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=== War with Iraq? (02:04) ===

[00:00:06]  Look, everybody is debating this as are you for the MULAS or are you for regime change?
[00:00:15]  You have to look at all of this in the history of it and the neocons in 9-11 saying they were going to regime change seven countries and use 9-11 as the pretext.
[00:00:24]  Right after 9-11, about 10 days after 9-11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz.
[00:00:33]  I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the joint staff who used to work for me.
[00:00:37]  And one of the generals called me in.
[00:00:38]  He said, sir, you got to come in.
[00:00:40]  You've got to come in and talk to me a second.
[00:00:42]  I said, well, you're too busy.
[00:00:43]  He said, no, no.
[00:00:44]  He says, we've made the decision we're going to war with Iraq.
[00:00:49]  This was on or about the 20th of September.
[00:00:52]  I said, we're going to war with Iraq.
[00:00:53]  Why?
[00:00:56]  He said, I don't know.
[00:00:58]  He reached over on his desk.
[00:00:59]  He picked up a piece of paper.
[00:01:00]  He said, he said, I just got this down from upstairs, meaning the Secretary of Defense office today.
[00:01:05]  And he said, this is a memo that describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off Iran.
[00:01:19]  I said, is it classified?
[00:01:20]  He said, yes, sir.
[00:01:24]  I said, well, don't show it to me.
[00:01:27]  Were we to get out early, we'd be intensifying the threat against us of a super powerful Sunni extremist group, which was now legitimated by overt Saudi funding in an effort to hang on to a toehold inside Iraq and block Iranian expansionism.
[00:01:47]  And it wasn't just Wesley Clark releasing classified info.
[00:01:50]  They said the Project for the American Century, a year before 9-11, that they needed a big attack to be able to do this.
[00:01:57]  And so I don't like the Mulas.
[00:01:58]  I don't like their dictatorship, but this is not America first.
[00:02:03]  So I've got a lot of the folks out there that don't like Iran because they blew up the Marine base and all the rest of it and attacked Israel.
[00:02:10]  I don't like the Iranian leadership either.

=== Iran's Nuclear Testispers (03:04) ===

[00:02:11]  Neither does their population.
[00:02:12]  They're very unpopular.
[00:02:14]  Even Eric Prince, he's looked at the different ethnic and religious groups there.
[00:02:18]  There's a very good chance this is going to be a civil war.
[00:02:21]  We're going to be sucked into a new Vietnam.
[00:02:23]  And that's if we're successful getting rid of the Mulas.
[00:02:26]  So it's a real roll of the dice.
[00:02:29]  But no one can deny that this is an extremely bold move by Trump.
[00:02:37]  And Trump said, you know, if they're going to get a nuke, I'm going to go in and stop them.
[00:02:41]  Now, here's the big story.
[00:02:43]  And I told you this at least 15 years ago.
[00:02:46]  And then I talked to other Pentagon sources and they said, yeah, that's true.
[00:02:48]  And you shouldn't know that.
[00:02:51]  But they have cars, vans, taxi cabs, you name it, that the West has in Iran that drive around, that have sensors on them that scoop up the air.
[00:03:03]  And then they send it back and have it tested.
[00:03:06]  And 15, 16 years ago, they were driving around the enrichment centers.
[00:03:10]  So they stick them out in the middle of nowhere trying to keep away from that.
[00:03:13]  But they can also follow vehicles that are transporting it.
[00:03:15]  And they picked up heavily enriched uranium from the centrifuges.
[00:03:20]  So when you hear Israel saying for 20 years, you know, oh, they're two weeks from a nuke, that's because they have been.
[00:03:28]  Now, just because that's true doesn't mean Israel has a right to strike them.
[00:03:31]  We're going to attack North Korea because they have nukes.
[00:03:34]  I want to be clear.
[00:03:34]  Iran is trying to get a weapons program.
[00:03:37]  They refused the peaceful program and the free fuel to build power reactors.
[00:03:42]  They don't need reactors.
[00:03:43]  They are full of oil and gas.
[00:03:46]  So it is true that they've been pursuing a nuclear program.
[00:03:48]  I don't believe you have a right to attack them just because of that.
[00:03:51]  Can Iran attack Israel because they've got nukes?
[00:03:53]  Now, here's the headline.
[00:03:56]  And this is officially on the Iranian news channels.
[00:03:59]  Iran needs only one week to conduct a nuclear test, says a member of Iranian Security Committee, their security council, and a high-level member of parliament.
[00:04:08]  There's a bunch of statements by the council.
[00:04:10]  We can have a bomb in one hour.
[00:04:12]  We can have a bomb in one day.
[00:04:14]  We can have a nuclear test within one week.
[00:04:17]  And Iran could test a nuke and show everybody.
[00:04:22]  And, you know, we've had Witkoff saying this earlier in the week.
[00:04:27]  And the bigger deal is they have the delivery systems now with their medium-range ballistic missiles.
[00:04:34]  Now, when I state those facts, people go, oh, my God, you agree with Israeli propaganda.
[00:04:39]  Not everything Israel says is a lie.
[00:04:43]  Now Iran says they're one week away from being able to test one.
[00:04:48]  And I predict it because that's the obvious move to say, hey, we got nukes.
[00:04:51]  Okay.
[00:04:52]  We got nukes.
[00:04:53]  Because they look at North Korea and others that have nukes that don't get attacked.
[00:04:57]  So this is a big deal.
[00:05:08]  Welcome to the American Journal.
[00:05:10]  Happy Tuesday, everyone.
[00:05:12]  March 3rd.
[00:05:13]  I can't believe we're already in March.
[00:05:14]  We're here.

=== Shantae And The Creepy Hot Tub (07:41) ===

[00:05:15]  We're here.
[00:05:15]  I'm getting ready to kick off another great show for you all today.
[00:05:18]  So buckle up because we've got a lot to discuss.
[00:05:20]  You may have seen it.
[00:05:22]  You may have seen if you didn't, we're catching up on it.
[00:05:24]  But the Clintons deposition was released late yesterday afternoon.
[00:05:28]  And we got our hands on some very important information, of course.
[00:05:31]  And I'll be breaking down the very latest for you on that because there's a lot that I want to make sure you are read in on.
[00:05:36]  Most importantly, one of the individuals in that room for the Clinton deposition was Congressman Eric Burlson.
[00:05:42]  And he'll be joining the show in just a bit to break down the questions he asked the Clintons, as well as what he knows is going on behind the scenes and all of that.
[00:05:52]  I got a lot of questions to ask him.
[00:05:53]  So we look forward to having him on just about 25 minutes.
[00:05:56]  I'll also be joined by Ann Vanderstiel as well, who's ready to sound off on the war with Iran.
[00:06:02]  There's a lot going on there, a lot of different sound bites coming from individuals like the secretary, Margaret Rubio, and others.
[00:06:09]  Benjamin Nightingalah, who also doing media yesterday, appeared on Sean Hannity's show.
[00:06:14]  So we got a lot to discuss there.
[00:06:16]  So Ann's ready to go on that front.
[00:06:19]  We'll also be reacting to both the Pentagon's response and to the very latest in Iran with Captain John Conrad.
[00:06:27]  Now, he is someone who I actually had the pleasure of meeting when I was over at the Pentagon.
[00:06:32]  It was our very first day for the new media to be there.
[00:06:35]  And he is also credentialed to cover the Pentagon as well.
[00:06:39]  But there's a lot that I want to discuss with him in regards to Iran because I'm sure many of you probably saw the very latest coming out from the region, the devastating news regarding six U.S. service members being killed.
[00:06:51]  But what the heck are we doing there?
[00:06:53]  And what the heck's going on?
[00:06:54]  It's a lot.
[00:06:55]  It's a very complex issue.
[00:06:56]  And I look forward to John helping me break that down for our audience as well.
[00:07:01]  So let's kick things off very first with the Clintons.
[00:07:04]  Why not?
[00:07:05]  Yesterday, you may have seen the deposition video publicly being released.
[00:07:09]  It featured Bill and Hillary Clinton being both sworn in and their hours of long testimony.
[00:07:14]  And of course, for Hillary, it was very unhinged because she wasn't very happy with the fact that she had to be there in the first place.
[00:07:20]  But then for people like Bill, well, Bill had a couple of creepy moments.
[00:07:24]  And by creepy moments, I mean like really creepy moments.
[00:07:27]  His lawyer, even at one moment, had to stop and try to be like, Bill, stop it.
[00:07:32]  Bill, stop it.
[00:07:34]  Bill couldn't help himself when he was looking through images that were handed over by the DOJ.
[00:07:39]  And he took a little walk down memory lane, that memory lane.
[00:07:42]  Oh, there goes the lawyer.
[00:07:43]  Grab it.
[00:07:44]  Bill.
[00:07:45]  Oh, Bill.
[00:07:47]  He can't seem to behave himself.
[00:07:48]  He's so creepy.
[00:07:49]  I kind of want to know what picture he was giving that creepy little grin at.
[00:07:54]  His lawyer trying her very best to save Mr. Clinton.
[00:07:58]  But of course, he's known for not being able to help himself.
[00:08:03]  That's the nicest way to put it.
[00:08:05]  Now, obviously, a lot's come out over these last few hours, and we've been sifting through the most important parts of those depositions.
[00:08:12]  So let's kick things off with some of the highlights from Bill's deposition in clip one.
[00:08:17]  Have you ever had contact with an individual by the name of Shantae Davies?
[00:08:23]  I believe Shantae was that's distinctly naive.
[00:08:27]  I think that was the name of one of his flat opinions.
[00:08:29]  Okay.
[00:08:30]  She's been described on being on a 2002 Africa trip and providing massages.
[00:08:36]  Was she or any other young female on that trip underage at that time?
[00:08:41]  Not that I'm aware of.
[00:08:43]  Okay.
[00:08:44]  Did you ever receive a massage or have physical contact from her or anyone else on that trip?
[00:08:53]  You've seen the pictures.
[00:08:54]  There was one time when I was sitting up and I got a back rub, a neckwood.
[00:09:00]  Okay.
[00:09:00]  And I think Shantae did it, but I'm not sure.
[00:09:03]  Okay.
[00:09:04]  Did you ever visit Epstein's Little St. James Island?
[00:09:08]  No.
[00:09:10]  We have Virginia Guffery who has testified seeing you on the island with two young girls.
[00:09:15]  Did this occur at all?
[00:09:18]  Okay.
[00:09:19]  Why do you think she would have made that claim?
[00:09:21]  Objection, speculation.
[00:09:22]  He can't possibly.
[00:09:25]  Have you ever met her or any other Epstein-associated underage girl?
[00:09:29]  Not to my knowledge.
[00:09:31]  Okay.
[00:09:34]  I'd like to ask you personally and directly, do you believe that Jeffrey Epstein killed himself?
[00:09:39]  Are you asking him to speculate on how Mr. Epstein died?
[00:09:42]  I'm asking what the president thinks.
[00:09:45]  So you're asking his opinion?
[00:09:46]  Mr. President, was your friend Jeffrey Epstein suicidal?
[00:09:50]  I'm classifying him as a friend who he has testified that he was friendly.
[00:09:54]  He said he was friendly, but you've asked for his testimony.
[00:09:57]  Mr. President, do you believe that Jeffrey Epstein was suicidal?
[00:10:01]  Do you know?
[00:10:02]  Was he ever suicidal?
[00:10:05]  I don't know.
[00:10:05]  I only know what the medical finding was.
[00:10:09]  I think maybe he finally got caught.
[00:10:14]  I don't know.
[00:10:16]  I've accepted it in my own mind.
[00:10:18]  I don't know what happened.
[00:10:19]  Mr. President, what did you accept, that he killed himself or that he did not?
[00:10:23]  That he did, but I don't know.
[00:10:25]  Yes, sir.
[00:10:26]  Thank you.
[00:10:27]  None of us know.
[00:10:28]  So do you recall the details of this photo or recall the photo being taken?
[00:10:33]  No, I don't think I ever knew the photo was taken.
[00:10:35]  Okay, and for those who can't see it, it's a photo of you in a hot tub.
[00:10:39]  There's a person next to you here.
[00:10:43]  Do you remember where it was taken?
[00:10:46]  Where was it taken?
[00:10:47]  I'm almost sure that this taken, I think there's an adjacent photograph, which you probably have.
[00:10:53]  And if people saw it, they would feel that someone was trying to calm them, show them this picture.
[00:10:58]  But anyway, this picture was taken in Brunei.
[00:11:09]  And we flew one night on a trip to Asia, the last very long leg.
[00:11:21]  He said we, who is that including?
[00:11:23]  Well, my TIL team that was working on the AIDS issue and Mr. Epstein was there and Ms. Michael.
[00:11:33]  But anyway, we got to the end of the end of the flight was Brunei.
[00:11:40]  It's a tiny place, but a very wealthy one.
[00:11:42]  And the Sultan Umai was a man that I had gotten to know well in my eight years as president.
[00:11:51]  And he, his first involvement with international matters is basically to join the Asian Pacific Economic Leaders Conference, which I started and which he attended.
[00:12:05]  And so, and then He was very proud of that.
[00:12:09]  And he hosted, his time came to host it.
[00:12:12]  You know, you do these things in rotation.
[00:12:14]  And it came at either at the very end of my term or maybe the next year.
[00:12:21]  Anyway, he wanted, when he knew I was coming, he said he wanted to help me with my AIDS initiative, and he invited me to stay there.
[00:12:31]  And he said, I want you to stay at this hotel, and I hope you'll use the pool.
[00:12:38]  So I did.
[00:12:40]  And then I got out and went to bed, exhausted.
[00:12:44]  Just for the record, there's another picture that also shows this as part of the larger pool area.
[00:12:49]  Do you all have that so that he could refresh his recollection with respect to that?
[00:12:53]  We should have it.
[00:12:55]  It's quite enlightening.

=== Howard Luttnick's Testimony (13:45) ===

[00:12:56]  If you watch this, it'll give you a different feel.
[00:13:01]  Thank you.
[00:13:03]  We don't have it with us right now.
[00:13:04]  Okay.
[00:13:05]  Thanks.
[00:13:05]  I just wanted to make sure he knew the comments.
[00:13:07]  Were there other people in that pool or hot tub with you as well?
[00:13:11]  I don't think there's anybody in the hot tub, but I don't even, I didn't forgotten that there was anybody in the hot tub, but it was big, but it was about, well, there's a, it appears there's a, there's a.
[00:13:23]  There's a girl over here.
[00:13:25]  Yeah, I don't know who that is.
[00:13:28]  I hate this, but because I don't believe I should inject anything.
[00:13:32]  But I do not want to leave the impression.
[00:13:36]  But since there was no follow-up question, he never, the president never, this is 20-something years ago, never said anything to me to make me think he was involved in anything improper with regard to Epstein either.
[00:13:54]  He just didn't.
[00:13:56]  That's the truth.
[00:14:00]  As I said earlier, the only conversation I had with President Trump about this was in the early 2000s.
[00:14:12]  And I have no information that he did anything wrong.
[00:14:18]  I just want it all out there.
[00:14:20]  I want everybody to get it all out there and let everybody see where we are.
[00:14:25]  And as you heard him say there, he was referring to President Donald Trump that he did nothing wrong.
[00:14:30]  Again, it looks like Bill and both Trump are validating that the two of them did nothing wrong.
[00:14:37]  President Trump has spoken highly about Bill Clinton over the last few weeks.
[00:14:41]  It's been quite strange, of course, even speaking highly about Hillary.
[00:14:46]  Obviously, Bill Clinton is playing ignorant and it's probably the best in his defense.
[00:14:52]  He didn't seem to know much, but there wasn't really much in the way of bombshell revealings that were made during Bill Clinton's deposition.
[00:15:00]  And I thought it was quite interesting as we were sitting back and listening to Bill.
[00:15:02]  Obviously, he's not in the best health.
[00:15:05]  And obviously, he's pretending to pretend like he doesn't know anything.
[00:15:09]  Probably good legal advice.
[00:15:12]  Play ignorant.
[00:15:13]  Now, his lawyers had to step on him a couple of times and grab things out of his hand because Bill was taking things a little too far.
[00:15:19]  The whole deposition is currently available right now online.
[00:15:22]  If you like to view it yourself, it's on YouTube and you can do just that.
[00:15:26]  It's a couple hours long, but feel free.
[00:15:29]  Look away.
[00:15:29]  Maybe you'll find a gem in that footage.
[00:15:32]  And speaking of gems, by the way, Hillary Clinton, obviously, was present during all of this.
[00:15:38]  And she too had to give her own deposition.
[00:15:41]  Now, it was very interesting listening to Hillary because she had a couple of unhinged moments.
[00:15:45]  And I have to say, I didn't hear questions that I thought were, again, I mean, Hillary said herself.
[00:15:53]  She thought the questions were poorly worded and she didn't understand the purpose on some of them.
[00:15:57]  Even at one point, them asking her about UFOs, which is very, very strange.
[00:16:02]  But here's Hillary Clinton.
[00:16:03]  These are the best of moments during Hillary Clinton's deposition that has just recently been released to the public.
[00:16:09]  Take a listen to clip two.
[00:16:11]  The president of the United States is not above the law and should be in a setting like this answering questions under oath, as should others who are prominently featured in the files, and especially the group that is featured after 2008.
[00:16:33]  Because prior to 2008, when Jeffrey Epstein pled guilty to the watered down charges that Alex Acosta negotiated and then was rewarded for in the first Trump administration with a cabinet position, there are so many unanswered questions.
[00:16:54]  Relevant.
[00:16:54]  If my wife saw pictures with me as a grown man hanging out with obviously or close to underage women, regardless if it was before we were married or not, it would be a question.
[00:17:08]  And so what I'm asking you is, did any questions regarding those photographs come to your mind?
[00:17:16]  I am going to, just as clearly as I can state, say I don't see the relevance of your question.
[00:17:23]  And I am not going to talk about conversations that I had with my family, especially my husband.
[00:17:31]  And for clarity, Are you all asserting spousal privilege?
[00:17:37]  For clarity, we're looking for the relevance of her conversations with her husband and what she might have thought about her conversations with.
[00:17:46]  How does that help further the legislative purpose of this committee as they investigate the prosecution and investigations of Jeffrey Epstein?
[00:17:56]  I think Mr. Perry's questions directly relate to her daughter?
[00:18:00]  To what?
[00:18:00]  My state of mind?
[00:18:01]  Her state of mind?
[00:18:02]  What possible relevance does my state of mind have to your investigation?
[00:18:07]  Just for the record, you would like her to identify pictures of her spouse?
[00:18:11]  You need her here to testify on pictures of her spouse?
[00:18:14]  42nd President of the United States of America.
[00:18:22]  That is my husband.
[00:18:24]  Okay, how about the location?
[00:18:26]  I have no knowledge of the location.
[00:18:29]  I have no context for the location.
[00:18:30]  I know nothing about the location.
[00:18:32]  Does he exhibit characteristics?
[00:18:36]  Is there a pattern that would lead you and your expertise to believe that he was an asset?
[00:18:42]  Well, there certainly is in the files, and I do commend you for getting as much released as you can.
[00:18:50]  I hope you can get it all released.
[00:18:54]  You know, hints of relationships with powerful foreign leaders, pictures, emails, meetings.
[00:19:05]  He was clearly somebody who traded off of information.
[00:19:08]  Exactly.
[00:19:09]  He liked to collect it and then he liked to use it.
[00:19:12]  I don't know any more details than that.
[00:19:15]  So he is certainly, I said earlier, you know, the intelligence connections, the money connections, the crimes, those seem to me to be the, you know, the three major elements of your investigation.
[00:19:29]  Possible?
[00:19:30]  Well, it's certainly possible.
[00:19:32]  It's a tried and true technique of certain intelligence agencies.
[00:19:36]  Do you believe that he was using honeypots in an effort topic of transparency, Secretary?
[00:19:44]  Were you ever denied access or did you ever inquire on the topic of UAP or Gilgamesh in your official personal capacity?
[00:19:49]  And why?
[00:19:51]  I was never denied access because I never asked for access.
[00:19:56]  Okay.
[00:19:58]  In the efforts of having a transparent government and restoring faith within our country, do you believe that the American people deserve access to those topics?
[00:20:07]  I do.
[00:20:08]  Subject to any national security implications, I think the information should be made available.
[00:20:14]  I think that's been ordered, or at least I read that it had been ordered.
[00:20:18]  And lastly, before I yield my time, Chairman Comer, do you believe that you were personally a target of an intelligence gathering operation specifically pertaining to Glen Maxwell Arjek or Jeffrey Epstein?
[00:20:28]  I have no reason to believe that.
[00:20:30]  I don't have any information.
[00:20:31]  Okay, thank you.
[00:20:32]  Mr. Epstein is commenting and he quotes, hey, Hillary Clinton is much prettier in person.
[00:20:41]  This was Tuesday, September 20th, 2011.
[00:20:46]  And then another I'm not going to object to that.
[00:20:50]  Yeah, that's the first time I think anyone's ever thought that she was attractive.
[00:20:54]  Of course, you're not going to object to that.
[00:20:55]  But folks, a lot you heard there.
[00:20:57]  She obviously doesn't think that she was being utilized in any type of intelligence agency way.
[00:21:03]  That's how she detailed it specifically for you there.
[00:21:06]  Now, for some reason, the congresswoman from the great state of Florida, that's Anna Paulina Luna, seems to believe that.
[00:21:12]  And she also backed it up during a press conference after that deposition was filmed.
[00:21:17]  So she seems, and maybe she has evidence that both Bill and Hillary were somehow, some way the subjects of an intel gathering situation.
[00:21:26]  Again, no details backing that one up.
[00:21:28]  Thought that was interesting though.
[00:21:29]  She kept driving that point home and wanted to make it very, very clear that she thought there was something more here.
[00:21:34]  Now, as you heard, again, not explosive information, that same attorney jumping in on several occasions to stop and to correct and to prevent certain pieces of information from getting out there.
[00:21:46]  Again, a lot of it was also speculation.
[00:21:48]  And so one must wonder why the committee was so focused on this speculation regarding the Clintons relationships or relationship, I should say, with Jeffrey Epstein.
[00:21:58]  Not really bombshell, though.
[00:22:00]  And like I mentioned, in just a few moments, we're going to be joined by one of the great congressmen that were in the room that day during both of those depositions.
[00:22:07]  Eric Barlson will be joining us.
[00:22:09]  And he's got a lot to sound off on in regards to all of that because he and receiving his questions, he did ask some great questions.
[00:22:15]  And we look forward to talking to him about that.
[00:22:16]  But there's so much information out there regarding the Epsteins and their interactions with Jeffrey Epstein.
[00:22:22]  Now, of course, Hillary, and again, I understand that they can't really get one to land on Hillary.
[00:22:27]  Hillary is going to be distancing herself from Jeffrey Epstein, rightfully so, but Bill can't do that.
[00:22:32]  We know Bill was getting personal visits from Epstein to the White House specifically.
[00:22:36]  We know they were friends.
[00:22:38]  Now, Bill tried his very best to hide and pretend like they weren't that close.
[00:22:41]  Actually, when they said that they were friends, he corrected the lawyer, corrected them, said, I mean, they had a friendship at one point, but still continuously tried to distance themselves.
[00:22:50]  That's the goal here.
[00:22:52]  That's the goal here and everything.
[00:22:53]  And then there was a quite the strange interaction.
[00:22:57]  As many of you guys know, Howard Luttnick, who's currently serving in this administration, was also brought up during Hillary Clinton's deposition.
[00:23:04]  And the interesting part here is Hillary Clinton got really bothered when she was asked about Howard Luttnick.
[00:23:10]  So between her and Congresswoman Nancy Mays, they got into a little bit of a heated dispute.
[00:23:15]  And it was definitely kind of entertaining, I'd say.
[00:23:18]  It wasn't a clip three.
[00:23:19]  Very much about at all.
[00:23:21]  And how do you know Howard Luttnick?
[00:23:23]  I know Howard Luttnick because when I was senator on 9-11, the firm he headed, Cantor Fitzgerald, suffered the greatest loss of life.
[00:23:35]  As I recall, something like 650 of his employees were murdered by terrorists that day.
[00:23:42]  Howard Luttnick missed being a victim because he was delayed dropping his child off to kindergarten.
[00:23:50]  You asked the question.
[00:23:51]  I'm going to answer your question.
[00:23:53]  This was what I spent my time doing.
[00:23:56]  I'm a survivor trying to look out for other survivors trying to get out of the way.
[00:23:59]  And I was taking care of the people who lost a thousand lives.
[00:24:04]  And now you're being defiant and indignant today.
[00:24:06]  You asked me.
[00:24:07]  I have Epstein survivors.
[00:24:09]  I'm a survivor myself.
[00:24:10]  You have emails.
[00:24:11]  You've denied that Jeffrey Epstein, that you tried to get Jeffrey Epstein to give money to you.
[00:24:15]  I did.
[00:24:15]  Howard Luttnick was.
[00:24:16]  If you have an email with me asking Jeffrey from Howard Luttnick sending it to Jeffrey Epstein and his people, an intimate event for you at his offices at Cantor Fitzgerald.
[00:24:29]  You're going to see your demand.
[00:24:30]  Yeah, if you're going to obfuscate and say to this committee, you didn't try to get money from Jeffrey Epstein.
[00:24:36]  There was an intimate event in an email that Howard Luttnick emailed to Epstein's people and Epstein to get him to come to your intimate event at Cantor Fitzgerald, a very small event.
[00:24:47]  And so I'm not going to publish.
[00:24:48]  You want to yell at me?
[00:24:49]  That's fine, but I'll yell right back.
[00:24:51]  Well, I am looking out for some.
[00:24:52]  I'm doing the job that you would not do and refuse to do as Secretary of State.
[00:24:56]  Thank you, and I yield back to you.
[00:24:57]  No, I'm going to finish answering the question, which I have a right to do.
[00:25:02]  I am very sympathetic to your personal situation.
[00:25:08]  I have read about it.
[00:25:09]  I have seen you testify or speak on the floor about it.
[00:25:13]  And I very much sympathize with not only what you went through, but appreciate your effort to stand up for survivors.
[00:25:22]  I was a senator representing the people who were murdered on 9-11.
[00:25:29]  Nobody lost more people than Howard Luttnick.
[00:25:32]  You can say whatever you want.
[00:25:33]  You can call them and have them appear before the committee.
[00:25:36]  But I knew him.
[00:25:38]  I knew him as the man who lost the employees that he knew intimately, including his brother.
[00:25:46]  And he was going to get some money for you.
[00:25:49]  Better finish, right?
[00:25:50]  You know what?
[00:25:52]  If you don't want to hear what emotionally affected me, that's fine.
[00:25:57]  But that's why I know Howard Luttnick.
[00:26:00]  All right, obviously, Howard Luttnick needs to come forward and needs to speak to the committee.
[00:26:04]  It's very clear that there's strong ties between Howard Luttnick and Jeffrey Epstein, although he denies those ties and he has a legal right to do just that.
[00:26:11]  There needs to be more on that front.
[00:26:12]  We need to learn more about his personal relationship because, again, this is being called into question and rightfully so.
[00:26:18]  He continuously comes up in those emails.
[00:26:21]  And again, like many, they continue to distance themselves from Jeffrey Epstein.
[00:26:26]  And I mean, who could blame them at this point in the game?
[00:26:29]  Who could blame them?
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[00:27:39]  All right, folks, we got more to discuss in regards to the Epstein files and the deposition.
[00:27:44]  Eric Berlson, the congressman from Missouri, is going to be jumping on with us in just a moment.
[00:27:47]  Don't go anywhere.
[00:27:59]  You're tuned in to The American Journal with your host, Breanna Morello.
[00:28:07]  All right, many Americans are probably wondering still to this day if Jeffrey Epstein had any possible foreign ties to foreign intelligence agencies.
[00:28:16]  Well, it was one of the many questions that came up during the deposition of Hillary Clinton.
[00:28:20]  Take a listen.
[00:28:22]  As you know, Alexander Acosta, who gave Epstein the 2009 plea deal, he said, whenever he was asked, that he belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone.
[00:28:37]  Were you, I think you've answered this before, but if you can answer more directly, were you or anyone in the Obama administration, through your role in the State Department or even afterwards in the Clinton Foundation, ever briefed on Epstein having any U.S. intelligence ties?
[00:28:53]  I was not.
[00:28:54]  Were you ever briefed of him having any foreign intelligence ties?
[00:28:58]  I was not.
[00:28:59]  Okay.
[00:29:00]  Epstein filed a FOIA request in 2011 seeking any CIA records about himself.
[00:29:08]  That would have been during your time as Secretary of State.
[00:29:12]  So through your role, were you made aware of that FOIA request?
[00:29:16]  I was not.
[00:29:17]  Okay.
[00:29:18]  Was it ever responded to?
[00:29:21]  That's a good question.
[00:29:23]  I know nothing about it.
[00:29:26]  They typically, they haven't responded to us on our FOIA requests.
[00:29:30]  In 2014, Epstein met with William Burns, who was then a senior State Department official and later a CIA director.
[00:29:40]  Excuse me, could you say what year that was again?
[00:29:42]  In 2014.
[00:29:43]  In 2014, he met with William Burns.
[00:29:46]  Epstein met with William Burns.
[00:29:50]  As the Secretary of State at that time, were you aware of that meeting?
[00:29:53]  I wasn't Secretary of State in 2014.
[00:29:55]  Okay.
[00:29:56]  Were you aware of the meeting with Mr. Burns?
[00:29:58]  Okay.
[00:30:00]  All right, let's step in on this right now because obviously Hillary, she denied a lot.
[00:30:05]  She played dominant a lot, I have to say, and she didn't really give away too much in the way of details.
[00:30:10]  We've played obviously the clips in the beginning of the show of Hillary getting very unhinged when asked particular questions.
[00:30:16]  But Hillary claims that she has no idea whether or not Jeffrey Epstein was acting on behalf of possibly a foreign country, foreign intelligence.
[00:30:25]  She wanted me to discuss the man you heard in that video asking those tough questions.
[00:30:28]  Welcome to the show.
[00:30:29]  Congressman Eric Burlson, he's from the great state of Missouri, and he sits on the House Oversight Committee.
[00:30:35]  And it's an honor to have him back on the program today, Congressman.
[00:30:38]  So thank you for being here.
[00:30:39]  I know you've been very, very busy.
[00:30:41]  I wanted to get your reaction because I know this was something so many Americans were concerned about, whether Jeffrey Epstein had ties to any type of foreign intelligence agencies.
[00:30:50]  And you asked Hillary there.
[00:30:52]  Did you think that Hillary was being honest with you in your response or in her response?
[00:30:57]  In that regard, I do.
[00:30:59]  I think that she may not know about any intelligence connections.
[00:31:04]  But what I will say is that was probably the calmest moment for her of the day.
[00:31:10]  She started the day off pretty bitter, pretty angry, and it just kind of escalated from there.
[00:31:17]  In fact, the only way to de-escalate it was really to kind of ask her a couple of softball questions at the beginning, which is what I did.
[00:31:25]  But what I will say is, you know, pulling away from the insight that we gathered about Hillary is that this is an individual who is extremely obtuse to everyone around her.
[00:31:36]  You know, she had an individual, Jeffrey Epstein, who visited the White House 17 times.
[00:31:42]  He was at multiple documented receptions with her.
[00:31:47]  She hired Ghelain Maxwell's nephew, had no recollection that that was Ghelane Maxwell's nephew.
[00:31:54]  She received a $20,000 contribution.
[00:31:57]  I don't know about you, but if someone writes me a check for that large amount, I'm going to remember.
[00:32:02]  She apparently had no recollection of it, didn't even remember sending a thank you.
[00:32:07]  And really, it's just, you know, one thing after another that she did not recall.
[00:32:13]  And one had to ask the question: what would it have taken for somebody to be put on your radar if a $20,000 check wasn't enough or visiting the White House 17 times or being at all of these events or helping raise money for the Clinton Global Initiative wasn't enough?
[00:32:29]  What would it have taken?
[00:32:30]  And so it was a, you know, obviously she didn't really have, I think she's convinced herself that she doesn't recall anything.
[00:32:39]  The other thing I think is remarkable is that when we ask the questions, you know, now that you do know, and it's undeniable, the whole world knows what he was doing.
[00:32:49]  And you reflect back on the fact that you did have connections and ties.
[00:32:55]  And many of the people that you that are your friends and family had connections and ties.
[00:32:59]  Have you asked, for example, your daughter, Chelsea, who would have been 21 at the time that she was traveling with the Epsteins?
[00:33:07]  Did she, was she a potential victim?
[00:33:09]  Because as a mother, I would think that that would be something that she would be concerned with.
[00:33:13]  That was not something that she was at all concerned about.
[00:33:16]  And the same thing with Bill.
[00:33:21]  When Congressman Scott Perry asked questions about, now that you know what happened, did you ask your husband?
[00:33:28]  She really refused to answer that line of questioning.
[00:33:31]  So she was angry to be there from the beginning.
[00:33:35]  At some point in the meeting, she became unhinged, particularly at Nancy Mace and Lauren Bobert.
[00:33:42]  But we asked the questions we needed to ask, and we'll let the DOJ determine if they did anything wrong.
[00:33:50]  Yeah, and we'll play that clip too in a little bit as well, in regards to her becoming very, very unhinged when she found out that Lauren Bobart had taken a photo of her.
[00:34:00]  My question for you, Congressman, you know, her attorneys and both Hailery, they've come forward and said that they actually wanted all of this to be on the record.
[00:34:07]  They wanted this testimony to be issued publicly, but this was done behind closed doors.
[00:34:12]  They've shifted blame over to House Republicans, saying that House Republicans wanted this to be a closed door testimony.
[00:34:18]  What was the reasoning for all that, if true?
[00:34:21]  Well, this is the way that oversight always does.
[00:34:24]  I mean, this is the way that we, that the oversight committee under the direction of the Democrats, you always do a closed door deposition with the staff and their and the staff attorneys of both the majority and the minority.
[00:34:39]  And the members get to attend, and generally the members only get to ask questions after the staff had had their time.
[00:34:46]  So it is not, it's not intended to be a public hearing.
[00:34:49]  It's intended to be a fact-finding hearing, which is why you don't want it to be politicized.
[00:34:54]  You don't want to, you don't want to have it be focused on trying to get sound bites.
[00:35:00]  You really just are trying to get it.
[00:35:02]  You're focused on trying to get answers.
[00:35:05]  Yeah.
[00:35:05]  Okay.
[00:35:05]  Well, that makes sense.
[00:35:06]  And, you know, we sat back and watched the deposition of Bill Clinton as well.
[00:35:10]  And there wasn't anything bombshell revealed, I feel, in that.
[00:35:14]  Nothing that really caught our ear.
[00:35:15]  He seems to have forgotten about his ties to Epstein, downplayed a lot of it, as many probably would assume, since he visited the White House, Epstein, 17 times, that they would probably consider him as a friend.
[00:35:28]  But for some reason, they're kind of reclassifying their relationship and they don't want to be referred to as friends.
[00:35:34]  What did you make of both Bill and Hillary's attempts to distance themselves from Epstein during their testimony?
[00:35:39]  Yeah, they definitely denied all of the, I mean, they definitely denied the relationship, but they couldn't deny all of the interactions and connections that we had the facts for.
[00:35:50]  My line of questioning with Bill particularly related to two people.
[00:35:54]  One was Doug Band, who was his bodyman, an individual who was handling his Blackberry and apparently handling his email.
[00:36:04]  The president denied ever even, you know, having a cell phone or having an email.
[00:36:09]  He said that he sent just two emails at his entire life.
[00:36:14]  You know, whether that's true or not, that's up to the DOJ to determine if that's accurate.
[00:36:19]  But he said that he was not the one emailing Ghelane Maxwell when Ghelane Maxwell responded, you know, asking questions, very, very sexualized questions to the email that belonged to Bill Clinton.
[00:36:35]  In one of them, she said, sorry to hear about the Bellsberg stuff is bad.
[00:36:39]  I could not help myself.
[00:36:40]  There was one juicy little tidbit I let out, the one about what a super stun you are and how I have a crush on you and how you were hung like a horse.
[00:36:51]  And well, you get the picture.
[00:36:53]  So it was extremely awkward to sit across from the former president of the United States and ask him if this was his, this email was directed at him.
[00:37:01]  I think what was interesting is he insinuated that his bodyman, Doug Band, he was not aware of the physical relationship that Ghelane Maxwell was having with Doug Band at the time and wasn't aware of until all of these documents have come out recently.
[00:37:17]  The other thing I asked about was related to Mark Middleton, who was Clinton's staffer that signed Jeffrey Epstein in when he visited the White House 17 times and the suspicious death around Mark Middleton.
[00:37:29]  This is the individual that after the revelations occurred committed suicide by both hanging himself and shooting himself with a shotgun.
[00:37:38]  I asked the president in the politest way possible if he had any knowledge about whether or not that was more than just a suicide, and he did not.
[00:37:47]  Yeah, I think most Americans want to know about that one too.
[00:37:49]  That's one of the more familiar, well, that's the most famous suicides that took place surrounding the Clintons as well.
[00:37:54]  So that's a interesting to hear that response.
[00:37:57]  And I also want to ask you, it's just interesting that everyone that could have something to say has committed suicide in a very mysterious way, right?
[00:38:07]  whether it's Jeffrey Epstein himself or Virginia Roberts or Mark Middleton.
[00:38:14]  There seems to be a lot of suicides that surround the Clintons, not just with the Epstein, but in all of their past history.
[00:38:23]  Did you ask specifically that question?
[00:38:25]  Because I kind of, I was listening on speed on like three times the speed when I was listening through the testimony.
[00:38:29]  Did you ask that specific question to Bill or Hillary Clinton?
[00:38:33]  I asked specifically about the Mark Middleton question because that is related to the Epstein case.
[00:38:38]  We were asked to try to, well, that they are not required under the subpoena to answer any questions outside of the Epstein case.
[00:38:46]  So I kept it to the Mark Middleton suicide question.
[00:38:51]  Interesting.
[00:38:52]  Okay.
[00:38:52]  And I also want to ask too, because this came up during the testimony as well.
[00:38:56]  It got very heated.
[00:38:57]  We played that clip earlier between both Nancy Mace and Hillary Clinton in regards to Howard Luttnick.
[00:39:03]  I think a lot of Americans want to know if Howard Luttnick's going to be called in front of your committee to testify.
[00:39:09]  Do you guys have any plan to do just that?
[00:39:13]  I think that we should question Luttnick, whether behind closed doors.
[00:39:19]  A lot of times the reason why you do it behind closed doors is if you determine that there's no reason to come and do a public hearing, right?
[00:39:27]  So, but the public hearing always follows a closed door deposition.
[00:39:32]  And it's for an additional reason.
[00:39:34]  A lot of times as a member, it is a highly publicized event.
[00:39:39]  Everyone gets five minutes.
[00:39:40]  That individual is in the hot seat.
[00:39:42]  And it's generally an opportunity for the partisans on both sides to make their five minute speech and try to get sound bites and embarrass the witness publicly.
[00:39:54]  It's not really to try to get any information.
[00:39:56]  So I do think if we were to bring Mr. Luttnick forward in front of a public hearing, it would be an opportunity for the Democrats to just pounce on President Trump.
[00:40:05]  So I don't think that we would get any facts out of that.
[00:40:08]  I do think we probably need to get some answers from him behind closed doors.
[00:40:13]  And of course, as all cases, the conversations are made public, like the Clinton recordings have been.
[00:40:21]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:40:22]  No, that we appreciate.
[00:40:24]  And it did come out pretty quickly too as well.
[00:40:26]  So that's worth noting.
[00:40:27]  Before you go, Congressman, I want to ask you as well, because I know how House Republicans feel about this, but Democrats and even Hillary during her deposition continuously called on President Trump to also be brought forward as well.
[00:40:39]  Do you guys have any intentions on doing that?
[00:40:41]  Because even Bill himself seemed to have cleared President Trump.
[00:40:45]  Right.
[00:40:45]  Well, it is an entirely, you know, another thing entirely different to bring forward the acting president.
[00:40:50]  But I will also say in his role currently, every day he faces questions from the press.
[00:40:57]  So he's not avoiding the public on this.
[00:40:59]  He's not avoiding the press.
[00:41:01]  I mean, he is the one who has instructed his administration to release these documents.
[00:41:07]  So I don't, I'm not sure.
[00:41:09]  And having been someone that sat for hours and hours reading the unredacted files, I even went through the list that Massey's team had given me of the documents that they thought had any connection to Trump whatsoever.
[00:41:22]  And what I can tell you is there's really no smoking gun there.
[00:41:25]  There's a lot of crazies, a lot of, I would say people that are clinically insane that were being given interviews.
[00:41:34]  And you can pick up on if they're insane or not as you're reading through it.
[00:41:40]  Trump's name came up in some of those wild and crazy interviews, but along with other people, whether it was Jay-Z or even George H.W. Bush was mentioned in one of them.
[00:41:56]  And so it just, he's, you know, if you're famous, you're listed in somebody's interview because there are schizophrenic people out there who want to talk to the FBI.
[00:42:07]  But unfortunately, that all gets lost in the wash and confused.
[00:42:12]  I really kind of wish that there was like a community notes on each of these interviews that the FBI does that can kind of rate the validity of the person that they're interviewing.
[00:42:23]  Yeah.

=== Counting Crimes in Sanctuary Cities (14:20) ===

[00:42:24]  And that's what I was warning our audience about when they were throwing Jay-Z's name out there.
[00:42:27]  It didn't seem like it was a credible individual, in my personal opinion.
[00:42:30]  And so, you know, you might not agree with someone's political takes, but you sure don't want to throw out bad names that don't have any substance to it in regards to these accusations.
[00:42:38]  Congressman, I know we only have a minute left.
[00:42:39]  I just want to quickly throw this here away.
[00:42:41]  The DOJ is obviously under scrutiny for how they've released these files so far.
[00:42:45]  Obviously, it's millions of pages, so there's a lot of chaos there.
[00:42:48]  Are you happy with what the DOJ has released thus far?
[00:42:51]  And do you think that they've been fully transparent and released everything to the American people?
[00:42:56]  No, at first I was frustrated, but as you kind of understand the scale and the impact that this is having, the negative impact this has happened on the DOJ, we are all kind of frustrated that they're not prosecuting some of the people that they should be focused on, you know, people like Jack Smith and others.
[00:43:12]  And when you look at the fact that they've been focused, they've had 500 plus attorneys focused on combing through these files, making sure that victims' names are not released and scrambling in a frantic way to get it done by the deadline.
[00:43:29]  I have some sympathy for the Department of Justice in that regard.
[00:43:32]  So I think that given the strict time constraints, I think that they did a good job.
[00:43:39]  And they've been willing to go back in if there's corrections that need to be made.
[00:43:43]  So I do think that there's more documents that they should release.
[00:43:47]  They need to be exhaustive in that effort and make it to where there's no real doubt from the minority on what documents have been released.
[00:43:56]  But I have a feeling that no matter how many documents are released, they're always going to say or create a conspiracy theory that there's something, that there's documents that are being withheld.
[00:44:07]  Yeah.
[00:44:08]  Well, Congressman, we're going to keep our eye on all things related to that.
[00:44:10]  We appreciate all of your effort.
[00:44:11]  We appreciate all the great work you're doing on the committee.
[00:44:13]  So thank you for that.
[00:44:14]  Congressman Eric Burlson joining us today, and we are very grateful for that.
[00:44:17]  So thank you, my friend.
[00:44:18]  Thank you.
[00:44:20]  All right, folks, we're keeping our eye right now on DHS Secretary Christy Noom who's testifying before the Senate right now.
[00:44:27]  She is testifying before the Judiciary Committee.
[00:44:29]  Today it's in front of the Senate.
[00:44:30]  Tomorrow, it's in front of the House.
[00:44:32]  And so we'll keep our eye on that.
[00:44:33]  If anything does occur that I think is worthy of your attention, we'll bring you straight there.
[00:44:38]  But I cited a couple of things.
[00:44:39]  I wanted to get the Congressman all the time to talk.
[00:44:41]  So I figured we'd wait and hold you back to some of these soundbites until after we had him on the show.
[00:44:47]  But I wanted to get to this.
[00:44:48]  I don't know if you guys saw it at home, but this one I think is very, very important for you to see.
[00:44:54]  Hillary Clinton was very unhappy as he heard the Congressman's sight when he found out that Congressman Lauren Bobart had taken a photo of her during her testimony and became very unhinged.
[00:45:04]  Take a listen to clip 11.
[00:45:06]  Information.
[00:45:07]  I went to the fundraiser to support my friend Nia Lowy.
[00:45:11]  All right.
[00:45:12]  Excuse me, can I interrupt?
[00:45:15]  I have another photos that are being released of the secretary as she is testifying from inside this room.
[00:45:22]  Can you please advise me as to whether or not that's permissible and consistent with the rules, particularly given that we have asked for a public hearing?
[00:45:30]  If there are photos that are being released of the secretary as she is testifying, can you please explain how I'm done with this?
[00:45:35]  If you guys are doing that, I am done.
[00:45:37]  You can hold me in contempt from now until the cows come home.
[00:45:40]  This is just typical behavior.
[00:45:42]  We will go off the table.
[00:45:44]  Oh, for heaven.
[00:45:44]  So I would like to understand how that's permissible.
[00:45:49]  It doesn't matter.
[00:45:50]  We all are abiding by the same rules.
[00:45:53]  I will take that down.
[00:45:54]  Yeah, well.
[00:45:54]  I would like to take a break at this moment.
[00:45:56]  I'd like to have that for now.
[00:45:59]  Go off the record.
[00:45:59]  Go off the record.
[00:46:03]  Hillary Clinton doesn't seem to like photos of her being taken.
[00:46:06]  Again, she was the one who called for this to be public record.
[00:46:09]  She wanted this testimony to be done and delivered publicly, but seemed to get really bothered by Lauren Bobart's image.
[00:46:15]  And Lauren Bobart, you know, she's Bobart did take credit initially when it was all going down.
[00:46:19]  So I don't know why she was so unhinged.
[00:46:22]  Again, we're keeping our eye on DHS Secretary Christy Noam's testimony.
[00:46:26]  We'll bring that to you in just a little bit because I want to listen in right now because Dick Durbin is actually right now speaking with Noam.
[00:46:33]  And obviously he is a ranking member and a Democrat.
[00:46:36]  So if we have that, guys, let's listen in right now.
[00:46:39]  To be eligible for DACA.
[00:46:41]  Sir, we follow all laws as applicable to the Department of Homeland Security and how we handle detainment and deportations.
[00:46:49]  Why did you deport them?
[00:46:51]  I don't know the details of that specific case you just read, but I'll look into it, sir.
[00:46:55]  We ensure that we follow the law that applies to our department and who we detain and who we deport back to their home countries.
[00:47:02]  Clearly violated the law, if that is the case.
[00:47:05]  Let me ask you about the fact that 85% of the 400,000 immigrants that ICE arrested during President Trump's first term in office had no violent criminal record.
[00:47:17]  The president said over and over at his rallies, we're going after the worst of the worst, the terrorists, the murderers, the rapists.
[00:47:26]  And then it turns out that 85% of the people you've gone after have no criminal history whatsoever.
[00:47:31]  How do you explain that?
[00:47:33]  Sir, when you talk about violent crimes, what you're saying, the crimes that don't matter, that you aren't counting are ones that affect American families every single day.
[00:47:41]  You're not counting DUIs.
[00:47:43]  You're not counting embezzlements.
[00:47:45]  You're not counting theft.
[00:47:47]  And you're not counting the other crimes against people and drug trafficking and proliferating that.
[00:47:54]  So if you don't count those as crimes that these individuals and impacting families in this country.
[00:48:01]  They are counted and they count 14% of those that you can't.
[00:48:05]  Those are not counted in your 14%.
[00:48:07]  If you were counting crimes that these individual, illegal aliens in this country, have committed, it would be well over 65 to 70% of the individuals that are detained today have those crimes on their record, besides the crime of being in this country alone.
[00:48:21]  You want to back that up with some information for me?
[00:48:23]  Absolutely, I will.
[00:48:24]  I certainly hope you will.
[00:48:25]  How does taking a father from a child dying of cancer qualify?
[00:48:29]  Where would that be?
[00:48:30]  Is that a violent crime?
[00:48:32]  I don't know what you're speaking or referencing.
[00:48:34]  Exactly what I'm speaking of.
[00:48:35]  Ruben Torres, two weeks ago, buried his daughter Ophelia.
[00:48:38]  When he was arrested at the Home Depot in Norwich, Illinois, he said to those who, your agents, please let me go home.
[00:48:46]  My daughter is dying of cancer.
[00:48:48]  I would like to be with her in her last days of her life.
[00:48:51]  They said no.
[00:48:52]  They arrested him and deported him for two weeks.
[00:48:54]  Finally, he returned for a court hearing.
[00:48:57]  His daughter lived to see that hearing where the court said he was treated unfairly by your agency, and she died three days later.
[00:49:03]  I was at her memorial service.
[00:49:05]  Is that really necessary?
[00:49:07]  Was he a violent criminal?
[00:49:09]  Sir, we enforce the law, the laws that are passed by this body and signed into statute on the process for individuals that are in this country illegally that have final removal orders in the process given in immigration law.
[00:49:22]  We continue to follow that.
[00:49:23]  And if you don't like the law, I would suggest you change the law.
[00:49:27]  But that is what we do every single day: go out there.
[00:49:29]  We tried to change it with comprehensive immigration reform, and it was stopped by the Republican House of Representatives.
[00:49:35]  Our job at the department is to follow the law and make sure that we are a nation of laws because a nation that doesn't follow the law is no nation at all.
[00:49:44]  I yield, Mr. Chairman.
[00:49:46]  Senator Graham.
[00:49:49]  Thank you very much for coming.
[00:49:52]  Can you hear me?
[00:49:53]  Yep.
[00:49:53]  Now we can.
[00:49:54]  Thanks very much.
[00:49:55]  Let's talk about the scope of the problem you inherited here.
[00:49:58]  My Democratic friend said that sensible immigration is what they've been pursuing.
[00:50:03]  Talked about the gang of eight and a lot of things I've worked on with.
[00:50:07]  Would you say that the four years of Biden was sensible immigration?
[00:50:11]  No.
[00:50:11]  I wouldn't either.
[00:50:12]  I would say it's an obliteration of the border.
[00:50:14]  11 million people came into this country during President Biden's term.
[00:50:18]  He obliterated all controls.
[00:50:21]  We sent them all over the country in planes, trains, and automobiles.
[00:50:25]  And what's the scope of the problem you inherited?
[00:50:29]  How would you describe the mess that Biden gave you very quickly?
[00:50:33]  Our country was in a chaotic time and invaded over our southern border.
[00:50:39]  Millions and millions of people came into this country.
[00:50:41]  Over 11,000 murderers, right?
[00:50:43]  Yes, that is correct.
[00:50:44]  2,700% increase in people on the terrorist watch list, right?
[00:50:48]  That's correct.
[00:50:49]  During his four years, President Biden allowed 2,700% increase of people on the terrorist watch list to come into this country.
[00:50:59]  In 2023, 172.
[00:51:03]  Do you know where those people are?
[00:51:05]  No, not necessarily.
[00:51:06]  So we don't know where they are.
[00:51:07]  They're here, but we don't know where they are because they didn't care if they came and they haven't really looked very hard.
[00:51:14]  So sensible immigration died on Biden's watch.
[00:51:18]  It was replaced by out-of-control, open border, just absolute chaos.
[00:51:24]  And to all the people on the front row that have lost loved ones, I am sorry.
[00:51:30]  Your family members are a victim of an out-of-control, Democratic-led effort to obliterate the border.
[00:51:37]  And every senator on this side of the aisle, that side of the aisle, did nothing about it.
[00:51:43]  Now they want to talk to you about problems we've had.
[00:51:46]  Are these shootings being investigated in Minnesota?
[00:51:50]  Yes, they are.
[00:51:50]  They should be investigated in Minnesota.
[00:51:53]  We want to have orderly processes.
[00:51:55]  I'm going to step in on that.
[00:51:56]  As you heard, I would just know the DHS secretary saying that, yes, there were no terrorists led into our country under the Biden regime.
[00:52:02]  And DHS is struggling to find those terrorists.
[00:52:06]  We're going to keep listening in because DHS is currently dealing with a partial shutdown because Republicans thought it was a good thing to make sure that they weren't fully funded.
[00:52:13]  So obviously now Democrats are holding them hostage.
[00:52:15]  And we are about to, I guess we are in a war with Iran right now.
[00:52:18]  So that's probably not the best situation to be in.
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[00:53:31]  Is the Coast Guard without funding?
[00:53:40]  portions of it.
[00:53:41]  We're keeping some of the salaries paid, but they're- So there's no funds in the appropriation bill for the Coast Guards?
[00:53:46]  Is that correct?
[00:53:46]  That is correct.
[00:53:47]  Because your agency is not being funded.
[00:53:51]  It's the one part of the appropriations bill where we haven't agreed on funding.
[00:53:55]  Is that correct?
[00:53:56]  Correct.
[00:53:57]  So FEMA, no money, right?
[00:54:00]  Coast Guard, no money.
[00:54:02]  Really?
[00:54:04]  Really?
[00:54:06]  ICE?
[00:54:07]  They have money because of the bill we did before.
[00:54:10]  The Secret Service, are these people being paid?
[00:54:12]  Yes, they are.
[00:54:13]  They're being paid, but do we have money?
[00:54:15]  Our law enforcement is paid, but their resources, their administration, they're not being paid out of appropriated funds this year, right?
[00:54:22]  Correct.
[00:54:23]  So in the appropriations process, we've got no new money for the Secret Service.
[00:54:28]  Does that make any sense to anybody in America?
[00:54:31]  Can we not understand America is under siege now, likely to be attacked because radical Islam is under siege and they're going to hit back?
[00:54:40]  And we're sitting here looking at each other and not funding DHS.
[00:54:44]  If you want to reform ICE, great.
[00:54:46]  Count me in.
[00:54:47]  If you want to make DHS more professional, count me in.
[00:54:50]  If you want to investigate bad shootings, count me in.
[00:54:54]  If you don't want to do away with sanctuary cities, count me out.
[00:54:57]  What's a sanctuary city?
[00:55:00]  A city that protects itself from our federal immigration efforts in their city.
[00:55:06]  Are there sanctuary cities and states in this country?
[00:55:08]  Yes, there are.
[00:55:09]  Look at this chart.
[00:55:10]  There are 200-plus sanctuary counties.
[00:55:13]  There are 12 sanctuary states.
[00:55:15]  Eight main illegal remnants reside in sanctuary jurisdictions in defiance of federal law.
[00:55:20]  A sanctuary city refuses to turn over to the federal government people that are subject to deportation.
[00:55:27]  Is that correct?
[00:55:28]  Correct.
[00:55:29]  They make a choice, these sanctuary states, counties, cities, not to cooperate with federal officials.
[00:55:36]  And the laws have been on the book long before Donald Trump, right?
[00:55:39]  Correct.
[00:55:40]  Do you think it would be good for the country to abolish sanctuary cities and states?
[00:55:45]  I do.
[00:55:45]  Do you believe as long as they exist, it will be a magnet for future immigration, illegal immigration?
[00:55:51]  Yes, I do.
[00:55:52]  So if you're a legal immigrant and you can get to one of these sanctuary cities, states, or towns, you believe you'll never leave.
[00:55:59]  Until you fix this, you're going to have illegal immigrant magnets.
[00:56:03]  Do you agree with that?
[00:56:04]  Yes.
[00:56:04]  Would you urge the Congress to abolish sanctuary cities?
[00:56:08]  Yes, I would, sir.
[00:56:09]  And sanctuary states.
[00:56:11]  When it comes to the threat level against our homeland, how would you characterize it right now?
[00:56:18]  Right now, I would say, sir, that we should have our every efforts within the Department of Homeland Security out protecting people 24-7 because we face not just enemies from overseas that threaten our way of life and our American values.
[00:56:32]  The Biden administration let them here.
[00:56:34]  They let them in our borders.
[00:56:35]  They're in our hometowns.
[00:56:37]  They are unvetted, thousands and thousands of people that are dangerous criminals, gang members, known as suspected terrorists.

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[00:56:44]  Who's this guy?
[00:56:45]  He is the man that conducted the horrific act down in Austin.
[00:56:49]  Okay, what country did he come from?
[00:56:51]  I think Senegal.
[00:56:53]  Okay, and he was killed in Austin, Texas, right?
[00:56:56]  He was.
[00:56:57]  And the shirt said what?
[00:56:59]  Property of Allah.
[00:57:01]  Property of Allah.
[00:57:02]  And when you went to his house, you found a what kind of flag?
[00:57:06]  Iranian flag.
[00:57:07]  Iranian flag.
[00:57:08]  Wonder how many people are like that here waiting to pounce.
[00:57:12]  And DHS doesn't have appropriated funds.
[00:57:16]  This is insane.
[00:57:17]  There are more people like this.
[00:57:20]  We obliterated our borders.
[00:57:22]  1.7 million people came into this country from countries that were designated to be a problem.
[00:57:32]  Special interest aliens.
[00:57:33]  Are you familiar with that?
[00:57:34]  Yes, I am.
[00:57:35]  So 1.7 million came from countries that would make you a special interest alien because the nature of the country.
[00:57:43]  Libya, Nigeria, North Korea, Afghanistan, China, Cuba.
[00:57:48]  Do you know where those 1.7 million people are?
[00:57:51]  Not all of them.
[00:57:52]  Yeah, I don't know.
[00:57:53]  I don't know where they are either.
[00:57:55]  But they let them in.
[00:57:57]  We don't know where they are.
[00:57:59]  They came from countries that are so dicey.
[00:58:04]  We made you a special interest alien if you came from those countries.
[00:58:08]  So we're having a hearing here.
[00:58:10]  I'd like to make ICE more professional.
[00:58:13]  I'd like to make sure if there was a bad shooting, it's documented as such and people pay a price.
[00:58:18]  But I will not apologize.
[00:58:20]  All right, folks, we've got me a little bit.
[00:58:23]  It's a bad day for me.
[00:58:24]  I agree with Lindsay Graham.
[00:58:25]  I'll be back with more.
[00:58:29]  If it matters to America, it matters here.
[00:58:34]  This is the American Journal with Breanna Morello, live streaming on banned.videonex around the globe.
[00:58:45]  Welcome back.
[00:58:46]  The American Journal of Saturday, you're up and on with us in the second hour program.
[00:58:50]  As you may have heard, we were listening in on Lindsey Graham grilling Christina a little bit.
[00:58:56]  But not in regards to Christina doing a bad job over at DHS.
[00:58:59]  No, he wants to know about the suspected and known terrorists that were released into the country under the Biden regime.
[00:59:04]  That's a very important question and a question that I've been asking DHS about for months now, for months, for months.
[00:59:11]  DHS threw some numbers my way over the weekend and the numbers are absolutely horrifying because when you compare it to what Joe Ken has put out, we've only captured about 7.8% of the known and suspected terrorists that were released into the country under the Biden administration.
[00:59:25]  And again, that number is significantly high because those are the known amounts of suspected and known terrorists.
[00:59:32]  Again, there's a lot of unknown factors here.
[00:59:34]  And obviously, we're very vulnerable given the fact that President Trump has decided to work with Israel in attacking Iran.
[00:59:41]  And that is a very serious issue.
[00:59:43]  Most of us are sitting around here and absolutely horrified.
[00:59:46]  And just for the simple fact that I hear Lindsey Graham talking about these issues, and I'm in agreement with him when it comes to the sleeper cell threat, I'm a little worried now, actually, that we're in agreement on that issue, that this is a very serious, serious threat.
[00:59:59]  Probably the only thing I agree with him on.
[01:00:01]  But I wanted to get to this clip.
[01:00:02]  I want to play clip 13 because the Secretary of State, Mark Rubio, was talking yesterday in regards to why we all of a sudden decided to attack Iran.
[01:00:12]  And listen to his words very carefully.
[01:00:14]  Take a listen to clip 13.
[01:00:16]  The second question that's been asked is, why now?
[01:00:19]  Well, there's two reasons why now.
[01:00:21]  The first is it was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone, the United States or Israel or anyone, they were going to respond and respond against the United States.
[01:00:30]  The orders had been delegated down to the field commanders.
[01:00:33]  It was automatic and in fact it bear to be true because in fact within an hour of the initial attack on the leadership compound, the missile forces in the south and in the north for that matter had already been activated to launch.
[01:00:47]  In fact, those had already been pre-positioned.
[01:00:50]  The third is the assessment that was made that if we stood and waited for that attack to come first before we hit them, we would suffer much higher casualties.
[01:00:59]  And so the president made the very wise decision.
[01:01:02]  We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.
[01:01:05]  We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces.
[01:01:08]  And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed.
[01:01:16]  And then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that and didn't.
[01:01:20]  Going back.
[01:01:21]  All right.
[01:01:22]  Many are very worried about that response.
[01:01:24]  Given the fact we've heard it before, it sounds very familiar.
[01:01:26]  It sounds like a flashback to the launch of the war in Iraq.
[01:01:31]  Joining me to discuss is Anne Vanderstiel.
[01:01:33]  She's an Information War Corps respondent.
[01:01:35]  She's an incredible independent journalist.
[01:01:37]  You can find her at Ann Vandersteel on X as well.
[01:01:41]  And always a pleasure to have you back on the show.
[01:01:43]  I just wanted to get your initial reaction to the claims that are being made by Rubio there.
[01:01:48]  Obviously, many people are very, very alarmed.
[01:01:51]  We weren't very happy with what we saw over the weekend, and we're scratching our hands, wondering why now your reaction.
[01:01:58]  Well, I mean, why now is I guess from where I'm sitting, it looks like it was more of a benefit to Israel.
[01:02:05]  And I look at everything through the financial lens, frankly, Brianna, and what is happening and what has been unfolding in the Middle East since we got back in bed and getting into these Middle East foreign wars, going back to the first Gulf War.
[01:02:19]  Wesley Clark was clear on that, five wars, seven years.
[01:02:22]  And frankly, focusing our military on these countries that are not part of our central banking system in the sense of using the swift payment rails, et cetera, has been a bane of the existence of the Western central banking system.
[01:02:37]  It's very clear that our system is monetized and is collateralizing the people in it in order to generate the amount of revenue and the amount of loans and the amount of interest that it garners.
[01:02:48]  But war is big business and central banks have notoriously funded both sides of the wars.
[01:02:53]  This goes back thousands of years.
[01:02:54]  This is nothing new.
[01:02:55]  Israel has always been the puppet for the central banking system.
[01:02:59]  And when you look at historically the genetics of the people that are in Israel that are also that established the city of London back in 1067, it is the same group of people using the same playbook over and over.
[01:03:11]  And so to get in bed now, Iran, the playbook of their five minutes from a nuclear weapon has been used for 40 years and it's a tired narrative.
[01:03:19]  We see through that clearly now.
[01:03:22]  I interviewed a lady yesterday whose family was part of the Iranian revolution in the 70s and they fled the country, came here and have been successful here, but they're happy for the Iranian people that want freedom from an oppressive regime.
[01:03:36]  And essentially when the CIA and Mossad went in and MI6 went in and changed out the regime and the country's government that was very successful, very westernized in the 50s and installed the Shah, when he became not useful, they took him out and allowed an oppressive religious dogma, you know, dogma to take over in the mullahs.
[01:03:54]  And essentially wiping out the mullahs is liberating for the people of Iran.
[01:03:59]  But are the people of Iran ready to step in?
[01:04:01]  My guest says yes, they're ready to step in and they've been planning this for 47 years to step in and take their country back.
[01:04:07]  I hope that in fact happens, but I also hope that they understand that as Iran is part of the BRICS countries that have set up their own payment rails outside the central banking system and are currently using sound money as in gold, in addition to their basket of currencies to settle trade debts amongst trading partners in the BRICS countries.
[01:04:25]  Iran has an allegiance there.
[01:04:27]  They've been getting the support militarily from China and Russia, part of their BRICS partners.
[01:04:31]  Saudi Arabia has entered BRICS and Saudi Arabia also straddles into the Gulf Cooperation Council in addition to the Board of Peace.
[01:04:39]  So there's a lot sitting on this plate right now.
[01:04:42]  And I think America was forced to jump in because they knew that Israel was going to push the narrative on behalf of the Western Central Bank in Cabal.
[01:04:51]  And, you know, trying to get all the world and the global debt stabilized into what would be sound money is what part of this financial reset is.
[01:05:00]  And there's no better way to expire a languishing financial system that's totally bankrupt than war.
[01:05:05]  That is what we've done traditionally over centuries.
[01:05:08]  So I really see this as a financial move.
[01:05:10]  And Catherine Austin Fitz, frankly, echoes that narrative in a recent Tucker interview.
[01:05:15]  Yeah, I was actually going to play that next.
[01:05:16]  It's clip 15.
[01:05:17]  I want our audience to listen to it because specifically she's talking about the programmable money.
[01:05:21]  And that's the real angle of her argument here.
[01:05:24]  Let's take a listen.
[01:05:25]  Direction where the legislatures in every country are becoming less powerful, in many cases, irrelevant.
[01:05:33]  So here's my theory, though.
[01:05:34]  If you go back to 9-11 and when Wesley Clark said we're going to invade seven countries in five years, what you were talking about were the countries where those central banks were not on board to do programmable money and their governance structures were not on board with essentially, you know, because of Epstein, I'll call it the Rockefeller Rothschild model.
[01:06:03]  There was an effort to say, okay, we're going to basically assert control of the central banks in those countries.
[01:06:09]  That's my interpretation.
[01:06:11]  And I think one of the reasons we're seeing so much tension around Iran is because Iran right now is the big leakage in the system.
[01:06:22]  How?
[01:06:23]  So it's not about their nukes?
[01:06:26]  No.
[01:06:27]  So, well, you know, Iran central bank counts.
[01:06:31]  One of the reasons it counts is because their oil and energy is very important, including for China.
[01:06:37]  And that's very important in the BRICS system.
[01:06:39]  What the BRICS system is trying to do is to create independent payment systems.
[01:06:43]  But if you're going to come out with programmable money, with digital IDs that are interoperable globally, and programmable money that controls in each jurisdiction centrally, you can't afford leakage.
[01:06:57]  And so you've got way too much leakage in the system to proceed with what they're trying to do.
[01:07:03]  And Iran is, and the BRIC nations are a sticking point.
[01:07:08]  And certainly Iran's oil, you know, feeding China gives China greater independence.
[01:07:17]  So you think that one of the motives behind toppling all these governments was the creation of the control grid we're talking about now.
[01:07:25]  Right.
[01:07:27]  Yeah.
[01:07:27]  And that's something, Anne, that you, you obviously are in agreement on.
[01:07:30]  I'll let you take the floor from here since this was one of your sound bites that really got you fired up this morning.
[01:07:36]  Well, it's been getting me fired up and I think it's been getting a lot of people fired up for quite some time.
[01:07:41]  You know, the first thing that, excuse me, President Trump did when he took office was stand on stage with Sam Altman and Keith Ellison from Oracle and Sam Altman from OpenAI.
[01:07:53]  And this is, you know, troubling to say the least, considering that President Trump was also talking about using biometrics for border security on the campaign trail.
[01:08:02]  And people, I don't think, really took in what he was saying about that.
[01:08:06]  We apparently have been kettled like fish into this paradigm of a digital prison, mostly led by Peter Thiel and Palantir.
[01:08:15]  And for the countries, I think Palantir has now been pretty well exposed as to doing exactly what it's doing, which is taking over all agency government, which I stand by every single day as unconstitutional.
[01:08:28]  It's not defined in our constitution at all.
[01:08:31]  Our federal government has grown way outside its scope, according to the founding fathers and the 19 essential services.
[01:08:36]  It's supposed to supply.
[01:08:38]  So when you look at, when you compare this to the decentralized model of the states, have the authority to make decisions about these sorts of things, and you then flip it into the model we're now faced with.
[01:08:49]  This digital prison is all part of the new world order, which Catherine Austin Fitz stands up and says is something that completely flies in the face of who we are as a country.
[01:09:00]  And frankly, if you want to take it to the Bible, Brianna, it really flies in the face of who God created us to be, free human beings on this planet.
[01:09:08]  He didn't initiate kings and queens.
[01:09:11]  This became a derivative of, in my humble opinion, a lot of organized religion, which weaponized the idea that God needs leaders to disseminate information.
[01:09:21]  And so, you know, from a holistic perspective, the world that we live in right now is not the world God intended.
[01:09:29]  But if you look at it strictly from the government side, the government is instituting rails and guardrails, I should say, and prison sentences to all of us.
[01:09:39]  And this war right now is who is going to be in control?
[01:09:42]  And we're looking at a world war of oligarchs.
[01:09:44]  You've got Putin, you've got Xi in China, and you have Trump in the East.
[01:09:48]  Modi playing a supporting role because he does have over a billion people in his country.
[01:09:53]  But who is going to be in control of this?
[01:09:54]  And it always comes back to the war of trade routes and energy and goods and services.
[01:09:59]  And Iran sits right in the middle of a very critical part of the world when it comes to these trade routes and energy flows.
[01:10:06]  The Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf connection cannot be overlooked in the sense of the oil and natural gas pipelines that traverse that.
[01:10:14]  And of course, the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, Iran is critical.
[01:10:19]  It's central to the juncture point of going into Western Europe and then exiting and going across the ocean into the Americas.
[01:10:27]  So, you know, this is a continuation of the control that the central bankers have financed around the world using these trade routes.
[01:10:35]  And the central bankers that, you know, going back thousands of years that come from without sounding like I'm trying to make this about Semitism or un-Semitism or anti-Semitism, it literally is an organization, a demographic of people that have disguised who they really are and what their real intentions are.
[01:10:56]  And it connects right back into the state of Israel formed in 1948, as well as the city of London and the Western banking, you know, Cabal.
[01:11:04]  Those two things are interchangeable, and Israel is using the narrative of anti-Semitism to weaponize the United States military.
[01:11:10]  That if we don't stand up and fight for them, then we are anti-Semitic and that we're not part of God's chosen people.
[01:11:16]  All of this is conflated out of a narrative that simply isn't the truth.
[01:11:20]  And that's where we are wrestling right now, Brianna.
[01:11:23]  It's a really huge conversation that you can't just have in a segment on a show.
[01:11:28]  It's got to be really evaluated.
[01:11:29]  People need to do a lot more research, which is a lot of what I'm doing right now.
[01:11:32]  I'm doing a lot of reading about the hidden hand of the banking system right now.
[01:11:36]  And it comes back down to a group of people that really aren't who they say they are.
[01:11:41]  Yeah.
[01:11:42]  And I think also, you know, and I think a lot of people at home right now may be in a little bit of a disagreement on that issue.
[01:11:47]  But I think that when it comes down to what the White House is doing right now, you know, everyone I speak to at the White House tells me that the core issue of this administration is the economy and boosting our economy and getting the quickest correction of our economy as possible.
[01:11:59]  I mean, obviously, we understand what happened during the Biden regime years.
[01:12:03]  Our economy was obviously very heavily fractured.
[01:12:06]  And so now the Trump administration is trying to fix it prior to midterms and get a win on the board.
[01:12:10]  So there is that angle there.
[01:12:11]  And it's not totally crazy to think that that's a possibility because again, I talk to folks in the administration all the time and they tell me, yeah, I want to do this, but I can't do this because right now the administration's focus is the economy.
[01:12:25]  And we can't do certain things that might affect the economy right now in a negative way.
[01:12:31]  So yeah, I could see this definitely being a great strong argument to be had on that front.
[01:12:36]  And also, Benjamin Netanyahu, obviously the Israeli prime minister yesterday was on Mashan Hannon.
[01:12:41]  I thought it was really interesting in Clip 14, specifically what he was saying.
[01:12:45]  And many people, when they go out there, they like to feed into President Trump's ego a bit and they give him a lot of flattering compliments.
[01:12:52]  And it looks like that's what the Israeli prime minister was doing yesterday in Clip 14.
[01:12:56]  Take a listen.
[01:12:57]  Israel dragged Donald Trump into it.

=== War Necessity Debate (07:22) ===

[01:12:59]  And as somebody that's been friends with him over 30 years, nobody drags Donald Trump into anything, number one.
[01:13:04]  But I want to get your reaction to that.
[01:13:11]  Well, you're right.
[01:13:12]  I mean, that's ridiculous.
[01:13:15]  Donald Trump is the strongest leader in the world.
[01:13:17]  He does what he thinks is right for America.
[01:13:21]  He does also what he thinks is right for future generations.
[01:13:24]  And frankly, we're partners in that effort because I've devoted my life to securing the life of the one and only Jewish state.
[01:13:33]  And believe me, it's been a struggle.
[01:13:35]  I've known the pangs of war.
[01:13:37]  I lost a brother in war in battle.
[01:13:40]  I myself fought terrorists and was wounded in liberating hostages from a hijacked plane.
[01:13:49]  I held a fellow soldier in my arms when I was 18, and he died in my arms.
[01:13:54]  I know the cost of war, but I know sometimes that war is necessary to protect us from the people who would destroy us.
[01:14:03]  So, Anne, here's the problem I have with all of this.
[01:14:05]  Individuals like Benjamin Netanyahu, who have been pushing this Iranian threat for years now, we've gone back to the real.
[01:14:11]  We've played the clips over and over again.
[01:14:13]  He continues to tell us that the threat is looming.
[01:14:15]  And then we see what played out over the weekend.
[01:14:18]  We have now six dead U.S. service members and four Americans who sat back and grew up during the Iraq war timeframe.
[01:14:25]  You know, we didn't want this.
[01:14:26]  We want all these Middle Eastern wars to end.
[01:14:29]  For myself personally, I've just had enough of the influx after all these wars of refugees we have to bring in.
[01:14:36]  And they're always Muslim refugees and they're breaking down our society and destroying the Western lifestyle.
[01:14:41]  And it's very heartbreaking here in Texas to see it firsthand.
[01:14:44]  But you hear him again, again, feeding into the president's ego, obviously, and then saying that we had to do this to secure the state of Israel.
[01:14:54]  I mean, this is so infuriating to hear time and time again, but this is why so many critics of Israel right now are saying that this war was unnecessary.
[01:15:01]  Your thoughts.
[01:15:03]  I agree.
[01:15:04]  I don't think this war was necessary at this point.
[01:15:07]  I mean, when I look at what's necessary and we talk about the economy and making sure our economy is working, why are we sending money overseas?
[01:15:13]  Why are we continuing to send aid overseas when we haven't even addressed the real problem in our country here, which are the American families, which are the homeless veterans, which are the people who are suffering from mental illness, who've had the state-run institutions taken away?
[01:15:29]  Where is the help for the Americans?
[01:15:31]  This is what we're not seeing right now.
[01:15:32]  We're seeing two parents having to work to put food on the table to pay taxes because one can't do it all while the other stays home due to the heavy lift of raising little Johnny or little Susie, even if they're homeschooling.
[01:15:44]  It is a lot of work to be a stay-at-home parent, I know, because I quit working to do it.
[01:15:48]  And I thought, my God, I'd rather go back to the water cooler.
[01:15:51]  This is a heck of a lot of work.
[01:15:52]  Very rewarding, but the truth is the truth.
[01:15:55]  And so, you know, continually having to step in and play the world's policeman around the world because nobody else wants to do it.
[01:16:04]  It's akin to saying to a drug addict, look, I'm going to keep giving you the drugs, but you're the one that's going to have to get off.
[01:16:10]  Well, you know, they're not going to get off because you're going to keep giving in the drugs.
[01:16:12]  Well, if America keeps showing up and beating up your enemies for you, when are you going to stand up and take your enemies out?
[01:16:18]  At this point, when you look at the Straits of Hormuz, the American Navy can go over there and open those Straits of Hormuz today.
[01:16:24]  We can keep it open.
[01:16:25]  We've already put, I think, 10 Iranian ships at the bottom of the sea right now.
[01:16:28]  They're now coral reefs for the fish.
[01:16:31]  So it isn't about the military might.
[01:16:34]  It's about who wants to step in and play the role of taking care of business, considering that Americans basically benefit 2% of what comes out of the Straits of Hormuz.
[01:16:43]  So there's no real benefit over there for us.
[01:16:45]  We have what we need right here.
[01:16:47]  And I'm not talking about going full isolationist.
[01:16:49]  What I'm talking about is leveraging what we have here.
[01:16:52]  We put out 13 million barrels of oil a day.
[01:16:56]  We are energy independent.
[01:16:57]  We don't need to pull in other resources.
[01:16:59]  We have everything we need in this country.
[01:17:01]  We just haven't been putting the investment in the infrastructure to take what we have here out.
[01:17:06]  And so we're way behind the curve on rare earth minerals and substantiate and sustaining our needs for those rare earths into the different electronics, military applications, et cetera.
[01:17:16]  That is a huge problem.
[01:17:17]  And I know we can't do it all overnight, but the fact of the matter is we're seeing a lot of information, a lot of media focusing on what's going on over there.
[01:17:25]  And if anything's going to hurt the midterm elections, it's the fact that we're not getting the attention that we need and the focus on Americans here.
[01:17:31]  And that's what Americans want to see right now.
[01:17:33]  They don't want to see Bibi, Netanyahu, you know, laughing and yucking it up about how great President Trump is.
[01:17:39]  How about President Trump show his greatness to the American people right now?
[01:17:43]  And, you know, this leads into what Marjorie Taylor Greene was ranting on about yesterday on Megan Kelly.
[01:17:47]  And I think everything she said, she was spot on.
[01:17:50]  Yeah.
[01:17:51]  And I want to also, I mean, we're going to play that clip too later in the show because she was fired up and rightfully so.
[01:17:56]  I wanted to get to this angle, though, because you started alluding to it.
[01:17:59]  You know, here in Texas, obviously, we do have several energy facilities and Governor Greg Abbott now is forced to put on some extra patrols and to patrol the area.
[01:18:07]  Now, here's the interesting factor in all of this.
[01:18:10]  It's got a lot of us scratching our head wondering why all of a sudden he's doing this.
[01:18:14]  I mean, I've known, anyone who's studied what's going on in Texas understands it.
[01:18:17]  We brought in millions of Muslims into the area and they've built up mosques all in big cities.
[01:18:23]  Dallas, Houston, and Austin have been overtaken.
[01:18:25]  We could see that with the recent terror attack that went under, well, that happened over the weekend.
[01:18:30]  But we just heard from the secretary of DHS, Christy Noam, who just outlined the threat directly.
[01:18:36]  Christy Noam, I've been asking about this for months now, saying that the Biden regime, in fact, did release hundreds, and I believe the number is even thousands, according to Joe Kent, of known and suspected terrorists into this country.
[01:18:49]  They released them, but now DHS can't find them.
[01:18:52]  And we got about 90 seconds in regards to the sleeper cell threat.
[01:18:55]  How severe do you think it is?
[01:18:57]  I think it's incredibly severe.
[01:18:59]  Just from my own eyes, of what we know came across the border, Michael Yana, myself, and others doing Operation Burning Edge.
[01:19:05]  We saw members of Trende Aragua.
[01:19:07]  We saw people coming out of Venezuela with Venezuelan passports that weren't Venezuelan.
[01:19:11]  They were Iranian, part of Hezbollah.
[01:19:14]  They had the, you know, they had the gang and the tattoos on their faces and other parts of their body that prove this.
[01:19:20]  We know they were coming here, not because they wanted to assimilate and create a better world for their family.
[01:19:24]  No, they're here as sleeper cells, and we're starting to see them slowly get activated.
[01:19:28]  I think our first taste was Trende Arago and what they showed when they flexed their muscle in Colorado and started taking over apartment buildings up there.
[01:19:35]  That was a signal to us that we're not in control.
[01:19:37]  We don't know who is here.
[01:19:38]  And after four years of an open Biden, you know, the NCTC has, I think, identified around 18,000 known and suspected terrorism that the Biden admin let come into our country.
[01:19:47]  Nome knows that ICE has arrested over 1,500 known suspected terrorists with more than 7,700 gang members that were allowed to come to this country.
[01:19:55]  So if we have customs and border protection, you know, talking about mass migration of these terrible people into our country, what does that tell you when we haven't rounded them all up and gotten them out of the country?
[01:20:06]  This has got to be the focus.
[01:20:08]  This is where we should be redirecting our resources.
[01:20:09]  Tom Holman should be weaponized with every dollar he can possibly get his hands on to go around and get these people out of our country.
[01:20:15]  That is the real threat here, not what's happening over in Iran.
[01:20:19]  That is their threat right now.

=== Breaking News Update (06:07) ===

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[01:20:25]  Ann Vandersteel, thank you for all the incredible work you do.
[01:20:27]  You go to the most dangerous places to get the most accurate information.
[01:20:30]  And so we're honored to have you on the show.
[01:20:32]  You and Michael Jan did a great job during the invasion, covering it from the jungle itself.
[01:20:37]  And so it's always an honor to have you on the show to break all that down for us.
[01:20:40]  Ann Vandersteel, that's where you can find her on Axe and Vandersteel.
[01:20:44]  Thank you so much.
[01:20:45]  Thanks, Brianna.
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[01:21:25]  You're tuned in to the American Journal with your host, Breanna Morello.
[01:21:34]  Welcome back to the American Journal.
[01:21:35]  We're excited to have you on board today.
[01:21:37]  All right, there's a bit of breaking news coming in.
[01:21:39]  Over on Fox News, it looks like the Iranian Supreme Council was holding a vote on their next Supreme Leader when apparently there was an interruption and it was Israel.
[01:21:50]  Take a listen.
[01:21:52]  Oh, Tel Aviv, but I'm told by a senior Israeli official that the Israelis just struck the Supreme Council gathering where the Iranians were meeting to choose a new supreme leader.
[01:22:05]  This is a significant development and again, speaks to the Israeli intelligence about this war.
[01:22:10]  They just targeted the meeting in Tehran where what's left of the leadership was gathering to choose a new supreme leader.
[01:22:20]  All right.
[01:22:21]  Obviously, that is probably not the smartest thing to do if that report is true.
[01:22:27]  They are not learning their lesson.
[01:22:28]  They probably start having Zoom meetings.
[01:22:30]  Joining me to discuss is Captain John Conrad.
[01:22:32]  He's the CEO of G-Captain.
[01:22:35]  He's also a U.S. Merchant Marine and member of the Pentagon press pool.
[01:22:40]  And, John, that's why I had the pleasure of meeting you in person.
[01:22:43]  So it's an honor to have you on the show today.
[01:22:46]  So thank you for being here.
[01:22:47]  I just want to get your initial reaction.
[01:22:49]  You know, Iran's not learning their lesson.
[01:22:52]  They keep doing these gatherings and keep meeting in person.
[01:22:54]  And Israel just knows where they are, when they are going to meet up and always knows when to strike.
[01:23:00]  Your thoughts on that breaking news we just heard from Fox.
[01:23:04]  Yeah, there are some things that we've seen in the last 20 years we're not very good at.
[01:23:08]  And one is these forever wars, these large extended army interventions with very strict rules of engagement and a million allies who all have different rules that handcuff our military.
[01:23:25]  But there's some things the U.S. military is very good at-intelligence, precision strikes, naval strike groups.
[01:23:35]  And it seems that we have an excellent intel network, satellites in the sky, boots on the ground, who really have the Iranian operations clocked.
[01:23:48]  And of course, Israel and Mossad has been active in Iran for many, many years.
[01:23:54]  Yeah, yeah.
[01:23:55]  And we're continuing to get the news as it develops.
[01:23:57]  Obviously, this just happening over the last few minutes.
[01:24:00]  John, I wanted to get your take on this because Vice President J.D. Van spoke yesterday and issued a chilling warning to Iran in Clip 17.
[01:24:07]  Let's take a listen.
[01:24:09]  Secretary Rubio and the president have both said something along the lines of you ain't seen nothing yet.
[01:24:15]  We can hit three times as hard.
[01:24:18]  What does that mean?
[01:24:21]  Well, what it means, Jesse, is we have a lot of capacity here.
[01:24:24]  I think there's a lot of chatter about what our objectives is, what our goal is.
[01:24:27]  I mean, I think the president's been extremely clear about our objectives, and it's that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, but there's also been a lot of conversation about what are our capabilities.
[01:24:36]  And look, I know this stuff.
[01:24:37]  Obviously, I'm not going to reveal classified information here on air, but the president of the United States knows what we're able to do.
[01:24:43]  He knows that we have much greater capacity to inflict damage on the Iranian nuclear program, but also On various missiles that threaten our troops, as you've seen, they've been launching those at our troops for much of the past three days.
[01:24:57]  So I think the president has made it very clear that the United States has a lot of optionality here.
[01:25:02]  And, you know, we could go for a little bit longer, we could go for a lot longer, but I think the president just wants to make it clear to the Iranians and to the world that he is not going to rest until he accomplishes that all-important objective of ensuring that Iran can't have a nuclear weapon, not just for the next few years, not just because we obliterated Fordeau or some other enrichment facility, but because the Iranians themselves commit long-term to not building a nuclear weapon.
[01:25:26]  All right, John, obviously, you alluded to at the top of all of this in regards to these forever wars, but the vice president not committing to a timeframe as to how long these strikes will continue to be carried out.
[01:25:36]  We also saw that from the Secretary of War, Mr. Pete Hegseth, yesterday as well.
[01:25:41]  Your reaction to no one really giving us a timeframe as to how long this will be carried out for.
[01:25:47]  And we're seeing that it's only really kind of ramping up at this point.
[01:25:51]  Well, in any war, the first thing you learned when you go to these war colleges, and unfortunately, many of them have become extremely woke, like the Naval Woke College up in Newport and these Army Command Colleges.
[01:26:04]  Hegset's addressing that.
[01:26:05]  But one thing they still teach you at these places is the enemy has a vote and Iran has a vote.
[01:26:11]  And it really, the timeline depends on if the regime will step down, who will take power.
[01:26:18]  But JD Vance is right.
[01:26:21]  This is just the tip of the iceberg of our capabilities.
[01:26:24]  Strong capabilities, but just two carrier strike groups.
[01:26:28]  We have a lot more.

=== Unprecedented Moves in Insurance Rates (09:03) ===

[01:26:29]  A lot of these are in other places that are important, particularly in looking after China in the South China Sea, maintaining our obligations with Europe.
[01:26:42]  A lot of them are home in maintenance period, but we have more carriers.
[01:26:47]  Talk about carpet bombing.
[01:26:49]  I have not seen any reports that we've even sent our B-52s and Marine Corps amphibious assaults.
[01:26:57]  Maybe we don't want to do forever wars deep inland, but the Marines could definitely attack the port regions near the choke points without getting into a forever war.
[01:27:11]  So there are a lot more cards on the table for the United States indeed.
[01:27:16]  Yeah, I'm going to continue to follow it all.
[01:27:18]  I wanted to get to something that you think is not being covered at all, but you actually believe it's one of the more important issues in regards to this Iran story.
[01:27:26]  You're talking about global insurance markets right now.
[01:27:29]  Give us a little bit of details as to what you're alluding to because you put up a tweet and it's gaining a lot of traction.
[01:27:34]  I think this is important to highlight, but most importantly, tell us a little bit about this is your area of expertise.
[01:27:39]  Tell us how this is going to affect ships as well, shipping.
[01:27:42]  Yeah, I've been screaming about this into the wind for years.
[01:27:45]  On my website, gcaptain.com, we go deep into this, but we're one of the only maritime websites that is run and fully owned in the United States.
[01:27:56]  Most of these other maritime news sites are owned by the Europeans.
[01:28:00]  And as Europe gave up financing to Wall Street and technology, to Silicon Valley and aviation, to Boeing and Seattle, they have maintained an iron grip control over shipping.
[01:28:14]  Why?
[01:28:15]  Shipping controls 90% of all world trade.
[01:28:19]  This is enormously important from us.
[01:28:21]  The largest shipping companies in the world are Maersk up in Denmark.
[01:28:26]  We've seen the trouble with Denmark and Greenland recently.
[01:28:31]  You have CMA CGM in France and Mediterranean Shipping Company in Switzerland.
[01:28:38]  But the absolute hub of this is London.
[01:28:41]  As London kind of has faded away in global importance, they have maintained a strict control over this maritime regulation.
[01:28:51]  They host the UN International Maritime Organization, which is right down the block from MI6.
[01:28:58]  And a little ways down the river is Lloyds of London, which is the critical insurance market, insures about 40% of world trade, but insures ports and airports and skyscrapers and you name it, they insure it, but they also do the reinsurance market.
[01:29:17]  So as you, as an insurance company, provides insurance for ships, that insurance company will be reinsured.
[01:29:26]  And that is typically by Lloyd's in London or one of the other London subsidiaries.
[01:29:32]  And the question people have had for decades, insiders in the insurance, is how are they so good at determining these rates?
[01:29:41]  They can often give rates on some things lower than anyone else in the world.
[01:29:46]  And then they've gotten so good at it, even if you buy insurance from a New York or Japanese insurance company, often you'll get a quote from Lloyd's list and other insurance companies will match that quote.
[01:29:59]  Well, you know, there's been a lot of suspicion over the years.
[01:30:03]  Is it because of FiveEyes?
[01:30:04]  FiveEyes is the world's premier intelligence network.
[01:30:10]  And it's the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and UK, all Commonwealth countries against the United States.
[01:30:17]  There is a pipeline from the CIA, from the NSA, straight into this MI6 UK intelligence in London, which is right down the, you know, a couple buildings away from the International UN Maritime Organization that regulates all these shipping and very close to this Lloyds list.
[01:30:39]  So, are they giving these rates on insurance because they are tied into the U.S. intelligence, the CIA's computer?
[01:30:49]  There's a lot of evidence to believe so.
[01:30:51]  But the question is, it seems today from the press conferences and Kier Starmer, from the just UK forces not being pre-positioned, not being ready for this, that we did not tell our allies that this strike was going to go on.
[01:31:09]  And you look at the Maduro raid, we did not inform our allies to that.
[01:31:15]  So, you got to ask: are those intelligence signals from the CIA, NSA, FBI going straight to London?
[01:31:24]  And have those subsea cables gone dark?
[01:31:29]  And if they are, it's not just a question of insurance because we have all of these ships, hundreds of ships in the Persian Gulf right now stranded.
[01:31:40]  Why are they stranded?
[01:31:41]  The U.S. says that the Strait of Hormuz is open.
[01:31:44]  Iran says it's closed.
[01:31:45]  But the real question is: can they get insurance?
[01:31:49]  And we've seen marine insurers cancel policies.
[01:31:53]  They've canceled war risk insurance policies in the Persian Gulf, which were unprecedented.
[01:31:59]  They didn't even cancel insurance for ships going into Ukraine at the height of the Ukraine-Russia war.
[01:32:04]  So something very strange is happening here.
[01:32:07]  And there's my hypothesis is it is Lloyd's list and these insurance companies don't have, they've been cut off from this intelligence network access.
[01:32:21]  Yeah, well, I was actually going to ask as a follow-up what your thoughts were because initially when these attacks were being carried out, we did receive reports that the UK was unwilling to allow the United States to use their bases to strike.
[01:32:33]  Do you think all of this is related as a whole, or do you think they were upset that they weren't given intelligence prior to all of these attacks being launched?
[01:32:41]  Well, I think it's the primary problem is the woke governments in the UK and other European nations.
[01:32:48]  We've seen unprecedented moves.
[01:32:50]  A couple of years ago, Spring said that they would not let a U.S. merchant marine ship into a port to refuel near Gibraltar.
[01:33:00]  The U.K. pushed it off to Spain.
[01:33:01]  Spain said no.
[01:33:03]  For a U.S. flagship to not be allowed, this is a civilian ship.
[01:33:07]  It was carrying some military equipment and some of it was presumed to go to Israel, but to not allow a U.S. flagship, and we don't have many.
[01:33:14]  We only have 82 in international service right now.
[01:33:18]  China and these European countries control the most of ships.
[01:33:21]  But for an ally not to allow a U.S. ship, and now with the UK, Diego Garcia, they are giving it away to the locals and Mauritian, this woke ideology that we have to return the land.
[01:33:34]  Well, that's our most important Navy and Air Force base in the entire Indian Ocean.
[01:33:40]  It's a lot closer to send B-2 bombers from Diego Garcia to Iraq than to have to bring them all the way from a European base in Germany like Ramstein or the United States.
[01:33:52]  So the fact that the UK would not provide this and now looks to be selling off this land from underneath the U.S. Navy lease.
[01:34:02]  They say they're going to maintain the lease, but now they're saying we can only use this base to hit missiles that are being sent at other Middle Eastern countries.
[01:34:13]  Again, it goes back to the Europeans said, oh, the United States is responsible for these forever wars.
[01:34:19]  But you've been in the Pentagon.
[01:34:21]  We've talked to Army colonels.
[01:34:23]  We've talked to Army majors.
[01:34:25]  They've all said that they had these very strict rules, these jag rules.
[01:34:30]  The lawyers come in and tell them who they can shoot, when they can shoot, when they cannot shoot.
[01:34:34]  Do they have to be shot first?
[01:34:35]  Do they have to shoot last?
[01:34:37]  You know, a lot of times they have these enemies hiding in schools and hospitals, and we can't attack them.
[01:34:46]  Well, because each of these allies, France, Germany, UK, when they come into a war, they set their own rules.
[01:34:55]  And now the UK is setting its own rules for this Diego Garcia.
[01:34:58]  And it makes you really see what Donald Trump was saying about Greenland.
[01:35:03]  Denmark says, hey, we'll let you use the base whenever you want.
[01:35:06]  But when the war actually happens, is Denmark going to set a rule for that?
[01:35:10]  Same thing with Panama.
[01:35:11]  Panama has ejected China from the canal after Hegseth went down and made an agreement.
[01:35:17]  But if when Jimmy Carter gave away that canal, you have to wonder what is the foreign influence.
[01:35:24]  We have the Panama papers really linking these globalists to that UN International Maritime Organization.
[01:35:31]  Wasn't a big story in the United States.

=== Panama's Canal Shift (06:00) ===

[01:35:33]  You guys covered it.
[01:35:34]  But all of the dark money and the tax fraud and everything else, it's Cayman Islands, Bahamas.
[01:35:40]  It's all these Commonwealth countries that are tied to UK foreign intelligence, which is tied to our intelligence.
[01:35:47]  This all came out.
[01:35:48]  You can look, I think it was 2014, 16, all of these Panama papers were released.
[01:35:54]  It's all tied back to the UK and the lawyer who started the Panama Paper Law Firm, which is funding drug cartels and mafia and all of these illicit activities.
[01:36:05]  The founder of that law firm was at the International Maritime Organization in London.
[01:36:11]  And now you see these same organizations canceling shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
[01:36:17]  Is this political?
[01:36:17]  Is it geopolitical?
[01:36:19]  Is it U.S. against our allies?
[01:36:22]  There are so many questions here.
[01:36:24]  But the bigger implication is for the broader insurance market if they start cutting contracts to insure other things around the world, not just ships.
[01:36:36]  Yeah, well, we're going to keep our eye to this.
[01:36:38]  John Conrad, thank you for joining us today.
[01:36:40]  This is really interesting, and I'm sure we're going to have you back on later this week because it's obviously still developing and there's so much news flooding in.
[01:36:46]  So we appreciate all the incredible work that you're doing.
[01:36:49]  Again, to our audience, give him a follow on X as well.
[01:36:51]  If you want to stay in the loop, he does great work over at John Conrad.
[01:36:55]  That is K-O-N-R-A-D.
[01:36:58]  John, thank you so much for joining me today.
[01:37:00]  We greatly appreciate your time.
[01:37:02]  Thank you for having me.
[01:37:04]  Thank you.
[01:37:04]  As always, folks, I'm keeping my ear right now to Christy Noam right now, who is testifying in front of the Senate right now.
[01:37:12]  And it's quite interesting because they are talking about the Homeland Security funding.
[01:37:15]  As many of you know, I've been reporting it extensively.
[01:37:18]  There is a partial shutdown going on right now, which probably isn't a great time to strike a country like Iran.
[01:37:23]  And she is speaking.
[01:37:25]  Chris Koons, the senator from Delaware, he's a Democrat.
[01:37:28]  He also has taken the mic, and his time has just started.
[01:37:31]  Let's listen back in.
[01:37:33]  Higher and higher numbers for deportation, the mass deportations that Stephen Miller designed and President Trump has ordered you to implement.
[01:37:41]  It's why we have roving patrols racially profiling whomever they see and creating a show-me-your-paper state.
[01:37:47]  It's why you go into sensitive locations like churches and hospitals and schools.
[01:37:51]  It's why you have been arresting children, the elderly, refugees, the disabled, including a resident in my own state suffering from severe developmental disabilities.
[01:38:01]  When there's pressure on you to hit high numbers, you don't have the time to focus on targeted care, targeted effects to find violent criminals on the run.
[01:38:11]  It's easier to simply round up people here, breaking no laws and contributing to our communities.
[01:38:17]  It's why you deny people due process and rush them out of the country.
[01:38:20]  And it's why you've put poorly trained ICE recruits on our streets, engaging in reckless and dangerous tactics.
[01:38:27]  Does DHS, Madam Secretary, operate on any quotas or numerical targets for immigration arrests every day?
[01:38:34]  No, Senator, we do not.
[01:38:35]  We do targeted law enforcement operations going after those worst of the worst criminals that are here in the United States.
[01:38:40]  I would certainly prefer it if you did targeted operations against the worst of the worst.
[01:38:44]  But just last year, Stephen Miller, who's the president's Homeland Security Advisor and Deputy Chief of Staff, went on Fox News and said, We're setting a goal, a minimum of 3,000 arrests for ICE every day.
[01:38:58]  And President Trump is going to keep pushing to get that number higher and higher.
[01:39:03]  He's the deputy chief of staff and Homeland Security Advisor, and he oversees immigration policy for the president.
[01:39:10]  What's your response to his public quote?
[01:39:14]  Sir, there is no quotas at the Department of Homeland Security.
[01:39:16]  When we do law enforcement operations, we do them on targeted enforcement, getting public safety threats off of our streets and out of our communities to protect the American people.
[01:39:25]  Thank you.
[01:39:25]  And you agree that setting quotas would actually put improper pressure on law enforcement to conduct themselves in ways that might not be in the best interest of their safety or the public.
[01:39:35]  Senator, we don't have any quotas on our law enforcement operations.
[01:39:37]  Have you ever issued any guidance rejecting the use of numerical targets or quotas?
[01:39:43]  I usually put out notices on things that are impacting our operations.
[01:39:48]  There's been no discussion or requirement on numerical quota targets.
[01:39:52]  Therefore, there would be no need to reject them in a memo unless I feared that they were being implemented.
[01:39:57]  Senator, here's why I think there might be real value in your putting out a memo saying I reject any quotas.
[01:40:03]  It's not just what Stephen Miller said last May.
[01:40:06]  He's reportedly, and I have many press accounts of this I can submit for the record, making conference calls, berating agency officials, threatening to fire them, threatening to fire the leadership of field offices that are in the bottom 10% of arrest numbers.
[01:40:21]  I would suggest that it's this constant drive for higher numbers that has been behind a lot of what we've been seeing in terms of the failure to actually focus on the worst of the worst and targeted enforcement and to instead do things like roving patrols and profiling.
[01:40:37]  Let's move on.
[01:40:38]  Steve Bannon, long an advisor to the president, one of his earliest public supporters, recently said that ICE should be deployed at the polls in the next election.
[01:40:49]  Will you rule out the deployment of ICE or CBP to polling places this November?
[01:40:55]  There are no plans to have ICE officers at our polling locations.
[01:40:59]  I'm glad to hear that, but would you rule it out?
[01:41:01]  Would you say it will not happen?
[01:41:03]  Do you plan on illegal aliens voting in our elections, Senator?
[01:41:06]  I do not.
[01:41:08]  Unless you plan on illegal aliens.
[01:41:10]  The Heritage Foundation recently concluded that over a 20-year period where they reviewed hundreds of millions, billions of voting cases, they found only a small handful of actual cases of illegals voting.
[01:41:23]  So I'm concerned by your rebuttal.
[01:41:25]  I'm going to step back right now.
[01:41:27]  I wanted to make sure we got to some updates throughout the show today, and we'll be dipping it out of that, of course, as it continues on.

=== Motive Behind Security Measures (05:12) ===

[01:41:33]  But I want to get to clip six because it has to do with that terror attack that took place in Austin, Texas.
[01:41:38]  And I think it's quite strange how both The Austin Police Department and the FBI.
[01:41:43]  Both agencies are refusing to tell the American people what the motive was behind that terror attack.
[01:41:50]  Take a listen.
[01:41:51]  And I think it was reported that the suspect had a shirt underneath the sweatshirt that showed an Iranian flag.
[01:41:58]  Is there a direct connection to the war in Iran with the shooting here?
[01:42:03]  So I think for our purposes, you know, as we're looking at the totality of this, and certainly as a police chief, and we're coming in and we're getting this information, and we see those indicators, we see the second shirt with the Iran and the picture of the shawl on that t-shirt as well.
[01:42:19]  You know, we're thinking about events and what's occurring in the country as well.
[01:42:23]  And so, in addition to the fact that this was a huge complex scene, we're calling in those federal partners to take a look at that as well.
[01:42:30]  And so, again, those motives, all of those things, that's what this investigation is about right now.
[01:42:37]  Oh, sure, go ahead.
[01:42:38]  Go right ahead.
[01:42:39]  Thank you.
[01:42:40]  So, I'll add on, but first, I just want to also express our regards for the victims, the victims' families, those impacted by this tragic event.
[01:42:54]  It's not just those that were injured or killed, but obviously, those that witnessed it are going to be forever impacted.
[01:42:59]  And so, just let them know we stand with you and our thoughts are with you.
[01:43:04]  With regards to the question, yes, we like our ultimate goal in everything we do is to determine the motive, right?
[01:43:14]  We're looking for connections that he possibly had.
[01:43:16]  Witnesses, as the chief had mentioned, we are pouring through thousands of hours of video.
[01:43:23]  We have massive amounts of both digital and physical evidence.
[01:43:28]  And this is a around-the-clock 24-hour investigation at this point.
[01:43:33]  And any declarations on what led to that motive would be premature, right?
[01:43:39]  We want to make sure that we have our facts 100% correct, or as it's close to, or at least we've tracked down every possible lead that we can, because that's what we owe to the victims, right?
[01:43:50]  That's what you guys want answers for.
[01:43:51]  But more importantly, we owe that to the victims and their families to be right.
[01:43:55]  So, we don't want to speculate or make any guesses at this stage of the investigation as to what that motive ultimately was.
[01:44:02]  Jamal, well, I'm willing to speculate.
[01:44:04]  Let me jump in on this.
[01:44:05]  All you have to do is look at the evidence that's come out.
[01:44:07]  And so, let's speculate a little bit.
[01:44:08]  When you look at the t-shirt that the individual was wearing, there was this hoodie and there was a shirt underneath that hoodie.
[01:44:14]  It's quite clear what his motives were.
[01:44:16]  He's wearing a hoodie that stated property of Allah.
[01:44:19]  And underneath that hoodie, according to these leaked images that you're about to see on your screen, the image of a t-shirt that was underneath it is the Iranian flag.
[01:44:28]  So, before you tell me, we don't exactly have motive, I would probably beg to differ on that front because I think it's very, very clear as to where he was going with all of this, what his big motive was.
[01:44:38]  He told you twice.
[01:44:40]  Then, when he went to his home, you saw there was an Iranian flag on social media accounts.
[01:44:44]  There was the supreme leader, his image there.
[01:44:47]  So, it's fair to say that there's motive here, but whether or not these agencies actually want to admit what the motive was, well, of course, you can't piss off the jihadists.
[01:44:57]  They would hate to do just that.
[01:44:58]  All right, folks, got a lot more to discuss in just a little bit.
[01:45:01]  We're going to keep our eye onto Chrissy Noam's testimony.
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=== Finding Unaccompanied Children (05:02) ===

[01:46:46]  You won't break me.
[01:46:48]  You won't make me.
[01:46:50]  I'll fight you.
[01:46:51]  The battle against tyranny is the animating contest Thomas Edison talked about.
[01:46:55]  It is not a wait to fight tyranny, it is stepping into your destiny.
[01:46:59]  They'll never win.
[01:47:01]  Back to the American Journal.
[01:47:14]  A lot going on over here.
[01:47:15]  We're actually keeping our eye on Christy Noam, who's speaking right now in front of the Senate.
[01:47:19]  I like tipping in and out because some of them are asking good questions.
[01:47:21]  And, you know, I love Chuck Rassley.
[01:47:24]  I think he's a national treasure.
[01:47:25]  And so he's speaking right now.
[01:47:27]  Let's listen in to see what Chuck Rassley is asking the Secretary of DHS right now.
[01:47:31]  With them, they have been subject to harm, abuse, and even sex and labor trafficking.
[01:47:38]  Thanks to Secretary Noam, Trump administration, greater transparency has finally been brought to this issue.
[01:47:46]  Senator Brad.
[01:47:47]  Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
[01:47:48]  Thank you, Madam Secretary, for being here today.
[01:47:51]  To echo what my colleague Senator Kennedy said, I appreciate you actually securing our border, the work that President Trump has done and you alongside him to make sure that we don't have just an actual invasion happening every day, like we saw under the Biden administration.
[01:48:08]  I believe we had about an average of 5,000 people a day that came over the border during the Biden administration, many of which are unaccounted for.
[01:48:18]  When we're looking at kind of what is ahead of us, I've heard Senator Blackburn and others kind of bring this up to you, but I am thinking about the children that we know that came unaccompanied, many of them with a phone number written on their arm or taped to them.
[01:48:32]  Senator Blackburn mentioned that the Biden administration did away with the DNA policies.
[01:48:36]  We know many of these children have been trafficked into our interior.
[01:48:40]  You mentioned the rape, that 30% of women, is that right, that came across our border were most likely raped in the process.
[01:48:47]  The 4,000 people that died, the inhumane circumstances that were created, and the enriched cartels as a result.
[01:48:55]  As a result of four years of the Biden administration, the cartels were stronger and more prosperous and unfortunately had a greater grip on our interior.
[01:49:05]  It is your job to make sure that we unwind that, that we keep American families safe, that we abide by the law, that we enforce the law.
[01:49:14]  The way we do it matters.
[01:49:15]  We have to do it the right way.
[01:49:17]  There are countless families sitting behind you who have either had a loved one injured or lost because of the lack of enforcement of the previous administration.
[01:49:27]  Do you commit to me today that you will ensure that no family has to go through this again, that you will use the tools at your disposal the right way to protect American citizens?
[01:49:39]  Yes, I will use every tool I have available to make sure that we're protecting as many Americans from having to go through what these families have had to go through.
[01:49:46]  And Secretary Noam, I want to talk to you about these children.
[01:49:49]  Where are they?
[01:49:51]  We didn't have hearings about them last under the previous administration.
[01:49:55]  I want to know where they are.
[01:49:57]  How many children do you think are in our interior unaccompanied for?
[01:50:00]  Are they being sex trafficked, labor trafficked?
[01:50:02]  Where are they?
[01:50:04]  And how many have you found?
[01:50:05]  And what is your plan to find all of them?
[01:50:08]  Every one of those children deserves to be seen, deserves to be found.
[01:50:12]  And I appreciate the president's commitment to making that happen.
[01:50:15]  I want to know what you're going to do to follow through with it.
[01:50:18]  We're going to continue to do our work.
[01:50:20]  We found 145,000 of those children so far, identified them, returned them back to their loved ones, and taken care of them.
[01:50:28]  We will continue until we find every single one of them.
[01:50:31]  The Homeland Security Investigations teams are the most specialized law enforcement officers for getting into these networks, these trafficking networks, and making sure that they're not just finding one child, but finding the network that is trafficking hundreds of children and make sure that we're bringing them back home and helping them heal.
[01:50:48]  Well, let's actually talk about HSI.
[01:50:51]  We have heard ICE be vilified across the nation, called Nazis, called Gestapos.
[01:50:59]  I want to talk about ICE HSI for a second because you just mentioned it.
[01:51:03]  When we are looking at finding child predators, when we're looking at finding people who are exploiting children, when we're looking at cyber crimes, human trafficking, when we're looking at drug smuggling, weapons smuggling, HSI does the hard work, do they not?
[01:51:20]  Yes, they do.
[01:51:21]  I want you to see behind me, these are some of our most notorious and high-profile criminals in recent years.
[01:51:30]  All right, I'm going to step in on John speaking.
[01:51:32]  I am continuously pushing to help not only find those children, but to also bring back the whistleblowers over at DHS and the other one over at HSHSI and so many other agencies right now.
[01:51:47]  And it's just heartbreaking to see folks.

=== Urgent Homeland Defense (15:35) ===

[01:51:49]  We've got a lot more happening in just a few moments.
[01:51:51]  Don't go anywhere.
[01:51:52]  More to discuss in a second.
[01:51:58]  You're tuned in to The American Journal with your host, Breanna Morello.
[01:52:04]  Watch it live right now at banned.video.
[01:52:11]  All right, welcome back to the American Journal.
[01:52:12]  Excited you're jumping on board.
[01:52:14]  Keep in mind, a lot of things happen all across the country.
[01:52:16]  But I want to make sure that we'll be highlighting, or highlighting at least, the latest regarding the war in Iran.
[01:52:22]  Now, we didn't ask for this war.
[01:52:23]  I know many of our fellow Americans are a little upset by this, and by a little, I mean very upset by this.
[01:52:28]  But right now, so many Americans have a ton of questions that they're looking for answers for.
[01:52:33]  And we're trying our best to get those questions answered.
[01:52:36]  Secretary of State Mark Rubio was questioned yesterday in regards to why the United States launched these attacks with Israel.
[01:52:44]  Take a listen to Clip Four.
[01:52:46]  The United States conducted this operation with a very clear goal in mind.
[01:52:50]  I haven't got a chance to see a lot of reporting.
[01:52:52]  I don't understand what the confusion is.
[01:52:54]  Let me explain it to you, and I'll do it once again as clearly as possible.
[01:52:57]  Perhaps you'll report it that way.
[01:52:59]  The United States is conducting an operation to eliminate the threat of Iran's short-range ballistic missiles and the threat posed by their Navy, particularly to naval assets.
[01:53:09]  That is what it is focused on doing right now, and it's doing quite successfully.
[01:53:13]  I'll leave it to the Pentagon and the Department of War to discuss the tactics behind that and the progress that's being made.
[01:53:18]  That is the clear objective of this mission.
[01:53:21]  The second question that I've been asked is, why now?
[01:53:23]  Well, there's two reasons why now.
[01:53:25]  The first is it was abundantly clear that if Iran came under attack by anyone, the United States or Israel or anyone, they were going to respond and respond against the United States.
[01:53:34]  The orders had been delegated down to the field commanders.
[01:53:38]  It was automatic, and in fact, it bear to be true because, in fact, within an hour of the initial attack on the leadership compound, the missile forces in the South and in the North for that matter had already been activated to launch.
[01:53:52]  In fact, those had already been pre-positioned.
[01:53:54]  The third is the assessment that was made that if we stood and waited for that attack to come first before we hit them, we would suffer much higher casualties.
[01:54:04]  And so the president made the very wise decision.
[01:54:06]  We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.
[01:54:09]  We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces.
[01:54:12]  And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties and perhaps even higher those killed.
[01:54:20]  And then we would all be here answering questions about why we knew that indeed.
[01:54:24]  That's in Iran despite years of sanction.
[01:54:26]  Imagine a year from now or a year and a half from now the capabilities they would have to inflict damage on us.
[01:54:31]  It's an unacceptable risk, especially in the hands of a regime that's run by radical clerics.
[01:54:37]  The Ayatollah is a radical, was a radical cleric.
[01:54:40]  That entire regime is led by radical clerics who don't make geopolitical decisions.
[01:54:46]  They make decisions on the basis of theology, their view of theology, which is an apocalyptic one.
[01:54:51]  That has to be taken very seriously as well.
[01:54:54]  So that was the purpose for what this operation is all about.
[01:54:56]  That's what it's focused on.
[01:54:59]  Obviously, many Americans are really upset at the response.
[01:55:03]  This sounds, this gives me flashbacks to the war in Iraq.
[01:55:05]  And I know many of you at home feel that same exact way.
[01:55:08]  We want a better, more detailed explanation as to what we're doing right now with Iran.
[01:55:12]  And I know we keep playing these clips.
[01:55:14]  We're looking for a timeline as to is this a couple of weeks we're talking about, a couple of months, a couple of years.
[01:55:19]  There has to be a plan put in place, and the American people must know what that plan is.
[01:55:24]  I know when we voted for President Trump, we signed up for wars to end, not for wars to begin.
[01:55:29]  And another war in the Middle East, President Trump knows, is not MAGA.
[01:55:33]  He knows it's not MAGA.
[01:55:34]  In fact, he ran on that campaign promise that he was going to end all wars.
[01:55:39]  Now, of course, sometimes you can't help but to get involved, but this attack was, as we could see, unprovoked.
[01:55:46]  And although the Pentagon is very, well, they're not very likely going to share us the information that they have in regards to why they felt like this was an urgent matter, but the rest of us are fired up and we want answers.
[01:55:58]  And if you were a supporter of President Trump from day one, you were out there advocating, you took the verbal beatdown from those on the left, you want an explanation.
[01:56:07]  You don't want this to continue on.
[01:56:08]  And right now, former Congressman Marjorie Hiller Greene is trying to, well, not trying.
[01:56:14]  She's being very articulate in how she does not approve of this war between both the United States, Israel, and Iran right now in clip five.
[01:56:23]  Take a listen to her very passionate dispute with President Donald Trump on this.
[01:56:28]  And then we have the president, who, by the way, Megan, this really needs to be said.
[01:56:32]  Donald Trump has said repeatedly on camera and in interviews, he doesn't think he's going to heaven.
[01:56:39]  Well, I want to ask a question, a serious question.
[01:56:42]  What is in his mind?
[01:56:44]  What is his mental state?
[01:56:45]  If he doesn't think he's going to heaven and he is a man towards the end, he's in the fourth quarter.
[01:56:50]  He's towards the end of his life.
[01:56:52]  How does that pan out for the rest of us when we have a president of the United States who doesn't think and is convinced he's not going to heaven?
[01:57:00]  What does that mean his decision-making is?
[01:57:03]  He already said to the New York Post today that he doesn't care about the polling.
[01:57:07]  He doesn't care about what the American people think.
[01:57:10]  And he may put troops on the ground.
[01:57:12]  He took a oh, this is going to be a few-day war to now it's going to be maybe four weeks or more.
[01:57:18]  I want to say, what is happening to the man that I supported, you supported, the man that denounced what happened in Iraq, the man that said no more foreign wars, no more regime change, promise it on the campaign.
[01:57:32]  JD Vance promised it.
[01:57:34]  Tulsi Gabbard promised it.
[01:57:36]  All of them promised it.
[01:57:37]  And we're a year in, a year in, and we're in another war, and we've got American troops being killed.
[01:57:45]  I think it's time for America to rip the band-aid off.
[01:57:48]  And we need to have a serious conversation about what the is happening to this country and who in the hell is these decisions being made for and who is making these decisions.
[01:58:00]  Now, both Megan Kelly and Teva Carlson have been very outspoken on this as well.
[01:58:05]  Even Megan Kelly is surprising a lot by saying that she believes this war is being fought on behalf of Israel on your proxies now.
[01:58:12]  Now, again, they continue to say it's a partnership on this front, but President Trump isn't very happy with the criticism he's received from both former allies of his.
[01:58:21]  I don't want to call Megan Kelly a former ally, given her performance during the debate, but he wasn't very happy.
[01:58:28]  He said that she's not MAGA, she's not represented MAGA, and was not very enthusiastic when listening to all of this.
[01:58:37]  And when it comes to who's backing this, this is an important poll that we just put up there.
[01:58:40]  One in four Americans back the actions that were taken in Iran.
[01:58:44]  Again, this is going to do more to get Americans away from Israel and backing Israel than anything.
[01:58:51]  That's my true opinion.
[01:58:52]  I think Americans want to see some type of ally and some understanding as to why this was so urgent to take place this weekend.
[01:59:00]  Again, six U.S. service members were killed in these attacks.
[01:59:05]  And President Trump felt very comfortable in his response saying that there will probably be more.
[01:59:10]  And that's not acceptable.
[01:59:11]  I think the American people want more from this president.
[01:59:13]  We don't want our service members being killed in foreign wars in the Middle East.
[01:59:19]  That's not what we signed up for.
[01:59:20]  So we voted him in for this office position for, of course, and this is not what the American people want to see continued on.
[01:59:27]  Now, again, we're very well aware that Iran is obviously one of the biggest backers of terrorism, Islamic terrorism.
[01:59:33]  And so, yes, there is truth to that.
[01:59:36]  But did we need to launch this full speed ahead?
[01:59:38]  I don't know.
[01:59:39]  And I'm still waiting for more information.
[01:59:41]  And I want to be as lenient as I can regards this before coming out with a strong opinion.
[01:59:47]  I know many of us, our gut instinct is usually just to go out and speak what our emotions are on these subject matters.
[01:59:53]  But for me, I'm still waiting for more information.
[01:59:56]  I want to see specifically what they're referring to here.
[01:59:59]  Why was this such an urgent issue that now it's time to strike?
[02:00:02]  Again, we have a partial DHS shutdown.
[02:00:05]  I don't know how to tell the American people that we've never been this vulnerable.
[02:00:09]  You know, constantly we were told that these wars need to be fought in the Middle East because it would prevent there from being a strike here on the homeland.
[02:00:15]  But folks, those days are over.
[02:00:18]  I know a lot of people seem to think that there is an Israeli effort to say that there is a domestic issue here in the United States.
[02:00:28]  And I actually disagree with that.
[02:00:30]  I do.
[02:00:30]  I know that right now we have hundreds of sleeper cells, whether it's hundreds or thousands could be disputed and it would be a fair dispute.
[02:00:37]  But to sit here and be naive and say that there isn't a domestic issue is absurd.
[02:00:44]  It's the reason why I didn't want the United States entering this war with Israel because we are vulnerable here on the homeland.
[02:00:49]  Right now, again, DHS isn't funded.
[02:00:52]  There's partial shutdowns going on throughout things like CISA, which again, obviously we all know what they did during the 2020 elections, but they're supposed to be the ones helping to make sure that our cyber systems aren't being hacked.
[02:01:06]  And again, Iran does have some very sophisticated hackers.
[02:01:09]  So this is obviously something that needed to be dished out prior to all of this.
[02:01:13]  Now we have the House saying, okay, on Thursday, we'll do a vote.
[02:01:16]  We'll do a vote.
[02:01:17]  We'll see if it gets some funding together for DHS.
[02:01:19]  But no, that's not acceptable.
[02:01:21]  So many great Americans who would normally enter agencies.
[02:01:23]  And again, I didn't even want to see, obviously, the growth of our federal government, but thanks to the Patriot Act, this is what we have now.
[02:01:31]  DHS is obviously a monster, but there are certain entities that are very important to security, national security here in the homeland.
[02:01:38]  And so you can't really dispute that.
[02:01:40]  You could probably dispute the OTSA and other agencies, but I want to talk exclusively about the agencies that are meant to fight back domestically potential terror attacks.
[02:01:49]  I mean, CISA is obviously supposed to be, and it's not being weaponized against the American people, utilized to fight back on potential cyber attacks.
[02:01:57]  And where are we now with this?
[02:02:00]  Now, again, DHS Secretary Christy Noam is testifying and she is trying to apply some pressure for them to get funding.
[02:02:05]  Christy Noam, by the way, she is not taking a paycheck.
[02:02:09]  Members of her communications team, I'm told, are not taking a paycheck.
[02:02:13]  And they are trying their best to get funding.
[02:02:14]  They've also switched over some funds from FEMA to help make sure that a lot of these agents are not missing their paychecks.
[02:02:21]  When the money officially runs dry, guess what happens?
[02:02:25]  Those agents are going to have to rely on loans.
[02:02:27]  Those loans accrue interest.
[02:02:29]  And if you're someone looking to get into maybe law enforcement, are you really going to apply for an agency like DHS?
[02:02:36]  Why would you want to work for ICE or TSA or any of these agencies when you see that they're constantly being used as political props?
[02:02:42]  And that expense, whatever that expense is, when there's obviously no money coming in to these agencies, yeah, they get the payouts later when they reopen and the funding gets there.
[02:02:51]  But guess what?
[02:02:52]  Your mortgage payment doesn't go into a partial shutdown.
[02:02:56]  Your rent doesn't go into a partial shutdown.
[02:02:58]  And for Americans trying to get by, well, they have to turn to banks for loans.
[02:03:02]  And those loans accrue interest.
[02:03:04]  And that interest is never tossed over, of course, to the federal government to pay no.
[02:03:08]  It's up to the agents.
[02:03:10]  So again, this is really, really a big issue here.
[02:03:14]  And I didn't like the expansion, obviously, of our federal government.
[02:03:17]  But we do have issues here.
[02:03:19]  Thanks to Democrats who have let these illegal invaders into our country, many who are on the terror watch list.
[02:03:25]  They are in our country.
[02:03:26]  How do we push back?
[02:03:27]  How do we fight back?
[02:03:29]  Well, you've got to have an agency that goes out there and rounds these individuals up.
[02:03:32]  And expanding TSA, obviously, isn't something I'll ever advocate for, but expanding ICE, expanding all of these agencies that are going out there and trying to rescue these children, these HSI agents.
[02:03:44]  Yeah, we need to expand them.
[02:03:45]  We need to find those thousands of missing children.
[02:03:48]  By the way, the last numbers I was given, there was total at the start of this administration, 420,000 children, migrant children that went missing under the Biden regime.
[02:03:58]  They were handed off to cartel members, gang members.
[02:04:01]  They were handed off to pedophiles.
[02:04:05]  And as a result of that, the Biden administration didn't care.
[02:04:08]  And those who came forward, talking about people like Tara Rotas, Aaron Stevenson, who came forward and decided to report this, they were tossed from the agencies.
[02:04:17]  They still haven't been brought back in.
[02:04:19]  I'm talking HSI or HSS.
[02:04:23]  I'm sorry.
[02:04:24]  She worked over at Tara Rotas, worked at HHS.
[02:04:27]  And then Aaron Stevenson worked for DHS.
[02:04:29]  These two agencies still haven't brought these great men and women back in.
[02:04:34]  And I'm going to keep, keep asking DHS, when do you intend on bringing them in?
[02:04:39]  Because these people could help you find the kids.
[02:04:41]  But again, partial shutdown.
[02:04:43]  Now, although these agents have not yet resigned, they're still working.
[02:04:48]  They aren't taking time off as of yet.
[02:04:50]  There comes a point where you hit your breaking point.
[02:04:52]  You have to find a different stream of income.
[02:04:54]  And so you're not going to be rescuing those children.
[02:04:57]  You're not going to be making sure that those children are getting pulled out of the hands of predators, pulled out of the hands of those who are trying to use them as slave labor.
[02:05:04]  So right now we have a significant issue in this country.
[02:05:07]  And unfortunately, again, I hate advocating for this, but I want to see those children brought home.
[02:05:14]  I want to see these illegal aliens supported from our country.
[02:05:17]  And so that's the focus of what the funding that I want to see get reissued to DHS.
[02:05:21]  I want to make sure that the homeland is secure.
[02:05:24]  And whatever that means, we need to go through with that.
[02:05:27]  I don't understand why we launched these attacks knowing that DHS was dealing with a partial shutdown.
[02:05:31]  And again, DHS isn't going to tell you whether or not these people are actually showing up because they don't want to show any vulnerabilities in the system right now.
[02:05:38]  But you have to really wonder, why are we doing this right now?
[02:05:44]  Margie Taylor Green obviously has received a lot of slack for her support of the president.
[02:05:48]  She's done this for years now.
[02:05:51]  She tried her very best to help President Trump out.
[02:05:53]  And unfortunately, unfortunately, it seems to not really be working out.
[02:05:58]  It's really heartbreaking.
[02:06:00]  Folks, if you want to join the show in the final segment, we'll be taking a couple of calls.
[02:06:03]  So if you want to call into the program and maybe sound off on the subjects we've talked about thus far, we're going to keep it relevant to the discussion that we've had over these last few hours.
[02:06:11]  877-789-2539 is the number to call.
[02:06:15]  That's 877-789-2539.
[02:06:17]  We'll probably get a couple of callers in, but I want to hear from you.
[02:06:20]  So that's the number to call into if you'd like to join the show.
[02:06:22]  All right, if you live in Texas, it is Election Day.
[02:06:25]  And for people like Senator John Cornyn, who I believe is a deep state operative, well, it's not looking too good for John Cornyn.
[02:06:31]  When John Cornyn was asked about how he's feeling about Election Day, he wasn't feeling too good.
[02:06:36]  Take a listen to clip seven and how he's trying to spin this on the radical Texans throughout the state.
[02:06:42]  I know Republicans, voters.
[02:06:46]  And as I said earlier, really, it's a question of who bothers to show up.
[02:06:50]  If only the most radical people show up in the primary, then I think that's going to be a challenge.
[02:07:00]  Ah, the most radical, the people that don't want him to be a deep state operative, who want, well, you and I, who want him to work for the Texans that he represents right now.
[02:07:09]  Folks, John Cornyn is a deep state operative, in my opinion.
[02:07:12]  He has had no issue advocating for the renewal of FISA by saying that it's not been used and weaponized against the American people, even though anyone with common sense or maybe even the president of the United States right now would probably argue that it has been.

=== Chip Roy vs. Sharia Law (07:33) ===

[02:07:25]  It's been used against him, but they continue to say, oh, we need FISA.
[02:07:28]  We need it because it's used for the president's intelligence briefings.
[02:07:32]  Yeah, it's fine when it's being used against non-Americans, but when it's being used against Americans, what they always seem to do, they don't care.
[02:07:40]  They don't care.
[02:07:41]  So right now, John Cornyn's got a very tough situation in the state of Texas because Texans see what he's doing.
[02:07:46]  He has been someone working on behalf of another agency, which I believe to be the deep state operatives, rather than the people who voted him in.
[02:07:55]  John Cornyn's polling numbers aren't looking too good.
[02:07:58]  And we have the best AG in the entire country, Mr. Ken Paxton, right now, potentially going to win this.
[02:08:05]  And I hope it doesn't turn into a runoff.
[02:08:07]  I really hope it's just, he's got it.
[02:08:09]  But we're prepared in case it is a runoff.
[02:08:11]  You know, Ken Paxton is one of the most incredible attorney generals that we have in this country.
[02:08:16]  And I'm so upset that he's going to be leaving as Texas AG.
[02:08:19]  Why?
[02:08:20]  Well, because that slot is a big one to be filled.
[02:08:22]  If you haven't voted yet, Aaron Wrights is who I'd obviously endorse.
[02:08:25]  We've had him in studios.
[02:08:26]  Many of you know.
[02:08:27]  He's a former DOJ official.
[02:08:28]  He was confirmed under the Bondi DOJ and he left and he's out running to be Texas AG.
[02:08:34]  He has been a day one fighter.
[02:08:36]  He's not a politician.
[02:08:37]  And that's the biggest issue that he has.
[02:08:39]  He's not a politician.
[02:08:41]  He doesn't have name recognition like Chip Roy.
[02:08:43]  But when you compare his resume to Chip Roy's resume, this guy is a fighter.
[02:08:49]  Alex, I mean, Aaron Wrights is someone who I a thousand percent have backed and continue to back.
[02:08:55]  And I think he made a great AG.
[02:08:56]  He's worked with Ken Paxton.
[02:08:58]  He's worked beside him as an attorney.
[02:09:00]  And he will work to make sure that Ken Pax's agenda is carried through.
[02:09:03]  In fact, Ken Paxton has endorsed Aaron Wright's take his position.
[02:09:08]  And I hope Texans realize that.
[02:09:09]  If you haven't made your way to the voting polls yet, when you do, make sure you vote for my guy, Aaron Wrights.
[02:09:16]  He is a patriot.
[02:09:17]  He is someone who isn't afraid to come on InfoWars.
[02:09:20]  You know, I've invited Chip Roy on shows that I've produced in the past.
[02:09:22]  And if it's too fringe, he doesn't make the appearance.
[02:09:26]  As many of you guys know, he's also disrespected Trump supporters over the years as well because he was so pro to Santez.
[02:09:31]  And again, I'm pro to Santez as well.
[02:09:32]  I've always liked Governor Ron DeSantis, but I never attacked the other side because I figure we have more in common than to go after and to target.
[02:09:41]  But Chip Roy has always been very unhinged, and he's now pretending to be doing things.
[02:09:46]  This is the problem I have with Chip Roy.
[02:09:48]  Chip Roy is now an activated MAGA fighter, it seems like, as someone who's pushing the Save America Act and somebody who is now going after Islam here in the state.
[02:09:57]  I think that's amazing.
[02:09:58]  But what took so long?
[02:10:00]  What took so long?
[02:10:01]  And when you ask Chip Roy specifically why he thinks he should be able to win this race and why Texans should support him, it's because he's a career politician.
[02:10:07]  He'll tell you that he has a history of winning.
[02:10:10]  And so that's why you should vote for him.
[02:10:12]  No, I actually think that that's actually a disqualifier.
[02:10:14]  I don't think people who have a history of winning elections should be the ones we continue just to vote in.
[02:10:21]  I want to judge you based on their performance.
[02:10:23]  And his performance so far hasn't been the greatest.
[02:10:26]  Yes, now he's starting to be activated.
[02:10:28]  And I love the fact that he's battling Sharia law or Sharia, I should say.
[02:10:33]  By the way, folks, just a little footnote.
[02:10:36]  If you say Sharia law, Muslims, they'll chuckle.
[02:10:40]  Why?
[02:10:40]  Well, because Sharia means law.
[02:10:42]  And so you're literally just saying law, law, back to back.
[02:10:44]  And I watched so many of these press briefings that I myself am now saying it.
[02:10:47]  And I need to stop.
[02:10:48]  It is just Sharia.
[02:10:50]  But here's the other problem that I have too.
[02:10:52]  We have a lot of politicians going out there and saying that Sharia needs to be banned here in the United States, but Sharia is banned here in the United States.
[02:10:58]  Why?
[02:10:59]  Well, the Constitution rules the land, and there's no other law that overweighs or overtakes the Constitution.
[02:11:05]  So if Sharia law, Sharia, I keep doing it, see, they got me.
[02:11:10]  If Sharia is being enforced here in the United States, you know what you have to do?
[02:11:14]  You have to fight them in court.
[02:11:16]  You have to shut these places down.
[02:11:19]  You can't just sit here and just say, we're going to come up with more laws and more laws and more laws.
[02:11:22]  Because if those laws aren't being implemented, well, guess what?
[02:11:25]  They mean absolutely nothing.
[02:11:28]  And that's what's going on right now.
[02:11:30]  But I love the work that's being done right now by Chip Roy and Keith Self and other members of Congress.
[02:11:34]  So far, they have 42 members of their Sharia caucus.
[02:11:39]  And that's quite impressive.
[02:11:40]  You know, in Europe, we're going to talk to Tommy Robinson tomorrow.
[02:11:43]  We'll have him in a sit-down interview.
[02:11:45]  We're going to be talking about this.
[02:11:47]  Members in Europe, for an example, they weren't this bold.
[02:11:50]  They didn't stand up.
[02:11:51]  And so I'm excited that they are finally standing up.
[02:11:53]  But here in Texas, it's starting to feel like it's a little too late.
[02:11:56]  There are 330 mosques in Texas.
[02:11:59]  And it's not just Texas.
[02:12:00]  I just say Texas all the time because, folks, I'm here.
[02:12:03]  I see it firsthand.
[02:12:04]  I show up to the hearings.
[02:12:05]  I show up to whatever I could find on the books and make sure that I'm face first there.
[02:12:10]  This is happening all across the country.
[02:12:11]  If you live in Alabama, you should be scared.
[02:12:14]  You should be very scared.
[02:12:15]  Why?
[02:12:15]  And this isn't fear-mongering.
[02:12:16]  They're buying up the churches.
[02:12:18]  Over the summer, there was another church that was purchased in Alabama, and they quickly did it under a very sketchy LLC and then flipped it over to the Islamists.
[02:12:26]  This is happening all across the country.
[02:12:28]  And if you don't follow my girl Amy Mech, well, you're missing out.
[02:12:31]  This isn't fear-mongering.
[02:12:32]  This is an awakening that needs to happen.
[02:12:35]  They're posting all this information out there on Twitter and other platforms and streaming it.
[02:12:39]  You could watch these sermons yourself and see what they are saying.
[02:12:43]  In Plano, Texas, for an example, there was an individual who has ties to terrorist organizations, allegedly, who spoke at one of the sermons over at the Epic Mosque and was giving creative ways for the men to beat their wives so that they didn't leave any marks.
[02:12:57]  Now, imagine that.
[02:12:59]  The people who continue to tell us that they're a religion of peace continue to justify beating on women.
[02:13:05]  Do you believe in beating on women?
[02:13:07]  Do you believe that people like that belong in the West?
[02:13:09]  Well, I, for one, don't believe so.
[02:13:12]  And I'm so tired of people saying that, oh, well, if you're spewing that, you're spewing Israeli talking points.
[02:13:17]  No, no, no, no.
[02:13:18]  We have a common enemy here.
[02:13:20]  The enemy is the people who are willing to slit our throats as soon as they become the majority.
[02:13:24]  Whether you're Christian, Hindu, or you're a Jew, we have a common enemy here.
[02:13:29]  And that enemy is conquering.
[02:13:31]  They've already conquered Europe and they're about to take out the United States as well.
[02:13:36]  Now, the big threat, when I talk to all the experts out there, specifically Amy Meck, she says, don't think that, oh, well, what's happening in Europe isn't going to happen here or that it's years away.
[02:13:47]  They are much more well-structured here in the United States.
[02:13:50]  They've weaponized our U.S. Constitution and they're coming after us.
[02:13:54]  I look forward to having Amy Mech on this show eventually.
[02:13:57]  I believe sometime this week, we'll possibly do a phoner with her, but she is one of the very few who has been on this issue from day one, screaming about it.
[02:14:05]  And finally, members of Congress are officially listening.
[02:14:08]  And we are very excited about that because she does great work over at the Rare Foundation.
[02:14:12]  That's R-A-I-R Foundation.
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=== Vaccines and Waiting Periods (06:41) ===

[02:14:58]  Breanna Morello has the dots they don't want connected.
[02:15:02]  The truth they can't censor.
[02:15:05]  The American Journal continues live on X and banned.video worldwide.
[02:15:14]  All right, welcome back.
[02:15:15]  We're excited to have you on the American Journal, final hour of the show, our final 30 minutes, I should say, of the show.
[02:15:20]  A lot happening right now.
[02:15:21]  Keeping my eye to Christy Noam, the secretary of DHS, who's testifying right now.
[02:15:26]  Christy Noam actually just did a bit that the Biden regime was actually paying human traffickers to traffic children into our country.
[02:15:34]  Of course, it just can't get any worse.
[02:15:36]  And you hope it doesn't get any worse, but when you learn more and more of the information that's coming out from these committees, it's absolutely gut-wrenching.
[02:15:42]  We're going to continue to follow it, of course, and I'll keep my eye to it in case more does come from this hearing.
[02:15:47]  But she's also expected to testify again tomorrow as well.
[02:15:50]  And that will be in front of the House Judiciary Committee right now.
[02:15:52]  It's the Senate Judiciary Committee.
[02:15:53]  Tomorrow it would be the House.
[02:15:55]  So far, everything's very calm.
[02:15:56]  Democrats have been actually relatively respectful of Noam as well.
[02:15:59]  So that's worth noting there.
[02:16:01]  We're going to get to callers in just a second.
[02:16:03]  I want to make sure we played this clip because this is really, really important.
[02:16:06]  I know we had Tom Renz on the show.
[02:16:08]  I've constantly had him on to talk about vaccines, but specifically the jabs that they're giving your pets.
[02:16:13]  Because if you know me, you follow me on X, you know that my dogs are well treated.
[02:16:18]  I don't give them dog food.
[02:16:20]  I refuse to do so.
[02:16:22]  And they're thriving.
[02:16:23]  My little 14 slash 15 year old, he's a rescue.
[02:16:25]  So I don't know how, if he's 15 or 14 yet, but we do know that he is a senior dog and he's very healthy.
[02:16:32]  And you would never know by looking at him why?
[02:16:34]  Because I don't feed him dog food.
[02:16:35]  For the last four and a half years, I have been feeding him quality home cooked meals.
[02:16:40]  And that's the reason why he loves me, of course.
[02:16:42]  I'm hopeful that's probably it.
[02:16:44]  But folks, there's so many preservatives in your dog food and it's getting worse.
[02:16:49]  I, for one, have been asking a lot of questions about the vaccines that they push on to dog owners.
[02:16:55]  And lo and behold, they're also trying to slip in the mRNA jabs into our dogs, which again, do shed those vaccines.
[02:17:01]  And if you're someone who likes to snuggle with your pets, well, it's not very good.
[02:17:06]  Let's take a listen to clip eight and what's going on there.
[02:17:09]  The USDA last year approved self-amplifying mRNA injections for our cats and our dogs, for rabies and a few other things.
[02:17:21]  It's possible if their dogs or cats receive the Novovac NXT self-amplifying RNA particles, it's possible they are either shedding the self-amplifying RNA or the antigen products that the dogs or cats are now producing onto the owners through bodily fluids.
[02:17:41]  And so none of this was tested, by the way.
[02:17:44]  They just authorized it anyways because they don't care.
[02:17:47]  And they're widely available for online purchase.
[02:17:50]  And so veterinarians across the country are currently injecting self-amplifying mRNA into our pets.
[02:17:57]  This has to be stopped.
[02:17:59]  Has that started?
[02:18:00]  Has that started?
[02:18:01]  Yes.
[02:18:02]  Yes.
[02:18:04]  Yeah, you should all be concerned by this.
[02:18:06]  This should not be injected into your pets.
[02:18:08]  Our fluffy family members should not be put to this experiment.
[02:18:13]  They don't deserve it.
[02:18:14]  I'd highly recommend everyone at home to make sure that you're paying attention and asking those specific questions to your vet and do the research before they start injecting your animal with that, talking about rabies, flu, and others.
[02:18:25]  I was actually surprised that they were trying to pitch flu vaccines to my dogs.
[02:18:30]  I'm like, I don't even know if my dogs ever sneeze.
[02:18:33]  How do I know if they've got the flu?
[02:18:36]  So of course, folks, that's just one of the many ways they're trying to attack us on that front.
[02:18:39]  But if you live in Canada, you need to know, and we continue to cover it, about the other front they're trying to cover up or go after us on.
[02:18:46]  In Canada, specifically, they are trying to give assistant suicide, that MAID program, out to even the poor.
[02:18:52]  Now, you heard that correct.
[02:18:54]  In clip nine, you're going to hear how the Canadian government was looking to kill off a man just because he was too broke.
[02:18:59]  Listen in.
[02:19:00]  Amir Farsoud has applied for medically assisted dying, known as MAID.
[02:19:05]  He lives in constant agony due to a back injury, but has started the process for end of life because his rooming house is up for sale and he can't find anywhere else to live that he can afford.
[02:19:16]  He barely survives on Ontario disability support payments, which are just over $1,200 a month.
[02:19:22]  He doesn't want to die, but being homeless is not an option.
[02:19:26]  I know in my present health condition, I wouldn't survive it anyway.
[02:19:29]  Farsoud meets the criteria for MAID, physical suffering due to disability that cannot be relieved.
[02:19:36]  His doctor, who knows Farsoud's real reason for MAID is his fear of being homeless, signed off on the application in August.
[02:19:44]  Farsoud needs a second to do the same.
[02:19:46]  There's a 90-day waiting period.
[02:19:48]  He believes he could potentially access MAID in about a month.
[02:19:53]  I don't wish to be dead, even with the pain, even with the meds.
[02:19:59]  I still want to be here.
[02:20:02]  And this is what the Canadian government's about to kill off.
[02:20:04]  About to kill off a man just because he can't afford housing.
[02:20:07]  I mean, this is the problem that we continue to highlight with the Canadian government.
[02:20:11]  And if they do put that man to death, man, that is absolutely awful.
[02:20:14]  You heard him there.
[02:20:14]  He doesn't want to die.
[02:20:16]  He just can't afford to live.
[02:20:17]  See, this is the problem with all of these services.
[02:20:20]  They pretend like, oh, we're just going to go after those who are terminally ill.
[02:20:23]  And then when you're too poor to defend yourself or to provide yourself with housing, they'll happily take your life.
[02:20:29]  And so far, the MAID program has killed 100,000 Canadians and counting.
[02:20:34]  All right, let's dive into some calls right now.
[02:20:37]  Don in Florida wants to join the program.
[02:20:39]  And so we welcome Don.
[02:20:40]  Don, welcome to the show.
[02:20:42]  Hi, Brianna.
[02:20:43]  How are you?
[02:20:44]  Good.
[02:20:44]  How are we doing?
[02:20:46]  I'm doing okay.
[02:20:47]  I was listening when the senators were speaking and saying they don't know who the illegal immigrants are and who the terrorists are.
[02:20:54]  And it's all a bunch of crap.
[02:20:55]  It's all smokescreen.
[02:20:56]  Talent here has all the data on everyone: biometrics, facial recognition, you name it.
[02:21:00]  And if they don't have it, then Big Bear AI, Black Sky Technology, I can go down a list.
[02:21:05]  So they can get these terrorists, these illegal immigrants, anytime they want, but they're not going to do it.
[02:21:13]  Yeah.
[02:21:14]  Yeah.
[02:21:14]  Well, the problem also too, and this is, I've been grilling DHS about this for a while now.
[02:21:20]  And by the way, just to put some background here, the whistleblowers who came forward from DHS and HSI or NHHS, they've all come forward and told them, you know, this is where the kids are.
[02:21:31]  These are the sponsors.
[02:21:33]  And there's been some efforts, obviously, to go find them, but they're just like the agencies, because they're all over the place, aren't communicating with one another.

=== Fear-Mongering Tactics (04:54) ===

[02:21:40]  And so a lot of them, when you ask them, like, how come we haven't rescued more children?
[02:21:43]  How come we haven't located more children?
[02:21:46]  It's because there's no lane of communication between these agencies.
[02:21:51]  And that's the real concerning part here, Don, too, as well.
[02:21:53]  Now, when it comes to all of this, yeah, yeah, the biometrics would work.
[02:21:56]  I mean, I've done extensive reporting on all of this.
[02:21:58]  The Patriot Act requires non-U.S. citizens, again, non-U.S. citizens to submit their biometrics to the federal government.
[02:22:04]  And so if you're a non-U.S. citizen, you're required to submit your biometrics to the government.
[02:22:09]  And we all know we live in a surveillance state.
[02:22:11]  So yeah, Don, I'm on board with you on that front.
[02:22:13]  It seems to be quite the interesting claim that's being made.
[02:22:17]  And so I think you're onto something here and probably be used to push for more of a surveillance state.
[02:22:23]  Don, did you have something else you'd like to add?
[02:22:26]  Just that, you know, we all watched them take photographs of the phone and then handed them the phone.
[02:22:31]  So yeah, exactly right.
[02:22:33]  We know where they are.
[02:22:34]  We know where the kids are.
[02:22:35]  But if we solve the problem, there won't be any chaos for our government to manage.
[02:22:41]  As you know, Don, as you know, thank you for calling the show.
[02:22:44]  I appreciate you.
[02:22:44]  Let's turn to Sean in California.
[02:22:47]  Sean would like to reflect on Trump's foreign policy.
[02:22:50]  And I hear gas prices, which again, I mean, they're trickling up there, Sean.
[02:22:54]  But California, you guys just have been slammed by your local officials with all these taxes to try to get you guys to turn away from gas and turn to electric.
[02:23:02]  So, what's on your mind?
[02:23:05]  Well, Brianna, Donald Trump's policy isn't exactly helping us.
[02:23:09]  With the Venezuelan once since in December, our gas at our local shutdown station, which does business with Venezuela, stayed at $4.99 a gallon.
[02:23:18]  Now, with this last weekend that just passed, we are now up to $5.09 a gallon.
[02:23:22]  So, I'm going to be brief and concise today.
[02:23:24]  I hope everybody supporting these foreign interventions in oil-rich nations is getting their money's worth because we, the people, we're getting sent over the barrel, figuratively and literally.
[02:23:35]  What do you say?
[02:23:37]  Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, it's true, it's true.
[02:23:40]  And again, I mean, we were told that the Venezuela efforts were going to lead to lower prices as well.
[02:23:46]  So, I don't see that happening.
[02:23:49]  It's just frustrating.
[02:23:50]  It really is just frustrating.
[02:23:52]  I'm watching this from the sidelines, obviously, and it's just not, it's not my cup of tea.
[02:23:57]  I'm not happy with any of this, and I'm really getting fired up over the issue itself.
[02:24:01]  And then, here domestically, too, I mean, we obviously do drill our own oil, but it's not enough.
[02:24:06]  And I think that's where we should be focusing our efforts on.
[02:24:09]  So, thank you for calling in.
[02:24:10]  Let's keep it to the subject matter, too, because I hear Edward in Alabama also wants to talk about foreign wars as well as obviously the Iran war as well.
[02:24:18]  So, welcome to the show, Edward.
[02:24:21]  Well, I'm from Florida.
[02:24:22]  I don't know where Alabama came from, but what do you think of the whole sleeper cell thing?
[02:24:28]  I feel like we need to pray every night that nothing happens.
[02:24:30]  You know what I mean?
[02:24:32]  Yeah.
[02:24:33]  Yeah.
[02:24:33]  Well, it's not, it's not just you who feels that way.
[02:24:36]  I also feel that same way as well.
[02:24:38]  One of the main issues is a lot of people think the sleeper cell thing is fear-mongering.
[02:24:44]  I don't know how you feel about it, Edward.
[02:24:46]  I don't think it's fear-mongering, given the fact that we saw what the open borders brought in.
[02:24:50]  We have the videos.
[02:24:51]  I mean, I know there were many great independent journalists, especially, you know, we had Ann Vandersteel on, who was literally in the jungle and was watching all these individuals come up to our country and get into our country and infiltrate.
[02:25:02]  So, I've seen a lot of pushback publicly on Twitter and platforms like that.
[02:25:05]  They tend to think that this is a fear-mongering tactic.
[02:25:08]  But I, I myself, you know, I could say that I live in Texas.
[02:25:13]  I am actually very afraid of the sleeper cells and when they could be activated.
[02:25:16]  Now, again, I do hope that it's fake.
[02:25:18]  Honestly, the best case scenario is that our own government may have done a great job of getting rid of all these people, but I'm not very hopeful.
[02:25:25]  When I go back to the DHS website to see when the last round of Iranians were deported, those from the regime, from their military, the last story that was published that I found on their website was a group of three individuals who were deported back in January of this year.
[02:25:42]  So, again, there's not many being populated onto the website.
[02:25:46]  So, one must be wondering at this point, how many more are still in this country?
[02:25:51]  And I've done the information.
[02:25:52]  I put out the information, I should say.
[02:25:54]  7.8% have officially been captured and sent back to their countries.
[02:25:58]  That's just for suspected and known terrorists.
[02:26:01]  Again, that's a very low number, 7.8%.
[02:26:04]  That's based on the publicly sourced information and what DHS has provided me with.
[02:26:08]  So, Edward, what's your thoughts on that?
[02:26:11]  Well, there's about 200 mosques in Florida, where I live in Miami.
[02:26:16]  There's about 50, and I don't feel like Islamophobia is real.
[02:26:19]  So, there's not.
[02:26:23]  I know that Texas has about 200 mosques as well.
[02:26:27]  330, yeah.
[02:26:30]  Wow.
[02:26:33]  Yeah, it's bad.

=== Too Many Mosques Keep Appearing (08:16) ===

[02:26:34]  It's bad.
[02:26:35]  It's bad.
[02:26:36]  We have too many and they keep popping up.
[02:26:38]  But this is the thing, too.
[02:26:39]  People don't realize Florida is an issue.
[02:26:40]  And again, we're going to have Amy Mech on the show hopefully later this week, but she's someone who's been keeping her eyes to it.
[02:26:45]  She sounded the alarm on Florida, by the way.
[02:26:47]  And she's fired up over the issue, but they just allowed them into our country.
[02:26:51]  And no one's really pushing back on the issue.
[02:26:54]  Edward, thank you for calling to the show.
[02:26:56]  Let's get to Godzilla next from Wisconsin as well.
[02:26:59]  Welcome to the show.
[02:27:00]  I hear you want to talk about Iran as well as Bill Clinton's testimony.
[02:27:02]  So welcome.
[02:27:04]  Yeah, hi.
[02:27:06]  You got to bear with me a little bit.
[02:27:07]  I've been celebrating with all this winning.
[02:27:09]  I've been drinking a lot, so I'm a little hungover.
[02:27:12]  But, you know, I'm really surprised by the amount of TDS variant, Trump derangement syndrome variant going around in the Republican Party, where these wins will happen.
[02:27:23]  And they'll just fall for the same mind control and Project Monarch news programming and following the Democrats.
[02:27:31]  Like you'll hear what Nick Fwen says today.
[02:27:34]  He'll basically sound like, you know, a Democrat.
[02:27:39]  And I hear all these Republicans and conservatives for years talking about Sparta and protecting Western civilization and like how you've been talking about for the past hour, Brianna, the encroachment of Islam.
[02:27:54]  And Alex Jones has been talking since the 90s about it.
[02:27:59]  And then when there's finally action and there's a perfectly executed military strike and their leaders are totally removed quickly, new prolonged war, just in a couple days, and they're free-falling now.
[02:28:12]  Their navy's destroyed.
[02:28:14]  There's been no mega retaliation.
[02:28:17]  The retaliation that has been received in comparison is minor.
[02:28:22]  I mean, think about it.
[02:28:23]  Every missile that strikes Iran, every Spartan screams from the afterlife and enjoyment are totally elated about it, you know.
[02:28:33]  And I don't want to hear anybody who's against this war ever bring up 300 or Sparta again.
[02:28:39]  You know, it's a fact of this world we live in and a reflection of our inner selves that we created war and war is part of this society.
[02:28:49]  And I just wish like the Olympics, when there's a war like this or conflict like this, not even a war.
[02:28:59]  I can't compare this to World War II or World War I, that people would be rooting for the home team.
[02:29:06]  I'm really surprised that over there in Israel, when you see these missiles coming in in barrages, where are the flak cannons?
[02:29:15]  Old-style artillery flak, you know, just fill the air with flak, and then this barrage of missiles coming in a cluster hits the flak clouds and explodes.
[02:29:24]  Instead, they use these interceptors and then they're out of interceptors.
[02:29:28]  And it's just like, you know, cross your fingers and hope not to die slowly.
[02:29:32]  So that's bugging me.
[02:29:33]  And then, real quick on the Epstein, Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton testimony, same thing.
[02:29:41]  How is that not a mega Trump win?
[02:29:44]  That would never have happened in any other presidency.
[02:29:46]  Never, ever.
[02:29:47]  And you have Hillary Clinton, the demon herself, squirming, all frazzled, talking about frazzle drip.
[02:29:54]  Their lawyers and on left and right are spazzing out because they know they're goose cooked.
[02:29:59]  They look like total monsters.
[02:30:01]  Bill Clinton is just like echoing the whole Monica Lewinsky scandal, being like, oh, those were just flight attendants.
[02:30:09]  It's like, and looking at drooling basically on the pictures of yesteryear, reminiscing over the better days.
[02:30:16]  And bless his heart, they probably slipped him a Mickey in his drink, you know, some CIA military grade Viagra or something, or some really good Yale or whatever.
[02:30:25]  And he just can't help himself.
[02:30:27]  We don't know how deep that goes.
[02:30:29]  And that's why we need to figure out.
[02:30:31]  So I just want, I want to hear some more positivity when there's wins and people not just falling for Democrat talking points.
[02:30:40]  Of course, it's sad when soldiers die and people die in Austin at the bar with this shooter.
[02:30:50]  But unfortunately, it's that classic saying, if you're going to make an omelet, you're going to have to crack some eggs.
[02:30:56]  And it's unfortunate, but you look at the greater good of the world is that with this Iran war, as it's gone so far, who knows what's going to happen in the future, so far has just been even better than Venezuela.
[02:31:10]  You know, for decades and decades, BB has been coming over begging us too.
[02:31:16]  And I want him to say thank you to America for doing this.
[02:31:19]  I didn't hear a good enough thank you.
[02:31:21]  It's like we're his goy soldiers going over there for him.
[02:31:25]  His military sucks.
[02:31:27]  They're all cowards.
[02:31:28]  And he can't even come and give a proper thank you.
[02:31:30]  He should be on his knees kissing Trump's shoes.
[02:31:33]  He should be shining Trump's shoes for coming over and doing what Trump said he would do.
[02:31:39]  Trump never ran on the anti-Israel platform.
[02:31:41]  He's from New York.
[02:31:43]  Of course, he knows all about that situation over there.
[02:31:46]  And he probably knows more than Alex Jones.
[02:31:49]  So I don't know.
[02:31:50]  I'm just, I'm kind of in a tizzy over it.
[02:31:53]  So kind of dropping a lot of stuff on you over there.
[02:31:56]  You can respond to whatever you like.
[02:31:57]  I'll be quiet now.
[02:31:59]  Well, thank you.
[02:32:00]  Yeah, no, I wanted to give you the floor because I obviously disagree with some of it, but I want to give you the opportunity to speak your mind.
[02:32:06]  When it comes to the strikes in Iran, I wouldn't describe it as perfectly executed.
[02:32:11]  I'd say that six dead U.S. service members is a clear outline that that's not a perfect execution.
[02:32:16]  If there was no U.S. service members killed in that, then yeah, IT actually did a pretty good job at knocking out the terrorists.
[02:32:23]  Now, on top of it all, and again, those were individuals who were at a center, so they were attacked and sadly weren't prepared for that, it sounds like.
[02:32:30]  But I also want to get to this point as well.
[02:32:33]  I want to get to the point that you made that this is going to end soon.
[02:32:37]  We haven't gotten an official timeline from the administration.
[02:32:39]  And I think when we sit here and we say that this was quick, it was beautifully executed or perfectly executed.
[02:32:46]  The frustration that the American people have is why was it executed now?
[02:32:49]  Again, like I've outlined for you when DHS, our homeland security, is in a partial shutdown.
[02:32:53]  It doesn't feel like the homeland is secure.
[02:32:56]  When we sit here and talk about the known terrorists that came into our country who have not yet been picked up and scooped up by DHS, that's another vulnerability that we don't want.
[02:33:05]  Well, listen, I'm all on board for killing jihadists and killing Islamic terrorists, but we all know the long-term ramifications for this.
[02:33:12]  It's okay for Americans to have a gut instinct of not this again when they sit there and they watch their country bombing another country in the Middle East and going after these people in the Middle East because folks, we saw what happened in Iraq.
[02:33:29]  And so, yeah, every American has a right to be upset by this.
[02:33:31]  You know, we celebrate the Trump victories.
[02:33:33]  I do all the time.
[02:33:34]  When I see a victory like the investments that are being made here in the homeland and a lot of these manufacturing jobs that are coming back, I have no problem celebrating that.
[02:33:41]  But I've been quite quiet on the front of my opinion on this issue, but I will never say this is a perfectly executed job when we're going after Iran and we are sitting there and losing U.S. service members because when it comes to the holiday season now, families across our country, six of them specifically, will be missing one less, will have one less person at their dinner table this time around.
[02:34:02]  And to me, that is the most devastating part in all of this.
[02:34:05]  When we're talking about Iran, again, we don't know the specifics of this.
[02:34:08]  We don't have a time frame as to when we're going to be out of there.
[02:34:11]  And it doesn't look like anytime soon.
[02:34:13]  We keep hearing maybe possibly weeks, maybe just a couple of days, maybe a couple of months.
[02:34:18]  And so this is what the American people signed up for.
[02:34:20]  They signed up for a president who was going to end these wars.
[02:34:22]  And so their frustrations, I agree with.
[02:34:24]  And it does look like we followed Israel into all of this.
[02:34:27]  Israel has been screaming about this Iranian threat for years now.
[02:34:31]  And they continue to drag us into this mess.
[02:34:33]  So, Godzilla, I appreciate your input.
[02:34:35]  I appreciate your take on this.
[02:34:36]  I obviously disagree with that.
[02:34:39]  And yeah, I'll leave it at that.
[02:34:41]  So thank you for calling.
[02:34:42]  I appreciate it.
[02:34:42]  Let's get to one more caller before we run out of time.
[02:34:46]  Brian in Minnesota, welcome to the show.

=== Covid Shot Controversy (02:21) ===

[02:34:50]  Good morning, Brianna.
[02:34:52]  Good morning.
[02:34:53]  My hypothesis about what's going on, and before I say this, I just want to be clear.
[02:34:57]  I am not saying that President Trump is unfit in any way, shape, or form to, but what I am saying is that I'm very concerned about the COVID shot that he received.
[02:35:06]  I'm very familiar with, I didn't get the shot, but I'm familiar with what this spike protein does.
[02:35:11]  And I believe that it's inducing a form of brain fog.
[02:35:13]  It's very subtle.
[02:35:15]  And as we know from, you know, we're dealing with technocrats.
[02:35:18]  And as we know from like that book, Changing Images of Man, that Alex has had explained on his show a lot, they make subtle changes over time slowly.
[02:35:27]  And by inducing the brain fog that this spike protein causes, it makes it very difficult to put together certain dots and details and pay attention to certain details.
[02:35:36]  And I've just seen a change.
[02:35:37]  A lot of people have seen a change after he got that shot.
[02:35:40]  I can only imagine how many people's hearts were in their mouths after we heard that he got that mRNA shot.
[02:35:45]  And the positive perspective on this is that I personally, you know, I've gotten COVID like 20 times and I have reversed it in myself.
[02:35:52]  That brain fog is incredible.
[02:35:54]  Who doesn't know about that?
[02:35:55]  In myself and others who have gotten a shot by using DMSO and chlorine dioxide diluted orally for staggered administration.
[02:36:04]  If somebody could get this information, his doctors or him, Dr. Ben Marble was on the show on New Year's Eve.
[02:36:10]  He explained his concern about the COVID shot.
[02:36:13]  And I'm certain that he understands about this protocol.
[02:36:15]  There's been a lot written about it.
[02:36:17]  I can do a whole show on it or I'm considering writing up my more detailed, you know, more than the time that we have now hypothesis.
[02:36:24]  And there's been writings actually about the protocols to reverse spike protein injury using DMSO, that's dimethyl sulfoxide and chlorine dioxide.
[02:36:33]  You do that and all of a sudden it feels like this fog is just lifted.
[02:36:37]  It's incredible.
[02:36:38]  And I really think that President Trump needs to consider taking that, doing that, even if he doesn't think he has brain fog.
[02:36:44]  That fog is subtle.
[02:36:45]  People don't know that they have it a lot of times.
[02:36:48]  But you don't know what you got until it's gone.
[02:36:50]  And when you realize that that fog has lifted, it's incredible.
[02:36:55]  Yeah.
[02:36:55]  So there's some way to get that information.
[02:36:58]  Yeah, I mean, I've seen people taking screenshots of a rash he has behind his neck area.
[02:37:04]  It could be shingles.
[02:37:05]  I mean, there's always like different adverse reactions too.
[02:37:07]  So yeah, I wouldn't say that that's not a possibility at all.

=== Austin's Charging Controversy (02:16) ===

[02:37:11]  I think you might be onto something too.
[02:37:13]  It's definitely something that flowed out there.
[02:37:14]  I, like you, did not get the vaccine.
[02:37:16]  So, or I should say jab because it's not a vaccine.
[02:37:18]  It doesn't provide immunity.
[02:37:20]  So I'm with you on that.
[02:37:22]  I'm just, I'm concerned, obviously.
[02:37:25]  And I just think it's laughable that the media goes out there and goes after him now with this because they didn't do this with Joe Biden when Joe Biden was walking around with these cars because he didn't know who people were, where to walk to.
[02:37:35]  They had put stickers on the ground for him.
[02:37:37]  So yeah, it's laughable.
[02:37:38]  But yeah, I mean, there's definitely a lot that he needs to definitely receive assistance on.
[02:37:43]  So I am with you on that front.
[02:37:45]  Folks, I wanted to, and by the way, everyone who called in, thank you for that.
[02:37:49]  I appreciate you waiting on a hold.
[02:37:50]  I'm sorry we didn't have enough time to get to everyone.
[02:37:51]  I'll try to do that just throughout the week, though.
[02:37:54]  I just got news in, and it's actually, it's actually insane.
[02:37:58]  Okay, so the Travis County District Attorney's Office, and I'm waiting to see the specifics of all of this.
[02:38:05]  That's Garzea is his name.
[02:38:09]  He's the lefty who's funded by George Sorrels.
[02:38:12]  He's actually a horrible human being.
[02:38:13]  Garza is his name.
[02:38:16]  Folks, my jaw just hit the ground with what I just got.
[02:38:19]  Now, there's no specifics on this.
[02:38:21]  But apparently, he's bringing criminal charges against the hero Austin Police Department officers who handled the mass shooter in that bar on Saturday night.
[02:38:32]  Now, I'm going to look for more information on this.
[02:38:34]  I had no idea this was happening.
[02:38:35]  There's an attorney on X right now who's claiming that he is going to be representing these officers.
[02:38:42]  The Austin Police Association, his name is Doug O'Connell, who just tweeted this out.
[02:38:47]  He's a former prosecutor.
[02:38:48]  He's saying that the police association has asked my team to represent three of the heroes that took down the terrorist killer who attacked the community.
[02:38:56]  Unfortunately, they will face a grand jury hearing.
[02:38:59]  What the F is going on in Austin, Texas?
[02:39:02]  What the F is going?
[02:39:04]  I have to look into this before I become unhinged.
[02:39:07]  But this is what's going on in Austin, Texas right now.
[02:39:09]  It looks like they're going to be charging potentially those three officers.
[02:39:12]  And the news is coming from K-H-O-U-11.
[02:39:16]  That's just posting to X. We'll get you more information on that.
[02:39:19]  I'm going to be reaching out to the attorney and seeing how we can help their efforts out.
[02:39:22]  Folks, that does it for us today on the American Journal.
[02:39:24]  Tommy Robinson joins me tomorrow in studio.
[02:39:26]  We'll see you then.
[02:39:26]  Alex Jones show is next.