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Get ready for an outstanding entertainment program.
The Jimmy Dore Show.
Hey, this is Jimmy.
Who's this?
Hey, Jimmy, this is Aaron Pacino.
Hi, Al.
How you doing, buddy?
I'm doing great!
That's good to hear.
Are you calling again as part of your long-term goal to become more informed about politics?
Nah, I don't really want to talk about that.
Not in the politics today.
Oh, well, this is a political comedy show, so I think we should probably stay on topic.
Okay, well, what if we skip the politics, but talk comedy?
That would, you know, that'd be kind of on topic.
I guess.
Okay.
Talk comedy.
I love comedy.
I love all that laughing stuff.
Hey, I got a joke.
Oh, really?
Let's hear your joke, Al.
What did the first cow say to the second cow?
I don't know what.
What do you want from me?
I'm a freaking cow.
Okay.
That would kill in one of those clubs, you know, those comedy clubs.
I love those places.
a comedian up on stage saying stuff like throw my wife off a fucking cliff!
Okay, Al.
Well, thanks for calling, but I think we should get back to.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Did you see the Irishman yet?
No, not yet, Al.
Well, when you gonna?
Steph, you gotta get Jimmy to watch The Irishman.
I will.
Make him some soup and set him down there in front of the Netflix.
Well, I really have spared three and a half hours these days, Al.
Oh, come on.
You could do it in chunks.
Everybody does it in chunks these days.
Well, congratulations on your nominations, by the way.
Yeah, Golden Globes.
Screen actors killed, not too shabby.
Maybe an Oscar.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey, hey, hey, don't say that out loud.
You'll jinx it.
Okay, sorry, Delata Jinx it.
But hey, I wouldn't mind.
Been a long time since son of a woman.
Right.
Let's say I do win.
Let's say I do.
So I'm up there on that stage.
The whole world watching.
I want to say one of those statements they make, you know, like Michael Moore.
You know, something important.
Of course.
If we get there, could you help me with that?
You know stuff.
Well, I'd be honored, but I...
Listen, everybody needs to walk slower on the sidewalk for the children.
I'm not really sure those are causes, Al.
How about climate change or wealth inequality?
Hey, America, write down your Roku password and put it somewhere safe.
Because if you forget it, you are fucked, my friend.
Again, Al, I'm not sure that those are causes.
Hey!
All you rich billionaires who pay no taxes, let people have rides on your boats once in a while.
You were close with that one, actually.
I think we will need to...
I've had enough with these names.
Okay, yeah, we'll work on this, Al.
I gotta go, buddy.
Quit flushing things down the toilet just to watch them spin around.
I don't know.
I don't know.
doorcomedy.com for a link for tickets for all our live shows coming to a town near you now let's get to the jokes before we get to the jokes shall we you know i'm on youtube now not only on the radio i'm on youtube also and i think that the revolution will be televised but it will it will be demonetized hey did you heard that while you weren't looking while they were doing impeachment the democrats helped trump pass the new nafta yep i'm sure the new nafta is going to work out great remember it's not nafta
It's the USMCA.
It's not Romneycare.
It's Obamacare.
It's not an oligarchy.
It's a bipartisan marketplace of ideas.
Hey, did you hear over in the UK?
They're saying Boris Johnson.
Boris Johnson hid in a freezer to avoid an interviewer.
Sean Spicer called him to say, see you on Dancing with the Stars.
Hey, did you hear for the third time this year, an airline passenger has been stung by a scorpion during flight?
That's true.
Hey, get your act together, airline industry.
The last thing I need to worry about when I'm flying is for some jerk scorpion to bite my emotional support snake.
Hey, did you hear about Joe Biden?
In an interview in Iowa, Joe Biden said that he didn't like the possibility of Republicans losing too badly.
Quote, I'm really worried that no party should have too much power.
You need a countervailing force.
That's what Joe Biden said.
Yeah, I'm really worried voters might have too much life, liberty and happiness.
We need a countervailing force like Democrats.
And after learning he was sinking in the latest poll, Joe Biden called American fat and challenged it to a pushup contest.
Jeff Bezos says he wants to work more with the Pentagon.
This is true.
Amazon employees are already complaining about repetitive injuries from having to pack and throw illegal wars from the pallets onto conveyor belts.
One employee recently threw his back out while lifting a wedding explosion.
You see Nancy Pelosi tell everybody she doesn't hate anybody because she's Catholic.
You see that?
She's got really upset.
Hey, if a politician tells you that they, quote, don't hate anybody and they, quote, have a heart full of love after they spent a career telling millions of poor Americans they don't deserve the same kind of health care every major country on earth enjoys, you might be in an abusive relationship chiselain Maxwell, the woman who acted as Jeffrey Epstein's pimp, she hasn't been seen in months.
It's puzzling how such a high-profile woman can just disappear for so long until you remember Susan Collins hasn't been seen in a town hall in over a year.
Hey, what's coming up on this week's show?
Pelosi is confronted about why she's impeaching Trump, but didn't impeach George W. Bush war crimer torturer.
Her answer just may surprise you, but the real reason will really surprise you.
Plus, the Democrats' impeachment lawyer, is he just another blowhard?
The answer just may surprise you.
Plus, turns out the Inspector General thinks that the FBI lied to the FISA court repeatedly in the Russiagate investigation.
Wow, we'll take a look at that.
Plus, phone calls today from El Pacino, Vladimir Putin, Rick Perry, and Chucky the Schume Schumer, plus a lot lot more.
That's today on the Jimmy Dore Show.
Hi, Jimmy.
Did you see my retirement speech on Twitter?
You're retiring from politics, Rick?
My retirement from energy.
Well, what does that mean?
I think it means that from now on, there will be no energy.
Only a vast nothingness where we float without form or purpose in a dark void.
I don't know.
It is hard to figure out.
I guess I missed your speech.
Mayn't I read you the transept of my Twitter speech?
Sure.
But keep in mind it contains some technic jargons such as Twitter handles my staff learned me about upon taking the throne at my department reign.
Okay?
I got it.
Today, fellow NRGNs, I bid farewell to the Department of At Energy.
There's two E's in our energy.
Yes, there's two E's in energy.
Today I bid farewell to the Department of Ad Energy.
It has been the honor and privilege of a lifetime to serve in the real Donald Trump administration as your Secretary of Ad Energy.
Thank you to my wife, at my wife, my children at my house.
And to the American people at America for allowing me to serve at here.
That was very good, Rick.
I'm not done yet.
This is a mini mega thread.
Part two.
I assume this position with the wholeheartedly endorsement of making Washington, D.C. as inconsequential in the lives of Americans as I was.
Why, you say?
Because our country will be even greater as the state of Texas has been ever greatening under our leaders' leadership and since our interception as a state and the leading this country of that and leading of this, the world.
Pretty good, huh?
Yeah, sure.
What happens next for the Department of Energy?
My executor has already been appointed by our head president and approvalized by the Senate.
Who's taking your place, Rick?
I don't know, but the newspapers said he was my deputy secretary of energy.
Trump appointed your deputy secretary of energy who's been responsible for day-to-day operations at the energy department for two years, and you don't know who that is?
So, Silo Key been responsible for day-to-day operations at the Energy Department for two years.
But he was, though.
Oh, my God.
Did I say energy right?
Yes, Rick.
Oh, but I still don't know who you're talking about.
Maybe he was that guy who was always in the office doing work and stuff for the last two years, but I don't know his name.
Yeah, his name is Dan Brillett.
Oh, that guy?
I know who he is.
He was that guy sitting at that desk for two years doing all that work.
That guy was a real.
Why is that?
He was always doing dumb stuff like sitting at his desk working while I did all the work of making my office as inconsequential in the lives of American aliens as I was.
And I think I succeeded.
Thank you.
By the way, I want all United Statesians to know that my departure had nothing to do with my energy work in Ukraine for Ukraine energy or Ukraine energy.
Hashtag, I can't believe I lasted three years.
I'm going to get a big old hanging pension.
So Nancy Pelosi is fantastic.
You know this.
By the day, just gets better.
She's a capitalist to her bones, right?
That's just the way it is.
I mean, Elizabeth Warren's capitalist to her bones.
Nancy Pelosi's the way it is.
She's just a capitalist, and that's just the way it is.
And that's just the way it is.
So stop it.
We're not ever listening to you or changing.
So just shut up, right?
Absolutely.
So Ben Norton caught this.
He says, according to Nancy, we're capitalists, and that's just the way it is, Pelosi.
Selling lives to justify an illegal war of aggression isn't an impeachable offense, but Trump's calls the Ukrainar.
Says everything about how little neoliberal Dems care about war.
So here, by the way, doesn't she look like she's getting ready to do a tooth polishing commercial?
Yes.
It's a great feeling.
Remember that?
I like to lie with my pearly whites.
I'm going to tell you, I'm going to give away the ending right now.
Spoiler alert.
Why didn't Nancy Pelosi, so Nancy Pelosi wants to impeach Trump, but she didn't want to impeach George Bush?
Kollidus into a legal war, ordered torture to cover it up.
Why wouldn't you want to impeach George Bush?
Here's why.
This says member briefings on enhanced interrogation techniques, EITs, which means torture.
So this is the CIA briefing members of Congress that they're torturing people, that they're breaking the Constitution, the Geneva Convention, and international law.
That's the CIA informing.
And who did they inform?
Well, let's see.
This is from September 4th, 2002.
Briefing on torture, including the use of torture on Abu Zubaya, background on authorities, and a description of the partial torture that had been employed.
This was on September 4th.
The particular EITs, the 1990s.
Yeah, I'm sorry, the particular EITs that have been employed.
Who did they tell?
Nancy Pelosi.
They told Nancy Pelosi in 2002 that they were torturing people, that they had a torture program that was a war crime.
Breaks the Constitution, Geneva Conventions, and the international law.
She knew it, that her government was doing this.
And she didn't do anything, which makes her complicit in war crimes.
And now you know why George Bush was never impeached by Nancy Pelosi or even had a hearing, which is why when Nancy Pelosi took over the Congress in 2006 and they were like, oh, finally we can impeach this warmonger.
She was like, impeachment's off the table.
And everybody was like so dejected, like, what?
But we were just so glad to finally have a check on Bush's power that nobody did anything about it.
Everybody just let it go.
Well, the reason why people let it go is because the media sets the agenda in America.
And the media didn't tell anybody about this.
You know who did?
Julian Assange.
And now you know why they're trying to kill Julian Assange because he exposes them for being war criminals, all of them.
And so here's, so here's Nancy Pelosi getting asked, hey, if you want to impeach Donald Trump, how can you impeach Bush?
Speaker Pelosi, you resisted calls for the impeachment of President Bush in 2006 and President Trump following the Moore report earlier this year.
This time it's different.
Why did you impose it?
Why did you oppose impeachment in the past?
And what is your obligation to protect our democracy from the actions of our president now?
Thank you.
Thank you for bringing up the question about because when I be Now watch how much she talks without answering the question.
Now watch this.
So that's how you know she's guilty.
Speaker, the first time there was overwhelming call for me to impeach President Bush on the strength of the war in Iraq, which I vehemently opposed.
And again, again, I say again, I said in other places, that was my wheelhouse.
I was intelligence.
I was a ranking member on the intelligence committee even before I became part of the leadership of gang of four.
So I knew there were no nuclear weapons in Iraq.
It just wasn't there.
They had to show us, they had to show the gang of four all the intelligence they had.
The intelligence did not show that that was the case.
So I knew it was a misrepresentation.
Misrepresentation.
Not a lie.
Isn't that interesting?
So I knew it was a misrepresentation.
Not a lie.
It wasn't a crime.
You knew it was a war crime.
It was a goof.
So you knew it was a war crime at the time, but you're going to say a misrepresentation.
Okay, here we go.
The public.
But having said that, it was a, in my view, not a ground for impeachment.
That was, they won the election.
They made a representation.
And to this day, people think people think that it was the right thing to do.
The people think that Iraq had something to do with 9-11.
I mean, it's a paw.
So people think that Iraq had something to do with 9-11.
Why didn't you impeach President Bush?
She still won't say, right?
Has she said why yet?
No, she has not said why yet.
She hasn't.
She won't say it.
None of this.
None of this is an excuse.
Well, she's saying, well, they ran an election and they won.
So I figure, didn't Trump just run an election?
Isn't there going to be another election in like five minutes that you could wait for?
So your big thing about letting people decide, again, is situational.
You let the people decide when you're implicated in war crimes.
And when you're not implicated in war crimes, you go after the president.
What they did.
But I did.
And I said, if somebody wants to make this case, you bring it forward.
But they had impeached Bill Clinton for personal indiscretion and misrepresenting about it.
Impeached him.
She just won't say lie.
Yeah, she won't say it.
She won't say it.
They impeached him for personal indiscretion and misrepresent.
No, for lying under oath while he was a sitting president.
That's what he was impeached for, for lying on camera under oath while he was a sitting president.
That's what he got impeached for.
Nancy Pelosi loves to bring up religion when it's convenient for her.
So I'll remind her that the Bible doesn't say thou shalt not misrepresent.
That's not in there.
Same people were saying, oh, this doesn't rise to impeachment.
We're right there impeaching Bill Clinton for being stupid in terms of something like that.
I mean, I love him.
I think he was a great president.
But being stupid.
Hold on in terms of that.
To tell me, Nancy Pelosi, that you love him and he was a great president already tells me all I need to know.
Right.
He was a horrible president.
He wrecked our country.
He exploded our prison.
Exploded the prison population, gutted welfare, and then he deregulated Wall Street, which crashed our economy within 10 years.
What else do you need to know about that guy?
And he cut the legs out from underneath the unions with NAFTA.
What else do you need to know about that guy?
We would have been better off electing Bob Dole.
We would have.
Bill Clinton was the worst evil.
Bill Clinton was the greater evil.
Did you know that?
He's the enemy of the poor.
He's the enemy of everybody.
He's a struggling class for sure.
And that Nancy Pelosi will tell me with a straight face.
She's saying right now, come on, that didn't really rise to the occasion of somebody who should be impeached.
Okay, let's pause there.
How about George W. Bush?
That doesn't rise to the occasion.
She didn't talk about it.
She won't talk about it.
Let's listen to the rest of what she says.
And what would somebody do not to embarrass their family?
But in any event, so they did Bill Clinton.
Now they were going to do George.
I just didn't want it to be a way of life.
She wants to say George Bush.
That's what it is.
That's what it is.
She just didn't want it to happen too much.
Oh, so if we would have, if the Republicans would have did an impeachment trial for Obama, you wouldn't be impeaching Trump now because you don't want to have.
Does anyone believe her?
And your whole thing is that Trump is a liar and you guys aren't.
That's your whole thing.
And every time you talk, you're lying.
So that's what drives me nuts when people talk about, oh, Trump's a liar.
Is anybody a bigger liar than Nancy Pelosi who wouldn't prosecute war criminals just because she didn't want it to become an every type of thing?
Well, the fact that she's getting some backlash for it kind of proves once and for all that a bunch of really bad excuses don't make a good one.
Yeah.
You can string them together as much as you want.
They're still all really bad excuses.
And not the truth.
And not the truth.
So if they would have impeached George Bush, we wouldn't have Donald Trump because we would have had a leader, the Democratic leader, wouldn't have been complicit in war crimes.
And maybe, maybe we could have had some actual governing.
Probably not.
So again, Donald Trump made possible because of the corruption, the unbelievable corruption in the Democratic Party.
Nancy Pelosi's implicated in war crimes, which is why George Bush walks the earth.
Because she's complicit in war crimes.
But she's got to get Donald Trump for a phone call To Ukraine.
Oh, thank God George Bush didn't call Ukraine because then she would have had to impeach him.
And then it would have been, you know, like an everyday normal part of life.
When a president does a war crime, you got to impeach him.
That's really your defense that I didn't want to impeach a president who committed war crimes because we impeached Clinton.
That's what she's saying.
Public would have been tired of it.
Yeah.
Like, come on, we can't keep.
Sure, those were war crimes, and our brothers and sisters and sons and daughters are over there fighting for no reason.
But we just, we did it to the last guy.
We got a rest.
And by the way, maybe when I'm her age, I'll be speaking like my teeth are about to fall out of my mouth too.
But that's how she speaks.
She can't speak clearly.
She can barely string together two sentences.
Does any can anybody think that she's a clear speaker?
She's supposed to be a leader.
This is like she has the communication skills of somebody in a call center in another country.
This is unbelievable.
I don't know what she's saying.
Well, she like starts her, like, she'll start her sentence and then she'll pause and then she'll like gather her talking point and then kind of spew it out.
And she gets it from like the talking point fact sheet or whatever it is they have.
And then she rinses and repeats.
And I just want everybody to remember.
Yeah, that I'm a master legislator.
And I've sure I lost a thousand seats, but it wasn't mine.
And what is her master legislation from this congressional?
She's a fundraiser.
I know.
That's it.
That's her thing.
So is there anything more to this?
Let's see.
As part of Mueller report, there was a good deal of the academics said.
She can't even talk.
And this is on regular speed.
This is on regular speed.
This is her normal voice.
She's the third most powerful person in the world.
This video is on regular speed, and quite possible, so is she.
That's it.
Well, I was talking.
Hang on.
That's how she talks normally.
I'm not kidding.
This is a big deal that she talks like that.
I brought it up before, but this is unbelievable that everybody in the country looks the other way, that Nancy Pelosi can't talk clearly.
And I'll tell you, we've talked about this before.
Like, if you had to, all of a sudden I had to wake you out of bed and you could do your set.
You could do it.
If you had to wake me up out of a sound sleep, I could do my 45-minute headline set.
And if you were running for office, I bet you could tell me your platform.
I could tell them my stump speech.
If you woke me out of a sound sleep, I can give you my stump speech.
And if we were to ask Nancy Pelosi, what did the Democrats stand for?
She would stammer like she does all the time.
You know, a better, a better, we're for good jobs.
We're for good jobs.
And that's how she talks.
And this president, and then she'd just be done.
Yeah.
Well, do you remember, what's the movie, World Police, the South Park movie, the first one that they made?
Yeah.
Do you remember like at the end where like the Alec Baldwin's character is being proven wrong?
So he just starts saying a bunch of buzzwords.
Yes.
And he's just like, but democracy and freedom.
And he's just like saying a bunch of words.
That's what she reminds me of.
Yes.
Like that end scene where it's like they don't really have anything to say.
So they just start spewing out buzzwords.
The academics said a thousand, a thousand legal experts wrote a statement that said the Mueller Report is an impeachment.
What's in there is an impeachable report.
She does sound drunk all the time.
What's in there is a peachable.
Peach.
You got to impeach it or it impeaches you.
A thousand.
A thousand things in there.
A thousand.
A thousand seats.
I mean, legal experts.
A thousand.
It wasn't so much of what's in the Mueller report will be more clear once some of the court cases are resolved.
But it wasn't so clear to the public.
The Ukraine has removed all doubt.
It was self-evident that the president undermined our national security, jeopardized the integrity of our elections as he violated his oath of office.
There's just that's something that cannot be ignored.
You know what's it?
But she can't ignore war crimes.
She can ignore an illegal invasion of Iraq, which kills a million people.
She can ignore a lot of stuff, but she can't ignore a phone call to Ukraine.
Yeah.
And now you know why the Democrats don't mind losing.
Again, this is the leader.
And Acasio-Cortez voted for her to be the leader.
This is their leader.
And by the way, they voted for her after she shifted right.
After Nancy Pelosi moved to the right, all the Democrats voted for her.
All the progressives, they voted for her.
Big mistake.
Big mistake.
Because what's going to, she's going to move to the right next time.
And they're going to move to their keyboard.
What the fuck are you doing?
And what has Nancy Pelosi done to oppose Trump this congressional session?
What has she done?
They funded his border wall.
What has she done to stand up against him?
He got his tax cut through.
They're fast-tracking his judges.
Gave him the Patriot Act.
Gave him the Patriot.
He gave him more spying powers.
How are they opposing him?
They're not opposing Trump.
You know why they're not opposing Trump?
Because they are the establishment.
And they would have to oppose the establishment to oppose Trump because that's who Trump represents.
Just listen to a thousand legal experts.
You'll see how.
I'm opposing him.
I mean, you're opposing him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's great.
Nancy, imagine Nancy Pelosi actually drunk.
Can you imagine that?
I can't even imagine.
I imagine it'd be very similar.
At least I'd hope so.
I'd be really concerned otherwise.
I mean, isn't it funny we find out she starts the day with a quart of vodka?
Isn't that going to be funny when we find that out?
She can afford it.
Yeah.
I know people who start the day with a quart of vodka, and they function.
Oh, yeah, I do too.
Oh, my God.
Is that a conspiracy theory that Nancy Pelosi starts the day with a quart of vodka?
Oh, my God.
That's a crazy conspiracy theory.
Listen to this soundbite I got.
This crazy conspiracy theory.
I grabbed it off the internet because I'm an activist.
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Oh, geez, it's Vladimir Putin on the phone.
Now, now people are going to accuse me of being a Russian asset again.
Yellow.
Do not yell on me, Jimmy Door.
You know who this is.
I know who this is.
I know who you are.
I know it is me.
You know it is I. We know each other.
No?
Yes.
Whatever.
Hi, Vladimir.
You will not show courtesy to congratulations with me on our ceasefire with Ukraine.
Well, of course, that's good news.
You know what?
I blame Putin.
Like that, I crack myself, but really sometimes.
Seriously, this is Susan Sarandon's doing.
your face.
Seriously, I'd like to laugh with you, but I'm really tired of getting called a Russian asset, Vladimir.
I know what you mean.
I get called that all the time.
Oh, man, I'm on rope on it.
On swine, tag, and kicker.
I still don't understand what started this war to begin with.
I mean, it seems pretty complicated.
Could you explain to me like I'm a typical American and can you keep it simple?
What's going on with you in Ukraine?
Of course, Jimmy.
No problem.
You see, around 45,000 BC, Neanderthals settled in Moldova.
No, no, no.
Way after that.
Okay, 40,000 years later, Neolithic Susians moved in.
No, no, no.
Fast forward, Vlad.
Sorry, to which part?
The Greeks?
No, no.
No, more recent.
Oh, Romans.
No, Ukraine, the current problems in Ukraine.
You mean the Ukraine?
What?
The Ukraine was part of Russia beginning around the 13th century.
Boring.
AD, not BC.
Is that better?
All right, then what?
After the Russian Revolution in 1917, Ukraine becomes a founding member of the Soviet Union.
And in the 1920s, Bolshevik government institutes Social Security benefits, universal health care, education, right to work, right to housing, and rights for women.
Ukraine prospers.
Wow.
Well, what happened with that?
Josie Stalin comes to power and says, but how are we going to pay for it?
Then he kills everybody.
But what's the root of the conflict going on today?
Oh, that's easy.
You see, Kiev's pro-Russian president was ousted in a 2014 political pivot towards the West and away from Russia's traditional sphere of influence in eastern Ukraine.
While we support the Donbass separatists in international peace talks, we have no direct involvement in the conflict.
But Western Ukraine accuses us of waging war on this territory, which was part of Poland, which was part of Russia, as was the Crimea.
Oh, God, stop.
Jesus, this is boring.
You know what?
All that's too hard to understand, Vlad.
Now, I get why Democrats love war so much.
It's just easier that way.
No, you idiots.
Yeah, sorry.
We're going to hope the ceasefire doesn't last so we can keep fighting a proxy war with you guys.
It's more satisfying than learning history and junk.
You see, this is why we can't have nice things.
So if you've been watching the impeachment hearings, congratulations.
You got a lot of free time.
I was listening to the impeachment hearings this morning when I was making breakfast and then when I walked my dog and it was hilarious.
Again, hilarious because it's all a clown show.
Now there's this invested, the inspector general has been looking into how did this Russia gate investigation get started?
And did it get started on false premises at the FBI?
Meaning the Inspector General is trying to figure out, was this a hit job?
Does the FBI step go out of bounds?
Did they overreach their constitutional authority and act like unelected arbiters of how our election should go?
Yes, they did.
But that's the question.
So here it is.
This is from the Office of the Inspector General at the Department of Justice.
It says the review of four FISA applications and other aspects of the FBI's crossfire hurricane investigation.
Now, the whole Russian thing is based on these FISA applications, meaning they go into a secret court, which no one gets to hear what happens, and you don't get to present a defense, nothing like that.
Just the FBI goes in and meets with the judge, and they go, look, this is all the evidence, and we say it's true.
And the judge goes, well, if that's true, go ahead.
You can tap everybody's phone in the White House.
That's what a FISA Warren is.
And you can read every email and listen to every phone call.
That's what a FISA Warren is.
And so the whole point of it, they're looking into, well, would those applications, was it on the up and up?
Did they lie to the FISA court?
Oh, by the way, here's the so the Inspector General's report comes out and it exonerates the FBI.
Their conclusion is, though, they had a lot of problems with the FBI's investigation and the way they got their FISA warrants.
They say, they say still the FBI didn't do anything that wrong.
Their conclusion, it's still okay.
That was their conclusion.
And so when you go to Huffington Post, this is their headline.
Why wouldn't it be the headline from the Inspector General?
I mean, it exonerates the FBI in any wrongdoing.
Trump is wrong.
Why wouldn't that be your headline?
Why wouldn't that be your headline?
Instead, it's a bullshit headline about GOP and tantrums.
That's not a story.
That's not a substantive news story.
Why?
Well, here, you have to go down the page.
You have to go down all the way to almost the bottom.
And you see there, here's the story.
It says Department of Justice watchdog finds FBI justified in opening Trump probe, comma, but sees problems with FISA applications.
That's the whole crux of the goddamn FBI investigation.
And that's why it's not the headline.
That's why it's not the headline.
That's why.
And if you go to the article on this at the Washington Post, I mean, at the Houghton Post, it says there's no evidence that the FBI's decision to open an investigation into the Trump campaign's connections to Russia in 2016 was influenced by political bias,
according to a Justice Department Inspector General's report released Monday that largely debunked President Donald Trump's conspiracy theories about the origins of the Russia probe.
So now I immediately distrust the writer of this article.
So now conspiracy theory and conspiracy theorist is just a term used against someone who you don't agree with politically.
Because the Democrats' idea of what happened in Ukraine is also a conspiracy theory.
RussiaGate is a conspiracy theory, but they never call it that.
Why?
Because they're the establishment.
And the guy who wrote this for the Huffington Post is a watchdog of the establishment.
And that's why he'll never say the Democrats are pushing a conspiracy theory or the establishment is, but he'll say Trump is.
Even though RussiaGate was a three-year conspiracy theory, they switched the word and called it collusion so that you couldn't call them conspiracy.
Do you see how they do it?
And then they all do it.
So I don't want to believe a damn thing this guy says in this Huffington Post article because why do you got to do that?
I know why you got to do that because you're pushing propaganda.
That's why.
Why else would you do that?
Why wouldn't you say, which debunks or contradicts President Donald Trump's assertion about why wouldn't you just say his assertion?
That's the way a news person would write that.
This is the way a propagandist would write that.
Well done.
And then at the bottom, it says, but the report said FBI attorneys failed to properly vet applications to monitor the communications of former campaign official Carter Pay.
Well, that's kind of the key thing.
And the Huffington Post reports it as it's nothing, which is why it's not on the front, which is why it's not the headline on their front page and why they have to do cons that why they have to do propaganda in the middle of the article.
What's the first paragraph?
So let's break down what the IG report actually says.
Michael Tracy tweeted this out.
Now, it's a 400-page report.
Let's find out what's in it.
Michael Tracy says the IG report says that Carter Page Pfizer request drew almost entirely from the Steele dossier to establish probable cause that Page was facilitating a well-developed conspiracy between Russia and Trump.
This was such an enormous fraud.
So I'll break that down for you.
The IG report says the Carter Page Pfizer request drew.
So Carter Page, Papadopoulos, two tangently barely connected with the Trump administration campaign, they go and used and worked these guys and get a Pfizer warrant through these guys.
And here's what it says.
So by the way, the Steele, it says it was based on the Steele dossier, which has been discredited.
Do you know what the Steele dossier was?
The Steele dossier was Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party paying a spy, a foreign spy, this guy Steele, to dig up dirt on Trump.
And where did he go to dig dirt up?
He went to Russia.
Steele colluded, conspired with people in Russia to dig up dirt on Donald Trump.
And who was paying him to do it?
Hillary Clinton was.
That's the Steele dossier, just so you know.
That's the Steele.
That's the P. That's where they that's where they claimed Trump got peed on.
Totally, this made up.
Totally made up.
And here, and here it is from the report.
I'll read this.
It's the first line.
I read you.
This is from the IG report, and I'll read you the first line.
The first line says the Pfizer request form drew almost entirely from Steele's reporting in describing the factual basis to establish probable cause to believe that Page was an agent of a foreign power.
So all that, that's what made a judge go, whoa, this guy's working with Russia and he's an agent of Russia and he's working with Trump.
We better put a phone tap on the Trump administration.
And it turns out that that request, that's all bullshit.
The Steele dossier is bullshit.
And so them doing that compromises the whole thing.
In fact, what Michael Steele says is there was clearly zero legitimate basis for a FISA warrant on Carter Page, which totally negates a core tenet of the entire Russia investigation.
But the media is screaming that the FBI was somehow gloriously vindicated.
And they weren't.
The FBI using outright fabrications and omitting key countervailing facts to obtain a FISA warrant on a U.S. citizen.
So the FBI goes to the FISA court, they give them false information and then leave out the real information that would be exculpatory.
That's what your FBI is doing.
That's what they did.
They went to the FISA court and lied.
They used a phony BS opposition research and they held back the part of it that would have actually hurt their case.
I'll read it again.
FBI using outright fabrications and omitting key countervailing facts to obtain a FISA warrant on a U.S. citizen.
Maybe the most invasive form of surveillance available to the U.S. government is a gigantic civil liberty scandal, but expect most media to ignore and downplay this, which is exactly what I showed you the Huffington Post is doing.
FBI official told the Inspector General, get this.
FBI official told the Inspector General that the Steele dossier, he would not have thought they could establish probable cause without the Steele dossier.
So without the Steele dossier, this thing that's completely debunked was paid for by Hillary Clinton, was gotten by a foreign spy who paid for information from people inside Russia and the Kremlin, according to him.
So they got dirt on Donald Trump, the exact thing Hillary Clinton is accusing Donald Trump's campaign of doing.
Getting dirt from the Russians to use against her in a campaign.
It's exactly what she actually did.
Isn't that interesting?
I've reported that here before.
And so we've been told for years that the centrality of the Steele dossier to the Russian investigation was a GOP conspiracy theory.
We've been told for years that the centrality of the Steele dossier to the Russia investigation was a GOP conspiracy theory.
Turns out it's not.
It's 100% fact.
The Inspector General report explicitly faults FBI for never disclosing in multiple FISA applications that Christopher Steele was desperate that Trump not get elected and passionate about him not being the U.S. president.
But journalists are celebrating that the FBI was cleared of all political bias.
So they didn't tell any of that stuff.
So they just went and they hoodwinked a FISA judge is what the FBI did.
And this is revealing that.
The Inspector General admits it, but he still concludes somehow the FBI's investigation wasn't bullshit.
Isn't that interesting?
It's a strange, it's, it's, and it's strange how snarky and Kool-Aid journalists are focusing on how this IG report supposedly undermines QAnon, as if crackpot internet trolls are the paramount issue here, instead of enormous civil liberties violations at the high.
So what journalists are doing is like, see, you guys are all nuts about QAnon.
That's not what anybody's talking about.
We're talking about the massive, enormous civil liberties violations that this and the lying by the FBI and the inherent corruption of the FISA court.
Yeah, I mean, what we should be talking about is, okay, if they can follow this process for somebody who is the president of the United States, a very powerful position, what kind of process could they follow for just a general person, right?
How easily could they get exactly what they want for any given person on the planet?
Oh, wow, Ron.
That's a scary thought.
Like, if they want to, like, let's say I somehow stumbled onto a piece of information that was going to blow open a story about an illegal war.
Let's say I thought somehow someone sent me something or stumbled on.
They got to shut us down.
They've already tried to discredit us.
They've already paying people to write smear articles.
The government is paying people to write smear articles on us, which means we're over the target, right?
They wouldn't not do that.
They wouldn't do that if we were fucking idiots and we didn't know what was happening.
We weren't over the target.
That's what that's saying.
You catch a lot of flack when you're over the target.
And so if they could, what Ron is saying, if they can do this to a president to get a tap on all their phones, every email, imagine what they could do to you.
Imagine.
People will point to this.
I want to show you this.
This is also in the report, which doesn't make sense.
So remember in the report, it says we relied almost exclusively on this dossier to get the Carter Page FISA warrant, which is, as he points out, was a key tenet of the Russia investigation.
But here, the report, the Inspector General concludes, it says 485.
It says, we determined that the election reporting from Christopher Steele played no role in the opening of Crossfire Hurricane.
What?
That doesn't make sense.
That doesn't make sense, which is why Dunham, Durham, and Barr reject the Justice Department's Inspector General findings that tend to clear the FBI in the Trump-Russia probe.
So this is Durham.
So this is a story from the Hartford Current.
It says Connecticut U.S. Attorney John H. Durham, who is leading the Justice Department's criminal investigation of how the FBI opened a Russia collusion case against President Donald J. Trump's 2016 campaign, disputed the central conclusion of the long-awaited Inspector General report Monday that the Bureau was justified in opening the probe.
So people have a lot of problems with Barr, right?
They say how compromisable.
But I haven't heard people say this about Durham yet.
Maybe they are.
But he just got bipartisan agreement to become U.S. attorney.
Based on the evidence collected to date, and while our investigation is ongoing, last month, we advised the Inspector General that we do not agree with some of the report's conclusions as to predication and how the FBI case was opened, Durham said.
Now, this is a big deal for Durham to say that because Durham rarely speaks publicly about anything.
And his statement Monday about an active investigation was highly unusual for him.
So why did he do it?
Well, a source said he was responding in part to a news account from Washington a week ago that said that he believes mistakenly reported that he knew of no evidence that could contradict Horowitz's conclusion.
That's the Inspector General.
In other words, somebody said, hey, Durham's cool with all this, by the way.
And he was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, no.
So it was being reported in the news that Durham is cool with the Inspector General's report and their conclusions.
That's being reported.
And he's like, that's not correct.
That's why I'm coming out today to say, no, not no.
Do not agree with the conclusions.
There it is.
We do not agree.
So also, Attorney General Barr said the Inspector General's report now makes clear that the FBI launched an intrusive investigation of a U.S. presidential campaign on the thinnest of suspicions that, in my view, were insufficient to justify the steps taken.
It is also clear that from its inception, the evidence produced by the investigation was consistently exculpatory.
So he's saying when they were investigating Russia Gate, what they kept finding was information that actually exonerated the president.
That's consistently exculpatory.
That's what that means, right, Professor?
So nevertheless, the investigation and surveillance was pushed forward for the duration of the campaign and deep into President Trump's administration.
Barr was particularly critical of repeated FBI applications made to the FISA court for four warrants targeting Trump campaign volunteer Carter Page, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate who interacted frequently with Russians as an energy consultant.
In the rush to obtain and maintain FISA surveillance of Trump campaign associates, FBI officials misled the FISA court, omitted critical, exculpatory facts from their filings, and suppressed or ignored information negating the reliability of their principal source.
So what he's saying is, and we all knew that that's how I'm sure they do that with every FISA case.
It's just now we have an attorney general looking into it because remember, the FISA stuff's all secret.
Trump had to declassify the FISA court hearing stuff so that they could look at it.
So I'm pretty sure it's pretty well known.
I know, I know, and Bill Benny knows it, that the FBI lies to the FISA court on the regular.
And so the fact that the FBI officials misled the FISA court to get a surveillance wiretap on the Trump campaign is not surprising at all.
That's what they do.
And of course, when they investigated, they found out that they did that.
And they also found out, even worse, they kept back information that contradicted them.
The Inspector General found that the explanations given for these actions unsatisfactory.
So even the Inspector General's report said that the explanations given for those actions around the FISA court were unsatisfactory.
Yet the Inspector General still concluded the FBI was A-OK.
Or is it still okay?
While most of the misconduct identified by the Inspector General was committed in 2016 and 2017 by a small group of now former FBI officials, the malfeasance and malfeasance and misfeasance.
That's two, that's two different words.
Two different feasants, man.
Wow.
Detailed in the Inspector General report reflects a clear abuse of the FISA process.
Now, we told you, I don't know if, but that's just a matter of case.
When Bill Binney came on the show, he explained how this works.
And I expected them to find, I expect them to find way worse stuff.
Well, they found it that they lied.
I don't know.
Does it get worse than that?
The FBI is lying and they're misleading the FISA court.
Why is that so bad?
Because you don't get to, there's no adversarial process at the FISA court.
That's why you don't get to send your lawyer to say this guy's full of shit and that's not right.
None of that.
They just hear from the government.
Okay, so that's it.
And Durham, so there you go.
So now you know the rest of the story.
And let me throw it to my panel.
Was it surprising at all?
Not surprising at all.
And while all of this has been going on, which, you know, keep in mind, this whole thing starting from Russia Gate to present, if this was a TV show, it would have been canceled a couple seasons ago.
But while this has been going on just within the past week or so, Patriot Act got renewed and 750,000 people lost their food stamps.
Right.
You know, I mean, all these things that we're going to be feeling the effects of long after this political theater is finally over, which it won't be over until Trump's out of office at this point.
You know, it won't be over until then.
No.
This is until he's out of office.
Anything.
Again, anything except for the Democrats to actually beat him at the ballot.
Beat him at the ballot box.
And you know what they're scared of.
If they want to pretend that Joe Biden would be able to go up against him during a debate and not think that Trump is going to just mop him up on the floor about Ukraine and his son, Hunter Biden.
And all Biden ever has is, first, I don't know that my son's business.
Yeah.
And I trust him.
Well, wait a minute.
If you're running for president and you don't care about your son's business, that it compromises your business.
And you're negligent, right?
Your kid gets kicked out of the friggin armed forces.
That's not my business.
Well, Biden would lose and it wouldn't even be a strong loss.
Like it would be a bad one.
It would be bad.
So here is James Comey.
The Inspector General's report came out and he said, so it was all lies.
No treason, no spying on the campaign, no taping Trump's wire, no tapping Trump's wires.
It was just good people trying to protect America.
What the F are you fucking talking about?
What?
I don't even know what he's talking about.
And then he says, FYI, I offered to go on Fox and Friends, so he knows most people aren't going to read the Inspector General report.
That's what he's counting on.
99.999% of the people in the country aren't going to read that report, so they're not going to know what's in it.
And we're going to show you a little bit what's in it right now.
He says, FYI, I offered to go on Fox and Friends to answer all questions.
He's a very tough guy.
He's very tough.
He's courageous.
He's not afraid of anything.
I can't change their view.
I can't change their viewers on Donald Trump, but hope to give them some actual facts about the FBI.
They booked me for tomorrow at 8 a.m.
They just canceled.
Must have read the report.
Sounds like you didn't read the report.
Here's Maria Buttafuco inviting you on her show, and you ducked it.
So she says, why don't you join mornings with Maria on Fox Business or Sunday Futures on Fox News?
We'd love to have you.
Let me know.
3,500 likes.
I don't think he's let her know yet.
Let's see.
Maybe he will go on.
We'll see.
He didn't respond to her tweet right under.
This is right underneath his, and it's got 3,005 likes.
So he knows about the tweet.
By the way, I love this.
She goes, translation, Comey and company lied to the FISA court in order to spy on Obama's campaign on Trump's campaign at the behest of Obama and Brennan.
That's what really happened.
I go open invitation to come on the Jimmy Dore show and defend the reputation of the FBI.
I can't wait.
1.3,000 likes.
He still hasn't responded.
He's going to respond and be like, you're not Fox News.
You're not Fox News.
You're the ones that canceled on me.
It's so easy to dunk on these guys.
You know, like I showed you yesterday or the day before, or it's Friday.
I don't know what day it was.
But I showed you that the impeachment trial is such a shit show.
They're so horrible that Sean Hannity gets to look good.
Sean Hannity gets to Become a truth teller, right?
That's how bad the demon.
prop up not only Trump, you prop up the Republicans.
Here's a quote from that Inspector General report.
Our review found that the FBI personnel fell far short of the requirement in FBI policy that they ensured that all factual statements in a FISA application are scrupulously accurate.
Fell far short, meaning they lied to the FISA court.
So if there isn't an adversary to check them, meaning check the FBI, they're going to lie.
That's who the FBI is.
That's who James Comey is.
That's who Robert Moeller is.
They're professional liars.
Professional liars.
So James Comey not coming on the show.
He's not going to accept our invitation.
He's not going to come on the show.
Sure, he can go talk to a bunch of morons on Fox Morning, Fox and friends.
But he won't come on this show.
No way.
No way.
Hello.
Jimmy Schumer here.
Sup, Broheem.
Senator Chuck Schumer, leader of the Senate.
How are you?
Master of the Senate.
Leader is so vague.
I deal with real issues affecting everyday Americans.
By night, I am mild-mannered Chuck Schumer.
But by day, I am Master of the Senate, Charles Schumer.
Hey, you know there's a lot more to that phone call, but we don't have time in today's podcast.
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