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	♪♪ How many individuals were either FBI employees or people that the FBI had made contact with were in the January 6th entry of the Capitol and surrounding area?
	So I really need to be careful here talking about where we have or have not used confidential human sources.
	Was there one or more individuals that would fit that description on January 6th that were in or around the Capitol?
	I believe there is a filing in one of the January 6th cases that can provide a little more information about this and I'm happy to see if we can follow back up with you on that.
	And answer, was there one or more?
	I mean, you would know if there was at least one individual who worked for the FBI who entered the Capitol on that day.
	I can't, again, I just can't speak to that here, but I'm happy to get the court filing that... Look, it's been two years, and you're now, you've now come before us, the gentleman asks these questions, makes all kinds of insinuations, and you, you nod your head yes, and then I ask you simply, was there one or more?
	And you won't answer that.
	That's Daryl Iser yesterday with the director of the FBI Chris Wray.
	It's a very simple question.
	It's kind of shocking when, when you hear it like that, you forget it's two years ago.
	It's two years ago.
	And the director of the FBI, after they launched the biggest investigation of a domestic case in the Bureau's history, the largest ever, And he can't answer a very simple question.
	Did you have one or more FBI assets undercover amongst the protesters on January the 6th?
	Yes or no?
	Let's be clear.
	I don't get nerdy here.
	Oh, sorry.
	Greetings.
	You're listening to America First.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
	This isn't some kind of class in civics, but let's be clear.
	Christopher Wray works for us.
	He's paid for by us.
	He flies on that private FBI jet because of our taxpayer money.
	And the oversight is not done by us.
	It's not how our Republic works.
	The oversight of the most powerful law enforcement agency in the world is exercised by the Congress that enjoys our mandate.
	And right now the Congress is controlled by the good guys, by the Republicans.
	But they can't get an answer out of the director of the FBI to one simple question.
	Did you have federal assets disguised as civilians amongst the protesters and more importantly amongst the rioters?
	Because now, two years later, it would be nice to know if federal assets, if confidential informants in the pay of the federal government incited the violence of January the 6th, meaning it was not organic.
	Meaning it was actually triggered by those who had a vested interest, politically, to see violence erupt that day.
	Violence which the day before had been encouraged, had been incited, by a former Marine called Ray Epps who, strangely, was at the top of the FBI's most wanted list after January the 6th because he incited violence on camera the day before and was there on the day of the assault but then magically a few weeks later disappears from the FBI's most wanted list
	And then, the New York... Eric, it was the New York Times, correct?
	I believe so.
	The New York Times, that bastion of the left-wing establishment, writes a lengthy puff piece about Ray Epps, about how his life is now a torment, how living out in his ranch in Arizona as a free man is so awful, As actual January 6th victims are rotting in solitary confinement in a prison not far from this studio.
	Why would he disappear from the FBI's most wanted list and then the New York Times, which hates MAGA, hates Trump supporters, write lengthy hagiographies of Ray Epps?
	Well, let's listen to Troy Nells.
	With Director Ray on exactly this issue.
	God bless.
	Troy Nels.
	Cut 7.
	Are you going to arrest Mr. Epps?
	Yes or no?
	I'm not going to engage here in a discussion about individual people who are or are not going to be prosecuted.
	Can I get a commitment?
	Just watch the video.
	I'm an old law dog.
	I understand a little bit about probable cause.
	He did very little, there was very little difference what he did and Mr. Stretka, you can see him.
	He's encouraging, I almost think he's inciting a riot.
	He's encouraging people, the night prior, to go into the Capitol.
	The day of, go into the Capitol.
	And he was at the first breach.
	And he breached the restricted area.
	Everybody, a lot of people getting arrested for not going into the Capitol, but they're in the restricted area.
	But yet, Ray Epps, who many people feel fed, fed, fed, right?
	And there's a lot of clout over this.
	So my point is this.
	You arrested a lot of folks for unlawful activity.
	You just saw the video.
	And I will tell you, Mr. Ray, if you don't arrest Mr. Epps, there's a reason behind it.
	I believe you know what it is.
	And it appears to me you are protecting this guy.
	I strongly recommend you get your house back in order.
	With that, I yield back.
	Mr. Chairman, if I might briefly... Gentlemen, respond, then we've got a couple point of orders.
	It has never been appropriate for an FBI director in congressional testimony to be weighing in on who is or isn't going to be arrested and who is or isn't going to get charged, which is a prosecutor's decision.
	If you are suggesting That the violence at the Capitol on January 6th was part of some operation orchestrated by FBI sources or FBI agents, the answer is no, it was not.
	And to suggest otherwise is a disservice to our hard-working, dedicated law enforcement professionals.
	Can I respond to that?
	The point is, he was number 16 on your list.
	He was 16 on your list, you never arrested him.
	Hundreds of Americans were arrested.
	Shame on you.
	God bless you.
	Major Nels.
	Sheriff Nels.
	Because, by the way, he was a sheriff before he became a congressman, so he knows a little about law enforcement, about incitement to violence, about predicates for arrest.
	And he said the quiet part out loud.
	Shame on you.
	We know it's all bent.
	We know it's all crooked.
	People who did nothing, literally did nothing.
	Like my friend Brandon Stryker.
	Like the late Matt Purner, who killed himself rather than face a spurious terrorist enhancement charge for doing nothing on January the 6th.
	But Ray Epps disappears from the most wanted list, is praised by the DNC mouthpiece mainstream corporate media, and Director Ray can't comment on impending arrests or who we're going to indict.
	Why not?
	Your organization leaks like a sieve when it's a Republican who's going to be indicted like President Trump or Steve Bannon or Paul Manafort.
	But I guess when it's a Fed or somebody working for the Feds, they're special.
	I'm Sebastian Gawker.
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	You don't want to miss it.
	This is America First.
	We'll be back after these messages.
	Oh, can we start going through them?
	You want to start with cut three?
	Or it should be there, too.
	Yeah, cut four.
	Yeah, can you hear me?
	Hey, Matt!
	Dr. G, how are you, sir?
	Good, how's it going?
	Pretty good, pretty good.
	All right, you sound very mellow.
	Very mellow, very mellow.
	I'm going to Turning Point this weekend.
	Are you guys going?
	No, no, I'm on vacation.
	Oh, okay.
	I'm taking the week off, but you have fun.
	DeSantis is sitting that one out, isn't he?
	Yeah, he chose not to go.
	I think he is.
	I think that clip was saying that Trump needs to be going to these events.
	And didn't he skip CPAC, too?
	Yes, he did.
	For a donor.
	A donor thing.
	You said cut four?
	Yeah, stop playing through the cuts.
	And by the way, as I suggested, Steven, maybe he should look in the mirror.
	Because this guy ain't Arnold Schwarzenegger, okay?
	You know, I've seen some of those pictures of him golfing.
	He doesn't look like a Greek god to me.
	Optics is always important in politics, especially overseas.
	The world's watching.
	Trump knew that.
	2017, when all the leaders were heading to a photo op, Trump pushed the president of Montenegro out of the way so he could be front and center.
	Sorry, Montenegro, we got the F-35s.
	Biden doesn't do that.
	Looks like a freshman on the first day of school.
	Joe's letting every world leader walk all over him.
	They're all acting like he's not there.
	They're reaching over his body.
	They're shoving him out of the way.
	Hey, there's Zelensky.
	Let me shake his hand.
	They should be shaking Biden's hands.
	We're the ones paying for the war.
	Nobody wanted to meet Biden at the beach, and now no one really wants to meet him at the summit.
	Everybody already knows, you know, if you want a favor from Joe, you've got to go through Hunter.
	Keep going.
	The reality has been anything but bad.
	The economic data, geez, just keeps being pretty darn good.
	Just today, we learned that inflation rose by only 3%, the lowest pace since March.
	Are you going to arrest... Did that one already?
	I watched most of the hearing today with Chris Wray.
	He is a very, very accomplished and competent public servant.
	We're very, very fortunate to have him at the helm of the FBI.
	Okay, good.
	Can't come in with that.
	What are you working on right now, Matt?
	Some big things that are coming down the road later this month, but... Okay.
	Cut eight, no liner.
	Oh, do you have a title, Mike, for that monologue?
	And also for Carl.
	Yeah, for the monologue... God bless Sheriff Troy Nels.
	Sheriff slash Congressman.
	He's a great guy.
	He is a dude, and he likes his cigars.
	Yeah, I think he's the chair of the Congressional Cigar Caucus or something.
	What?!
	I'm not surprised.
	I need honorary membership.
	At least he's a member.
	Yeah, call him and ask him about it.
	I need an honorary membership to that.
	Alright, standby.
	Forty seconds.
	Who's the guy who's taken over from Marlo?
	It is Mike Slater.
	Who is that?
	He was doing a local show down in Texas, I think in Dallas.
	What's his connection to Breitbart?
	He's been a regular guest host for years for us like and so he's been yeah, he's been filling in for a while
	so yeah, he's You
	I watched most of the hearing today with Chris Wray.
	He is a very, very accomplished and competent public servant.
	We're very, very fortunate to have him at the helm of the FBI during a period of rather stormy partisan waters that he has to navigate right now.
	And he demonstrated, I think, tremendous professionalism, patience, as well as respect for the congressional oversight process, despite the mischaracterizations and all of the broadsides that he was hit with If John Brennan is saying nice things about you, you should probably be in prison.
	Jeff, what do you think of my metric?
	If John Brennan is praising a government official, that person should probably be in a locked cell.
	I find that hard to believe that would ever be wrong.
	That is so exactly right.
	I mean, seriously, he's praising Christopher Wray.
	Well, that's all the evidence I need.
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	All right, it's time to check in with the conservative juggernaut that is Breitbart.com and the man who knows everything about the swamp, their Washington bureau chief.
	Greetings, Matt Boyle.
	Dr. G, always a pleasure.
	Great to be here.
	All right.
	What have you got planned for this weekend?
	You're going somewhere very exciting, aren't you, Matt?
	Oh yeah, I just made the call last night, it was a super last second decision, but it seems like everybody from MAGA World, except Dr. G, I don't know, I guess you're not going, but everybody else is going to be at this Turning Point event in West Palm Beach, Florida, so I'm going to go down there, check it out.
	Well, I'll be looking for your reports, I'll be starting my vacation, so I'm very excited, Breitbart will be on the ground.
	So who's going to be talking there, do you know amongst the nominees?
	Yeah, President Trump will be giving the keynote address on Saturday night, so we'll be looking forward to seeing that.
	Speaking right before him is going to be the great Tucker Carlson, so that should be super exciting.
	I know there's all sorts of different other conservative movements.
	What about the governor of Florida?
	The governor of Florida somehow couldn't make it to his state for the biggest gathering of conservatives that we've seen this summer.
	Is he at some big billionaire donor dinner or something?
	Well, he's gonna be tomorrow, Friday night.
	Friday he's gonna be in Iowa for the Family Leadership Summit.
	And I believe Tucker Carlson is interviewing him there.
	I don't know why he couldn't just get on the plane with Tucker and fly down to West Palm Beach because Tucker's gonna do it, right?
	So he could have done it, but I guess not.
	But anyway, point is that the Family Leadership Summit is going to happen in Iowa.
	I'm very much looking forward to watching that and seeing Tucker Carlson interview all these candidates that aren't named Trump.
	Trump isn't going to be at that one because he's got other things going on in Iowa.
	But the point is that Tucker's going to do those interviews with DeSantis.
	A bunch of the other ones that are going to be there.
	And I think that it's going to be particularly revealing.
	It's been a while since we've seen Tucker do a big interview with a presidential candidate.
	So I'm looking forward to it.
	It's so weird, I don't get it.
	So the Turning Point event is in Florida, but the governor of Florida is not going?
	It's just a total misfire on his end, I think.
	Again, there's so many problems coming out of the DeSantis campaign.
	This is why you're seeing major donors across the board questioning his pathway forward.
	I saw a report this morning that named several of them on the record, quoted in the thing, saying that they switched from DeSantis to Tim Scott, right?
	And look, okay, fine, they might like Tim Scott, it is what it is, right?
	I find that particularly interesting that people are leaving DeSantis and Droz and they're going to other ones.
	They're either going to Trump or they're going to some of these other folks that are interesting.
	I saw a poll out today out of New Hampshire.
	Trump's still very dominant there, but you want to know who came out of nowhere?
	Who?
	He's at 3% now?
	Who?
	It's Doug Burgum!
	The governor of North Dakota, Governor Burgum of North Dakota is at 3%.
	That's an indictment of Ron DeSantis' failed presidential campaign.
	The fact that the governor of North Dakota, who most people in America have never heard
	of before he decided to run for president.
	And by the way, I've had him on my show.
	I think he's a great guy, right?
	Like, Governor Brigham has a really great story, a really interesting story, his career in business before he ran for governor, etc.
	But it's just like, you never really heard of the guy before this, because it's North Dakota, right?
	But the fact that he's at 3% in New Hampshire is a total indictment of Ron DeSantis, right?
	Maybe it has something to do with interviews like this.
	So my buddy Howie Carr had the governor of Florida on, and He had a strange take on my former boss.
	Let's listen.
	Cut 14.
	Nobody is entitled to this nomination.
	You have got to earn the nomination and doing things like the family leader event in Iowa, doing things like these debates, they're important parts of the process.
	So I'm going to be in Iowa for that.
	I will be in Milwaukee for the first debate and I'll be at all the debates because the American people deserve to hear from us directly.
	It's such a strange concept that President Trump has to earn a nomination given the fact that he's the only person who's actually been president so he doesn't have to prove if he can be president, Matt.
	He should go to all these things and see if he can earn it with his vision.
	It's such a strange concept that President Trump has to earn a nomination given the fact
	that he's the only person who's actually been president, so he doesn't have to prove if
	he can be president, Matt.
	I don't get it.
	Yeah, I also don't.
	And also, I don't understand why Ron DeSantis gets to decide which events that Donald Trump
	should have to go to.
	Especially, look, here's the deal, the Family Leadership Summit, those guys are good people, don't get me wrong, Bob Vander Plaats has been around the conservative movement for a long time, but Bob Vander Plaats has been attacking Trump publicly for months, alright?
	Over a number of different things, and in particular on life.
	Which, by the way, Donald Trump is the most successful pro-life president in American history.
	He appointed the justices to the Supreme Court who overturned Roe vs. Wade after decades of Republicans talking about it and not doing anything.
	But anyway, I get distracted.
	Here's the thing.
	Why would Trump go to an event that this guy who's been attacking him publicly is leading?
	I wouldn't go to that either.
	Right?
	But here's the deal.
	At Turning Point USA down in West Palm Beach, Charlie Kirk has been nothing but nice to Governor DeSantis until his decision here to not go to this event.
	He's gone to previous Turning Point events.
	Governor DeSantis has.
	I don't understand how he can't make it out of his schedule to get down there on Saturday night and go give a speech to the crowd that's there.
	And he would have gotten a great reception, I think, from the people there.
	It's just a mistake on his part.
	But DeSantis doesn't get to dictate these things.
	Also, as for the debate, I don't know if Trump's going to go or not.
	But if I were Trump, I wouldn't go to the first two debates.
	Maybe I'd wait till the third one and see what's going on.
	He's so far in the lead.
	Yeah, I think that's a very, very wise move.
	Keep your powder dry and then bring the big guns for the later debates.
	But we'll wait and see.
	It's all a lot of fun.
	But why does the governor of Florida get to decide I don't get it?
	We're going to keep him over.
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	Discussions concerning the bag of cocaine I mean, the whole thing is unbelievable.
	Did you see the CNN story?
	I think, I forget the exact phrase they used, but it was something like, hold on, let me find it, because it's pretty incredible.
	I think it was insufficient DNA.
	It's not that they didn't find DNA, they found quote, insufficient DNA.
	The person I spoke to today, I can't reveal it as yet, says that she spoke to the Secret Service agents, they have identified the fingerprints, and it's not Hunter.
	Well, here's what I was thinking.
	What about those grain kids that live there?
	Yeah.
	Or what about Ashley Biden?
	I saw Jesse Waters make a really good case that it might have been Ashley Biden on TV.
	It could have been Ashley Biden.
	Yeah.
	It could have been.
	Or it could have been some staff or something.
	But look, the idea that hundreds of people go through there.
	No, they don't.
	It's the West Exec entrance there by the Situation Room.
	No, you don't get in there.
	I went to the White House dozens of times during the Trump presidency as a journalist, and I interviewed the President in the Oval Office three times.
	I never went down that way.
	You always went through the briefing room?
	I went through the briefing room, yeah.
	And then they would bring you up.
	One time I went through the West Wing lobby, they brought me in that way.
	But the point is that you don't go through West Exec, right?
	No, that's for staff or cabinet members.
	That's senior level people, right?
	Will you play Cut 13, please? 13.
	There's no question at all that President Xi is the major decider of the direction and of the policies of China.
	Is he, in fact, effectively a dictator?
	Well, I'm not – I don't think it's useful to get into – I don't – I'm not going to get into But he does wield the power of... He wields enormous power as the leader of China, absolutely, and everybody understands that.
	But I don't, you know, I... That's incredible.
	He's not prepared to call him a dictator.
	John Kerry can't call him a dictator.
	Cut 11. 11...
	I think they are starting to fix those problems, as the director talked about today.
	Look, I've known Chris for a long time.
	We worked together in the Bush Justice Department in the post 9-11 period, and he did an extraordinary job.
	And yeah, I did recommend him to President Trump, and I'm proud that I did.
	Those things that they were talking about today, and the director made this point over and over again, are all things from when Jim Comey, Eric Holder, and Loretta Lynch were in charge of the Justice Department, before he got put in charge.
	He fired the entire Comey leadership team out of the FBI.
	They're all gone.
	So Christie gave us Ray.
	Yeah, and by the way, one of the biggest stories that's going to come out this year, Chris Christie and Ron DeSantis are colluding right now.
	I've heard that.
	I've heard that.
	It's going to come out at some point or another.
	They are working together.
	There's no doubt about it.
	All right.
	Come in with, um... Actually, I'll tee up four, then I'll tee up 11.
	Four and then 11.
	What have we got now?
	Oh, my pillar.
	This is C. Bannon said that before, too, that Christie's the one that pushed Ray.
	Yeah, right.
	How could Chrissy be colluding with the Santas?
	Wouldn't you just be taking votes away from the Santas that would otherwise go to him?
	No, because he's attacking Trump because Ron's too afraid to say the things that Chris is saying.
	Ah, yeah. God. Yep, yep, yep.
	Yep.
	Making sense out of today's nonsense, here's Dr. Sebastian Gorka.
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	Chris Christie, what did you say Jeff?
	How heavy is Chris Christie?
	What's his weight right now?
	He's what like 200 and what?
	No, you gotta guess.
	When he did his lap band surgery he said he lost about 80 pounds and he got down to 310 and that was his low point.
	He's much closer to that.
	So the high point was probably around 390.
	He's much closer to that.
	390?
	So I would, I've seen him before.
	He's a lot wider than you think too.
	I'd put him at about 360, 370 maybe.
	So should he be talking about other people being overweight?
	Now that would be like me criticizing Comey for his height.
	All right, well, let's just play, because I couldn't believe it when you put this on the cut sheet.
	This is Chris Christie talking about President Trump, and you won't believe what his criticism is about.
	Cut 4.
	And by the way, as I suggested, Steven, maybe he should look in the mirror, because this guy ain't Arnold Schwarzenegger, okay?
	You know, I've seen some of those pictures of him golfing, and he doesn't look like a Greek god to me.
	I don't get it, Matt Boyle.
	Do these people, do politicians above a certain level just have no sense of reality that Chris Christie at, you know, 350 pounds is calling President Trump overweight?
	What world do they live in?
	I don't get it.
	That beats me, man.
	I don't even understand with Kirstie anymore.
	Like, frankly, the whole thing is just a joke at this point.
	First off, Trump should not listen to a word that the guy is saying, right?
	Well, I don't think he does.
	And the guy is trying to goad Trump into going to the debate, right?
	Because they know that they've got it all worked out just like they did in 2016.
	Remember the first debate with Megyn Kelly and she came at Trump?
	With all the questions.
	You don't think Fox News and Rupert Murdoch have it all worked out right now?
	Of course they do!
	But I'm hearing noises, tell me if you're hearing them as well, that the Murdochs are starting to go sour on DeSantis and they're looking for another puppet because he's not doing so well.
	Yes, it's very true that that is the case.
	The question is whether or not they'll find one.
	But also, I do think that a part of it is they're trying to force DeSantis to get his collective you-know-what together.
	And maybe if DeSantis makes a couple of changes, he could get back on track.
	And, you know, I mean, he's still in the teens or even low 20s, depending on which polls you're looking at.
	So the point is that I think they might be trying to give their guy a wake-up call, too.
	So don't believe that they've completely turned on him yet.
	The globalists still want Ron DeSantis.
	Yes, there's no doubt about that.
	But we were playing at the top of the show the incredible testimony and the response from Republicans to Director Christopher Wray of the FBI.
	Now it becomes clear why we have that individual at the top of the Bureau.
	Here's Chris Christie admitting to his culpability.
	This is Cut 11.
	Play Cut.
	I think they are starting to fix those problems, as the director talked about today.
	Look, I've known Chris for a long time.
	We worked together in the Bush Justice Department in the post-9-11 period, and he did an extraordinary job.
	And yeah, I did recommend him to President Trump, and I'm proud that I did.
	Those things that they were talking about today, and the director made this point over and over again, are all things from when Jim Comey, Eric Holder, and Loretta Lynch were in charge of the Justice Department, before he got put in charge.
	He fired the entire Comey leadership team out of the FBI.
	They're all gone.
	And he put these reforms in place, which are now showing extraordinary results.
	So two things then, I want you to comment, Matt.
	Number one, when the Republicans are demolishing Christopher Wray, Why do you think it's a good look to go on Fox to protect him and say you were both Bushies together?
	And then secondly to say all of the things the Republicans are angry at came when Obama was in the Oval Office.
	That's not true.
	They weren't raiding Mar-a-Lago.
	They weren't spying on parents at school board meetings.
	That's happening now.
	And they weren't going after Catholics.
	And they weren't going after Catholics.
	We haven't even played that cut.
	How do these people, do they think everybody watching is stupid?
	Right, and by the way, also, in addition to what Christy said there about how he's the reason why Trump picked Wray, in addition to that, reminder, Ron DeSantis, who was in Congress at the time Wray was appointed, was speaking glowingly about Christopher Wray as a selection, and only now that he's running for president does Ron DeSantis say he would fire Wray.
	The public can see that there are major problems at the FBI as an institution.
	Look, some of these problems predate Ray, so don't get me wrong, I'm not disagreeing with that.
	But the point is he's deflecting.
	They go back to the founder, right?
	Like if J. Edgar Hoover, who was no clean as a whistle person, We're out of time.
	We can't wait to catch up with you with your reporting from Turning Point.
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	Constitution, America first!
	You know, I never dreamt one day I'd have my own radio show, let alone a national one in the United States.
	I've always loved talk radio.
	And one of the nicest things, you know, this isn't NPR, this isn't PBS, we don't get half a billion dollars from you against your will from the taxpayer.
	This is a free market enterprise.
	And as such, we have to have sponsors.
	And the nicest thing about Salem, and I love my bosses at Salem, is that we get to choose.
	People come to us and they say, hey, would you promote our product?
	And the hosts, the individual hosts, get to say, no, yes.
	It's like, you know, I'm never going to be advertising Viagra, OK?
	If you want to hold your breath, it's going to be bad for you because I'm never going to be advertising hair plugs or Viagra.
	One thing that it's the easiest for me to talk about is the thing I rest my head on every day.
	I wasn't sure I believed it when I tried it out.
	And if I don't have it now when I'm traveling, I'm going away for vacation.
	I'm taking my Mike Lindell MyPillow with me.
	That's how important it's become to my life.
	And what I didn't realize, he's been doing it for 20 years!
	And we're going to celebrate right now, the inventor himself, a great friend of the president, a true patriot, Mike Lindell.
	Welcome back to America First.
	Well, thanks for having me on.
	All right, so let's play in the background.
	Your fat totem, Dawn, sent me this amazing video.
	I think it goes through a few years of history of how you started, how you invented it, and the people who work for you today.
	Will you tell us the story of how you invented the only pillow, Mike, that doesn't get hot and actually keeps its shape through the night?
	How did you do that?
	Right.
	Well, it was 20 years ago this month and it was a problem solution.
	I had I wanted a pillow that I could adjust and it would stay there.
	You know how we all use our folder pillows flip up all night.
	They get hot, whatever.
	I had all these problems 20 years ago that everybody had back then.
	It doesn't have a my pillow.
	Well, and then I had this dream and the dream, even of the name, my pillow.
	I kept getting these.
	I call them the God dream from directly.
	I mean, this I think it's a divine product.
	My son and I are sons, I guess, both sons.
	We worked hard, all my kids did, and we'd be tearing foam around, flying around the neighborhood.
	And we tried 90 some different kinds of foam and material that would go inside.
	Finally, we got this foam, which, by the way, we patented.
	So my pillow is patented.
	Boy, we finally got an invention.
	We went out there to the box stores and they said, I said, how many of these would you like?
	And they go, we don't want any.
	And so it was, so I did home shows and fairs for years.
	And you hated, and people won't believe this part, you hated being a pitch man and you just, you didn't want to sell it, right?
	You didn't feel comfortable.
	Right.
	I was, I was a crack cocaine addict and on a parallel track, an addict.
	I would be, you know, when I quit everything on January 16, 2009, even, you know, anytime I had done shows, though, I'd always been completely straight.
	And, but I was very, very, almost shy.
	I was very uncomfortable, you know, talking to people and especially when we did kiosks and stuff.
	And, and I look back now in my life with, you know, getting, getting freedom of addiction by finding the Lord.
	It was fear of rejection.
	You know, you don't get rejected if you don't talk.
	That was my whole thing, right?
	So, you know, if you just don't talk, well, I wouldn't have anything else to do.
	Well, now you're so good at it, you come out of people's bathroom cabinets and you're talking to them if you haven't seen the ad.
	All right, let's get the business out of the way.
	Right now, to celebrate the anniversary, you have an incredible deal right now.
	A queen-size MyPillow that is usually $69.98 is only $19.99.
	$19.98, and for an extra $10, you get a king-size pillow as well.
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	My dogs Leia and Killian love the MyPillow Pet Beds, but just check it out.
	The promo code is G-O-R-K-A, or you can call his amazing team on 800-829-8468.
	That's 800-829-8468.
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	Before we get to your event in August, how many people work for you now, Mike?
	Well I believe it's somewhere around 1,500.
	What you've seen in that show, we were actually filming the commercial.
	Everybody that comes out for this special limited edition 20 anniversary, my pillow this coming week, early next week.
	So you're getting in here early today.
	But Darren, just in that film there, I think we had like four or five hundred And you've made everyone in that commercial, I heard it, I listened to the audio, you've made them all movie stars.
	Alright, let's talk about saving the Republic.
	When we were at Bedminster, oh my gosh, it was like maybe just a few weeks ago, we were waiting for the President and you told me about the Lindell event, lindellevent.com.
	What are you doing in August?
	We're announcing in August, it'll be the first day all 50 states will be there.
	We want to give you hope on the first day.
	The great things have been going on to fix our election platforms, everybody.
	Then on August 17th, I'm going to announce a plan that will secure our election, solve our election problems, and It's never been done before.
	This is what I'm telling everybody.
	It's never even been thought of before.
	It's never been talked about before.
	And it's never been done before.
	So this will be a big reveal.
	And I will say this, everyone that watches this, that you will say, wow, this is it.
	You will be happy.
	I don't care what party you're even in.
	This solves our elections.
	People don't trust our elections.
	And they will.
	Come August 18th, when you wake up, you're going, wow, I feel like we can have the safest elections now by the most secure in history.
	Never been done before.
	And we need millions of people to tune in because we've got to spread the word.
	Remember, we get blocked all the time from getting the word out of the hope that's really going on in our country.
	All right.
	So this is crucial.
	Like Mike said, it should be absolutely irrelevant.
	What your political identity is, whether you're left, whether you're right, whether you're an independent, whether you're a libertarian.
	Either you want secure elections or you don't believe in America.
	So we've put it up on the screen.
	Go check it out right now.
	August 16th, 17th, Lindell event.
	I'm not going to steal his thunder.
	He told me The kinds of things he's proposing, and it's revolutionary, and it can secure our elections.
	That's LyndellEvent.com.
	LyndellEvent.com.
	Follow him at RealMikeLyndell.
	In the meantime, will you, Mike, will you say hi to Dawn and all the amazing team at MyPillow?
	Yes.
	Hello, Don and everybody at MyPillow.
	And by the way, all of my employees, thank your audience.
	We thank everybody out there that has kept us going.
	Go to MyPillow.com, everybody.
	And by the way, right now, if you go to that LyndellEvent.com, I'm going to give you a free online gift, everybody.
	There's a free online gift.
	All right, guys.
	What are you waiting for?
	In the commercial break, go to LyndellEvent.com.
	God bless you, Mike Lyndell.
	I'm Sebastian Gawker.
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	Did you see Boebert said in the briefing this was the third time drugs was found in the White House this year?
	What?!
	Yeah.
	When did she say that?
	Um, I'm looking at this cut now through Justin News.
	I guess you got briefed today.
	Oh, there's a clip of her.
	You want me to try and get it?
	Yes.
	And then you got an email from friend.
	Can you forward it to me?
	I did about a half hour ago or an hour ago.
	Oh, also I didn't, was I on that email for that interview?
	Cause I didn't see it.
	Can you block?
	Um, I think I would, if you weren't, I probably would have forwarded it to you.
	Was it today or before?
	No, it was like two days ago or yesterday.
	I'll look again and see.
	Yeah, here it is.
	I got it.
	I got it.
	It's from Lagar.
	I'm sending it to you now.
	Want to use any cuts here?
	I think I have to go to Kool's right now.
	Yeah, I'm gonna go to Kool's.
	We've got quite a few longer cuts today, I noticed.
	Yeah.
	I'm going to go ahead and cut it.
	I'm going to cut it.
	You I'm going to cut it.
	Hi, this is President Trump, and Sebastian is really a friend of mine.
	He's a great guy.
	He's been with me from the beginning.
	Listen to him.
	We all learn.
	Thank you, Mr. President.
	Breaking news from Lauren Boebert concerning drugs in the White House.
	And not just that, Baggy.
	We're going to play you the cut as soon as we have it.
	But we have people waiting very patiently online.
	Let's walk through the numbers.
	Let's go, firstly, Line 1, Knoxville.
	Randy, welcome.
	Hey, Dr. Gorka, I wanted to know what your take is with this Senator Turberville of Alabama
	holding up these military appointments because they want to start sending female troops around
	to get abortions.
	And he said, if you're going to keep doing that, I'm going to hold it up.
	You know, your colleague, Hugh Hewitt said he's a stupid idiot about 700 times.
	Mike Gallagher hung up on me today because I dared ask him about Hugh Hewitt.
	I guess he's scared of Hugh.
	I doubt Mike Gallagher did that.
	He's not scared of anyone.
	The only person he's scared of is his almighty Lord and Creator because he's a God-fearing man and he's a friend.
	I heartily disagree with Hugh Hewitt if that's what he said.
	I know Turbeville's doing it for the pro-life stance which is good enough for me.
	I have another reason.
	We shouldn't be promoting anybody.
	Nobody.
	This military at the top level has gone woke.
	We have to fire.
	We have to cashier.
	We have to get rid of all the woke generals and admirals.
	And that would be happening day one of a Trump administration.
	So, Turbeville is doing something good for his own personal reasons.
	So, yeah, no more promotions whilst we have a woke military that's more important in drag queens in the Navy than anything else.
	Thank you, Randy.
	Let's go to Antoinette in California.
	Are you feeling better, my dear?
	Thank you so much, Dr. G. Unfortunately, California is so tarnished, she's not golden anymore, but I have a question for you.
	Maybe one of your legal beagle friends, if you could find out for us, since we're having to use funds for Planned Parenthood paid by our tax dollars, we like to put our signs in front of Yes, we have to hang on to them on the sidewalk, but there are trees and these gigantic brick walls.
	We want to put them against the trees.
	They call the police on us.
	I mean, don't we own at least some of the trees there in front of those buildings?
	That's what we'd like to find out because they keep calling the police.
	That's an interesting question.
	I don't know if it's going to be state specific, but I have one legal, what do you call them, eager beaver or legal beagle?
	Yeah, I have a legal beagle former White House colleague of mine who I will text in the break to ask him, what are the regulations, what are the statute when it comes to affixing signs as per our First Amendment right to trees in public spaces?
	It's a fascinating question.
	God bless you Antoinette.
	It must be Thursday.
	I'm Sebastian Gorka.
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	The Secret Service is very eager to close this within the next couple of days.
	Why do you think that is?
	Because everything in this administration is about covering up for the Biden crime family.
	This is the third time that drugs have been found on the White House property.
	The White House is a public health agency.
	The White House is a public health agency.
	This is the third time that drugs have been found on the White House property.
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	AI is kind of a fancy thing.
	First of all, it's two letters.
	It means artificial intelligence.
	But ultimately what it is, is it's about machine learning.
	And so the machine is taught.
	And part of the issue here is what information is going into the machine.
	That will then determine, and we can predict then if we think about what information is going in, what then will be produced in terms of decisions and opinions that may be made through that process.
	Well, no, that's the whole point of artificial intelligence.
	It's not a program, you cretin.
	It's an intelligence.
	It's not data in, data out.
	It actually thinks.
	Am I right, Eric?
	Is she like the AI point person for the Biden administration?
	I think that's what they just announced.
	She's just like she was a great successful border czar, now she's an AI czar.
	But at this point, she herself sounds more like an NPC than anything else.
	I'm sorry, play that again.
	I mean, it's actually the opposite of what artificial intelligence is, and she is the administration point person for AI.
	Play cut.
	AI is kind of a fancy thing.
	First of all, it's two letters.
	It means artificial intelligence.
	But ultimately what it is, is it's about machine learning.
	And so the machine is taught.
	And part of the issue here is what information is going into the machine.
	She's as dumb as a rock.
	and we can predict then if we think about what information is going in,
	what then will be produced in terms of decisions and opinions that may be made
	through that process.
	She is as dumb as a rock. I mean truly.
	She has to say it's two letters.
	Then she throws in the phrase machine learning.
	And then she completely screws up.
	Machine learning isn't, we teach it!
	No, no, no.
	The whole point of machine learning is the machine learns!
	It teaches itself!
	All right, I'm gonna go crazy.
	All right, let's get back to some serious work.
	I promised to play it because we mentioned it in the first hour.
	There are some good guys left on Capitol Hill.
	One of them is Jim Jordan, and he's had it.
	I don't even know if he's a Catholic himself, but he knows when it's wrong to use the most powerful federal law enforcement entity that we have to go after people because of who they pray to.
	Jim Jordan, cut nine.
	Director, what's the difference between a traditional Catholic and a radical traditional Catholic?
	I'm not an expert on the Catholic orders.
	Well, your FBI wrote a memo talking about radical traditional Catholics.
	I'm just wondering if you could define it for us.
	Well, what I can tell you is you're referring to the Richmond product, which was a single product by a single field office, which, as soon as I found out about it, I was aghast and ordered it withdrawn and removed from FBI systems.
	You were aghast?
	Then why won't you let us talk to the people who put it together?
	We are working on finishing an internal review into what happened here.
	We have to wait.
	We, the Congress, and the American people have to wait until you do an internal review.
	It's not a criminal investigation going on here.
	An internal review before we can talk to the people who wrote this?
	When we finish our internal review, which will be very soon, we will come back before the committee to provide a briefing on what we found.
	Again, it's exactly what we heard in the first hour.
	There is no oversight of the executive.
	You heard the director of the FBI say, we will not let you talk to the people inside my agency that wrote the memo about radical traditional Catholics, whatever that means.
	We are doing an internal review So what?
	This is Congress that has the constitutional statutory oversight mandate over your ass, Christopher Wray, and everybody who works in the FBI, and the DOJ, and every arm of the executive.
	But you wouldn't even let Congress?
	Talk to the people who want to target Catholics as they're carrying a federal badge and a government-issued gun?
	Okay then, Republicans.
	Send out the Capitol Police to bring those people in handcuffs to Congress under power vested in you.
	Targeting people because of their faith choice is against the ultimate law, the Constitution.
	Let's go to your cause.
	Loyal Friend, Silver Spring, line 3, Victor.
	Sebastian, I just don't understand why the Republicans don't have some cononas and go after these people, put them in jail, for example.
	Well, we can't put them in jail because they have to be convicted, right?
	So that's the first thing.
	But they can be arrested and forced to testify or to plead the fifth.
	That's what I'm talking about.
	That's what I'd like to see.
	I really would.
	Also, my neighbor told me that... Which neighbor?
	The crazy liberal?
	Yeah, the one across the street with the cat beds I got for her.
	She says they tore up the sofa pillows and she wants to know If MyPillow has a sofa bed, and I said call them and find out.
	Yeah, tell her there's something called the internet.
	She might want to try it.
	Yeah, yeah.
	It's very complicated.
	It's MyPillow.com.
	Right.
	Also, I told your call screener for a possible guest.
	He'll talk to you about it.
	Oh, I'm intrigued.
	All right, Victor.
	Thank you.
	I will consult with... It's not our call screener.
	It's our producer, Mr. G. Jeff.
	We'll find out what your recommendations are.
	Thank you, Victor, for your call.
	All right, let's have some fun with Jesse Waters.
	Do you remember that summit?
	President Trump.
	It's like one of the classic videos of all classic videos where President Trump just pushes to the front of the crowd because we're America and I'm here and it's it's a little bit different with creepy Joe Biden.
	Let's go to cut five Jesse Waters.
	Optics is always important in politics, especially overseas.
	The world's watching.
	Trump knew that.
	2017, when all the leaders were heading to a photo op, Trump pushed the president of Montenegro out of the way so he could be front and center.
	Sorry, Montenegro, we got the F-35s.
	Biden doesn't do that.
	Looks like a freshman on the first day of school.
	Joe's letting every world leader walk all over him.
	They're all acting like he's not there.
	They're reaching over his body.
	They're shoving him out of the way.
	Hey, there's Zelensky.
	Let me shake his hand.
	They should be shaking Biden's hands.
	We're the ones paying for the war.
	Nobody wanted to meet Biden at the beach, and now no one really wants to meet him at the summit.
	Everybody already knows, you know, if you want a favor from Joe, you gotta go through Hunter.
	I look so lost.
	I mean just so.
	Like he doesn't know where he is.
	It's early today.
	Must have been about like 11 o'clock.
	I put it on my Twitter feed.
	There's the video of him leaving from the NATO summit, going up the under staircase of Air Force One, the short one that goes to the belly, because he can't do, you know, 20 steps, he can only do 12 steps.
	And as he gets on, he's holding, he's holding both rails.
	I mean, not just one side, both rails of the abbreviated staircase.
	This is the President of the United States!
	It's not just decrepitude, it's also moral turpitude.
	His climate czar, John Kerry, the monster of Victor Frankenstein, he has an issue calling our largest enemy, the leader of Communist China, a dictator.
	Listen to John Kerry's inability to call a murderous dictator a dictator.
	Cut 13.
	There's no question at all that President Xi is the major decider of the direction and of the policies of China.
	Is he in fact effectively a dictator?
	Well I'm not, you know, I don't think it's useful to get into, I don't, I'm not going to get into But he does wield the power of a new people.
	He wields enormous power as the leader of China, absolutely, and everybody understands
	that.
	But I don't, you know, I...
	I don't think it's useful to call him what he is.
	Why?
	Are you getting 10% like your boss Joe from the CCP?
	From Chinese interests, John Kerry?
	Or do you think that slave labor camps are cool?
	Just a little detail, a little political snafu we don't talk about diplomatically.
	They're so evil.
	Just so evil.
	All right, you've heard about it, Sound of Freedom.
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	What if I send it as a text?
	Send it again.
	See if, yeah, it might be too big to send via email.
	Could be the problem.
	What if I send it as a text?
	That might work, but then I might not be able to email it to the account, like, to be able
	to get it on this computer.
	But, I guess we could try that.
	Alright.
	Three and a half.
	PhD.
	PhD!
	Oh, can you play Cut 12?
	Twelve.
	Go ahead.
	How serious is it?
	What are you going to say to the Chinese?
	I mean, look, I don't want to get into the attribution on this thing, and I don't want to get ahead of the FBI investigation.
	I would just say a couple of things.
	First of all, our networks are attacked every single day by cyber actors, state and non-state actors all around the world.
	It is not uncommon for some of those state actors, Russia, Iran, North Korea, China, to be a part of that process.
	But again, I don't want to get ahead of where we are.
	Uh, and I don't know that, um, it's helpful to try to read too much into, uh, the timing of this attack with Secretary Yellen's trip.
	Secretary Yellen had a good, productive set of conversations with the Chinese.
	Lines of communication are staying open.
	That's a good thing.
	The President wants to focus on getting this relationship in a more stable platform.
	Yeah, it says the file's too big to share.
	I tried emailing it again.
	Okay.
	Do you want it for this segment or another one?
	It doesn't have to be this one.
	We could do that WeTransfer thing.
	WeTransfer?
	How do you do that?
	Hold on.
	What?
	Let me see.
	What is the name of that site?
	Two minutes.
	Mics are on.
	You can throw it out of my Dropbox if you want.
	Ha ha ha ha.
	I bought the massive storage for Google Drive so that I could use it anywhere in the world.
	Is it super expensive?
	Go to weetransfer.com.
	Uh, go to what?
	Weetransfer.com.
	Weetransfer.
	Yep.
	Use my address and then upload the file you'll see like on the left.
	Hang on, hang on, hang on.
	Uh, sign in.
	in. I sent you my email to put in the recipient. Which address is it?
	The Salem one?
	Yeah.
	Can you... I don't have time for this.
	What's your Salem address?
	I just texted it to you.
	Alright.
	I'm gonna go.
	40 seconds.
	Thank you.
	.
	Do you want me to put the trailer on repeat or only like play it once per segment?
	Did you text the password?
	Just once per segment.
	Okay.
	What's your password?
	I'm not sure.
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	I pay him lots of money to come and spend time with us.
	In fact, I don't pay him anything, but he's such a good guy, he agrees to do it anyway.
	And we've got a very special mission today, so we're not making movies great again, we're not being nostalgic, but with Mr. Reagan, Chris Coles, we're gonna talk about a very special new film, aren't we, Chris?
	Oh yeah, this is a very special film.
	This is a very powerful film.
	It's a very difficult, it's a challenging film, but it is an incredibly important film.
	Yeah, so let's do the little backstory.
	I think I have a photograph I'm going to send to Eric of What I did two years ago, at least two years ago, it was in the depths of COVID and we were invited, I don't know how we got the invitation, it's in your inbox now Eric, to go to a private screening not far from DC for about, I don't know, what was it like?
	A hundred people of a movie I knew nothing about.
	It was called Sound of Freedom back then.
	I didn't know why I was there.
	Nobody knew anything about it.
	And we were sat next to the star of the movie, Jim Caviezel.
	The man who, I think, made cinematographic history.
	with his representation of Jesus in the Passion of Christ for Mel Gibson and he's the star of this movie about child trafficking based on a true story and then at the end he gives a little speech and he says and I can divulge this now because it's public Fox bought the rights to this movie they were going to have a theatrical release Disney buys Fox and says, no, we're not going to release it.
	And Jim and the producers were like sitting there saying, we've just invested our sweat, blood and tears in this movie for years.
	And maybe it's never going to be seen.
	It was just released.
	It's called Sound of Freedom.
	And you got to watch it last night, Chris?
	Yeah.
	Yep.
	I was sent a screener.
	I watched this film.
	And let me tell you, this is not a film I actually wanted to watch.
	Here's why.
	This is a very difficult subject.
	This is a very emotional subject.
	It's one that, if you're a man, it's very frustrating.
	There are things in the world, Human trafficking, for one, you know, obviously just generally is one of those frustrating things where you think, look, you know, I live in a small town in America.
	There's not much I can do about this human trafficking thing.
	So if I watch a documentary about it, I read the news about it.
	It's frustrating to me.
	I want to be able to help these people and I can't.
	So I just try to avoid it.
	But what's worse is the trafficking of children, the sexual exploitation of children.
	To me, that is the worst thing imaginable.
	And so to do a film about this subject, you've got to be very careful that, you know, you do it in a tasteful way, you do it in a powerful way that could potentially create some degree of change in the world.
	And let me tell you, this film delivers.
	This is one of the best productions I think maybe I've ever seen.
	The cinematography is absolutely picture-perfect.
	Like, every shot is perfect.
	It's gorgeous.
	It's absolutely gorgeous.
	But, normally when you have cinematography this good, and you have acting this good, it's an Oscar-bait film, if you know what I mean.
	Like, Oscar-bait films, they focus on the acting, they focus on the cinematography.
	The story is boring as heck.
	It's really hard to watch just because it's so boring.
	This film is not boring.
	This film is incredibly powerful.
	The story is incredibly powerful.
	And like you said, based on a true story.
	And so it's even more powerful.
	You're learning something really about how the world works in the sort of darkest corners of the world.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And let's I want everybody to see it.
	We've already interviewed the co founder of Angel Studios.
	On Monday, I think, or Tuesday.
	This weekend we'll be interviewing somebody else from Angel Studios that, thank the good Lord, picked it up and is now promoting it.
	So you can see that on Newsmax on Sunday.
	But let's talk about, we don't want to spoil it, but people need to see it.
	It's tough.
	Jeff, you know, saw it two days ago, but he left after about an hour and a half because it's a tough movie.
	They don't show anything horrific.
	But, you know, the implication is bad enough.
	Let's talk about the performance.
	As I mentioned, we met Jim at this private showing.
	I got to sit through the whole show, the whole movie next to Jim and then discuss it afterwards.
	His performance, so this is based on Tim Ballard.
	Former Department of Homeland Security agent, whose job it was to investigate these things, he gets embroiled in a case in Colombia, doesn't get the support he needs from back here in D.C., and he says to his wife, I'm sorry, I'm not going to give up.
	I want to rescue this little girl, the sister of a little boy called Teddy Bear, who I rescued.
	You're an actor, you're a writer.
	Give a little flavor to our millions of listeners right now.
	The performance that Caviezel brings.
	Yeah, I mean, it's, you know, the performance of all the actors, you kind of expect somebody at the caliber of Jim Caviezel to bring a great performance.
	And he absolutely does.
	I mean, the whole film, it pivots on great performances.
	You need to believe that this guy really cares about what he's doing and is moved by what's going on in his life and what he's seeing.
	And let me just say, I sometimes I feel bad for myself, feel sorry for myself, because I have a tough job sometimes.
	And you can relate to this.
	We've got to scroll through Twitter and we've got to see some horrific stuff every day.
	You know, just paying attention to the news, paying attention to politics, doing this analysis, it can be very difficult to see all the horrors that go on in the world every day.
	I cannot imagine being an FBI agent whose entire job it is, is to research Pedophilia, and go after these sick men who are really just the most diseased, disgusting, repugnant human beings on the planet, that you all want to just Thanos out of the universe, you know what I mean?
	They have to watch what's going on, you know, the videos of this, the evidence of this.
	Ah, it must be the most horrific job in the world, like the first third of this movie I probably swore like 20 times to the TV just like, I don't want to watch this.
	You know, I don't want to watch this.
	But you get through that, and about a third of the way through the movie, it becomes a much more interesting idea.
	It becomes an operation.
	It becomes an operation to actually rescue all these women and children.
	By the way, more than 120 of them who are rescued in this one operation.
	We're going to continue this discussion with our movie buddy par excellence, Chris Coles.
	He's the host of the Mr. Reagan and Alpha Critic channels on YouTube.
	Follow, subscribe right now.
	We'll be back talking sound of freedom in a moment.
	Music.
	video.
	And?
	And I was sitting by myself and as the movie's going I'm just like thinking to myself, looking back and forth, I'm thinking, this is weird.
	This is definitely weird.
	I only go to the movies by myself when I'm traveling on business and I can't stand going back to my empty hotel room, so I find the nearest movie theater and I watch something.
	How bad was The Little Mermaid?
	Well, for me, I mean, I did a review of it, and for me, you know, that's the reason I went, obviously.
	Right.
	For me, I absolutely hated it, but I think kids will like it.
	I mean, it's not terrible.
	I think the main thing that, like... It's like... Go ahead, go ahead.
	It's like a musical, sorry.
	Yeah.
	What Critical Drinker and others have said is that it's too long for kids to enjoy.
	It's two and a half hours.
	They're gonna lose their attention span.
	Two and a half hours?
	Yeah.
	Like, every movie ever now has to be at least two and a half hours long.
	I never understood it.
	Right.
	The race swapping genuinely irritated me.
	Come in with the cut.
	The OG cut.
	I'm sorry, the cut that Jeff got?
	No, the other cut.
	OG cut?
	The one that we've already used.
	The one from the trailer?
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah, okay.
	Yeah, I have that.
	It's 20 seconds long.
	Uh, Chris.
	Yeah.
	Thank you so much for doing this at short notice.
	Yeah, of course.
	Are you having fun?
	Yeah, you know, it is a tough movie, but it's definitely worth seeing and people should see it and support it.
	Are you having fun in Hawaii?
	Oh, yeah, yeah, too much fun.
	Too much fun.
	It's hard to work.
	There's a few comments under the ad on Twitter that I was thinking of reading.
	Yeah, good.
	Perfect.
	Love it.
	Because there's almost like a backlash from the LGBTQ community against this film for some reason.
	Whoa, alright.
	Why wouldn't they just leave it alone?
	Let's unpack that.
	That's good.
	Look, he's got a little turtle mug.
	How cute.
	coming in with the cut.
	Welcome to the world of crime.
	that the world has ever seen.
	It has already passed the illegal arms trade, and soon it's gonna pass the drug trade.
	Because you can sell a bag of cocaine one time to the child, five to ten times a day.
	God's children are not for sale.
	God's children are not for sale.
	Jim Caviezel, a man of great faith.
	Of course, he played Jesus in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.
	There's this thing where you... I don't know what it was like for you, Chris, but as I'm in the theater watching the movie, I hear that line from the lead, Tim Ballard, and you go, oh my gosh, I hadn't even thought about it.
	If you're selling illicit drugs or black market guns, you make money once.
	You can only sell the product once to the end user, to the junkie or the criminal.
	A child Somebody you're going to prostitute.
	You can sell them ten times a day, a hundred times a month.
	That's why this industry is not only so evil, but so pernicious and so huge.
	You'd think, Chris, that there'd be nobody that would talk out against you may say oh it's hard to watch i don't want to go and see that i want to see some popcorn movie but to actually say the movie shouldn't be made or it's bad to make movies about this kind of thing to have vanity fair and the guardian say this is a conspiracy theory women and girls are being raped right now who have been trafficked as we speak probably hundreds of thousands if not millions of them you were telling me in the break that what what were you reading online
	Yeah, on Twitter, there's an ad.
	There's an ad on Twitter for this film, Sound of Freedom, you know, from Angel Studios, just, you know, supporting their film, typical ad for the film.
	But then you've got this bizarre backlash from the left.
	You know, it's strange.
	It used to be, you know, leftists, they need a purpose in life, right?
	They're typically atheists.
	They reject faith.
	They reject any kind of spiritual purpose in the traditional Christian sense.
	So they want to be environmental activists or something like that, right?
	But a lot of them had decided many years ago, I noticed that a lot of people were in these positions and these non-profits to stop human trafficking.
	This was a big deal, they wanted to stop it.
	I thought, wow, there's actually a good purpose for you.
	You're actually doing some good in the world.
	Now it seems the left has turned against human trafficking as a bad thing.
	Now they're against this movie.
	I don't know if they've seen the movie, I don't know what's wrong with these people, but you get these Responses like this.
	This guy writes, uh, he's got rainbow flags and BLM and stuff like that all on his profile here.
	And he writes, are you going to make a movie about the Christian pastors who sexually assaulted kids and the Republican governors who trafficked human beings?
	Right?
	There's a kind of like, uh, well, they did make movies about church abuse.
	Yes, of course they have.
	Yes, of course they have addressed that.
	This guy, uh, Trending Sands writes, Am I to understand that this is a movie meant to peg all of trans with child kidnapping or harm?
	I just want to make sure I understand correctly.
	Well, no, it's got nothing to do with trans people.
	I don't know where they're getting that.
	This Chez Ray writes, so here's my question.
	At one point, are movies like this propaganda and programming versus entertainment and illumination?
	I don't think I'll be seeing it, but thank you anyway.
	What do they mean propaganda?
	What are they talking about?
	This is a true story about somebody saving children from Sexual exploitation.
	Somebody writes, is it free because it sucks?
	Somebody writes, now I don't support projects with conspiracy theorists and religious fanatics involved.
	Hard pass.
	Somebody else writes, anti-semitic nonsense.
	It just goes on and on like that.
	Anti-semitic what?
	What?
	I have no idea.
	I have no idea.
	Maybe because Jeffrey Epstein was Jewish?
	I don't know.
	I have no idea.
	I honestly have... That's off the top of my head.
	I can't understand how that could possibly... This film could be anything anti-LGBTQ, anything anti-Jewish.
	Look, doesn't it tell you one thing, and I know you're a man of faith, that it's diabolical.
	And those who don't believe in God, or who mock Him, They will attack this, won't they, Chris?
	Yeah, I felt for a long time like we live in Middle Earth, you know, and the evil is sort of infiltrating the kingdom, right?
	I feel like this has been true since I was a kid, but in the 80s there was a sort of 50-50 split.
	Like, Maybe 50% of the country was devoutly religious or at least wanted to be good people, and 50% of the country were like selfish, indulgent, they just wanted to do what they wanted, narcissists.
	Today, I feel like this narcissistic atheism has infected the entire country.
	And there's just a few holdouts.
	And Jim Caviezel and the people who made this film are some of the heroes that are fighting the battle
	that needs to be fought to keep goodness in this world.
	I feel like evil is kind of winning more and more.
	You see like the president is corrupt, all congressmen are corrupt.
	And this kind of movie is one of the few things I see that's a glimmering hope of goodness.
	And that's exactly why we need more of it.
	We're going to keep discussing Sound of Freedom.
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	No, you said play it now.
	I don't want you to play it when I'm talking to Chris like a B-roll.
	I want to play it like a clip.
	That's what I meant.
	So you want it with the whole thing?
	Can you play it?
	Playback one.
	Show it.
	To the bravest man I know.
	I'm going to go get a drink of water.
	So I didn't know it at the time.
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	Alrighty.
	So what's your average day like there?
	Is it rotating between cycling, tennis, swimming, drinking mojitos?
	Is that your average day?
	Basically, yeah.
	I mean, I try to work every day a little bit.
	And recently, I had an idea to do some children's books.
	So my brother and I and my buddy are working on those.
	I want to do one called Make America Great Again, the children's book.
	Nice.
	You should contact Brave Books.
	I'm happy to connect you.
	They're really good guys.
	Okay, yeah, yeah, we can do that.
	Yeah, yeah.
	The basic idea is that they would be books that are conservative and Teach kids good lessons, but they're also funny for adults.
	I had to read some children's books to my nieces and nephews recently, and man, they're awful, most of them.
	You don't want to read children's books.
	Brave Books does exactly that.
	They just published John Solomon's book, Kash Patel's book.
	We just thought it'd be fun to do books that parents actually enjoy reading.
	Kids' books that they enjoy reading.
	So there'll be funny jokes in for the parents and little trivia things and stuff.
	I love it.
	Hopefully it'll be really funny.
	I mean, that's the goal is to make it funny.
	Yeah, you should do like how Hunter got his crack pipe back.
	He wants his sugar!
	Well, you know what?
	Part of the idea is I promoted a children's book parody recently about trans, the trans thing.
	Yeah, yeah.
	This guy connected to... Oh, I remember!
	Yeah, I remember.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I put it on my show and he like blew out his GoFundMe and he ended up getting a publishing deal and I was like, and a lot of people, yeah, I was like really happy with it and a lot of people were like, but this is not appropriate for kids.
	I'm like, no, it's satire, you know.
	But then I thought, there were so many people that said that, I thought, okay, there's clearly some kind of demand for a children's book.
	For a kid's book, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I love it.
	So I was like, let me all do an actual kid appropriate.
	Right.
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	We have a very high-tech clip.
	From the Sound of Freedom.
	It is a just moment.
	It is an amazing moment.
	Investigator Tim Ballard sitting down with a pedophile who's acquired for him this cherubic little boy to use, he thinks, as a sex slave.
	Play cut.
	To the bravest man I know.
	Though I didn't know it at the time.
	So sweet.
	Put your page up.
	His name is Teddy Bear.
	My God, he's so little.
	you This time tomorrow, that little boy is gonna be yours for
	the whole weekend.
	Right around millstone, he hung around your neck, and he made cast into the sea,
	and that you should ever hurt one of these little ones.
	What does that mean?
	It means you're under arrest for crimes against children.
	Oh, and the music rolls.
	Sorry, guys, I was watching the screener this morning, filming that on my iPhone.
	I just had to share that clip with you.
	Chris, the point I want to make with that, I mean, it's one of the best parts of the movie where, you know, he gets to save the boy.
	Later, he has to save the girl from the midst of the jungle, but he saves the boy and he quotes the Bible.
	Better a millstone be hung around your neck than you harm one of these children.
	And of course the pedophile doesn't get it and he said, dude, you're under arrest.
	The thing, as I watched the movie again...
	The thing that kind of struck me this time is not the vomitous evil of that character or the other purveyors, the other pedophile customers, but this was a real case.
	So you see everybody who's, you know, in the cartel, you see the women, Chris, the women who are locking the kids in the shipping container.
	And it kind of reinforces that concept from Hannah Arendt, the banality of evil, that even women are involved in this trade, doing it to children, the things that they actually create.
	So we have to understand not to make this into some kind of, you know, ultimate surreal Darth Vader evilness.
	Even women are part of this trade, Chris.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Every time I've ever seen stories about this, most of the time, not with like the UK grooming gangs, I didn't see a lot of women involved with that, but certainly with trafficking.
	I mean, obviously the Jeffrey Epstein case had a very, very prominent woman involved who we still don't really have a client list from, which I don't understand.
	I don't understand why the government is covering that up.
	That's completely insane.
	But yeah, look, A lot of this is just evil and greed and sinister actors.
	Look, there are two kinds of people in the world.
	There are people who want to do what's right.
	I would say that's actually the vast majority of people.
	I think people do get convinced to do the wrong thing sometimes, but I think most people, most of the time, want to do the right thing.
	And then you've got people who really don't care about duty to God, they don't care about duty to humanity, they don't care about anything like that.
	They are just selfish narcissists.
	They want to do what is in their best interest, and that is it.
	And they're willing to hurt anyone for it.
	And those kind of people, they're very, very dangerous.
	And it doesn't have to be a man.
	I think we associate, you know, because of the feminist movement and everything like that, and just because of human nature, and you see men physically fighting, we associate men with violence.
	We associate men with criminality.
	But there are some pretty psychopathic women out there.
	Including a couple of my exes, I must say.
	But not quite this bad.
	This woman is completely off the charts evil.
	But look, I don't know if I've done the best job promoting this film, because I've talked about how horrific some of the scenes are, but moments like this are fantastic.
	Like you said, he quotes the Bible.
	How many films accurately quote the Bible in a context that makes sense?
	This is so beautiful.
	I keep talking about how we need to bring back traditional values into films, and this film unapologetically brings in Christianity, and I absolutely love it.
	And you know what?
	There is a happy ending in this movie, and you will actually come out of this film It's a sad movie, but it's also a film that will give you hope.
	And there is this feeling of positivity at the end.
	But not just positivity, I felt energized.
	This gives a mission to decent people.
	We want to stop it.
	Talk about how important products like this are.
	We'll keep you on for just three more minutes if I may, but let's just do breaking news from President Trump.
	This is from Breitbart.
	This is how you make things happen.
	Let's put the headline up on the screen.
	We have Donald Trump to host Sound of Freedom screening with Jim Caviezel and Tim Ballard, the actual agent around ...whom the story is based at his Bedminster Club.
	That's how important this movie is.
	It's only been out a couple of weeks.
	It's crushed Indiana Jones!
	First day, July 4th weekend, after almost being shut down by Disney, and now the 45th President of the United States is having a showing at Bedminster.
	Absolutely incredible.
	We'll close out with Chris momentarily.
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	A three-minute segment Chris and I want you as as a thespian as a man of the
	to tell us what are the lessons learned because of this movie for others who want to make cultural
	artifacts.
	Love it.
	I love it.
	That's a great point.
	I also love that you've appropriated the James Bond 007 theme.
	Of course.
	For your own.
	Of course.
	I think that's just amazing.
	Every time I hear it I laugh.
	I think it's like the best thing ever.
	It's the best.
	The original Monty Norman version.
	Do you know what the original story of that song was?
	The original theme?
	Are you talking about the Indian song?
	Yes!
	Yes!
	Dude, I am impressed!
	I am impressed!
	I watched QI for years.
	Did you follow Jack Carr on Twitter?
	No, I probably should though.
	He just posted photographs of himself sitting in GoldenEye at Ian Fleming's desk.
	He had a private tour on Jamaica of GoldenEye.
	That's cool.
	I'm actually, I'm still reading Doctor No.
	I got it on my book stand.
	I should read a little bit of that tonight.
	Some of my prized possessions are my dad had first edition paperbacks of James Bond.
	Oh, no, no, no.
	Sorry, sorry.
	Casino Royale.
	Oh, first edition?
	That's quite cool.
	Of the paperbacks with the really funky covers.
	Standby.
	Not coming in with anything.
	You You
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Hey everybody, I'm Dana White.
	There's a new movie out called The Sound of Freedom.
	And it's about human trafficking.
	More importantly, the trafficking of children.
	This is a disgusting, horrific issue that's happening all around the world.
	And it's not getting better, it's getting worse.
	And what I'm going to do is I'm going to give any of my UFC employees that want to see this movie free tickets to go see it.
	And I would like to encourage other executives to do the same at their company.
	God bless him!
	The founder of UFC, Dana White.
	Free tickets for his employees.
	President Trump is having a showing of Sound of Freedom at Bedminster with Jim Caviezel, with Tim Ballard, the agent that rescued those children.
	You have to see this movie.
	Go right now to angel.com slash tickets.
	Angel.com slash tickets to find the theater and go see it.
	All right, Chris.
	I'm so sad the screenwriters are still on strike.
	Allegedly, Hollywood's actors are going to go on strike tomorrow.
	I don't think we'll miss them because people like Jim Caviezel will still be around and you'll still be around.
	Big question for the end of this little chat.
	What are the lessons learned With regards to this movie, a low-budget movie which is having cultural impact, it's not banging you over the head with the Bible, it's well-acted, well-written, what should this encourage other, I'll use the phrase, content creators to do?
	Well, I'll tell you what, it's something we've talked about for a long time, it's something the left has used a lot for decades, you know, It's this idea of creating art that changes the culture, right?
	And conservatives don't really care that much about fictional stories.
	We don't, because we try to live in the real world, right?
	I made a video recently about what it means to be a man.
	And if you're a child, you can believe in Santa Claus, and that's okay.
	If you're a woman, you know, you could maybe believe some fiction even if, you know, you have your own child and you need to kind of be a little bit more practical because you've got your husband to lean on.
	But men can't really afford to live in a delusion.
	We have to live in the real world and act on, you know, on what we see and what actually exists and what actually is.
	And so we don't really like fiction.
	Republicans don't really like fiction.
	But the reality is that movies like this, which is nonfiction or even fictional stories, can really change people's minds and have massive impact in the world.
	And this movie is really showing that.
	I love it.
	And by the way, if you want to buy a ticket for somebody else, Angel Studios has this whole system set up at their website for you to be able to do.
	That's what Dana White's doing there.
	And I would encourage anybody who owns a business Offer your employees tickets to this film and tell them you'll pay for it.
	I'm going to call my family and have them do it with our family business.
	And I think that that's a great idea Dana White has.
	And anybody that you want to see the movie, you can buy tickets for.
	They've got a whole system for that because they know that this movie is so important.
	They want to get that message out.
	I think it's great.
	We should all be encouraging conservative artists to try to change the world.
	And we should focus a little bit more on that, I think, in our society.
	I love it.
	What a great suggestion.
	If you're a small business owner, if you're a big business owner, how about doing what Dana White did?
	How about doing what President Trump did?
	Buy tickets for employees.
	Have a private showing.
	Go right now.
	Angel.com slash tickets.
	Chris has got to go back to sunning himself on the beach.
	God bless you, Chris.
	Thank you for joining us today.
	It's The Sound of Freedom, which is the children singing at the end of the movie.
	Angel.com slash tickets.
	Next up, one-on-one with FBI whistleblower Steve Friend.
	stay on this channel.
	Thank you.
	Bye.
	you you
	Mr. Friend, you ever been to a school board meeting?
	Yes, I have.
	FBI ever sent you to the parking lot of a school board meeting?
	Yes, they have.
	And in the parking lot of a school board meeting, where the FBI sent you, you were taking down information regarding people's license plates.
	That's correct.
	I wonder why?
	God bless Matt Gaetz who was on fire yesterday with the testimony of the director of the FBI, Christopher Wray.
	But who's going to school board meetings?
	Why is the FBI sending special agents?
	Is that where ISIS hangs out?
	Or the Cosa Nostra?
	Or North Korean spies?
	Well, let's ask the man who he is talking to.
	It is my pleasure, my honor, to welcome one of the few FBI agents with honor in his bones.
	He is the author of the book True Blue.
	Stephen Friend, welcome back to America First.
	Thank you very much for having me.
	All right, we have a little bit more time now than we did from your last appearance on this show.
	Let's start with that clip that I hadn't even seen before.
	My producer had found it.
	What threat group were you surveilling at the parking lot of a school board meeting?
	Was it terrorists?
	Was it organized crime?
	Or was it foreign spies on US soil?
	Well, in the case of my office, this was actually an effort to surveil a January 6th subject and marry that to the school board threats as they came out in 2021 during the school year when it was so contentious at the school board meetings about pornography in libraries and masking policies.
	We were directed to surveil one of the individuals who was being investigated for having gone to the Capitol on January 6th.
	They had monitored his internet traffic and seen that he was going to participate in that, so we surveilled him to that parking lot and documented anybody who he seemed to have any sort of connection to, got their license plates as potential targets that we were going to be looking into for future counterterrorism investigations.
	And what was this person guilty of or accused of when it came to January the 6th?
	Had they Assaulted anybody?
	Had they broken anything?
	Had they stolen anything from Congress?
	Can you tell us?
	I believe in that individual's case, and there's a few in my office, but I believe in his case he was accused of having assaulted a police officer.
	But most of the cases in my office were actually just trespassing.
	Unbelievable.
	All right, so tell us your story.
	You have quite a story.
	You're quite young, but you've got an impressive curriculum vitae.
	You've got a resume.
	I graduated from the University of Notre Dame.
	You served as a police officer in Savannah, Georgia, Pula, Georgia.
	You joined the FBI.
	You ended up on their SWAT team in Omaha.
	And you're also working on something I'm going to ask you about later in our one-on-one today.
	Your work investigating child exploitation, that is an issue which is back in the news.
	Tell us how you ended up as a whistleblower, somebody who is reporting upon your own agency.
	What brought you to that decision?
	What had you witnessed, Steve?
	Yeah, so my first seven years were spent in the Midwest investigating Indian country crimes, which are violent, and there's just an abundance of them.
	And that's relevant because it got me very acquainted with the FBI's Domestic Investigations Operations Guide, which is essentially the rule book for carrying forward cases.
	So after seven years, when I relocated to Florida, with the understanding I was going to work on these child exploitation cases, but then was sort of voluntold that I would be reassigned to work on domestic terrorism, That was in October of 2021.
	So now nine, 10 months after January 6.
	And in my office, domestic terrorism essentially meant solely January 6 cases.
	And that was my first access to those cases.
	And at that point, when I got to read into them, I realized from my training experience that the FBI is departing from the way that it's supposed to carry out investigations.
	And I became concerned that that was going to jeopardize righteous cases.
	I was also concerned that because the FBI was using these large-scale arrest operations, or in the case of my office, SWAT operations, that we were putting the public safety at risk because these were individuals in my office who had pledged to be cooperative with us.
	And we were going to be coming to their house at 6 o'clock in the morning a year and a half after They had had any sort of contact with the FBI catching them off guard.
	And I thought that that presented a potential Waco sort of situation.
	And it was incumbent on me, coming from my training within the FBI, that we're supposed to identify and throw the flag if there's any sort of a potential abuse of power, especially when there's other means to bring somebody into custody.
	And I brought those concerns forward to my management and within 30 days they contrived a way to suspend my security clearance so that they could skirt the whistleblower protection act.
	Which means you can't function as a special agent, correct, if you don't have your clearance?
	Correct, correct.
	So in my case they said that they didn't suspend my clearance for whistleblowing.
	They said that I looked at the employee handbook improperly and that therefore... Hang on, hang on, hang on.
	Repeat that for me.
	You looked at the employee handbook incorrectly and that was justification for pulling your clearance?
	Yes, my attorney asked me, he'd never defended any FBI personnel, so he asked me to get a copy of the handbook for him.
	So I got a copy for him and was told that I used an improper storage device to do that, even though it was a storage device furnished to me by the FBI for child pornography investigations.
	Hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on.
	Is the employee handbook top secret?
	No, it's an unclassified document actually, but the FBI houses it on a classified network, so that sort of creates an additional hurdle for you to gain access to it.
	So basically, it's a very smart way to kneecap somebody That you put an unclassified document on a secured system, and then if you need to share it with somebody as an unclassified document, like your attorney, they can just say, well whoopsie, you're in transgression of the handling of materials?
	Correct.
	Correct.
	And I mean, in my case, they said that that was an unapproved storage device and that they were concerned that it was sensitive and that I potentially placed the system, compromised the system.
	But my response to that is, well, you have too much unclassified information housed on this system.
	And that includes not just the employee handbook, but basically my time sheet that I had to fill out every two weeks to account for my hours.
	Every time I did that, or put in for a sick request or a vacation request, I was compromising our system.
	Absolutely incredible.
	All right.
	So many questions I've already started writing down.
	Let's start with the first one.
	I think you know a little bit about my background.
	So I've spent almost 20 years prior to joining the White House, working counterterrorism issues for the US military, for the intelligence community, and for the FBI.
	And for me, threats of a terrorist nature have to be analyzed objectively.
	And the most serious threat, until we came into the White House and crushed ISIS, was jihadi terrorism, global jihadism.
	There was a small domestic threat, mostly going back to the 1990s with Timothy McVeigh and then Organizations, the sovereign citizen organizations and others who don't recognize the writ of the federal government.
	But it seems to me as if everything has been turned on its head and in recent years, especially the last two years, there has been an effort to artificially inflate the quote-unquote domestic terrorist threat It's fair and it's objectively provable.
	This is a system that's called integrated program management.
	It's a quota system that the FBI implemented about 10 years ago.
	So we see the number of domestic terrorism cases has quadrupled by the FBI's count in the last 10 years.
	And that is tied to this IPM quota system, which is a way for the FBI to sort of present itself to Congress as being very effective and ensure that it gets larger budgets in the future.
	And it's also tied to executives' compensation.
	So you have senior executive service members getting $30,000 to $50,000 bonuses every year because their subordinates are meeting these quotas.
	Wow, that in and of itself is a recipe for disaster.
	The idea that there is some financial gain for you if you can inflate threat statistics or generate artificial ones.
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	The inflation, Mr. Friend, of the domestic violence or the statistics as it relates to January 6th, how they were inflating those statistics to make it look like there was a bunch more cases than there really was.
	Typically you would investigate January 6th as one case with lots of subjects, but instead the decision was made to open up a separate case for every single individual there, and instead of on paper investigating them from the Washington field office, spreading and disseminating those to the field offices around the country, and if the individual lived in that area.
	So it in effect made it look like there was domestic terrorism cases and activities that were going on around the 56 field offices when in fact the cases were really all from Washington D.C.
	and Washington field office had a task force that was responsible for calling the shots in all those cases.
	How strange.
	Why would you open up an individual case for every individual involved in an incident?
	Steve Friend, you were testifying there in front of Congressman Stubbe.
	Let me ask you, you've worked on child exploitation cases.
	I'm sure you're familiar with organized crime cases.
	If you are working against an organized crime gang, Or a ring of child pornographers.
	If there are three people in the ring of pornographers or twelve people in the, let's say, Colombian drug cartel, does that make three pornography cases?
	Does it make twelve cartel cases?
	Do you open twelve cases when you're working against one entity?
	You're not supposed to, but the nature of man is to work smarter, not harder.
	And when it comes to this quota system, that presents a very tempting move for people.
	In the case of January 6th, You have thousands of cases now, and you're creating this illusion that there is this domestic terrorism threat that's around the country, when it just happens to be the places that those people resided.
	And for most of those cases, those aren't actually terrorism investigations by the nature of their classification.
	They're classified as riot investigations.
	They're actually a criminal offense.
	But because the So is that what you tweeted out yesterday during his testimony?
	You said Christopher Wray just lied.
	handling those investigations, the FBI is labeling them as terrorism cases, and it's
	to dupe the stats and create this illusion.
	And that's why Christopher Wray said that 2,700 domestic terrorism cases were in existence
	during the last fiscal year.
	Well, I would imagine the lion's share of those are from the destruction of the Capitol
	on January 6.
	So, is that what you tweeted out yesterday during his testimony?
	You said Christopher Wray just lied.
	Is that what you were talking about?
	No, I was lying about the school boards.
	He said that the FBI, no special agents were sent to surveil school boards.
	And I can tell you from firsthand experience that that is, in fact, not true.
	I was sent there.
	Wow.
	Yeah.
	We have you testifying to that.
	In fact, the idea that he's so stupid that he doesn't even know what you testified and he lies about it in front of Congress is truly stunning.
	Let me ask you a very prosaic question.
	So how many years did you have in the bureau?
	Just around nine.
	So, nine years in the Bureau.
	In that, I presume, as a former Georgia police officer, it was very important for you to be in the good graces with the old dogs, with the more senior guys who'd been there for a while, who, you know, were running divisions or were running units and who you could learn from.
	I'm just curious, before you blew the whistle, When you see the inflation of statistics, when you see individual suspects who are grouped together, each one resulting in a separate case number to inflate the apparent threat, what were the people who'd been there for 15 years, 20 years, who were colleagues of yours, who were superiors,
	What were they saying?
	Were they agreeing with you that this is wrong?
	Or was everybody saying, well, you know, I've got my pension and I'm going to be vested in two years, so I don't really care about cooking the books.
	I think it's more of the latter.
	And certainly amongst the rank and file, folks shared my opinions and were questioning it, but they just didn't share my fortitude and wanted to come forward with it.
	And when I brought my concerns to my frontline supervisor and on up the chain of command all the way to the special agent in charge, if they weren't true believers in the righteousness of this persecution that's going on, they immediately came back to me within a minute of me coming forward.
	And hearing me out saying that I was risking and jeopardizing my future with the FBI by presenting this information.
	And they knew that all the guns and attention would be focused on the messenger, because you get all the flack when you're over the target on this.
	And they were just unwilling to sacrifice, which is a pretty sweet gig for most people in the FBI.
	It's a great opportunity to be underworked and overpaid.
	And I think that they were aware of it at that point.
	What is, let's, we have a little bit of hindsight, you clearly are in the public eye now because of what you said about the inflation of January 6 cases.
	Can you give us your thumbnail, your elevator pitch for What really happened on that day?
	Why do you think it happened?
	And what are the key questions that remain unanswered, that need to be answered by the intelligence community, by the FBI, not just the FBI, by other agencies, perhaps Homeland Security Investigations, that may also have been implicated in the events of that day.
	So give us Steve Friend's analysis of those four hours on January the 6th.
	I think it was a confluence of a couple factors, one being that the demand for domestic terrorism in the way to label all Republicans who supported Donald Trump in that way has vastly outstripped the supply.
	So those, a lot of organizations were infiltrated heavily by either undercovers.
	So I think that there's any sort of organization that was doing anything.
	from an informant perspective, they were only paid if they generate actionable intelligence.
	So they would encourage activity that would be outrageous in the hopes that they could come back to their handlers
	and get a nice payday for that.
	So I think that there was any sort of organization that was doing anything, they were being driven
	by people that were not predisposed to commit those acts who were acting on behalf of the government.
	And secondly, I think that there was an honest reaction from the folks that were there
	that went to the president's speech and believed in the First Amendment
	that they had a right to redress their grievances with the Congress because they had legitimate concerns
	about the outcome of the 2020 election.
	And I sort of compared it to the final scene of Miracle on 34th Street in the courtroom when there's all these letters that are presented about the existence of Senate laws.
	And I think that those people felt that genuinely walking through the people's house, as is their right to do as American citizens, Yeah, yeah.
	to present this unified front and show how many people really had concerns in the hope that the
	congress would pause and do a legitimate audit of the election and unfortunately they were
	roped into this now and having just walked through a government building is considered a felony from
	the DOJ's perspective. Yeah, yeah and being a confidential informant can be rather lucrative
	can it not? Oh absolutely.
	Depending on what you're informing on, you could make in excess of six figures, as we're seeing with the informant who was alleged to have brought forward concerns about the Biden family back in the summer of 2020.
	Yeah, yeah.
	An individual who has now been indicted by the DOJ because he says he has the receipts on the corruption of the Biden family.
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	Steve, I know you're only there for a few years, but you're, you know, career law enforcement.
	You've been through the ringer.
	Now you're prepared to stand up for the truth as a whistleblower, talking about the corruption inside the agency.
	You must have some kind of theory of the genesis of this all.
	Why are we where we are today?
	Did the FBI... You said this fascinating thing that you've got, you know, January 6th, Suspects or people of interest who are cooperating with the Bureau for over a year and then suddenly somebody at the Bureau says, OK, we're going to raid their house at gunpoint.
	And how does that happen?
	How does that level of perversion occur?
	A lot of people theorized that after 9-11, when Mueller was told to prevent the next
	terrorist attack, the FBI moves from being law enforcement to domestic intelligence.
	Then we have the phenomena of lots of lawyers, not agents, but political animals being brought
	into the seventh floor of the Hoover building that changes the character.
	And then, of course, you mentioned it once or twice, the preponderance, the over-emphasis of the Washington field office in these, you know, quote-unquote sexy cases or politically sensitive cases, the political infection of Washington, D.C.
	These are all potential explanations for you when and where did the rot set in I contend that the FBI has always been a political police force.
	It's been extra constitutional throughout its entire existence.
	And the event diagram for its work that it was doing might overlap with the good work for the American people, but that doesn't always happen.
	So in the 40s, when the FBI pursued communists, that was in keeping with the Constitution and continuity of government, and I think that was good.
	But flash forward a couple decades, and they were pursuing Martin Luther King and encouraging him through COINTELPRO to kill himself because the ruling elite wanted that.
	Then the FBI was not doing the work of Holding the rule of law.
	So I think the FBI has always been about preserving the status quo for who is in charge.
	And now you combine it with what you talked about, where the FBI has evolved since 9-11 into this intelligence agency with a law enforcement capacity, as opposed to just a genuine law enforcement agency that's interested in putting bad guys in jail.
	And then furthering that with this quota system and then the demand from the ruling elite, the status quo, which is wanting to pursue its political enemies in the form of conservative Americans.
	And all of those have combined this effort now.
	And we're seeing that the FBI is weaponized against significant components of portions of the population.
	And look no further back than last September, when President Biden labeled all Republicans as being Yeah.
	Let me just make one modification to your statement.
	Those are the two top priorities amongst the counterterrorism division in the FBI today.
	Let me just make one modification to your statement.
	You said the FBI has always been interested in maintaining the status quo and to keep
	those in power in power.
	I'd say with one exception, the four years of our administration.
	I don't know if I told you the story with the last time you were on, but I had requested
	three by name transfers from the bureau when I was working in the White House as a deputy
	to the president.
	These are all people who'd worked for, not worked for me, but who I'd trained, who'd
	gone through graduate school through my programs that I taught on.
	And I didn't get them. I never got them. Six months later, I never got them.
	And which should have been a, you know, ten-day, you know, transfer of clearances
	and then detailing over to the White House.
	And I was told offline by a senior FBI agent, after six months, who was visiting the White House,
	said, you're never going to get those transferees because the seventh floor of the Hoover Building looks at
	this president as the enemy.
	So it's maybe the Uniparty that they're protecting.
	Maybe it's now the Democrat Party, but it's definitely wasn't President Trump.
	We're talking to Steve Friend, author of True Blue.
	Follow him at RealSteveFriend right now.
	All right, let's play a card from yesterday's hearing.
	Again, the great Matt Gaetz this time.
	Taking it to Christopher Wray.
	I'm sitting here with my father.
	I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction.
	I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.
	Sounds like a shakedown, doesn't it, Director?
	I'm not going to get into commenting on that.
	You seem deeply uncurious about it, don't you?
	Almost suspiciously uncurious.
	Are you protecting the Bidens?
	Absolutely not.
	The FBI does not and has no interest in protecting anyone politically.
	That's a shakedown and everybody knows why you won't answer it.
	Because to the millions of people who will see this, they know it is.
	A couple of comments there.
	Number one, God bless Matt Gaetz.
	What is he doing?
	He's actually reading the encrypted WhatsApp message that was a shakedown to a government official in China saying, Where's my money?
	Why haven't you sent the wire?
	Do you know who's sitting next to me?
	It's my father!
	Do you know who we are?
	We don't forget, and we bear grudges.
	What does that sound like?
	That sounds like, you know, a badly written mafia movie shakedown, and the director of the FBI is asked, doesn't that sound like a shakedown to you?
	And what's Christopher Wray's response?
	I tell you, I do this three hours a day, every day.
	We play a lot of clips.
	Jeff works very hard to get them, and Eric, you know, and Guy make sure they're ready when I need them.
	And I've never seen, I've never, since his tenure as director, I've never seen Christopher Wray that angry.
	Steve Friend, why would the director of the FBI be so angry about being asked whether he is protecting the president and his family?
	I think that he's overly sensitive about this issue because there's a kernel of truth, if not all truth, behind what Congressman Gates was talking about there.
	And it's the tried-and-true tactic that Chris Ferri likes to lean on where he says he's not going to talk about an ongoing investigation or doesn't want to reveal sources and methods.
	He actually broke out a new one yesterday, and that was whenever he was confronted with factual evidence of misdeeds and malfeasance by the FBI, he said, well, the FBI just doesn't do that.
	He can say that as much as he wants, but as Matt Gaetz demonstrated, that's actually inaccurate.
	It reminds me of the time where Comey was testifying, the former director of the FBI, and 236 times he said, I do not recall.
	If anybody I know can't remember something 246 times, I'm taking them to the, you know, senility clinic the very next day.
	Otherwise, I know they're just covering and they're a liar.
	So here's the tough question, Mr. Friend.
	After the news of the last five days with regards to Gal Luft, an American-Israeli citizen who was in business with CFC, the Chinese energy company that was funding millions of dollars to the Bidens, a man who voluntarily went to the FBI in 2019 to say, hey, there's a pay-for-play, I've got the receipts, here's the evidence, it involves the Bidens, Four years later, he gives an interview from outside of the country saying, I did this, nothing ever happened, I'm really concerned.
	He does that on Friday or Saturday, and on the Monday, Biden's DOJ says, we're gonna arrest you and charge you with fire violations, which Hunter Biden should have been charged with at least 20 times.
	When I heard that news, I gave an interview myself to a friend, and I used the phrase, We've arrived.
	We have a police state in America.
	Was that over the target or was that hyperbole in your opinion?
	Not at all.
	I think we have a new Ben Franklin phrase where we can say, this is a banana republic if you can keep it.
	This gentleman came forward and they slow walked the investigation into him and now they've turned up the volume and turbocharged it to discredit him.
	Fortunately for us, he got his information out in time.
	And the fact that he could be under indictment, I don't think, is relevant to the information
	he has to bring forward.
	And even if it is, in fact, that he is a bad actor here, there's a belief in law enforcement
	that there's no kindergarten teachers or priests as informants, and they're often playing in
	these sandboxes, and they're going to get dirty as well.
	And I think the information he has about the Bidens is important, as well as the way he knows it is important.
	He knows other people who stood to benefit from it, and he knows who within the DOJ and the FBI ran the protection for them.
	Yeah, yeah.
	We've got only a few minutes left.
	I've got to ask, because of what you have on your resume of having worked on child exploitation, the DOJ has said that's really not an order of priority, an issue of priority for them this week, which shocks me, especially given the incredible success of the movie Sound of Freedom.
	We had the founder of Angel Studios on with us.
	Sound of Freedom is of course about this massive industry, global industry, with hundreds of thousands if not millions of people being trafficked.
	Can you give us, I don't know, I'm just curious, what is your reaction to the establishment voices not Taking this story or this movie seriously.
	Trying to undermine it and saying that it's a conspiracy theory.
	You work these cases, Steve.
	It's absolutely not a conspiracy theory.
	It is an overwhelming threat.
	I would put it on a par with any major top line item that the FBI should be pursuing.
	My default setting is to be a small government person, but if you were to double the size of the FBI and solely committed to combating child trafficking and to combating child pornography and pedophilia, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find any legitimate actor to object to that.
	This is something—nobody wants to see kids harmed in any way.
	And the fact that the media has rallied around it shows that the most transparency that we've seen from them in a number of years, and that is they're willing to prop up child trafficking if it means that they can attack Christianity in America.
	Yeah, it tells you more about the people who don't take it seriously or who want to poo-poo this issue than it does about anything else.
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	Last question is the big question.
	Just yesterday we had it floated that either the FBI doesn't get its new headquarters bigger than the Pentagon, or if it does, it's taken out of the swamp and it's moved to Alabama, which is interesting.
	I think most of U.S.
	government should be kicked out of Washington, D.C., so we can actually man it with actual patriots and downsize it considerably.
	Steve Friend, if good guys who believe in the Constitution Take over the executive if President Trump comes back, God willing.
	Is the FBI, as an entity, salvageable?
	I don't believe it is.
	I think if anybody who has any sort of energy comes into power, they would just end the FBI.
	I think it's so tarnished.
	It's beyond any sort of reform at this point.
	But were anybody to attempt to that, I think that first step would be to move headquarters to Alabama, which already exists.
	It's already a $2.5 billion facility and a clean house at the top.
	And I think there also needs to be a consideration of eliminating the 1811 armed criminal investigator position from the FBI and allowing them to make referrals to local law enforcement and have local detectives from sheriff's offices and police departments cross-deputized as federal marshals.
	And that gives a final stopgap measure for your local sheriff to stop federal overreach from happening.
	So the FBI presents a case for arrest of Seb Corker for domestic terrorism.
	Your sheriff can say, no thanks, we're not going to affect that arrest.
	I love that idea because the federal deputization system already works.
	It happens all the time when, you know, there are big national security events.
	You can take somebody and deputize them if they're a law enforcement officer.
	But take law enforcement mandate the gun and the badge away from the bureau have them do what it says in the eye of FBI investigate and if you have to arrest somebody it should be local law enforcement state municipal what have you who actually know the people of the area
	Who know when something is not right, it's overstepping the mark.
	Did you come up with that, Steve?
	I love that.
	Yeah, I did, and I looked at the past for the country.
	I think it's very analogous to the way we used to elect senators in this country, where they came from the state houses before there were statewide elections.
	This allows the locals and the state authorities to essentially provide the personnel to the feds, and it defangs the FBI.
	Regardless of who's at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, you don't have to worry about the gun being pointed at you by the FBI.
	They won't have the gun.
	Genius.
	Genius.
	If you don't write that article, Steve, friend, I will.
	I think that is a genius solution.
	You don't have to necessarily dismantle the FBI with new leadership.
	You can prevent them being the Gestapo, the political police, by making sure they don't have arrest powers and the good guys like the sheriff say, excuse me?
	You want to raid whose house?
	Uh-uh.
	Not happening.
	Genius, genius, genius.
	That's why he's one of the good guys.
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