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| Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| Welcome to the American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith, coming to you live this Thursday morning, January 30th, 2025. No report today in the first five. | ||
| There's just no time. | ||
| There's absolutely no time. | ||
| It's going to be an absolutely jam-packed show for you today. | ||
| This is going to be the broadcast you're going to want to stick to because we've got three simultaneous confirmation hearings happening on the Hill this morning. | ||
| All three will be on the hot seat at the same time. | ||
| Kash Patel, the hearing for him will begin at 8.30 Central Time in just about 30 minutes. | ||
| Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. both begin their hearings 30 minutes later at 9 a.m. | ||
| And we have crew members monitoring all three feeds and we'll be jumping back and forth depending on which one is more interesting at the time. | ||
| So we will be covering that live all show today. | ||
| And of course, Alex Jones will pick it up. | ||
| At 11 o'clock. | ||
| Until then, we've got a lot of news to cover, including the tragic downing of an aircraft in Washington, D.C. Two aircraft, actually a helicopter and a passenger jet, which has turned out to be an absolutely horrifying and monumental tragedy with a lot of bizarre speculation surrounding it. | ||
| So we will get into all of that here today as well. | ||
| And in fact, I think we'll start. | ||
| We'll start with our daily dispatch. | ||
| We'll get the headlines out of the way when we come back. | ||
| We'll give you the update as to what we know and what we think we might know about the aircraft crash yesterday. | ||
| That, of course, kicks off our daily dispatch as well. | ||
| So let's just begin today as we do every day with our daily dispatch. | ||
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Here it is, folks. . | |
| Scrambling here, folks. | ||
| Here it is, your Daily Dispatch for Thursday, the 30th of January, 2025. Blackhawk helicopter collides with commercial jet near Reagan National Airport explosion caught on camera. | ||
| A mid-air collision between an Army Blackhawk helicopter and a regional jet near Reagan International Airport in D.C. was caught on camera from the Kennedy Space Center Wednesday night, the Kennedy Center, rather, Wednesday night, prompting a massive response from fire, EMS, and police. | ||
| According to Fox's Chad Pergram, The jet was PSA Airline Bombardier CRJ700 Regional Jet, which was on approach to Runway 33 at Reagan Airport. | ||
| It was reportedly carrying 64 individuals, including four crew members. | ||
| There's no information at this time on casualties. | ||
| However, four individuals have been reportedly rescued and been transported to North Boathouse Fire Station at the airport. | ||
| This story is at Infowars.com. | ||
| Again, we'll pick that up. | ||
| On the other side, we'll show you the videos and give you all of the data as we know it, including the statements from the airlines and officials there on the scene. | ||
| Meanwhile, three contentious Trump nominees will appear before the Senate today. | ||
| Three of President Trump's most contentious picks to lead government agencies will appear in Senate confirmation hearings today with the fate of their nominations hanging in the votes of a handful of Republican senators. | ||
| Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the former independent presidential candidate who threw his support behind Trump, will face his second hearing before a Senate vote after a grilling on Wednesday on his views on vaccines and abortion. | ||
| Cash Patel, Mr. Trump's FBI pick, has promised to reshape the bureau by firing its top officials and has published a list of Trump enemies. | ||
| And Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democratic congresswoman who left her party and embraced Mr. Trump, has been nominated to oversee the nation's intelligence agencies. | ||
| is looking to be confirmed as the DNI. We will, of course, be giving you live coverage of all three of these hearings simultaneously, Kash Patel, beginning at 8.30 a.m. | ||
| today. | ||
| Trump administration rescinds freezing fund funding freeze ahead of court hearing. | ||
| The Trump administration on Wednesday rescinded a sweeping directive to pause federal loans, grants and other financial assistance, a White House official said, just shortly before it was set to appear in court for a second straight day to defend the policy. | ||
| The decision to rescind the Office of Management and Budget's Monday directive came shortly before a federal judge in Rhode Island was set to consider a request by 22 mostly Democratic-led states in the District of Columbia for a temporary restraining order blocking a policy they said could have devastating effects on their budget. | ||
| They're saying it's not a full rollback, but they are clarifying certain measures that they're taking. | ||
| We'll return to that. | ||
| Other big news here. | ||
| Trump to build mass detention camp for deportees in Guantanamo Bay. | ||
| We've been saying Haiti is good, but Guantanamo Bay is a decent place to put him in the meantime. | ||
| Meanwhile, Meta reaches $25 million settlement with Trump over social media ban. | ||
| Meta has reached this $25 million settlement in response to a lawsuit filed by former President Donald Trump following the company's decision to suspend his accounts after the January 6th riot. | ||
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It's Wednesday, January 29th in the year of our Lord, 2025. And you're listening to The American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | |
| Watch it live right now at band.video. | ||
| Fake news. | ||
| Apologies for that. | ||
| It is January 30th, 2025, and you are watching American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| A lot to talk about today and just no time to talk about it. | ||
| We will be going live to the Kash Patel hearing when it begins at 8.30 Central Time today in just about 30 minutes. | ||
| Well, just about 24 minutes. | ||
| And then the RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard hearings will begin simultaneously at 9 a.m. | ||
| Central Time. | ||
| We've got crew members behind the scenes. | ||
| We'll be watching all three of those feeds and we'll be cutting to each one as it gets exciting. | ||
| So it's going to be a very hectic day here, but... | ||
| American Journal is where you're going to want to be if you want to watch all three of these at the same time. | ||
| So we're looking forward to that starting, of course. | ||
| The top story today is the tragic crash of a jetliner in Washington, D.C. American Airlines plane Blackhawk helicopter collide near Washington, D.C. No survivors recovered. | ||
| No survivors are expected after the mid-air collision between a plane and a military helicopter last night in the Washington, D.C. area. | ||
| Fire and EMS Chief John A. Donnelly said Thursday. | ||
| Emergency authorities have switched to a recovery effort after 28 bodies have so far been found, officials said. | ||
| The American Airlines jet was carrying 64 people while three soldiers were aboard the U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter. | ||
| Several members of the figure skating community were aboard the jet. | ||
| U.S. figure skating said in a statement separately, Russia's state news agency said two world champion Russian figure skaters were on the plane. | ||
| This, of course, totally unexpected, not the type of headline you expect to ever see in America, except that it was around this time last year that we started predicting this exact thing. | ||
| There were so many close calls over such a short period of time. | ||
| They seem to be increasing. | ||
| Now, major steps were taken to try to rectify the problems that were causing these extremely terrifying situations where pilots had many times less than a second to react. | ||
| Luckily, up until now, they'd been able to avoid the worst thing happening. | ||
| But, I mean, it was probably around the end of January 2024, if I'm not mistaken, that we first started saying. | ||
| look. | ||
| One of these days, we're going to come in and say, well, it's happened. | ||
| A jet has gone down with no survivors since it was only a matter of time. | ||
| It's absolutely tragic that this took place, of course, immediately. | ||
| The media landscape as it exists now jumped into motion. | ||
| Leftists blaming Donald Trump because he put a pause on the hiring for air traffic controllers about a week ago. | ||
| Other people pointing out some very... | ||
| Bizarre circumstances around this helicopter. | ||
| We'll cover all that in just a second, including the helicopter's call sign being PAT25, PAT25, which is typically reserved for priority air transport, meaning an air transport carrying a VIP of some sort. | ||
| Others reporting that the helicopter originated in Langley near the CIA. So some suspicious activity there. | ||
| But let's first go to just the official story, the official account and the official statements by those involved. | ||
| We'll go to clip number 19 first. | ||
| This is a statement from the CEO of American Airlines, Robert Isom. | ||
| Here's what he had to say about the crash last night. | ||
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Hello, everyone. | |
| I'm Robert Isom, the CEO of American Airlines. | ||
| I want to brief you on a serious accident that occurred involving an American Eagle aircraft. | ||
| The aircraft was operated by PSA Airlines, which is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Airlines. | ||
| First and most importantly, I'd like to express our deep sorrow about these events. | ||
| This is a difficult day for all of us at American Airlines, and our efforts now are focused entirely on the needs of our passengers, crew members, partners, first responders, along with their families and loved ones. | ||
| I know that there are many questions, and at this early stage, I'll not be able to answer all of them, but I do want to share the information I have at this time. | ||
| American Eagle Flight 5342, operated by PSA Airlines, a CRJ-700 aircraft traveling from Wichita, Kansas, to Washington Reagan National Airport, has been involved in an accident near Washington, D.C. It appears to have collided with a military aircraft on approach. | ||
| Flight 5342 was under the command of four crew members, And carried 60 passengers for a total of 64 people on board. | ||
| We are actively working with local, state, and federal authorities on emergency response efforts, and the American Airlines care team has been activated to assist our passengers and their families. | ||
| We're cooperating fully with the National Transportation Safety Board in its investigation and will continue to provide all the information we can. | ||
| Our cooperation is without pause, and we want to learn everything we can about today's events. | ||
| That work will take time, but anything we can do now, we're doing. | ||
| And right now, that means focusing on taking care of all passengers and crew involved, as well as their families. | ||
| Members of our GO team will be on their way to Washington, D.C., and I'll be heading there shortly as well. | ||
| We know that many people will be concerned for the welfare of their loved ones. | ||
| And we've set up a special helpline friends and family can call at 1-800-679-8215. | ||
| That's 1-800-679-8215. | ||
| If you believe you've had friends or family on board American Eagle Flight 5342. We understand and appreciate that people are eager for information. | ||
| Please know that we'll continue to share accurate and timely information as soon as we can. | ||
| But anything we must report... | ||
| Must be accurate. | ||
| We owe that to everyone involved. | ||
| Our team of highly trained professionals will be working around the clock to support our passengers, crew, and their families however we can. | ||
| And we'll update you as soon as we can. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| So there's the official statement from the American Airline CEO. I released that video statement last night. | ||
| We have an update as of this morning from the officials in Washington, D.C. Let's go now to clip number four. | ||
| This is the D.C. Chief of Fire and EMS. They say they do not believe there will be any survivors recovered from this crash. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
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Mayor, I'm joined today with Fire Chief Bonnet from the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, and I'm John Donnelly, Chief of the District of Columbia Fire and EMS Department. | |
| Last night at 8.48, the control tower sounded an alert, which alerts responders to respond to a report of an aircraft crash on or near the airport. | ||
| That sets off an immediate response from the Airport Authority Fire Department, from the District of Columbia, and Metropolitan Harbor Patrol fireboats and other fireboats on the river in order to support that type of operation. | ||
| Very quickly, this call escalated. | ||
| The responders realized that they had a plane crash and immediately escalated to a response that ultimately included about 300 people last night. | ||
| These responders found extremely frigid conditions. | ||
| They found heavy wind. | ||
| They found ice on the water and air. | ||
| Operated all night in those conditions. | ||
| I'd like to take a moment to acknowledge the agencies that responded in addition to DC Fire and MS and the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, Montgomery County Fire Department, the Prince George's County Fire Department, the Charles County Fire Department, the Baltimore County Police Department, the Anne Arundel County Fire Department. | ||
| The Alexandria Fire Department, the Arlington County Fire Department, the Fairfax Fire Department, the Prince William Fire Department, the Baltimore City Police Department, the Maryland State Police, the Maryland Natural Resources Police, the Department of Defense, the Joint Base Bowling Fire Department, and the staff there. | ||
| The U.S. Army, the U.S. Coast Guard, the United States Park Police, the Metropolitan Police Department, the FBI, and the NTSB. Despite all those efforts, we are now at a point where we are switching from a rescue operation to a recovery operation. | ||
| At this point, we don't believe there are any survivors from this accident. | ||
| And we have recovered 27 people from the plane and one from the helicopter. | ||
| The District Office of the Medical Examiner has lead on reuniting these bodies and these people with their loved ones, and we will continue to work to find all the bodies and collect them and reunite them with their loved ones. | ||
| We should also acknowledge that the Virginia Medical Examiner and the Army Medical examiner are involved in this operation and a very important part of getting people identified. | ||
| So again, just absolutely tragic. | ||
| They say they've moved from a rescue to a recovery operation. | ||
| Just so you obviously our prayers out to everybody out there. | ||
| I imagine there are going to be some pretty big changes to processes when it comes to air travel as a result of this. | ||
| Now, there's a lot of speculation about how this could have happened. | ||
| It just seems so unlikely. | ||
| That's basically the general sentiment. | ||
| It's people just saying, I mean, how could this not have been on purpose? | ||
| How could you possibly have a military helicopter just have a mid-air collision with a passenger jet? | ||
| I'm not that confused by it. | ||
| If you've ever been in an airplane, Grandfather was a pilot, and when you fly these little airplanes, it's very hard to see other airplanes. | ||
| You would think it's easy, but it's not. | ||
| It's really not, especially with certain aircraft like these military helicopters. | ||
| It's almost impossible to see above themselves, to be looking up. | ||
| However, there are some interesting aspects to this, some notable aspects to it. | ||
| First of all, it's been caught on camera in a number of different angles. | ||
| First, we can go to clip number 18. We can actually see the crash take place and a fireball in the air as they collide. | ||
| Again, just tragic stuff. | ||
| It was also caught on dashcam by people approaching the airport, clip 22. We can go to that now and play the audio of this too. | ||
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It just, you know, let you know how sudden it was. | |
| You know, clearly a family with kids listening to kid music, you know, music for kids in the car when they see this explosion take place. | ||
| So they were on approach to Reagan International when they caught that on their dash cam. | ||
| We can go to clip number 16 here. | ||
| This is the radar array showing the crash happen as it took place. | ||
| We can play this as B-roll as well. | ||
| You can see there the helicopter with the call sign PAT-25, and that call sign is causing a lot of controversy right now. | ||
| You see the sort of triangle shape of the runways. | ||
| JIA-5342 is the passenger jet. | ||
| And you see they're on a collision course. | ||
| And eventually they hit. | ||
| Again, we've been... | ||
| Waiting for this for a year, for the last year, there have been so many close calls with jets nearly running into each other, nearly colliding, and every time a collision is avoided by split-second decisions by the pilots, and it was only a matter of time that one of these would end up being deadly. | ||
| Doesn't make it any better or anything. | ||
| Now, people are saying that... | ||
| PAT-25, in fact, raw reporting on X. The helicopter involved in the collision, PAT-25, is part of the U.S. Army Priority Air Transport Battalion, which provides executive air transport for senior Army leadership and key government officials worldwide. | ||
| So they're saying this call sign means that it was carrying a VIP of some sort, making people think this was an assassination attempt. | ||
| The official statement from the Army is that this was a training flight. | ||
| There were no VIPs on board, just three Army servicemen who were training. | ||
| For this flight. | ||
| Now, it's one of these things that once this happens, it's really hard to find information about this that you can trust. | ||
| If we had more time today, if we weren't doing the live reporting on the confirmation hearings, then I'd open up phone calls for pilots to call in and tell me what they know. | ||
| But in lieu of that, I went to... | ||
| Chat GPT. And it does confirm that in the U.S. military aviation, the call sign PAT applied to a helicopter typically does stand for priority air transport or patient air transport if it's a medical evacuation. | ||
| But sometimes the PAT call sign is used on a military helicopter. | ||
| If it's in logistics or administrative flights or training missions, aircraft designated for VIP or personnel transport flights might use the PAT call sign during training flights to maintain operational readiness. | ||
| So again, we don't have confirmation on this one way or another. | ||
| At least the official story is that there was not a VIP on board, and apparently that's not totally out of the realm of possibility. | ||
| Flight data indicates the ill-fated chopper reportedly involved in the plane crash at Reagan Airport was first tracked near CIA headquarters. | ||
| However, remains unclear whether it took off from there or if it carried passengers or only pilots. | ||
| This is from the General on X. You can see it does seem to have originated near Langley at the CIA headquarters, which is, again, causing some people to ask questions about this. | ||
| And a lot of people are just saying, you know, this doesn't make any sense. | ||
| How would this even be possible? | ||
| Why aren't there protocols to just completely avoid the approaches to any of these runways? | ||
| It just seems unreasonable that this would even be a possibility. | ||
| But then you have people like Kyle Saloski. | ||
| I'm not sure how to pronounce his last name. | ||
| But he says, I took this video six days ago leaving Reagan International Airport, and I thought it was kind of crazy seeing these choppers right next to us. | ||
| I wonder if it was something like this that caused the collision tonight. | ||
| So here he's filming his takeoff from Reagan International. | ||
| He's actually filming two helicopters flying right next to the aircraft itself. | ||
| So in an area like this, you know, Reagan International, for those who maybe have never been, it's a unique airport because it's almost right in the middle of the city. | ||
| Normally you put airports way out on the edge of town, obviously, but with Reagan, it's right there on the Potomac, just minutes from... | ||
| The Capitol and the White House, and right across the river is an Air Force base. | ||
| I believe there's a naval base just a little bit down the Potomac. | ||
| So there's lots of aircraft, lots of different types of aircraft, military aircraft, civilian aircraft, all operating in this airspace. | ||
| It does not seem totally unreasonable to me that an accident could happen. | ||
| But again, a lot of people are asking questions about this. | ||
| We have the audio from this. | ||
| This is the ATC audio. | ||
| Around the time of the incident, clip number 13, let's go ahead and listen to the air traffic control radio chatter during the crash. | ||
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Let's listen. | |
| - I'm sorry, 3-10-1-7. - I'm gonna go to the rent. - Sorry, did you see that? | ||
| 4-7-2. - I'm gonna go around the phone left and see positive. | ||
| I'm not going to go down. | ||
| We're left in 350-3000, American 3130. Tower of Blue Street, 5347 is on time. | ||
| I'll request runway 33, circle to 33. Make a heading for breakfast, 3130. American 3130, go on. | ||
| Come left in 270, we're going to make a 3,000. | ||
| 870 on the heading, 3000, American 3130. American 472, capital land premier, runway 1130. Let's go to clip one now. | ||
| This is audio between PAT-25 and DCA Tower asking if they have the CRJ in sight. | ||
| He affirms and requests visceral separation. | ||
| Let's go now to clip number one, and this has the radar overlay here. | ||
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Copy. | |
| S25, this is BRJ. | ||
| S25, that's fine, this is BRJ. | ||
| This club has aircraft's inside, press the separation. | ||
| Separation. | ||
| 472 Washington, 1 star, 3, 2, 3, 1, 7. | ||
| There, I think you can hear the shock as it happens. | ||
| Again, we're getting more. | ||
| Now, when it comes to, you know, some other, you know, suspicious act, suspicious, I don't know, correlation here. | ||
| Clip number 12, Lockheed Martin demonstrated just two weeks before Election Day they could actually control Blackhawk helicopters remotely. | ||
| Clip number 12, we can go to that real quick. | ||
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Watch this Blackhawk helicopter fly itself. | |
| This is a presentation by Lockheed Martin at the AUSA National Convention about how BlackRock helicopters could be piloted remotely. | ||
| The U.S. Army got first-hand look at the future of autonomous flight. | ||
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We're working hand-in-hand with the Army to modernize Black Hawk, to incorporate new technology, new capabilities to create the Black Hawk of the future. | |
| Music And one critical technology of all these things is autonomy. | ||
| And that brings me here today. | ||
| So again, if we had more time today to cover this, we could get into more of the speculation. | ||
| I'm just sort of presenting you all of the suspicious stuff around this. | ||
| Personally, if you ask me, I've been expecting this for at least a year. | ||
| I think an accident pretty much explains this fully. | ||
| There's one more piece of suspicious material that is... | ||
| Clip number 20. This is, of course, after the crash happens, and you hear the rescuers talking about one particular body that was found and transported to D.C., and people are wondering if there's something to look at here in terms of whether there was a VIP on board, and maybe this is evidence of that. | ||
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Clip number 20. Sure, I'm at Robo 49, sir. | |
| Copy. | ||
| AMS branch from Air Force Firepoint 378. Go ahead. | ||
| For our conversation earlier, I just spoke with Command Center out here on the water. | ||
| They advised, as far as they know, they have one body that was taken to D.C. That is all they know so far. | ||
| They'll confirm and get back with you. | ||
| All right, okay. | ||
| Got it, thank you. | ||
| Come on, may I meet up with you, please? | ||
| I want to take one. | ||
| You can take two, please. | ||
| Sure, I'm at the robo 49, sir. | ||
| Copy. | ||
| EMS branch from airport firepoint 378. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| For our conversation earlier, I just spoke with command center out here on the water. | ||
| They advised, as far as they know, they have one body that was taken to D.C. | ||
| That is all they know so far. | ||
| They'll confirm and get back with you. | ||
| Airport fire, okay. | ||
| Got it, thank you. | ||
| So, again, I mean, this was, you know, obviously this emergency situation. | ||
| And... | ||
| Everybody's scrambling. | ||
| I really don't know if that's suspicious or not. | ||
| Again, I just was monitoring this all throughout the night last night, and these are all these suspicious things that people have pointed out. | ||
| I'm sure we'll get more information about this, but if there's one thing we know, it's that we have entered into a new phase of global conflict in which you can't just write this off as, you know, just an accident stop asking questions. | ||
| It is completely possible that... | ||
| Our enemies overseas could be waging some sort of new form of warfare, and I think everybody's on high alert about this. | ||
| Obviously, the drones in New Jersey, it's like, we understand that the next world war is not going to look like the last world war, and there's going to be instances like this where you can't tell, is it an accident or is it an attack? | ||
| I, again, think in this case, I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt. | ||
| I think this was an accident, but we'll give you more information. | ||
| As we find out, Kash Patel's confirmation hearing begins very shortly. | ||
| Stay tuned. | ||
| All right, welcome back, folks. | ||
| It looks like Kash Patel is seated at the table getting ready to begin his confirmation hearing that is slated to begin. | ||
| At 8.30 Central Time right now. | ||
| So we will monitor this live as it happens. | ||
| Of course, Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. will both also be in confirmation hearings today, beginning in about 30 minutes. | ||
| So we'll stick to Kash Patel for these first 30 minutes. | ||
| Then once the other two confirmation hearings start, we have crew members behind the scenes monitoring all three feeds. | ||
| And we'll jump from one to the next. | ||
| Kind of like a red zone. | ||
| We're kind of like the red zone of political confirmation hearings right now. | ||
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| It looks like the confirmation hearing is about to begin. | ||
| We can bring in the audio here. | ||
| And we'll comment and fact check live as Cash Patel. | ||
| Now, this is probably one of the most important appointments Trump has made so far. | ||
| The head of the FBI clearly has his work cut out for him, as we've seen the way that that bureau has been completely degraded and co-opted and captured by political influence over the last several years to where at this point it is completely off mission and really causing more problems than it solves. | ||
| Cash Patel, I think, is a great... | ||
| Has a great opportunity to whip things into shape and set things right, because I think we do need a competent and effective Federal Bureau of Investigation to go after the actual criminals that are necessary to deal with. | ||
| Instead, the FBI has been completely taken over by far-left activists, basically, who've decided that harassing innocent Trump supporters is the most important thing they can be doing while they allow child sex trafficking victims to go uninvestigated. | ||
| Let's go ahead and bring in the audio now. | ||
| This is a general statement. | ||
| We'll begin the first rounds of questioning. | ||
| Each senator will have an initial seven-minute round of questions. | ||
| After the first round, we'll do a second three-minute round of questions. | ||
| I ask members to do their best to adhere to these limits so that we can proceed efficiently. | ||
| And I thank each of the members of this committee because when we had Attorney General nominee Bondi here, everybody. | ||
| Everybody stayed within their time. | ||
| I expect Mr. Patel to be treated fairly by my colleagues. | ||
| We're here today to consider the nomination of Kash Patel to serve as director of the FBI. Opening remarks and then invite Ranking Member Durbin to give opening remarks. | ||
| Then Senator Tillis will introduce the nominee. | ||
| After that, Mr. Patel will have a chance to give his opening statements so that we can proceed efficiently. | ||
| And I thank Mr. Patel's statement. | ||
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We're getting some crossover audio here, guys. | |
| This is Chuck Grassley, the chairman of this committee, just laying down the timeline of how this will work as they... | ||
| Beginning of the day. | ||
| Again, if you're just joining us, the Kash Patel hearing is beginning as we speak. | ||
| There will be opening statements and then an opening statement from Mr. Patel himself. | ||
| He has been appointed to run the FBI in a very important position as the FBI has been one of the main engines of disinformation, misinformation, ironically censorship at the same time while they work feverishly to entrap. | ||
| We need to set things right in a very rapid manner. | ||
| And Kash Patel, well, you can tell how good he is from how much the left hates him. | ||
| I mean, they really are fear-mongering about Kash Patel with all they've got. | ||
| Talking about the fact he has an enemies list of Trump. | ||
| He's tweeted some things out, like I think he tweeted an image, a photoshopped image of himself using a catapult to launch Adam Schiff somewhere. | ||
| And look, is he really going to do that? | ||
| Probably not. | ||
| Should he? | ||
| Might be a different answer. | ||
| I think I'm in favor of this, actually. | ||
| Looks like Chuck Grassley has started on his opening statement, unless I'm mistaken. | ||
| The FBI is doing a good job. | ||
| This is the lowest rating in a century. | ||
| It's no surprise that public trust has declined in an institution that has been plagued by abuse, lack of transparency, and weaponization of law enforcement. | ||
| Nevertheless, the FBI remains an important... | ||
| Even indispensable institution for law and order in our country. | ||
| It's the people on the top floor of the J. Edgar Hoover Building, not your local FBI agents that have caused the low approval rating. | ||
| Mr. Patel, I know you know this, but it's your job to restore the public trust. | ||
| And return the FBI to its core mission of fighting crime. | ||
| Your extensive background gives you a unique position to make this happen. | ||
| Mr. Patel's career has been a study in fighting unpopular but righteous causes, exposing corruption, and putting America first for almost a decade. | ||
| Mr. Patel served as a public defender, defending the constitutional rights of some of the least popular people in this country. | ||
| After serving as a public defender, Mr. Patel joined the Department of Justice under President Obama as a counterterrorism prosecutor in the National Security Division. | ||
| In this role, he investigated and he prosecuted. | ||
| Many important cases, including the World Cup bombing in Uganda in 2010, for which he received an award of excellence. | ||
| In 2017, Representative Devin Nunes asked Mr. Patel to join the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to uncover the truth about Russiagate. | ||
| And Mr. Patel did uncover the truth. | ||
| It was during this period of time that, if you remember, I first met you, Mr. Patel. | ||
| Through tireless works, Mr. Patel showed that Crossfire Hurricane was based upon fraudulent, discredited information paid for by the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign. | ||
| As reward for his efforts to uncover the truth. | ||
| Mainstream media, can you believe this, personally attacked Mr. Patel, and the FBI secretly subpoenaed his records. | ||
| Now, I know what that is because my staff received similar treating during my investigation. | ||
| The attacks Mr. Patel faced during his work in the House of Representatives are similar to the ones that he faces today. | ||
| Underhanded attacks will be repeated today. | ||
| Mr. Patel has been accused of having quote-unquote an enemies list. | ||
| This is not a fair characterization as he stated quote there is no revenge list end of quote. | ||
| Mr. Patel has identified those he believes have put politics and personal ambition. | ||
| He's called out those who've used the institutions like the FBI to achieve their own personal gain. | ||
| Mr. Patel has said he believes that people who do this should be named and that Americans deserve transparency so that they can make their own judgment as they did in this last election. | ||
| Other attacks against Mr. Patel are similarly unfounded. | ||
| To take just one example, he's been accused of jeopardizing hostage rescues. | ||
| In fact, those allegations have been repeatedly shown to be false smears. | ||
| As numerous national security officials have said publicly and on the record, Mr. Patel played a critical role in returning Americans safely home and has done so through hard work and personal cause to him. | ||
| Mr. Patel has been accused of being unqualified to be FBI director. | ||
| This suggestion ignores his impressive career at the highest levels of government service. | ||
| After exposing Russiagate scandal in the Congress, Mr. Patel served in roles such as Senior Director of Counterterrorism at the National Security Council, Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Chief of Staff to the Acting Secretary of Defense. | ||
| Mr. Patel managed large intelligence and defense bureaucracies, identified and countered national security threats, prosecuted and defended criminals. | ||
| He's done this while fighting for taxpayers. | ||
| Chuck Grassley is the chairman making the opening statement here this morning ahead of the Kash Patel questioning. | ||
| Kash Patel will make his opening statement in just a minute as soon as I believe the minority position there on the... | ||
| Committee will get to make his statement. | ||
| Of course, he's completely right about not only Kash Patel being fully qualified for this role, but about the smears that are being laid against him by the mainstream media. | ||
| New York Times has a story today calling Kash Patel once an unknown Republican congressional aide. | ||
| He's swiftly risen in less than a decade, in large part because of his personal relationship with Donald Trump. | ||
| His fealty to the president and embrace of right-wing conspiracy theories are expected to be subjects of scrutiny. | ||
| I wonder if we're going to get another list, like we got yesterday from RFK Jr. They asked RFK Jr. if he was a conspiracy theorist and he simply went through a list of things that they called conspiracy theories, but now acknowledged to be absolutely true, including the lab leak origin of the coronavirus, the safety profile of the vaccine, and a lot of other things. | ||
| I wonder if Kash Patel will have to go through a similar list. | ||
| I wonder if he'll be called a conspiracy theorist and have to rattle off. | ||
| The just infinite number of conspiracies actually waged by the FBI over the last couple years. | ||
| Chuck Grassley's already mentioned a few of them. | ||
| Crossfire Hurricane, first and foremost, among them. | ||
| And it's, again, when you just think about what they have put this country through over the last couple of years, and you just look at something like the Hunter Biden laptop lie that was, of course, coordinated by the FBI. That, | ||
| of course, gave the... | ||
| Justification to places like Twitter to ban not just the story, but the entire account of the New York Post. | ||
| Even though it was all completely real, they knew it was real and they had the information long before it was ever published. | ||
| And then that has to lead to this whole controversy about censorship and hearings about that. | ||
| Eventually leads, in some part, to the purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk. | ||
| He turns it into X and opens it up. | ||
| So there has been some silver lining to these clouds. | ||
| We just think about the amount of even just like interpersonal strife of arguments people have gotten in. | ||
| Well, no, but the Hunter Biden laptop is Russian misinformation. | ||
| You're an idiot in a Russian plant if you say that. | ||
| I mean, just the amount of strife and chaos and misery that their deliberate lies have caused America over the last couple years is really unquantifiable. | ||
| And then you get into things like the Gretchen Whitmer kidnapping hoax, which at this point has been thoroughly. | ||
| Which is absolutely proven to be a complete fabrication of the FBI, which is, by definition, a conspiracy. | ||
| Now, if you theorize about it, I guess that makes you a conspiracy theorist. | ||
| New York Times goes on, Nancy Pelosi. | ||
| Yeah, so he's right. | ||
| So he was right about that, and he was right to undermine the FBI's important work. | ||
| What, arresting plumbers from Wichita? | ||
| I mean, this is... | ||
| We're in a really bad situation. | ||
| We're in a very bad situation when you have the top law enforcement agency in the country... | ||
| Whose entire activity over the last several years has just been a litany of attacks against the American people, misinformation spread from the largest platforms, encouraging censorship with liaisons and offices and all the big tech companies. | ||
| The FBI has been the single most destructive force for the rights of Americans compared to anything over the last decade or so. | ||
| Mr. Patel has promised that if confirmed, he will reshape the FBI through firings and closing its headquarters in Washington. | ||
| He has also pledged to go after against Mr. Trump's perceived enemies. | ||
| New York Times, folks. | ||
| This is the New York Times. | ||
| They went DEI? New York Times hasn't let go of DEI. He has also pledged to go after against Mr. Trump's perceived enemies. | ||
| Though he said on a podcast last year that he was not on a revenge march. | ||
| It's not revenge. | ||
| It's just justice. | ||
| It's not revenge. | ||
| We need that clip from The Godfather. | ||
| Strictly business. | ||
| Pure business. | ||
| The FBI is not fit for purpose. | ||
| The FBI is exclusively working against the interests of the American people and damaging the credibility of themselves and the wider government. | ||
| At large and the media who relies on them, they're a cancerous tumor at this point. | ||
| It needs to be extracted, eradicated. | ||
| And if we're going to have a Federal Bureau of Investigation, it should be there to actually investigate the real criminals, not to fabricate domestic terror cells in order to justify persecution against Trump supporters. | ||
| So again, this is one of the most important confirmations. | ||
| That Trump will be seeking over the next little while. | ||
| And just like we've been saying this whole week, the way this is being framed as a test of Trump's influence over Congress, this is a test of Congress. | ||
| This is a test of the Senate. | ||
| This is a test of Democrats and Republicans and whether they're willing at all to make the changes necessary to set things right in this country or whether they are part of the problem. | ||
| So just a fair warning. | ||
| Just a fair warning to all of them. | ||
| Confirm these people. | ||
| Let them do what we elected Donald Trump to do. | ||
| And we can set things right and get back to business as usual. | ||
| Until then, we don't want to see this uniparty crap. | ||
| We don't want to see Republicans standing on principle and not appointing Cash Patel because... | ||
| I was going to say because they love the FBI so much, but the reality is because the FBI has... | ||
| I don't know, tapes of them diddling kids. | ||
| Don't ask me to justify their decisions. | ||
| Without blackmail, they're really inexplicable. | ||
| Let's go back to Chuck Grassley as he continues to make this opening statement at the Kash Patel hearing. | ||
| March 22, 2022, from Tebow, emailing a version of an investigative opening for approval. | ||
| This didn't include President Trump. | ||
| I want to make clear, that one didn't include President Trump as a criminal subject. | ||
| The sixth email is an April 11, 2022, from Tebow, approving the opening of Arctic Frost. | ||
| The seventh email is an April 13, 2022 email from FBI agent Tebow, stating that the FBI deputy director approved It's opening. | ||
| The eighth email on the same date had Thiebaud emailing John Crabb that the elector case was approved. | ||
| Crabb responded, quote, Thanks a lot. | ||
| Let's talk next week, end quote. | ||
| Between March 22nd and April 13th, other versions of the document opening the investigation existed because a ninth Email shows that the FBI General Counsel Office made edits on March 25th. | ||
| Was Trump still removed as an investigative subject? | ||
| If so, which Justice Department FBI officials other than Jack Smith later added him for prosecution? | ||
| I expect the production of all records on this matter to better understand the full fact pattern and whether other records exist. | ||
| Notably, approval of these documents was also given by Richard Pilger. | ||
| This committee has written about Pilger undermining the Justice Department's efforts during the 2020 election for partisan purposes. | ||
| These emails and documents substantiate my July 2022 letter, which the FBI ignored. | ||
| And I hope you, when you get there, won't ignore my letters. | ||
| Partisan FBI agents and DOJ officials tried and ultimately succeeded in launching a full-field criminal investigation and prosecution. | ||
| Of the President of the United States. | ||
| Justice Department and FBI leadership acted in concert to further a political scheme to take down Trump. | ||
| Just like they did with Crossfire Hurricane. | ||
| They have yet to learn a lesson. | ||
| And I hope you'll learn that lesson for them. | ||
| Or teach that lesson. | ||
| And their conduct, yet again, seriously enroded integrity. | ||
| of this once storied institution. | ||
| As I've said before, if a politically charged investigation is to be open, it must be done the right way. | ||
| And that didn't happen here. | ||
| Mr. Patel, in my time, I've never seen our law enforcement intelligence community institution so badly infected with political decision making. | ||
| And I say intelligence community because you know what happened when 55 people, former or present intelligence agency, signed a letter in 2020 that the laptop was a Russian hoax, as an example. | ||
| So all of this is these institutions breaking faith with we the people. | ||
| Mr. Patel, you must be fair. | ||
| You must be consistent, but you must be aggressive. | ||
| Your actions must be based on accountability. | ||
| And transparency brings accountability. | ||
| Should you do so, you'll have my support. | ||
| And remember, either you're going to run your agency, or the agency's going to run you. | ||
| And the agency certainly ended up running Director Wray and... | ||
| Probably people before him. | ||
| Yeah, I wouldn't let Christopher Wray off that easy. | ||
| Powerful opening statement from Chuck Grassley basically saying, if you can promise to whip these guys into shape, you have my support. | ||
| But warning him, you can either control the bureau or it can control you. | ||
| And he just barely scratched the surface on the number of things the FBI has done to just completely eradicate trust in the system that... | ||
| Which, in a way, is maybe kind of a good thing. | ||
| We shouldn't trust the FBI ever, and it's not something new that they're involved in corrupt dealings, but... | ||
| From Crossfire Hurricane to the Gretchen Whitmer hoax to Peter Strzok and Christopher Wray going to the World Economic Forum and bragging about how the FBI, governmental and private organizations are working hand in glove to make sure that hate and disinformation and misinformation are being contained online. | ||
| They have been on the forefront. | ||
| They've been the tip of the spear in the eradication of our rights, in the move towards globalism, in the undermining and attempting to destroy Donald Trump and his supporters at every pass. | ||
| They are a thoroughly rotten plank of wood in the ship of state that has to be removed and replaced completely. | ||
| There is no repairing it at this point. | ||
| We're going to continue to cover Kash Patel's hearing, and we'll go to his opening statement just as soon as it happens. | ||
| But in about five minutes, they'll also be starting hearings with Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. | ||
| We've got crew members monitoring all three of these, and we'll bring you the highlights as they come live. | ||
| They're doing it, folks. | ||
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| I'll tell you what. | ||
| If you're looking to get absolutely plastered on a Thursday morning, take a shot every time they say the words conspiracy theory in these hearings. | ||
| We have three simultaneous hearings going on right now. | ||
| Kash Patel, the minority leader or the minority representative there on the committee, Dick Durbin is doing his opening statement. | ||
| He's talking about dangerous conspiracy theories right now. | ||
| Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. will... | ||
| Begin their confirmation hearings momentarily. | ||
| We've got crew members behind the scenes monitoring whatever we're not watching at the time. | ||
| And so whatever happens, wherever the most excitement is, we'll jump to it then. | ||
| This is like the red zone for confirmation hearings as we have these three very contentious hearings taking place simultaneously. | ||
| Kash Patel up for the position as head of the FBI. Tulsi Gabbard as head of DNI. And RFK Jr. as head of HHS, continuing his confirmation hearing from yesterday. | ||
| Let's go back to Mr. Dick Durbin, who is calling Cash Patel dangerous for talking about the crimes that the FBI has been shown to be involved in over the last few years. | ||
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Not to me. | |
| This is someone who's left behind a trail of grievances throughout his life, lashing out at anyone who disrespects him or doesn't agree with him. | ||
| Hilarious. | ||
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Don't take it from me. | |
| Listen to these Republicans who worked with him during the Trump's first administration. | ||
| Attorney General Bill Barr. | ||
| This has been the tactic that Dick Durbin has been taking. | ||
| I was just hearing it during the break. | ||
| They're playing the party system to its utmost. | ||
| He just got done talking about how I voted to confirm the other FBI heads, and they were Republicans, so this isn't a partisan thing for me. | ||
| Let me just lay it out now so everybody understands. | ||
| At that level, there's no Republican. | ||
| There's no Democrat. | ||
| These are labels they take on to trick everybody. | ||
| They're a part of the same party. | ||
| They're a part of the same organization. | ||
| They're a part of the same tribe, the same team. | ||
| Then they... | ||
| I'm a Republican. | ||
| I'm a Democrat, even though they're both operating for the sake of the globalist factions that run our country. | ||
| But then they get to go up in committee and go, these Republicans said this about Trump, and I voted for that guy even though he was a Republican. | ||
| They want you to think these labels are meaningful. | ||
| They're not. | ||
| They're absolutely not. | ||
| They are utterly arbitrary, basically, at that point. | ||
| They're voting for the people who serve the system and who... | ||
| They know they can trust to not disrupt the way things have been going for so long that are so beneficial to the scumbags in office that enrich themselves off the back of the American people. | ||
| But this is Dick Durbin's main strategy so far is to make the division between Democrats and Republicans, talk about how fair he's been to Republicans and how Republicans themselves have been the ones to warn about President Trump. | ||
| You notice he said, this is a guy who for years has left behind a trail of grievances. | ||
| So what he's saying is that it's Trump's fault he's been attacked. | ||
| It's Trump's fault that he's mad that people have attacked him and undermined him and rigged proceedings against him and launched investigations on no basis in order to get all of his communications, in order to spy on him, in order to try to sink his presidential campaign in a purely political action using the full force and weight of the Justice Department. | ||
| That's a grievance. | ||
| Wouldn't you have a grievance there? | ||
| If you're attacked, don't you have a grievance? | ||
| I mean, this is a guy, he's walking down the street and just randomly strangers are punching him in the face. | ||
| And then when he gets back, they're like, this guy is just mad at everybody. | ||
| This guy's got a list of grievances a mile long. | ||
| He's just bloody, bruises all over his face, his eyes hanging out. | ||
| And he's like, no, I'm the one being attacked. | ||
| And they're like, this guy's bringing his list of grievances along. | ||
| I mean, are we really going to trust a guy like this? | ||
| Are we really going to allow a guy like this with all these perceived grievances? | ||
| It's like they're all... | ||
| Proven. | ||
| None of them are speculative. | ||
| From James Comey to Chris Wray to Peter Strzok, the FBI has been a horror show, a clown show of scumbags using their sacred power as law enforcement in this country to progress their own political agenda and try to destroy the populist uprising that actually promises to serve the American people rather than their entrenched interests. | ||
| So, this is just... | ||
| It's sad that there's still enough people that can fall for this crap, that this is a viable strategy, but I hope our audience isn't falling for it. | ||
| We'll be back on the other side after a short commercial break. | ||
| Welcome back, folks. | ||
| All three hearings are beginning at this point. | ||
| It looks like Dick Durbin is talking about... | ||
| January 6th. | ||
| Let's go ahead and go to this. | ||
| We've got people monitoring the RFK hearing and the Gabbard hearing. | ||
| We're going to jump from one to the other depending on what's happening in each one. | ||
| It looks like Dick Durbin is again trying to push the January 6th. | ||
| They're all pardoned, dude. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| It's over. | ||
| Let's see what he has to say. | ||
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| You're telling me they didn't bring weapons? | ||
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| They're just ripping off parts of the building and throwing them? | ||
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Just to give you an idea of Mr. Patel's take on what he calls a haphazard riot. | |
| It was a haphazard riot. | ||
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By everything we could see, the crowd at the Capitol was unarmed or armed only with non-lethal objects like bottles, flagpoles, or bike racks. | |
| He slams the book shut. | ||
| Boy, is that not true, Durbin? | ||
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Conspiracy theories for his own financial benefit. | |
| Conspiracy theories, take a shot. | ||
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Promoting a line of dietary supplements that claim to help people detox from COVID-19 vaccines. | |
| During my time on this committee, I was fortunate to get to know and work with former FBI Director Bob Mueller. | ||
| I met him a few days after 9-11. | ||
| That's when he took over the FBI. I trusted him. | ||
| I worked with him. | ||
| I did everything I could to help him because I believed that the FBI was a critical central agency in restoring America's confidence that we were safe. | ||
| Bob Mueller was an extraordinary man. | ||
| Oh, he was a Republican. | ||
| Make no bones about it. | ||
| Oh, he's a Republican. | ||
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I knew it. | |
| He comes from the San Francisco area. | ||
| He put on the red hat. | ||
| We put on the blue hat. | ||
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And when he was in college and graduated, a friend of his a year ahead of him had enlisted in the Marine Corps and was killed in Vietnam. | |
| The same thing, join up in the Marine Corps, and he did. | ||
| And he was the first lieutenant in Vietnam. | ||
| He received a Bronze Star. | ||
| What the hell are they talking about? | ||
| All right, let's just go back to what he just was talking about January 6th. | ||
| He's like, let's see what Cash Patel said. | ||
| He called it a rowdy riot. | ||
| That's what it was. | ||
| He said they were unarmed. | ||
| They were unarmed. | ||
| Absolutely, that is true. | ||
| So what is the big gotcha here? | ||
| What exactly does he think he proved? | ||
| He literally right before that said that police were attacked with wooden banisters that had been torn out. | ||
| Like, that means they weren't armed. | ||
| That means they were using trash to throw things at the police, who, by the way, were armed and were firing on them. | ||
| But we left that part out. | ||
| He calls that a conspiracy theory, I guess. | ||
| I guess conspiracy theory just doesn't mean anything anymore. | ||
| I guess it just literally doesn't mean anything anymore, ever. | ||
| Let's go back. | ||
| Okay, he's holding up Cash Patel's book, Government Gangsters. | ||
| There's probably more just horrifying material like, you know, the truth. | ||
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I've not worn the uniform of this country and neither of you. | |
| To think that you would denigrate Bob Mueller's service to our country and call him a swamp creature is an indication of the depths your political views take you. | ||
| The FBI plays a critical role in keeping America safe from terrorism, violent crime, and other threats. | ||
| Our nation needs an FBI director who understands the gravity... | ||
| This is called civilizational blackmail. | ||
| You want to disrupt our activity? | ||
| I hope I don't get any terrorist attacks. | ||
| I hope you don't get any terrorist attacks on your soil if you attack us. | ||
| If you stop us from going after innocent Trump supporters and entrapping special needs potheads into trying to kidnap the governor, I guess you might have a major terror attack on your hands and it'll be your fault. | ||
| Yeah, no. | ||
| Just because you're law enforcement doesn't mean we have to let you do whatever the hell you want, whatever the hell you want. | ||
| That's called being the mafia. | ||
| It's called being a mobster. | ||
| It's called making us pay protection money from you. | ||
| That's called blackmail. | ||
| It's called civilizational blackmail. | ||
| Chuck Grassley. | ||
| It's a mischaracterization of what he actually said. | ||
| So I'm going to invite you to listen to the interview Mr. Patel gave that linked to his post to hear what he actually said. | ||
| When he said cowards in uniform, he was talking about senior Pentagon leadership failing to mobilize the National Guard to protect the Capitol. | ||
| His comments had nothing to do with police. | ||
| Mr. Patel made his comments while discussing an article in the New York Times. | ||
| Exposing grave miscommunication between the Department of Defense and the D.C. National Guard. | ||
| So I would encourage people to follow up on that. | ||
| Senator Tillis. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee. | ||
| It's my honor to introduce Kash Patel, President Trump's nominee to be FBI Director. | ||
| I've completed due diligence on his life and career, and I'm convinced that Cash possesses significant expertise, an ironclad commitment to justice, and he's an outstanding choice to lead the FBI. Cash's parents are Indian immigrants of Gujarati ancestry. | ||
| They're up here in the front row. | ||
| The Gujarat state is a melting pot of religions. | ||
| Including Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, with temples, mosques, and other religious sites scattered across the state. | ||
| His father was raised in Uganda, but his family had to flee the country to escape repression under Idi Amin. | ||
| His mother was born in Tanzania. | ||
| They met and married in India, and ultimately made their way to New York City by way of Canada, where his parents, along with seven brothers and sisters, And their spouses and at least a half a dozen kids lived under the same roof. | ||
| His parents raised Cash in the Hindu faith, and they instilled in him the values of hard work and education. | ||
| Cash is a devout Hindu, and consistent with his faith, he's shown respect to people of all faiths. | ||
| Cash attended the University of Richmond, where he earned his bachelor's degree in criminal justice and history. | ||
| He went to Pace University School of Law where he earned his JD and an international law certificate from the University College of London, Faculty of Laws. | ||
| Cash began his career as a public defender in Florida where he led or co-led more than 60 jury trials in state and federal court. | ||
| Cash clearly demonstrated a devotion to upholding the rule of law and defending the rights of individuals. | ||
| Bedrago, in United States v. | ||
| Bedrago, a high-profile case in Florida in 2015. Bedrago was one of the Colombian nationals arrested in a major drug bust involving Operation Backrim. | ||
| Cash and his co-counsel success... | ||
| You ever feel like you're just watching Upside Down World when you're doing it in D.C.? All the things that the Democrats are saying to discredit Cash Patel. | ||
| Make him sound awesome to me. | ||
| The things that the Republicans are saying in support of Kash Patel, I'm like, I don't really know. | ||
| They're like, he is a foreigner who is Hindi, and he went to a lot of Ivy League schools and defended Colombian drug dealers. | ||
| So it's like, okay, that's great. | ||
| That's all really great. | ||
| And they're like, he's a conspiracy theorist who says the FBI is captured and wants to root it out. | ||
| And he says January 6th was organized by Nancy Pelosi. | ||
| And we're like, yeah, tight. | ||
| Okay, cool. | ||
| More of that. | ||
| More of that. | ||
| Less of the Ivy League qualifications. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| It's just, I don't know if we're just ahead of the curve. | ||
| Maybe we're the upside down. | ||
| Maybe they're in the upside down. | ||
| Something's inverted. | ||
| And it's a little confusing. | ||
| Let's go back to the hearing. | ||
| Since leaving the administration in 2020, Cash has written articles and books on national security, law, and governance. | ||
| Through his work as an author, Cash continues to advocate for justice and transparency and to be ever vigilant in defending our great democracy and the rule of law. | ||
| Colleagues, I created a Cash bingo card. | ||
| That I have available to any of my colleagues who would like it on the other side of the aisle. | ||
| Some may view this as an unserious caricature and not appropriate for this committee. | ||
| Sadly, I consider it a serious caricature of what I expect to be witnessed today. | ||
| I want a bingo card. | ||
| Can we find that bingo card? | ||
| I think we'll have words like enemies list and deep state. | ||
| I've already X'd out four boxes in the opening statements alone. | ||
| The fact of the matter is, some people will be here to simply substantiate a false narrative. | ||
| At worst, they may be just going through an unfounded litany of quotes and half quotes and half truths, some of which have already been dispelled by the chairman after the opening statements. | ||
| Mr. Chair and Ranking Member, in my 10 years in the Senate, I hope I've established a reputation for being fair, doing my homework, and taking tough positions that have been met with harsh criticism. | ||
| Heck, I've even been censured by my entire state and 30 counties for taking tough— All right, so it looks like somebody published Senator Tom Tillis' cash bingo card. | ||
| Here's what's on the cash bingo card. | ||
| FBI HQ slash Hoover Building. | ||
| Truth Social, MAGA, Bill Barr, Section 702, Carter Page, Jeffrey Clark, Enemies List, 2000 Mules, Government Gangsters, Pam Bondi, Nunez Memo, Retribution, Steve Bannon, Mar-a-Lago, King Donald? | ||
| Hillary question? | ||
| I don't really get that one. | ||
| QAnon, Plot Against the King, Dark Money, Liz Cheney, Pardons Benghazi, Pedophile slash Cannibal. | ||
| And Deep State. | ||
| Wow, what a world. | ||
| What a world, folks. | ||
| Are we going to hear about the pedophile cannibals today? | ||
| Hopefully so. | ||
| So Senator Tillis came out with a cash bingo card. | ||
| He said he's already marked off four squares in just the opening statements. | ||
| Let's go back to the hearing now. | ||
| I've completed my due diligence of Cash Patel, and I am honored to provide my strongest recommendation for his confirmation. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Chair. | ||
| Thank you for that introduction. | ||
| Before I swear you, I want to make clear that before you give your statement, if you want to introduce family and friends in the audience, you're welcome to do that. | ||
| Would you please stand? | ||
| Raise your hand. | ||
| Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give to the committee... | ||
| We'll be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God. | ||
| I do, Mr. Chair. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| You may proceed. | ||
| Chairman Grassley, Ranking Member Durbin, and members of the Judiciary Committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear today. | ||
| I must start with a word of prayer for the tragic accident that befell our nation last night where we lost civilians and service members. | ||
| I pray for their families. | ||
| I pray for law enforcement and military personnel. | ||
| And I pray for their souls. | ||
| And hopefully God will find them peace in the near future. | ||
| I'd like to welcome my father, Pramod, and my mother, Anjana, who are sitting here today. | ||
| They traveled here to get here from India. | ||
| My sister is also here, Nisha. | ||
| She also traversed the oceans just to be with me here today. | ||
| It means the world that you guys are here. | ||
| Jesse Greshna. | ||
| I wouldn't be here today without their guidance, their unwavering support, and their relentless love. | ||
| When President Trump informed me of his intention to nominate me as the director of the FBI, I was deeply honored. | ||
| Sitting here today, I carry not only the dreams of my parents, but also the hopes of millions of Americans who stand for justice, fairness, and the rule of law. | ||
| My commitment to these principles is deeply rooted in my family's history, which has profoundly shaped my worldview. | ||
| India means genocidal dictatorship in Uganda, where 300,000 men, women, and children were killed based on their ethnicity, just because they happen to look like me. | ||
| My mother is originally from Tanzania. | ||
| She studied in India, as did my dad, and they were married there. | ||
| They would later emigrate to New York, as the senator pointed out, where I was born, and we were raised in a household of my father's seven siblings, their spouses, and at least half a dozen children. | ||
| That's the only way we knew how to do things at the time in the 70s and 80s, the Indian way. | ||
| But we would soon learn the American way. | ||
| These values have shaped and been the driving force of my career in 16 years of government service. | ||
| Protecting the rights of the Constitution is of the utmost importance to me and has been every single time I've taken that oath of office. | ||
| The recent terrorist attacks in New Orleans tragically claim the lives of 14 Americans and serve as a stark reminder that our national security is at threat, both internally and externally. | ||
| The FBI, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Department of Justice, where I served, play a pivotal role in securing our freedoms and our safeties for American citizens. | ||
| If confirmed as the next FBI director, I will remain focused on the FBI's core mission. | ||
| That is to investigate fully wherever there is a constitutional factual basis to do so and to never make a prosecutorial decision that is solely the providence of the Department of Justice and the Attorney General. | ||
| For the first eight years after law school, I served as a public defender, first for Miami-Dade County and later for the Southern District of Florida. | ||
| During that time, I represented some pretty awful human beings charged with some pretty heinous crimes. | ||
| But what I learned there was the core value that has been enshrined in me since. | ||
| That due process must be provided without bias to all Americans. | ||
| And if we cannot provide due process to the worst, then there can be no due process for anyone. | ||
| And our constitutional republic fails. | ||
| But I battled on that hill for that due process. | ||
| I would later serve in the Obama Justice Department. | ||
| As a terrorism prosecutor in the National Security Division, where we successfully contributed the prosecutions of terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, and others. | ||
| I was honored to receive the 2017 Assistant Attorney General's Award from Loretta Lynch for my work in helping the Ugandans bring members of Al-Shabaab to justice for murdering 74 innocent people, including an American. | ||
| I would also receive the Human Intelligence Award from the intelligence community for related work on that mission. | ||
| My experiences at the National Security Division would later be followed by my experiences on the National Security Council as Senior Director for Counterterrorism and later as a Deputy Director of National Intelligence responsible for the production, creation, and promulgation of the Presidential Daily Briefing, our nation's most sensitive classified information and secrets to protect our country. | ||
| My time in the White House was preceded by a time right here in Congress as a staffer on the House Intelligence Committee, where I spearheaded the investigation that exposed serious FISA, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, abuses by members of the Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. | ||
| That misconduct eroded the public trust in our FBI. The erosion of trust, as Chairman Grassley pointed out, is All too low today. | ||
| 40% of Americans have trust in the FBI. In order to get it back, there's a two-fold track, Senator. | ||
| One, violent crime is exploding in this country, and we cannot afford to them to allow it to run away. | ||
| We must tackle violent crime. | ||
| Just in 2023 alone, there was 100,000 rapes. | ||
| 100,000 drug overdoses and 17,000 homicides. | ||
| The priority of the FBI, if I'm confirmed, will be to ensure that our communities are protected and safeguarded and our children have parks to play in and not needles to walk over. | ||
| The way we do this, we let good cops be cops. | ||
| We let law enforcement And we provide them with the tools necessary and resources they need to get after violent crime. | ||
| The second way we do this on equal track is aggressive constitutional oversight from Congress. | ||
| The public trust can only be restored if there is full transparency, and I am committed to that full transparency. | ||
| Members of Congress have unfortunately submitted hundreds of questions that have been unanswered by the FBI in recent times. | ||
| That will not occur if I am confirmed. | ||
| All appropriate requests for information will be responded to expeditiously and fully. | ||
| I am committed to working alongside the dedicated men and women of the FBI. | ||
| They are warriors of justice, and I will always have their backs because they have the backs of the American people. | ||
| I look forward to answering your questions, and I want to take a moment to thank my family, my friends, people who traveled here, and my entire team that has made this day possible. | ||
| God bless America, and I look forward to your questions. | ||
| So there's your opening statement by Kash Patel, again focusing, just like RFK did, on transparency, which is key to the restoration of our government as a, well, as a three-body organization. | ||
| With the Senate and the House of Representatives making up the Congress, the judicial, the Supreme Court, and the executive branch, systematically the executive branch has co-opted powers from Congress over the last several years to where at this point Congress basically has no ability or inclination to commit oversight over the FBI. They request things from the FBI. They get told to stuff it. | ||
| They ask for documents. | ||
| They get given something that's... | ||
| Completely redacted and is worth nothing valuable in terms of intelligence. | ||
| If we don't have elected representatives being more powerful than the appointed law enforcement and DOJ, then we're not a republic. | ||
| We're not a democracy. | ||
| We're an empire at the whim of the Praetorian Guard. | ||
| We have to have oversight by Congress. | ||
| RFK Jr. and Kash Patel both made that a center point of their opening statements. | ||
| Let's go back. | ||
| ...administrations, and it is the one mission that we cannot fail, and it is the one mission where the FBI must play a critical role. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| As you well know, and you and I discussed this in my office, whistleblowers are critical to rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. | ||
| Their courage to come forward and make legally protected disclosures about government wrongdoing. | ||
| Benefits the country. | ||
| I think they're politically... | ||
| They are good American citizens. | ||
| Just want the government to do what it's supposed to do. | ||
| I think they're treated by bureaucracies, not just in the FBI, but throughout the bureaucracy, like skunks at a picnic. | ||
| Will you protect whistleblowers from retaliation? | ||
| Unlike former Director Wray and promote a culture at the FBI that values whistleblowers' important contributions. | ||
| Absolutely, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| I share in your beliefs about the importance of whistleblowers. | ||
| So we've spent a lot of taxpayers' money ruining whistleblowers. | ||
| Will you commit to ensuring that no taxpayer money will be used to identify and retaliate against whistleblowers? | ||
| Senator, if I'm confirmed, it will not. | ||
| You and I have heard a lot of criticism about various statements about January 6th. | ||
| You said, quote, those who broke actual laws should be prosecuted, end of quote. | ||
| But you've also called out the partisan nature of prosecutions and compared how the Biden Justice Department treated January 6th offenders with how they ignored. | ||
| Many other crimes. | ||
| Those include crimes related to illegal immigration, as well as riots that took place around the country. | ||
| So explain your position on January 6th to this committee, and how do you respond to critics who say that you're anti-law enforcement? | ||
| Mr. Chairman, I greatly appreciate the question and the opportunity to discuss that. | ||
| If anyone wants to consider me as anti-law enforcement, then look at my 16 years in government service, whether I was trying 60 jury trials in state and federal court upholding the rights of the indigent and breathing life into constitutional due process, or later as a national security prosecutor where I served this country and overseas, and later when I was a Joint Special Operations Command civilian embedded with SEAL Team 6 and Delta. | ||
| We've got to take a quick commercial break here in about 30 seconds. | ||
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| We are monitoring the RFK, the Tulsi Gabbard, and the Kash Patel hearings. | ||
| We're going to go back to Kash Patel. | ||
| I do want to hear his answer on January 6th. | ||
| It promises to be a big topic of his hearing. | ||
| But we are the red zone for these committee hearings. | ||
| We are going to go to whichever one is most exciting at the time. | ||
| So stay with us as we continue to bring you live coverage. | ||
| We have this triple header taking place right now. | ||
| We'll be right back. | ||
| All right, welcome back, folks. | ||
| We are monitoring all three confirmation hearings simultaneously going on on Capitol Hill this morning. | ||
| We've got Robert F. Kennedy Jr. squaring off against Bernie Sanders. | ||
| We've got Tulsi Gabbard being questioned as head of the DNI and, of course, Kash Patel as potential head of the FBI. | ||
| We are, again, have crew members monitoring all three of these, and we'll go to each one. | ||
| Depending on which one is more exciting at the time... | ||
| Now, Kash Patel was just asked about January 6th, which promises to be and has already been a major topic during this hearing. | ||
| Let's hear what he has to say about his beliefs on January 6th. | ||
| We go back to Kash Patel. | ||
| As for January 6th, I have repeatedly, often, publicly, and privately said there can never be a tolerance for violence against law enforcement. | ||
| And anyone, anyone. | ||
| That commits an act of violence against law enforcement must be investigated, prosecuted, and imprisoned. | ||
| And on January 6th, I said the same thing about acts against law enforcement. | ||
| The Capitol Police, who I have served with, and when I was Chief of Staff at the Department of Defense, rushing to the aid of the members of this committee and your colleagues to provide the National Guard, was my top mission priority. | ||
| Not politics. | ||
| And that is my love of this country to protect our laws and our way of life. | ||
| And it was no different. | ||
| If there's any ever corruption, I have been the first to call it out. | ||
| And I will continue to call out corruption in government service because it is a privilege to serve this nation. | ||
| Thank you, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| Outside of this committee... | ||
| So a very powerful statement from Kash Patel. | ||
| And of course... | ||
| Again, you have to recognize the strategies at play here, the strategies being used. | ||
| They're using the red versus blue dichotomy of Dick Durbin saying, I am happy to support Republicans, but I can't support him. | ||
| And acting like this is partisan when in reality the division is not between Republican and Democrat. | ||
| It's between the uniparty deep state establishment and those who want to actually fix it. | ||
| So don't fall for that particular strategy. | ||
| Of dividing things along partisan lines. | ||
| The strategy they're using when it comes to January 6th and other things is to say that by criticizing the leadership, you just hate law enforcement. | ||
| And it's the same strategy they use for literally everything, right? | ||
| If you don't agree with Black Lives Matter and defund the police, you must be racist. | ||
| If you criticize George Soros putting in prosecutors to destroy everything, they're going to call you anti-Semitic. | ||
| And if you say, hey... | ||
| The FBI is engaged in, you know, partisan hackery. | ||
| They'll say, oh, you just hate law enforcement. | ||
| You must just hate cops. | ||
| How dare you? | ||
| This is just an obvious strategy. | ||
| I hope you don't fall for it. | ||
| Cash Patel, I understand, is talking about QAnon. | ||
| Do we want to go to Cash Patel or Bernie Sanders first? | ||
| All right, let's go to Sanders. | ||
| Sanders is grilling RFK Jr. We'll jump back to Cash Patel and hear what he thinks about QAnon momentarily. | ||
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Here's Senator Sanders grilling RFK Jr. There have been, as I understand it, dozens of studies done all over the world that make it very clear that vaccines do not cause autism. | |
| You just said, if I heard correctly, well, if the evidence is there. | ||
| Never happened. | ||
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The evidence is there. | |
| No, it's not. | ||
| That's it. | ||
| Vaccines do not cause autism. | ||
| Do you agree with that? | ||
| As I said, I'm not going to go into HHS with any pre-ordained. | ||
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I ask you a simple question, Bobby. | |
| Studies all over the world say it does not. | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| Senator, if you show me those studies, I will absolutely, as I promised to Chairman Cassidy, I will apologize. | ||
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That is a very troubling response, because the studies are there. | |
| Your job must have looked at those studies as an applicant for this job. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Let me ask you another question. | ||
| Studies have been done. | ||
| No, they actually haven't. | ||
| In fact, let me pull up. | ||
| I didn't know I'd have to pull up the story, but a jaw-dropping study, this is on Infowars.com, finds vaccinated... | ||
| Children have a 170% higher risk of autism. | ||
| This is from the 27th of January, three, four, well, 15 days ago. | ||
| The peer-reviewed study also found that vaccinated children had a 212% greater likelihood of developing other neurological and neurodevelopment disorders, including ADHD, epilepsy and seizures, brain inflammation. | ||
| And tick and learning disorders. | ||
| Jaw-dropping study finds vaccinated children have 170% higher risk of autism. | ||
| Also, not including things like places in India and China where autism had never been diagnosed, never been shown, nobody had ever had autism until vaccines arrive and suddenly they start getting autism cases a couple of years increasing over time. | ||
| There's been no study that disproves the connection between autism. | ||
| And vaccines. | ||
| That's a lie from Bernie Sanders. | ||
| So good on RFK Jr. for not giving in to that. | ||
| Let's jump back to Cash Patel. | ||
| We want to hear what he has to say about QAnon, the menace. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| Guilt by association. | ||
| Are you a follower or promoter of QAnon? | ||
| No, Senator. | ||
| In fact, I have publicly, including in the interviews provided to this committee, rejected outright. | ||
| QAnon baseless conspiracy theories or any other baseless conspiracy theories. | ||
| They must be addressed head-on with the truth, and I will continue to do that, and I will always continue to support Americans who support law enforcement, our military, and want a secure border. | ||
| Over the past four years, the FBI and Justice Department have weaponized law enforcement towards partisan ends. | ||
| This has affected you personally, you along with even members of my staff, Were the victims of FBI overreach when they secretly subpoenaed your records during the investigation into Crossfire Hurricane? | ||
| Inspector General Horowitz of Justice Department was right to say actions like this have a, quote, unquote, chilling effect on whistleblowers. | ||
| How do you intend to make sure that this kind of misconduct never happens again? | ||
| Senator, this may be one of the scenarios that most uniquely qualifies me to take command at the FBI. Having been the victim of government overreach and a weaponized system of justice and law enforcement, I know what it feels like to have the full weight of the United States government barreling down on you. | ||
| And as the Biden Inspector General determined, those activities by the FBI and DOJ were wholly improper. | ||
| I will ensure, if confirmed, that no American is subjected to that kind of torment, to that kind of cost, financially and personally. | ||
| And most importantly, I will make sure that no American is subjected to death threats like I was, and subjected to moving their residences like I was. | ||
| Because of government overreach, because of leaks of information about my personal status. | ||
| If confirmed as FBI Director, Mr. Chairman, you have my commitment that no one in this country will feel that pain. | ||
| Wow, very powerful statement in support of whistleblowers. | ||
| And of course, this is the problem with having an organization like the FBI who's just completely out of control is, you know, they're doing... | ||
| And the whistleblowers who have brought material out of the FBI have shown the incredible lack of legitimacy. | ||
| in any of the investigations they launched taking people off of child sex exploitation cases and putting them on domestic terrorism cases whistleblowers from the FBI saying there were more people in the FBI investigating so-called right-wing domestic terror than there were domestic terrorists in the first place which causes them to then want to go out and create the right-wing terror in order to justify the actions that they're taking it is a feedback loop of Corruption, basically, over and over. | ||
| Now we go to Tulsi Gabbard, who's about to make her opening statement, looking like a total superhero from the X-Men franchise. | ||
| Here's Tulsi Gabbard's opening statement. | ||
| Ms. Gabbard, we now welcome the opportunity, finally, to hear from you in your own words. | ||
| Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. | ||
| Before I begin, I too would like to start by offering my prayers and condolences. | ||
| To those who were killed in last night's horrific crash, Senator Warner, Senator Moran, our condolences and prayers are with you and all of your constituents. | ||
| Again, Chairman Cotton and Vice Chairman Warner and all of the members of the committee, it's an honor to be here before you today. | ||
| I've appreciated the opportunity to meet with so many of you and address your questions and concerns before today's hearing. | ||
| I know they've gone, but I'm grateful to Senators Burr and Ernst for their trust and their confidence in taking time to join us here today. | ||
| To my husband Abraham, my family, friends, fellow veterans, Medal of Honor recipients, and patriots, thank you for your love and support. | ||
| I'm honored and grateful to President Trump for his trust and confidence in nominating me to serve our country as the Director of National Intelligence. | ||
| At a time when trust in the intelligence community, unfortunately, is at an all-time low. | ||
| Chuck Schumer admitted a few years ago, quote, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. | ||
| For too long, faulty, inadequate or weaponized intelligence have led to costly failures and the undermining of our national security and God-given freedoms enshrined in the Constitution. | ||
| The most obvious example of... | ||
| One of these failures is our invasion of Iraq based upon a total fabrication or complete failure of intelligence. | ||
| This disastrous decision led to the deaths of tens of thousands of American soldiers, millions of people in the Middle East, mass migration, destabilization and undermining of the security and stability of our European allies, the rise of ISIS, strengthening of al-Qaeda and other Islamist jihadist groups, and strengthening Iran. | ||
| Here are just a few other examples. | ||
| The American people elected Donald Trump as their president not once but twice. | ||
| And yet the FBI and intelligence agencies were politicized by his opponents to undermine his presidency and falsely portray him as a puppet of Putin. | ||
| Title I of FISA was used illegally to obtain a warrant to spy on Trump campaign advisor Carter Page using a Clinton campaign-funded false dossier as their so-called evidence. | ||
| Biden campaign advisor Tony Blinken was the impetus for the 51 former senior intelligence officials letter dismissing Hunter Biden's laptop as disinformation specifically to help Biden win the election. | ||
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| Former DNI James Clapper lied to this committee in 2013, denying the existence of programs that facilitated the mass collection of millions of Americans' phone and Internet records, yet was never held accountable. | ||
| Under John Brennan's leadership, the CIA abused its power to spy on Congress, to dodge oversight, lied about doing it until he was caught, and yet has never been held responsible. | ||
| Under Biden, the FBI abused its power for political reasons to try to surveil Catholics who attend traditional Latin Mass, labeling them as quote-unquote radical traditionalist Catholics. | ||
| Personally, just 24 hours after I criticized Kamala Harris and her nomination, I was placed on a secret domestic terror watch list called Quiet Skies. | ||
| Sadly, there are more examples. | ||
| The bottom line is this. | ||
| This must end. | ||
| President Trump's re-election is a clear mandate from the American people to break this cycle of failure, end the weaponization and politicization of the intelligence community, Begin to restore trust in those who've been charged with the critical task of securing our nation. | ||
| If confirmed as DNI, I will do my very best to fulfill this mandate and bring leadership to the intelligence community with a laser-like focus on our essential mission, ensuring the safety, security, and freedom of the American people. | ||
| As the president's principal intelligence advisor, I'll begin by leading by example. | ||
| Checking my own personal views at the door and committing to delivering intelligence that is collected, analyzed, and reported without bias, prejudice, or political influence. | ||
| I enlisted in the Army because of the horrific terrorist attack on September 11th and volunteered to deploy to Iraq in 2005, where I served in a medical unit. | ||
| After nearly 22 years in uniform with three combat deployments to the Middle East and Africa, I'm now a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, where I serve as a battalion commander of soldiers in Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas. | ||
| I served in Congress for eight years on the Homeland Security, Foreign Affairs, and Armed Services Committees. | ||
| It's my experience in the military and in the halls of Congress that have given me a deep understanding of the complex challenges that our nation faces, in both roles engaging with world leaders, in both roles being privy to highly classified intelligence. | ||
| So I know firsthand how essential accurate, unbiased, and timely intelligence is to the President, to Congress, and to our warfighters. | ||
| I also know the heavy cost of intelligence failures and abuses. | ||
| Senator Collins, you led the creation of ODNI specifically to address those intelligence failures of 9-11 and Iraq's so-called WMDs. | ||
| The need for the ODNI under strong leadership still exists today. | ||
| If confirmed, I'll bring my experience and fresh eyes to leading the intelligence community, and my day one priorities will be... | ||
| To assess the global threat environment, identify where gaps in our intelligence exist, integrate intelligence elements, increase information sharing, and ensure that unbiased, apolitical, objective collection and analysis to support the president and policymakers' decision-making occur. | ||
| I'll work to end the politicization of the intelligence community and ensure there is a clear mission focus in the IC on its core mission of this unbiased, apolitical... | ||
| I'll work to rebuild trust through transparency and accountability. | ||
| This is a national security imperative. | ||
| And I'll work to assess and address efficiencies, redundancies, and effectiveness across ODNI to ensure focus of personnel and resources is on our core mission of national security. | ||
| In my meetings that I've had with many of you, you expressed bipartisan frustration about recent intelligence failures as well as the lack of responsiveness to your requests for information. | ||
| Whether it's the surprise October 7th Hamas terrorist attack, to the sudden takeover of Syria by Islamist extremists, failures to identify the source of COVID, anomalous health incidents, UAPs, drones, and more. | ||
| If confirmed, I look forward to working with you to address these issues. | ||
| Ensuring the safety, security and freedom of the American people is a mandate of leadership that rises above partisan politics. | ||
| If confirmed, my commitment to the President, to you and to the American people is this. | ||
| I will do my very best to find the truth, no matter where it leads, and share that truth with President Trump. | ||
| His advisors and you in Congress, providing you with that unbiased, timely and accurate intelligence as you make the tough decisions that will impact the safety, security and freedom of the American people. | ||
| Now, before I close, I want to warn the American people who are watching at home. | ||
| You may hear lies and smears in this hearing that will challenge my loyalty to and my love for our country. | ||
| Those who oppose my nomination imply that I am loyal to something or someone This is good. | ||
| Modi's puppet, not recognizing the absurdity of simultaneously being the puppet of five different puppet masters. | ||
| The same tactic was used against President Trump and failed. | ||
| The American people elected President Trump with a decisive victory and mandate for change. | ||
| The fact is, what truly unsettles my political opponents is I refuse to be their puppet. | ||
| I have no love for Assad or Gaddafi or any dictator. | ||
| I just hate al-Qaeda. | ||
| I hate that we have leaders who cozy up to Islamist extremists, minimizing them to so-called rebels. | ||
| As Jake Sullivan said to Hillary Clinton, Quote, Al-Qaeda is on our side in Syria. | ||
| Syria is now controlled by an Al-Qaeda offshoot. | ||
| This is awesome. | ||
| HTS, led by an Islamist jihadist who danced in the streets on 9-11 and who was responsible for the killing of many American service members. | ||
| Democrat senators in the past resorted to anti-Christian bigotry against some of President Trump's judicial nominees like Amy Coney Barrett and Brian Boucher. | ||
| I condemn those actions as a Democrat in Congress at the time, as religious bigotry must be thoroughly condemned by all of us, no matter the religion. | ||
| Unfortunately, there are some Democrat senators who still don't understand the principle of freedom of religion in Article 6 of the Constitution. | ||
| Quote, no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States. | ||
| Unfortunately, they're once again using the religious bigotry card, but this time trying to foment religious bigotry against Hindus and Hinduism. | ||
| If anyone is sincerely interested in knowing more about my own personal spiritual path of Hinduism, I welcome you to go to my account on X where I'll share more on this topic. | ||
| If confirmed as Director of National Intelligence, I will continue. | ||
| To live by the oath that I have sworn at least eight times in my life, both in uniform and as a member of Congress. | ||
| I will support and defend our God-given freedoms enshrined in the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic, and I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same. | ||
| Thank you very much for your time. | ||
| I look forward to your questions. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Okay, so I had to let that whole thing play. | ||
| That was a very different opening statement than we've heard so far. | ||
| Both RFK and Kash Patel took a little bit of a more subtle, nuanced approach to their opening statements, going, look, I'm not here for my own personal aggrandizement. | ||
| I'm not here for my own personal agenda. | ||
| I'm going to serve under the pleasure of the president and follow the law and get things set right. | ||
| Tulsi Gabbard, on the other hand, I just took a machine gun to like 50 different conspiracies that have taken place all at once. | ||
| That was incredible. | ||
| I mean, she called out the Iraq war and the false information that led to that. | ||
| She called out the anti-Catholic activity going on, the anti-Christian activity. | ||
| I mean, that was an offensive opening statement, not a defensive one. | ||
| And you'll love to see it. | ||
| By the way, the position she's taking, Director of National Intelligence, or that she's up for, Averill Haynes was the head of DNI before her. | ||
| Averill Haynes was the chairperson that actually, you know, managed and led the Event 201. It's a very important position. | ||
| This is the head of the organizing structure above all of the intelligence communities. | ||
| And Tulsi Gabbard just went through a litany, a list of crimes committed essentially by the intelligence agencies on the American people over the last little while. | ||
| That was an absolutely bombshell opening statement from Tulsi Gabbard. | ||
| That was wild. | ||
| Now, we've got Rand Paul is questioning RFK Jr. and going off about vaccines, and we have Kash Patel being asked about the January 6th. | ||
| Let's go ahead and go to RFK and Rand Paul, since this is not one that we've revisited today. | ||
| And we'll go to a commercial break in about two minutes. | ||
| But here's Rand Paul and talking to RFK, probably about their mutual enemy, Anthony Fauci. | ||
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For goodness sakes, let's have an honest debate about these things. | |
| The COVID vaccine. | ||
| If you ask me my opinion, the reporters run up and down the soil and they say, you still anti-vaccine? | ||
| No, I'm pro-vaccine. | ||
| But on the COVID vaccine and on the COVID illness, there was a thousandfold or more difference between the elderly and children. | ||
| If you don't acknowledge that, you're committing malpractice. | ||
| You're showing your ignorance. | ||
| If you say a six-month-old must be mandated to get it, the science is not there. | ||
| So all this blather about the science says this and the science says that, no, it doesn't. | ||
| Science actually shows that no healthy child in America died from COVID. Look it up. | ||
| No healthy child died from COVID. And so the thing is, is that it's a thousand-fold greater. | ||
| So if you ask me my advice as a physician, if you were 65 or older or overweight and some other conditions, I would have said, hell yes, I'd take the COVID vaccine. | ||
| The risks of the disease were real and much greater than the vaccine. | ||
| But if you ask me, should my healthy six-month-old get it? | ||
| See, these are the nuances you're unwilling to talk about because there's such a belief in submission. | ||
| Submit to the government. | ||
| Do what you're told. | ||
| There is no discussion. | ||
| There ought to be a debate. | ||
| You're not going to let him have the debate because you're just going to criticize and say, it is this, and admit to it, or we're not going to appoint you. | ||
| But it's more complicated than that. | ||
| This is why people distrust government, because you're unwilling to have these conversations. | ||
| And go home. | ||
| Ask your Democrat young mothers, your Republican young mothers, if they're vaccinating their kids for hepatitis B. We're like, well, do I have to do it on day one? | ||
| It's this precious little baby. | ||
| Is there science to say you shouldn't do it? | ||
| Probably not, but it's my kid. | ||
| You know, it's like, there isn't clear-cut science saying not to. | ||
| I'm telling you about autism. | ||
| It's like every time Rand Paul talks, it's like a reminder of why we have a republic. | ||
| You can get these experts, you can get these, you know, so-called scientists come up and justify anything when what you need is a dude from Kentucky to be like, this is stupid and I'm not doing it. | ||
| That doesn't make any sense. | ||
| Stay away from my kid. | ||
| It's like just common sense, normal people need to be in charge of this government, not the so-called experts who have been chosen. | ||
| Absolutely bombshell stuff across the board here. | ||
| We will continue to monitor more from Cash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, and RFK Jr. On the other side, I'm going to take all my supplements from thealexjonesstore.com. | ||
| It will be vibrating when we come back. | ||
| Stay with us, folks. | ||
| All right, folks, it's an exciting day in America. | ||
| Triple hearings happening, confirmation hearings of RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, And Kash Patel, all happening at once. | ||
| We're jumping from one to the other, giving you the best highlights as they arrive. | ||
| Tulsi Gabbard is being asked about Edward Snowden. | ||
| Let's hear what she has to say. | ||
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And if you're going to review all. | |
| You consistently praise the actions of Edward Snowden. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| Some who, I believe, jeopardized the security of our nation and then, in order to flaunt that, fled to Russia. | ||
| You even called Edward Snowden, I quote here, a brave whistleblower. | ||
| Every member of this committee supports the rights of legal whistleblowers. | ||
| But Edward Snowden isn't a whistleblower. | ||
| And in this case, I'm a lot closer to the chairman's words where he said Snowden is, quote, an egotistical, serial liar and traitor who, quote, deserves to rot. | ||
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Mr. Vice Chairman, Edward Snowden broke the law. | |
| I do not agree with or support with all of the information and intelligence that he released, nor the way in which he did it. | ||
| There would have been opportunities for him to come to you on this committee or seek out the IG to release that information. | ||
| The fact is he also, even as he broke the law, released information that exposed egregious, illegal, and unconstitutional programs that are happening within our government that led to serious reforms that Congress undertook. | ||
| Chairman, we've got five minutes. | ||
| That was a good answer. | ||
| Your answer, and these are your quotes. | ||
| Brave. | ||
| Please join my bipartisan legislation calling for charges to be dropped against him. | ||
| Do you disagree that legislation was not appropriate? | ||
| Do you believe he is brave or not? | ||
| Back those words. | ||
| Once again, Senator, Edward Snowden broke the law. | ||
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He also released information that exposed the United States government's illegal programs. | |
| She's great. | ||
| She just keeps talking when they try to talk over her. | ||
| Yes or no, please. | ||
| I'm making myself very clear. | ||
| Edward Snowden broke the law. | ||
| He released information about the United States government's illegal activity. | ||
| Look how they're still acting with Edward Snowden. | ||
| Look how they're still trying to, you know, go after and destroy him. | ||
| Are you going to tell me he was wrong to think that maybe becoming a whistleblower through legal avenues would have been a bad idea? | ||
| That probably we would have never heard his name or about his information if he chose to be a whistleblower through Congress. | ||
| Congress themselves are sitting here going, he deserves to rot in jail for the rest of his life. | ||
| He's a coward and a traitor. | ||
| You think they would have been more amenable if he'd come to them instead of going to Russia? | ||
| No. | ||
| They're mad that he released the information about how America was spying on everyone all of the time. | ||
| That's what they're actually mad about. | ||
| What they're doing now is proving he was right not to try to go through them to be a whistleblower, and instead he was forced to seek shelter in Russia. | ||
| They're like, he's egotistical. | ||
| It's like, really? | ||
| Is he a big celebrity now? | ||
| Does he have a big podcast? | ||
| I mean, he released his stuff, and then he sort of went away. | ||
| I mean, you hear him crop up every once in a while to make statements, but nothing about Edward Snowden has made me think that he is doing this for his own ego or... | ||
| You know, his own self-aggrandizement, nothing to be farther from the truth. | ||
| Again, this is amazing because it's just destroying the false dichotomy. | ||
| It is showing how clearly aligned the Democrats and Republicans are on key issues of national security and constitutional limitations, on the ability of our government to spy on us. | ||
| They're all on the same side, and the people that Trump is appointing are not on their side and are actually completely against them. | ||
| It is extremely interesting that we have two Hindus. | ||
| Hindis? | ||
| I don't know, they were using different words up there today. | ||
| That's just, I don't know, sort of a unique and bizarre situation. | ||
| But I'm glad that Tulsi Gabbard is talking about the religious implications happening right now. | ||
| We have a very interesting comment from Kash Patel on the other side. | ||
| We have to go to a 60-second commercial break, but we'll be back with Kash Patel talking about some of the racism he's received. | ||
| So stay tuned for that. | ||
| Very interesting words flying in the Senate chambers today. | ||
| And we'll be back with more coverage on the other side. | ||
| Don't go anywhere. | ||
| Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. | ||
| This is the American Journal. | ||
| We are operating as the red zone broadcast for the committee hearings today. | ||
| Tulsi Gabbard, Cash Patel, and RFK Jr. We're going to go to Cash Patel here in just a second. | ||
| Before we do that, I do want to talk about why it's important right now that the FBI have a total... | ||
| Change in leadership to bring about a A complete holistic reformation of that entire administration, that entire bureaucracy. | ||
| From Clown World, the FBI is broken, and 50-plus retired FBI agents are standing up to say Kash Patel is the leader. | ||
| We need to fix it. | ||
| His experience as a public defender, prosecutor, and national security official makes him the right choice to restore trust and integrity. | ||
| It's time for new leadership that prioritizes justice over politics. | ||
| The Senate must confirm Kash Patel. | ||
| America's safety depends on it. | ||
| So you've got dozens of former FBI agents. | ||
| Who have experienced the rot of the FBI from within saying this is a necessary thing to happen. | ||
| We have to have major reformation in this bureau. | ||
| At the same time, you've got people trying to break into the Capitol with Molotov cocktails to assassinate Trump appointees inspired by Luigi Mangione. | ||
| In this case, a trans woman, the trans terror threat is out of control. | ||
| You've got people lighting fires all over the country. | ||
| Just now, three wildfires have cropped up in the area of North Carolina that were hit by the hurricane. | ||
| Almost certainly the actions of Antifa aligned terrorists, basically arsonists setting these fires across the country. | ||
| And by the way, it might seem like the radical left has sort of gone quiet ever since the election. | ||
| The truth is they've gone underground and they are systematically planning a lot of very devastating attacks against the United States. | ||
| Parts of this have cropped up on our broadcast and elsewhere. | ||
| We're going to do a full breakdown of it tonight on Moonbase Live because we actually have people infiltrating these groups and finding out their plans from the inside. | ||
| And we'll be talking about that. | ||
| But now is like a very crucial time for the FBI to actually be... | ||
| Identifying and going after the terrorist groups that are working to undermine and destroy America from within. | ||
| This is not a time to treat them with kid gloves or have an FBI that's distracted going after anti-abortion activists sitting on the ground outside of abortion clinics. | ||
| So this hearing of Kash Patel really is going to set the stage for what happens in America for the next several years, whether we have an FBI going after the actual highly coordinated, well-funded terrorist networks working in our major cities or whether it's going to continue to try to entrap innocent well-funded terrorist networks working in our major cities or whether it's going to continue to try to entrap innocent Trump supporters into bizarre kidnapping hoaxes so they can boost their | ||
| Here's Kash Patel asking about racism he's experienced in America. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
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We'll eventually talk about the FBI. That's the job you're up here for, right? | |
| Have you ever been subject to racism as an individual? | ||
| Fortunately, Senator, yes. | ||
| I want to get into those details with my family here. | ||
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Let's get into a few of them. | |
| Tell me about it. | ||
| Well, if you look at the record from January 6th, where I testified before that committee, Because of my personal information being released by Congress, I was subjected to a direct and significant threat on my life. | ||
| And I put that information in the record. | ||
| I had to move. | ||
| In that threat, I was called a detestable, and I apologize if I don't get it all right, but it's in the record, a detestable sand nigger who had no right being in this country. | ||
| You should go back to where you came from. | ||
| You belong with your terrorist home friends. | ||
| That's what was sent to me. | ||
| That's just a piece of it. | ||
| But that's nothing compared to what the men and women in law enforcement face every day. | ||
| And that's why they have my support. | ||
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Growing up, were you subject to racism? | |
| Wow, okay. | ||
| Never expected to hear something like that on the Senate floor. | ||
| That's pretty wild. | ||
| We go now, we jump over to the RFK hearing where Senator Mullen is talking about vaccines. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
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I just want to point out, I don't understand why my colleagues all of a sudden say we can't question science. | |
| It absolutely blows my mind that all of a sudden... | ||
| It's such shame that Bobby's sitting up here where he's questioning science, because I guarantee you, if he was sitting here and he was going to be the Secretary of HHS underneath the former President Biden, which I enjoy saying former president, I would bet you that you guys would have his back 100% and enjoy the fact that he's questioning science. | ||
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And would probably support his positions 100%, but because he's now on the Republican side, you guys are like, went way off the rail. | |
| And how dare he question science? | ||
| My God, if we didn't question science, where would we be today? | ||
| We've always questioned science. | ||
| Science is always evolving and overchanging. | ||
| Have a glass of wine today. | ||
| It's healthy for you. | ||
| Don't have a glass of wine today. | ||
| Have a piece of chocolate today. | ||
| It's healthy for you. | ||
| Dark chocolate is healthy for you. | ||
| Take an aspirin today as Senator Rand Paul pulled out. | ||
| I mean, where would we be today if we didn't ever question science? | ||
| But I will say there's an issue that I have as a father of six that when my kids come out from getting their vaccines, they look like a freaking pincushion. | ||
| I mean, 72 vaccinations? | ||
| I think there's a reason we should be questioning this. | ||
| When you start looking at the rise of autism, why wouldn't we be looking at everything? | ||
| Who wouldn't want to look at everything? | ||
| Give me anybody in this room that doesn't know somebody that you're personally connected to that one of their children doesn't suffer from some severity of autism. | ||
| Give me one. | ||
| And you guys are all saying that Bobby can't question it? | ||
| I don't get it, guys. | ||
| I don't understand your point, other than the fact you just oppose him because he supports a president that you guys don't like now. | ||
| I applaud him for going into this situation and saying, let's question something. | ||
| The definition of insanity is doing the same thing, expecting different results. | ||
| Is it not true that you're supposed to question science? | ||
| Is anybody going to question the fact that that's not true? | ||
| Bobby, share the numbers again with me about autism. | ||
| Were they at when you was a child to where they're at today as my kids are children? | ||
| There weren't a lot of studies when I was a kid, but the best studies, and really the only studies out there, there are two studies. | ||
| One shows a rate of about 1 in 10,000, another about 1 in 1,500. | ||
| And then, you know, there are other estimates in between. | ||
| Today, it is one in every 36 kids, according to CDC. I want to say one other thing. | ||
| Relevant to the point you just made, in 1963, my uncle awarded John F. Kennedy the highest civilian honor to Francis Kelsey. | ||
| Francis Kelsey was a young scientist at NIH. Who came in and objected to the panel having approved thalidomide for American children. | ||
| All the scientists that day, they were doing it in Europe, all the scientists that day and the scientific panels that worked for the agency approved green-lighted thalidomide. | ||
| She stood up and screamed and fought and risked her job and risked her reputation and she blocked it in our country three years later. | ||
| Everybody knew, recognized that she was a hero and a savior of our children because we were not getting the kind of terrible, diabolical deformities as they were experiencing in Europe. | ||
| My uncle gave her the highest civilian honor because she questioned science and was courageous enough to stand up and say, I don't care what happens to me, this cannot happen. | ||
| Irony is that she was a Democrat at that time and she questioned science. | ||
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For Republicans, you're not allowed to question science. | |
| People have been noticing that the appointees, the Trump appointees that the Democrats most viscerally hate and are so against are all the former Democrats. | ||
| They're, for some reason, a lot more angry at Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr. than they seem to be against Besant or any of the other Republican appointees. | ||
| And that actually makes perfect sense. | ||
| Cult members hate people who leave the cult. | ||
| That's a very common thing. | ||
| I mean, cult members might not really like people who aren't in the cult, but if you're in the cult and you leave, you're like dead to them and they're going to hate you and want to destroy you to make everybody else in the cult think, gee, I better not leave or else I'm really the bad guy at that point. | ||
| So that's not actually out of the ordinary. | ||
| It's actually totally what you would expect with the cultish behavior of the Democrats. | ||
| But this is just amazing. | ||
| The RFK. Hearing has basically just become an anti-vax symposium. | ||
| It's pretty incredible. | ||
| Talking about questioning science. | ||
| You're not allowed to question science over and over. | ||
| Just pointing out the hypocrisy of the Democrats. | ||
| Just absolute insanity. | ||
| Talking about 72 vaccines. | ||
| Like, what the hell is this? | ||
| Why are we giving this to our babies? | ||
| Again, it just reemphasizes the importance of... | ||
| Why we actually have the governmental system that we do. | ||
| All of the people that are unelected are all the ones telling you, you're not allowed to question science. | ||
| I'm the one in charge. | ||
| I'm the expert. | ||
| I tell you and you obey. | ||
| It's the people that are elected who are sitting there going, look, I don't understand, but I don't like you or trust you and I'm not doing what you say. | ||
| So let's start with that. | ||
| Let's have that as a baseline. | ||
| Now you reason to me why you want me to do this and I'll tell you whether or not I'm going along with it. | ||
| This is why I'm a Republican. | ||
| This is why I am a small r Republican by ideology. | ||
| This is the power of the American system at work. | ||
| Where are we going now? | ||
| You said Crossfire? | ||
| Kash Patel? | ||
| Kash Patel on Crossfire Hurricane. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
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Are you familiar with this memo by the... | |
| Foreign Intelligence Service Act abuses the Department of Justice. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
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Did you help write this memo? | |
| I did as a staffer. | ||
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Okay, I'll put this into the record. | |
| Thank you. | ||
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In this memo, you kind of dissected the abuses of Crossfire Hurricane, right? | |
| I did, Senator. | ||
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And the Mueller investigation. | |
| So the Crossfire Hurricane investigators, two of them were Strzok and Page. | ||
| Are you familiar with them? | ||
| I am, Senator. | ||
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Okay. | |
| It was opened up on July of the... | ||
| 31st, 2016. And here's what Strzok said. | ||
| And damn, this feels momentous because this matters. | ||
| The other one did too. | ||
| But that was to ensure we didn't F something up. | ||
| This matters because this matters. | ||
| So super glad to be on this voyage with you. | ||
| That's to Page. | ||
| And Page responds a couple of months later. | ||
| He's not ever going to be perished at right, talking about Trump. | ||
| Strzok, no, no he won't. | ||
| We'll stop it. | ||
| Is it fair to say that the people in charge of investigating Crossfire Hurricane hated Trump's guts? | ||
| Well, you don't have to take my word for it. | ||
| That statement along with the statements from the sources. | ||
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Are those days over in the FBI, you hope? | |
| Well, if they're not, they will be. | ||
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Okay, good. | |
| You know who Carter Page was? | ||
| I do, Senator. | ||
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Do you know that the FBI secured warrants against him on four different occasions? | |
| Yes, Senator. | ||
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Do you know that the information that relied upon came from the Steele dossier? | |
| I do. | ||
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Was it you that were able to find out that the Steele dossier was a bunch of crap? | |
| Yes, Senator. | ||
| We followed the money and we exposed the fraud that was the Steele dossier. | ||
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And the primary subsource was ignore... | |
| Danchenko, right? | ||
| That's correct, Senator. | ||
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And he was actually a Russian analyst. | |
| That's right. | ||
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Are you aware that in January he told the FBI... Okay, this is wild. | |
| We've got to go to RFK Jr. here in just a second. | ||
| I see Tim Kaine. | ||
| Senator Tim Kaine is asking him about a tweet about 9-11. | ||
| So we've got to go to that. | ||
| Again, we're monitoring all three of these. | ||
| The crew's in the back listening to all three and feeding us which one's most interesting at the time. | ||
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I mean, this is wild. | |
| All three... | ||
| Have basically turned into Infowars broadcast. | ||
| Do you understand what's happening right now? | ||
| Do you understand that the RFK Jr. hearing has descended into anti-vaccine diatribes? | ||
| Tulsi Gabbard is laying out... | ||
| Point by point, the number of lies the intelligence community has fed to the American people, getting us into wars and destroying people's lives. | ||
| And now you've got Kash Patel and Lindsey Graham going back and forth about Crossfire Hurricane and the insurance policy to keep Trump out of office. | ||
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I mean, this is awesome. | |
| I don't even care if they get appointed at this point. | ||
| We are watching three Senate committees simultaneously. | ||
| Taking sledgehammers to the lies and disinformation and conspiracies that have roiled this country and kept us in a state of abject suppression by the intelligence communities. | ||
| This is mind-blowing, folks. | ||
| I can't even believe what I'm seeing right now. | ||
| One after another, these committee hearings are... | ||
| Descending into just InfoWars broadcast. | ||
| This is crazy. | ||
| And by the way, apparently Trump will now be giving a live press conference about the tragedy, the plane crash yesterday shortly. | ||
| So we may have to throw a third feed into this cacophony that we're experiencing. | ||
| Fourth, yeah, let's go into, let's go to RFK Jr. now, because I see Tim Kaine is questioning him, just looking like a disheveled weirdo. | ||
| Now, Kaine, was he... | ||
| Was he the vice president candidate this time, or he was with Hillary? | ||
| Okay, all right. | ||
| Yeah, I can't remember because they're forgettable portly white dudes. | ||
| Let's go to Tim Kaine questioning RFK Jr. about 9-11, I guess. | ||
| What are they talking about? | ||
| Let's see. | ||
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Just a couple of months ago, you posted this on your X account. | |
| On 9-11, it's hard to tell. | ||
| What is conspiracy theory and what isn't? | ||
| I'd like to introduce that for the record, Mr. Chair. | ||
| Oh, my God. | ||
| If they start talking about dancing Israelis, I'm leaving. | ||
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We take that kind of stuff pretty personally. | |
| Virginians know what happened on 9-11. | ||
| Oh, do you? | ||
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We don't need folks given oxygen to conspiracy theories about 9-11. | |
| Now, one thing I noticed about this post is it was in July of 2024. It was 23 years after. | ||
| 9-11. | ||
| You had a lot going on in your life. | ||
| You were running for president then. | ||
| What made you decide in the midst of everything going on in this country and this world in July 2024 in your own candidacy for president? | ||
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Now was the time to say it's hard to tell what is conspiracy and what isn't about 9-11. | |
| He reads the first line, which is it's hard to tell what's conspiracy theory and what isn't. | ||
| The second line explains why he's bringing this up now, what the point of this is, why bring this up 23 years later. | ||
| It says, it's hard to tell what a conspiracy theory is and isn't, but conspiracy theories flourish when the government lies to the public. | ||
| As president, I won't take sides on 9-11 or any of these debates, but I can promise I will open the files and usher in an era of transparency. | ||
| See, it's about the relentless lies that the American people are being fed. | ||
| It's about the fact that... | ||
| People that previously would have been outraged and insulted, like Tim Kaine is pretending to be, about anybody questioning the official story of 9-11. | ||
| As we know, the U.S. government never lies. | ||
| It's absurd to even try to make that argument. | ||
| Do they know where they are now? | ||
| Do they know how far the sands have shifted under their feet? | ||
| Do they think this is 2003? | ||
| Do they think we're about to fall for another weapons of mass destruction hoax? | ||
| Have they not caught up to the fact that the last 20 years, Has been a cascade of lie after lie after lie being exposed to where at this point the lies don't last more than like a week before they just completely crumble and fall apart? | ||
| Are you forgetting that even in just the past week... | ||
| Now we've seen the CIA admit the lab leak theory, the vaccines don't work anymore, new studies showing vaccines cause autism. | ||
| It's all coming down. | ||
| All of your facade of lies are falling all around you, and you're the dog from the meme going, this is fine. | ||
| Well, you're burning to death, you idiots. | ||
| But he wants to pretend like RFK Jr. is sitting in a basement researching 9-11 conspiracies instead of running for president. | ||
| He's making a point about the... | ||
| Like suicidal dishonesty of the American government that Tim Kaine is himself, ironically, actively participating in at this very moment. | ||
| Let's go back to Tim Kaine and RFK Jr. What was so important about making this point in July of 2024? | ||
| Senator, the dramatic drop in trust in our government. | ||
| And this is particularly one of the templates of that is what happened at CDC. Yeah, no, no. | ||
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I want to move aside from that. | |
| Because you go on to say, I won't take sides. | ||
| As president, I won't take sides on 9-11. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Wow. | ||
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I won't take sides on 9-11. | |
| Let me ask you this. | ||
| As a general matter, do you find it hard to tell what is a conspiracy theory and what... | ||
| Here's the funniest part. | ||
| Here's the funniest part. | ||
| You want to know what the official story of 9-11 is? | ||
| Lean in real close, Tim. | ||
| You want to know how you would describe the official FBI-approved, CIA-approved story of 9-11? | ||
| Well, it's a theory about a couple of guys getting together in secret and planning an attack. | ||
| That's a conspiracy. | ||
| The official story is a conspiracy theory, it's just an official one. | ||
| They get confused because they use these labels to try to discredit non-official theories, but no, the official, like, what do you call it when a bunch of dudes get into the country under false pretenses, you train in secret, collaborate with each other, have back channels to overseas terrorist networks, that's them conspiring. | ||
| In a conspiracy. | ||
| And as the FBI lays out their story of how this all came about, what they're doing is describing a conspiracy theory. | ||
| So when he says it's hard to tell what the conspiracy theory is and what's the truth, the official story is, by definition, a conspiracy theory. | ||
| There's alternative theories opposed to that one, but they're all theorizing about conspiracies. | ||
| It was a secret attack with people planning it months ahead of time, one way or another. | ||
| It's just about who that person is, who those people are, and what their intentions were that we have a difference on. | ||
| It's just these people are 20 years out of date. | ||
| Their entire worldview is stuck in the era when the Simpsons was still good, okay? | ||
| This is hilarious. | ||
| Hilarious. | ||
| By the way, your side—by the way, let me just say your side in this. | ||
| We're going to go with the Democrat-Republican dichotomy here. | ||
| Spent last year— Realizing that Osama bin Laden had complaints about the United States. | ||
| They'd never thought for a second about why the attack would have happened. | ||
| And after October 7, people were spreading around the letter Osama bin Laden wrote about why he was attacking the United States and the United States activity in the Mideast. | ||
| It was the Democrats and the progressives in America that were going, gee, Osama had a point. | ||
| Hey, you know what? | ||
| Now that I think about it, we are the bad guys, and we deserve to be attacked by planes. | ||
| So hilarious that he's the one picking this up. | ||
| By the way, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., still very much a Democrat when he wrote that post. | ||
| So if that's the dichotomy that we're going with, then you are an enemy by association. | ||
| Tim Kaine, dysfunctional muppet. | ||
| Something about these dudes looking disheveled. | ||
| It's pathetic. | ||
| It really is. | ||
| We're going to go to break here in just a second. | ||
| Do we want to go somewhere else? | ||
| I mean, what are we hearing? | ||
| What are we hearing here? | ||
| All right, we're going to... | ||
| Hi, I see Ms. Klobuchar is rattling her off. | ||
| I mean, this whole thing is hilarious. | ||
| I can't believe what we're witnessing here. | ||
| The Republicans have turned these hearings into basically exposés about the lies of the federal government as the conservatives, as the... | ||
| The perception in the mainstream media delusion that they push on America is that the Republicans are the ones who, they run the FBI and they're the bad guys. | ||
| Meanwhile, the Democrats have absolutely nothing, are bringing up very reasonable posts from RFK Jr. about 9-11 being a symptom of government mistrust. | ||
| But basically, it's broken down now into Republicans going, Yeah, you know, I really never thought about it before, but vaccines probably do cause autism. | ||
| And why are we giving babies HPV vaccines two minutes after they're born? | ||
| That doesn't make any sense. | ||
| And, gee, Tulsi, can you go over again the list of lies that have killed tens of thousands of people spread by the very organizations that are trying to censor Americans? | ||
| And, you know, Kash Patel, why don't you walk us through what QAnon says and how that differs from your beliefs while the Democrats are saying they're just going, stop questioning things! | ||
| Stop questioning. | ||
| You stop questioning science. | ||
| You stop questioning the intelligence agencies. | ||
| You stop questioning the mainstream media. | ||
| Just stop it. | ||
| Stop questioning anything ever. | ||
| Just silence. | ||
| Just be quiet and let us be in control still. | ||
| This whole thing is just, it's hilarious. | ||
| Their entire paradigm is collapsed. | ||
| This is like mind-blowing stuff. | ||
| And I just want to revel in it. | ||
| I just want to revel in the victory that this represents for InfoWars, for the conspiracy theorists out there, for all of us that have been hammering this information out tirelessly for decades. | ||
| This is like unfettered victory across the board. | ||
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| Stay with us, folks. | ||
| Welcome back, folks. | ||
| Man, a very exciting day. | ||
| On Capitol Hill today and in America, we've got Trump actually giving a press conference about the plane crash yesterday. | ||
| We're going to go to that in a second. | ||
| We've got Tulsi Gabbard squaring off against Mark Warner. | ||
| I want to show you that clip as well as Kash Patel getting into it with Amy Klobuchar. | ||
| A lot still to cover in this final segment of the American Journal. | ||
| Our live coverage will continue with Alex Jones at 11 a.m. | ||
| But let me take a brief moment here. | ||
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| But a very happy birthday to my grandmother, who I hope lives many, many, many more years into the future and gets to welcome many more grandchildren into this world. | ||
| With that, we go now from a very happy segment right there to the tragedy yesterday, the plane crash. | ||
| Donald Trump is giving a statement right now. | ||
| We go to Donald Trump, the White House right now. | ||
| White House press briefing room where Donald Trump is giving an update as to the investigation into the tragic crash of the American Airlines flight and the Black Hawk helicopter in Washington, D.C. yesterday. | ||
| Here it is. | ||
| Again, if you haven't heard, they're not expecting to find any survivors, something like 68 people involved in these crashes. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| I speak to you this morning in an hour of anguish for a nation. | ||
| Just before 9 p.m. | ||
| last night, an American Airlines regional jet, 60 passengers and four crew. | ||
| Collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter carrying three military service members over the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., while on final approach to Reagan National Airport. | ||
| Both aircraft crashed instantly and were immediately submerged into the icy waters of the Potomac. | ||
| Real tragedy. | ||
| The massive search and rescue mission was underway throughout the night. | ||
| Leveraging every asset at our disposal, and I have to say the local, state, federal, military, including the United States Coast Guard in particular, they've done a phenomenal job. | ||
| So quick, so fast, it was mobilized immediately. | ||
| The work has now shifted to a recovery mission. | ||
| Sadly, there are no survivors. | ||
| This was a dark and excruciating night in our nation's capital and in our nation's history, and a tragedy of terrible proportions. | ||
| As one nation, we grieve for every precious soul that has been taken from us so suddenly. | ||
| And we are a country of, really, we are in mourning. | ||
| This is really shaking a lot of people, including people, very sadly, from other nations who were on the flight. | ||
| For the family members back in Wichita, Kansas, here in Washington, D.C., and throughout the United States, and in Russia, we have a Russia contingent, some very talented people. | ||
| Unfortunately, we're on that plane. | ||
| Very, very, very sorry about that. | ||
| Whose loved ones were aboard the passenger jet, we can only begin to imagine the agony that you're all feeling. | ||
| Nothing worse. | ||
| On behalf of the First Lady, myself, and 340 million Americans, our hearts are shattered alongside yours, and our prayers are with you now. | ||
| And in the days to come, we'll be working very, very diligently in the days to come. | ||
| We're here for you to wipe away the tears and to offer you our devotion, our love, and our support. | ||
| There's great support. | ||
| In moments like this, the... | ||
| Differences between Americans fade to nothing compared to the bonds of affection and loyalty that unite us all, both as Americans and even as nations. | ||
| We are one family, and today we are all heartbroken. | ||
| We're all searching for answers. | ||
| That icy, icy Potomac. | ||
| It was a cold, cold night, cold water. | ||
| We're all overcome with the grief for many who have so tragically perished, will no longer be with us. | ||
| Together we take solace in the knowledge that their journey ended not in the cold waters of the Potomac, but in the warm embrace of a loving God. | ||
| We do not know what led to this crash, but we have some very strong opinions and ideas, and I think we'll probably state those opinions now. | ||
| Because over the years, I've watched as things like this happen, and they say, well, we're always investigating, and then the investigation three years later, they announce it. | ||
| We think we have some pretty good ideas. | ||
| Here it goes, folks. | ||
| We'll find out how this disaster occurred, and we'll ensure that nothing like this ever happens again. | ||
| The FAA and the NTSB and the U.S. military will be carrying out a systematic and comprehensive investigation. | ||
| Our new Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, His second day on the job, when that happened, it's a rough one. | ||
| We'll be working tirelessly. | ||
| He's a great gentleman. | ||
| The whole group, these are great people. | ||
| And they are working tirelessly to figure out exactly what happened. | ||
| We will state certain opinions, however. | ||
| I'm also immediately appointing an acting commissioner to the FAA, Christopher Rochelieu. | ||
| A 22-year veteran of the agency, highly respected. | ||
| Christopher, thank you very much. | ||
| Appreciate it. | ||
| We must have only the highest standards for those who work in our aviation system. | ||
| I changed the Obama standards from very mediocre at best to extraordinary. | ||
| You remember that. | ||
| Only the highest aptitude. | ||
| They have to be the highest intellect. | ||
| And psychologically superior people were allowed to qualify for air traffic controllers. | ||
| That was not so prior to getting there when I arrived in 2016. I made that change very early on because I always felt this was a job that, and other jobs too, but this was a job that had to be superior intelligence. | ||
| And we didn't really have that, and we had it. | ||
| And then when I left office, And Biden took over. | ||
| He changed them back to lower than ever before. | ||
| I put safety first. | ||
| Obama, Biden and the Democrats put policy first. | ||
| And they put politics at a level that nobody's ever seen because this was the lowest level. | ||
| Their policy was horrible and their politics was even worse. | ||
| So, as you know, last week, long before the crash, I signed an executive order restoring our highest standards for air traffic controllers and other important jobs throughout the country. | ||
| So it was very interesting. | ||
| About a week ago, almost upon entering office, I signed something last week that was an executive order very powerful on restoring the highest standards of air traffic controllers and others, by the way. | ||
| Then my administration will set the highest possible bar for aviation safety. | ||
| We have to have our smartest people. | ||
| It doesn't matter what they look like, how they speak, who they are. | ||
| It matters intellect, talent, the word talent. | ||
| You have to be talented, naturally talented geniuses. | ||
| You can't have regular people doing that job. | ||
| They won't be able to do it. | ||
| But we'll restore faith in American air travel. | ||
| I'll have more to say about that. | ||
| I do want to... | ||
| Point out that various articles that appeared prior to my entering office. | ||
| And here's one. | ||
| The FAA's diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. | ||
| That is amazing. | ||
| And then it says FAA says people with severe disabilities are most underrepresented segment of the workforce and they want them in and they want them, they can be air traffic controllers. | ||
| I don't think so. | ||
| This was in January 14th, so that was a week before I entered office. | ||
| They put a big push to put diversity into the FAA's program. | ||
| This is amazing. | ||
| Donald Trump is having DEI for the crash yesterday. | ||
| This was before I got to office. | ||
| Recently, second term, the FAA is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems, and other mental and physical conditions under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out on the agency's website. | ||
| Can you imagine? | ||
| These are people that are, I mean, actually, their lives are shortened because of the stress that they have. | ||
| Brilliant people have to be in those positions, and their lives are actually shortened. | ||
| Again, I can't even believe what we're witnessing here. | ||
| Not only are all three committee meetings and confirmation hearings basically turning into Infowars broadcasts about various topics like the intelligence agency, conspiracies, and vaccines. | ||
| Donald Trump is blaming DEI for the crash yesterday. | ||
| I just retweeted a thread. | ||
| We've talked about this. | ||
| Endlessly. | ||
| The FAA and the government organizations responsible for this systematically removed qualification requirements for air traffic controllers. | ||
| Patrick Casey put this together at Restore Order USA, but there's tons of articles and videos about this. | ||
| It is absolutely on purpose that this happened. | ||
| They implemented DEI policies to hire air traffic controllers, as we've said a million times. | ||
| It's one thing if you want to hire DEI for people working at Wendy's. | ||
| I'm still against it, but it's very low stakes. | ||
| When you have DEI, a part of making decisions as to who to hire when it comes to healthcare and the military and air traffic controllers, you are playing with our lives. | ||
| And you are putting us all at mortal risk to meet your communistic and arbitrary equality goals. | ||
| It's horrifying this has gone on. | ||
| Thank God Trump is back in office and is going to set these things right. | ||
| I can't believe what I'm saying. | ||
| It's like this is a miracle. | ||
| I want to keep listening to Trump, but we got bombshell videos and clips coming out of these hearings. | ||
| Let's go first to Kash Patel being grilled by Amy Klobuchar. | ||
| It gets a little heated. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
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Do you think people would be applying to that agency, like in those numbers, if they thought it was so corrupt? | |
| The American public's trust in it is at 40%. | ||
| That's an all-time low. | ||
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Did you say that the FBI headquarters should be shut down and reopened as a museum of the deep state? | |
| Mr. Chairman, are we allowed to go on extra time? | ||
| Let's see. | ||
| You get a second round. | ||
| Before I call on Senator Lee... | ||
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Could he just answer the question if he said that the FBI headquarters, where they investigate cybercrime and terrorism, should be shut down and open as a deep state, as a museum? | |
| Did he say that the headquarters should be shut down? | ||
| I deserve an answer to that question. | ||
| He is asking to be head of the FBI, and he said that their headquarters should be shut down. | ||
| Mr. Chair, parliamentary inquiry. | ||
| You got anything you want to say, Mr. Patel, before I go on to Senator Lee? | ||
| Simply this. | ||
| If the best attacks on me are going to be false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations, the only thing this body is doing is defeating the credibility of the men and women at the FBI. I stood with them here in this country. | ||
| In every theater of war we have, I was on the ground in service of this nation. | ||
| And any... | ||
| Accusations leveled against me that I would somehow put political bias before the Constitution are grotesquely unfair. | ||
| And I will have you reminded that I have been endorsed by over 300,000 law enforcement officers to become the next director of the FBI. Let's ask them. | ||
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Mr. Chairman, I am quoting his own words from September of 2024. It is his own words. | |
| She's being gaveled down now. | ||
| She had to be gaveled down and she's still talking. | ||
| Ugh! | ||
| Just enough! | ||
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Enough! | |
| Okay. | ||
| We're moving on. | ||
| We're moving on. | ||
| Let's go. | ||
| I'm telling you. | ||
| Oh, man. | ||
| These people, man. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| Liberal women. | ||
| Liberal women, good lord. | ||
| You can see why Tulsi Gabbard's like, I don't want to, it's like Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, who are the other ones? | ||
| A meme was going around yesterday that's like, yeah, the fate of Western civilization depends on men willing to stand up against the hectoring of liberal women. | ||
| And there's all these images of like Pete Hegseth and... | ||
| RFK Jr. and all with this face of just like, ugh, come on. | ||
| Yeah, the crew found it. | ||
| The future of America depends on how many men are willing to scoff at the shrieks of hysterical liberal women. | ||
| Add her to the chart. | ||
| Add Amy Klobuchar to the chart with Kash Patel. | ||
| Enough. | ||
| Enough shrieking, you harpies. | ||
| It's not even about there being women. | ||
| It's just, is it though? | ||
| But is it? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| We don't know. | ||
| But it makes sense why Tulsi Gabbard, a beautiful, powerful woman, would want nothing to do with the liberals, which is probably part of why she came over to the MAGA side. | ||
| Let's watch a real woman talk now, shall we? | ||
| Tulsi Gabbard. | ||
| I know other members are going to raise this. | ||
| Remember, 702 is critical to our national security, 60% of the president's daily brief, 60% of the information President Trump gets every day in the PDB will come from this. | ||
| You've had a long history of opposing 702. Many members of Congress have. | ||
| But one of the things you've actually done that not many have is not to reform it, but you actually said you wanted to repeal it. | ||
| But now, whether it's confirmation conversion or whatever, you call 702 vital. | ||
| And I'm quoting, because of significant Pfizer reforms have been enacted since you left Congress. | ||
| Ms. Gabbard, what are the reforms that have led you to now support 702? | ||
| In the short time that I have, Senator, I will just note that my actions in legislation in Congress were done to draw attention to the egregious civil liberties violations that were occurring at that time. | ||
| Ms. Gabbard, you said— Ms. Gabbard, I ask you a question. | ||
| Please give me the courtesy of responding. | ||
| You said the reforms— So it's not a woman thing. | ||
| It's a liberal thing. | ||
| I think we're learning this. | ||
| In April of 24, you went on Joe Rogan's podcast. | ||
| My God, he's like, let me ask you a question and you answer it. | ||
| And she's like, okay, the reforms I support are. | ||
| And he's like, shut up, stop! | ||
| This bill took an already bad problem. | ||
| So this is hilarious. | ||
| So now we're going to add to that meme of all of the liberal women shrieking. | ||
| It's going to be flipped and it's going to be like J.D. Vance, Pete Hegseth, RFK Jr., Cash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard with Mike Warner playing the part of the hysterical shrieking liberal woman. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| Interesting. | ||
| We're breaking new ground. | ||
| We're gender equal here. | ||
| This is all very fascinating. | ||
| Yeah, he's... | ||
| Answer the question, ma'am. | ||
| Okay, I'm moving on. | ||
| They're flailing. | ||
| They're desperate. | ||
| This whole day has been just bombshell after bombshell. | ||
| Pete Hegseth also now giving a press conference, by the way. | ||
| I don't know if it's the same one that Trump is in, but he reaffirming... | ||
| The fact that DEI was probably responsible for the failure yesterday that led to the tragic crash and promising to remove DEI requirements and get back to just hiring the best people for the job because your lives literally depend on it. | ||
| We're going to go now to RFK Jr. Again, we're jumping from one hearing to the next in this Red Zone coverage. | ||
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| I mean, we are literally covering our victory parade right now. | ||
| We are covering as... | ||
| Committee hearings and press conferences reflect what we have been desperately trying to get out for. | ||
| I don't know how many times I've talked about air traffic controllers and DEI. Hundreds, dozens at least, over the last four or five years that we've done this show. | ||
| I don't know how many times we've talked about vaccines and autism, questioning the science, the lies of the FBI. I mean, it's like, it's just crazy. | ||
| It is crazy. | ||
| And the craziest thing is to imagine there are people out there today watching these hearings. | ||
| Who've never heard of this stuff. | ||
| They're listening to these hearings, and they actually think that there's no connection between autism and vaccines. | ||
| They think there's no... | ||
| Your problem with the FBI launching Crossfire Hurricane. | ||
| We still have a lot to do, folks. | ||
| We are committed to doing the work necessary to save this country. | ||
| We're already having incredible impact and victory. | ||
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| Let's go now to our final clip. | ||
| RFK Jr. being grilled about autism and its connection to vaccines. | ||
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That I am the proud mother of a 36-year-old young man with severe cerebral palsy. | |
| And the day does not go by when I don't think about what did I do when I was pregnant with him that might have caused the hydrocephalus that has so impacted his life. | ||
| So please do not suggest that anybody in this body of either political party doesn't want to know what the cause of autism is. | ||
| Do you know how many friends I have with children who have autism? | ||
| The problem with this witness's response on the autism cause and the relationship to vaccines is because he's re-litigating and churning settled science so we can't go forward and find out what the cause of autism is. | ||
| That was, oh man. | ||
| Okay, first of all, anybody holding back tears should not be in a lawmaker position when you're talking about your own vaccine. | ||
| Now, it's also hilarious to me when people, she's like, what did I do when I was pregnant? | ||
| Like, yeah, that's tragic. | ||
| Your kid has a birth defect and you blame yourself. | ||
| I'm not throwing shade at anybody out there. | ||
| I'm throwing shade at this crazy woman. | ||
| OK, because how many times have you seen pregnant women? | ||
| They won't eat sushi. | ||
| They're not going to touch luncheon, luncheon meats, raw milk. | ||
| That's right out of the question. | ||
| Like they're so hyper vigilant about what they put in their bodies while they're pregnant. | ||
| Then the minute they're out, they're like, yeah, mercury, aluminum. | ||
| Yeah, inject them full of a couple milligrams of HPV vaccine, live virus, retarded genes. | ||
| Just like, yeah, fill them up, inject them with it immediately. | ||
| It's crazy. | ||
| It's crazy to to compare the. | ||
| The care with which pregnant women monitor what goes into their bodies compared to the flippancy with which they treat babies literally one minute outside of the womb. | ||
| And you're just jamming needles into their arms and injecting them vitamin K and whatever on their eyes. | ||
| I mean, it's just, it's crazy to me. | ||
| And then this woman, it's like, I can't even imagine what's going on in her mind. | ||
| She's sitting here like, wow, my kid has autism. | ||
| What could be causing that? | ||
| And RFK Jr. is like, well, you know, vaccines could. | ||
| She's just like, shut up! | ||
| No! | ||
| No, you're not allowed to answer my question. | ||
| How dare you actually provide me a reasonable reason that means it was my fault because I gave him the vaccines? | ||
| Give me an answer where it's not my fault. | ||
| Give me an answer where I didn't do something wrong. | ||
| If she actually cared, then she would consider all possibilities. | ||
| If she actually wanted an answer... | ||
| Then she would consider the ones lying on a plate right in front of her. | ||
| There's something so despicable about people crying crocodile tears and pretending to care so much about an issue while simultaneously with those tears and with that false emotion suppressing the actual answer to her question. | ||
| My God. | ||
| Add her to the compilation. | ||
| Add her to the montage. | ||
| We have another hysterical, shrieking, emotional, dumbass woman on the Democratic side. | ||
| Rack them up. | ||
| We're racking them up one after another. | ||
| We will defeat these people. | ||
| We will win. | ||
| We are winning. | ||
| This is, I'm sorry to get so angry here at the end of the show. | ||
| Emotions are running high. | ||
| We're achieving victory. | ||
| We are winning on all fronts. | ||
| This is a banner day for InfoWars and for the movement for human freedom. | ||
| RFK Jr., Cash Patel, Tulsi Gabbard, their fates are in the hands of the Republicans now. | ||
| Have they learned their lessons of the last few years, or are they on the side of these freaking people? | ||
| It's up to them. | ||
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