May 17, 2024 - Sebastian Gorka
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| So, I'm going to go ahead and get started. | |
| I'm going to go ahead and get started. | |
| I'd like to know if any of the Democrats on this committee are employing Judge Mershawn's | |
| daughter? | |
| Thank you. | |
| Please tell me what that has to do with Mayor Garland. | |
| Is she a porn star? | |
| Oh, Goldman. | |
| That's right. | |
| He's advising. | |
| Okay. | |
| He's advising who? | |
| What? | |
| Do you know what we're here for? | |
| You know we're here about- I don't think you know what you're here for. | |
| Well, you're the one talking about- I think your fake eyelashes are messing up- No, it ain't nothing- Hold on, hold on. | |
| Order, Mr. Chairman. | |
| Order. | |
| Order. | |
| I do have a point of order, and I would like to move to take down Ms. | |
| Greene's words. | |
| That is absolutely unacceptable. | |
| How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person. | |
| Are your feelings hurt? | |
| Move her words down. | |
| Oh girl, baby girl. | |
| Oh really? | |
| Don't even play with me. | |
| Baby girl? | |
| We are going to move and we're going to take your words down. | |
| I second that motion. | |
| Rule number one of congressional debate, never mention the fake eyelashes, because then you'll get, oh girl, baby girl. | |
| And I'm seriously considering changing the ringtone on my phone to AOC saying, oh girl, baby girl. | |
| Last night on Capitol Hill, a sight you don't often see, AOC, MTG getting in a catfight over Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett's Eyelashes? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Truth. | |
| The real world. | |
| It's stranger than fiction. | |
| So much to discuss today. | |
| It's Friday! | |
| It's Ask Dr. G Anything Friday. | |
| The number is 83333 Gawker. | |
| It's also Second Amendment Friday. | |
| And of course it's Making Movies Great Again. | |
| Third hour with my buddy Chris Coles. | |
| We'll be discussing a classic, the year 2000's Gladiator. | |
| And you shall be entertained. | |
| But first things first, let's talk serious business with a true warrior princess. | |
| And I do throw that out now and again to describe patriots of the fairest sex here on this show, especially my friend Jennifer Horne, my muse, Katie Gawker. | |
| But this one, I think we got a photograph of her. | |
| Well, she's got all the credentials. | |
| A judge advocate, major in the Marine Corps, and then shoulder to shoulder with the President of the United States as his attorney. | |
| Christina Bobb! | |
| Welcome in studio! | |
| Thank you so much for having me. | |
| I'm thrilled to be here. | |
| We have so much to discuss. | |
| You've just given me a dedicated copy of your book, Stealing Your Vote, the inside story of the 2020 election and what it means for 2024, with an introduction by none other Then SKB, Stephen K. Bannon, and a lovely dedication. | |
| I'm not talking about the one that you scribbled for me, but the dedication that every copy of the book has on its flyleaf. | |
| The dedication is to the conspiracy theorists, the election deniers, the political prisoners, the deplorables, and every American who dared to question the narrative. | |
| All right, before we get to the content of your book and everything else we have to discuss, how do you go from being a marine to a TV host to an author to an attorney for the president? | |
| Can you just walk us through that, please, Major? | |
| Well, I mean, you just laid it out exactly how it happened. | |
| How does that happen? | |
| I don't know. | |
| I know I've had several people say, you know, I'd love to emulate your career. | |
| How do I do it? | |
| I was like, I don't even know how I did it. | |
| I just kind of followed whatever the next interesting thing was. | |
| And it turns out I've been in a lot of interesting situations. | |
| Including Helmand Province, Afghanistan. | |
| Correct. | |
| Yes. | |
| So, yeah. | |
| So, you're not going to tell us. | |
| You're just not going to tell us how you did this. | |
| Well, I don't... How you did this amazing career trajectory. | |
| You're just going to sit there and say, it's because I'm fabulous. | |
| That's why. | |
| Don't you understand? | |
| No, honestly. | |
| I mean, this is the honest to God truth and I feel like it's going to sound hokey saying it, but just give your life to Jesus and tell him he can do whatever he wants with it and he will take you on the craziest journey you could not even predict. | |
| And that's honestly what happened. | |
| Beautiful, beautiful. | |
| That'll segue later to the amazing commencement speech from the Chiefs kicker, Harrison Butker, that has got the NFL, got their knickers in a twist, you know? | |
| All the transgenders at the NFL, the D-E-I-C-R-T positions there, not happy with that amazing speech from a man who clearly is a patriot and a Christian. | |
| All right, then just give away the last part of it, because I know how I got to work for President Trump. | |
| Because somebody recommended me to him before the GOP debates in 15 to prep him on national security. | |
| And that's how I met him, how he hired me. | |
| I too signed an NDA. | |
| Me and Stormy Daniels. | |
| Yes, it's true. | |
| Because it's a very normal business practice. | |
| How did President Trump find you? | |
| So I actually worked in his administration at the Department of Homeland Security. | |
| Right. | |
| And I didn't know him, wasn't connected with him at all, very removed in an agency. | |
| And then I got kind of a wild hair, left to join One America News as a reporter and ended up reporting from the White House on election night, November 3rd, 2020. | |
| And that's kind of how this whole thing started. | |
| I was not intending at all to get involved in election reporting or, you know, trying to dig into what happened. | |
| I had a lot of questions and just kind of kept digging and he followed my reports and eventually we connected and I would tell him what I was finding and we kind of developed a relationship through my reporting and then I ended up joining his legal team. | |
| I want everybody to read the book and we want you back for a whole hour sometime but you're in town, we grabbed the target of opportunity and you're here for the next couple of segments. | |
| In the book, Stealing the Vote, I mean, it's incredibly detailed, just the chapter headings. | |
| The battle for Arizona, Georgia's Republican roadblocks, Wisconsin fights back, Michigan, the rhinos Alamo. | |
| Fascinating. | |
| I'm going to digest it cover to cover. | |
| But if you had to do the bluff, the bottom line up front, if you were briefing at Quantico, oh, there's a very interesting story out of Quantico. | |
| Two Jordanians tried to creep in with a white van and DHS is sitting on that story. | |
| I wonder why they're sitting on the story about two immigrants trying to get a van into the crossroads of the Marine Corps. | |
| But more of that later. | |
| If you were briefing the commandant and you had to tell, you know, what is the bottom line about 2020? | |
| Because I've had my argument for the longest time, but I'm not in the trenches like you or others like Rudy, that yes, there may be problems with machines and everything else, but the Democrats have been stealing elections since 61. | |
| Since Joe Kennedy bought the votes of the dead in Chicago for JFK. | |
| It's old school. | |
| We joke about it. | |
| We joke about the dead voting in Chicago and Philly. | |
| There's a culture of this. | |
| Was there anything different about 2020 beyond the 80 million mail-out ballots? | |
| Wasn't it just old school cheating? | |
| Well, the way I like to summarize the book is Democrats cheated, but Republicans covered it up. | |
| The biggest roadblock was Republicans. | |
| Because they just didn't want to talk about it? | |
| Well, I think there was a few, you know, I can't divine everybody's intentions or motivations, but it was the Republicans that blocked the real investigations into figuring out exactly what happened and how it happened. | |
| We have some of that information, but we don't have everything that we would like. | |
| I think a lot of it is some Republicans have been so comfortable in their seats and Democrats have just allowed them to keep their seats. | |
| They don't need to win. | |
| They get paid. | |
| They get the nice lobbying jobs. | |
| So if they lose, it's just as safe because they have no responsibility. | |
| They have the money, but no responsibility. | |
| Correct. | |
| They don't want to upset the apple cart. | |
| They want to leave the game the way the game has always been played, knowing that everyone kind of fudges things a little bit. | |
| Folks like me, who really hadn't been involved in politics, and, you know, there's a lot of them out there, started asking really inconvenient questions that they didn't want to answer. | |
| So it was the Republicans that ran interference. | |
| And when it comes to November, we've had 21 states clean things up a little bit, you know, ban Zuckerbergs. | |
| What grade do you give the security of our election? | |
| Uh, we're not where it needs to be yet. | |
| I think we can be. | |
| I think the key... We can be? | |
| We can be, yeah. | |
| I don't think we're there yet, but the key to 2024 is people being involved. | |
| Yes. | |
| This isn't something where you can sit and watch the news and be satisfied with what's happening. | |
| You have to volunteer. | |
| You have to become an election And how involved are people? | |
| It's so funny. | |
| I told my wife, hey, guess who's coming on my show today? | |
| Oh, she said, oh, you mean the woman I was on a conference call with earlier today? | |
| Yeah, because my wife's the chief election officer for our district and the chairperson of the biggest county in Virginia for the GOP. | |
| These ladies are in charge. | |
| What's your excuse? | |
| Follow her at Christina underscore Bob on social media. | |
| The book is Stealing Your Vote, the inside story of the 2020 election and what it means for 2024. | |
| Get yours today. | |
| And if you enjoy our interviews with the real newsmakers and experts like Christina, make sure you are subscribed to the podcast on whichever platform you prefer. | |
| And then tell the world whose side you're in, you're on. | |
| Get the yard sign, get the T-shirt, get the mug with the president's booking photograph. | |
| Trump2024 at SebGorgestore.com and support him at DonaldJTrump.com This looks very, uh, very conscientious. | |
| It's really just my story of like all the conversations I had with people. | |
| Right, so we did 13. | |
| I did, I did. | |
| Can you play me cut 10, please? | |
| Andrew McCarthy, NDAs are legal in common, yet regulated. | |
| Trump's was illegal. | |
| I had the only illegal NDA. | |
| It seems that Trump's crime by blue state lights was winning the election. | |
| That was my crime. | |
| I won an election that I wasn't supposed to win against Hillary Clinton. | |
| And that's not a crime. | |
| You're a Republican in New York. | |
| It's not a crime. | |
| All right, come in with that. | |
| I'll do the cruise, and then I might tee up cut four. | |
| You can talk about the case, right? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Yeah. | |
| As long as I'm not, like... R&C style. | |
| R&C, yeah. | |
| And play me eight again. | |
| Eight and nine, please. | |
| You know, I laugh at the phrase, America first. | |
| I know it typically means, oh, isolationism. | |
| But really, America is putting ourselves first when we're involved in the world, when we stop bad people. | |
| Look, if Vladimir Putin goes not just through Ukraine, but then decides to go into Poland, then we're involved. | |
| Dr. David Moran, a senior advisor to Dr. Fauci for decades, wrote in an email, To Dr. Dasik, quote, I learned from our FOIA lady here how to make emails disappear after I am FOIA'd but before the search starts. | |
| So I think we're all safe. | |
| Plus, I deleted most of those earlier emails after sending them to Gmail, end quote. | |
| Is that consistent with NIH document retention policies? | |
| It is. | |
| Well, hang on, hang on. | |
| It is, and his mouth is still open. | |
| All right, I need to check with Jeff. | |
| Okay. | |
| All right. | |
| Give me cut three and cut four. | |
| Some members will miss this vote because they want to be at the president's trial and I don't think that anything could animate the phrase do nothing Congress more than missing votes and canceling hearings to go up and be a spectator at your cult leader's trial. | |
| That is the definition of do nothing Congress. | |
| I mean, for Michael Cohen's credibility on this, I mean, on this one particular topic, whether it's, you know, he just didn't, I mean, it's hard to, I don't know. | |
| Yes, I think if I was a juror in this case, watching that, I would think, this guy's making this up as he's going along, or he's making this particular story up. | |
| We're gonna start with you because the couch would like to know, as America would, the reaction from the Hunt family regarding the kicker, Harrison Butler. | |
| Well, I can only speak from my own experience, which is I've had the most incredible mom who had the ability to stay home and be with us as kids growing up. | |
| And I understand that there are many women out there who can't make that decision, but for me in my life, I know it was really formative in shaping me and my siblings to be who we are. | |
| So you understood what he was talking about? | |
| For sure. | |
| And I really respect Harrison and his Christian faith and what he's accomplished on and off the field. | |
| Ducey has aged. | |
| You You | |
| you you | |
| you And I'm going to put it on the end of McCarthy. | |
| NDAs are legal in common, yet regulated. | |
| Trump's was illegal. | |
| I have the only illegal NDA. | |
| It seems that Trump's crime by blue state lights was winning the election. | |
| That was my crime. | |
| I won an election that I wasn't supposed to win against Hillary Clinton. | |
| And that's not a crime. | |
| You're a Republican in New York. | |
| It's not a crime. | |
| May I correct you, sir? | |
| That is your crime, winning the election against Hillary Clinton. | |
| That's the problem. | |
| And I didn't rehearse that with my former boss. | |
| I mentioned NDAs a moment ago. | |
| I signed an NDA with the Trump Organization when I became advisor to candidate Trump. | |
| And he's right. | |
| Reading from Andy McCarthy, who's not exactly MAGA, not a big fan of the president, who said, yeah, NDAs, non-disclosure agreements, totally common. | |
| As we speak, across America, they're probably Tens of thousands of NDAs being signed right now. | |
| They're just making him stronger every single day. | |
| We will analyze momentarily, but first things first. | |
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| We are back with the one and only Christina Bobb, former attorney to the President of the United States, former DHS appointee, former JAG judge advocate in the Marine Corps, and author of the new book, Stealing Your Vote, the inside story of the 2020 election and what it means for 2024. | |
| You're not representing the president right now, in this case, in Manhattan, so I'm free to ask you these questions. | |
| Gotta get your reaction. | |
| I never thought... Sit down, everybody out there, if you're not sitting down. | |
| I never thought Anderson Cooper, the man who, I think, banned me from CNN after I told everybody live on his show that more people watch the Cartoon Network reruns of Scooby-Doo than watch his show, which is true, by the way. | |
| It's actually true. | |
| Anderson Cooper said this, Christina, about Michael Cohen. | |
| Cut four. | |
| I mean, for Michael Cohen's credibility on this, I mean, this one particular topic, whether it's, you know, he just didn't, I mean, it's hard to... | |
| I don't know. | |
| Yes. | |
| I think if I was a juror in this case, watching that, I would think, this guy's making this up as he's going along. | |
| Or he's making this particular story up. | |
| It's hard to, I don't know. | |
| Yes. | |
| I don't believe him. | |
| When CNN is saying Michael Cohen's got no credibility, is this thing collapsing? | |
| Or is Bragg and New York just too biased? | |
| Well, both. | |
| I think it is collapsing and I think they're too biased. | |
| I think it's all of that. | |
| You know, this case is doomed. | |
| When you bring a case like this where it has no merit, everybody says it has no merit. | |
| The prior prosecutors that looked at it didn't want to bring it because they said it had no merit. | |
| And then your star witness is a confirmed liar, a confirmed liar under oath lying to Congress, lying on the stand before in other cases. | |
| That's not a great case to bring. | |
| Are they just stupid? | |
| I mean, I know Alvin Brant campaigned on putting President Trump behind bars, but can't they get, like, one witness who isn't getting paid to have sex or a convicted perjurer? | |
| I mean, what prosecutor says, yeah, that's a really good lineup? | |
| Well, no legitimate prosecutor says that, but I genuinely think it's just a case of severe Trump derangement syndrome. | |
| They hate him so much that they're willing to break all the rules and bend all the normal standards that we have, and it's showing. | |
| I mean, we're seeing it across the board. | |
| It's not just in New York. | |
| We're looking at what happens in Georgia and across the board. | |
| I think these people hate him so much they don't care what they look like, and they look very, very foolish. | |
| Tell a little bit about what it was like working for President Trump because people don't understand how unique this individual is and how, I don't know whether he's nuclear powered or something. | |
| But he never stops. | |
| Last time I saw him in person at Mar-a-Lago a few weeks ago, he'd left at 6 a.m., he'd traveled the country, had events in Orlando, in Miami. | |
| We were having a party without him at Mar-a-Lago for Trump, for Truth Social. | |
| He comes back at 10 p.m. | |
| at night, and without any notes, Gives a speech for 40 minutes. | |
| I mean, a 21-year-old would have, you know, challenges with that. | |
| What's it like working for him? | |
| It's fantastic. | |
| I mean, I don't know how he does it. | |
| I don't know how he keeps going. | |
| Thank God he's got phenomenal staff around him and really great people on the operational side that can, you know, kind of make all of that happen. | |
| But he's a machine. | |
| I genuinely believe this fuels him and I think the You mean the constant attacks? | |
| Well, the constant attacks, but it's more than the attacks. | |
| I think, and I'd be curious your thoughts on this too, but I think he genuinely loves this country so much he's fueled to save it. | |
| Oh yeah. | |
| So it's the attacks he's willing to put up with because he believes he can save this country. | |
| And I think he can too, which is why I support him. | |
| But he is determined and resilient as ever. | |
| Yeah, for me, I've told the story a couple of times, is the moment. | |
| For me that was the Damascene moment when the scales fell from my eyes was 2022 November again at Mar-a-Lago in the big ballroom when he announced his re-election campaign. | |
| And I know the guy. | |
| We've been alone together in the Oval Office. | |
| I advised him when he was simply a candidate. | |
| And then halfway through this speech, it's a short speech. | |
| It's about 40 minutes long. | |
| It's one of his best speeches, that and the Warsaw speech. | |
| If you want to know who President Trump is, watch his Warsaw speech about what it takes to defend Western civilization. | |
| Then watch his November 2022 speech where he relaunched his campaign. | |
| And I'm standing there on the side of the ballroom, about 800 Maga, you know, creme de la creme in the ballroom. | |
| And I get this kind of gut punch. | |
| And I realize, kind of hits me hard. | |
| He's doing it again. | |
| A man who's lost a billion dollars, didn't even take a paycheck, called a misogynist, called a Islamophobe, a white supremacist, even a Nazi, had his home raided, had his colleagues who worked for him put in prison, and he's doing it again. | |
| And I thought, what man does that? | |
| And there's only one reason. | |
| You've got to love the country. | |
| He could have gone off and built golf courses and just left politics, but he didn't. | |
| Yeah, no, that's right. | |
| He loves the country so much and he wants people to like him, obviously. | |
| Most of us do. | |
| He wants people to admire what he's doing and like what he's doing, but he's willing to put that aside with what the media is doing because he loves the country more. | |
| And the funniest thing about people, you know, people liking him, I don't know if you had this experience with him, After I left his service and I come back and meet him and whatever and interview, first thing he always does in addition to saying, how's Katie? | |
| It's like, okay, how do you remember my wife's name? | |
| Is he says, so what did you think of my speech yesterday? | |
| He wants to know your opinion. | |
| And it's not just like a throwaway. | |
| He's curious. | |
| Yeah, no, he does. | |
| He highly values feedback from people. | |
| And that's one of the things I think the public recognize that too. | |
| Now, certainly not everybody gets to have private conversations with Donald Trump, but I think that people can see that he reacts to what the public is doing and what the public wants. | |
| And I think in their own way, they feel seen and they feel heard by him. | |
| Even if they're not having private conversations, they recognize that he recognizes what they want and what they need. | |
| The forgotten men and women of America. | |
| That's why he was elected. | |
| And God willing, if we do our part, he will be elected again. | |
| The book is Stealing Your Vote by Christina Bobb. | |
| Follow her right now on Twitter at Christina underscore Bobb. | |
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| And I've got a brand new article coming up tonight on my Substack, the new MAGA manifesto. | |
| Don't miss it. | |
| at sebastiangorka.substack.com And then I need a copy of... | |
| da da da da da I'm gonna go play this song. | |
| And then I need a copy of... | |
| Thank you. | |
| Kill the lights. | |
| I'm going to do a quick test. | |
| Five, uh, five and a half years. | |
| Okay. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Alright, spell that again. | |
| Uh, Deanna. | |
| D-E-A-N-N-A. | |
| Okay, that's for her. | |
| Thank you so much. | |
| And then, what's your mom's first name? | |
| Jean. | |
| J E A M. | |
| Thank you. | |
| And this will be for you. | |
| That is so kind of you. | |
| Thank you. | |
| I'm so excited. | |
| Oh, hang on. | |
| What are we coming in with? | |
| with a sort of cut coming with. | |
| We did 10. | |
| Come in with cut eight and then I'll do my pillar. | |
| and I'll see you next time. | |
| I love Michael and Al. | |
| All right, that's you. | |
| Thank you so much. | |
| I'm so excited about this. | |
| Thank you, thank you. | |
| Yep. | |
| Do you think you can get the sub stack up today? | |
| Bye. | |
| Will you? | |
| Before you do that, just read it quickly and tell me if there's anything obvious I've forgotten. | |
| Because I did immigration, deep state, economy, China. | |
| I just need a sign to check if I missed anything. | |
| Ah. | |
| You You know I laugh at the phrase America first | |
| I know it typically means, oh, isolationism. | |
| But really, America is putting ourselves first when we're involved in the world, when we stop bad people. | |
| Look, if Vladimir Putin goes not just through Ukraine, but then decides to go into Poland, then we're involved. | |
| Well, Eric, what did Mitt Romney just say there? | |
| He said, I typically laugh at the phrase, America first. | |
| He actually said that on camera? | |
| And then he proceeded to turn around and act like, oh no, but America first is good as long as it means we get more wars. | |
| I'm just like, are you kidding me? | |
| That's the literal opposite. | |
| That's like saying fiscal conservatism is spending trillions of dollars. | |
| Like, he totally doesn't get it. | |
| He lives in a giant bubble. | |
| The sooner he goes to... Where's he really from? | |
| He's from Massachusetts, right? | |
| The sooner that carpetbacker goes back to Massachusetts, the better. | |
| Unlike that true patriot, a man who makes this show possible because of you, our dear viewers and listeners, Mike Lindell. | |
| Who's hated more than Mike Lindell by the left? | |
| There's President Trump. | |
| Then who else? | |
| Rudy Giuliani. | |
| And I think third is Mike Lindell. | |
| Why? | |
| Because he's a friend of the president's. | |
| He's a patriot. | |
| He believes in America. | |
| And he's a God-fearing Christian. | |
| Let's have his back. | |
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| We're talking to a true warrior in and out of her Marine Corps uniform. | |
| She is the author of the book, Stealing Your Vote. | |
| Christina Barr, I've got to ask you this because you worked with him. | |
| Sadly, I met with him at National Security Council meetings. | |
| Katie, my wife, who is a presidential appointee at the Department of Homeland Security, met with him. | |
| Miles Taylor. | |
| Anonymous, the high-level appointee, which he wasn't. | |
| How serious is not just the threat to our election integrity, but people, whether it's Sasha, don't call me Mr. Vindman, Or whether it's Miles Taylor at the Department of Homeland Security. | |
| How much of a threat to our republic are those who are never elected to office, but think they get to run the country, not the man elected by the electorate? | |
| It's very significant and very serious. | |
| Someone like Miles Taylor. | |
| Nobody ever heard of Miles Taylor. | |
| Nobody ever would hear of Miles Taylor if he hadn't tried to shove himself in the limelight by declaring himself a traitor. | |
| He had a lot of influence in what was happening at the Department of Homeland Security. | |
| I mean, I don't know what to say other than they would, he in particular, he acknowledges this now. | |
| His job was to subvert President Trump's plans for America, immigration, the wall and everything else. | |
| That was pretty much. | |
| But representing who? | |
| Who did he represent? | |
| Who did Miles tell you? | |
| Who does he represent? | |
| Well, nobody, clearly. | |
| No one knows who he is. | |
| No one elected him. | |
| No one wanted his opinion. | |
| But he deemed himself more important than our election process and decided that he knew better than the president. | |
| And we all should be laughing that the president wanted to do what he wanted to do and thought that he could come up with a better plan than the president. | |
| Can I ask you, I'm going to ask you the impolitic question that's not really done. | |
| This is an argument between me and Steve Bannon all the time. | |
| He says, don't worry about it, Seb, don't worry about it. | |
| My theory is, and Chris Plant says this very well on his morning show, he says that one of the biggest successes of the left is to make sure that decent patriots would never work in a Republican White House, especially a Trump White House. | |
| If we win, God willing, if we win, Do we have enough people on our bench who are prepared to put up with the tax, the personal triangulation against your family, to actually drain the deep state? | |
| I know you're a fighter, but do we have enough Christina Bobbs, enough Cash Patels? | |
| Well, it's really amazing to me how much a few people can do. | |
| You know, and so people think, oh, I'm just a little person. | |
| What can I do? | |
| It's like, no, you actually have more power than you think you do. | |
| And so courage is contagious. | |
| And so while I agree with you, I would love to see, you know, 10 times what we currently have. | |
| I do believe that when we win, people, people will come in alignment with us and people will continue to. | |
| So we'll have, we'll find enough people to man the ship of state. | |
| Well, I think so. | |
| I also think the president, based on some of the speeches he's given, plans on shrinking it. | |
| So I think we will need fewer people. | |
| Mind-numbingly, when we came into the White House, thanks to Obama, we had a National Security Council of 420 people. | |
| Eisenhower at the height of, you know, Suez Canal had 25 people. | |
| Reagan at the epicenter, the height of the Cold War, had 75. | |
| And Obama, yeah. | |
| 420 sheer insanity. | |
| That's the deep state. | |
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| But finally, we are getting to connect on my show here on America First with the former AG of the beautiful sunshine state of Florida, Pam Bondi. | |
| It has been far too long. | |
| Hi, my friend. | |
| I'm so excited. | |
| Well, the women are taking over. | |
| The legal eagles are taking over. | |
| We are delighted to have you on the show. | |
| We've been analyzing the insanity in Manhattan. | |
| I'm just going to ask you to react to the meltdown of the star witnesses. | |
| This is a very entertaining little 23 seconds from none other than TDS Patient Zero. | |
| Joe Scarborough, cut to. | |
| Yesterday, when commentators were talking about how this was like some Perry Mason moment, I just thought, I said, no it's not! | |
| A juror is not gonna go, oh my god, eight years ago, a minute and a half conversation, da da da, well that, I mean, it seems to me the much bigger problem is the podcast where he says, I want this guy to get down. | |
| Not, not, I mean, the prosecution's gonna be able to clean this up on Retroact, aren't they? | |
| The prosecution can clean this all up on redirect. | |
| Your prognostications, Pam? | |
| Absolutely not, Sebastian. | |
| You know, you and I have been on TV together saying this, that Michael Cohen is a liar, a convicted liar, and it came out he lied even more on the witness stand in this trial. | |
| And you know, that minute and a half phone call was very important because that was the only thing that allegedly connected him to Donald Trump. | |
| And it wasn't even on President Trump's phone, it was on Keith Schiller's phone. | |
| And he said, oh no, I remember this. | |
| It was a call and I talked to Keith Schiller and they showed the phone record. | |
| But what they didn't have were the text messages prior to that, where, what's his name, Cohen, was being harassed by a 14-year-old boy. | |
| The text messages coincide perfectly. | |
| They fit perfectly with the phone call. | |
| So Cohen's being harassed by a 14-year-old boy. | |
| He texts Keith and says, hey, I need help with this boy. | |
| I need this to stop. | |
| Keith says, call me. | |
| They had a minute and a half phone call about a 14-year-old boy, nothing to do with Donald Trump. | |
| It's corroborated by the text messages. | |
| He's a liar and there is nothing. | |
| And Sebastian, you know and I know, this case should be a directed verdict. | |
| I've heard that before. | |
| I agree with you. | |
| But explain for our millions of listeners what a directed verdict from the judge means. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So what it means is that the prosecution could not prove their case. | |
| And it shouldn't even go to a jury. | |
| You know, every step of the trial. | |
| They have to prove Donald Trump is innocent until proven guilty beyond and to the exclusion of any reasonable doubt. | |
| And they could not get there in their case. | |
| As a career prosecutor, you don't even take a case to trial unless you firmly believe you have a solid case. | |
| And we all know they didn't have one to begin with, yet they have a judge who's helping them every single step of the way. | |
| They have not proven one single crime Not one criminal act in this case. | |
| No evidence. | |
| Sadly, sadly, you're being logical. | |
| And you're following the law because you're a former Attorney General, your former special advisor to President Trump, White House, Office of White House Counsel. | |
| So let's leave all the truth and logic and the law on one side. | |
| And let's talk about the other things that we know. | |
| It's Manhattan. | |
| So it's New York. | |
| It's a judge who has donated to Joe Biden, has donated to an anti-Trump super PAC and whose daughter, I'm breaking down all the details on my Newsmax show on Sunday, you will be shocked guys, you've got to tune in 7 p.m. | |
| Eastern on Sunday, his daughter who has raised already 93 million dollars from Democrats based upon her daddy's trial of President Trump. | |
| As a result, Let's be honest, there's not going to be a directed verdict from Judge Juan Merchan. | |
| So what is the best case scenario, Pam Bondi? | |
| So what I said was there should be a directed verdict. | |
| I wholeheartedly agree with you, Sebastian, there won't be. | |
| Here's another reason why. | |
| That judge, for all the reasons you laid out, should have recused himself. | |
| Judges do that all the time. | |
| It's so common for judges to recuse themselves. | |
| Yet this judge wanted this case for all the reasons you just laid out. | |
| He wants to keep the case. | |
| He wants to convict Donald Trump. | |
| He's been ruling against Trump the entire trial. | |
| And so I don't believe there will be a directed verdict. | |
| There should be. | |
| But I think this judge has laid it all on the line. | |
| He knows it's going to get reversed if, if, if there's a conviction. | |
| He has committed reversible error, even starting in jury selection. | |
| When he kept jurors on that trial, remember the rights in this case go to Donald Trump. | |
| He is the one accused and he gave him no rights in this case. | |
| So starting with jury selection, that judge has committed a reversible error throughout basically every step of this trial. | |
| So if, if there was a conviction, it will be overturned. | |
| They all know it. | |
| I don't think anyone doubts that, that this case would be overturned. | |
| But what I'm hoping is even in a liberal Manhattan courtroom, With 12 jurors that at least some of them, some of them can talk to others into the truth. | |
| Or at the very worst case scenario for President Trump, it's a hung jury and then this case will never ever see the light of day again. | |
| Well, there are two attorneys in the jury who should know what the law is. | |
| And there is an immigrant from Ireland who may have less TDS than somebody born in Manhattan. | |
| So we shall wait and see. | |
| So great to have you on the show. | |
| Let's get you back for a longer chat next time. | |
| In the meantime, please follow Pam at Pam Bondi, B-O-N-D-I on Twitter. | |
| That's Pam Bondi, former Attorney General of Florida and Special Legal Counsel to the President of the United States. | |
| I'm Sebastian Gorka. | |
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| Yeah. | |
| Yes, for Christina. | |
| 2020, the Dems stole it, the GOP covered it up. | |
| That's a really good line. | |
| Isn't it? | |
| Isn't it good? | |
| I'm gonna read this book cover to cover. | |
| For Lee, will we be slaves or animals? | |
| No, will we live as slaves or animals? | |
| Sorry, Jeff? | |
| What? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Did you hear what she said when she was leaving? | |
| She's in Georgia next week because she's been arraigned with Rudy. | |
| Never stops. | |
| And for Bondi, what was something catchy she said? | |
| said. | |
| Yes? | |
| An American icon Clint Eastwood turns 94 on Friday, May What? | |
| I have a Make a Movie Great Again request. | |
| A Clint Eastwood movie on that day. | |
| Your choice. | |
| I like that. | |
| I like that. | |
| I think it has to be Dirty Harry, doesn't it? | |
| It is your choice next after Chris, because, yeah. | |
| But yeah, it's gotta be dirty. | |
| ♪♪ Some members will miss this vote because they want to be at | |
| the president's trial. | |
| And I don't think that anything could animate the phrase, do nothing Congress more than missing votes and cancelling | |
| hearings to go up and be a spectator at your cult leader's trial. | |
| That is the definition of Do Nothing Congress. | |
| He's not a handsome man, is he? | |
| I know it's rude to say that, but I never realized, Eric Swalwell, he's not exactly Clark Gable, is he? | |
| A cult leader? | |
| You're a cult leader? | |
| President Trump, really? | |
| Let's listen to the leader of a real cult, Joe Biden. | |
| Maybe Jeff can translate this for me. | |
| Allegedly, it says here that this is Biden today explaining what he did with student debt relief. | |
| We need a translator, cult six. | |
| That's why my administration has taken the most significant action, notwithstanding the fact that the Supreme Court tried to stop me, to provide student debt relief, most supreme ever. | |
| Most supreme ever? | |
| Hang on, just play that again and then Jeff will tell me what he said. | |
| Play that again, Eric, please. | |
| That's why my administration has taken the most significant action, notwithstanding the fact that the Supreme Court tried to stop me, to provide student debt relief, most supreme ever. | |
| It's the most supreme ever. | |
| Jeff, what did he say? | |
| Notice at the beginning how fast he was? | |
| Yeah. | |
| They're prepping him for the debate. | |
| They're trying to find out the right dose of the game in the State of the Union. | |
| Because you can tell the mouth doesn't go as fast as the brain there. | |
| And he did that a few times in the State of the Union. | |
| It's like one of those, you're too young, those little rubber bands, right? | |
| Where you wind up the plane. | |
| I remember those. | |
| You remember those? | |
| Yes, yes. | |
| And then you let go, and the rubber hasn't quite, you know, expanded yet. | |
| And you're waiting for the propeller. | |
| It's like, oh, it's wound up! | |
| Is other lips gonna match the brain? | |
| Is the brain gonna match the lips? | |
| What is it we think? | |
| What are they giving him? | |
| Is it the little white baggie from the little cubbyhole in the White House? | |
| It wouldn't surprise me. | |
| You know, I bet he feels the next day like the people like you see in Vegas that were on a bachelor party for four days and they're getting on the plane on the way afterwards. | |
| The head pounding, just everything's coming down. | |
| I bet you that he'll- Wearing the big sombrero, right? | |
| To hide the light. | |
| That's what he's gonna be. | |
| Okay, I gotta ask you, Jeff. | |
| Good idea to debate or not? | |
| I mean, I want to see it. | |
| I think that's the thing. | |
| It just gives the Democrats an out if he really screws it up. | |
| That's why I don't like it. | |
| Somebody said I have to go to the RNC convention. | |
| What do you think, Mr. G? | |
| Uh, to yell at people? | |
| To yell at rhinos? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Could be fun. | |
| You'd like to do that, right? | |
| I'd love to do that, yeah. | |
| We could just stand there yelling at rhinos. | |
| Just ask them what they've done so far. | |
| Yeah, yeah, we'll ask. | |
| All right, we'll have to plan that. | |
| Oh dear, I hate traveling. | |
| In the meantime, if you want to feel good, check out Katie's new podcast, Rocketing Up the Charts. | |
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| I think they're up to episode 5. | |
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| National Security, Second Amendment. | |
| Stay with us here on America First. | |
| John, can you hear him? | |
| He's talking to you. | |
| Yeah, you wanna do the reads? | |
| Yeah, the last one. | |
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| To the ladies present today, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment. | |
| You should be proud of all that you have achieved to this point in your young lives. | |
| I want to speak directly to you briefly because I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you. | |
| How many of you are sitting here now about to cross this stage and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career. | |
| Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world. | |
| I can tell you that my beautiful wife, Isabel, would be the first to say that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother. | |
| I'm on this stage today and able to be the man I am because I have a wife who leans into her vocation. | |
| I'm beyond blessed with the many talents God has given me, but it cannot be overstated that all of my success is made possible because a girl I met in band class back in middle school would convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one of the most important titles of all, Hole maker. | |
| Look at that big hairy man getting all emotional. | |
| Why? | |
| Because he's telling the truth that he's a man's man. | |
| He's an NFL kicker from the champion team from Kansas City because of a good woman. | |
| A good woman who chose the most important and the toughest job in the world. | |
| To be a homemaker. | |
| God bless Harrison Butka and his commencement speech at Benedictine College that is causing a furore! | |
| Disowned by the NFL, of course, because they're all woke. | |
| Um, Eric, as you're tucking into that brownie, tell me, why is what Butka said such a problem? | |
| Because it is as blatantly pro-family as can be. | |
| He called out, you know, DEI, He called out feminism basically, waged war on all feminism with saying women should be homemakers first and foremost. | |
| It is, but it's the most basic common sense. | |
| That has kept humanity alive and prosperous for thousands of years. | |
| Bingo, bingo, bingo. | |
| I think we have to post the whole speech. | |
| We'll tell John to put the whole speech up. | |
| Watch that commencement speech, because really, it is a rallying cry against the insanity that is taking over our civilization. | |
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| He is the executive director of the Oversight Project at the Conservative Mothership. | |
| Mike Howell! | |
| It's been too long. | |
| Welcome back. | |
| Alright, thanks for having me. | |
| Good to be back with you. | |
| Now, you don't just, you know, write papers and give speeches at the Oversight Project. | |
| You actually get stuff done. | |
| You've got a plan. | |
| And I texted you earlier this week saying, whoa, this is cool! | |
| This new thing you guys are doing, let's get you back on the show to talk about it. | |
| So what's the latest initiative from you and your team at Heritage? | |
| So we got a lot of initiatives going on. | |
| I'm going to plug two real quick. | |
| The first is President Trump, when he takes office and installs his teams throughout the government, they need plans for who to go after in the deep state and who to get out. | |
| And in terms of whether it's criminal prosecutions, civil rights violations, or just regular old firing, walking people out of cardboard boxes. | |
| And so we're putting together such a list of weaponized actors, particularly within the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice. | |
| That we think are prime candidates as lawbreakers. | |
| I see this as a massive conspiracy against civil rights that's going on right now, particularly in a RICO in nature, as you see the White House running prosecutions out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in various states. | |
| All right, big project number two, it all comes down to the security of our election. | |
| Will we have a free and fair election? | |
| Absolutely not. | |
| It's about mitigating it as much as possible, the election interference. | |
| That's unfortunately the standard. | |
| So what President Trump says is that you win so big that it doesn't matter that they cheat, right? | |
| He's absolutely right. | |
| So we need to limit their ability to cheat. | |
| There's no stopping it entirely. | |
| Unfortunately, it's too late in the game. | |
| They already got stuff up and rolling. | |
| But the big thing we have put out this week is about Biden bucks. | |
| Biden tasked the entire federal government to work As is get out the vote campaign. | |
| So he has agencies that, you know, touch people, whether it's welfare, health care, you name it. | |
| Those are operating in key Democratic districts and focused on getting out the votes to run his campaign out of the federal government. | |
| We put a bombshell trove of evidence and are calling on states because Congress once again funded this stuff. | |
| They yell about it on cable TV, turn around and fund it. | |
| But states can kick the feds out, and that's what we're pushing on them to do. | |
| Let's backtrack a bit. | |
| So, get out the vote, okay? | |
| That should be a bipartisan thing, but what we're talking about is federal entities doing it to favor one candidate, correct? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| It's Biden teaming up with dark money leftist groups who say they can register three million more Democrats and using your taxpayer dollars in concert with those groups to point the get out the vote effort only at areas and people they want. | |
| They aren't going to NASCAR races. | |
| They aren't going to Daughters of the American Revolution conventions. | |
| They're in the urban areas and exclusively focused on people who they want to harvest ballots from to vote. | |
| So, let's talk about the first thing that really excites me because we have the deliberate targeting of conservatives by the DOJ, by the FBI, by the intelligence community for years and years now. | |
| Have you identified or have your team members identified What kind of prosecutions for actual crimes we can go for to drain the deep state? | |
| I know the phrase, you know, corruption under the color of law, where you use your powers in ways That look as if they're constitutional, but in fact they're illegal. | |
| And then this idea of the diminution or the denuding of the civil rights of those who are being illegally targeted. | |
| Is there a grab bag or is there a magic silver bullet of what crimes these actual real criminals could be charged with, Mike? | |
| Yeah, absolutely there is. | |
| You nailed the big one. | |
| It's a civil rights violation. | |
| That's what this is. | |
| It's targeting people for exercising their civil rights, whether it's President Trump's right to run for president or right to vote for him. | |
| And then, you know, every other civil right that Americans are supposed to enjoy in this country. | |
| And so that's a big one. | |
| From there, you get at the conspiracy and the RICO elements to bring this All together and, you know, to expand the web of people involved. | |
| There's a lot others on the table, though. | |
| You know, look at Joe Biden's mishandling of classified information. | |
| Yeah. | |
| The same stuff they've used to go after President Trump seems to directly apply to a lot of people, not just at the top, but at the mid levels. | |
| And then there's also, you know, election interference. | |
| That is a big one. | |
| That is a statutory crime. | |
| And that, I think, is an umbrella in which a lot of this activity fits into. | |
| I also see a lot of waste, fraud, and abuse that I think is criminal, particularly in the border space and other areas in which contractors are brought in that are friendly to the administration. | |
| Uh, they get sweetheart deals. | |
| I think we are in the peak of American corruption, and that's what we seek to undo. | |
| And, you know, we are going to do the legwork now so that at their disposal and, you know, for their consideration when we restore honesty to the White House and the Department of Justice, these factual predicates are together and legal theories are in place. | |
| All right, and then the last question I have. | |
| I'm working on an article on exactly this. | |
| It'll be published tonight. | |
| To bring these cases against actual criminals, don't they need to be brought outside of D.C., given that 93% of D.C. | |
| voted for Biden? | |
| Yeah, I think you're absolutely right. | |
| That's the state of the rule of law in the United States right now. | |
| It's where you bring the case depends on, you know, what rights you have. | |
| Unfortunately, in DC, if you're a conservative, you don't have rights. | |
| And if you're a Democrat, you can break the law with impunity. | |
| Luckily for us, I suppose, this is nationwide activity, and there are plenty of jurisdictions in which cases can aggressively be brought. | |
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| . | |
| Why don't you debate me? | |
| Mr. Chairman, the minority... I think it's pretty self-evident. | |
| You're out of order. | |
| You don't have enough intelligence. | |
| You're out of order. | |
| Chair recognizes Mr. Perry. | |
| I'd like to strike those words at home. | |
| Ms. | |
| Crockett. | |
| I'm just curious, just to better understand your ruling, if someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody's bleach-blonde, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct? | |
| A what now? | |
| We're not gonna, we're not gonna do this. | |
| Look, you guys earlier literally... You just voted to do it! | |
| Order! | |
| Order! | |
| I'm trying to get clarification. | |
| Look it, calm down. | |
| Calm down. | |
| No, no, no, because this is what y'all do. | |
| So I'm trying to get clarification. | |
| Hey, Ms. | |
| Crockett, you're not recognized. | |
| Ms. | |
| Crockett. | |
| I can't hear you with your yelling. | |
| Calm down. | |
| No, don't tell me to calm down. | |
| Calm down. | |
| Because y'all talk noise and then you can't take it. | |
| You're out of control. | |
| I've always said I'd prefer more of a parliamentary Congress, but I'm not sure that quite fits the bill. | |
| Jeff, what did Crockett call MTG there? | |
| Bleach, blonde, bad body, what was it? | |
| Bimbo or something? | |
| Butch body babe. | |
| Oh, butch body babe. | |
| That's protocol there. | |
| Eric, are you impressed with Ms. | |
| Crockett, the Democrat from Texas? | |
| Never heard of this woman before. | |
| You have! | |
| She did this two months ago. | |
| She did it again. | |
| I love especially that AOC felt the need to step in and fight for her as if she couldn't fight for herself. | |
| When she was capable of coming up with a better insult than AOC. | |
| But the best thing is, that was late, late, late last night. | |
| Have you heard, Eric, what AOC is saying now is the reason for all of this? | |
| Racism, obviously. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| Misogyny and racism, because I guess she thinks MTG's a man. | |
| It's misogyny and racism. | |
| Things getting a little bit heated on Capitol Hill. | |
| Let's depoliticize the situation here on America First. | |
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| It is time to talk national security with the man who knows it all, the man whose literal textbooks I used to teach at Fort McNair at National Defense University, Jim Carafano. | |
| Welcome back in studio. | |
| Good to be here. | |
| Let's just get some old news out of the way. | |
| Now it's allegedly temporary pause of munitions shipments to Israel. | |
| How do you look at that and how does that look to allies and enemies? | |
| Look, I mean, I don't know what's worse, right? | |
| Like, at least if he was decisive, if he cut off aid and then— Stood by that decision. | |
| But then it was kind of this equivocal, like, but we see this all the time with Biden. | |
| I don't think he's taken seriously. | |
| I mean, we have this finger waving, right? | |
| Like, don't do that. | |
| And then they do that and he doesn't do anything. | |
| And he threatens to aid, but he doesn't withhold aid. | |
| It looks very weak and equivocal. | |
| I gotta be honest, this isn't really news because everybody knows this is exactly the person that he is. | |
| This style. | |
| And it's not, you know, it's not well he's an old doddering fool because at the height of his mental powers he was the same weak, He's not a strong, decisive leader, particularly when it comes to foreign policy. | |
| And the problem is, he's surrounded himself by the same kind of people. | |
| It's the exact same people that were in the Biden administration. | |
| It was the same kind of equivocal leadership that we saw from Obama. | |
| Run away from Iraq. | |
| Oh my God, I can't. | |
| ISIS is there. | |
| Fight ISIS, but not too hard. | |
| Put down red lines, but really enforce them. | |
| Apolitically, can we just like dissect this a little bit? | |
| Because you've given us a great summary that kind of shapes the way Biden behaves and shapes the way Obama behaves. | |
| What is driving that equivocation? | |
| Why is it, you know, I'll drone people from my secure iPad, but I won't do anything that's really safe. | |
| What is the fear that these Democrat presidents have? | |
| Well, this is a form of risk aversion. | |
| It's like you projecting yourself onto the world and think everybody thinks like you do. | |
| So the typical progressive thing is, You don't want to be seen as the bully, unless you're picking on people who are weaker than you, right? | |
| But you want to be seen as this kind of... And so you want to use the minimum amount of force possible to get your adversaries to behave. | |
| This is what Johnson tried to do in Vietnam. | |
| But everybody gets the joke, right? | |
| And so they don't do that. | |
| And so who do they pick on? | |
| They pick on their political enemies. | |
| They pick on people that are weaker than them. | |
| But the real enemies, they're incredibly tentative and weak over. | |
| And what is the philosophical reason for that? | |
| Is it that they just say, they deem violence is bad therefore? | |
| Well, I think to be honest it's because... | |
| of who they are and the world they came up in, how they were raised. | |
| When you're in that progressive bubble, you're not challenged, you're not picked on, | |
| you're not making brave stands, you're not standing with Martin Luther King on the stage. | |
| And so it's this notion that the world, you know, when you live in a world that's kind of child-proofed, | |
| you kind of react that way. | |
| And I think that's the one thing we all see in common. | |
| Look at Joe Biden's political career. | |
| He never really seriously had anything that held him back. | |
| He could pretty much do what he wanted. | |
| He had an easy lifestyle. | |
| He never really had a tough election. | |
| He ran for president. | |
| You know, nobody wanted him. | |
| He wilted like a flower in five seconds. | |
| So I do think there's not a toughness there. | |
| Like, the difference between a Kennedy, who went and fought in World War II, and like a John Kerry. | |
| Okay, he had a uniform in Vietnam, but he came home and he went right into that liberal bubble that protected him forever. | |
| So I think they're not toughened up to deal with the real world. | |
| But how do they not have like a sanity check where they say, oops, Afghanistan didn't go so well? | |
| Because they surround themselves with the like-minded people who have that, you know, it's called cognitive dissonance. | |
| And it's reinterpreting everything in the way that makes you right. | |
| It's like, how could he, how could Biden say, well, inflation was at 9% when I came into office, right? | |
| But there's no check and balance. | |
| So are you telling me that these people actually think the world is going in the right direction? | |
| Well, yeah, I think they do. | |
| And if things aren't happening, well, it's because there's not enough of it. | |
| Whatever they're doing, we just need more of that. | |
| More billions for Iran. | |
| Defund the police and there's more crime. | |
| So the answer is, well, we have to defund the police more. | |
| Even more. | |
| And look, and I'm not saying that this is every liberal is like. | |
| I mean, we've got some liberals and very progressive people who have been pretty tough fighters. | |
| You know, FDR is a good example. | |
| But, you know, FDR had a lot of personal adversity in his life and a lot of political adversity in his life. | |
| And he was tougher. | |
| And so I think the image that people need to understand is the pajama boy. | |
| Yes. | |
| Right? | |
| In a commercial. | |
| Obama's famous commercial with the hot cocoa and the pajama boy. | |
| Because in their heart, that's who they really are. | |
| Alright, thank you for bringing that awful memory back for us. | |
| We're going to search that image, we're going to post it for us, and we're going to use it in the next segment. | |
| We're talking to Jim Carufano, Senior Counsel to the President of the Heritage Foundation. | |
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| We'll be back with Jim in a moment. | |
| ♪♪ Get the drama, boy. | |
| Where's Padrama? | |
| There he is! | |
| Here he is! | |
| Uh, hang on a second. | |
| Wow, here it is. | |
| That's so good. | |
| Oh, come on, come on, come on. | |
| I need the image. | |
| Okay. | |
| Uh, for Pam Bondi... What shall we do? | |
| That was crazy. | |
| I had not seen that. | |
| No, yeah, that was like last night, midnight or something. | |
| Oh, show Jim the other one. | |
| Show Jim the beginning of it. | |
| Show him cut 13. | |
| I'd like to know if any of the Democrats on this committee are employing Judge Mershawn's daughter. | |
| Please tell me what that has to do with Mary Garland. | |
| Is she a porn star? | |
| Oh, Goldman. | |
| That's right. | |
| He's advising. | |
| Okay. | |
| He's advising who? | |
| Do you know what we're here for? | |
| You know we're here about... I don't think you know what you're here for. | |
| Well, you're the one talking about... I think your fake eyelashes are messing up the TV. | |
| Hold on, hold on. | |
| Order, Mr. Chairman. | |
| That's beneath even you. | |
| That's beneath even you. | |
| Order. | |
| I do have a point of order, and I would like to move to take down Ms. | |
| Greene's words. | |
| That is absolutely unacceptable. | |
| How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person. | |
| Are your feelings hurt? | |
| Move her words down. | |
| Oh girl, baby girl. | |
| Oh really? | |
| Don't even play baby girl. | |
| We are going to move and we're going to take your words down. | |
| I second that motion. | |
| Oh girl, baby girl. | |
| What the heck? | |
| Let me be as offensive as you are, if not more so. | |
| You can't take the hood out of the hood rat. | |
| Quite the pair. | |
| Oh, hang on. | |
| What was the super chat? | |
| The rumble? | |
| What was the question? | |
| Well, the previous one I already had this set on. | |
| May 31st is Eastwood's 24th birthday. | |
| Oh, Eastwood. | |
| Yeah, yeah, yeah. | |
| Okay, good. | |
| Where's Gulo Gulo? | |
| Where's our buddy? | |
| I don't see him in chat. | |
| I'm kind of keeping an eye on multiple things here. | |
| I don't see him at the moment. | |
| Okay, I have the image. | |
| I forget that they use that unironically. | |
| I always thought that was a meme that was created to, like, mock. | |
| Which one? | |
| Pajama Boy! | |
| Oh, I know, it's real! | |
| Have you got it? | |
| Yeah, I've got it already. | |
| Alright, I'm gonna tee up cut seven for Jim, but let's remind people about the Pajama Boy for... Have I gone through every cut? | |
| Almost. | |
| Oh, I have! | |
| Yeah, you went through Deucey... Oh, except Grace Hunt. | |
| Gracie Hunt. | |
| We'll do that in the e-block. | |
| Can you believe how old Doocy looks? | |
| That's pretty bad, yeah. | |
| It's like, I haven't seen him for a couple of months and he looks ancient. | |
| Some people age like cheese. | |
| Others age like fine wine. | |
| Alright, 30 seconds. | |
| You said you'll tee up seven? | |
| Yeah, I'll tee it up. | |
| But at the top here, we're doing car 15. | |
| We're doing car 15. | |
| Oh, car 15, okay. | |
| Car 15. | |
| Gorka, did I see the Gorka man? | |
| Yes, stand up Gorka, quick, get up! | |
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| Seb, they call him Seb, I call him Sebastian. | |
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| It's up to you guys, it's up to us. | |
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| Alright, I know it's Friday, I know you're in a good mood, but I'm going to spoil it right now. | |
| Jim Carafano, are you ready? | |
| Sure. | |
| Good, your loins. | |
| There is somebody called Carlos del Toro, who is the Secretary of the Navy. | |
| I'm not going to use the words on the cut sheet that Jeff put there, because I might get in trouble with my employees. | |
| But he's talking to Senator Eric Schmidt about the state of the Navy. | |
| Cut seven. | |
| You want all the members of your team to feel like they're included? | |
| Well, I have a question. | |
| Do you believe that you were an ally for the 1,878 soldiers who were fired or the 3,746 Marines who were fired for not taking the COVID shot? | |
| Were you an ally for them? | |
| Sir, I followed the laws. | |
| They disobeyed the law? | |
| Did they feel included? | |
| They disobeyed a law. | |
| They were fired. | |
| They were fired because they disobeyed a law. | |
| Do you regret that? | |
| Do you regret that? | |
| It currently existed. | |
| I have no regrets. | |
| You have recruitment challenges. | |
| You refuse to... You know what, Senator? | |
| You refuse to admit the DEI is a part of this. | |
| You're firing qualified people who are well trained and you sit here so smugly to act like none of that has any impact on the readiness of our Navy. | |
| We re-contacted 3,500 of the 4,800 people who were fired. | |
| You know how many actually decided to come back to the Navy? | |
| How many? | |
| Two. | |
| Shocker! | |
| Two. | |
| Shocker at the level of disrespect they received from their government. | |
| I'm not familiar with Senator Schmidt, but what I've seen, I like the cut of that man's jib. | |
| The discussion was about DEI, CRT, ideological penetration of our services, and a secretary who seemed to have no compunction that thousands will let go because of the COVID shot. | |
| Are you worried? | |
| Concerning the reliability or the readiness of our troops because of political overlays in the last three years, Jim? | |
| Yeah, and I don't say that lightly. | |
| You know, somebody who's in the military for 25 years and heard all this thing about tension between civil authorities and military people and politics and all this. | |
| It is the worst I've ever seen. | |
| The Air Force came out the other day endorsing some LGBT thing. | |
| And, you know, with this trite phrase like Diversity is a strength. | |
| This is another one of these kind of liberal things that they throw out, like social justice, or from the river to the sea, that's supposed to mean something. | |
| You know what real diversity is? | |
| I've been working on this study on Italy in World War II, where two different nations fought under the Allies. | |
| You had Brazilians, and you actually had Palestinians, Arabs, and Jews fighting side by side for the British. | |
| That was diversity. | |
| That was real diversity, right? | |
| Because these are people that came together and they were fighting and dying for the survival of the free world. | |
| When they say diversity, they mean like everybody gets to play. | |
| This is nonsense. | |
| So they're equating diversity. | |
| Like I say diversity is there is a Brazilian soldier Fighting and dying next to an American. | |
| And they think diversity is a transvestite wearing a uniform that can't deploy because they have to take their hormone pills. | |
| This is nonsense. | |
| And it is absolutely and incredibly destructive. | |
| And the telling phrase there, well, nobody wanted to come back. | |
| Well, now we're making our quotas. | |
| Well, we're making our quotas because we've lowered the quota. | |
| And we're spending an exorbitant amount of money to get in the military. | |
| You know why people aren't joining? | |
| Because people join the military for one reason. | |
| They think they're doing something to help people and make things better. | |
| And if you don't believe that, that you're doing something worthwhile, then the propensity to serve just drops like a stone. | |
| We've got literally 15 seconds left. | |
| You have a quarter of a century in uniform in the army. | |
| Is this fixable? | |
| Yeah, sure, but it does take leadership. | |
| And the reason why I know it's fixable, I mean, I lived through this horrible army in the 1970s and the Jimmy Carter era and the underfunding and everything and the tumultual of Vietnam and all that. | |
| And I saw, in a couple of years, go to this incredible force under Ronald Reagan, spirited, talented, capable. | |
| You know what it was? | |
| It wasn't even the money, it was leadership. | |
| It was leadership that made the difference. | |
| If you're still in, don't give up, don't leave, unless you have to. | |
| Because it is fixable, but it is up to us, November 5th. | |
| Thank you, Jim. | |
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| Let's talk about a travesty in the state of Arkansas. | |
| I saw this man being interviewed by my friend, Governor Mike Huckabee, and I was so shocked by the segment I immediately texted Governor Huckabee, and he connected me with Bud Cummins, former U.S. | |
| Attorney in the District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. | |
| Mr. Cummins, welcome to America First. | |
| Thank you. | |
| It's good to be here, Dr. Gorka. | |
| So I'm just going to ask you to tell the story and then we'll try and analyze it how on earth it happened. | |
| Would you tell what happened recently to the director, the manager of the Hill and Billery Clinton Airport in Little Rock, Arkansas? | |
| Yeah, Brian Malinowski was actually grew up in Pennsylvania. | |
| Really bright guy. | |
| Pursued a career in airport management, worked his way up the chain, different positions, was hired at the Little Rock Airport maybe 20 years ago, and then was elevated to be the executive director of the airport. | |
| He was very successful in that position. | |
| During his tenure, they've done a couple hundred million dollars to an airport that's not that large, and we're one of nine debt-free airports in the country. | |
| Brian also had a lot of hobbies. | |
| He collected coins since he was a kid. | |
| I've seen books this thick about coin collecting that he read. | |
| He read books about how to be a poker player and competed at poker. | |
| And then several years ago, he took up gun collecting and he found that he really enjoyed going to gun shows and he became a collector, a trader. | |
| He would go there and buy and sell and trade guns. | |
| At some point, And it's entirely legal to do that as a citizen, if you're a hobbyist or a collector, without a license, without doing paperwork at the gun show when you sell a gun. | |
| But at some point under ATF regulations, you become a dealer, a person who's engaged in the business of selling firearms. | |
| And here's the problem. | |
| It's a criminal offense if you become a person engaged in the business of selling firearms and don't get a federal firearms license. | |
| But it's a subjective test. | |
| Let me just be clear here for those who don't understand the nuances. | |
| To sell weapons, firearms, for a profit, you have to be an FFL, a Federal Firearms Licensee, and that is done through the ATF, the Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau. | |
| But you can be a collector of weapons with this strange amorphous floating definition that you can't be making money out of your collection. | |
| You can, you know, you can sell one to another collector or what have you, but if you do make money then you've got to become an actual FFL. | |
| You've got to become a gun dealer. | |
| But I But that line between collector and dealer, that isn't instantiated anywhere in a statute or a regulation, is it, Mr. Cummings? | |
| Not to my knowledge. | |
| And in fact, President Biden just changed the regulation around Congress in the last few months, even since Mr. Malinowski's death, which I'm about to tell you the story of. | |
| But they've changed it from The profit being your primary motive to being, I guess, a dominant motive or one of your motives. | |
| They've tried to water that down where that's not the test. | |
| But you can't look at a book and say, well, if I sell five guns, that's legal. | |
| If I sell 10, it's illegal. | |
| I can only make this much money, but I can't make that much money. | |
| So, you know, as a kind of a threshold question, it's of questionable constitutionality to hold somebody to a felony for Crime that's defined subjectively. | |
| But they did decide that he had crossed the line. | |
| So, well-respected member of our community, really nice guy. | |
| Instead of contacting and writing him a letter, everybody that knows Brian Malinowski or knew him would tell you that he would have never, he loved his career, and he would have never jeopardized that if someone had suggested to him that he was treading on thin ice here, you know, with these ATF regulations. | |
| They didn't write him a letter. | |
| They didn't call him. | |
| They started surveilling him. | |
| Hold on, hold on, sir. | |
| We're up against a hard break and then you can tell the tragic end to this story in a moment. | |
| We're talking to former U.S. | |
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| You can follow him at budcumminsar. | |
| We're talking about the tragic, tragic tale of Brian Malinowski and what the ATF did to him. | |
| I'm Sebastian Gawker. | |
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| I don't think I've done this before. | |
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| I've never held over one of our Second Amendment guests for two segments, but this is too, too important. | |
| We're talking about the story of Brian Malinowski of Arkansas, the manager of the Little Rock... I can't believe I'm saying this. | |
| Hillary and Bill Clinton Airport. | |
| So he was collecting guns, Mr. Cummins, just as a collector. | |
| And then the ATF said, no, no, this is a business. | |
| And instead of telling him, you're in trouble, can your attorney come in tomorrow and bring your client? | |
| What happened, Mr. Cummins? | |
| Well, keep in mind, he was the highest paid city employee, made over a quarter million dollars a year. | |
| So the notion that he was doing this for profit is kind of silly. | |
| They followed him. | |
| They put a tracker on his car. | |
| They made undercover purchase from him when he was selling guns at a gun show out in the open air where everybody and God could see. | |
| And then they went and sought a search warrant, got a search warrant, executed it with 10 carloads of agents and a SWAT team at six o'clock in the morning, over an hour before sunrise. | |
| We don't know what happened exactly because even though there's a mandatory rule that President Biden imposed two years ago on federal agents to wear body cameras. | |
| They had no body cameras. | |
| We think, we know that they didn't wait after knock. | |
| We don't know if they knocked on the door, but if they did, they didn't wait more than 30 seconds to allow him to come to the door. | |
| He and his wife only heard their door crash in. | |
| They heard no knocking. | |
| They heard no announcements. | |
| He grabbed a gun, loaded it, went down the hall, turned a corner, saw dark figures in the house because the ATF had apparently killed the power to the house. | |
| And he shot at their feet and they returned fire and blew his... Pardon me, I don't want to be graphic. | |
| They killed him. | |
| So he is a collector. | |
| They accuse him of not being a collector and they don't tell him. | |
| They cut off the power and without body cameras, they arrive at his house, do an intrusive entrance. | |
| He thinks it's burglars, home invaders. | |
| He grabs a gun and he's shot to death, correct? | |
| That's correct. | |
| Covered his ring camera so he didn't have time to look at his ring camera. | |
| But had he checked his ring camera to see who was at his door, he wouldn't have seen anything because they taped over it. | |
| Mr. Cummings, I know you're in touch. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| I know you're in touch with the Malinowski family with the widow he left behind. | |
| Will you keep us updated on this outrageous case? | |
| Yes, I'm testifying in front of Jim Jordan's committee next Wednesday, the 22nd at 10 a.m. | |
| Thank you to you and thank you to Governor Huckabee. | |
| Please follow this man right now on Twitter at Bud Cummings AR. | |
| The ATF killed an innocent man. | |
| I'm Sebastian Gorka. | |
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| Chris, don't tell me you haven't seen this movie before, and did you like it? | |
| I had seen this film before. | |
| And I was kind of excited when you when you mentioned this. | |
| I'd been thinking about this film for a few days, weirdly, just by chance. | |
| And I have to say, when I originally watched this movie, I was in college. | |
| I remember it very clearly, very, very clearly. | |
| And I was with a bunch of people, some of whom I didn't like that much. | |
| I had a group of friends in college that I was like, I didn't like everybody that I was hanging out with in college. | |
| Some of my friends of my friends were kind of annoying. | |
| We went to the film. | |
| It was sort of a bad day. | |
| And I just remember not really loving the movie. | |
| I remember not loving the whole experience. | |
| I remember being annoyed that day. | |
| So I wanted to see it fresh. | |
| And I got to say, there's a line in the film, I think, that summarizes this beautifully, or at least sets up my summary. | |
| It's a moment where he turns to the crisis. | |
| Are you not entertained? | |
| And I have to say, meh. | |
| I was kind of entertained. | |
| I mean, let me just say this. | |
| It is probably one of the best made films in history. | |
| One of the best made films in history. | |
| But as you know, I'm a writer and I care The story is not the best story of any film I've ever seen. | |
| All right, cancel this episode. | |
| Cancel this episode. | |
| We're going to review some woke crap that he prefers instead, because the man who has the livestream toxic masculinity, clearly this wasn't masculine or toxic enough for him. | |
| It was just about fairies and transgender perverts. | |
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| What do you mean it was meh? | |
| Oh my gosh! | |
| It had three scriptwriters and the guy they brought in last, William Nicholson, saved it! | |
| Saved it! | |
| It was a story about revenge and then he turned it into a love story whereby death was victory. | |
| Why? | |
| Because he was reunited with his family in death. | |
| Oh my gosh. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I, I, look. | |
| I think you're right. | |
| It's one of the best made movies ever, because what is Ridley Scott good at? | |
| Ridley Scott creates whole worlds. | |
| I mean, whether it's Blade Runner, you know, Los Angeles, you know, 2020, what was it, 2024, right? | |
| It was this year that Blade Runner was playing. | |
| Or whether it's Alien, or whether it's his first movie, The Duelists, Napoleonic, I mean, a beautifully made piece It's a beautifully made movie that took you to the era of Napoleonic warfare. | |
| Here, you are in Germania. | |
| You are in ancient Rome. | |
| And unlike so many others who can create worlds, they don't get lost in the world building. | |
| OK, so tell me what lost it for you, because I'm just going to just gush over this for the next hour. | |
| Well, I will say I do think you're biased, and I think the reason you're biased—hear me out, hear me out—the reason I think you're biased is because the actor in this film, who is, I think, probably well-chosen for the film—he's not my favorite actor—but I do think that he was well-chosen for this film. | |
| The reason is because you both have exactly the same voice. | |
| And look, give me the full screen, okay? | |
| Are you not entertained? | |
| I mean, is this not Maximus? | |
| It's true, it's true, it's true. | |
| If they had cast Sebastian Gorka in this role, the film would have been identical. | |
| Nobody would have known. | |
| It would have been better, right? | |
| Because you didn't like it. | |
| Probably better. | |
| But your friend would have been the lead. | |
| Listen, listen, listen, it's exactly, well yeah, but look, Like you said, you do feel like this is Rome. | |
| You do feel like this is, like you say, Germania in this period in the Roman era. | |
| And a lot of what they did does make you feel like you are there, which I think is really the great achievement of this film, because it's not a story that happened. | |
| That's the kind of weird thing about this movie. | |
| They pick characters like Commodus Who's a real figure, who's a real emperor, and they took characteristics of communists that are genuine. | |
| Yeah. | |
| From what I've read about Thomas, he was extremely handsome guy. | |
| And they made I would say they made Joaquin Phoenix a little bit weird. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Look, he looks creepy in the movie. | |
| But here's I think here's my main critique. | |
| I'll just get the main critique out of the way. | |
| And then we can get to the rest, like to the good stuff, because it is a really great film. | |
| And it's going to be considered a classic for generations, I think. | |
| There's two things I don't like about it. | |
| One, the main character, we got to admit, is a little bit of a Mary Sue. | |
| This character can do no wrong. | |
| He has no fatal flaws. | |
| He has no flaws at all. | |
| He's absolutely perfect. | |
| He's betrayed, bad stuff happens to him, okay? | |
| It's an almost perfect mix of Spartacus, And the outlaw, Josie Wales, right? | |
| It's a guy who loses everything, becomes a slave, has to work his way back. | |
| And it is a revenge film at the end of the day. | |
| So the story is a pretty good story. | |
| It's a pretty good story in terms of just the motivation of the character and all that kind of thing. | |
| But the character, to me, there's not a lot of growth. | |
| He's basically just the best when it starts, and he's the best when it ends. | |
| And the villain is not redeeming at all. | |
| There's nothing good about the villain. | |
| He's just the most creepy, nasty, horrific. | |
| He's just detestable from beginning to end. | |
| It would have actually been more interesting if you'd made Commodus the hero, or at least made that character's story, like the beginning of the story, you know, make him, because he is a kind of sympathetic character at first, because you're like, All right. | |
| He's obviously grew up with this guy, Maximus, and he's the weaker of the two. | |
| And he's never been particularly successful. | |
| And then his dad strips him of his inheritance and gives it to his buddy that he grew up with. | |
| He's just like, by chance, way better fit, a way better leader, way better at everything. | |
| Like this poor flipping guy, you know, and that. | |
| But they don't do that. | |
| Right. | |
| Instead, they just make him into the monstrous villain. | |
| I don't know. | |
| To me, it's not that interesting because it's a little bit too black and white. | |
| You can still make a great film out of that sort of a story. | |
| But to me, the way they did it is a little bit too simplistic. | |
| It's a little bit too obvious, although I will say it's a perfect allegory. | |
| It was almost predictive, actually, of the populism of Donald Trump. | |
| I know it's kind of a weird analogy to strike. | |
| We'll save that. | |
| Now you got me intrigued. | |
| I will allow this episode to continue and I will not send you into the outer darkness where you can gnash your teeth. | |
| We will reprise that theme as we continue our analysis. | |
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| I want to come in after the breaks with, are you not entertained? | |
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| Why do I like this movie? | |
| Well, clips like this from the beginning, the battle in Germania against the barbarians. | |
| Three weeks from now, I will be harvesting my crops. | |
| Imagine where you will be, and it will be so. | |
| Hold the line! | |
| Stay with me! | |
| If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, Do not be troubled, for you are in Elysium, and you're already dead! | |
| Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity. | |
| What we do in life echoes in eternity. | |
| How can you not love this movie? | |
| And how do we not have a reinstitution of wolf skin cloaks? | |
| That's what I want to know. | |
| We need more wolf skin cloaks. | |
| Come on, Chris. | |
| I'm going to batter you down. | |
| How is that speech not an epic speech? | |
| Well, I also love that you were able to take my analogy, my quick analogy of Maximus and Donald Trump, And you turned it into a pitch for a t-shirt like that. | |
| Our American Maximus, Donald Trump. | |
| That was, I was impressed with that. | |
| I was actually thinking in my head, how do we design a t-shirt that has Maximus with Donald Trump's head on it? | |
| I'm working it as we're speaking. | |
| As we speak. | |
| Yeah. | |
| No, look, there are a lot of great speeches in this movie. | |
| It's not just this one. | |
| There are a lot of great moments, a lot of great lines. | |
| The way this is written is really, you know, epic movie dialogue. | |
| Basically, it's done perfectly if you want to write an epic. | |
| I'm not a particularly, like, epic isn't my genre. | |
| I don't love epics particularly. | |
| But if you're going to do it, do it right. | |
| And let me just say this. | |
| Creating an epic, or any kind of historical film, I think it's actually one of the most kinds of films to do well. | |
| Because you've got two problems. | |
| One, you've got to do it in such a way that it is historical, in the sense that anybody who's a history buff isn't going to want to rip it apart. | |
| And two, you've actually got to make it really interesting. | |
| And if you just look through a history book, history books are pretty dry. | |
| You know, they kind of tell you what happened in a very basic way. | |
| So to try to make history come alive and be historically accurate, juggling those two things is very, very difficult. | |
| And I think that this may be certainly one of, if not the single best historical epic probably ever made. | |
| In the sense that they were able to balance those two things. | |
| As you're watching it, it is a very good story. | |
| Again, I don't really like the Mary Sue nature of the hero. | |
| I don't like that the villain is so detestable. | |
| I wish they would have created a little bit more nuance there and made the story a little bit better that way, in terms of the characters. | |
| But in terms of the basic story, the revenge plot, you know, his family's killed, he's As a slave and fight in the gladiatorial arena. | |
| Uh, you know, very simple, very good story. | |
| Keeps you entertained, but also you really do feel like, oh, this is probably at least to some degree what it was like in ancient Rome. | |
| And to be able to pull that off is really impressive, especially, especially given the films today. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Right. | |
| I know we always talk about that, but, but like, This film didn't suffer. | |
| I mean, yeah, OK, they had a cup like in Rome. | |
| They did have various races because, you know, they've conquered the entire world basically. | |
| Right. | |
| The known world anyway. | |
| And so you did have different races, but they didn't saturate this film with that. | |
| They didn't saturate it with homosexual stuff. | |
| They didn't saturate it with like racial stuff. | |
| They tried to make it as it was these days. | |
| It was funny. | |
| I was looking at an article about the historical inaccuracy of the of the siege weapons used at the beginning of the film. | |
| And it's like, OK, yeah, but they're trying to show the might of Rome. | |
| Not to mention the rapid shot rotating crossbows. | |
| Didn't exist, guys. | |
| Very cool, but there's no Uzi version of the crossbow in 140 AD. | |
| Sorry. | |
| Right. | |
| But to me, there's certain liberties that you can take and it works OK. | |
| Yeah. | |
| But like, okay, but like they were, they were picking apart those little things back then when this movie was made. | |
| They don't even look at that stuff anymore. | |
| Why? | |
| Because they will just inject whatever they want. | |
| They will make King Edward, or King Henry VIII, they'll make him a black woman now. | |
| You know what I mean? | |
| Like, they don't care at all about historical accuracy because of this woke crap they're throwing into it. | |
| So you go back and watch a film like this, you go, oh wow, look what you can do if you actually care about historical accuracy and just making a good picture. | |
| Making a good movie in and of itself is difficult, but to make an epic, I mean, the sand and sandal epics, you know, this was a very risky thing to do in 1999 because they were gone. | |
| I mean, by the 1960s, they were gone, right? | |
| Charlton Heston wasn't making them anymore. | |
| And then, you know, you had Monty Python making fun of it with Life of Brian. | |
| So you're going back to a genre that is deemed dead. | |
| And then to have dialogue? | |
| That actually works and isn't like Shakespearean auditory from the steps of the arena. | |
| I just think of the scene we just played with Marcus Aurelius and with Maximus. | |
| I mean just these lines where he wants to hand the leadership of the Empire over to this loyal general and he says, I don't want it, Emperor. | |
| And he says, that is why you are the perfect man for the job. | |
| I mean, just beautiful. | |
| Or when Richard Harris says to his daughter, Lucilla, let us walk a while. | |
| Let us pretend I am a good father and you are a loving daughter. | |
| I mean, just the depth of that one sentence! | |
| Oh my gosh! | |
| As far as I'm concerned, that is powerful, powerful writing. | |
| Oh, I do like the chyron. | |
| One last hurrah for the sand and sandal epics gladiator. | |
| Nicely done, Eric. | |
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| I do believe, I know it was Oliver Reed's final movie. | |
| He was Proximo, the trainer in Africa, the gladiator trainer. | |
| I do believe it's probably Richard Harris's last film as well. | |
| Let's see him give an amazing performance as Marcus Aurelius. | |
| I am dying, Maximus. | |
| When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life. | |
| How will the world speak my name in years to come? | |
| Will I be known as the philosopher, the warrior, the tyrant? | |
| Or will I be the emperor who gave Rome back her true self? | |
| There was once a dream that was Rome. | |
| You could only whisper it. | |
| Anything more than a whisper, and it would vanish. | |
| It was so fragile. | |
| And I fear that it will not survive the winter. | |
| There was a dream that was once Rome. | |
| Marcus Aurelius, who out of 16 years as emperor, spent, I believe, 14 of them abroad fighting war. | |
| He is remembered today as a warrior and a philosopher. | |
| I always love to do this because you are an actor, you are a writer. | |
| Talk to me about the performances. | |
| I think Richard Harris Incredible. | |
| I know you don't like the arc of Russell Crowe's character. | |
| Joaquin Phoenix was very nervous through the filming of this whole movie. | |
| This was his first ever big role. | |
| Talk to us a little bit about the performances, Chris. | |
| You know, everybody was so well cast. | |
| And we find this every time we cover a great film, we talk about a great film. | |
| The casting is so absolutely critical. | |
| Yeah. | |
| And let me just say one thing about Russell Crowe. | |
| This is, you know, Russell Crowe's big breakout, you know, movie performance, movie role. | |
| And Russell Crowe strikes a contrast to almost everyone else in this picture. | |
| Because Russell Crowe really comes across as a working class guy. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Even though he even though he's he grew up with Commodus, you know, the emperor treated him like a son. | |
| Yeah. | |
| You know, he presumably, you know, dated. | |
| There were parts that were cut out, though. | |
| The director's cut, I think, is an hour longer, almost. | |
| And it's clear that Lucila and Maximus were lovers before she got married. | |
| Right. | |
| They hint at that a little bit. | |
| So it's clear that he grows up in the court. | |
| He grows up with this wealth. | |
| But he does also come across as a guy... Like, when I was a little kid, I had a buddy who rode dirt bikes. | |
| Like, if I wanted to go ride dirt bikes, I'd go to this guy's place, right? | |
| And his dad was a real working class guy. | |
| And there was just something about his attitude and how this kid was that you knew this guy was going to be able to work with his hands for the rest of his life. | |
| He was always going to be like a tough guy, you know, a little bit more tough than I was, you know. | |
| And it was just because the life I had at home was a little bit nicer, I guess. | |
| And his life was a little bit tougher. | |
| And that's just how it was. | |
| And Russell Crowe comes across as like a rough, tough guy that maybe grew up on a farm or something, even though that's not really the story of Maximus's life. | |
| But he's the guy that you think is capable of leading that army. | |
| Right. | |
| He's the guy that's capable of doing what needs to be done. | |
| You really get that sense from the character, from the acting. | |
| But everybody does their part exactly right. | |
| And I think that's down more probably to the casting than anything else, because I don't think that these people are necessarily playing something that's super uncomfortable for them. | |
| I mean, maybe some of them are. | |
| Maybe Joaquin Phoenix was. | |
| You know, different. | |
| It's hard to say. | |
| It's hard to say. | |
| But they all do their job. | |
| So naturally, it almost feels like they were the person that they were playing. | |
| And they were just they were just picking an aspect of their And it all worked out beautifully, because everybody seemed natural in this movie. | |
| There's something to your point, because we don't see much of his past history. | |
| We're just thrown into this battle in Germania, but when he's captured, when he becomes a slave, and when he says, OK, my fellow slaves, let's do this, or when he's reuniting his armies, and he's sending that message through Cicero, you believe it. | |
| But, you know, the slaves of the arena are going to follow this guy. | |
| So there's a definite connection between him and the slaves or his former soldiers that he doesn't really have to sell very hard because it is absolutely believable. | |
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| Is Rome worth one good man's life? | |
| We believed it once. | |
| May this believe it again. | |
| He was a soldier of Rome. | |
| Honor him. | |
| The soldier of Rome, honor him. | |
| He has died, Maximus has died, but after having exacted revenge in Commodus, Connie Nielsen, a little bit giving away her Danish roots there with her pronunciation of No. | |
| him but a good performance nevertheless and great to see a figure from my | |
| childhood Derek Jacobi one of the greats of British theatre and television | |
| Chris are you familiar with the BBC TV show iClaudius? No I vaguely vaguely | |
| remember seeing that yeah you're right and I I'm picturing it in my head now, but I've never seen it. | |
| I think you can watch it for free, I think, but for those who are into this kind of thing, Derek Jacoby played Claudius in a Just absolutely classic BBC series called iClaudius. | |
| strongly recommend it to all of the viewers out there. | |
| This is the senator, right? | |
| Yes, he plays Senator Grackus, but he played Emperor Claudius in this BBC TV show. | |
| So let's look at how this film was born, because I find it fascinating. | |
| There's a very famous... I mean, this is how Hollywood works. | |
| I'd love to get your reaction to this. | |
| There's a very famous painting called Policeverso from 1872 by a French artist. | |
| His name is Jean-Léon Guéromère. | |
| And the pitch for the people who wanted to make Gladiator, that's David Franzoni, John Logan, they really wanted Ridley Scott. | |
| And they had no script. | |
| They had no script. | |
| They didn't even have a script for months, right? | |
| They actually got funding before they had a script, and the script was being changed all through filming. | |
| So they go to Ridley Scott, you know, the man who gave us Alien, the man who gave us Blade Runner, and they put this painting, let's put the painting up, This famous painting of the Emperor, thumbs down in front of the gladiator, telling him to kill the vanquished foe in the arena. | |
| And Ridley Scott just started staring at it, and he said, Yeah, I can do that. | |
| How important is it to have that visual MacGuffin or that visual thing? | |
| I know George Lucas likes props. | |
| He has a prop, whether it's an X-Wing or something or an R2-D2, and that's the thing around which the whole story is built. | |
| I know you're a writer, but I found that story very, very interesting. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I mean, I mean, this this film, you really like I said, you really feel like you're in Rome. | |
| And I and I think that what he did here was he really created the world that he needed to create in order to film it. | |
| He made life easy for him by going above and beyond where he needed to go in order to get every shot. | |
| perfect. Right. So any any prop any sound any set anything that needed to be done in a way that made | |
| it look like Roman you feel that you were there so that he could get the right shot. | |
| He put his people on it. | |
| He said, Make this Rome. | |
| And they did it. | |
| I mean, they really did it. | |
| I feel like if you were on that set, you could sort of like get lost in it and just feel like you were back. | |
| And we used to do various films. | |
| I was on this amazing film set for this TV show called For All Mankind. | |
| They had reproduced Ground Control for NASA. | |
| And you were one of the controllers. | |
| Don't be so modest. | |
| You actually have lines in that TV show. | |
| I've seen it. | |
| It's true. | |
| I have some lines in that show. | |
| But it was one of the most amazing experiences because once you were on set, except for the cameras, and the cameras weren't always on set, You know, you're smoking cigarettes. | |
| You really, you know, you're dressed in the right outfit. | |
| They have props like like, you know, Frito's from the era. | |
| I mean, it was crazy attention to really the attention to detail was magnificent. | |
| So you really felt like you went back in time. | |
| The best way to travel through time is to work in movies and TV shows because you really do feel like you're back in that era and you really get a sense of what it's like to be back then. | |
| I think the only maybe strong difference was that the cigarette smoke was herbal cigarettes. | |
| You just stole my line! | |
| I wanted to reveal to everybody when they're snorting coke it's milk powder and when they're smoking cigarettes it's clove cigarettes, right? | |
| Yeah. | |
| And I felt bad every time I would go home. | |
| I felt like I always tipped the Uber driver too much because I always felt like I got into his Uber and I smelled, I just reeked of cigarette, like this clove cigarette smoke. | |
| But yeah, I can't imagine what it would have been like to be on that set, because it must have been amazing. | |
| Yeah. | |
| However, you have issues with the arc, or the lack of an arc, for the hero. | |
| Because what? | |
| You would have liked to see him more vulnerable, or make mistakes? | |
| Explain the Mary Sue thing, Chris. | |
| Yeah, a Mary Sue character is something they do a lot these days. | |
| It doesn't play out in quite the same way in this film. | |
| They're able to sort of get away with it, I think, a lot because so many bad things actually happen to this character. | |
| Right. | |
| But there's this idea that a character should have something human about them so that they're not just this, like, with Superman. | |
| Superman's a great example. | |
| Everybody thinks Superman's boring and Batman's interesting, right? | |
| And the reason is because Superman is too, what they call, OP, right? | |
| Overpowered. | |
| So they gave Superman a fatal flaw. | |
| They gave him kryptonite. | |
| They gave ordinary mortals a way to kill Superman. | |
| Maximus doesn't seem to have any flaws. | |
| He starts out leading this army, fighting the Germans, and they win. | |
| They don't just win, they obliterate the Germans. | |
| He doesn't really... he seems invulnerable. | |
| And then, you know, they try to kill him. | |
| They try to kill him off. | |
| You know, not only does he win this battle, but the emperor says, you're so great. | |
| That I'm going to push my son aside, who's in line for the throne, and I'm going to make you emperor. | |
| And he's like, holy smokes. | |
| OK, I don't really want it. | |
| And not only that, he doesn't even want it. | |
| He's so humble. | |
| He doesn't even want the emperor job. | |
| And then, you know, obviously, the son decides, come to says, no, I'm going to kill this guy so that I can be And then he becomes enslaved and he becomes the best slave ever, you know, because the best gladiator ever. | |
| And there's just nothing he can do wrong in most with most great heroes. | |
| There is some kind of an arc with most great stories. | |
| There is some redemptive moment, a redemption character, somebody who redeems himself. | |
| I didn't really see that in this film. | |
| Hopeful moment. | |
| I think that the end feels a little hopeful and a little bit depressing because you think, oh, there's hope for Rome. | |
| But if you think historically, well, Rome fell. | |
| Now, I'm a little bit different with this mentally because I actually don't think Rome fell in the way everybody else does. | |
| Rome certainly fell. | |
| OK, yes. | |
| Hang on, hang on. | |
| Let's put our listeners and viewers on tenterhooks. | |
| Tenterhooks. | |
| Because I want to hear the theory from Chris. | |
| It is Gladiator, Russell Crowe, Ridley Scott, the year 2000. | |
| It's actually an excellent movie. | |
| You'll find out how we rate it momentarily. | |
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| That's like five-year-old kids with Roman shields acting as a Roman turtle formation, having Nerf javelins thrown at them. | |
| Chris, we need more of that, don't we? | |
| Yeah. | |
| I think they call that like the tortoise shell. | |
| Right. | |
| Something like that. | |
| Oh, my gosh. | |
| That's so cool. | |
| I have seen that before. | |
| Ages ago. | |
| Ages ago. | |
| That's brilliant. | |
| That's just that's just that's kind of adorable. | |
| You know, it's kids like weapons and play fighting. | |
| Yeah. | |
| Cowboys and Indians. | |
| Right. | |
| Cowboys and Indians. | |
| And I you know, I feel That was all fine. | |
| Nobody really had a problem with that. | |
| I don't know what happened in the 90s. | |
| Everybody decided that if you prepare a child for violent interactions, it's a bad thing. | |
| We all decided we wanted to live in the Star Trek utopia where everybody was super nice to each other and nobody ever did anything bad or anything like that. | |
| It kind of pussifies your populace, right? | |
| It makes everyone weak. | |
| He said, he said, wussified for all you evangelicals out there. | |
| Calm down. | |
| He said wussified. | |
| Thank you. | |
| But the point is, it's like there are bad people in the world and you need to prepare the next generation to face those bad people. | |
| And if people, if the boys of the next generation are not prepared to fight evil, then the evil will win. | |
| And that's, I think, what we're seeing now in Washington, D.C. | |
| But like I said, there are... Hang on, hang on, hang on. | |
| You mean the chief diplomat for America shouldn't be playing guitar in Kiev? | |
| You mean that doesn't scare China and the KGB colonel? | |
| Yeah, you know what? | |
| This administration is such a joke at this point. | |
| It's like, I don't even care about that. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| Dude, you have got to do a video. | |
| Mr. Reagan has to do a video on Antony Blinken playing crappy guitar in Kiev this week. | |
| Promise me you'll do that. | |
| I've given you like a thousand good ideas that you've used on your channel. | |
| Just make this one to order. | |
| Will you do that? | |
| Well, you know who you had today on your show, I believe? | |
| You had, what's his name? | |
| Marshall? | |
| Winston Marshall. | |
| Winston Marshall, yeah, yesterday. | |
| Yeah, yeah. | |
| And he did something that you did as well, brilliantly, by the way. | |
| He went to the Oxford Student Union. | |
| Oxford Student Union is what it's called, I think, right? | |
| Yeah. | |
| And he gave this presentation. | |
| It was a debate. | |
| He was trying to basically say that populism wasn't that bad of a thing, right? | |
| And they had Nancy Pelosi there. | |
| Nancy Pelosi there was saying, oh, populism is the worst. | |
| It's all evil and racist. | |
| And this guy just humiliated Nancy Pelosi to her face. | |
| And you know what? | |
| That moment was also very reminiscent of the final scene in Gladiator. | |
| Oh, he connects everything, doesn't he? | |
| He's so sneaky. | |
| Yeah, we had Winston Marshall on the show. | |
| Nancy Pelosi, the Oxford Union, kept shouting, Who is this guy? | |
| Who is this guy? | |
| Who let him in here? | |
| It was delightful. | |
| Check it out on my podcast channel. | |
| Okay, so final thoughts. | |
| What do we need to know? | |
| Hundreds of extras. | |
| That forest was not in Germany. | |
| That forest was actually just an hour and a half outside London. | |
| It cost $103 million to make, netted $465 million. | |
| Sadly, they're making a sequel right now. | |
| I'm not sure that's going to be half as good. | |
| And we have to mention The incredible Hans Zimmer, the man who has taken John Williams' mantle as the best music composer in our age right now. | |
| Whether it's computer games, I think my son said it's one of... What's the most popular? | |
| Not Tarkov, what's the other one? | |
| Eric, your computer game, what's the most popular shoot-'em-up military game? | |
| Call of Duty. | |
| Oh, Call of Duty. | |
| Hans Zimmer does Call of Duty's music. | |
| He does all kinds of amazing soundtracks. | |
| Final thoughts before we rate it. | |
| What are we going to rate it out of? | |
| You get to choose the unit out of 10. | |
| Is it going to be Wolfskin Cloaks or Gladiator? | |
| Gladius. | |
| It's got to be a Gladius. | |
| Got to be a Gladius. | |
| All right. | |
| It has been chosen. | |
| Any final thoughts? | |
| Any stray voltage? | |
| Yeah, look, I will say that I did feel like whilst I was watching it, This score was so epic that it was almost too epic. | |
| It was epic. | |
| What does that mean? | |
| What does too epic mean? | |
| I texted you this and you were like, no, it isn't. | |
| It's perfect. | |
| Look, look, even in the quiet bits near the beginning, of course, you want to have an epic score for the battle. | |
| But then, even in the quiet bits, it's a little too epic, and I felt like it needed to start out a little bit more personal. | |
| Like, especially, like, you know, after that first battle. | |
| And, you know, maybe the score should have been a little bit more simple and co... Oh. | |
| Lost you. | |
| Chris. | |
| Hello, hello, hello. | |
| Oh, okay. | |
| Oh, you're back. | |
| You said it should have been a little bit more simple. | |
| Carry on. | |
| Yes. | |
| Simple, quaint, cozy, personal. | |
| And then as the film went on and it gets more and more epic, then the music gets more and more epic. | |
| But I feel like it was just a little bit too epic from beginning to end. | |
| But then again, this this genre is an epic. | |
| It is an epic. | |
| So, you know, what do I know? | |
| I, you know, I don't know if I could make a film this great myself. | |
| So it's you know, It's easy to sit there and nitpick. | |
| This is one of the greatest composers of all time. | |
| Totally, totally, absolutely. | |
| All right, so we've got to rate it. | |
| Out of 10 for a modern audience, for you out of the galaxy, the catalog of movies for me, and our unit of measure is the Roman Gladius of approximately 140 AD. | |
| I love that. | |
| It's perfect. | |
| Listen, in spite of the fact that I, this is not my favorite film of all the great classics in the world. | |
| I do think, especially because it's a very contemporary film compared to most of the, I think this is the most modern film that we've done. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I do. | |
| I don't think it's going to be difficult for anybody to watch this. | |
| I think this is, you know, I think it's probably higher than this, but I'm going to give it an eight out of 10. | |
| Alright, I'm glad I didn't ask Eric because he said he still doesn't get this movie. | |
| I don't know why. | |
| We will be having words with Mr. Eric after the show. | |
| I'm gonna give it... This is tough. | |
| Because you've really sabotaged me with your Mary Sue criticism of Maximus. | |
| You've really given me pause for thought. | |
| You're a dangerous man, Chris Coles. | |
| Nevertheless! | |
| I'm just trying to be balanced. | |
| Nevertheless, we don't need balance. | |
| We need toxicness. | |
| We need toxicity. | |
| Um, we gotta give it, uh... What did you give it? | |
| Eight. | |
| Eight out of ten, Gladiators. | |
| I'll give it nine. | |
| I'll give it nine. | |
| I was gonna give it more, but you sabotaged me. | |
| Alright, nine out of ten for me, eight out of ten for Chris, the Gladiator. | |
| Excellent movie. | |
| I don't think the sequel will be. | |
| Alright, now it is your choice. | |
| Mr. Reagan, what will we be doing next week? | |
| There are so many films to do. | |
| I was just looking through them the other day. | |
| I'm just like, man, what do I pick? | |
| We've had a couple of dark films. | |
| We've had a couple of dark films. | |
| I think maybe we'll just keep it light. | |
| So I'm going to bring a sequel in. | |
| I brought a sequel in a little while ago with Beverly Hills Cop 2. | |
| We're going to do another sequel. | |
| This is also a cop thing. | |
| I think you'll like it. | |
| I don't know. | |
| It's hard to tell. | |
| We're going to find out. | |
| Lethal Weapon 2. | |
| Ooh, yes! | |
| All right, with Patsy Kensett as the squeeze, and Joss Ackland as the evil South African ambassador. | |
| See, I know my stuff, dude. | |
| That's impressive. | |
| Nice choice, nice choice. | |
| Lethal Weapon 2, a piece of my childhood, or my All right, that's exciting. | |
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