutilation and sterilization of a generation.
	When you have members of the Trump administration at the highest levels, like that fake woman, Richard Levine, talk about how, yeah, parents, who needs parents?
	Should be other people.
	Could be teachers, could be other adults that assist a child in their transitioning.
	And that's what's really important.
	When you have Biden himself saying, kids?
	What do you mean your kids?
	They're our kids.
	They're the state's kids.
	We get to decide what to do with them.
	You know, Randi Weingarten is testifying right now on Capitol Hill.
	She believes that.
	It's not up to you.
	What do you know about children?
	You just birthed them.
	You just carried them for nine months.
	You just paid for them.
	You just wiped their nose and their backside.
	They just have your genetic gene code in them.
	They belong to us to shape and mold, as every dictatorial regime has ever said since the beginning of dictatorial regimes.
	Give me your children and I will own your future.
	That's what it's about.
	How can we agree on the shared end states when one side doesn't believe in the nation of which they are a citizen?
	When they think sovereignty is a bad thing, borders should be open.
	When they think that other nations are better than us.
	When they actually believe that we are cursed in perpetuity forever.
	There's a systematically racist nation in which those who, by dint of their skin color, because they're a little bit paler than their neighbor, well, they're oppressors.
	Yeah, the pigmentation of their skin defines them as oppressors, even though they may have been brought up in a broken home, they may have been beaten by their parents.
	If you're white, If you're a little bit darker or you're black, you are good.
	Because why?
	Because you're oppressed.
	You are the eternal victim.
	And the whole system must be rejiggered in your favor simply because of your skin color.
	You may be born to a very wealthy family.
	You may grow up on Hawaii and go to one of the most prestigious schools on the island of Hawaii.
	But no, no, no, you're oppressed because you're black!
	And you must ride that train of oppression and the narrative of being a victim all the way into the White House.
	Obama, you could have done so much.
	When I arrived here in 2008, we didn't have racial problems.
	America wasn't divided along race lines.
	There were individual racists here and there.
	Pockets of morons.
	But as a nation, race wasn't an issue.
	Eight years later, it had become one because of a man who saw political utility in exploiting a non-existent narrative of oppressor and oppressed, of bad white people and perpetual black and brown victims.
	There's no commonality, there's nothing to negotiate with when it comes to these people.
	Because they hate us, and they hate America, and we love it.
	I'm Sebastian Gawker.
	So much to share with you.
	Leaks from the Pentagon attacking Tucker Carlson Fauci's latest on what he did or didn't say about masks.
	One of the biggest funders for President Trump says he's not funding anybody next year.
	Why is that?
	Then female crash test dummies.
	Yeah, it's true.
	So much more.
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	Can you play five, six, and seven again in a row?
	The Uniparty Republicans.
	They're the ones who are really in bed with the left.
	It's the Democrats and the Republicans in the Uniparty who are pushing a globalist agenda.
	And they can't afford to have hosts who are pushing Americanism, who are America first and love this country.
	They can't afford to have a Tucker Carlson speaking out over the next year and a half because it will ruin their push toward globalism.
	So, I think it's very important, as you have heard from so many incredible leaders, for us at every moment in time, and certainly this one, to see the moment in time in which we exist and are present, and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past but the future.
	It's clear that the Speaker's bill breaks House Republicans' commitment to America.
	In the run-up to the 2022 election, House Republicans promised to put cops on the beat.
	Instead, they're fighting to put fentanyl on the street by defunding Border Patrol.
	Their proposal makes clear that only things House Republicans are committed to.
	Mic's off.
	Devin, greetings.
	Thank you.
	Very obvious right now that Fox News has become the establishment GOP, which is really the uniparty Republicans.
	They're the ones who are really in bed with the left.
	It's the Democrats and the Republicans in the uniparty who are pushing a globalist agenda.
	And they can't afford to have hosts who are pushing Americanism, who are America first and love this country.
	They can't afford to have a Tucker Carlson speaking out over the next year and a half.
	Because it will ruin their push toward globalism.
	The outspoken as ever, Carrie Lake.
	I've just invited her onto the show I will be guest hosting this evening.
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	So much news, so little time.
	A man who's been fighting for the truth in Congress, and now as the head of Truth Social, Devin Nunes.
	Welcome back to America First.
	Sebas, it's always a pleasure to be with you, and I love that music, that intro music that you have coming in.
	Thank you kindly.
	We have received numerous comments all the time from our Bumper Music and I do think you're right.
	I do think we have very good Bumper Music.
	Devin, let's talk about the news of the day.
	We've got to talk about your most important issue, closest to your heart I would believe, is the latest revelations about Hunter Biden, Biden corruption.
	But first, given the state of conservative media, given that you are a First Amendment platform at Truth Social, your reaction to the biggest cable host on an alleged conservative network being fired?
	Look, it's shocking.
	Like everyone I think is saying, I think the difference here is, is that Tucker Carlson is a guy who has put himself into a very limited group, a very exclusive group.
	I don't think there's been anyone around like him.
	I think you'd have to go back to Rush Limbaugh.
	Now, clearly, I think Tucker's politics and Rush Limbaugh's politics were a little bit different.
	Rush Limbaugh was strict conservative.
	Tucker's obviously has a little more of a libertarian bend to him, but he's one of those guys that's irreplaceable.
	And the other point that I've been making when I've been asked this question, and you know this very, very well, as do your listeners, This isn't six or seven years ago when after Roger Ailes left the company and Bill O'Reilly was let go by Fox, you know, at that time you basically just had Fox News and talk radio.
	Well, now you've had the advent of podcasts that have taken off, you know, so much so there's so many podcasts out there now that there's a, there's a flooded market.
	You had the rumble that came out cause before there was YouTube, but of course everybody was censored.
	Well now, Rumble is a home for free speech.
	And then you have a company like TruSocial, like us, that's able to amplify this message where we have this huge TruSocial audience out there that really is geared towards, you know, if their friend's sharing something on TruSocial and they go and watch a Seabass, Sebastian Gorka video, Rumble video.
	I mean, that didn't exist.
	I mean, actually, not only did that not exist six or seven years ago, it didn't even exist two years ago.
	So the landscape is changing.
	You know, look, Fox is a private company.
	They can do whatever the hell they want.
	It's not up to me.
	But I just think, you know, Tucker Carlson's gonna have a lot of places to go if he indeed wants to stay out there.
	All right, so let's slice this into two parts, because as somebody who fought for the truth as chairman of the Intelligence Committee against the Russia collusion hoax, having platforms, having non-legacy media-lying platforms, actual real ones, to get the message of truth out is essential.
	So what are your prognoses for The future of the conservative movement, given this decision by Fox, and let's start with Fox, the future of Fox.
	When we see, you know, Paul Ryan on the board, we see great patriots like Dan Bongino say, I'm sorry, I'm not re-upping my contract, I'm leaving.
	When we see them fire, not only Tucker, but, you know, my Salem colleague, Trish Regan, great patriots like Lou Dobbs.
	What's your prediction for the future of Look, it's a really good question.
	And it's about what's going to happen to the legacy media.
	And that's essentially what I was describing.
	That, you know, now this is a, at least for the center-right, let's just leave the legacy left-wing media alone and just look at the center-right.
	You know, there's a lot of competition out there.
	And, you know, look, at True Social, we'll promote whoever.
	We'll promote your show.
	We'll promote Fox News.
	We'll promote Newsmax.
	You know, we don't care.
	We're agnostic because why?
	We're free speech.
	I mean, hell, if MSNBC wanted to join the platform, sorry, it's past April Fool's Day.
	We know that's not happening.
	But this is not six years ago.
	So I believe that what's happened the last week, is really a tipping point for the legacy media, and it's going to usher in kind of a new era.
	It was already here.
	People were kind of, you know, you can sense it on places like True Social and Rumble, but this is just going to tip the card over.
	I really believe that, and I think you're going to see just more and more people that are going to go and find on-demand content that they want.
	Because the way that people receive their information on television, on radio, yes, there's still a lot of people out there, but it's wide open in terms of every single day, more and more people get apps on their phone and apps on their televisions, and it's changing the landscape.
	So the legacy media, whether they like it or not, it just doesn't exist anymore.
	And I think that This is going to speed it up in terms of, you know, Fox, I think, made a, you know, a very questionable decision.
	But like I said, it's up to them.
	It's their company.
	They can do whatever the hell they want.
	Yeah, they can, but probably the worst commercial decision since the White Star Line said the Titanic is unsinkable.
	Forget about the $800 million they paid to Dominion, they've lost $2 billion in stock valuation since they fired Tucker Carlson.
	Rupert, Rupert, Rupert, what are you doing?
	We're going to keep you over for one more segment.
	In the meantime, you better have an account on Truth Social.
	We do.
	You can follow us there.
	We're on every social media platform that matters, starting with Truth Social.
	We're on Twitter, Facebook, Parler, Getter, Telegram, you name it.
	But you've got to follow us on Truth Social.
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	As the former chairman of the Intelligence Committee, Devin, You probably aren't surprised by this but we mere mortals are that every week There's another Biden corruption story.
	Yesterday we had Miranda Devine on talking about how Hunter's probably living in the White House to hide from the process servers of his baby mama.
	Then we find out that there's more than 12 members of the family implicated in shady business dealings.
	My sources say that Hunter will be indicted on a lower level tax issue tomorrow or on Monday.
	Are we ever going to see any real justice in either the Russia collusion story or the Biden corruption story?
	If there's anybody who knows, it's got to be you.
	Yeah, I think the answer in the short run is no, we're not.
	We know that as history, as our guide path here, We are.
	It's been very clear that let's just take the Russia hoax.
	John Durham brings a couple indictments.
	You know, can't get them done in D.C.
	You take the Hunter Biden situation, and I think you're exactly right.
	The idea that we're now talking about tax charges when if that was Seabass, your laptop or my laptop, we would have been accused of probably a couple dozen crimes by now.
	And that would have happened, you know, back in 2019 or 20 or whenever the FBI got the laptop.
	So there is a two-tier justice system in this country.
	You hear President Trump talk about it.
	You've heard me talk about it for many years now, that this is the most important issue at the highest level.
	When you talk about problems in government that have to be solved, It's the corruption at the Department of Justice.
	And can it be fixed?
	This is the big question.
	So President Trump has announced he's between 20 and 30 points ahead of anybody else.
	Biden has announced if this is a fair rematch, without drop boxes and sucker bucks and everything else, President Trump wins.
	You're an insider.
	You've seen the sausage factory from the inside.
	Can a man, even of President Trump's forthrightness, Fix agencies and departments as utterly corrupt and rotten as the DOJ?
	Well, the short answer is that the only one that could do it would be President Trump.
	Yeah.
	Because he understands, unlike in 2016 when he was running, you know, I think President Trump believed at that time, and you know this because you were involved in the campaign back in those days, that, you know, he would come into Washington and Politics would kind of go by the wayside, but what we learned is the corruption that was bred under the Obama-Biden administration has rotted all of DC.
	Traditionally, it was kind of under control.
	It wasn't great at all.
	It was always a system that was moving to the left, but now it's a bureaucracy.
	The United States government is a bureaucracy that's dominated by the left.
	And they know exactly what to do to carry out the narratives.
	And that's what you've seen.
	And that with this latest corruption that's come out, you have seen as if we needed more corruption, more evidence of it.
	But you've seen how like Mike Morrell, of all people who I think you probably knew back in the day, I did too.
	I just realized from John Solomon's reporting that he was one of the early ones in 2016 to promote the Russia collusion conspiracy.
	He was also involved in Benghazi.
	Then you fast forward, oh, he's involved in calling the Hunter Biden laptop Russian disinformation, doing it under the direction of who?
	The current Secretary of State, Blinken.
	And he's doing that whilst he's acting director of the CIA.
	That's the point.
	That's right.
	And so he's doing it from that position of power.
	But they turn around, they double down and they do it again four years later in 2020.
	And they do it this time, not just to dirty up Trump.
	This was actually the opposite.
	This was to basically protect The Democratic candidate at the time, Biden, to protect his son from criminal charges.
	And, you know, because in any normal world, that would be so explosive that the FBI, like I said earlier, would knock down your door or my door tomorrow morning.
	And they'd be rightfully, they'd be right to do so.
	They go to a court, they go to a grand jury, they get a search warrant and boom, they'd be in our homes.
	But if your last name is Clinton or Biden, you have immunity.
	That's why we need good men like President Trump back in office and maybe Devin Nunes at the CIA.
	In the meantime, follow him on Truth Social at Devin Nunes.
	He'll be on with me tonight.
	I'll be hosting Newsmax at 9pm.
	Don't miss it.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
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	Tucker Carlson.
	Hi.
	Hunter Biden and the CIA.
	All right.
	All right.
	Yep.
	P-H-D.
	P-H-D.
	Oh, are we getting Matt on?
	Or is it phone?
	It's just phone, right?
	Uh, Jeff says he's about to dial him.
	Okay.
	Oh, it is phone.
	Okay, I'm gonna get a picture of him.
	Oh, it is Skype.
	Okay.
	Jeff says it's Skype.
	Ah!
	Very nice.
	Skypeage.
	I'm gonna use, um...
	The Cackler here with him, six.
	Six, yeah.
	But I'll tee it up after I do PhD.
	Tee it up after PhD, okay.
	Who's Elaine Chao?
	That's, isn't that McConnell's wife?
	I thought so.
	Yeah, that's McConnell's wife.
	She was Transportation Secretary, I think.
	Right, right, right, right.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	How could we forget?
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	Thank you, Mr. President.
	I think I know why Alex is playing the Mission Impossible music, because, um...
	I'm going to ask you in a moment to do something that is likely impossible to explain to me what Kamala Harris just said.
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	I'm going to enlist the assistance of a good friend of mine, Mr. Conservative Movement.
	He's the granddaddy of it all.
	He's the chair of the American Conservative Union, Mr. CPAC.
	Matt Schlapp, welcome back to America First.
	Great to be with you, Sebastian.
	Have you recovered?
	Have you slept for the last, since CPAC, what is it, the last couple of months?
	Four months.
	I have slept and let me tell you, Sebastian, the fight that we're in doesn't seem to get any easier.
	So I'm pretty focused on 2024 each and every moment.
	Good.
	All right.
	Well, you got to follow this man right now, M. Schlapp.
	We're going to talk about their latest latest version of their rating system for the people who are supposed to represent us here in the swamp.
	But first, join me in a little Mission Impossible.
	Can you tell me what Kamala Harris just said?
	Cut six.
	So, I think it's very important, as you have heard from so many incredible leaders, for us at every moment in time, and certainly this one, to see the moment in time in which we exist and are present, and to be able to contextualize it, to understand where we exist in the history and in the moment as it relates not only to the past but the future.
	Contextualize in the moment the history where we are standing and history context moment.
	Matt, what is she saying?
	I think she's a product of California public schools, Sebastian.
	She sounds like that woman, what was her name?
	Williams, who ran for the Democratic... Oh yeah, Marie Williamson, right, right.
	Doesn't she?
	I feel like she needs like a mood ring and some... Crystals!
	Crystals!
	Yeah.
	That's what she needs.
	All right.
	We tried.
	Sorry, we give up.
	Mission Impossible failed.
	I don't think even Tom Cruise could succeed that.
	By the way, can I say one thing, Sebastian?
	On front of the podium it says, Reproductive Freedom.
	I just want to make it very clear.
	None of us are trying to make Kamala Harris reproduce or not reproduce.
	We really don't care.
	They act like we all care to, like, get in all the intricacies of their life.
	We really don't care.
	We just want them to stop destroying the country, stop polluting the minds of our kids, and stop saying it's okay to kill unborn babies.
	Yeah, that podium, that sort of reproductive health, we don't care.
	Well, I don't really want to think about Kamala Harris having sex, especially with The way she started her career.
	But anyway, it's not about how much sex you have.
	We just don't care.
	Just don't kill babies.
	That's all we want.
	This is our extreme demand.
	Don't kill babies.
	All right, let's talk about the CPAC congressional ratings scorecard.
	Everybody needs to check it out.
	You need to go to the website.
	You need to check it out.
	Individual reps, your reps, your senators.
	But the big question I have for you, because you have the bird's eye view, it's what I ask all of the good guys on Capitol Hill, the few of them.
	Is the GOP, and you're part of this, perhaps the most significant guy outside of my former boss, is the party finally America first?
	Is the GOP ours?
	Is it a Patriots party?
	Not completely.
	You know, our ratings show that the United States Senate is only 40% conservative.
	We have a good group of senators and House members getting perfect scores from us.
	You know, let me just say this.
	America first.
	The idea that that's controversial within conservative circles with paleocons and neocons is outrageous.
	When you're a patriot, you always want to put your country first.
	And people quarrel with me because they say, well, why don't you just use the word conservative and stop there?
	Because I always say this is a fight to support the founding and the American system that we have, this beautiful country.
	And the very term America has become so polluted and controversial by the left as they try to destroy it.
	We got to rewind this argument that the flag is worth saluting and that America is worth defending and dying for.
	Once we rewind that argument, I'll talk to you about all the ways in which the best ways to cut capital gains and everything else are.
	But we've got to go back and refound this country and defend the very idea of America.
	Yeah, yeah.
	The idea that America first is something anybody could disagree with who's not an American is anathema.
	Let's ask the big question, the 800 pound gorilla in the room.
	Has the establishment done enough to secure the election so we don't have a redo of 2020, Matt?
	No.
	What has to happen and who is responsible?
	Whose job is it, man?
	Well, elections are governed at the state level, as we know.
	So, I mean, it's critical that we're successful in these state elections.
	And I really want to go after the U.S.
	Chamber of Commerce and some of these business interests.
	We just lost this Supreme Court race in Wisconsin, which, as we know, was, you know, their hands were in that cookie jar all over the election.
	You know, we're losing some of these races in these key states because the business community has decided to go woke and do things like stand behind Kamala Harris's podium there that says reproductive freedom, focus more on issues that don't impact businesses like Bud Light is experiencing, like Disney is experiencing, and not going about winning these elections that will allow for a climate So that companies can function without being sued left and right and being regulated to death.
	So we've lost some of those races.
	I think the RNC has to do a much better job of being legally ready for these fights.
	Adam Laxalt lost his race out in Nevada Not because he got fewer votes, in my opinion.
	I think he lost his race out in Nevada because the old Harry Reid machine votes for people, oftentimes without them even knowing they're voting for them, and continues to stuff these ballot boxes.
	It's un-American.
	It's undemocratic.
	Anytime a Democrat tells me, you know, we have to defend our democracy, well, how about this?
	How about you quit voting for other people and let people vote?
	Now, they have ballot harvesting in Nevada, but there are rules to the road on how you can do it.
	And the rules that are when they're open, the Republican Party has to do a much better job of being just as aggressive as the Democrats.
	But when the Democrats break the law, we should be very aggressive in courtrooms, and we have not been.
	Indeed.
	In the meantime, we salute you, Matt, for what you do every day at the American Conservative Union, and especially at CPAC, where we recharge our batteries as conservatives.
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	Are the next elections safe?
	Right?
	Yep.
	That's a good title.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	Do-do-do-do-do-do-do.
	Can you play me cut one?
	Cut One.
	That comment saying, you know, they work at the margins maybe 10% I think would raise a lot of eyebrows given so many people had to wear a mask whether they were on a plane, whether they were in certain public facilities.
	To hear that they only work at the margins maybe 10% would make a lot of people ask, okay, then why was I wearing a mask for so many times?
	You know, Caitlin, we got to be careful because if you read very carefully what I said, if you look at the broad public health effect, when you have masks that are so-called mandated are supposed to be worn because so many people don't wear them, even though they're in an arena in which masks are supposed to be worn even though they're in an arena in which masks are supposed to be worn or they don't wear them properly from a public health standpoint on the cohort of people, the effect
	Thank you.
	On the side of the U.S. Constitution, America first.
	Hey, Alex, did you get that off my playlist, my Spotify playlist?
	I did.
	I have around 500 new songs to work with.
	Oh, you're gonna have a fun weekend.
	That's Taxi, right?
	Yes, it is.
	I used to watch that show.
	I loved it.
	So cheesy, but I love it.
	Thank you.
	That took me back down memory lane.
	Taxi, you know about the yellow cab drivers, the comedy show?
	I bet they never thought that a crash test dummy had to have boobs.
	I guess Mayor Pete does.
	Cut four!
	I don't think it's woke to build good infrastructure.
	I just saw Fox News taking a run at me for the work that we're doing on safety, including the use of crash test dummies that simulate men, women, and children.
	And somehow this is considered a woke priority to have female crash test dummies, even though that's something that's been around for a very long time.
	So is he, I'm confused Jeff, is he like doing, he says because he's doing things, is he like bringing us female crash test dummies or have they been around for a long time?
	Because that means he isn't doing anything.
	That's what I couldn't get out of it.
	The whole story is that they spent, was it 10 or 20 million to be able to make female crash test dummies?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But they've been around for a long time according to Mayor Pete.
	So, I don't get it.
	Is he doing something or isn't he?
	He's either wasting money for no reason or he's trying to take credit for something that's been around forever, which is a typical politician.
	Train crashes, three a day, but female test crash dummies, they're the priority.
	I think we can say one thing for sure.
	You, Alfred E. Newman, are never going to be president.
	The man they said, oh yes, our first gay president!
	Not anymore.
	If the only way you can get into the news is test crash dummies with boobs, yeah, you're done.
	You're toast politically.
	Somebody who isn't somebody who's crushing it in the polls is President Trump.
	He is between 20 and 30 points before anybody else.
	Do you stand with him after what Alvin Bragg did to him?
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	I mean, seriously, I thought he retired.
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	Welcome back, dear friends.
	Where did that first hour go?
	That's insane.
	Two more to go.
	You don't want to miss former CIA operations officer Brian Dean Wright.
	He's going to give you the scoop on everything we've learned about the felonious 51, as my friend Chris Plante calls them, and whether or not we can actually reform the CIA.
	In the meantime, can we reform California?
	Let's ask my buddy.
	I'm going to see, when am I going to see you?
	What is it, in like three days time, Jen?
	Yeah, the countdown clock is on.
	We are just a few days away and the Unite IE Conservative Summit is on Saturday, April 29th in Ontario, California at the Doubletree by Hilton.
	If you haven't gotten your tickets, am590.info.
	Dr. G is one of our headliners and I can't wait for it.
	I think we're going to have a great time.
	I'm going to test how much of a radio professional you are without looking at your notes.
	I'm watching you on Skype.
	One of the headliners!
	You've got about 12 of them.
	Give us some of the other names.
	Yeah, you've got to hear this rundown.
	I'm really excited about this event.
	So, obviously, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, Officer Brandon Tatum, one of our colleagues here at Salem Radio, One of our former colleagues, Larry Elder, former host of the Larry Elder Show, now declared presidential candidate, is going to be there.
	We've got a law enforcement panel that we put together about public safety, about the fentanyl problem, about crime in California with former L.A.
	County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, the current sheriff of Riverside County, Sheriff Chad Bianco, the Riverside D.A., Mike Hestron, who's fabulous, you're going to love him, and they will be together on a panel.
	Assemblyman Bill Asale will be there, who is one of the great fighters trying to fight against the Democrat supermajority in Sacramento.
	Ken Timmerman, who is a journalist, foreign policy expert, will be there.
	A guy I cannot wait to see in person because I've never met him face-to-face before, Stephen Moore, who is everyone's chief economist.
	I mean, he's just great former advisor to President Trump as well.
	And Pastor Jack Hibbs, how could I forget, who is absolutely engaging and is trying to inspire Christians and people of faith not to fall asleep at the switch, not to stay on the couch, to get involved with the political process.
	Because in places like California, you cannot afford to stay silent.
	They're coming after our right to practice our religion.
	They are coming after our kids.
	And so Pastor Jack has been at the forefront of getting people involved in places where maybe they weren't before.
	It's going to be awesome.
	I have never met him so I'm super excited to meet him.
	He is so great.
	Big question while nobody's listening.
	Since he's declared for the presidency, how are you going to stop Larry from bogarting the mic?
	Well, here's the thing.
	We've given him his own time to talk because you know what was going to happen.
	If we put him on a panel, it would be like, yip yip yip yip yip.
	No, Larry's great.
	He's going to be, he'll be speaking during our lunch and then during the afternoon.
	What I'm excited about is that we have Yousef on a panel with Officer Tatum and then Bill Asaili from the Assembly.
	And I think it's going to be really neat.
	We're going to really focus in on what California, blue and purple states can do to make a change.
	How we can get some sanity back in the White House and really kind of navigating a path forward.
	So I think it's going to be really informative, inspirational.
	We all need it because everybody's now really focusing on the 2024 presidential race.
	You're putting me on a panel?
	Did I give you permission to put me on a panel?
	Do you want to be by yourself?
	No, no, no.
	I just love it.
	It's like I'm planning my... I'm not going to give it away.
	I'm guest hosting.
	I don't plan speeches.
	Are you kidding me?
	I haven't planned a speech in 20 years.
	I'm guest hosting tonight's Newsmax show at 9 p.m.
	and, you know, there are rules.
	You can't have this person panel.
	They have to be by themselves.
	Really?
	I mean, is it about America or is it not about America?
	All right.
	Let's talk about California.
	Where should we start?
	Should we talk about the National Guard, machetes?
	Let's do it.
	What should we talk about?
	Let's start with San Francisco and finish with the machete.
	What do you think?
	All right.
	So San Francisco has been getting a lot of attention.
	If you watch all the dreaded Fox News, they've been showing all week this picture of a Target store that is in San Francisco that has everything locked up.
	In my local drugstore is a Rite Aid.
	You go into like the deodorant aisle, everything is locked up there too.
	So this is not just unique to San Francisco, it's happening all throughout California, but it's because the crime and the rate of theft is so high that they're having to lock everything down.
	So that's been going on in sort of the forefront.
	In the background, The state legislature, Bill Asayle, who is going to be at UNITE IEA, was one of the members of the Republican caucus in the assembly that forced Democrats' hands to hold a public hearing on the fentanyl problem in California, mostly because of the open borders and because of the crime that's allowed to flourish here.
	Because they were able to do that, and that happens tomorrow, this public hearing in California on fentanyl, Gavin Newsom had to do something because he wants to run for president.
	He couldn't look like a weak, feckless leader.
	The one that he is, right?
	But he had to look like he was strong on crime.
	So because we've had so many fentanyl deaths, now he's decided in San Francisco that he is going to call in and deploy the National Guard to help clean up San Francisco, to help with the crime problem, and to help get the fentanyl off the streets.
	Now, that may seem great, and it may be something that he's going to be able to brag about in Iowa or somewhere in the middle of the country that may be thinking that Gavin Newsom is a little too loosey-goosey when it comes to crime.
	But the reason that he has to call the National Guard in is because of the policies that he has implemented in California.
	We wouldn't need the National Guard if not for these leftist policies.
	And by the way, every single city that has been run into the ground is connected to Gavin Newsom.
	Our DA, George Gascon, was handpicked by Gavin Newsom when he was mayor of San Francisco to hold positions within San Francisco.
	The former DA in San Francisco, Chesa Bodine, has connections to Gavin Newsom.
	The Attorney General was appointed by Gavin Newsom.
	So from every position that could have done something to clean up California, they all have Newsom's fingerprints on them.
	And now he's going to stand up today when he wants to run for president and say, we're going to bring in the National Guard?
	It's a little too late.
	Well, this is my question.
	I mean, how can this guy run for president?
	Is that just his ego?
	Or is that, in fact, a thing?
	Well, see, this is what I've said all along.
	I've had people come to me and say Gavin Newsom is a scary candidate.
	He's someone that Republicans shouldn't want Democrats to run.
	But I look at Gavin Newsom as just an empty suit.
	He looks good.
	He looks like a politician.
	Sometimes he sounds OK.
	But by and large, if you look at any of his policies, they're the reason that California is In the state that it's in right now, and that is almost unaffordable, crime everywhere.
	You have them propping up criminals instead of victims.
	It's insane.
	It's too expensive to buy a house.
	We have no water.
	They don't want to create a real plan for dealing with energy and with infrastructure.
	So I always look and say people are smart enough.
	They're going to understand Gavin Newsom is just an empty suit.
	It's because he looks good.
	I think people are scared.
	I just know that everybody that I've talked to, my family that live in the middle of this country, say, we don't live in California because we think they're jokes.
	So I don't know how Gavin Newsom is going to be able to shake that in the states that he would need to win in order to become president, because it's not just about New York and California.
	Well, maybe the machete wielders will vote for him.
	Tell us about this scary story.
	This is unbelievable.
	This is actually right down the street from where I am sitting today in Chatsworth, California.
	Seb, there was a man who was riding the train, the Metro, commuting.
	He was an inventor, standing at the train station, looking down at his cell phone, which never do.
	You've always got to stay aware of your surroundings.
	But he's looking at his text messages and all of a sudden he looks up and there's a homeless man with his hands in front of him trying to swing at him.
	He ducks.
	The guy catches him with a machete and slices a huge gash from his nose all the way towards his ear.
	Thankfully, the man was able to run.
	He ran to a local grocery store to try to get help.
	But this guy never caught, never prosecuted.
	And now the city of Los Angeles is being sued because this guy got slashed with a machete.
	He said when he was running away, he thought his face had been chopped off.
	Yeah.
	Imagine how scary that is.
	And now we have to pay his restitution, which he deserves, by the way.
	Right.
	But why should we have to pay when they should just clean up the problem?
	And the machete wielder is still on the loose.
	Still on the loose.
	Unbelievable.
	Yeah, facial injuries bleed like crazy.
	I'm sure the guy was completely freaked out.
	Where are we going to be on Saturday?
	We're going to be in Ontario, California, right near Ontario Airport.
	It is the Doubletree by Hilton Hotel, April 29th.
	The lunch starts at 11, the main program starts at 1, am590.info for tickets.
	And Brent has already told me on air he's coming.
	Are we going to see the rest of the regulars?
	Are they going to be there, Antoinette, everybody else?
	If they're not, I'll be so disappointed.
	And my buddy who always brings me the Star Trek toys and the James Bond toys.
	Oh, Daryl, he is the best.
	I think he'll be there too.
	All right, we shall see.
	He always gives us the good stuff.
	Come join us.
	Yeah, it's in my green room right now.
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	Can we kill the mics for a second?
	Can we kill the mics for a second?
	Can we kill the mics for a second?
	Can we kill the mics for a second?
	Why does the Daily Mail get all of these exclusives?
	It's my favorite publication.
	For anything that's breaking, they have the best stuff.
	I'm annoyed!
	Why?
	Because they have the best stuff?
	Because they're British.
	Watch the British paper.
	They're entrenched.
	I know.
	And the other one is, I just saw that in the Daily Mail.
	Yeah.
	Hunter Biden was in wine country this weekend.
	Apparently he left the White House.
	He left his crack pipe at home and went to wine country.
	Casa Robles?
	Yeah.
	No, he went to Santa Ynez.
	He was in Santa Barbara.
	Oh, wow.
	Okay.
	So he's not afraid of the process servers.
	What a disaster.
	What a disaster.
	He's gonna have to show up in court this week.
	That'll be amazing.
	It's just gonna be good, you know?
	Yep.
	Poor Miss Roberts.
	It's Roberts, right?
	Yeah.
	London Roberts, yeah.
	Poor Miss Roberts.
	So, what else is happening?
	Anything fun?
	My daughter's 26th birthday party invaded Manhattan.
	I walked far too many steps without my relief actor.
	A lot of fun, a lot of fun.
	My son started his first job because they won't let a white heterosexual male into med school.
	So he's working in an amazing brain cancer facility.
	Unbelievable story.
	Wow, good for him.
	And we've opened our pool, so if you're, you know, bring your swimsuit.
	Really?
	If you're in the area, yeah.
	The pool is open.
	How's the weather?
	Is it nice?
	It's really nice.
	It's a little chilly still, but it's beautiful, beautiful weather.
	Well, bring your shorts on Saturday.
	I want to see the Dr. G suit on top, shorts on the bottom.
	You want me to do a tucker, right?
	I want you to do a tucker.
	I want you to wear those dock siders and just fully, because it's going to be 90, I think, this weekend.
	Really?
	Which is the first hot weather we've really had in, you know, since last summer.
	So there you go.
	Summer's back.
	Do a little 80s trivia, some cannonballs in the kiddie pool.
	OK, good attendance expected?
	Yeah.
	We actually opened up more seats.
	Nice!
	Yeah, so that'll be great.
	All right, I'm doing a Mac.
	Let's do it.
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	Not only are you a media provider, you are an expert.
	You have the papers, you got the diplomas.
	We got to talk about Tucker for a second.
	Let's start with somebody who's gloating.
	Play the cut.
	Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News.
	Couldn't have happened to a better guy.
	What I will say, though, is while I'm very glad that the person that was arguably responsible for the Some of the largest, driving some of the most amounts of death threats and violent threats, not just to my office, but to plenty of people across the country.
	I also kind of feel like I'm, like, waiting for the cutscene at the end of a Marvel movie after all the credits have rolled, and then you see, like, the villain's, like, hand re-emerge out to grip over, like, the end of a building or something.
	But, Deplatforming works and it is important and um there you go.
	Oh yeah yeah there you go uh cancelled culture doesn't exist but yeah we got Tucker cancelled!
	Should she be gloating Jen?
	Deep platforming works.
	It just shows you how afraid they are of truth tellers.
	That's all it really boils down to.
	You know, I love when people say, Tucker Carlson was so hateful.
	President Trump.
	Oh, he's so hateful.
	All you have to do is say, give me an example.
	They never can, because all they want to do is just spread their own hate.
	Their own misinformation because they hate people that tell the truth.
	I had one of these cretins call in, I think it was this week.
	No, was it?
	No, last week.
	And you know, he said, you lie so much Gawker, you lie the whole time.
	And I said, live on air.
	I said, okay.
	Give me one example.
	I'll wait.
	He couldn't!
	They can't do it.
	You actually call into a show, millions of listeners, you're gonna charge the host with being an inveterate liar and you don't have one example?
	They're not very clever, are they, Jen?
	They are not very clever.
	And I love that she's still doing her influencer face.
	Now, many of you are listening on radio.
	If you're watching on Salem News Channel, what you might see is that she's doing her little sideway thing, her little duck lips, you know, touching her hair, going, I just can't believe he's gone.
	Tucker Carlson has more power than that video from AOC, than AOC even has.
	And if you want to talk about people who have done some fear-mongering and some lying, don't forget the person who just sent out that video that we just played, that you just played here, AOC, is the one who told us that we wouldn't even be here anymore because of global warming.
	Yes.
	Hang on, but she deleted that tweet, right?
	Well, then it must be okay.
	As long as you delete a tweet, it's totally fine.
	No, she saved the environment.
	She did.
	Well, maybe that's it.
	Maybe because she got elected.
	Just her being there.
	But isn't this the same woman who told us that on January 6th she's afraid of being raped or killed because of the people who are insurrectioning into the Congress when she was actually like four buildings over in another part of DC?
	Yeah, that's the same one.
	And you know what I love?
	What is absolutely delicious about the whole thing?
	Because we know, I mean, Fox is making it.
	That was a terrible decision that Fox made.
	And they're going to be OK for a while.
	I don't think their streaming platform will be OK without Tucker Carlson because he drove it all.
	But Tucker's gonna be fine.
	He's in the Daily Mail today, if you look at the pictures, smiling from ear to ear, driving the coolest, like, convertible golf cart, hanging out with his wife.
	He's got a great house.
	He's got a family.
	He's gonna be okay.
	And by the way, he can come back in any medium that he wants to, and people will follow him and listen to him.
	That being said, what makes it delicious is that nobody cares that Don Lemon got fired on the same day.
	Yes, although I want to know, why do Don Lemon and Tucker Carlson have the same lawyer?
	It must be a very good lawyer.
	That must be right.
	But I think it's so funny that Don Lemon, like nobody cares.
	Liberals are more excited about Tucker Carlson.
	Conservatives are more upset about Tucker Carlson.
	Nobody cares that Don Lemon was going.
	In fact, I think that CNN probably just said, you know what?
	We know that they're going to get rid of Tucker today.
	We better just slip in Lemon.
	We've been wanting to get him out for a while.
	And nobody cares.
	It's like a tree falling in the forest.
	No one's there.
	Does it even make a sound?
	He's gone.
	So quick question, as the expert on communications, on media, What advice would you give to Tucker right now?
	I would tell him to enjoy his life, but not stay away from the spotlight too long.
	And truly, I think, and I'm not the first person to say this, I think there are two avenues where Tucker could be very powerful.
	The first is if he launched kind of his own empire, since he's doing all of his own content anyway.
	I think that he would be more impactful than even Joe Rogan at this point, who has proven himself to be a force as well.
	So I think there's that in front of him.
	But I also do not hate the idea of a Trump Carlson ticket.
	I really don't.
	I would love to see it.
	I think it's highly unlikely, but I wouldn't hate it.
	The guy who – you read the interview he gave, I don't know, like two months ago about his life.
	He sits in his house in Maine or Florida.
	He gets up when he wants, walks the dog, sits on the porch drinking his coffee as he plants his mono.
	Why the hell would you give that up?
	Why would he want it?
	I know.
	That's why I say I think it's unlikely, but I'd love to see it.
	I think he's got enough money, he is comfortable, and he has got enough power and interest that he should take a couple weeks off, not wait too long because people forget real fast, even when you're Tucker Carlson, and then start his own podcast, start his own video streaming, do something where he can go in-depth and actually do the deep dives into stuff that matters to him and to all of us.
	And the future of Fox, Jen?
	I think the future of Fox Cable is going to be OK until cable is no longer OK.
	But I do believe that their streaming platform is in big trouble, Seb.
	It was all driven by Tucker Carlson, and there is no way that it was even doing that well with him.
	It is not going to be OK without him.
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	Now I have a very exciting guest in studio because I listen to recommendations if my muse tells me, you need to talk to that person.
	Or if I want to get in touch with another demo, you know, a younger crowd, I listen to my kids.
	And when my son says, you know, you've got to check out this YouTube channel.
	It's amazing.
	The stuff this guy knows and the truth he spreads about things that other people know nothing about, like the war in Ukraine, you've got to reach out to him.
	When the man says yes, we get very excited here at America First.
	So it's Ryan Macbeth.
	The YouTube channel is Ryan Macbeth Programming.
	It's 704,000 followers already and he's here on America First.
	Ryan Macbeth, welcome in studio.
	Thank you so much for inviting me.
	My brother really loves your show.
	Good!
	Well, hopefully you will too by the end of the interview.
	We'll talk about what you do.
	I've got some amazing questions for you that I know you'll be able to answer.
	But tell us a little bit about yourself because you don't have the average YouTuber background because for like 20 odd years you were doing something very serious.
	I was a heavy weapons infantryman.
	And while I was in the military, I went to school for computer science.
	So I got a bachelor's degree in computer science and a master's in engineering management, which is kind of like an MBA for engineers.
	And then I left the military and I started working writing software.
	And now I write software that helps keep soldiers safe.
	Nice.
	I'm very proud of that job.
	So, how did you get to be doing YouTube analysis of what's going on in Ukraine?
	Well, in my current job, I do something called C4ISR, Command Control Communications Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance.
	Basically, we find bad guys and we give that information to our clients, so our clients can decide courses of action for those bad guys.
	So, I used to have a programming YouTube channel.
	I talk about software, and I still do.
	But for a number of years, I would do videos on how to write software, how to answer interview questions for software developers.
	And it was doing okay.
	I had like 5,000 subscribers.
	I enjoyed it.
	It kept me up to date with software.
	And then the war in Ukraine kicked off, and people asked, why do tank turrets keep popping off?
	And so I did a YouTube video explaining why tank turrets popped off and it got millions of views.
	And I'm thinking like, oh wow, okay.
	I guess you guys really want to see this, not necessarily the software stuff.
	So I know a little bit about heavy weapons.
	It was really just random luck that I was in the right place at the right time and I could talk about this stuff.
	All right, let's dive straight in.
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	What's different about the last 14 months?
	Because, you know, Clausewitzians will say the nature of war never changes, just the way we prosecute it.
	Is there anything really different?
	Have UAVs changed the battlefield?
	Or is this just war as usual, Ryan?
	That's an excellent question.
	I think that this war is a little bit different because just about everybody fighting has a cell phone in their pocket.
	And they can record what's going on.
	They're recording what's going on through a GoPro.
	And so footage is getting out and people can use that footage in near real time as targeting data.
	So open source intelligence, GPS, you know, marked video can actually be of Intel utility in real time.
	Absolutely it can.
	There was a case where a Russian soldier took a picture and put it on their equivalent of Facebook showing their location, you know, just like, hey, we're staying at this house.
	Well, Ukrainians took a look at this photo and they figured out where he was staying just by using open source intelligence, Google Maps, or just personal knowledge of the area, and they called in a HIMARS strike on that guy's location.
	So who's exploiting it best?
	Is it the Ukrainians as the underdogs?
	Because we had Russia at second position in the world, Ukraine at 22nd.
	It seems as if the Ukrainians are doing quite well.
	Is it because of this approach to new technologies?
	I certainly believe so.
	One of the things that Ukraine has done, and Ukraine actually has A lot of good software engineers in Ukraine.
	I've worked with them personally.
	And one of the things that Ukraine has done is they did something that I never think we'll ever see in the U.S.
	Army.
	They created an Uber app for artillery.
	Are you kidding?
	I've had arguments with people over this, but the Russian Army does have forward observers, but they tend to only be in airborne units or special operations.
	Russia doesn't tend to train people on how to use artillery, how to integrate artillery in with the average infantry, combined arms force.
	That's slowly starting to change.
	But, Russia's really good at pre-planned fires.
	If you want to do assault, remove that grid square, they're really good at that.
	Basically, anything that takes professional officers, Russia's usually pretty good at.
	Anything that takes NCOs with initiative, that's another issue.
	That's a NATO thing.
	That's a Ukrainian thing.
	All right.
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	- 'Cause we're not gonna have enough time for all the questions. - Yeah. - What question do you get asked the most?
	Do you read all the comments?
	I don't have time to read all the comments.
	I try to read some comments.
	YouTube has a pretty good algorithm where you can filter by questions.
	Sometimes people's questions in the comments will get That'll turn into another video.
	That's how I go like, oh, people want to know this.
	Sometimes people write me.
	Right.
	Usually it's people reach out to me through Twitter, through email, sometimes through the comments on YouTube, and they'll ask me a question and I'll go research that and give them an answer if I don't know the answer off the top of my head, which I don't know everything.
	Do you enjoy doing it?
	The YouTube thing?
	It's a cruel mistress.
	I like writing software.
	I like my current employer.
	I like them a lot.
	My project is actually ending on the 30th, and I would like to stay with my current company and find a new role, find a new project in that company and help keep America safe.
	But I guess it could be a thing, but like I said... Why is it a cruel mistress?
	I'm curious.
	There is constant pressure.
	It's just literally constant pressure to put stuff out.
	Like content, content, content, content, content.
	And literally all I do is I work my regular job.
	I do YouTube and I work out.
	Believe it or not, I do work out and I sleep.
	That's literally all I do.
	That's my entire... And people have asked me like, hey, do you want to join my clan on this video game?
	Or do you play Escape from Tarkov?
	What's a video game?
	What's a, you know, like, do you want content?
	Yeah, do you want content or not?
	Right, right, right.
	There was a guy who reached out to me to do a three-gun match.
	Are you a shooter?
	I own a, I'm not a gun guy.
	I own a pistol.
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	Patriot mobile.
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	I own a.
	I own a couple of pistols.
	I concealed carry my Sig.
	320?
	What do you carry?
	I carry a .365 XL.
	It fit my hands best.
	I got Trump hands, you know, so I needed a smaller pistol that actually I could get my hand around that thing.
	The Sig .365 is very popular.
	I really like it, but Regan, I don't have a ton.
	Well, that's...
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	In toto, how long have you been with me?
	I just recently celebrated exactly four years at America's Day.
	Four years!
	We better give you some kind of medal or something.
	How many guests has that been, would you say?
	At least, what, 400, 500?
	A lot.
	I wouldn't be surprised if it was closer to the thousand range.
	Alright, maybe a thousand.
	Has any guest arrived in studio with gifts for the host?
	Like this bottle of rye whiskey.
	Has any guest done that, Eric?
	That is a first.
	This is a first.
	I think we have to invite him back.
	He is Ryan Macbeth, the host of Ryan Macbeth Programming, an amazing YouTube channel.
	He has a very, very modest goal.
	He wants to be the Neil deGrasse Tyson of military strategic open source intelligence.
	And he's, I think he's already there.
	Ryan, I got a question for my son.
	Big strategy guy.
	He's the guy that got you here on this show.
	What is the nature of the challenge in Ukraine as a heavy weapons guy who's analyzing the open source intelligence?
	The saying goes, apocryphal I think, Napoleon said, amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics.
	Can Ukraine logistically Do what needs to be done.
	I certainly believe so.
	One of the packages that the President sent to Ukraine are trucks.
	These are LMTV trucks.
	Now, some of them should be towing howitzers, but trucks and trailers.
	Now, trailers are... I could talk trailers all day.
	So, when you have a regular military truck, you burn a certain amount of fuel on that truck.
	But, you put a trailer on that truck, you double the capacity With the same fuel?
	A little bit more.
	But double payload.
	Right.
	Yeah, you'll lose like 8% of your fuel. - But double payload. - But double payload.
	And that's something the Ukrainians have.
	I very rarely ever see Russia, Russian trucks, with trailers.
	It's just not something that they do.
	They exist.
	I know they have to exist.
	- Right.
	- 'Cause they have heavy equipment transporters.
	- That's weird. - But you'd never see Russian trucks with trailers.
	And their challenge, their supply chain, is much longer, right?
	It is far longer, and a lot of it's by rail.
	So once it gets to the terminus, they have to load those things on trucks.
	Another thing Russia doesn't do is they don't palletize.
	So how do they just chuck it in?
	They're just moving it through a bucket brigade.
	Men are picking up crates and moving it.
	One of the containers and pallets.
	Containers and pallets run the world.
	And a lot of NATO's supply chain has been palletized.
	And they have, or they ship containers.
	Even down to the individual rounds.
	Individual 155 shells, they should come in a plastic container that have a grab handle on them.
	And you can grab that thing and move it around.
	So there are a number of advantages that Ukraine has.
	So are you feeling optimistic for Kiev?
	These are numbers games as well.
	There's the meat grinder, there's the old Soviet way.
	How do you feel right now?
	Given the last 14 months, given the fact that Mark Milley said, you know, Kyiv will fall in 72 hours, they're doing pretty well.
	They are.
	They are.
	A lot of it is, well, number one is fighting spirit.
	You can't really put a price on a Spirited Corps.
	They have the will to fight.
	The second thing is that Russia, no nation has ever had to fight a missile like the Javelin.
	And you might think that's a small thing, it's a small component, but the Javelin was essentially the first anti-tank missile that you can shoot, and its computer brain will automatically, and then you can run away.
	Nobody's ever had to deal with that before.
	Don't shove Russia into a meat grinder right there.
	Because the javelins could just pick them off.
	Now here's the question.
	As a result of that, is artillery no longer the king of the battlefield?
	No, artillery is more important than ever.
	Especially long-range artillery.
	Precision fires.
	I don't know this for certain.
	It is actually my belief that Ukraine is going to use some of the Bradley fighting vehicles that the United States has donated essentially as mobile spotting units You said this like a week ago in one of your videos, right?
	Absolutely.
	And it's because... So, palletization is important.
	Logistics are important.
	ISR.
	ISR is king.
	ISR.
	Intelligence.
	Eyes in the sky.
	Intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance.
	Not necessarily in the sky.
	On the ground.
	As well.
	Drones, have they changed everything?
	Drones have changed a lot.
	Cheap drones.
	So the cheap drone thing is something I never thought I would see.
	The fact that you saw in the first month footage of people, you know, sending packets of commercial drones to the Polish border so the Ukrainians could use them.
	Absolutely.
	Nobody predicted that.
	Do you know how they drop those grenades?
	They just, they turn the light on.
	There's a lot.
	One switch.
	And it's one switch, five volt switch.
	Instead of going to the light, you go to the solenoid.
	Solenoid, boom.
	Release it.
	Genius.
	So it is genius.
	A lot of what Ukraine is doing, some of it is built out of necessity.
	But they got a lot of good engineers over there and they're highly motivated to defend their country.
	You're optimistic?
	I am optimistic.
	I don't know if we're going to see a surrender on a battleship.
	I don't really envision that.
	What I envision is, I think Ukraine will counterattack.
	They have to.
	But can they take Crimea?
	That's the big question, right?
	I don't know.
	So there's a couple of options.
	There's a couple of scenarios here.
	The best case, worst case, and most likely.
	I think the best case scenario is Ukraine counterattacks and Russia just starts collapsing.
	They start collapsing.
	If they start collapsing, Ukraine might be able to take back Crimea, but Crimea, it's the size of Massachusetts, man.
	It's big.
	It's big.
	And then you gotta do an amphibious operation over a water obstacle.
	It ain't gonna hold it.
	And you're going into wire-mined obstacles.
	That's hard.
	So they might not be able to do that, but it's theoretically possible.
	Then there's the worst-case scenario.
	The worst-case scenario is Ukraine counterattacks.
	And they can't get very far because of Russian defenses and they stall and NATO isn't going to fund them forever.
	They got maybe six to nine months to show progress or else NATO will say we're done.
	All right, we are getting all the analysis.
	He is the Neil deGrasse Tyson of open source intelligence.
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	Like, really?
	I can't believe it.
	That's so parochial.
	So, I understand.
	Like, there's some people who... But it's tribal.
	- Really?
	I can't believe it, that's so parochial.
	- So, I understand.
	Like, there's some people who-- - But it's tribal, it's dumb. - There are some people who don't like the idea of talking to someone who doesn't believe in exactly what they believe politically.
	And I'm really not political.
	There was an election for governor in Maryland late back in November.
	I actually didn't know that.
	I didn't realize until like a day before.
	Oh crap, I gotta go vote!
	Like, that's literally how much I pay attention to politics.
	I mean, I had heard about the Fox News settlement with Dominion.
	And I didn't even know that was going on.
	I think I'm like in my own world.
	Like, I literally YouTube, intelligence analysis, work, exercise, sleep.
	That's it.
	That's all I do.
	And you know, when you think about it, you If your brain has a certain number of processor cycles, how many cycles are you wasting worrying about stuff that you can't control?
	That you have no control over.
	Are you about to go on?
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	This has been far too much fun.
	We have to get him back.
	Orion Macbeth.
	His YouTube channel is superb.
	If you're into open source intelligence, if you want to know what's going on in Ukraine, if you want to listen to somebody who actually knows what he's talking about, Listen to Ryan and I want to salute him right now not just for his more than two decades service in the US military but also because He doesn't care about idiots, meaning he'll come on my show, even though people say, why would you go on a show that a conservative runs?
	Because we're not here to talk politics.
	We're here to talk about war.
	And God bless you, Ryan.
	Ryan, a couple of minutes left.
	What and why advice would you give to anybody in any field, but who wants to become a content provider in YouTube?
	Because in the breaks, you've been telling me it's a tough life.
	It's a tough mistress.
	Tell us one thing that surprised you or you didn't expect.
	When you launched into this becoming a YouTube content provider who's supremely successful.
	I had no idea how much time it was going to take out of my life.
	It is literally all I do.
	I work.
	I work my regular job.
	Because you've got a day job.
	I have my day job where I do C4ISR intelligence work.
	Supporting our warfighters.
	Supporting the warfighters.
	I do that and then I Come home, I do YouTube, I go to sleep, I wake up, I exercise.
	The reason I'm always in my bathrobe when I do some videos is that it's early in the morning!
	So if I have coffee, it's probably the morning.
	If I have rye whiskey, it's probably nighttime.
	Alright, so the amount of time, the sheer amount of time that it takes to provide content, that would be a warning.
	That would be, it is amazing how much time it takes to do a good video.
	Roughly, it takes about an hour to do one minute.
	It depends on what you're doing, but for me, if I, let's say I'm talking about, I did a video today on the AC-130J, which is a gunship.
	And so now I gotta find the stock footage.
	I don't have a producer.
	I don't have any interns.
	It's just me.
	One hour a minute.
	That is dedication.
	So if I do, I mean, it varies, right?
	Based on what I'm doing, but it evens out of that.
	Plus, I gotta do research.
	Yes.
	So if I'm doing a video about Sniper School, you know, I paid almost $8,000 to fly out to Fort Benning on Easter weekend in order to... With your real camera so you look like a journalist.
	With my real camera so I look like a journalist.
	When is that coming out?
	I need to see the Sniper School video.
	When's that coming out?
	Hopefully at the end of, at the beginning of May.
	Alright.
	You should see the Sniper School.
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	Actually, if you just do at Turacova.
	Turacova.
	So, I mean, I wouldn't call us friends.
	But, um... This one.
	Turacova.
	It's Turacova, you're right.
	So she is a Russian... No, it's... Oh, it's for the Instagram, right?
	No, it's sort of... How about I just send...
	Yeah.
	So she analyzes stuff linguistically.
	So she'll, like, listen to one of my speeches.
	Oh, great.
	And go, well, he actually said this word, but he means this.
	Right.
	And that is just not something that, as Americans, we really have access to.
	We don't pay attention to it.
	No.
	Is this actually a wall monitor?
	Yeah, it went live, uh, on radio across the nation, then on our Rumble 3, and then I'll send you the video link, uh, to, uh... Hey, Eric, do you have a copy of War?
	Yeah, on the other side.
	Can you grab it?
	I want to give you something.
	Yeah, sure.
	Do you want me to record it here, or over there?
	For what?
	We've got to catch the teleliners.
	Put them over there, two spots.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Could you tell, um, Branson to just write it?
	what what
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	I never thought we would arrive at that, especially as an immigrant, a legal immigrant to this nation.
	Let's talk to a man who knows.
	The Wilderness of Mirrors, as Jesus James Angleton called it.
	From the inside, he's a good buddy, former CIA operations officer, Brian Dean Wright.
	It's been too long.
	Welcome back to America First.
	Always a pleasure, sir.
	Always a pleasure.
	Where shall we begin?
	Well, let's start with you since it's been a minute.
	Tell the world who Brian Dean Wright is and why he has a new podcast.
	Where have you been that you've got to this point in your life today?
	Give our three and a half million viewers a little bit of insight into Mr. Wright.
	Yes, so just after the 9-11 attacks, I and about 20 other very good people started working at the agency, the CIA, in a very small program that basically was for younger officers to develop into more senior officers.
	So I started just after 9-11 attacks, served the country for a good number of years, left just Before the 2016 elections and dipped my toes in front of a camera, even though I've been trying to hide from cameras for years doing operations, and started doing more media work because I was increasingly concerned by what I saw to be really terrible leadership in this country.
	And I think the past seven years or so we've seen some of that, haven't we?
	And that leadership that I think is so terrible is extended from the intelligence community, I'm sorry to say.
	People like John Brennan and James Comey and others from the CIA and the FBI, respectively, And so in the past couple of years, I've been doing a lot more media work.
	You have been so gracious to have me on.
	And now I've started my own podcast called The Right Report, like my last name, W-R-I-G-H-T.
	It's mostly news, very little opinion and analysis.
	But I want to help people understand the world.
	And then, yes, we will also be talking about some domestic issues.
	But it's a really frightening time, I think, what's happening in different places around the world, but most especially here in this country, where former President Trump has correctly said that I think our greatest threat It's actually internal, our own internal enemies trying to destroy this country.
	Brian, in prepping for today's show, I listened to an interview you did recently with my buddy Buck Sexton, who also worked at the CIA.
	Let's start with something you discussed with him there.
	As somebody who still has a clearance, who worked in British military intelligence when I was in the UK, there's a certain external understanding or conventional wisdom about the intelligence community and what the CIA did as good guys, especially during the Cold War.
	You know, I still meet young people who are interested in national security and they say to me, I want to work for the FBI, I want to work for the CIA.
	I counsel them not to today for the reasons that we will elaborate later, but talk to us about what the CIA was like when you were inside it before you saw all those disturbing things.
	So give us an example of the institution as was.
	Boy, I'll tell you.
	I was trained by the men and women that you just talked about, the Cold War warriors who worked at the CIA, battled against the Soviets, battled against communism.
	They were the ones who trained me.
	That was back in 2000, 2001, 2002.
	They brought a lot of those old dogs back into the fight.
	And they were an incredible people.
	And I will tell you, in those very early days, in the first year or two, after we'd just been hit by these terrorists out of the Middle East, There weren't enough people on board for the fight.
	And so there were young folks like me, age 24, 25.
	We were being put into, you know, trying to decipher some of the laptops that we were capturing.
	We were listening to some of the phone calls.
	We were trying to prevent terror attacks.
	And the only thing that we were focused on was that, the mission.
	There was no politics.
	Nobody talked about being Republican or Democrat or, you know, black and white or gay or straight, any of that stuff.
	It was all about the mission.
	And these guys, I'm telling you, I worked with a lot of the old Soviet or the old Cuban hands.
	Boy, they were some tough guys going up against Castro and that regime.
	So, good, good men trained a lot of those folks who are now at the agency at their age 40s and 50s.
	So, there are still some good people left, but boy, a lot of terrible stuff is happening.
	Now, help us understand, you don't have to give names, but let's be very clear that To have somebody rise to the political appointment as director of the CIA under Obama, who joined the CIA
	And in his interview polygraph, he's admitted this actually in an interview for CNN, if you don't believe me, you can look it up right now, to have somebody like John Brennan, who admitted in his polygraph at his interview to having voted for the communist candidate for President Gus Hall, to actually not only be hired by the CIA, but eventually rise to the ranks of of the director is shocking in and of itself.
	When I look at other entities like the FBI that I know much, much more intimately, having trained a lot of the special agents and intelligence analysts at the FBI, I see the problem of late, and I don't want to oversimplify it, that the politicization of the Bureau, at least, was a function in large part of non-agents, non-professional law enforcement officers being
	given political positions on the seventh floor of the Hoover building, coming in with a pre-existing political mindset, and they distorted the ecosystem of the agency under them.
	That's the Bureau.
	I've seen that.
	What happened at the CIA?
	If you say it was good guys fighting our enemies, a lot of them exiles from Cuba and elsewhere – Where did the rot creep in?
	What was the transmission belt that turned the CIA into an organization where the acting director can work, as we now know, with the Biden administration to gin up a fake letter about the Hunter Biden laptop story being Russian disinformation?
	Did you see any vectors?
	What happened inside the CIA?
	How did it become corrupted?
	Well, I think you started to see a change in the American culture, and that seeped into a lot of the applicants who then became junior and then more senior officers.
	I think that's a part of it.
	But then there was this encouragement, I think, inside the building by some of these senior officers to actually focus less on the mission and more on bringing what they called your whole self, right?
	Bring your politics, bring whatever you may feel about your sexual orientation or your religion.
	You bring all of that to work and talk about it.
	Almost make the agency part of your therapy sessions.
	And I started seeing a lot more of that after the Obama years really got into high gear, John Brennan and others.
	That leadership started to change, the culture, the applicants started to change because the culture was rotting, if I may.
	And so I see those two things really precipitated the moment that we're at now.
	How did that infection of politics and we've seen the transgender gay recruiting ad for the CIA recently.
	Why is that a problem?
	How does that change the way that the intelligence community should be doing its job?
	All right, let me give you a couple of recent examples of things that are happening right now inside Lane.
	There is a transgender officer who is a man who believes that they are a woman.
	They come into work wearing a British schoolgirl skirt.
	They wear very tight tops and they wear blue hair.
	And it is their belief, this man who believes himself to be a woman, it is his belief that he is experiencing violence at the workplace because people stare at him.
	And he's complained about it.
	And yet, might it be that people are staring at you because you're a man who's middle-aged and wearing a British schoolgirl skirt?
	Yes, probably.
	The other thing that this individual is talking about and is expressing outrage over to the senior leadership of the agency is that as a trans person, this man is saying they see Donald Trump stickers on cars out in the parking lot.
	And every time they have to see that, this trans woman, or what have you, says that's a form of violence for them.
	How can they possibly work in that environment, right?
	So these kinds of people are now throughout the CIA.
	I can give you other examples as well.
	But the point is, they're focusing not on mission, not on protecting the country.
	They're focused on them, what they need, creating a safe space for their truth.
	Right?
	That is the part that is dangerous because now we're being distracted within the intelligence community about all these silly things that have nothing to do with the mission.
	That's the cost.
	When you start hiring those kinds of people, that's the cost to the nation.
	Which very simply means you cannot do the job that you are sworn to do.
	The agency is meant to analyze threats to this country, is meant to provide the best intelligence estimates of those threats to the Chief Executive.
	People don't understand.
	The classification system, the clearances, the intelligence community exists for one reason and one reason alone.
	To help the man in the White House make the right decisions to protect all Americans, irrespective of their political identity.
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	You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.
	So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he's being really dumb to do this.
	What do you think the intelligence community would do if they were motivated to?
	I don't know, but from what I am told, they are very upset with how he has treated them and talked about them.
	Brian, it's a kind of evergreen cut for us.
	That's the most senior Democrat in the Senate who is still in office and on that show openly threatens or says the intelligence community will take revenge on the person who's been elected by 64 million Americans to be their president.
	When you heard that clip, Or when you heard, for example, the former director of the CIA say explicitly, your former boss, that the person chosen as president, Donald Trump, my former boss, is treasonous, quote-unquote treasonous, meaning that he is a traitor.
	As an intelligence professional, just give us your raw reaction when you heard those.
	So that first clip, my God, to this day, that just shocks me and makes my skin crawl.
	If we have a senior leader, the most senior leader in the Senate saying that we have an out-of-control intelligence agency or community that are targeting our political leaders for retribution, there should have been immediate hearings to say, Well, let's change that.
	Let's stop that.
	Let's throw everybody out.
	Let's, you know, take all the leaders and remove them.
	Let's limit the number of people that they can hire, take away their powers.
	That should have been like a five alarm bell for the health of the Republic.
	But it wasn't.
	It was said with this degree of shmarminess, of like, well, hey, look, at least they're targeting the bad guy that we don't like, so it's good enough for us.
	To this day, I'm telling you, I think that he was correct in saying that there are some weaponized parts of the IC, of the intel community, and we should be very nervous about that.
	In fact, it should be a crisis.
	We should fix it.
	But he's celebrating it.
	So to this day, I'll tell you, that clip should be played over and over again until people really understand the magnitude of what this guy was saying.
	He was celebrating the revenge that the intel community can levy on politicians.
	Nightmarish stuff.
	Let's take politics out of it.
	We can look at this purely as national security professionals.
	Let's get a little bit wonkish, if I may.
	There are liaison services.
	There are the technical term for those intelligence agencies we work with beyond the five eyes and our real close buddies like the Brits and the Canadians and everybody else.
	What is the effect of a statement like that from Schumer or from Brennan on relationships with liaison services, or even worse than that, I think of walk-ins, people who, oh I don't know, you're a member of the Russian elite and you want to help us, you want to tell us the truth about what's happening in Ukraine, what's happening with Putin, or you're a potential North Korean defector who is about to, what, risk his life to work with us.
	When they hear that, what is the effect on Our national security and our relationships either with liaison services or potential walk-ins.
	Yeah, such a fantastic question.
	So let's talk about the first part, which is, what's the message to other countries and their intelligence service when they hear Chuck Schumer say, yeah, the CIA and others can basically take out American politicians?
	It basically tells them that when we lecture everybody around the world about democracy, you know, and making sure we have rule of law, well, actually, America isn't practicing that themselves.
	And so these intelligence services are actually emboldened in different places around the world to do what they want to do, because they can be just like the CIA, right?
	Or just like the NSA or others, right?
	So it is a dangerous precedent for people like Chuck Schumer or others in Washington to celebrate this political beast that has become the intel community.
	It's a very dangerous thing, right?
	Especially by people who say they love democracy.
	Not true.
	The second piece is what it tells people that are called walk-ins, as you rightfully say.
	These are just individuals who want to help America and volunteer their services.
	They're saying to themselves, well, maybe these people aren't going to protect me if I get wrong with a certain politician or political party.
	It's not about me trying to help America.
	Now I have to be very careful about how I'm perceived about helping Republicans or the Democrats.
	So, you know, maybe I'm not even going to do it at all.
	Maybe I'm not going to volunteer.
	Maybe I'm not going to help America at all.
	Because I don't want to get wrong with the CIA, right?
	So that's the other impact that this eventually has out in the field about people who want to help America.
	So across the board, you are absolutely right to say when politics gets infused inside the CIA and the NSA, the massive ramifications, not only for the health of our republic, but democracies and other governments all around the world.
	What happens to people like yourself?
	You've decided to tread your own path, but give us a little bit of an insight.
	If you're a good guy and you're inside the CIA, NSA, DIA, what have you, what happens to the good guys who are inside the machine and just want to do their job and don't want the politics to be a matrix above their work?
	Do they have any options?
	How do they survive?
	So I think there are two things happening from folks that I have still talked to on the inside.
	Two things.
	First, they just try to keep their head down, right?
	They focus on operations and they try to avoid all the kerfuffles around politics and all the backstabbing.
	They usually don't get promoted.
	That's the ugly truth.
	They don't get to what's called the Senior Intel Service or SIS level.
	Right.
	They might get a promotion here or there, but they don't rise to senior levels.
	And that's a bad deal, because the smartest, the best operators are not necessarily leading the agency.
	You've got a bunch of these political beasts and animals who are.
	So I think that that's what some people are doing.
	The other, to be honest with you, they're just leaving.
	They're putting in their 5 or 10 years and they're saying, I can't do another 10 or 15 before I can retire.
	I got to get out.
	This is not why I signed up.
	I signed up to fight terrorists and defend the country on 9-11 or push back against Iran or North Korea or China.
	That's what most people now are so focused on.
	But this politics stuff and this protecting of people that has nothing to do with mission, nothing to do with protecting the country, I can't do it.
	I'm out.
	I'll go do something else.
	So I think that's what's happening.
	Those two things, keeping heads down or just getting out.
	And then who's left inside the building, Brian?
	The worst of the worst.
	I mean, that's the ugly truth.
	You have people who are leading the agency who are not the best and brightest.
	And then your middle and lower level folks are these wokesters who are being recruited by now this whole new generation of officers who says, bring your full self and talk about your sexual orientation or your religion and not the mission.
	That's what we're going to have to fix.
	New presidential leadership is going to have to bring in a new director, fire a whole bunch of people and not start all the way from scratch, but darn close to it.
	Yeah, what does it mean to fix an organization that's been around since 1947 that has become politicized?
	It's going to be one of the questions I ask Brian.
	I'm flagging it now.
	I'm teasing it now, so to give him some time to think about it, because that's the big question.
	If we do get the requisite leadership in the White House, what do we do with these agencies?
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	And I'd sit in that secure facility with, you know, the crème de la crème, the top of policymaking in national security from the administration.
	We'd have the outstations, you know, dialed in on secure VTC.
	We'd have, you know, CIA, DIA outstations in Kabul, you name it.
	And I'd see this thing recur again and again in these meetings, whatever the topic was, you know, China, ISIS, what have you.
	I'd see very senior people, you mentioned the SIS, the Senior Intelligence Service, who talk about a given issue.
	And never mention the name of the president or what the president had just said about said issue and what our direction should be.
	For me, that's one of the definitions of the permanent bureaucracy of the deep state, that we have people in massive positions of power who think elections are irrelevant, I've been here for 20 years, I'll be here for another 5-10 years, I get to decide the direction of the nation.
	That's not how it should work, is it?
	Absolutely not.
	It's kind of like Fauci when he said, I am the science, right?
	These guys are saying, I am the intel.
	Listen to me.
	There are other voices that are relevant.
	Yeah, look, we used to call that sort of view as something that a traitor would have, right?
	Back in the 1990s, there was a guy named Aldrich Ames, who was a CIA officer actually secretly working for the Soviets.
	He was arrested.
	The FBI asked him at the time, why'd you do it?
	And he said, because I know what's best for this country's foreign policy, and I'm going to act on it.
	All right, so there's a guy who spied for the Soviets with the same ideal view of the world that now his senior officers with the CIA and NSA and others that you're talking about, that's their view too.
	And it has permeated not just the intelligence community, but we have guys like Fauci and the CDC and NIH and others who they believe that they know best and they're going to do whatever they want, irrespective of the fact that that's not how it's supposed to work.
	So the deep state or the administrative state is real.
	It's been real for a long time, but it is absolutely metastasized, and that is going to be a huge challenge to fix.
	And when you hear the likes of Colonel Don't Call Me Mr. Vindman from the National Security Council saying in sworn testimony in front of the House, why did you quote-unquote leak to the press?
	Why are you a quote-unquote whistleblower when he isn't?
	And he actually says, My duty is to protect the inter-agency consensus from the President.
	Brian, when we go into the polling stations, it's not Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, or the inter-agency consensus.
	That's not what they're there to do, is it?
	No, no.
	When we take an oath—and you know this, and I know this—when we take our oath, it is not to some interagency group.
	It's to the Constitution.
	It's to the President of the United States.
	And that shouldn't be some shocking thing.
	All of us know that that is true.
	And yet, these folks who end up in there for 10, 20-plus years, they forget their oaths.
	They toss that aside, and they become self-important.
	And it is absolutely awful.
	We can be outraged, but it really is dangerous.
	All right?
	When we start seeing this become, again, metastasized, the country's in trouble.
	Our government is in trouble.
	The democracy that we all love, this republic of ours, is in serious trouble when that kind of view becomes so widespreadly held.
	That's why we need more people like Brian Dean Wright, formerly of the CIA, more people like Kyle Serafin, who are patriots and who are prepared to speak the truth.
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	All right, do the trans ad, the CIA ad.
	I'm a woman of color.
	I am a mom.
	I am a cisgender millennial who's been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder.
	I am intersectional, but my existence is not a box-checking exercise.
	That's actually a clip from a CIA recruiting video, an open one, a public one.
	What do... I'm going to ask this question apolitically, just a national security question, Brian.
	What do...
	China, what does the Kremlin, what do the Mullahs in Iran, what do, you know, ISIS, the remnants of ISIS, or Pyongyang, what do they think?
	Let's do a little bit of red teaming exercise.
	When they see an ad like that, somebody who professes to have an anxiety disorder, Proudly talking about it as she is, you know, walking in and out of her skiff with her top-secret SCI clearance.
	What do our enemies think of that?
	Or what do they think when a surveillance device, a balloon, traverses the whole of the nation, scooping up our intelligence?
	What do they think about America?
	What do they think about the White House and your former colleagues in the intelligence community?
	We're not serious.
	They think that we are not serious.
	The White House isn't serious.
	The intel community isn't serious.
	We're focused on silly things that have nothing to do with the world and how it works and America trying to continue its exceptionalness around this wonderful globe of ours, right?
	So that's what they think.
	And they think to themselves, hey, we can start getting away with more.
	Let's keep pushing.
	Let's see how much more we can get away with.
	And I think that's what the balloon did last February.
	It showed the Chinese and the world That they can float a surveillance device very low to the ground, relatively speaking, as compared to satellites and get away with it.
	But let's start with this.
	Fire that young lady.
	She has no business being inside the CIA.
	Fire every single person that was hired like her.
	That's part of how you clean it up.
	These people have self-identified, either in these public ads or inside the CIA.
	They send emails back and forth.
	They talk about who they are and what they celebrate.
	With their pronouns in the signature block of the email.
	Yeah, there we are.
	That's the dead giveaway.
	Fine, you want to celebrate it?
	Great.
	Do that, but don't do it inside the CIA.
	Don't do it working for the U.S.
	government.
	Get the hell out of here.
	Go somewhere else and be your wokeness.
	We don't need it here.
	Because here's the interesting thing.
	If you listen to that whole ad, not once did she talk about the mission, about protecting the country.
	So that's what the Chinese and the North Koreans and the Iranians and others see and hear.
	Not once are the folks who are being hired at the CIA actually focused on the mission of battling us.
	They're focused on this other silliness.
	So that's great for our adversaries.
	And by the way, it's also a very important message to our allies.
	Yeah.
	Because they're like, well, wait a minute.
	The quality of the intelligence you're going to give us, you're going to ask us to say bomb somebody or kill somebody.
	The quality of the intelligence is coming from people like this who don't mention the mission, who focus on their skin color or their anxiety disorder or the fact that they like dressing up like British schoolgirls when they're actually men.
	Like, OK, now you're telling me you're not serious.
	Yes, and now I'm going to be less inclined to work with you or believe you when you tell me some very important pieces of information, because I think you're going to be full of crap with all this silliness that isn't focused on truth and data, right?
	And the ramifications of, for example, having, I mean, the CIA is all very cool, but the DIA is much bigger, much bigger budget, has all the satellites.
	When the Defense Intelligence Agency that's supposed to support the Pentagon, when the most senior military officer in America says, Kiev will collapse in 72 hours, and that was 14-15 months ago, or when we surrender Afghanistan without even telling our closest allies, the Brits, that we're leaving.
	These things, they have damaging long-term effects, do they not?
	Amen, they do.
	And look, you were underlining the very important point, which is to say the analysis that not just the CIA, but yes, the DIA and others are offering.
	If we keep getting it wrong, and we have recently, then it would suggest that the quality analysts or the quality of the operators collecting the intel, there's something wrong there.
	We're not hiring the best and the brightest.
	We're hiring people with generalized anxiety disorder.
	So it's sort of evident that we're not hiring the right people.
	So yeah, it has a very real impact, not only for our policymakers, which you correctly point out, that's the ultimate goal is give the president the best information possible to keep the country, you know, exceptionally strong and brave out in the world.
	But it impacts these foreign relationships.
	And so yes, this stuff has a very real impact on all of us, even if we don't realize it.
	It's the biggest story the mainstream media doesn't want anyone to talk about but I have to get your reaction to the fact that we now know under sworn testimony the then acting director of the CIA colluded with the then foreign policy advisor for the Biden presidential campaign
	To gin up this letter of 51 former intelligence officials, including CIA directors, to lie about the Hunter laptop story, to say it was Russian disinformation.
	I just think of, you know, of all the many things that means to the quality of politics in the Republic, I think about how a director, an acting director of the CIA, and 50 other individuals Can so endanger relations with Russia?
	Not that I'm a fan of Vladimir Putin, but to actually use Russia as a pawn in domestic politics.
	That's not, that's not playing with fire, Brian.
	That's playing with somebody else's four and a half thousand nuclear warheads.
	Amen.
	Look, I mean, let's start with the most obvious here, and that is that these individuals used their backgrounds to interfere in the election of the United States of America.
	They helped throw the election.
	That is a big, big deal, and they should be called out on it everywhere they go.
	You know, I don't know that it's a crime, but boy, oh boy, it certainly is a violation of their oaths, you know, that they worked actively against the democracy, this great republic of ours.
	So, and I think other countries around the world, again, see this.
	They see these 50 plus individuals who are using their backgrounds to try to throw an election.
	They know that not all is well with the United States.
	It's a form of sickness or it's a demonstration.
	It's a symptom of broader sickness within this country.
	And that means that they're going to try to get away with even more because they know how bad things are within the intelligence community.
	And I think, again, it's just one more demonstration that we are putting out weakness into the world and it is going to bite us bad unless we get different leadership in the White House.
	And there's also one obvious thing that I'll add that in addition to what others think of us externally, we have the question that somebody who's running the CIA is prepared to do that.
	You know, how is he going to serve the current incumbent of the White House or the future president?
	If you are colluding with the other party's campaign, that party, you know, loses.
	And how are you going to serve a man who you tried to sabotage, I think is the most obvious question.
	Well, you can't because you're a political hack of the opposition or the other party.
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	Reform!
	How can an institution that has suffered so much from political penetration be reformed?
	I've had FBI senior supervisory agents with 23 years in who've said to me after what the FBI has become, it must be dismantled and its three primary missions, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and federal crimes, criminal crimes, be given to other agencies that are not politically divisive and tools of the party.
	How do you reform the CIA, Brian?
	Well, you start with different leadership of the White House.
	And that person needs to understand that there is a rot and a politicization within the intel community, the CIA, FBI and others.
	You put in different leadership there, and working together, you start doing two things.
	One, you just start firing people.
	You reduce the size of the workforce.
	Second, you start squeezing the budget.
	All right?
	Now, congressional oversight in the Senate and the House should be doing some of this as well.
	Let's see how the House and the Senate might respond to a different leader in the White House.
	But that's how you fix it as well.
	You have to have the congressional oversight, some of those committees investigating what has happened.
	And then you squeeze the budgets even further, right?
	You take away the powers.
	And I think that you could do a lot with just owning the presidency and a new director at the CIA.
	But yeah, I'm open to completely disbanding those organizations if we then take the missions and ship them elsewhere.
	But I got to tell you, you got to make sure that the laws change so you can have better oversight, tighten up what they can do.
	And then you start changing the culture inside these agencies.
	I mean, that's what has got to happen if we're going to save this country.
	It's really that serious.
	I'm curious, when you say downsizing, how much?
	My wife, who's a former presidential appointee, we are saying we need to slash the DoD by 50% and get rid of the rot.
	At the CIA, how big a swingeing slash and burn do we need?
	Percentage-wise, look, I think that you would look at the last 10-15 years of hires, and I think you could probably say the vast majority of those can be tossed out.
	I don't think it has to be everybody, but I think that when you started seeing that rot in 2008-2012, that's where you start.
	You go back to that era because that's where a lot of the problem from the middle and sort of the lower-level employees started, and then you just have a buyer sales at work.
	Of these senior officials, you just get rid of them, all right?
	And I think that, you know, the raw number is going to be pretty dramatic, but that's what you do.
	You start when things started getting bad in terms of those hires, you know, folks you hired back in 2008, 2012.
	Last question.
	You're still in the arena.
	You're still doing great work.
	Your public-facing work is even more important.
	What is your message to your friends, your former colleagues, patriots who are still inside the wonder palace, the palace of mirrors?
	What do you say to those inside who are maybe losing faith?
	Keep fighting.
	Keep focused exclusively on the mission.
	This political stuff will get solved.
	If you choose to leave, speak out.
	Let people know what is happening on the inside.
	And if you're on the inside still, you see some horrific things, go to the inspector general, go to your representative in the Senate or the House, or go to a member of the press.
	That's the least, you know, ideal.
	But at least go to somebody in Congress that you trust and tell them what's going on.
	For everybody else, boy oh boy, now is the time to get involved, whether it's running for local races or it's simply voting in both the primaries and the general.
	That's where we start to change this because we need different leadership.
	But that takes you and I to go to the polls and get it done.
	Get politically active if you leave.
	Speak the truth like Brian does.
	And if you're going to be a whistleblower, be a real one.
	Go through the process.
	Use the protections of the Whistleblower Act.
	Go to Congress.
	Go to a real news outlet like us at Salem, like Newsmax or Breitbart.
	Don't put it on your Discord chatroom with your gamer buddies.
	That's not what a whistleblower does.
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