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| U.S. Senator Mark Kelly just keeps stepping in it. | ||
| My concern is with the service members that we're going to put these individuals in a really, really tough decision, in a tough place. | ||
| And, you know, they may find out down the road that they did something that is illegal. | ||
| It is not fair to them. | ||
| That's why we need presidents and secretary of defense who understand the Constitution, who understand the rule of law, and have more respect for the Constitution and the country and service members than the whims of a president. | ||
| They're following unlawful commands from Donald Trump. | ||
| And if you're committing offenses and your defense is going to be, I was just following orders. | ||
| You know, that didn't work out so well at Nuremberg. | ||
| It certainly didn't work out so well for Lieutenant Calli when he, you know, engaged in mass murder, the Mili massacre. | ||
| Someday when the rule of law comes back into the light of day, we'll have to be tackled. | ||
| They'll have to be held accountable for those abuses. | ||
| When you and your colleagues made that video, were there specific potentially illegal orders that you were thinking about that were the sort of precipitating cause for you guys to get together and do that? | ||
| You don't want to wait for your kid to get hit by a car before you tell them to look both ways. | ||
| The Pentagon confirmed to multiple outlets that the video is under review by the Office of the General Counsel to determine whether it constitutes improper interference with military discipline. | ||
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You can't have a functioning military if there is disorder and chaos within the ranks. | |
| And that's what these Democrat members were encouraging. | ||
| It's very clear. | ||
| Regardless, Kelly keeps sticking his foot in his mouth. | ||
| You mentioned that you were a captain in the Navy. | ||
| If you received that order, would you have carried it out? | ||
| No. | ||
| Kelly's pre-Senate business history has resurfaced amid heightened scrutiny of Chinese influence in U.S. technology. | ||
| From 2013 to 2020, Kelly co-founded and served as a board member of Worldview Enterprises, a Tucson-based company that develops high-altitude stratospheric balloons originally marketed for commercial and research purposes. | ||
| In 2013 and again in 2016, Worldview accepted investments from Tencent Holdings, the Chinese tech giant closely tied to the Chinese Communist Party and subject to national security laws requiring data cooperation with Beijing. | ||
| Tencent's WeChat platform has been cited by U.S. officials as a tool for censorship and surveillance. | ||
| The facts are China has put a lot of money into high-altitude balloons for what you call satellite arrays, surveillance arrays, but more importantly, communication systems. | ||
| But they've also put a lot of money in to deliver an electromagnetic pulse weapon that's detonated and powered by an atomic or hydrogen bomb going off. | ||
| It's estimated that a 40-megaton bomb, that's a medium-sized bomb, would knock out large portions of the United States. | ||
| It was detonated around 80,000 feet in the right conditions. | ||
| But there's more radiation that goes further at night because of radiation that's already in the atmosphere from the sun. | ||
| And so they would try to detonate these at night. | ||
| They would have a much bigger effect. | ||
| You've seen what solar flares do wreaking havoc with satellites. | ||
| That's nothing compared to this. | ||
| And the fact that Biden didn't order this shot down day one, the fact that the communist Chinese confirmed it was theirs just shows you what the Border Patrol said. | ||
| They're not watching the border. | ||
| They're not watching anything except us. | ||
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$100,000 a month as a retainer for Hunter Biden to work for a Chinese entity with ties to the Chinese Communist Party. | |
| $500,000 right off the top as a one-time payment to Hunter. | ||
| And $65,000 a month for James Biden, the president's brother. | ||
| We're talking about the question of what could Hunter Biden possibly bring to the table. | ||
| The fact that this has been going on is important. | ||
| Yes, the globalist setup shining, but by the time Xi Jiping came along, and now he's arrested his predecessor that was working with the globalist, Xi Ji Ping has told big tech of the New World Order, I'm in charge, and I'm not in a deal with you anymore. | ||
| Kelly divested his ownership stake and resigned from the board in early 2020 upon entering the Senate race, placing his holdings in a blind trust. | ||
| Which begs the question, are we blindly trusting CCP sedition blowhard Senator Kelly John Bound reporting for Infowars? | ||
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It's Tuesday, December 2nd in the year of our Lord 2025. | |
| And you're listening to the American Journal with your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
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| Get everybody to step together. | ||
| Okay, three, two, one, this town. | ||
| Harrison Smith. | ||
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| I'm Harrison Smith. | ||
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| Brandon Morello is, of course, in Washington, D.C. at the Pentagon, and she should be going live around 10 a.m. Central today. | ||
| So we'll go to her in just a few hours. | ||
| But she'll be hosting War Room later this afternoon. | ||
| So I'm taking over American Journal. | ||
| We got a lot of news to cover. | ||
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| Lots of videos to get to. | ||
| Let's begin today. | ||
| As we used to do every day, your daily dispatch. | ||
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| All right, here it is, folks. | ||
| Your daily dispatch. | ||
| For Tuesday, the 2nd of December, 2025, Trump gave Maduro a last Friday deadline to step down as Venezuela president, according to Reuters. | ||
| On Monday night, Maduro told Trump he was prepared to leave Venezuela in last week's recently revealed phone call, but Trump rejected nearly all of his additional conditions, including a demand that Vice President Dulcie Rodriguez lead a transitional government before elections. | ||
| Reuters further reports that Trump gave Maduro a deadline of last Friday to depart the country, after which the American leader announced on Saturday that the Venezuelan airspace was closed. | ||
| Things are beginning to move faster as it looks like Trump plans some sort of significant military action against Caracas at a moment when such a huge Caribbean deployment, including the USS Ford carrier group, is racking up high bills per day at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer, according to a summary of the latest VR Reuters. | ||
| Again, this continues to be just a major topic of conversation. | ||
| We'll get back to that in just a little bit. | ||
| Pete Hegseth at the Central, at the center point of all of this, White House defends Hegseth over strike on alleged drug boat that killed survivors. | ||
| The White House said Monday that the U.S. military conducted two strikes on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean in September, deepening questions about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's role in an operation that led to the killing of two survivors. | ||
| Admiral Frank Mitch Bradley, the head of the Special Operations Command, was acting legally under authority to use lethal force granted by Hegseth in conducting the attacks on the boats, White House Press Secretary Caroline Levitt said. | ||
| The question some in Congress and legal experts are asking is whether the orders may have contributed to the commission of a war crime, which I think is a little bit ridiculous. | ||
| I think the whole thing is absolutely ridiculous. | ||
| I think it's absurd that this is even a topic of conversation at this point, let alone dominating U.S. political coverage for days on end. | ||
| Pretty ridiculous. | ||
| So we can get back into it later. | ||
| I think the claim that it's illegal to hit the same target twice, a little bit absurd. | ||
| A little bit absurd, but we'll get back into it. | ||
| Meanwhile, Noam calls for full travel ban of certain countries following attack in Washington, D.C. Homeland Security plans a full re-examination of green cards from 19 countries and halted Afghan immigration processing after a deadly Washington, D.C. shooting. | ||
| On Monday, Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam recommended a full travel ban on certain countries following a deadly attack near the White House and related Washington, D.C. violence. | ||
| Heightened scrutiny from the recent D.C. shooting and attack prompted debate as Ramanullah Lakonwal, the suspect, entered a 2021, entered in 2021 via a humanitarian resettlement program and was granted asylum this year. | ||
| I think, again, we just go back to that old standard. | ||
| If I can't pronounce their name on the first try, they're out. | ||
| We send them back or just into the ocean. | ||
| Whichever one, I'm fine with either. | ||
| We'll get back into that later as well. | ||
| Meanwhile, damning report labels FBI a rudderless ship under Kash Patel, with him and Dan Bongino more concerned with building their personal resumes, which I think is interesting because if there's one thing that has been utterly eviscerated during their tenure at the FBI, it's their own personal brands. | ||
| It's not going well for them. | ||
| We'll get back into that. | ||
| There's a story about Kash Patel freaking out over a jacket. | ||
| It all sounds incredibly juvenile. | ||
| But we'll get back into that later. | ||
| Meanwhile, GOP Senator moves to scrap dual citizenship, warns of divided loyalties. | ||
| A Senate Republican wants to end dual citizenship to require citizens to submit exclusive allegiance to the U.S. Morena, who was born in Columbia and has since renounced his Colombian citizenship, said in a statement to Fox News Digital, quote, one of the greatest honors in my life was when I became an American citizen at 18, the first opportunity I could do so. | ||
| It was an honor to pledge the oath of allegiance to the United States of America and only the United States of America. | ||
| Being an American citizen is an honor and a privilege. | ||
| And if you want to be an American, it's all or nothing, he said. | ||
| It's time to end dual citizenship for good. | ||
| I guess I'm for it. | ||
| I'm guessing, general, I'm for it. | ||
| I would at least want to start with a measure saying that you have to be not a dual citizen if you want to serve in any role in the government. | ||
| I think that is a pretty obvious thing that we should do. | ||
| I think if you're going to have the power of the American government in your hands, you should have an exclusive allegiance to us and us alone. | ||
| I think that should be pretty obvious. | ||
| On the other hand, I don't really mind that much if people have citizenship in their home country. | ||
| That's not that big of a deal to me. | ||
| However, we keep seeing clips of, or just examples, of newly arrived American citizens just obviously not loving America, obviously not having allegiance here and being pretty open in their disdain and hatred of America. | ||
| And that, I think, is a problem that we need to solve one way or another. | ||
| So I'm open to these various suggestions. | ||
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| Now, like I said, we got a lot to talk about. | ||
| It continues to be the major, the main topic of conversation, the strikes on the Venezuelan boats. | ||
| To me, it's not really all that complicated in that I think what they're doing is technically legal. | ||
| I think all of the outrage centered on Pete Hegseth is just an excuse to try to get rid of Pete Hegseth that they've been trying to do. | ||
| I mean, there's been a big scandal trying to oust Pete Hegseth every like three months or so since Trump got into office. | ||
| Don't know if y'all have recognized this pattern. | ||
| They really hate Pete Hegseth and they really want him out of there. | ||
| And it kind of doesn't matter what the excuse is. | ||
| They're throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. | ||
| It was the Signal Gate scandal. | ||
| It was the tattoos he had. | ||
| It was stories about him drinking that weren't true at all and wouldn't matter if they were true. | ||
| They really don't like Pete Hegseth. | ||
| And I really think they're setting him up with all of this. | ||
| I think that they're doing things that verge on illegality and they're putting all of the blame on Pete Hegseth and saying, look, dude, you just got to go. | ||
| You got to get out. | ||
| You're causing so much trouble. | ||
| You just have to leave. | ||
| I don't think it has anything to do with Pete Hegseth. | ||
| Yeah, 12-year-old playing Army. | ||
| That's what the seditionist treasonist Mark Kelly said. | ||
| We've got that video. | ||
| They just really don't like Pete Hegseth. | ||
| They're really trying to get rid of him, which makes me think he's a good person that should be around. | ||
| Now, that being said, I think the whole thing that we're doing with Venezuela is ridiculous, nonsensical, and a giant lie. | ||
| I think the whole thing's a big lie. | ||
| I think it's almost entirely about helping to defeat Israel's enemies around the world. | ||
| I really think that that is the I'm just gonna sticking with that from now on. | ||
| I was kind of giving credence to other excuses earlier, but the more I think about it, the more obvious it is that this just has nothing to do with the stated excuses that we're using. | ||
| A couple reasons for that. | ||
| And actually, a caller brought it up yesterday on the war room. | ||
| The fact that if these boats were filled with fentanyl, first of all, one strike would be enough, right? | ||
| Because you would shatter the containers containing the fentanyl, meaning whoever is in or around the boat would die from exposure in minutes. | ||
| So that's kind of interesting. | ||
| It would also kill like everything in the ocean for like miles around. | ||
| I don't know if you know how potent fentanyl is. | ||
| Like a tiny grain of fentanyl is enough to kill several people. | ||
| I think if a boat is carrying a literal metric ton of the stuff and you blow it out of the water with a drone, you're going to just poison the ocean to a massive degree. | ||
| We're not seeing that. | ||
| No, the reality is these boats are carrying cocaine to Nicaragua for the most part and then on to Europe as part of a drug smuggling operation to fund the rebuilding of Lebanon by Hezbollah. | ||
| And that's what they're trying to stop. | ||
| Venezuela is not the source of fentanyl in America. | ||
| Mexico is the source for fentanyl in America. | ||
| And the precursors come from China. | ||
| And the only reason that Venezuela is so aligned to China now anyway is at least in part due to the sanctions that we put on Venezuela that collapsed its economy in 2017. | ||
| And at the time, I think they owed China something like $60 billion. | ||
| And then we collapsed their economy and China said, tell you what, we'll just forgive that debt and you can just be more aligned with us than ever. | ||
| And just like we did with Russia and the Russian sanctions, we are literally driving people into the arms of China who are there ready and willing to pull out the pocketbook and help them get back on their feet while we play the part of the menacing imperial power using force to dislocate a leader who apparently is not easy to dislodge. | ||
| Because apparently he's able to portray what he's doing as standing up against the imperial might. | ||
| of America. | ||
| And again, we are playing our part to a T to make that argument for him. | ||
| The whole thing is nonsensical. | ||
| Why this has become a gigantic scandal is very annoying. | ||
| Like, why are we focused on this? | ||
| Why is this a major become a major point of Trump's presidency? | ||
| This has nothing to, in my opinion, just has nothing to do with American welfare. | ||
| It has nothing to do with what's best for America. | ||
| I really just don't believe that at all. | ||
| And if it was that, there's like a thousand other things that we would be prioritizing. | ||
| No, I think just like so many other things you can point to in this Trump administration, they're doing it for Israel. | ||
| They don't want to say they're doing it for Israel. | ||
| So they come up with other excuses that are justifiable. | ||
| They wanted to get rid of TikTok. | ||
| They wanted to sell TikTok to an Israeli owner so they could censor the Israeli content. | ||
| But they don't say that. | ||
| They say it's about China. | ||
| They say it's about whatever else. | ||
| I mean, do you have any idea how much of Trump's presidency has been destroyed by handing things over to Israel? | ||
| Like whether it's TikTok or firing the Harvard president or any number of other measures you could describe. | ||
| They don't say it's for Israel, but they do. | ||
| If you catch them in an unguarded moment, they admit. | ||
| They're like, oh, yeah, it's just because they're anti-Semitic. | ||
| Yeah, the Harvard thing, that's because of anti-Semitism. | ||
| We did that. | ||
| But then in all the official documents, it's all about whatever else. | ||
| DEI and plagiarism and all this other stuff. | ||
| No, it's about Israel, obviously. | ||
| TikTok, same thing. | ||
| It's obviously for Israel. | ||
| And there's so much other stuff that is aligned with that. | ||
| Like the fact that we're bringing in 600,000 Chinese students to take up spots in our universities to displace Americans in favor of foreigners. | ||
| That was also part of the negotiations with China. | ||
| We had these big economic negotiations with China. | ||
| It was about tariffs, but primarily it was about forcing them to sell TikTok, and they wanted a bunch of concessions that we were willing to hand over to them. | ||
| Trump says U.S. would accept 600,000 Chinese students, sparking uproar among some conservatives. | ||
| But, you know, hey, if that's what it takes to let Israel, you know, censor reality so they can continue to murder people without anybody else complaining, then, hey, that's what we're going to do. | ||
| We're going to sell out our own university positions to China so that Israel can keep killing people and hiding that fact. | ||
| So, you know, it's not that I have some sort of Israel obsession. | ||
| It's just that when you look at what Trump is doing and his failures and the things that he's doing that just don't make any sense, like going to war with Venezuela out of nowhere all of a sudden, it almost always goes back to Israel. | ||
| And that's very annoying because I would like the American government to focus on America and doing things that are good for America. | ||
| And we can't seem to get that done because the interest and priorities are pulled elsewhere. | ||
| Now, that being said, and I'm against the vote destruction, I think it's pointless and expensive and nonsensical and not going to lead to anything. | ||
| I think there's a couple interesting caveats to this. | ||
| For one thing, I think the liberal slash neocon outrage about this is fraudulent and stupid. | ||
| I mean, maybe we just need to tell them something else. | ||
| Like, can we just, how about instead of Venezuelan drug smugglers, what if we told them that they were like, you know, like a white father of two that once questioned DEI? | ||
| Because then it'd be good that they're killed, right? | ||
| Then it wouldn't be bad that they're being killed. | ||
| They deserve it, right? | ||
| Just tell them that it was like tell them that the boats are filled with white people that are smuggling like vaguely conservative ideas. | ||
| And then killing them will be celebrated. | ||
| And they'll be dancing around making TikToks about how wonderful it is that they've been killed. | ||
| Lindsey Graham is against this, apparently. | ||
| Somebody asked, Manu Raju asked Lindsey Graham about the second strike on these ships. | ||
| And Lindsey Graham said, quote, it's a long-held rule that survivors of the ship attack are no longer combatants and an air crew member in a parachute is no longer a combatant. | ||
| You're out of the fight. | ||
| I don't know what the facts are, but that's general law. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Tell Lindsey Graham that the boats are filled with Russians. | ||
| Just say it's a random Russian grandmother praying on her hands and knees and that the missiles destroying them are Ukrainian drones being piloted out of Kiev. | ||
| Then he'll love it. | ||
| He'll celebrate it. | ||
| He'll dance around on the grave of these people because they don't actually care about any of this stuff. | ||
| They don't care. | ||
| None of these people care. | ||
| I don't care. | ||
| Do you think Lindsey Graham is really outraged about this? | ||
| He's supporting Ukraine where like every day we're getting more and more videos of literally like Russian grandmothers on their hands and knees crossing themselves and praying as the drone just blows them up. | ||
| Graham celebrates Trump admin moves to end the madness in Venezuela. | ||
| It's just, what are we doing here? | ||
| What is this? | ||
| Why is this even a top of conversation? | ||
| How is everybody wrong about it in a different way? | ||
| It's very bizarre. | ||
| It's very strange. | ||
| Again, I think it's like, okay, you are blowing the ship out of the water with a drone. | ||
| Is it really that big of a deal to hit him again? | ||
| The two-strike thing, okay, yes, there's like if you abandon your ship and surrender, then you're technically like a prisoner of war. | ||
| You shouldn't be killed then. | ||
| I think it's, you know, in the heat of battle, it's kind of different. | ||
| You know, it's not a playground. | ||
| There's not, you know, base or no backseats. | ||
| Like, it doesn't work. | ||
| It's not freeze tag. | ||
| Once you hit a base, it's not like the combatants are like, all right, you hit the base once. | ||
| You can't hit it again. | ||
| You already hit us. | ||
| No hitting us twice. | ||
| We have to be like, dang it. | ||
| Darn it. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Shoot. | ||
| They're on base. | ||
| They said no backsees. | ||
| Shoot. | ||
| Darn it. | ||
| This is stupid. | ||
| It doesn't matter. | ||
| The two-strike rule is about bombing the medics that arrive afterwards. | ||
| If you bomb a place and then wait for the emergency services to arrive and then bomb the medics, yeah, that's a war crime. | ||
| That is, you know, a crime against humanity. | ||
| But that's not what's happening here. | ||
| So I don't see what all of the concern is about. | ||
| The White House is defending Hegseth following a report Friday in the Washington Post that he gave a spoken order to, quote, kill them all aboard the vessel. | ||
| The first strike killed all but two of the boats, 11 occupants, before Bradley ordered a second missile strike, which killed the men, according to the Post. | ||
| The Defense Department official on Monday provided a similar account to the Wall Street Journal and said Hegseth was the, quote, target engagement authority, the key figure who authorized the strike. | ||
| They're denying that. | ||
| Again, it's just this is all so stupid. | ||
| Who cares? | ||
| One, why are we striking the boats? | ||
| Two, it's not illegal to strike the boats. | ||
| Three, I don't think Trump wants to go to war with Venezuela anyway. | ||
| There's 30 million people in Venezuela, 40 million maybe. | ||
| Do you have any idea how many more millions of people would flood into America should we turn Venezuela into a war zone? | ||
| Do you have any idea how difficult it would be to invade a place that backs up to the rain, the tropical rainforest, the Brazilian rainforest, and is filled with tens of millions of armed militiamen? | ||
| It's not going to be an easy fight. | ||
| I don't think Trump wants to start the war anyway. | ||
| One of the only things that he can still hang his hat on continuously is the fact that he hasn't started any wars as president. | ||
| It's like his one bragging point that still applies. | ||
| I don't know if he wants to ruin that forever. | ||
| And his actions don't seem like he's exactly ready to storm in. | ||
| But the whole thing is weird. | ||
| So apparently Maduro offered to leave, but just wanted a transitional government with his vice president. | ||
| And Trump rejected that. | ||
| And then he's like, you know, declares the Venezuelan airspace closed and everybody diverts. | ||
| Obviously, you know, intimidation tactic. | ||
| We're about to go, you know, start bombing you. | ||
| But then that never happened. | ||
| I just, I think he wants Maduro just to like give up completely and leave. | ||
| I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon. | ||
| Maybe he's, maybe Trump's just stalling while the assassination teams get into place. | ||
| But I just have a distinct feeling that this kind of isn't going to go anywhere. | ||
| And like a year from now, it's going to kind of be forgotten. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I just don't see, I don't see a path forward where it would just be the biggest mistake ever for Trump to like actually try to invade Venezuela and start this giant quagmire war. | ||
| It just it makes so little sense. | ||
| I really have trouble believing that that's what Trump's going to do. | ||
| I don't see Maduro leaving voluntarily anytime soon. | ||
| I have the feeling this is all kind of going to fizzle out a little bit. | ||
| Like we're going to blow up some boats, maybe menace them a little bit more, and then it's going to kind of fade away. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| That's just sort of my prediction. | ||
| It's sort of just how I see it going. | ||
| I don't have any evidence to back that up, but it seems like if Trump wanted to start a war with Venezuela, he could have by now. | ||
| And he's really resisting doing that and trying to work things out with Maduro. | ||
| How about we just expel all of the foreigners that are living here? | ||
| How about first we concern ourselves with the Venezuelans that are here, the Trende Aragua that still exists and is committing crimes in this country or the raiding teams coming from Venezuela and going to upscale neighborhoods in California to loot houses and then run away. | ||
| What if we dealt with all that stuff instead of starting another war and igniting a fire in this hemisphere? | ||
| It doesn't make any sense. | ||
| It's also kind of funny how we are just playing the role of Russia to Venezuela's Ukraine, right? | ||
| That it's like all the excuses we're using are exactly the same things Russia said about their invasion of Ukraine. | ||
| It's like, well, it's our hemisphere. | ||
| This is our sphere of influence. | ||
| Our enemies are trying to, you know, make inroads economically. | ||
| So we don't agree with the current leadership. | ||
| So we want to oust it and replace it with somebody who's more friendly to us. | ||
| It's just like an inversion of Ukraine, only we're Russia, which kind of means that our objections to what Russia is doing in Ukraine is pretty hypocritical. | ||
| Seems like we actually understand what their motivation is because we have the same motivation when it comes to our hemisphere. | ||
| Everything's just sort of topsy-turvy, and that's what happens when you're dealing with relentless liars that deceive you about everything and that aren't straightforward about absolutely anything. | ||
| And everything they do is a complete inversion of what they say. | ||
| And they're warmongers with, you know, the ability to lie about everything and the media to go along with it. | ||
| So, you know, it's all retarded. | ||
| It all sucks. | ||
| I wish we could talk about literally anything else, but it sounds like this is going to be the thing until they oust Heg Seth. | ||
| And if it's not this, then it'll be whatever else they come up with next to try to screw Hegseth out of his position because he, you know, isn't going along with the wider war plans of the New World Order, like getting into war with Iran and doing other stuff that is not for America's interest. | ||
| So I'm on Pete Hegseth's side, even though I don't think we should be going after Maduro. | ||
| I think this is all a setup to try to oust him by people that aren't American and don't have our interests in mind. | ||
| We'll be right back with more. | ||
| Welcome back, folks. | ||
| This is the American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| I'm just going through all these stories, and they all seem like different stories. | ||
| Then they're literally all about immigration. | ||
| Kind of weird. | ||
| First is this guy, Wahat Ali, played the video yesterday on War Room of him basically saying, basically bragging about being a bioweapon. | ||
| He's just like, brown people breed really fast and we're already here and you've lost. | ||
| And that, but it's about his parents being criminals that were sent to jail because they came over as immigrants and then scammed Microsoft and we're selling a bunch of unlicensed Microsoft software. | ||
| We're sent to jail for five years. | ||
| And it's like, yeah, why do we just keep importing criminals? | ||
| We just keep importing entire classes of criminals. | ||
| And then I've got stories about the National Guard shooter, also an immigration story. | ||
| Then we got the story about Keith Ellison caught on tape, basically negotiating a cover-up for a bunch of fraud in exchange for campaign donations, also around an immigration group. | ||
| It's like all these various stories, whether it's political corruption or insane terroristic violence or just general anti-white hatred. | ||
| It's like, yeah, it's all actually just about one story. | ||
| It's all one narrative, which is America being swamped and taken over by people that we extend a hand of charity to. | ||
| So it's all sort of the same story over and over. | ||
| Now, there's an important election taking place today, Tuesday's special election in Tennessee's 7th congressional district. | ||
| Normally a conservative stronghold is giving Democrats hope their recently successful message of affordability can help them spring a major upset. | ||
| The contest pits Trump-backed Republican Matt Van Epps with Democrat Representative Afton Bain. | ||
| And it's just another example of a time where like Afton Bain is a real woman, not a character from a Marvel movie. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Despite sounding like a supervillain, she's just a regular villain. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| She's not a supervillain. | ||
| She's just your regular run-of-the-mill liberal woman villain. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And just like the elections in Virginia with Spanberger and Jay Jones or whatever that guy's name is, in any normal circumstance, the things these people say should be rejected outright by absolutely everybody who would vote for them. | ||
| Afton Bain is the woman who was caught on tape literally saying she hates the city of Nashville. | ||
| She's on, and not like I'm quoting her, like explicitly and literally saying, I hate Nashville. | ||
| I hate country music. | ||
| I hate everything about Nashville. | ||
| And she starts listing off the things she hates about Nashville. | ||
| And then she's, you know, does a video where she's like, people are saying I hate Nashville. | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| She's literally on video or on audio recording, just being like, I hate Nashville. | ||
| I hate this city. | ||
| I hate the people that come here. | ||
| I hate the country music. | ||
| It all sucks. | ||
| And you would think, you would think that the people of Nashville might be angry about that, might not want to elect somebody who literally hates them. | ||
| But they don't care. | ||
| They don't care. | ||
| You'd think they would want to elect as the head law enforcement officer in the state of Virginia, somebody who literally wants their opponent's children to be killed. | ||
| Again, another example where it's like it wasn't, you know, a sort of off-the-cuff statement that's taken out of context. | ||
| In the Jay Jones case, he like reiterated that he wanted the children of his opponent to die and then gave the reasoning behind it, explained perfectly cogently that, hey, people don't change their political opinions unless they suffer trauma. | ||
| So I think their children should die in their arms. | ||
| And then people vote for him, and then he gets elected. | ||
| So, you know, democracy is a mistake. | ||
| And we have to get rid of it. | ||
| We have to not let these people vote for these people. | ||
| It just, I don't know what else to say about it. | ||
| Democracy has failed. | ||
| I don't know what else we have to do. | ||
| I don't know what else has to happen. | ||
| You have a woman who's running to be in charge of a city that she literally hates and people are going to vote for her. | ||
| So we have to stop them. | ||
| I think we have to stop them. | ||
| The contest pits Trump-backed Republican Matt Van Epps against Democrat state president Afton Bain. | ||
| The winner will replace former Representative Mark Green, who resigned in July. | ||
| A month after Democrats running on cost of living issues, won in New York City, New York, New Jersey, and Virginia. | ||
| Both Van Epps and Bain have campaigned on affordability, reflecting the Republican concerns about a district Greene won last year by nearly 22 points. | ||
| President Donald Trump called into events for Van Epps on Monday, and House Speaker Mike Johnson visited Tennessee to campaign for him. | ||
| So think about this. | ||
| Green won last year by 22 points. | ||
| It is neck and neck now. | ||
| I believe it's like 51% to 49%. | ||
| It's within a one percentage point. | ||
| How have Republicans squandered a 22-point lead in under a year? | ||
| That is such an abysmal failure. | ||
| It's hard to even understand. | ||
| But it kind of makes sense in that Republicans aren't making any arguments that appeal to any Americans almost ever. | ||
| So it's kind of hard to get people's vote when you have no answers for them, no policies that appeal to them, no solutions for the problems that are plaguing their lives. | ||
| Again, this all seems pretty basic to me, but I don't know. | ||
| Can we get the Republicans on the horn? | ||
| Do they need to be explained to this? | ||
| You can't just tell people the economy is doing great when it's obviously not. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| There is an affordability crisis right now. | ||
| Republicans are doing absolutely nothing to confront or explain the cause of the affordability crisis. | ||
| The socialists and the communists are out front telling people that the reason the economy is bad is because those darn billionaires and you vote for us and we'll take those billionaires' money and give it to you. | ||
| That's a very appealing argument because it's the only one being made. | ||
| Why is nobody explaining the fact that it's the immigration that is causing house rises to skyrocket, that it's the BlackRocks and the Vanguards and the Blackstone buying up houses as massive corporations? | ||
| That's private equity hollowing out small businesses by the millions. | ||
| Why don't we explain to people that the reason that the economy is terrible now isn't because we're more conservative. | ||
| We have consistently gotten more socialists. | ||
| We've consistently had more and more and more government intervention and things get more and more and more expensive. | ||
| So if you want things to be affordable, you have to enforce the law and you have to stop corporations from exploiting loopholes in the law to undercut Americans with their wages, with the price of homes, or any number of methods by which these major corporations take advantage of their control of the government. | ||
| But unfortunately, the Republicans just love the corporations and will never say anything against them. | ||
| So now we're losing everything. | ||
| It kind of sucks, but it's understandable. | ||
| Quote, the problem is when you have a deep red district, a lot of the people take for granted that the Republican or the conservative is going to win, Johnson said in a joint interview with Van Epps on Monday on Fox News Monday afternoon. | ||
| Democrats have beaten their 2024 margins in the U.S. House special elections this year by an average of 16 points. | ||
| A Democratic victory on Tuesday or even outperforming last year's results would further embolden Trump's opponents heading into the midterms. | ||
| There's lots of memes about this that make it make a lot of sense. | ||
| The Democrats just understand. | ||
| You just have to put somebody out that's like genuinely or like generally likable and just says the right things about like, we're just going to help you. | ||
| Hey, vote for me and we're going to help you. | ||
| Just put like an attractive white person up on a podium and they'll just have them say like, oh, we're going to help you and we're going to give you things and health care, affordability, vote for me. | ||
| And then people vote for him. | ||
| Instead, the Republicans are just like either not campaigning or they're like running DEI candidates. | ||
| Same thing's happening in Ohio. | ||
| Ohio is another place where conservatives should have a major advantage, but it's also neck and neck because we're running Vivek Ramaswamy, who frankly destroyed any political future he had last December when he criticized Americans for watching Save by the Bell while the Indian strivers were doubling down on math homework. | ||
| You're done, dude. | ||
| You're done. | ||
| We don't like it. | ||
| You're out. | ||
| Like Republicans are desperate to create this non-existent, multicultural DEI, big tent sort of thing. | ||
| It just, it doesn't exist. | ||
| It doesn't work. | ||
| It doesn't compel people. | ||
| And Americans are looking around at Republicans who have had carte blanche for the last 10 months. | ||
| I mean, it's been a while. | ||
| We're like almost a year into Trump's first administration and people are looking around. | ||
| Average Americans are looking around and going, Republicans have had Congress and Senate and the presidency and things are getting more expensive and the wars aren't ending and nothing's happening. | ||
| And so like, why would they vote for them again? | ||
| You don't deliver on your promises. | ||
| No one's going to vote for you. | ||
| Republicans swept the elections one year ago. | ||
| One year ago, we won the Senate, the Congress, and the presidency on a promise of retribution, on a promise of like extremism. | ||
| Say it over and over. | ||
| Trump never mitigated, never qualified his stances in the 2024 election. | ||
| He didn't moderate. | ||
| He didn't go towards the center. | ||
| He went farther right and he brought everybody along with him and we swept the elections. | ||
| And then as soon as we win, we start backtracking on absolutely everything that they promised. | ||
| It's not that complicated. | ||
| People just want to see results and they want to see people who actually seem to have their interests in mind. | ||
| And again, you know, I don't know if it's part of their psychological operation, but it's almost to the point where it's like Israel is such a ubiquitous topic in all of this that it's like maybe the ubiquity itself is part of the strategy because you end up sounding like a crazy person because you're like, you go to Mark Epps' website and half the website is about his support of Israel and how much he loves Israel. | ||
| It's like, okay, is that why he was chosen? | ||
| He's not the best candidate. | ||
| He's going to lose, even though he had a 22-point head start because he's the pro-Israel guy. | ||
| You could have had somebody who wasn't dedicated to a foreign state that everybody hates in America, that Republicans and liberals, young people of every end of the political spectrum, are just sick of hearing about Israel or sick of Israel being the center of the attention of our politicians. | ||
| But it seems like that's the primary concern of everybody in the Republican Party. | ||
| So why would anybody vote for us ever again? | ||
| And this is so stupid. | ||
| Unbelievably stupid. | ||
| And we are just squandering the greatest political revolution that America has seen since 1776. | ||
| Great. | ||
| At a campaign event earlier Monday, Johnson held a mic to his phone so the president could be exhorting the crowd to vote on Tuesday. | ||
| The whole world is watching Tennessee right now and they're watching your district, Trump said. | ||
| It's a big vote and it's going to show something. | ||
| It's got to show the Republican Party is stronger than it's ever been. | ||
| Okay, but the Republican Party is in fact weaker than it's ever been. | ||
| So that's the reality. | ||
| You got to deal with that and then it will appear that way. | ||
| You understand? | ||
| The appearance of the Republican Party being strong will be downstream from the Republican Party actually being strong and doing something for its constituents, something that we haven't seen recently. | ||
| Again, we're probably going to lose this election to a woman who one week ago was caught on tape saying, quote, I hate Nashville. | ||
| Maybe we should bring in that video just to show people just how badly Republicans are doing, just how much the upset and outrage at the Republicans just failing in every regard, how bad it really is. | ||
| Because Afton Bain is on tape saying she hates Nashville and Nashville is still going to vote for her because democracy is a mistake. | ||
| Johnson's control of the House is already fragile. | ||
| Democrats are poised to fill two vacancies in the new year, one created by the death of Representative Sylvester Turner, the other by New Jersey elect governor-elect Mikey Sherrill's resignation. | ||
| Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene also plans to resign in January. | ||
| We are actually going to lose the Republican majority in Congress when there's no election because every Republican that leaves Congress is immediately replaced by a Democrat. | ||
| It just sucks. | ||
| It just sucks having the one party that actually pretends to care about America just failing in every possible regard. | ||
| It really is just unbelievably annoying. | ||
| Can we pull in the Afton Bain clip? | ||
| All right. | ||
| Here's Afton Bain, Marvel supervillain on tape talking about hating Nashville. | ||
| This woman is going to win despite last year, the Republican winning by 22 points. | ||
| Here's the next victor in Tennessee. | ||
| Let's listen. | ||
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I've been heavily involved with the Nashville mayoral race because I hate the city. | |
| I hate the Bachelorettes. | ||
| I hate the pedal taverns. | ||
| I hate country music. | ||
| I hate all of the things that make Nashville barely an it city to the rest of the country. | ||
| But I hate it. | ||
| Yeah, I'm that girl at the airport that all these bachelorettes are giddy walking out in their two-toned colored pant pink shirts. | ||
| And they walk out and I'm like, they're like, oh my God, Nashville is so loud. | ||
| And then she makes a video where she's like, the Republicans have unveiled a new hit piece against me where they claim that I hate Nashville. | ||
| She literally hates Nashville. | ||
| She literally does. | ||
| And it gets even worse, y'all. | ||
| I don't think you understand. | ||
| Between Democrat overperformance in special elections this year and the historically narrow Republican House majority, Tuesday's race has become a magnet for outside spending from both parties. | ||
| Since the primary last month, more than $5 million has been spent on advertising in the race, according to data from Ad Impact. | ||
| Republican-aligned groups accounted for more than $3 million and Democrat allies spending at least $2 million. | ||
| So we've outspent the Democrats by a million dollars in a region that went Republican by 22 points last year. | ||
| And we're going to lose this race to Afton Bain, who says she hates Nashville, because that's just how pathetic and inadequate the Republican governance has been in the last 11 months. | ||
| So there's that. | ||
| So, you know, it's the Republicans. | ||
| It's one of those things where Republicans are like, it's like they're desperate. | ||
| It's like a fat person who's desperate to lose weight, but won't diet and won't exercise and won't take any slimming pills from the AlexJonesStore.com and just wants to complain constantly, but not do anything to fix it. | ||
| Republicans are like frantically scrambling to try to figure out how to win this race. | ||
| The answer is do the thing you were elected to do in the first place. | ||
| Prioritize affordability, not bombing random Colombian fishermen off the coast of Venezuela. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Let's focus on expelling the foreigners and lowering house prices, not dropping bombs on Iranian nuclear sites. | ||
| Let's focus on the things that actually matter to people and actually drive votes and that actually will save this country, and then people will vote for you. | ||
| What do you not understand about this? | ||
| Stop playing the identity politics games. | ||
| Stop trying to trick people into voting for Zionists by claiming that they're pro-America. | ||
| We just have to stop doing any of that crap and then we'll win and then we can save the country. | ||
| So why don't you do that? | ||
| Why won't they ever do it? | ||
| I don't get it, personally. | ||
| Let's go to clip number eight here. | ||
| We're going to move on. | ||
| We're going to talk about Kash Patel. | ||
| Apparently, Cash Pell had a meltdown over an FBI jacket during the Charlie Kirk assassination. | ||
| And Cash Pell is really just getting it from all angles here. | ||
| But he is promising more and more. | ||
| Let's go to clip number eight. | ||
| Here's Kash Patel talking about what's happening with Antifa. | ||
| Let's watch. | ||
| So the president has labeled Antifa as a domestic terror organization. | ||
| Now, what is the impact of that? | ||
| Which isn't, I don't know if it's an official designation or how you describe it, but different than an international terror organization. | ||
| What is the impact of that on your work dealing with Antifa and related organizations? | ||
| No, it's absolutely brilliant move by President Trump because it allows us to use the tool set that we utilize for, say, foreign terrorist organizations. | ||
| We are allowed to use that here in the United States of America to use added intelligence capabilities, to added operational capabilities in terms of mapping out the networks and seeing how they connect and using the banking sector and the financial sector and our partners at Treasury, most importantly. | ||
| Because these groups, Antifa specifically, responsible for, as you know, the Prairie Land attack, which we've arrested, I think, two dozen individuals on and charged them with material support to terrorism. | ||
| And rightly so, they shot a federal agent in the neck and attacked a detention facility. | ||
| We know what Antifa has done in Portland. | ||
| Those investigations and prosecutions are ongoing. | ||
| So we're treating them as a terrorist organization that they are and mapping out the money. | ||
| And you know this from me. | ||
| I've always said follow the money. | ||
| So, with our partners in treasury, we are following the money and mapping out this entire network and treating them as a terrorist organization under the authorities the president has given us. | ||
| And I think in the turn of the new year, you're going to see some very righteous prosecutions and investigations being publicized. | ||
| Oh, and the turn of the new year. | ||
| Oh, so we have that to look forward to on now. | ||
| You guys remember January 6th? | ||
| You guys remember that, like, 10 days after January 6th, they'd arrested like 600 people under terrorism charges? | ||
| You guys remember how they were scraping all of the bank account information for every single person with a Bank of America account in the Washington, D.C. area, and were flagging things like going to Bass Pro Shop or buying Bibles. | ||
| You guys remember how they geo-fenced all of Washington, D.C.? | ||
| Get all the cell phone data of everybody who was there on January 6th to charge absolutely everybody with the crime. | ||
| Remember how they had the sedition hunters and billboards put up with people's faces saying, you know, we need your help identifying these people. | ||
| Remember when they had thousands of FBI agents spending all day, every day, hunting down every single person that appeared at January 6th and throwing people into jail, even if they were in a different city at the time that the riot occurred and were in prison themselves and incapable of communicating, they were still charged with conspiracy and insurrection. | ||
| Or people like Stuart Rhodes, who never went into the Capitol, explicitly told people not to go into the Capitol and was convicted for an unspoken conspiracy. | ||
| You guys know what it looks like when the government actually wants to go after a network of people, even when they haven't committed a crime, they just do it. | ||
| They just round them up. | ||
| They throw them in jail. | ||
| They hold them for two years until their trial happens. | ||
| They hold them in, you know, solitary confinement for six months at a time. | ||
| They confiscate their bank accounts and liquidate their assets. | ||
| I mean, they go balls to the wall full bore. | ||
| It's possible. | ||
| It's absolutely, but it's not speculation. | ||
| We know what it looks like. | ||
| Are you seeing that? | ||
| Is anybody seeing that? | ||
| I mean, to this day, we have mobs of Antifa stopping ICE from being able to carry out raids in New York City. | ||
| You know, in New York City, ICE had a raid scheduled, and Antifa stopped them from carrying it out. | ||
| They blocked the cars, they got in the way, they caused a commotion, and ICE just gave up and decided, okay, we can't do this raid. | ||
| I guess the illegal immigrants get to stay here. | ||
| What are we doing? | ||
| What's actually happening? | ||
| Like, this is the frustrating part. | ||
| Kash Patel can get up there and rattle off this whole list of incredible new powers that he has because of this terrorism designation. | ||
| Just do something. | ||
| Just arrest them. | ||
| Just arrest all of them. | ||
| Do you need special terrorist acknowledgement to figure out what their financial networks are? | ||
| We know what they are. | ||
| Do you need help? | ||
| Can you call us? | ||
| We know. | ||
| We know who these people are. | ||
| We know where they get their money. | ||
| We know the NGOs that fund them. | ||
| Half of it's taxpayer dollars. | ||
| Those taxpayer dollars are still flowing. | ||
| Nobody's being arrested. | ||
| Antifa is still running roughshod over the rule of law. | ||
| They're still interfering with ICE. | ||
| Oh, they arrested a dozen people because somebody got shot in the neck during a military-style ambush of an ICE facility. | ||
| You expect us to celebrate you for that? | ||
| That's the bare minimum. | ||
| It's literally the least amount you could possibly do. | ||
| If the FBI isn't arresting people who are staging a multi-stage ambush and shooting ICE agents in the neck, we really have a problem. | ||
| Like, you can't, you're not supposed to brag about that. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| It's like a mailman bragging that he put an envelope in a mailbox. | ||
| Like that is literally the most basic function of your job. | ||
| No, if you were to go above and beyond, you would be rounding up these networks already. | ||
| We would be six months in to a sweeping operation that had thrown 10,000 people into prison. | ||
| You know, like we saw under January 6th, like we saw after the peaceful protest where a million unarmed people were shot at by cops from balconies on the Capitol with non-lethal munitions that started the riot in the first place. | ||
| Half the people just wandered through the Capitol high-fiving the police. | ||
| They got thrown into jail for years on end. | ||
| We have, as we speak, Antifa members assaulting ICE agents and going totally unmolested, not arrested and allowed to continue their disruption and subversion while being funded by international forces. | ||
| So, I mean, the message to the Republicans is one, shut up, two, do something. | ||
| Shut up and do something. | ||
| Once you do something, you don't have to talk about it. | ||
| Is this complicated? | ||
| Is this hard for anybody? | ||
| So for these people, they cannot have you ask questions of substance because everything is built on a lie. | ||
| Climate, all those climate programs, all built on lies. | ||
| The whole race narrative, all built on lies. | ||
| Does that mean there's no racism? | ||
| Does that mean there's no difference? | ||
| No. | ||
| But what do they do? | ||
| They want to take race. | ||
| They want to take differences and they want to create them, turn them into problems which can never ever be solved. | ||
| So the color of your skin, you can't change it. | ||
| Therefore, you can never solve this problem. | ||
| Unbiased racism, it's unconscious. | ||
| If you're not conscious of it, you can't fix it. | ||
| And if you look in all of these places, they create issues. | ||
| Like as a man, you're going to have masculine instincts. | ||
| They now teach you that that masculine instinct is evil. | ||
| It's a problem can never be solved. | ||
| CO2. | ||
| We create CO2 as we breathe out. | ||
| It's critical for life on earth. | ||
| You will never ever, they created a nonsense problem that can also never be solved because to remove CO2 from the earth is to kill all life on earth. | ||
| So once you start to recognize the tactics, it becomes very, very simple. | ||
| It's easy. | ||
| You don't have to be a genius to see the same tactics playing out over and over again. | ||
| Transgenderism, it's the same thing. | ||
| This is an attack on us as we were created to break down communication, to isolate us so that we can be controlled. | ||
| Why do they have to kill the food supply? | ||
| Because they have to control what we eat. | ||
| We have to control our movements. | ||
| And of course they react like this about race because at the end of the day, people don't really care. | ||
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But we do gravitate towards our own. | |
| We do like to be with people who understand us. | ||
| When you marry someone, what is the biggest thing that tears people apart? | ||
| That my wife doesn't get me. | ||
| She doesn't understand me. | ||
| Well, you know, you can, if you're overseas and you bump into somebody from, you know, the United States, you might not have talked to that person back home. | ||
| But when you're there, you have this common shared history of being American. | ||
| And so that brings you together. | ||
| Well, look all over America. | ||
| New York, the Chinese gravitated towards each other in Chinatown, in Little Italy. | ||
| I mean, we instinctively gravitate towards our own. | ||
| So it's okay to do that. | ||
| But they've made those things that are natural and instinctive in us. | ||
| They've made those war crimes. | ||
| So that was Lisa Logan with a very powerful statement about just the lies that are consuming the modern world. | ||
| I think one of the ways to understand this is you've got somebody like Bill Gates, right, who is now he's sort of doubling, or he's like doubling back on his claims about climate change. | ||
| But, you know, obviously he puts himself forward as somebody who's like just hyper-concerned about environmentalism and all this stuff. | ||
| Meanwhile, we've got Chinese fishing fleets that are the size of like entire nations just destroying life in the ocean. | ||
| And people online will be like, oh, you're exaggerating. | ||
| No, they literally, like in the Philippines, the Chinese fishing fleets have destroyed 50% of the coral reefs that were there. | ||
| They're gone. | ||
| They'll never return. | ||
| They have been utterly and completely eviscerated by the Chinese fishing practices, where they not only just dredge the bottom of the ocean and, you know, just fish until the fish are gone. | ||
| They don't leave any stock there to replenish for next year. | ||
| And they do it on purpose to deplete the fishing supplies of the countries that they park off the coast of. | ||
| And it's like, okay, you would think that this would be like a major concern for somebody like Bill Gates if his real concern is environmentalism. | ||
| If he's actually concerned about protecting the earth, why is he not pointing out the massive, unrelenting city-sized fishing fleets that China has deployed all over the world? | ||
| And I mean, it's ridiculous. | ||
| And we want to go to my screen. | ||
| You can just see some of this. | ||
| These Chinese fishing fleets are so large, they're visible from space and work as vacuums, vacuuming the ocean over which they pass dry of life. | ||
| It's horrific. | ||
| It's destroyed fisheries off South America in particular, paired with that. | ||
| PRC destroyed 95% of the Florida orange groves with orange blight, like all this sort of stuff. | ||
| And you would think dark geolocation reveals suspicious Chinese fishing fleet behavior. | ||
| They're destroying the ocean outside of the Galapagos Islands. | ||
| You would think that somebody like Bill Gates would be annoyed at this until you understand that this is actually perfectly in line with his vision of the world. | ||
| Actually, it would be really convenient for him if the bounty of the ocean was completely depleted and all of the seafood had to come from seafood farms and warehouses because then it's controllable. | ||
| Then you can cut off the supply if you need to. | ||
| Then people can't just go out and survive without you, the kingpin in the middle, orchestrating all of it. | ||
| So it's this exact type of thing where if anything that they said was even remotely legitimate, they would be concerned about things like the Chinese fishing fleet. | ||
| Instead, they're in favor of that stuff because it destroys the natural world and allows them to create a controlled alternative. | ||
| This is the American Journal. | ||
| I am going to open up the phone lines for your calls this hour as we should be tuning into the Pentagon in the next hour to watch the press conference. | ||
| Brandon Morello is there and she's looking forward to asking some questions of the Pentagon leadership. | ||
| So I'm going to go ahead and open up the phone lines now. | ||
| The number to dial is 1877-789-2539-1877-789-2539. | ||
| I just want to know what is your take on what the most important story to cover right now is because I can keep going on the FBI and just the absurdity of the Cache Patel leadership there and getting into just like the reality of the FBI and the CIA and who their real leadership is. | ||
| And we could get in that. | ||
| We could continue on the Chinese fishing fleet story since that is picking up steam. | ||
| People are actually talking about that now. | ||
| Story that I've been trying to hammer out for the last five years or so, desperately trying to warn people and tell people about these Chinese fishing fleets and the horrific damage that they cause that is truly irreparable, but it is completely ignored by the people that supposedly care about nothing more than saving the earth. | ||
| In fact, I just put in a new video of that Chinese distant water fleet. | ||
| We can go to that. | ||
| There's been a lot of new information about this. | ||
| New evidence suggests China's dark vessels poached in Galapagos waters. | ||
| A fleet of Chinese-owned fishing vessels crowd along the edge of Ecuador's exclusive economic zone near the Galapagos Island between June and September, prompting international concern that they would illegally fish in Ecuador's territorial waters. | ||
| Several vessels turned off their GPS automatic identification system, possibly to avoid discovery while partaking in illegal activities, several sources said. | ||
| In late June, a fleet of about 300 Chinese fishing vessels swarmed around the rich, biodiverse waters of the Galapagos Islands, armed with overhead lights and industrial jigging machines to attract and catch squid. | ||
| For the next few months, the vessels remained around the edge of the Ecuadorian islands exclusive economic zone, raising concerns that the fleet would overexploit the squid and capture endangered species such as rays and sharks. | ||
| Another worry was also hovering: would the vessels enter the EEZ and illegally fish, putting even more pressure on the declining marine region, violating Ecuador's sovereignty? | ||
| Again, it's, you know, do these economic zones really matter that much? | ||
| I mean, do you think the fish adhere to them? | ||
| They're depleting the water of ocean life, like they're depleting the ocean of life. | ||
| When it's gone, it's gone. | ||
| Doesn't matter if it's in an economic zone or not. | ||
| Chinese Ambassador to Ecuador said the fleet followed international fishing regulations and did not partake in any illegal activity. | ||
| However, that's probably a lie. | ||
| Almost certainly a lie. | ||
| And I mean, it's happening in Galapagos. | ||
| It's happening in the Philippines. | ||
| It's happening off the coast of Peru and Argentina. | ||
| It's happening everywhere, and nobody's doing anything about it. | ||
| And it's absolutely horrific. | ||
| Let's go to this video because it's not just the destroying life thing, it's also the human rights abuses and the fact that these people fish in the waters off of countries who would be kind of happy to let them do that as long as they docked at the country, maybe sold some of their fish to that country, or at least bought fuel and things for that country. | ||
| But China operates what they call a mothership system. | ||
| So these fleets that are all around the world, they circumnavigate the globe, but they never touch anywhere but China. | ||
| And if they need supplies, they have this relay system where all of their supplies come from China and all of their stock is shipped back to China. | ||
| And the countries whose water they're depleting don't benefit at all from the fishing that takes place there. | ||
| So why would we not do something about this? | ||
| Why would we not sanction this or at least speak up about it? | ||
| Why is the UN not concerned? | ||
| Why is climate change people not concerned? | ||
| Because they don't actually care about the environment. | ||
| They don't actually care about life on Earth. | ||
| They don't actually care about preserving the climate. | ||
| They care about control. | ||
| And what China is doing contributes to their ability to control you. | ||
| The exact same reason they're shutting down cattle ranches all over the world, but specifically here in America. | ||
| The same reason they're injecting mRNA vaccines into every livestock population on earth. | ||
| They're trying to destroy your ability to feed yourself so that all food comes from giant factory farms that they dictate and control. | ||
| Really, I mean, it's when you understand what their real motivation is, it's not really confusing anymore all of their hypocrisy. | ||
| It actually all makes sense. | ||
| They just lie. | ||
| As long as you stop listening to what they say and start paying attention to what they do, it actually is all perfectly clear. | ||
| Here's a little brief news report about these Chinese fishing fleets. | ||
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Americans know little about how their seafood is sourced. | |
| Much of it comes from a vast fleet of Chinese ships that on board, human rights abuses are rampant. | ||
| Fueled by the world's growing and insatiable appetite for seafood, China has dramatically expanded its reach across the high seas. | ||
| With as many as 6,500 ships, China now accounts for more than double the ships in comparison of its closest global competitor, Taiwan. | ||
| With over 95 foreign ports, China's preeminence at sea has come at a cost. | ||
| The country is largely unresponsive to international laws. | ||
| According to Outlaw Ocean Report, China's fleet are responsible for most of the illegal fishing in the world. | ||
| Many experts say that such uncontrolled fishing is also driving many fish species to the brink of extinction. | ||
| Its ships are also rife with labor trafficking, debt bondage, violence, criminal neglect, and death. | ||
| The human rights abuses on these ships are happening on an industrial and global scale. | ||
| Steve Trent, the CEO of the Environmental Justice Foundation, has said. | ||
| When the Environmental Justice Foundation interviewed 116 Indonesian crew members, it was found about 97% of them experienced debt bondage or confiscation of guaranteed money and documents. | ||
| And over 58% reported having seen or experienced physical violence. | ||
| Compared with other countries, China has not only been less responsive to international regulations, but also less transparent about its fishing boats and processing factories. | ||
| Since a large proportion of fish consumed in the U.S. is caught or processed by China, it is especially difficult for companies to know whether the products they sell are tainted by illegal fishing or human right abuses. | ||
| Squid fishing or jigging in particular has grown with American appetites. | ||
| It's probably our fault, isn't it? | ||
| It's probably Americans' fault that the Chinese are doing this. | ||
| I mean, kind of, we let them get away with it. | ||
| Again, I mean, do you want to see some other consequences of what they do? | ||
| Let's go to this video. | ||
| Here's a reminder. | ||
| China has destroyed 20,000 acres of coral reefs in the South China Sea, mostly in the Philippines and Vietnamese waters. | ||
| Here's what the water looks like. | ||
| Used to be a coral reef, like the Great Barrier Reef. | ||
| I used to just be this, like finding Nemo. | ||
| It was like, you know, explosion of color and fish and everything. | ||
| Here's what happens. | ||
| Here's what it looks like after the Chinese fishing fleet hangs out over the coral reef for a little while. | ||
| Let's go to that video. | ||
| There you go. | ||
| Dipping under, and it's just dead. | ||
| A giant undersea desert with all of the sort of skeletal remains of the coral reef. | ||
| There you see, just a bunch of death, just a bunch of nothing. | ||
| This used to be a coral reef. | ||
| This used to be like a tropical rainforest underwater. | ||
| Now it's nothing. | ||
| Why? | ||
| Because the Chinese have just completely stripmined it of life. | ||
| 20,000 acres of coral reefs destroyed forever. | ||
| They're not coming back anytime soon. | ||
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So. | |
| Thanks, China. | ||
| We can see what this looks like. | ||
| We can go to this next video. | ||
| 525 fishing boats in Peruvian waters, while Peru itself barely had 239. | ||
| So twice as many Chinese boats off the Peruvian coast than Peruvian boats. | ||
| And we can go to this video and watch the red dots. | ||
| The red dots are the Chinese dots. | ||
| The Chinese boats rather. | ||
| And you can see as they swarm the Peruvian waters. | ||
| Now, technically, they're in international waters, but you can actually see the red dots disappear sometimes because they're actually dipping into the economic zone. | ||
| About 20% of all fish worldwide are caught in this area. | ||
| In 2024, 1,359 fishing vessels operated within 500 nautical miles of Peru's exclusive economic zone. | ||
| And almost all of them were Chinese, more than half of them. | ||
| Of those 1,359 vessels, 525 were Chinese. | ||
| That's 38%. | ||
| 370 were Ecuadorian and 239 were Peruvian. | ||
| So, again, the point of this is if you were actually concerned about this, if you were actually concerned about the environment, you're actually concerned about anything that these people claim require incredible government involvement to fix, they would be concerned about this. | ||
| They're not concerned about this because in their worldview, it's better that shrimp and tuna and salmon all come from factory farms, you know, somewhere in Montana than actually fished out of the ocean because fishing out of the ocean is kind of like just a thing between you and God. | ||
| There's no Bill Gates in between you. | ||
| You know, it's just God provides the bounty, you harvest it. | ||
| You know, where's the kickback? | ||
| What can they tax if you just are pulling fish out of the water? | ||
| How can they control you if you can just feed yourself without their intervention? | ||
| No, they would rather destroy life on earth, destroy the natural bounty of the planet, and pack you into a city and feed you out of a factory farm. | ||
| It's horrific, but that's literally their vision of the world. | ||
| That's what they want. | ||
| That's what they're pursuing. | ||
| All of the claims about climate change and environmentalism is a lie. | ||
| It's all a lie. | ||
| And it goes on and on. | ||
| I could keep going with this. | ||
| I mean, the information about these Chinese fishing fleets is, I don't think you can spend too much time on it. | ||
| China's state-subsidized fishing fleet overfishes and uses damaging methods like seafloor scraping. | ||
| These fleets also hide their locations and fish in waters to foreign countries. | ||
| This requires international attention as many governments cannot counter these fleets, but nobody's really doing anything to try it. | ||
| And you can actually see in this image where you have these red dots that are actually in the exclusive economic zone, which again, to me is not really the concern. | ||
| Look at all of these fishing boats. | ||
| And it's just these locust swarms that just swarm around the world forever. | ||
| It's insane. | ||
| Insane that we allow this to go on. | ||
| Let's go to your calls now. | ||
| And actually, you know what? | ||
| Let's go to Don and Oklahoma because this goes into another aspect of control. | ||
| Food, obviously, very potent lever for controlling populations. | ||
| Water is even more so. | ||
| And I think this is already happening. | ||
| Like, we've been warning about it for a while. | ||
| And if you pay attention to the moves of the elite, you know that they are very, very, very concerned at scooping up and buying up land that has fresh water on it. | ||
| And they're, you know, like the CEO of Nestle a decade ago on video saying, you know, nobody has a human water is, water is not a human right, and you have to pay for it. | ||
| And we bought up all the sources. | ||
| So, you know, they're going to profit off your need to survive. | ||
| And right now, do you know that Iran is in like a major drought? | ||
| I believe the vast majority of the dams and aquifers in Iran are at like 15% capacity across the entire country and there's water rationing all over Iran right now. | ||
| And I can't help but wonder, I can't help but notice the coincidence that the country that the New World Order seems to want destroyed more than anything else also seems to be experiencing a limitation of water, which we know the New World Order has recently announced is going to be a major method of their control. | ||
| After all, we've seen things like the World Economic Forum and the Global Governance Council make these videos. | ||
| They're like, everybody understands water. | ||
| The COVID was a little bit too disconnected from the immediate concerns. | ||
| But people, when they're thirsty, they understand how important water is. | ||
| So that's a real powerful lever to control people. | ||
| I mean, they say this stuff openly. | ||
| And now Iran is like basically collapsing because of their lack of water. | ||
| Don in Oklahoma, what do you think about the use of water as a method of control these days? | ||
| I'm not sure if that's what you're calling about, but it seems related. | ||
| Don from Oklahoma, you're on the air. | ||
| Howdy. | ||
| Yeah, I was wanting to talk about, you know, like I live in the Mississippi watershed in like the Rocky Mountains to the Appalachians. | ||
| That all drains through here. | ||
| So you got them spraying all this stuff on these GMO crops that all washes down these rivers, like say Palestine, Ohio, where they lit those tankers on fire with the PVC polyvinyl chloride and contaminated the rivers clear down into New Orleans, into the Gulf of Mexico. | ||
| I mean, America. | ||
| That's right. | ||
| You know, all that stuff gets contaminated. | ||
| And you got people, idiots like Bill Gates. | ||
| I mean, they're literally trying to murder us with that stuff. | ||
| And I think we ought to use our military to bomb them. | ||
| You know, for example, like Fukushima. | ||
| Oh, nuclear power is so cheap. | ||
| It's too cheap to meters, what they used to say. | ||
| But when those, what, four or five plants of Tukushimu blew up, all that pollution is still running out into the Atlantic. | ||
| So do you really want to buy some seafood that comes out of some of those areas? | ||
| Because I guarantee it's going to be hot. | ||
| But you never hear anything about that. | ||
| Since shortly after that happened, there used to be monitors on it. | ||
| But anyway, you know, we can't, there's a book 200 years ago. | ||
| An old Indian guy goes, I see the way the white man lives, and it's not possible to continue on. | ||
| At some point, it ends. | ||
| Well, it looks to me like we're getting to the end of it. | ||
| For example, like this little prairie here that runs all the way from the Gulf of America to Canada, into Canada, it can't contain this, though. | ||
| You know, it's not infinite to clean itself, like the Brazilian rainforest, and say the same way with the ocean. | ||
| They go, well, a little more radiation ain't going to hurt us. | ||
| Yeah, buddy. | ||
| Shoot yourself up with it first. | ||
| But anyway, that's about it. | ||
| No, you're exactly right. | ||
| I got nothing to disagree with you on. | ||
| Yeah, the Fukushima thing. | ||
| I mean, that in and of itself is really worthy of a deep dive considering the fact that like the CIA built it and it was built on a fault line. | ||
| It seems like it was kind of almost like set up to fail. | ||
| And then, you know, I don't know if you've been watching the show for a while, you know, this is maybe my favorite conspiracy theory. | ||
| The fact that the, I think, possibly deliberate destruction of the Fukushima site Led to the migrant crisis in Europe. | ||
| If you're not aware of this, the election was going on in Germany at the time. | ||
| It was a contest between two parties, one of which Angela Merkel was the head of, and that was the anti-nuclear power party. | ||
| The German election was basically a big referendum on nuclear power, and right in the middle of this election season, Fukushima happens. | ||
| So, of course, the anti-nuclear power party wins. | ||
| That was Angela Merkel's party. | ||
| She opens the borders to Europe, and you get the migrant crisis. | ||
| So, in a weird way, the Fukushima plant, the only plant built by America in Japan, happened to be on a fault line, happened to be right near the ocean, that melted down and poisoned the ocean with thousands of tons of radiated water, just happened to occur at the exact moment to get Angela Merkel elected to open the borders to flood Europe. | ||
| I don't know if that was planned, but certainly was convenient for the worst people in the world. | ||
| For the people who seemed desperate and obsessed with destroying the planet, it all seemed to work out very well for them. | ||
| Thanks for the call, Don. | ||
| Let's go to Judy in Florida. | ||
| Thanks for calling in. | ||
| Judy, you're on the air. | ||
| Hey, it's good to talk to you, Harrison. | ||
| And it's one of those phone calls where, I mean, there's too much to discuss, of course, but I guess I'll just go with what a friend and I were discussing last night and the fact that he sent me a text this morning from, | ||
| and I sent it to you in message, in fact, from our chart on X that there was $13.5 billion of liquidity that was put into the banking system, and it actually surpassed the peak of the dot-com bubble as to what they actually injected into the system. | ||
| And of course, it's going to cause inflation. | ||
| And it's like, you know, everything points away from the actual culprits of inflation to everything else. | ||
| It's everybody else's fault. | ||
| And it's just that those that control the banking system and those like Bill Gates, and the previous caller said he's stupid or whatever. | ||
| No, he's just murderous. | ||
| You know, all these people that are actually just trying to depopulate the planet are just actively at work and it's all evil. | ||
| And, you know, I've talked to you and InfoWars long enough that you guys know I come from the spiritual aspect of it all. | ||
| And it's like, okay, so who do the people that can't be mentioned for fear of reprisal, who do they serve? | ||
| Who did China actually serve without saying it's the state? | ||
| Who do they actually serve? | ||
| Who is Allah? | ||
| Okay, so we have what I care about on the planet is America. | ||
| Look what's happening in America, other than, you know, I'll bring it to what Operation Warpspeed did to my children, because to this day, both of them still think that I'm the crazy one, but they've taken the injections. | ||
| So it's like, as a mom, you know, forget the mama bear principle, right? | ||
| The damage is done. | ||
| So it's likely, and I think I've said this on air to you before: no children for my children, no grandchildren for Judy. | ||
| The lineage cut off. | ||
| So it's like, why would I care about the mechanisms or who's trying to shut me up at this point? | ||
| After the discussion my friend and I had, and I'm going to mention Stew Peters' documentary, Occupied. | ||
| I suggest everybody go and watch it. | ||
| It's the fact that it's been systematic. | ||
| It's been a continuation. | ||
| It's an orchestration. | ||
| And we're just being dragged along. | ||
| You know, there was a reason through centuries why there was what was called white flight. | ||
| So, I mean, we are, what, 7% of the global population. | ||
| We're just trying to survive. | ||
| And, you know, the ones that can't be named, they will call themselves white when they feel like it, when it suits them. | ||
| Otherwise, you know, they're the ones that are actually attacking us as far as I'm concerned because they had the means to do so. | ||
| And we're Christians. | ||
| And this, you know, I don't know how much long you even want to listen to me, but I'm not Judeo-Christian. | ||
| I'm a Gentile. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| And I'm a Christian. | ||
| I completely understand your fury, Judy. | ||
| And I think more and more people are getting pushed to that point. | ||
| I'll just say the thing is that you have to, like, you have to keep going on your research and understand the way that this dichotomy is useful to the evil people. | ||
| And just, yeah, stop. | ||
| I mean, I've ranted about this on War Room for like an hour yesterday, just telling white people, like, you got to stop being ashamed of yourself. | ||
| You got to stop allowing other people to dictate what you find offensive and whether or not you're allowed to defend yourself or celebrate yourself. | ||
| It's just all a giant psyop. | ||
| And the other end of that psyop is, you know, convincing you you either have to be like a total multicultural cuck, you know, suicidal as a race, or you have to be hateful and vicious. | ||
| The reality is we just have to defend ourselves. | ||
| It's not complicated. | ||
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| Now, I'm going to go to some people who disagree with me here. | ||
| I think maybe Savage Dog disagrees with me. | ||
| Let's go to line number six now. | ||
| Savage Dog, you're on the air about the bombing of the boats. | ||
| Go ahead. | ||
| Hey, good morning, Harrison. | ||
| Good to see you again, buddy. | ||
| Thank you very much. | ||
| Good to hear from you. | ||
| I got to say, Brianna is a little upgrade on the eyes, but I was hoping you'd come in with your Jerry curl hair today, and I would have had to flip a coin. | ||
| That's on you, bro. | ||
| I got a hearing yesterday. | ||
| It was nice. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| I don't know if I have a disagreement. | ||
| I just have my own. | ||
| I don't think I disagree at all. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| But a little joke, I think that Hegsteth is going by the zombie land rules, rule number two, the double tap. | ||
| You got, you know, if you're not, those times when you're not sure your fentanyl smugglers are dead, dead, it's not a time to get stingy with your bullets. | ||
| So take them out. | ||
| But yeah, I called Brianna actually brought this up about a month ago about, you know, what's your thoughts on this whole deal. | ||
| And, hey, look, if you're running four freaking 150 horsepower motor, you know, big, you got $100,000 worth of engine behind you. | ||
| You're not going out to catch a couple of, you know, red snappers. | ||
| You're going somewhere. | ||
| But so far as blowing up the boats arbitrarily, that's actually not a good word. | ||
| Targeting boats head. | ||
| You have a, you know, you're good intel, whatever. | ||
| Okay, let's say they're smuggling the fentanyl. | ||
| You see the boats up close with the barrels. | ||
| You know, they're transporting. | ||
| Blowing them up does save American lives. | ||
| So you don't have Coast Guard cutters having to have shootouts with them, but you're missing out on interrogating those on board to find out if you're really serious about stopping this thing. | ||
| You're not going after the guys on the boats who are just, you know, steering. | ||
| They don't know anything. | ||
| They don't do anything. | ||
| They're just, their families are probably getting, you know, threatened, whatever. | ||
| But you're missing out on interrogating them and getting some good intel. | ||
| So that's one thing. | ||
| That's the only thing I'm kind of, you know, disagreeing with the whole strategy of just drone striking. | ||
| Right, right. | ||
| Well, and I agree. | ||
| And I've said that same thing that I think, you know, once you blow up like two or three boats, one or two boats, like I think from then on, you can maybe just like let the boats know, like, hey, we have you target locked, like abandon your boat now and we'll come pick you up with a cutter. | ||
| Yeah, I don't think it would really risk that many lives. | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| I mean, I guess it'd be a little bit more difficult, but it's also like, what are we using to shoot? | ||
| I mean, hellfire missiles. | ||
| I mean, the missiles, some missiles cost like $10 million. | ||
| I don't know what we're using to shoot these boats out of the water, but it ain't a cheap endeavor to be doing this stuff. | ||
| So again, just like, what is the point of it? | ||
| And so, yeah, I just don't. | ||
| I just, it just doesn't make any sense to me. | ||
| It doesn't make any sense to me. | ||
| That's why I get people online being like, you're whining. | ||
| It's like, I'm not whining. | ||
| I'm just, this is stupid. | ||
| This is not what I would be doing. | ||
| If I was the, you know, commander in chief of the U.S. Army, Venezuela wouldn't be on the top 20 things that I do with it. | ||
| It wouldn't be anywhere near the top 20. | ||
| There's so many other things. | ||
| It would save so many American lives. | ||
| I don't think this is one of them. | ||
| And even if I did want to go after Venezuela, this isn't the way I would do it. | ||
| So I don't know. | ||
| It's just, it's stupid. | ||
| It's nonsensical. | ||
| And of course, just like I've said a million times, I was against it when Obama was drone striking American citizens. | ||
| Even though it was, you know, a radical Islamist and he was in the Middle East, it was like, it didn't matter. | ||
| The American government has to be reined back in when it decides that it has the right to unilaterally declare you an enemy combatant and kill you from the air with no, you know, cross-examination of the evidence or justification whatsoever coming from the government. | ||
| They just dictate you are now a terrorist. | ||
| You now die. | ||
| It's like, that's not okay. | ||
| Why would we allow that? | ||
| That's crazy. | ||
| And it's going to be turned on us, obviously, I think, in my opinion. | ||
| Thank you for the call, Savage Dog. | ||
| There are some people that do disagree with me. | ||
| Godzilla, I think, disagrees with me about the boat strikes. | ||
| Give me your take on this, Godzilla. | ||
| Hey, yeah, I semi-disagree with you. | ||
| You know, like, I agree, like, obviously, you know, there's always stuff going on in the chessboard that it's not fair that they're going after the risk beef of Venezuela, but it's a big dog eat little dog world out there. | ||
| And America being kind of this mega conglomerate company is going to do what it does. | ||
| Trump's not really a game changer. | ||
| He's just playing the game. | ||
| He's not going to change the game. | ||
| And he gave his daughter, he's married to Kushner. | ||
| So he's going to have his alliances. | ||
| He's never really ran as like the anti-Jew stuff. | ||
| So all this pro-Israel stuff, I kind of anticipated as kind of standard MO, which is fine. | ||
| You know, it's been reeled in better than any other president. | ||
| But as far as the drug cartel strikes, you know, if there's these speed boats zooming on a course, you know, with these high-power motors, obviously not fishing boats, please, for the love of God, blow them out of the water. | ||
| I mean, the drug cartels have declared freaking chemical warfare against the children of the United States with drugs for so long, it's ridiculous. | ||
| They're smoking all these kids all the time. | ||
| We need to have clean drugs. | ||
| Even animals in the wilderness will do drugs. | ||
| They've tracked Russian bears traveling 600 miles just to huff helicopter gas from military helicopter routes. | ||
| There's dolphins will do sea drugs, certain sea urchins they'll munch on, they'll give them a buzz. | ||
| The world's out there cruel. | ||
| It's so cruel, and humans are trying to find escapism. | ||
| And until we solve it with Jesus and religion, that humans can find a reason why not to escape the world with drugs, alcohol, and sin, combating the devil. | ||
| People are going to do drugs, and Maha needs to make it that there's clean drugs around. | ||
| They need to do more strikes like this. | ||
| They need to strike the cartels where they're producing it, take a B-52 to it, freaking A-10 them. | ||
| You know, while they're at it, they should do an A-10 scraping run, even though they're retiring them. | ||
| They should do that on Soros' freaking mansion for Pete's sake. | ||
| I mean, they're causing more damage than all Venezuela, you know, so it's a big problem, but at least there's some strikes. | ||
| Now, if they're not drug boats, that's another thing, but it looks to me that they are. | ||
| And with the border being shut down, it kind of makes sense that you'd have these cigarette speedboats, you know, zooming in the international waters because they can't do the land routes anymore. | ||
| They're probably also bringing it in through Canada, but they have so many drones with the thermal up there in Canada on the border. | ||
| So it's a little tougher as well. | ||
| But I'm glad they're doing it. | ||
| I go, you know, I live in Milwaukee. | ||
| Every day I drive on the streets, and there's literal zombies hunched over from the fentanyl. | ||
| I don't know what they're screaming to themselves. | ||
| The women sell themselves sexually for no money. | ||
| And then they get diseases and spread the diseases everywhere in the city. | ||
| And the guys can't all do it. | ||
| So they do like tranny prostitution. | ||
| And then they do break-ins. | ||
| And probably some of them are doing murders for hire, you know, and other crazy hobo stuff. | ||
| It's like they all need to get scooped up in 5150, put away in a mental institution, put away to get taken care of and find rehabilitation. | ||
| Because a lot of them, what you can tell, are just totally fried. | ||
| They have holes in the brain like Kim Kardashian. | ||
| You know, their brains are melted. | ||
| That's what the drugs do. | ||
| And 100%, Harrison, 100%. | ||
| So, you know, they're doing satanic witchcraft BS on the drugs also. | ||
| So when people do the drugs, they're like part of this grand freaking satanic mass, black mass stuff. | ||
| They busted the cartels doing Los Muertes worship. | ||
| And, you know, even like how you're talking about Israel, Israel is like balls deep in the Mexican cartels. | ||
| They have a president, cartel president, Scheinbaum, first one over there. | ||
| And even look with El Chapo, his handler wife, war to court every day to Star of David. | ||
| And, you know, it's just that another strategy from Israel to do covert ops drug warfare, poisoning the well type stuff, which they've been found and busted in history. | ||
| As of late, you could see there was this one study where they did genetic testing on bodies found in a poisoned well, and it was Ashkenazi Jews' DNA in the well because, as punishment for poisoning of the well, they throw you in the well. | ||
| So it's a common tactic. | ||
| It's gross. | ||
| We do it too. | ||
| We did it in Vietnam. | ||
| We do it with chemicals. | ||
| We do it with drugs. | ||
| We do it with napalm, a variety of ways. | ||
| Just part of the greater death machine. | ||
| And unfortunately, we're all in there also. | ||
| And we got to ride this, you know, Grim Reaper surfboard with Trump. | ||
| And, you know, he's our white rabbit president leading us down the rabbit hole. | ||
| So I think we're just going to have to eat things like this with the chaos stuff because it's just going to keep happening, like you said, with Hegseth. | ||
| They're going to keep going after Hegseth, keep going after Pertell, keep going after Trump because they're insurrectionists and they're trying to protest using their means of the control of media. | ||
| Yeah, and it isn't involved. | ||
| And it's never going to end, and nothing's ever going to be good enough. | ||
| I mean, that, again, that's why we just need to defeat these people. | ||
| The only thing I'll say is, like, I agree with everything you're saying about the drug cartels. | ||
| And like, I would be more in favor of bombing raids on, you know, Mexican fentanyl warehouses or the Mexican cartel. | ||
| You're right about them worshiping the devil. | ||
| The problem is that not a lot of that has to do with the Venezuelan drug boats. | ||
| Again, I mean, maybe Grok isn't working off the most recent information, but I think they are. | ||
| And basically, these boats, I mean, you're not going from Venezuela to Florida on a cigarette boat. | ||
| It's used for island hopping, and the vast majority of it is cocaine. | ||
| I think there's a zero to 1% chance that fentanyl is actually being shipped on these boats, according to Grok, actually. | ||
| Venezuela serves primarily as a transit hub for cocaine originating from Colombia rather than a major producer or fentanyl source. | ||
| These GOFAST boats, small high-speed vessels, often disguised as fishing skiffs, are used for short-haul maritime smuggling along the southern Caribbean corridor. | ||
| Experts emphasize that Venezuela plays a minor role in drugs reaching the U.S. About 10% of cocaine transshipments and most U.S.-bound cocaine moving via Pacific routes from Colombia to Mexico. | ||
| Fentanyl, a key U.S. crisis driver, is almost exclusively smuggled overland from Mexico and not via Venezuelan boats. | ||
| Recent U.S. military strikes on these boats have targeted vessels in international waters, killing over 60 people. | ||
| I think the count is 83 at this point. | ||
| But intelligence shows they mainly carry cocaine to Europe, not U.S.-bound fentanyl. | ||
| Cocaine fetches higher prices in Europe, driving this shift. | ||
| And it goes over some of the routes being used, and the primary cargo is almost always cocaine. | ||
| So, you know, this is the thing. | ||
| It's like people are like, well, we have to kill the, you know, we have to stop the fentanyl coming over. | ||
| And it's like, okay, these boats aren't carrying fentanyl. | ||
| So what are we talking about? | ||
| If you want to bomb, if you want to aerial strike the Sackler family, I'm all for it. | ||
| You want to, you know, aerial strike the pharmaceutical companies that are poisoning Americans and causing hundreds of thousands of deaths a year? | ||
| Great. | ||
| Go for it. | ||
| It ain't the Venezuelan boats. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| That's the thing that I object to. | ||
| It's just like, why is this the priority? | ||
| It doesn't make any sense. | ||
| It's not about fentanyl. | ||
| I'm sorry. | ||
| It's not about the drug crisis here, the drugs that are being blown up, probably never even going to America in the first place. | ||
| So what are we doing exactly? | ||
| What is this? | ||
| And why are we doing it? | ||
| It just doesn't make any sense to me. | ||
| Yeah, I'm against the drug trafficking. | ||
| Yeah, we need to do something to stop the out-of-control drug crime in this country. | ||
| I mean, Austin's the same way, literal zombies. | ||
| It's horrifying. | ||
| Like, it's actually terrifying knowing that there are just these insane people wandering around my neighborhood with like machetes just out of their minds. | ||
| And like you look in their eyes, and it's just there's nothing there. | ||
| And there's something, and it's like a rabid dog, totally unpredictable, not guided by human concerns at all. | ||
| Why are these people here? | ||
| And it's not because Venezuelan drug boats are bringing drugs over and tricking these people. | ||
| It's because of the opioid crisis that was caused by the Sackler family and Purdue Pharmacy and these methods by which these operations they carried out to convince doctors to over-prescribe them. | ||
| It's about the lenient drug laws that are being passed now, especially in places like Portland and Washington, where open-air consumption of drugs is encouraged and they hand out needles. | ||
| There's so many things we could do to fight the horror that you're talking about, the absolutely devastating effects of drugs on American culture. | ||
| Going after Venezuela is not one of them. | ||
| It's not going to help. | ||
| It's not going to contribute to that effort. | ||
| So just don't be fooled into thinking that it is. | ||
| Like, yeah, it's a big problem. | ||
| No, this is not a solution to it. | ||
| I don't know why that's hard for people to understand. | ||
| Let's go to Marcus in Idaho now. | ||
| He says I was acting a fool yesterday. | ||
| Go ahead, Marcus. | ||
| You're on the air. | ||
| Yeah, Harrison. | ||
| You're, sorry, man, but you're a douche. | ||
| It's like yesterday you start freaking out and yelling and stuff, and it's ridiculous. | ||
| As far as your take on the drug boats, you have no idea if Grok is telling the truth. | ||
| I mean, come on, man. | ||
| It's not really the intelligence out there. | ||
| You don't know. | ||
| I mean, you have an idea of what you would do, but people in the government like Pete Hegstas know a hell of a lot more than any of us and what they're doing. | ||
| And so, I mean, you're second guessing this administration all the time. | ||
| You've got serious TDS. | ||
| You're not a little Alex Jones. | ||
| You're not a little Mark Levine. | ||
| We should stop it, man. | ||
| All right. | ||
| Do you have a point, Marcus? | ||
| What was I yelling about yesterday? | ||
| I don't know. | ||
| You just go off. | ||
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You just, the whole world, bad, bad. | |
| You guys are stupid. | ||
| Everybody's stupid. | ||
| I'm the smartest one in the world. | ||
| You know, it's just like, that's gone. | ||
| I don't know what's up with you, man, but you've got some serious issues. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| I thought you had like an actual thing that I said that you objected to, but you're just. | ||
| I object to most everything, you say. | ||
| I mean, like, dang. | ||
| I mean, if you were intelligent and really, you know, kind of really looking into this, it's all about your emotional state with everything. | ||
| And you don't come across really in a really strong mental state when you go out like that. | ||
| And it's like, everything that you said about Israel, man, it's just been like, you know what? | ||
| You keep on going against Trump. | ||
| You keep on attacking Trump. | ||
| And a month later, it shows up that he was absolutely doing the right thing. | ||
| You were wrong. | ||
| He was right about why he's the president. | ||
| And you just about everything. | ||
| Just about everything. | ||
| Okay, everything. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Can you mention one thing? | ||
| I don't really listen to you that strongly. | ||
| I'm going to hear that. | ||
| Thanks for the call, Marcus. | ||
| It's great. | ||
| It's very funny. | ||
| I don't even, I don't think I yelled at all yesterday. | ||
| I think the only time I yelled was when the crew was playing the Indian music and I was yelling him to take it down because I didn't want to listen to that crap. | ||
| Pretty sure that was the only yelling I did, and that was a joke. | ||
| So sorry to upset you, Marcus. | ||
| I don't even know what to make of all that. | ||
| Yeah, Trump is failing. | ||
| I mean, that's the real concern here. | ||
| I'm sorry that that's the case, but I want him to succeed. | ||
| I want him to stop prioritizing things that don't actually matter. | ||
| I want him to stop doing like, why are we doing anything that can even be portrayed as a war crime? | ||
| Why are we doing that? | ||
| What are we doing? | ||
| What does Pete Hegseth know that I don't? | ||
| Why would you think that Grok was wrong about where fentanyl comes from? | ||
| I mean, it's pretty well established. | ||
| Most of the illegal fentanyl comes from productions in Mexico with precursors that come from China. | ||
| I mean, does anybody deny that? | ||
| Is that not true? | ||
| I just don't. | ||
| I thought it was about, I mean, yeah, I don't like watching my country be sold down the river while we have done everything we can to put the correct people in charge. | ||
| And they're not, it's not that they're not just doing what is sufficient to get us back on track and actually save this country, but a lot of what they're doing is exactly the opposite of that. | ||
| The 600,000 Chinese students, the H-1B visa expansion. | ||
| I mean, these things are diametrically opposed to our interest. | ||
| Why would I be in support of that? | ||
| What exactly are we getting from the Trump administration that I should be celebrating? | ||
| I'm happy that they closed the border. | ||
| I'm happy that they are deporting people. | ||
| I certainly wouldn't, we go back in time. | ||
| I thank God every day we aren't in a Kamala Harris presidency. | ||
| I don't hate Trump. | ||
| I don't even dislike Trump. | ||
| It's just, what are we doing? | ||
| We're running out of time here. | ||
| We're like about to lose our majority in Congress. | ||
| We haven't even accomplished anything. | ||
| Nothing's happened. | ||
| So, I mean, what again, where's the I'm like the least emotional person who does this? | ||
| Like, pretty much everybody else is a right-wing talk show host, I feel like goes more sort of off the rails than I do. | ||
| I'm pretty logical in all of this stuff. | ||
| I really don't get bent out of shape about any of it. | ||
| So I'm not, I think you might be hallucinating, Marcus. | ||
| I think you might be insane, actually. | ||
| If you think that I'm like emotionally responding to this stuff, I'm literally looking at it in the most clinical way possible. | ||
| And everybody else seems to be guided by emotions that are easily manipulatable. | ||
| That's the frustrating part. | ||
| And yeah, democracy is a mistake. | ||
| People are stupid. | ||
| I don't know what else to tell you. | ||
| If there's a, I mean, if there's a better explanation for it, I'm ready and willing to hear it. | ||
| But again, they're about to vote in a woman in Nashville who's on tape saying she hates Nashville. | ||
| If that's not stupidity, I don't know what it is. | ||
| I don't know what else it is. | ||
| Why are we bombing these places? | ||
| It's like it's hard to take any of that seriously when all of this stuff is just so imminently predictable. | ||
| And we say what's going to happen and then it happens. | ||
| And people are mad at us about it. | ||
| It's like, what? | ||
| What do we do wrong? | ||
| I don't even get it. | ||
| So good try, Marcus. | ||
| I guess. | ||
| I don't know if that was supposed to upset me or something. | ||
| I guess I'm so emotional. | ||
| You know, whatever. | ||
| Good point. | ||
| Let's go to Tim. | ||
| Let's go to Tim now. | ||
| Tim in North America online one. | ||
| Go ahead, Tim. | ||
| Project Genesis. | ||
| What is this? | ||
| Project Genesis is the fusion of 17 government agencies to basically command and control the entire happenings in the United States, brother. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| We're going into the AI police grid. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| It's going to be Project Gotham, which is Palantir's protocol for surveillance. | ||
| That's going to be nationwide. | ||
| And that's yeah. | ||
| No, well, actually, I think it's just in Chicago, Miami, and New York for coffee, but it's going to be nationwide. | ||
| There's no, there's no excuse for this. | ||
| What are we doing here allowing this to happen? | ||
| We're not allowing this to happen. | ||
| It's happening around us. | ||
| And there's not a whole lot we can do. | ||
| We can talk about all the things that they want us to talk about, or we can talk about this. | ||
| I think that this is probably the most pressing issue of our century right here. | ||
| An AI control grid that can't be turned off. | ||
| It's going to control the internet of bottom, the internet of things. | ||
| It's basically make sure that you're that when you go into a grocery store, the doors won't open for you unless you qualify. | ||
| That's where we're going. | ||
| You know, and so uh, what are we going to do about it is the question I have because they've they've announced it, but now it's up for us to uh to do something about it if there's anything that can be done about it. | ||
| And the only thing I really think that can be done about it is, of course, voicing our opinions. | ||
| Uh, the White House has put together a comment line: 202-456-1111, and you can call and you can let them know your opinions on the matter. | ||
| But past that, man, what do you think is going to be a good counteraction to this? | ||
| Well, it's all it's all kind of part of the same fight that we're waging here. | ||
| You know, Project Gotham is what Alex Karp was referring to when he says that Palantir single-handedly stopped the rise of the far right in Europe. | ||
| He's talking about the Gotham program. | ||
| Now, of course, Alex Karp is running around right now acting like he's a conservative or something, but it's his program that stopped the rise of the far right, that is, you know, destroyed nationalism in Europe. | ||
| Now, I think he's being braggadocious a little bit. | ||
| I don't think you can single-handedly say that you did that, but obviously he's got some basis for making that claim. | ||
| So, yeah, that being unrolled in America is not good. | ||
| I mean, we've been covering this extensively. | ||
| So, I don't know. | ||
| What do you think we should do about it? | ||
| I mean, to me, again, it all sort of is the same story. | ||
| Like, it's the same people that are running Palantir that are the people that are in the Epstein list, right? | ||
| It's the same. | ||
| It's Larry Ellison and his son that are coordinating with Jeffrey Epstein to get Tony Blair over the Gaza project. | ||
| Like, this is all one giant fight against the control freak New World Order and America. | ||
| And obviously, AI is making big inroads right now, and Trump is helping them with that. | ||
| So, I don't know. | ||
| What's your idea to combat this? | ||
| We can make people aware of it. | ||
| But beyond that, my idea. | ||
| He ain't going to like my idea, but the only real idea that I have is to put everything in the harbor. | ||
| Like, as much as this AI technology that they've given us and sold us is going to be implements of tools of the future, I think this all has to go in the harbor. | ||
| And that's probably the only message that needs to be sent. | ||
| Everything else is a waste of time. | ||
| Everything else, it's just its half measures, it's weakness, it's grandstanding, it's virtue signaling. | ||
| Unless, and I have to talk myself into doing it as well. | ||
| I'm not just because throwing my phone and the computer into the harbor is going to be a difficult task. | ||
| But once you get to that point, this is a conundrum. | ||
| Those are the weapons we use to fight what's happening. | ||
| So, you can't throw your weapons away and keep fighting, but the weapons are turned against you. | ||
| I don't know, man. | ||
| It's tough. | ||
| Make it back, folks. | ||
| Third hour is on. | ||
| This is the American Journal. | ||
| I'm your host, Harrison Smith. | ||
| Brought to you, of course, by the AlexJonesStore.com. | ||
| Brandon Morello is in the Pentagon right now. | ||
| They're at a live press briefing. | ||
| We're going to go to that briefing just as soon as we get it pulled up. | ||
| We'll go to your phone calls until then. | ||
| But we're expecting Brandon to at least be able to ask a few questions and we'll probably get an update as to the, yeah, there's the actual briefing feed is live now, but we'll wait until somebody's at the podium and then we'll go to that video. | ||
| And I think that's Brianna sitting there in the front row and getting ready to ask probably some pertinent questions as part of the new alternative group of reporters there at the Pentagon since all the mainstream people have been kicked out. | ||
| They've been booted. | ||
| Let's go out to your calls once again. | ||
| We got James in Indiana. | ||
| Thanks for calling in. | ||
| James, online four. | ||
| You are on the air. | ||
| You know, President Trump's giving up bonuses to everybody that worked during the government shutdown, and the senators want a half million dollars for being illegally spied on. | ||
| How about giving January 6ers that serve time in jail $1,500 a day for being illegally targeted? | ||
| Yeah, that'd be great. | ||
| They should absolutely get restitution. | ||
| I mean, yeah. | ||
| Black Lives Matter protesters got $20,000 apiece for being zip-tied for five minutes during a riot. | ||
| Why people who have been subjected to torturous conditions as January 6th prisoners haven't been helped out? | ||
| I can't explain why not. | ||
| We haven't pushed for it, I guess. | ||
| I would like to see Morello, since she's in D.C. to push that $1,500 a day. | ||
| President Trump could do it with a swipe of a pin. | ||
| These people wouldn't even have to fill out anything. | ||
| They just send them a check in the mail. | ||
| That's what needs to happen. | ||
| It's disgusting. | ||
| Senators came out and said when the DOJ wants to put somebody, they will target somebody that they don't agree with and try to put them in jail. | ||
| They are illegally targeting people in this country. | ||
| Congress needs to metaphorically destroy the Justice Department, reform it, and get rid of, what do you call it? | ||
| Conviction rates. | ||
| That's the one thing destroying this country is conviction rates. | ||
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They don't care if you're innocent. | |
| Well, what do you mean? | ||
| Well, when they target somebody, they're so inclined to setting people up and doing whatever they have to do to get a conviction. | ||
| Prosecutors in this country are more worried about conviction rates than actual justice. | ||
| So they need to verdict conviction rates in this country. | ||
| Well, yeah, to a certain degree, you're right. | ||
| But then we have story after story of people being let out 20 times. | ||
| I guess that increases the conviction rate. | ||
| If you can get a felony conviction and then immediately let him out on the street to commit more crime, then you get another felony conviction right after that. | ||
| But I don't know. | ||
| I mean, it seems like it's more like the Gulag Archipelago story where when a criminal has a knife, he's just a victim of society trying to survive. | ||
| But if you have a knife, you're a terrorist. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| And it's that much worse. | ||
| So again, we were going over this yesterday with like the Idaho bar that had underage people drinking. | ||
| So the police storm in and arrest everybody. | ||
| It's like, okay, so if you drink alcohol as an 18-year-old, you're going to get the full court press raid by the cops, hauled away in handcuffs. | ||
| But if you commit open treason repeatedly, trying to undermine the morale of the U.S. Army as an active member of the Army and a senator, Martelli, nothing happens to you. | ||
| It's just like, do we even have laws? | ||
| Like, what are laws? | ||
| What is the point of them? | ||
| Why, like, what determines whether one is enforced or not? | ||
| It seems entirely arbitrary at this point. | ||
| It's an archo-tyranny on steroids. | ||
| So, yeah, we got a lot of problems. | ||
| And I don't know what you mean by metaphorically destroy the DOJ. | ||
| Why don't we just destroy the DOJ? | ||
| Why don't we just uproot it all and start over? | ||
| Because clearly, the judicial system in this country is utterly and completely broken. | ||
| Between the judges issuing national injunctions despite the Supreme Court saying they can't and letting out criminals to kill and rape people over and over and over and over and over again. | ||
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Yeah, we've got some pretty big issues with the Department of Justice. | |
| Like, it does the opposite of what it's supposed to do. | ||
| Why should we have it at all? | ||
| Getting rid of it would be an improvement as far as I'm concerned. | ||
| All right, folks, today at 1 p.m. Central Time, Nick Quentez will be joining Alex Jones on the Alex Jones Show. | ||
| You can watch and stream it at InfoWars.com forward slash show. | ||
| Ross on Rumble.com/slash the Alex Jones Show. | ||
| And of course, you can watch live on X, comment along at RealAlex Jones at InfoWars, Nick Fuentez and Alex Jones, 1 p.m. today. | ||
| It's always an exciting event when those two get together and, of course, talk about it, talk about a generational run. | ||
| I know Nick is doing a bunch of appearances this week, but he starts off with InfoWars, who has provided a platform for Nick for the last six years or so. | ||
| Because despite everybody else being scared of what he's saying, we actually listen to what he's saying and are able to take jokes that other people seem incapable of shouldering. | ||
| So very excited to talk to watch Alex talk to him. | ||
| I got my own plans. | ||
| I got my own plans coming up because I want to end out the year and do a big year and review and thinking about the biggest stories of the year. | ||
| One of them's got to be Nick Fuentes. | ||
| The rise of Nick Fuentes has got to be one of the top political stories in America this year. | ||
| And I wonder how he feels about that. | ||
| It's got to be a strange feeling knowing that you've got people like Chuck Schumer introducing bills in the Senate to condemn you by name. | ||
| What a weird turn of events for the dude in his home studio talking about politics. | ||
| Very interesting stuff. | ||
| So Breanna Morello is live in the Pentagon right now. | ||
| We're going to go to that. | ||
| They're talking about the National Guard shooting with some updates there. | ||
| So we go now live to the Pentagon where InfoWars reporter Breanna Morello sits in the front row waiting to ask a question. | ||
| But first, they give us some new facts about the terrorist shooting of National Guard members in Washington, D.C. Let's watch. | ||
| Welcome. | ||
| So good morning and welcome to the Department of War. | ||
| Before we begin, I want to take a moment to recognize and honor Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, the guardsman who was murdered in D.C. this past weekend. | ||
| She is an American hero and we will never forget her service and sacrifice. | ||
| While we mourn her loss, we will continue to pray for the full recovery of Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolf, the other service member critically injured in this heinous attack. | ||
| This attack on our National Guardsmen in D.C. follows months of Democrat elected officials demonizing the National Guard, portraying them as a threat to our republic, and attempting to sow discord in their ranks. | ||
| To name a few examples, Governor Gavin Newsom claimed that President Trump was fabricating emergencies in order to justify the deployment of the National Guard in some major cities. | ||
| Governor J.B. Pritzker claimed that the deployment of the National Guard amounted to an attack on the American people. | ||
| Outside an ICE facility in California, Rep Maxine Waters taunted the troops standing guard and demanded to know whether they intended to shoot her. | ||
| And of course, the seditious six urged members of our military to defy their chain of command in an unprecedented, treasonous, and shameful conspiracy to sow distrust and chaos in our armed forces. | ||
| This rhetoric insults our warfighters who put their lives on the line every day to keep Americans safe, and it creates an environment where criminals feel emboldened to commit violent acts against them. | ||
| Right now, over 2,200 National Guardsmen from all across the country are serving as a part of Joint Task Force DC with an additional 500 on the way. | ||
| Each one of them will continue working to ensure the safety of all who live, work, and visit the district. | ||
| We will not lose sight of our mission. | ||
| This targeting will only embolden our resolve. | ||
| Our warriors are strong, and we will not back down until our capital and our cities are secure. | ||
| Defending our homeland and rescuing America's greatest cities from endemic violence is the highest and best use of our military. | ||
| I would also like to take a moment today to welcome all of you here to the Pentagon briefing room as official new members of the Pentagon of Press Corps. | ||
| We're glad to have you. | ||
| Legacy Media chose to self-deport from this building, and if you look at the numbers, it's pretty clear why no one followed them. | ||
| National trust in these mainstream media outlets has cratered to 28%, the lowest ever recorded. | ||
| The American people don't trust these propagandists because they stopped telling the truth. | ||
| So we're not going to beg these old gatekeepers to come back, and we're not rebuilding a broken model just to appease them. | ||
| Instead, we're welcoming new media outlets that actually reach Americans, ask real questions, and don't pursue a biased agenda. | ||
| The public has moved on from the old model, and so will the Pentagon. | ||
| This is the beginning of a new era. | ||
| We look forward to working with you to keep the American people informed and to ensure transparency. | ||
| In the interest of transparency, I want to provide an update on the department's operations against narco-terrorists in the Western Hemisphere. | ||
| To date, there have been a total of 21 kinetic strikes on drug boats in our hemisphere, with 82 narco-terrorists killed. | ||
| Each strike conducted against these designated terrorist organizations is taken in defense of vital U.S. national interests and to protect the homeland. | ||
| Our operations in the Southcom region are lawful under both U.S. and international law, with all actions in compliance with the law of armed conflict. | ||
| These actions have also been approved by the best military and civilian lawyers up and down the chain of command. | ||
| A completely fake story in the Washington Post, now discredited by the New York Times, tried to mischaracterize these successful strikes in bad faith. | ||
| It was an attempt to damage the Secretary and the President, and the people saw through it. | ||
| The phony Washington Post story even attributed statements to the Secretary that were totally fabricated. | ||
| He never said them. | ||
| That is the epitome of fake news. | ||
| As the White House confirmed yesterday, the decision to restrike the narco-terrorist vessel was made by Admiral Bradley, operating under clear and long-standing authorities to ensure the boat was destroyed and the threat to the United States was eliminated. | ||
| Secretary Hegseth stands behind Admiral Bradley 100%. | ||
| Admiral Bradley made the right call, and unlike the previous administration, we have our warfighters back at this department. | ||
| This department will defend our homeland. | ||
| This is not a catchphrase, it is a commitment. | ||
| And as the Secretary said, when it comes to killing narco-terrorists, we have only just begun. | ||
| Lastly, I would like to announce that the War Department has created a new division for strategic marketing that will be led by Abby Lower, who will hold the title of Deputy Assistant to the Secretary of War for Strategic Marketing. | ||
| The division will be a new core function within public affairs and will complement our media and strategic engagement teams. | ||
| The purpose of this new division is to create marketing campaigns that support the War Department's military recruitment efforts, providing a halo effect to the great work the military services are already doing to recruit our nation's warfighters. | ||
| And with that, I'd be happy to take your questions. | ||
| Yes, Caitlin. | ||
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Thanks, Kim Kingsley. | |
| Can you talk about the autonomy that's given to the commanders who are carrying out these operations like Admiral Bradley to make decisions? | ||
| Like in this case, I'm assuming the first strike took out the boat and any actions that followed. | ||
| Can you talk about the autonomy they're given? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| So the Secretary has been very clear in every statement that we've released about these strikes that they are presidentially directed. | ||
| And the chain of command functions as it should. | ||
| And we make sure that commanders on the ground are taken, their positions are taken into account, and they are able to tell us and make decisions if they see things that need to be flagged. | ||
| But at the end of the day, the Secretary and the President are the ones directing these strikes. | ||
| And any follow-on strikes like those which were directed by Admiral Bradley, the Secretary 100% agrees with. | ||
| Yes, Matt. | ||
| Kingsley, if Nicholas Maduro leaves Venezuela today, what role will the Department of War have in a post-Maduro Venezuela? | ||
| And describe the process the administration will use to determine whether or not current members of the Venezuelan military or Venezuelan government have a role in a post-Maduro Venezuela. | ||
| Thanks for the question. | ||
| So the department has a contingency plan for everything. | ||
| We are a planning organization. | ||
| If anything were to happen around the world, we have a response planned and ready. | ||
| So we stand at the president's beck and call our commander-in-chief to do what is needed if called upon. | ||
| And that will be what this department continues to focus on and continues to prepare for in regards to our ongoing operations in the Southcom region. | ||
| Again, our focus is taking out narco-terrorists and rooting out that threat that is poisoning the American people. | ||
| Every single boat that we strike saves 25,000 American lives. | ||
| That is a crucial mission to protecting the homeland, and we're proud to be a part of it. | ||
| This is a follow-up. | ||
| Quickly, so following the departure of Saddam Hussein, there was this desire to name every Bathist a terrorist. | ||
| Does the administration take the view that any person who served in the Venezuelan military or Venezuelan government is definitionally a narco-terrorist? | ||
| That would be a determination for the president to make, but I can tell you that every single person who we have hit thus far who is in a drug boat carrying narcotics to the United States is a narco-terrorist. | ||
| Our intelligence has confirmed that and we stand by it. | ||
| Yes, Monica. | ||
| Thanks, Kingsley. | ||
| I have two questions, if I may. | ||
| For a first question regarding Sarah Bextrom, the 20-year-old West Virginia National Guardswoman who was shot and killed, was her family offered an Arlington burial and or would there be plans to do so? | ||
| I know that the White House is working that out, so they might be better to describe what the plans are for that. | ||
| But this department will, of course, support in any way we can and have been in close contact with the family and the Secretary will continue to do so. | ||
| So we'll keep you all updated on that. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| And my second question regarding Iran, there are reports that Iran's been planning on rebuilding its nuclear facilities. | ||
| Iranian's president has said that it plans to rebuild its nuclear facilities with, quote, greater strength. | ||
| Can you provide us on any sort of update on where that currently stands? | ||
| I can tell you that Operation Midnight Hammer was an absolute resounding success. | ||
| Iran's nuclear capabilities were totally obliterated, and experts estimated that, you know, it would take two years for them to recover. | ||
| So thanks to President Trump's bold and swift action, we were able to dismantle that threat to the American people. | ||
| And I think it was also a historic operation by virtue of the fact that there was a clear end state. | ||
| We have seen this department get marred down in the Middle East in endless wars and nation building. | ||
| That has stopped under this president and this secretary. | ||
| We now have a clear end state, a clear mission set, and Operation Midnight Hammer was a success in dismantling that. | ||
| Yes, Laura. | ||
| Thanks so much for having me here today. | ||
| Now that the President has started the process of designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign Islamic terrorist organization, will the Department of War still proceed with selling F-15 fighter jets to Qatar? | ||
| And how will they be able to train Qatari pilots at their airbase in Idaho if Qatar is included in the designation? | ||
| Thank you for the question. | ||
| We take very seriously our partnerships and we always do thorough evaluations to make sure that they protect our intelligence, our operational security, and that they serve the best interests of the American people. | ||
| The U.S. military has a long-standing partnership with Qatar, and we look forward to continuing that partnership at our air base in Idaho. | ||
| And I would just point out that for reference, you know, the Mountain Home Idaho air base is not just Qataris that train there. | ||
| There are also Singapore military folks that are there as well. | ||
| So it is a base that we do a lot of foreign military training, and we are thankful for those partnerships and will continue to evaluate all of those to make sure, again, that national security is protected. | ||
| That is the Secretary's utmost priority. | ||
| But given the fact that the Qatari royal family and Qatar itself is the biggest financier, along with Turkey, of course, the financier of the Muslim Brotherhood, would that relationship and partnership be reevaluated since the designation could possibly include Qatar? | ||
| I'm not tracking any reevaluation at this time, but again, the Secretary really keeps national security top of mind, and this administration does as well. | ||
| So we will always make sure that American assets are protected. | ||
| Yes. | ||
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Hi, David Zier, Real America's Voice. | |
| It's great to be here. | ||
| I want to know if you can confirm any additional National Guard deployments under Title 10 in additional cities. | ||
| And have any governors reached out for help under Title 32 as well? | ||
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And how do you determine how National Guard troops, how many are armed? | |
| Great question. | ||
| So I don't have anything to announce at this time in terms of new deployments, but I can tell you that our mission set is critical. | ||
| We are keeping American cities safe all across this country, and we are going to remain committed to that. | ||
| These missions aren't going to stop in Chicago, in Los Angeles, in D.C. | ||
| We understand the urgent threat that is facing many of these cities, and the National Guard is proud to step in alongside our law enforcement partners to help with that. | ||
| And I can confirm that everybody in D.C. is now armed. | ||
| And a lot of our D.C. National Guardsmen are now also doing joint patrols with members of the police department here in D.C. | ||
| So their safety is, of course, top of mind, and we will continue to make sure that they're able to do their jobs in keeping all of our great Americans safe across our cities. | ||
| Yes, Bradley. | ||
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We're now 90 days into these Venezuelan drug strikes. | |
| A growing number of members on Capitol Hill are getting their metal up with regard to war powers. | ||
| If they do move forward with some sort of war powers effort, will the administration seek to challenge the validity of the war powers resolution or will it comply? | ||
| I wouldn't want to get ahead of the president's decision-making process in regard to Venezuela, but I can tell you what I mentioned earlier is that the department is a planning organization. | ||
| We are always ready. | ||
| We have plans for every single contingency, and we are going to make sure that when it comes to narco-terrorism, we're dismantling that throughout the Western Hemisphere. | ||
| And you've seen that in the success of our strikes. | ||
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One follow-up, if I may. | |
| 53% in a recent CBSUGov poll said they support the strikes on these drug boats, but 70% said no military operations within Venezuela. | ||
| Nevertheless, members of Congress are increasingly calling for regime change there. | ||
| What's the Department of War's message to those members of Congress? | ||
| The Department of War stands behind the President 100%, and we will execute on the orders that our Commander-in-Chief gives us, and we're proud to do so. | ||
| That will continue. | ||
| And again, any decision that is going to be made about certain military actions in the Western Hemisphere region will be the President's alone. | ||
| Yes? | ||
| Todd Wood from CDM's Armed Forces Press. | ||
| There's been a lot of reporting that, yes, it's about drugs in Venezuela, but also possibly about election fraud electronically. | ||
| Do you have any comment on that? | ||
| And also, are assets, we've heard that Special Operations Aviation Assets are exercising for direct action missions in that region. | ||
| Can you confirm that at all? | ||
| On your first question, I would refer you to the State Department. | ||
| I think they would probably be able to give you a better answer on that. | ||
| But in terms of your second question, I can tell you that we are conducting training missions and exercises. | ||
| We've got the Ford Aircraft Carrier now that is down there in the Southcom region. | ||
| And as I said, the department's a planning organization. | ||
| So a big part of that planning is doing trainings and make sure that we're ready at a moment's notice to protect our interests and to protect the American people from narcoterrorism. | ||
| Yes, RC. | ||
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Has there been a determination at this point from the Army Secretary on a distinguished service medal for specialist Sarah Bexram? | |
| I would refer you to the Army for that. | ||
| And if I hear anything, I will keep you posted. | ||
| That would be wonderful news. | ||
| Yes, James. | ||
| Hi, James O'Keefe. | ||
| Nicholas Turza, branch chief here at the Pentagon, was caught on a video in the spring stating, quote, Trump is illegitimate. | ||
| We're going to resist him, quote, everything he does. | ||
| We know there are other people like this that work here. | ||
| My question is, what steps is the Department of War taking to identify and address personnel who are in the self-described resistance movement? | ||
| Thank you for the question. | ||
| That's why the work you all do is so important. | ||
| This is a big building, and we want to make sure that we have the absolute best people working at it to protect Americans every single day. | ||
| We don't take lightly what every single civilian and military person in this building do every single day. | ||
| They do a lot of hard work, and we want to make sure that they're up to the task, that they're on board and willing to serve our commander-in-chief, who was elected by the whole of the American people to serve as our president. | ||
| And we support him 100% here at the Department of War. | ||
| That is our mission. | ||
| That is our chain of command. | ||
| So personnel is policy. | ||
| The Secretary has said that many times, and I know you all in this room are aware of that as well. | ||
| That was really the crux of his speech at Quantico not long ago to the generals. | ||
| Our people are our most important assets. | ||
| So we will continue to make sure that our people are consistently putting America first. | ||
| That's something we care very much about. | ||
| Yes, Alex. | ||
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Thanks, Kinsley. | |
| Are there plans to host or hold more of these regular press briefings? | ||
| And if so, how frequently? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| We'd love to. | ||
| It'd be great to get everybody in here. | ||
| I know we have the Christmas holiday coming up, but we'd love to make it a weekly or bi-weekly tradition. | ||
| So we're excited to have you all in the Pentagon for those. | ||
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We'll be receiving more readouts of the Secretary of War's meetings with the President yesterday, much like a state department in the White House, provide readouts and scheduling and things like that. | |
| We'll be receiving more of those. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| In the interest, as I said in my opening, in the interest of transparency, we want to make sure that you all are informed. | ||
| That's a commitment we take seriously. | ||
| Obviously, we're slightly different than other agencies in that we have national security and operational concerns, but we will tell you as much as we can because we want the American public to know all the incredible things that our warfighters are doing every single day and all the amazing initiatives the Secretary is pursuing here at the Department of War. | ||
| Yes? | ||
| Thanks, Kinsley. | ||
| Jordan Conrad from GAWA Pundit. | ||
| I wanted to ask you, in May, the Secretary announced a new investigation into the Afghanistan withdrawal under Biden. | ||
| In light of the recent events with one of these refugees killing a service member, is there any updates on that investigation? | ||
| I don't have any updates for you at this time, but I can tell you that the review that we're doing into the horrendous Afghanistan withdrawal under the previous administration, the Biden administration, is expected to be complete by summer of 2026. | ||
| And we are committed to ensuring that this review, unlike others, is much more unredacted, that the American people are able to consume the report for themselves and see what truly happened on that fateful day and that fateful withdrawal. | ||
| And we owe it to our service members to accomplish that. | ||
| The review is being led by our chief Pentagon spokesman and senior advisor to the Secretary, Sean Parnell, an Afghan veteran himself. | ||
| And he takes very seriously the responsibility to getting answers to the American people. | ||
| So we are committed to that 100%. | ||
| And in summer 2026, the public will be able to have that report. | ||
| Yes. | ||
| Thank you, Kinsley. | ||
| A question for you in regards to the Afghan withdrawal. | ||
| When we brought all these migrants onto military bases or these refugees onto military bases, we saw a surge in assault immediately after sexual assault and physical assaults. | ||
| And then all of a sudden, under the previous administration, we no longer learned of anything that was happening anymore on these military bases. | ||
| Does this Pentagon plan on giving us some type of criminal data on that to see what actually happens when they were brought onto these military bases? | ||
| And do we have any status updates on like FBI investigations and such? | ||
| So for FBI investigations, anything that would be a criminal law enforcement matter would obviously be something to direct to the Department of Justice, as we cannot speak to that from our perch here at the Department of War. | ||
| But what I can tell you is that we are aware of a lot of that activity that went on. | ||
| It's despicable. | ||
| One is too many, right? | ||
| And we understand that the Biden administration, unfortunately, put our troops in our country last in many cases. | ||
| The Secretary is committed to correcting that. | ||
| And I think that's what you're going to see going forward. | ||
| Yes. | ||
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All right. | |
| So that was a host of this show, host of the American Journal, Brandon Morello, asking a question to the Pentagon spokesperson. | ||
| There are a couple of times where I felt like interrupting right there, but honestly, it was just, it was interesting, and the questions being asked are good. | ||
| And really, what we're witnessing here is a real sea change. | ||
| It's like I'm dreaming or something. | ||
| So you've got a Pentagon press briefing, but I recognize half the people there. | ||
| I saw Savannah Hernandez. | ||
| I saw Brandon Morello, Laura Loomer, James O'Keefe is there. | ||
| Somebody from Real America's Voice, somebody from Gateway Pundit, somebody from InfoWars, of course, Brandon Morello, or ex-InfoWars TPOSA representative Savannah Hernandez. | ||
| This is crazy. | ||
| This is awesome. | ||
| And they're asking good questions. | ||
| And I was going back and looking up some transcripts from other Pentagon briefings where the AP is asking questions. | ||
| And half the time it would literally descend into like a shouting match as they're like, so you're not going to be sending food to this place? | ||
| And just like just causing outrage, causing dissension. | ||
| Again, here we actually get pertinent questions about what the intentions of the Trump administration are. | ||
| You know, the Pentagon's going to be, you know, she's got her talking points and she sort of returns to, you know, the prefabricated statements. | ||
| You know, I don't expect her to be all that transparent. | ||
| But the fact that we have independent reporters in there, uncontrolled, not mainstream media reporters in there, InfoWars reporters in there, is just absolutely mind-blowing and incredible. | ||
| And they're asking very good questions. | ||
| And, you know, the only thing I'd say I'm a little disappointed in from the Pentagon right now is, again, talking about treason and sedition of people like Mark Kelly as if they can't do anything about it, as if they just have to let it continue and hope everybody else is as outraged as they are. | ||
| Like, isn't Mark Kelly in the military? | ||
| Can't you court-martial him? | ||
| Why are you telling us he's treasonous? | ||
| This is nonsense. | ||
| We'll go back to this on the other side. | ||
| This is fascinating. | ||
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| Now, we're going to return to the Pentagon briefing here. | ||
| Some more pertinent questions are asked, but just returning to everything that she'd said, because she's covered a lot of stuff already. | ||
| Like I said, I kept thinking about interjecting, but I wanted to see who was asked questions, question who would be asking questions next, especially since we know so many people in the press briefing room. | ||
| It's exciting to see your friend get to put a question in the Pentagon. | ||
| But to me, what stands out is what she said about sedition and treason. | ||
| And these are not light words. | ||
| These are not off-the-cuff phrases. | ||
| She's not saying these are very bad things. | ||
| She's using a legally potent term, treason, sedition. | ||
| Just how is it? | ||
| How is it that we have officials in the American government calling something treason, but the people doing that thing are both not arrested, not indicted, not being silenced, but actually still going on TV and actually making it worse? | ||
| This has happened a few times, but let me explain how this goes. | ||
| You've got multiple codes of law in America, all of which have provisions against doing exactly what the sedition six did. | ||
| It's not up for debate. | ||
| It's not a matter of interpretation. | ||
| They broke the law. | ||
| It's just, it's clear-cut. | ||
| It's as clear as it could possibly be. | ||
| The way the law is written, 18 U.S. Code 2387, I think is what it was. | ||
| 2387. | ||
| I think that's right. | ||
| No uncertain terms. | ||
| The attempt to sow dissension, the attempt to convince soldiers to question their orders is illegal. | ||
| Flat out. | ||
| And I could stop there. | ||
| And all of the six of these people should go to jail just on the base of that one video. | ||
| Nothing else matters. | ||
| But then they go on TV and they're asked, what illegal orders are you talking about? | ||
| And I've been over this on the war room, so not to repeat myself, but essentially the U.S. code says, unless the order is manifestly illegal, and they actually give examples for things that would be considered manifestly illegal. | ||
| One of them is like raping prisoners of war or mass murder of innocent people. | ||
| Yeah, you don't have to put Jews in the gas chamber, okay? | ||
| If you're ordered to put Jews in a gas chamber, you can say no. | ||
| Beyond that, you don't really have an ability to say no to orders. | ||
| In fact, in the U.S. Code, it explicitly says that thinking that civilian law might contradict your orders is not a valid excuse to disobey orders. | ||
| Okay? | ||
| Then the sedition six go on TV and when they're asked what examples of illegal orders they're talking about, they say things like the National Guard being deployed on American streets for crime prevention. | ||
| Okay, so if all they did was say don't follow illegal orders, I still think that's in violation of the law. | ||
| It's still an attempt to sow dissension. | ||
| It's still an attempt to disrupt the chain of command. | ||
| It's just so obviously treasonous. | ||
| It's crazy that they're just still out there doing it. | ||
| And if that's all they said, it would still be illegal. | ||
| But when they go on TV and try to elaborate on what they're saying, they are doubling down on the fact that what they're encouraging soldiers to disobey, the orders they're encouraging soldiers to disobey are lawful orders. | ||
| It's not even up for debate. | ||
| They're saying that, oh, these strikes on the boats are unlawful orders. | ||
| That's not true. | ||
| No, again, in the code, in the U.S. 182387, they specifically say stuff like that does not count as illegal orders. | ||
| So since they're referencing that as the quote-unquote illegal order that they're saying to disobey, what does that mean? | ||
| By the transitive property, what that means is they are telling people to disobey lawful orders. | ||
| They can call them illegal, but then when asked for an example, they list a legal order or they list a deployment that in the code is explicitly laid out as not being a valid order for disobeying. | ||
| I mean, it's like, so it's just crazy. | ||
| It's just, it's just crazy that you've got the Pentagon and the president and all these people saying these people committed treason, they committed sedition, and then those people are on TV that day clarifying that, yeah, the orders they're saying to disobey are the lawful ones. | ||
| What are we doing? | ||
| What are we doing here? | ||
| What is this? | ||
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It's just, that's just maddening. | |
| I don't, I mean, it's like, I said this yesterday. | ||
| What, what could they do to get arrested? | ||
| I mean, they're clearly pushing the envelope. | ||
| They're clearly feeling confident that, okay, we've already committed sedition and treason and they didn't do anything. | ||
| Let's do it more. | ||
| Let's go even harder. | ||
| Let's expand what we're saying to disobey. | ||
| If they're saying that the illegal orders are bombing these boats, again, that is just explicitly not what you're allowed to disobey. | ||
| Okay, so they have confirmed by their own words, they are encouraging the military to disobey lawful orders. | ||
| Does that make sense? | ||
| Do people get what I'm saying about this? | ||
| I genuinely don't know anymore because I don't know how this isn't obvious to everybody. | ||
| Wild, truly wild. | ||
| And we can go to more videos of this. | ||
| Let's go back out to the Pentagon press conference here. | ||
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I wanted to give you. | |
| Yeah. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Let's just go back. | ||
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SouthComp strikes real quick. | |
| Just broadly speaking, not specifically about the September 2nd strike, but broadly speaking, are we doing any kinds of post-strike assessments to determine that the intelligence that informed those strikes was accurate? | ||
| Are we recovering any drugs on board those vessels you mentioned? | ||
| That's a good question. | ||
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Each vessel struck is equivalent of 25,000 overdose deaths. | |
| So are we mostly picking up fentanyl or cocaine or what how do you, what's going on with these boats? | ||
| Like what's on these boats? | ||
| Yeah, thank you for the question. | ||
| So I can tell you in terms of your question about intelligence that our intelligence absolutely confirms who these people are. | ||
| And I can't get into right from this podium how we know that. | ||
| I don't want to communicate to the enemy the ways in which we're carrying out these strikes. | ||
| But I can tell you that without a shadow of a doubt, every single one of our military and civilian lawyers knows that these individuals are narco-terrorists. | ||
| We know what they're carrying, where they're coming from, and where they're going. | ||
| And they are trying to bring drugs to our shores that kill and hurt American citizens. | ||
| The president takes that very seriously. | ||
| And when he designated these groups, designated terrorist organizations, that opened up a lot for us here at the Department of War. | ||
| We can engage in ways that we never could before. | ||
| So that's all I can say at the moment on that topic, but I can 100% affirm that we know without a shadow of a doubt who these narco-terrorists are. | ||
| Yes, Wade. | ||
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So you were speaking earlier about the Washington Post report concerning the Secretary of War and Admiral Bradley. | |
| And my question is, does the Department of War plan on pursuing any sort of legal action against the Washington Post? | ||
| And what consequences will there be for lying to the American people? | ||
| Because of course, the implication there was that Pete Hegseth and Admiral Bradley are war criminals. | ||
| And that was the implication. | ||
| And that's what a lot of people on social media were saying after the fact. | ||
| So could you speak to that? | ||
| Yeah, it is, frankly, disgusting that the Washington Post would publish something that is so insanely false. | ||
| And we've seen this from the mainstream media before, right? | ||
| Anonymous sources that are being quoted that probably have no idea what's going on. | ||
| And the Washington Post actually went so far as to falsely attribute a quote to the Secretary of Defense of War, excuse me, that he never said. | ||
| That is preposterous that they would write that and pass that off as true journalism. | ||
| Thankfully, the New York Times stepped in and corrected the record and let the American people know that what they were publishing was absolutely fake news. | ||
| So the Washington Post, I think readership should think twice before reading that outlet again. | ||
| It is disgraceful that they call themselves journalists. | ||
| And we told them as such, right? | ||
| We get press queries like we do from all of you. | ||
| We told them this story was completely fake news on Thanksgiving evening with a three-hour deadline and they still published it anyway. | ||
| It's disgraceful, but thankfully the American people see through it. | ||
| Yes, Jack. | ||
| Kingsley, does the Secretary's office or the Pentagon in general, the department, have a message for Senator Wicker, who as a Republican has now backed this inquiry into Secretary Hagseth, again, accusing him of war crimes? | ||
| It seemed strange to see a Republican going after one of President Trump's own cabinet members. | ||
| So I can confirm that the Secretary of War spoke with Senator Wicker, and they had a good conversation where he was able to explain to him a lot of the rationale behind these strikes. | ||
| And we work closely with all of our partners on the Hill, whether Republican or Democrat, to keep them up to date on what this department is doing in regards to the strike. | ||
| So we will continue to do that and we'll continue to brief members of HASC and SASC. | ||
| And we look forward to continuing those relationships. | ||
| Quick follow-up. | ||
| You mentioned working with partners on the Hill. | ||
| Another senator on the Hill, the Democrat side, is Senator Mark Kelly. | ||
| Now, we heard some reporting about a possible investigation into him regarding his status as a retired member of the United States Navy, still on pension, and therefore still under the jurisdiction of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. | ||
| And as such, his membership, you mentioned the seditious six. | ||
| Would that be grounds for possibly bringing him back to active service for an investigation for NJP or even a full court martial? | ||
| So you're correct. | ||
| The Department of War received serious allegations of misconduct against Senator Mark Kelly. | ||
| And in accordance with the Uniform Code of Military Justice and other applicable recommendations and regulations, we're doing a thorough review of all of these allegations. | ||
| And the Secretary of War has tasked the Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, with doing a thorough review, looking into all of these allegations and providing him an update on December 10th. | ||
| So we will have more information to come on that. | ||
| But I would just add that this despicable video that Mark Kelly participated in with the Seditious Six was a politically motivated influence operation that was an attempt to undermine the chain of command to sow distrust and division in our armed forces. | ||
| That is absolutely ridiculous, and it puts our warfighters at risk. | ||
| And again, he doubled down on the Sunday shows. | ||
| I don't know if you all saw him on the Sunday shows, but he basically insinuated that service members who do not defy President Trump's orders could face potential prosecution in the future when Democrats are back in power. | ||
| He even called our troops and likened them to those of the Russian military. | ||
| This is totally disgraceful from an elected official, and the department takes it very seriously, and that is why we have launched this review. | ||
| This is Jack Pisobic asking these questions. | ||
| I want to hear what else he says. | ||
| What was the question? | ||
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| If Secretary Phelan were to recommend court-martial, that could be an option on the table. | ||
| All options are on the table at this moment in time. | ||
| And we look forward to getting the Secretary of the Navy's review. | ||
| And the Secretary of War has been very clear in his statements as well that he takes this extremely seriously, and it is unacceptable. | ||
| That's all the time I have today. | ||
| Thank you all so much. | ||
| I really appreciate you coming out. | ||
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Wow. | |
| Well, that's very good to hear that they're taking it so seriously. | ||
| Again, another really good series of questions from Jack Pisovic. | ||
| And I really can't overemphasize what a monumental sea change this is. | ||
| Seeing Jack Posobic, Matt Gates, Breanna Morello, Laura Loomer, Savannah Hernandez, James O'Keefe, these are the people putting questions to the Pentagon right now. | ||
| And you can just imagine what the questions would have been if it was Washington Post and the AP there. | ||
| It would have been, you know, Trump has said that, you know, Trump has said that this is sedition and the they wouldn't even say that. | ||
| They would say, Trump has threatened to hang Mark Kelly. | ||
| Is Trump really learning how to tie nooses right now? | ||
| Is he going to do it himself or is he going to get somebody else? | ||
| Like the ridiculous questions that frame it in a certain way to project to the American people that the journalists are standing up for their interests when it's all completely fabricated, total nonsense to create a narrative to undermine the Trump administration, to have people like Jack Posobic now able to ask the actual questions that, I don't know, people like myself actually want to know the answer to what's going to be done to Mark Kelly and why are you not court-martialing him? | ||
| These are the questions that need to be asked because again, journalism isn't just about reporting to the people what the government says. | ||
| It's about getting the government to move on the people's concerns because the journalists are the ones who translate the people's concerns to the authorities there. | ||
| So this is really an incredible thing. | ||
| And I got to give kudos to the Trump administration. | ||
| No qualifications, no holds barred. | ||
| Like it is really amazing what they've been able to do by opening up the press rooms to these independent journalists who deserve it, who have paid the price and paid their dues and actually succeeded independently, not because they've been tapped by some multinational corporation to be a spokesperson for the military-industrial complex. | ||
| These are actual independent reporters who have made their name on telling the truth are now in the room asking the questions that dictate the policies. | ||
| Incredible stuff. | ||
| And I would tack this on a gold star for Trump on this. | ||
| He gets a trophy. | ||
| Stay tuned, folks. | ||
| Alex Jones, Nick Fuentez, coming up later today. | ||
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