Rep. Anna Paulina Luna reveals her military UAP encounter—Portland Air National Guard’s 2017 airspace incursion where F-15 pilots avoided discussing an interdimensional object fearing career retaliation—while exposing Pentagon resistance to congressional briefings, even after Eglin Air Force Base whistleblowers alleged cover-ups. She ties JFK’s assassination to intelligence omissions, like the suppressed 1960s KGB report and CIA mind-control programs (MKUltra), and warns of foreign influence via CCP-funded groups (PSL, Code Pink) and TikTok/Timu bots manipulating U.S. discourse on immigration and Israel-Palestine. Luna also confronts child labor in slaughterhouses, citing Tyson’s pressure to silence her, and proposes pausing legal immigration to fix systemic backlogs while advocating for domestic tech incentives after Huawei’s proximity to military bases. Her refusal of iPhones—due to privacy risks—and rejection of brain chips underscore a broader fight against surveillance and entrenched power, from defense contractors to political elites. [Automatically generated summary]
So he had been, he didn't want to, from what I gather, get taken off flight status.
And he's like, I really can't discuss it.
We couldn't really like identify it, essentially, and it had outperformed them.
And so that was my first, from a military perspective, kind of experience with someone who basically, you know, there's a stigma within the flight community.
Do you want to lose your security clearance?
What, you know, is there this level of crazy that people kind of brand that will stick with you and kind of ruin your career?
So it was an older platform, but he really didn't want to even talk about it.
And I bring that up because now with our investigation and the task force that I run, actually the reason why the task force was formed was because of an event that happened at Eglin Air Force Base where both myself, Representative Matt Gates, and Representative Tim Burchett actually had responded and gone to investigate multiple Air Force pilots that had come forward in regards to UAP incidences that had occurred and they were alleging that the Air Force was covering it up.
Yeah, so that was that, and like I'm happy to go into detail on that one, but what I will tell you is the stuff that I saw at Eglin, how the military responded, me being a former service member, and then ultimately what I saw with the pushback of the military not even wanting to share with Congress information, which is a big problem because when you have Congress that's supposed to be the advocate and voice for the American people, the oversight body, and you're being denied access, not just from a base commander, but high level up at the Pentagon, even Secretary of Defense, it's a problem.
I definitely think that there's a level of advanced technology that the U.S. government has.
And I think that that tech can be housed within the defense contract realm.
And of course, some information is going to be classified.
But I can also tell you, and this might sound crazy, but based on our investigations and stuff that we've seen, okay, there is definitely something that I think would rival what we know currently with physics and a tech that potentially is out there that we don't have the ability to reproduce because it would basically be like dropping a cell phone, right, off back during the time of maybe cavemans.
So like we just don't have the tech to develop it yet.
What I can also tell you is based on our interviews, and this has been something that you can go back and watch with the congressional hearings, but I was actually able to ask some of the witnesses, you know, what are these things?
And they keep saying interdimensional.
And then when you talk about the interdimensional aspect of, you know, are these things pre-existing, maybe outside of what we currently know as our own dimension, that stuff can kind of all sound crazy.
But at the end of the day, you know, my job as an investigator is to receive all the information, decipher it, and then ultimately from a congressional aspect, if you do have contractors that are withholding information or operating outside of the purview of the federal government, I mean, there's budgetary issues, but there's definitely something that I can tell you with confidence that exists that we don't know how to explain currently.
To, I guess, break it down in simple terms is that I think that some of the tech that exists, that whatever these things have, these energy things have, energy things.
Well, they call them interdimensional beings.
I think that they can actually operate through the time spaces that we currently have.
And that's not something that I came up with on my own.
That's based on stuff that we've seen.
That's based on information that we've been told.
And then also, too, I think that there's this historical aspect of, you know, this gets into the deeper theories and concepts of religion.
And I think the history that we currently know, and that kind of spins off into another topic of, you know, you have the modern day Bible, you have this aspect of Bibles or books of the Bible that have been removed that explain and kind of touch on these topics.
And I think that we're in a time and age where you have such a vast amount of information that we have access to via social media, via your cell phone, via the internet.
And so it's really changing the way that we understand, you know, the origins of life and the spiritual reality that we know.
And what I can tell you without getting into classified conversations is that there have been incidences that I believe where very credible people have reported that there have been movement outside of time and space.
Have I seen photo documentation of aircraft that I believe were not made by mankind?
Yes.
Is there historical significance to this?
Yes.
Is there multiple events that go back to, I would argue, maybe even before the time of Christ that have documented this in text?
Yes.
So do I believe that the government has access to certain technology?
Yes, to an extent.
And I believe that certain contractors potentially have back engineered this tech.
I think that that's what can explain the advancements that we're seeing.
But I also believe that this is a dangerous level of hidden information from the American people because if you have an aspect of the federal government, which I can tell you, I, with two other members of Congress, were denied access to information at Eglin Air Force Base pertaining to whistleblowers because of the fact, and we can get into that story and what happened at Eglin in a second, but we were denied access and told that we don't have security clearance or the read-in authority on a special access program.
That's a problem because I'm supposed to represent and be an investigative body, and you have then people who are unelected that are operating basically in secrecy, and that's a problem.
I think it's been decades of classified secret information, then also this aspect of the intelligence community that's been empowered.
And it's kind of serendipitous with timing because when you talk about the intelligence communities and what they've done essentially to the trust in this country with the American people, I think this goes all the way back even into JFK with how they basically have operated outside of the purview of Congress and basically to an extent have gone rogue up until recently.
You're seeing a big push and pull to try to rein in these intelligence agencies currently.
So I was in a skiff and I can't discuss all that was in a skiff, but what I can tell you is based on the photos that I've seen, I'm very confident that there's things out there that have not been created by mankind.
It seems crazy that people have access to information that shows that there's something outside of us that is more intelligent, at least more capable than we are, and they hide it from everybody else.
What I can tell you is that when you have thousands upon thousands of people around the planet throughout time that have reported something, to say that those people are crazy, to say that the whole concept of even just asking the question that you might not necessarily be psychologically sound, that in itself, that's a disinformation campaign to get people to shut up about it.
And that's a problem.
We know that the U.S. government has not exactly been clean.
And a lot of what they've done with the American people specifically to the topic of UFOs, you have to.
Which makes you think that it's probably because there's something there.
If you think about the motivation they had with Project Blue Book, when Jay Allen Hynek was running Project Blue Book, this specific intention was to discredit all stories.
And he ended up ultimately, though, after all of his investigations, becoming someone that was like, I think there's something to do.
But that's true.
By the way, a lot of people might not necessarily go onto Google and look up that information, but you can actually look up the declassified reports from Project Blue Book.
What's also interesting, though, is when we're talking about tech, right, the ability for this tech being that it exists to change dependence for entire governments on things like fossil fuel, et cetera.
You know, it's, look, I think everyone has a moral obligation to do what they think is right, okay?
And so if you're in a position of power and you see something wrong and you're not addressing it.
I think, you know, this in itself, getting the truth out there for people to decide for themselves.
I'm not telling you what to believe.
I'm just telling you in our investigations and what we are pushing for in regards to transparency.
I would like to see the federal government roll out some of the stuff that we've been given access to because I think that that information belongs in the hands of the American people.
And it's not even just the U.S. government.
I mean, there's other countries around the world that have done certain things like this.
Now, look, I've had a lot of crazy people show up at my office and say, you know, I like I've heard it all.
We had this one guy that showed up that was like trying to give us a USB.
He's like, put this in your computer.
They're going to kill me for this.
And like runs away.
And I'm like, I'm not putting that in my computer.
But based on our investigations, what I will tell you is, you know, there's been two members of Congress that are actually helping to lead out these investigations with me.
And the reason I say that is because up until last Congress, if you even said the word UAP or UFO, people actually told us that if we went forward with these investigations, that we were going to ruin our political careers.
And so, you know, we're in the mindset of, well, like, why wouldn't we ask these questions?
And also, too, if no one wants to touch it, like, there has to be something here, right?
And so in these investigations, I mean, the amount of people that will come up to us, very successful people to multiple members of Congress that believe the same thing, it's definitely changed in regards to the stigma that used to exist about disclosure and all this.
And so what we're trying to do currently was there's a big documentary that was filmed about a year and a half ago, and we're trying to get a screening up on Capitol Hill.
But look, I think a lot of people say, well, this is a distraction from everything else happening in the country right now.
And all I'm simply trying to say is it's not a distraction.
The people that are kind of helping to divulge all this information, you have an intelligence community, you know, Tulsi Gabbard, Radcliffe, Cash Patel.
They have been truly, in regards to our other investigations, extremely transparent and wanting to get this information out.
But it doesn't mean that within these intelligence communities, there isn't pushback.
And so part of the reason why the task force was formed pertaining to things like UAP, pertaining to things like the Jeffrey Epstein stuff, pertaining to things like the JFK, MLK, and RFK investigations, is because even though we don't hold declassification authority, what we're trying to do is push these agencies and be, if you will, the pit bull and the attack dog on trying to get this information released.
And to a lot of these agencies' credits, they've been extremely transparent.
And we have gotten wins specifically on the JFK stuff.
And we're still looking to declassify and ask specifically on the UAP topic.
I think that part of the fear is that you have advisors that think that the American people or humanity might not be able to handle it.
There's this like protective complex.
But then also too, I think when you are talking about these things, for a lot of people, I think that it kind of can rock your world a little bit in regards to where you stand in a faith perspective.
And then also too, an aspect of, well, how do you even begin to explain it?
And all I'm going to say is, look, and we can go into some of the books that were removed from what we know as the modern day Bible, but I read through the book of Enoch multiple times.
And I'm not saying that these things are angels.
Okay.
That's not at all what I'm saying.
But what I am saying is that depending on where you are in regards to your whole perspective on whether or not God exists, like I believe in God, I'm a Christian.
There has to have been, and there's admissions that there was other creations that God made, but that we were the most prized creation.
And so I think that this can open up a bigger topic of discussion.
What I will say is that what's been interesting is, and I've had a mass array of people that have come in, right?
Like we have people that come in that claim that you can use this ability to basically dog whistle these things in from like a psychic ability.
Otherwise, they wouldn't necessarily be able to provide some of the video evidence that they have.
But then that also brings up the question of if these things are interdimensional, which we've had witnesses testify to to members of Congress, and that was all publicly out there.
That would then bring up the whole, well, if this is really transcending dimension, the power of what you say, thought, all of that.
And then, you know, you can look into our own government's declassified documents that the CIA had on different experiments.
I mean, you can literally, last week I was going through, actually on a Friday night, I've just put my son down, and I was going through some of the declassified, you go to CIA.gov slash reading room and you can see all the declassified documents.
And so I believe it's called Stargate, and it was talking about, you know, the basically psychological experiments where they were trying to basically remote view and all that.
Why would our own government be looking into that if there wasn't something there?
And so I'm appreciative to all that information being publicly out there, but I think this whole idea and stigma of trying to make it sound crazy when people actually have these questions, that needs to stop, which is why the task force is in existence.
And then also, too, they need to release information.
If I was going to play devil's advocate, I would say that the government would look into that to find out if there's anything there.
And that would probably take a long time if they're really being careful.
So if I was going to fund a program, if someone told me that there's some people in Russia that can remote view military sites in America, I'd be like, are you sure?
And like, yeah, yeah, there's a technique involved and we know the technique and we want to fund some sort of a study to see if we can do it.
I'm like, let's go.
What do you need?
Because if maybe it's real.
So I don't buy that they wouldn't spend money on it unless it's real.
I say they would spend money on it to find out.
If you're really looking out for national security, right?
You've got 300 and plus million people that you're responsible for.
You got to dot your I's and cross your T's.
And like, if I'm, you know, if I'm good at my job and I'm not an egomaniac, I'm going to go, maybe there's some shit I don't know.
Well, there's looking into it and then there's expanding, right?
And so if you look at all those declassified files, you know, you can pull up, and this is just wild, but there's one where I was looking through and they had basically, you know, the Coast Guard had called in.
There was a ship that they had been given information on that was running drugs.
And so they called in one of their remote viewers and they're trying to give coordinates, coordinate coordinates of the ship and actually like basically locate these things.
And I actually was laughing because I was reading this off the website.
I'm telling my husband, I'm like, imagine, you know, you're trying to run drugs and then all of a sudden you have some like weirdo at Langley in a basin.
They're like, nope, dude, like, did you use the coordinates?
Yeah, I don't know if they write things down or type them out or what, but I talked to Hal Putoff about it, and he said they used it to very specifically find the location of a downed Russian craft within like a couple kilometers, which is nuts.
If you think about the area where this thing crashed, it's like remote wilderness, the middle of nowhere.
Russia hadn't found it yet.
Apparently, we found it first, according to Hal Putoff.
It's just because I haven't done it and because I don't know that it's real doesn't mean it's not real.
And this is a problem with people.
They don't want to get duped and they don't want to look stupid.
They don't want to look naive.
And so they dismiss things.
They dismiss that there might be frequencies that you don't tune into all the time.
And someone might get really good at that.
And they might be able to see things remotely.
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Well, I think that this gets into the bigger discussion of what do we know, right?
Going back to some of these books that were moved.
There's a good podcast right now called The Autistic Tapes, and it talks about how some non-speaking or non-verbal autistic kids actually are exhibiting telepathy.
Non-verbal autistic kids are exhibiting telepathy.
You know, this concept, again, if you were to talk about it 20 years ago, people will call you crazy.
You know, I think based on what we're seeing now, based on the fact that our own government's looked into it, based on the stuff that you were saying, I mean, you can find all this information publicly available and it's out there.
And I think that there's something to it.
And so, you know, we're seeing, and we've heard, this is in non-classified settings, we've heard from people that have come forward that are saying, you know, we're being able to, via meditation, we're essentially like downloading information and we can communicate with these things.
Granted, you know, when I'm sitting in my congressional office and I'm hearing this, I take it with a grain of salt because we do get a lot of crazy people.
But when you have people that are high-level executives, very successful, clean-cut, not on drugs, are coming in and they're telling you this stuff.
And then, you know, you're kind of cross-referencing it with various people and intelligence agencies.
I just, I think that there's something there and we need to be at least open to hearing the discussion and the argument for these things.
And there's a and there's an over-classification aspect of this too, right?
Like if you're serving in the military and you're taking a photo on your personal device or a video on your personal device, that shouldn't be the purview of the federal government and either which way, I mean, there's been now so much stuff.
There's granted, there's been a lot of fake stuff put out there, but the stuff that is legitimate that we are seeing, the stuff that we had people testify to in our congressional hearings, I mean, that's not a joke.
And what's even more interesting to this is that I was actually able to talk to David Grush, who now is actually working with the task force to kind of chase down a lot of these leads in regards to some of these contractors that allegedly have this tech, right?
So in talking with him, again, not in a skiff, we were able to actually flush out that prior to him testifying that he actually received very real threats against his life and his wife, his wife's life.
He's a sound guy.
And then shortly after he testified, there's this massive smear operation that was launched against him to try to discredit his testimony.
And so, you know, again, going into, well, if this stuff wasn't real or if he wasn't telling the truth, why would there be this massively orchestrated effort to, you know, completely just disprove what he was trying to say or to discredit his actions and his testimony.
And so it is kind of coming full circle, right?
Going back to what the task force has been able to find out.
I mean, we're conducting these investigations simultaneously, and we're doing this in addition to everything else that we have to do as members of Congress, right?
So although I would love to just dedicate my full time and attention to this, we still have to balance it out.
And so I've, again, had some great investigators who are working with us on oversight, as well as a lot of cooperation from the intelligence agencies.
And we are going to be asking for this information to be declassified, at least information that has been shown to us.
I think the first break in the wall was that 2017 New York Times report where they were talking about it in logical, sensible language that these things might be from another world.
But I think that movie that you're discussing, which is the age of disclosure.
And at the end of it, you kind of draw this conclusion, like, oh, this makes sense.
Like this, what they're essentially saying is one of the problems is if they have been funding these secret programs, then for all these years, they've been misappropriating money.
But as a first term member of Congress, you know, when you, Joe, when you get elected to Congress, you would think that they would bring you in and they'd say, okay, this is how you do the legislation.
No, you get elected, you show up to kind of a crash course for about like a week and a half on, you know, how to not get in trouble with ethics.
And then you're basically wind and dined by lobbyists.
They don't actually tell you how to do the legislation.
Basically, the only rules that you're told are never vote down a rule, which is a procedural motion to bring legislation to the floor, and don't really ever vote against your party, of which within the first week, I broke both rules and so I was on the naughty list per usual.
Yeah, because it's like, you know, you're supposed to represent your constituency.
So if you have people calling your office saying, don't you vote for this, and then you vote against it.
It's like people forget that you're supposed to represent, right, representative instead of just do what the party wants.
But, you know, there is, there are mechanisms that have existed since Thomas Jefferson, who wrote our damn rule manual, that enable us to actually pass legislation and actually hold agencies and people accountable from a punitive perspective.
And I don't know if you were tracking, but like I brought a vote on the former attorney general for basically refusing to testify to Congress and respond to a subpoena.
And that was called inherent contempt.
And a lot of Congress is like, what the hell is inherent contempt?
It hadn't been done since the early 1900s.
And I actually read it in the rule manual.
And I read the rule manual twice.
So it's like so crazy what happens when you read books.
But we were able to find this out.
And it was a mechanism that Congress can use to actually basically send the sergeant-at-arms to go arrest people.
So one of the things that this documentary was calling for that I think is the only logical way to solve this is a mass amnesty for these people that misappropriated money and whistleblowers.
Or whistleblowers.
Well, the whistleblowers thing is crazy.
Like they leave them alone.
Like, come on.
Of course, everybody should fucking know this stuff, guys.
The real crime is you keeping this secret from humanity.
That's the real crime.
Okay.
The other stuff is horseshit.
It's just interpretations of what you're writing down on paper.
You're making up rules.
But if you ask the general public how they feel this should go, a rational, normal person would say, there's no fucking way the defense contractor should be the only people who know that we're not alone.
Especially when we're facing a massive deficit and you see that they're like the Pentagon hasn't been able to pass the audit and I don't know how many people are.
It's definitely wrong that it's happening for sure.
What I will tell you, though, is the issue that we have with bringing forward legislation that would give mass amnesty in parting to these people is that there are people within the intelligence community and within Congress on both sides that will try to, if you come forward with this, and I'll tell you a very prime example of this in a moment, that they will block it.
They don't want it to pass.
They will stop it from even coming to the floor.
They won't bring legislation that will address it because they want to keep this information secret.
Representative Tim Burchett, before I got elected, was kind of on his own little island in regards to the UAP stuff.
And he will himself tell you that, you know, this is 100% a thing.
And that these defense contractors and what he believes, you know, the Pentagon not passing audits, all this, these black budget programs.
I mean, like, he will tell you, he's, again, been leading out this effort way before I got there.
He had a piece of legislation that was supposed to enable the FAA to report and develop a different reporting, a different reporting procedure for UAP stuff.
And at the time, the chairman of Intel ensured that that legislation was not brought forward, that it was stopped.
The piece of legislation that actually passed out of the Senate, it really had no teeth to it.
And then Representative Burchett drew a primary challenger that was being backed by the chairman of Intel.
And so, you know, when you are touching these, it's like, you know, that meme where you have that stork that's like, don't touch this.
And it's not exactly easy because you will take heat from both sides.
But there has been a good group that's been assembled that's bicameral, meaning it's both in the House and the Senate, and bipartisan, meaning both Democrats and Republicans are saying like, hey, this should actually happen.
Because if they had to do it publicly, if they had to announce their position on it publicly, it would be very damaging, I think, to anybody's political career, on the right or the left.
Well, what I can tell you is for us specifically, we actually were made aware some people had come forward that said that they wanted to brief.
So about two years ago when all this kicked off, we had requested briefings from Arrow that's in charge of kind of compiling the investigative aspect of UAP stuff.
And by the way, from the get-go, even in talking to Arrow, I was like, this organization is literally a BS organization.
They're never going to tell us anything.
And every interaction that we had in the SCIF, I was like, this is a nothing burger.
But then these people came forward and said that they were actually denied, they were told to not brief our group specifically on this topic, and that it was from at the time members of House leadership, but they wouldn't say who.
And so I actually went with another member of Congress and confronted multiple people, and they all denied denying us access.
So it's done behind the scenes.
You'll see these random little troll blockages that might pop up.
But what I can tell you is that with the new administration, specifically with the FBI, specifically with ODNI, we have gotten transparency to where previously we would have been stonewalled.
We were actually given briefings.
And so what I will tell you is we are going to push for the information that we sought to be out there for the American people to see.
So do you think that the whole idea of disclosure is maybe a multiple-step, very agonizing, frustratingly slow process rather than a big dump of all the information that they've had from Roswell to the Aztec one to there's a apparently there's a whole slew I don't know if it's Aztec I forget the name of it but there was a another during that same time period there was a really prominent UFO recovery thing
that was not as publicized as the one in Roswell.
The big mistake with the Roswell one was the newspaper printed it.
And so then they had to backtrack and then they had to do the press conference where they had like some scattered pieces of a weather balloon that didn't look anything like a UFO.
Well, I can tell you in our hearing, we were actually notified, and you can pull this up.
I think it was one of the witnesses had talked about what had happened at Vandenberg Air Base where there was this thing that appeared over the base.
It actually had multiple blotters reporting on it from phone calls into law enforcement from like hundreds of people.
And whatever had appeared over the base was basically bigger than a football field and basically a cube, a red cube with some weird thing in the center of it.
I actually had our witness draw this out.
This guy is sober as a priest.
I mean, he was a great pilot, and he's talking about all this.
And so, you know, you talk about this, it seems like a sci-fi movie.
But based on the evidence that we've seen, I don't have any reason to believe that these people are lying.
Based on the evidence that I've seen from our own government, I think that there's something there that the American people deserve to have access to.
And so I've been, this is not just on this topic, but again, in other topics as well, this has been my perspective is transparency is what builds trust.
Other governments have revealed certain information on it.
To think that we are the only, you know, life form on this planet or in this galaxy, I think is a little bit crazy, given, you know, the fact that I also think God exists and that there's other creations.
But then again, you get into this aspect of, you know, why is it that you also have this aspect of, you know, a certain religion that has been very controlled and I think rolled out in a certain aspect.
And, you know, when you have certain books that are removed because they don't think that people should have access to this information or know it, you know, why remove a book from a Bible, right?
That's the guy to talk to about, you know what I mean?
Because you have to really understand the history of the Bible to be able to figure out what's legitimate, what's not, why they put it into the New Testament.
I had some very erroneous ideas about it until I talked to intelligent people that really, really know the history of it.
Well, so from what I gather, and by the way, I'm not a theologian in any capacity, but just from my personal opinion on this.
So you have the Ethiopian Orthodox text, which has, I think, 88 books of the Bible in total.
But in the Ethiopian Orthodox text, it's basically kind of like a mainline OG version of the Bible.
And then sometime in the fourth century, there was actually a group that came together and they removed certain books.
And the story goes that Revelations actually had replaced Enoch.
And so it's interesting because when you're looking kind of full circle on, you know, you hear the stuff that some of these people are talking about and then you see and you read the book of Enoch, which is a wild read, okay?
And then you look at kind of what our modern day description is of what angels and entities are versus what Enoch was seeing and reporting in his language and ability at that time.
I just, I think that there's a lot that brings you to then ask the question, well, why would they remove this information?
If it's truly, you know, written and part of the oldest Bible in the world, why would they then take it out and water it down?
And I'm not saying that you can't find God through the new Bible, right?
Like everyone's on their own spiritual journey, and I think everyone can pray and you can access God, but I just find that very interesting.
And so what I will say is that I like to have the whole kind of picture in front of me.
And so I feel like to fully understand A through Z, you kind of have to be able to read it.
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Yeah, I just don't know about the history of it.
Is there any debate about the reality of that book?
Is there any debate about whether or not it was either fraudulent or discredited or something?
The book of Enoch?
Yeah.
Like, why did they, because I know there was some kind of controversy that Wes Huff described.
No, it must have been me privately talking to him about something, another video that I watched.
The thing about what Wes Huff does that's so interesting is like he really understands like the history of the text, the language in which they use the names in which they chose.
And when he breaks it up, one of the things he told us that was the craziest was that the book of Isaiah was exactly the same in the Dead Sea Scrolls as it was a thousand years later.
They found one that was a thousand years older and it was direct.
It was word for word, verbatim.
I'm like, that's bananas.
A thousand year old story that's exactly the same written that they didn't know there was a version of it a thousand years ago and then they find it in these kids.
And the fact that this kid, you know, a shepherd kid was able to even find these scrolls that they were set up and, you know, just has led to that point right in time where he finds this massive, basically admission that the Bible is real.
You can actually look into, you know, there's a new King James and then you can actually look into the Catholic Bible as well that also has, they call them Apocrypha texts because the King James Bible doesn't acknowledge them.
But there are also other books that are not considered, you know, approved by the King James.
So look, I was on my mom's side, I was actually raised Catholic and then had my catechism, did all of it.
And then on my dad's side, I was raised Christian and then later on, a messianic Jew.
And so I feel like I kind of have like a good cross-section and I've been exposed to a lot of this growing up.
But it's definitely interesting.
And so, look, I don't tell people, like, I'm not, I'm not saying that like aliens created mankind.
I don't believe that because I, at the end of the day, believe that God is responsible for our creation.
But I do think that what we've been programmed to believe in regards to our ability to be able to use our mind, the spiritual aspect of us, really does exist.
And I think that once you kind of remove yourself out of this basically rat race and you can like really reconnect with that, I think that that's when you kind of realize, hey, there's a bigger purpose here in life and like what is our end objective?
And if you're given a position of influence or a position of power and you're not doing the right thing for humanity, you're not guiding people, then that's something that you have to answer for.
I think these stories, especially when you get to stories like Noah and the Ark, and that these stories exist in basically every religion, they're real similar.
They're real similar.
I think all of these people are trying to document a truth.
It's just what is that truth is where it gets weird.
And when it gets to like other gods and giants and giants created man and Enoch talks about that.
This is wild because it actually goes into descriptions of angels too.
And so actually, so in Enoch, it talks about, well, if you scroll down, now that's that, you can probably click on the scribed because it'll show you all the documents from the actual declassified file.
But if you ask me to go look for the Ark of the Covenant, like, I know what I'm looking for, right?
Well, apparently these remote viewers draw what I think it's going to like.
Show me that they fucking found it.
I don't know if they did, but they don't know if they did either, but it's like, it's interesting, but it's not as interesting because you're saying, show me the Ark of the Covenant, right?
We don't know how far it went, and I definitely have questions, but this would not be the first time that a government would have looked for something, especially because people theorize that the Ark of the Covenant had these abilities as a super weapon.
I know, but I'm saying the remote viewer is limited by his ability to understand the language.
Stop, stop, scroll back up, please.
Yeah, right there.
So somewhere in the Middle East, visuals of surrounding buildings indicated that the area, the presence of mosque domes, individuals in the area were clothed in virtually all white, had black hair and dark eyes.
One figure I honed in on wore a mustache.
The target is hidden underground, dark and wet were all aspects of the location of the target.
See, the only problem I ever have with these things is if these places are all controlled by terrorists and it's all dictators and crazy people over there, if they found out that the ark was there, they would fucking take it.
Well, I think there's this aspect of if you look at from a biblical perspective, no one would be able to access it anyways because it would be protected, right?
Well, so they had to, you know, go through this special process of being considered holy, basically, to access it.
So all that to say that there's something out there, right?
I think that obviously God's real, and this job has definitely, you know, put me in a position to where we're able to help get other truths out there, if you will.
I mean, there's something to be said about the Ethiopian people as a whole and going back to the Ethiopian Orthodox text.
Actually, when I first launched this task course, I actually went and I met with a Ethiopian Orthodox pastor, if you will, just to kind of see and explain and ask questions that I can't exactly go to, you know, the Smithsonian and ask.
And, you know, his response was interesting, especially from their perspective.
You know, you have a lot of this aspect of, I think, religion that tries to be doom and gloom.
And then in the Ethiopian perspective, he's like, first of all, your timeline's wrong.
And I'm like, what do you mean you're timeline?
He's like, well, the biblical text in modern day Christianity, it's a little bit off, right?
So we use a completely separate, I think it's 364 days out of the year.
And he's explaining all of it.
And he's like, but even then, so we don't have the perspective of, you know, we are in the end of days, et cetera.
But, you know, the way his perspective just seemed very optimistic as opposed to pessimistic and filtering and controlling information.
Or just an aspect of spirituality that we've previously forgotten because we're in such a digital age that kind of programs you into the rat race.
And I think people, the more that they're kind of like, you know, there has to be more to life than just like a nine to five.
And, you know, working for this aspect of materialism, like, don't get me wrong, I like, you know, a nice car and a clean house and all that.
But, you know, there's also this aspect of, you know, being a human.
And like, you know, if you have kids, I think that's like one of the things.
Like, I have, you have a daughter, I have a son.
And it's like when you're a parent, it kind of like makes you realize, like, wow, there's this aspect of like love that I didn't know existed before.
And you can kind of really be there and help, you know, grow this next human and influence that person.
And it just kind of the human experience is something that, you know, you can make it as special as you want.
And this aspect of, you know, us being able to have those little quantum breadcrumbs is what I like to call them.
Like, if you ever, have you ever been like talking about something and like you'll go somewhere, hear something, and there's like confirmation of what you've been talking about, or, you know, something happens and you're like, you know, asking a question, then all of a sudden it pops up, kind of there's the answer.
And I think that those little things just mean you're on the right path and doing what you're supposed to do in this bigger picture.
Yeah, well, that's a good way to live life if you believe that.
That's healthy, smart.
It's like a good strategy.
I wonder why some people seem to have like the idea of it being an emerging aspect of human consciousness, our ability to like sense things and know things that are going to happen or premonition or know if someone's a liar or a weirdo, like instantly.
Those, I always wonder if it that or is it that we used to have that like before language, that's all we had?
I think that before tech really evolved, there was a bigger aspect of spirituality that actually talks about that.
So like discernment in the Bible, you can talk about, you know, this aspect of being people say like, oh, if someone has like really bad energy, are you picking up on it?
There's something to that.
But I think that because, and it's really happened, I think, in the last like 40 years where people are kind of forgetting that.
But when you actually go back to, like, for example, we're talking just now about the Ark of the Covenant, the Ethiopian Orthodox text, and all this, there's more of that aspect of spirituality that I think has been removed from society.
I think it's actually taken away our ability to really respect one another and value human life.
And I think that that, you know, from like a political perspective, influences decision.
Like you get really pro-war people.
Those people are usually not that spiritual and they really don't have a value for life in that aspect.
And it makes up for that like 80, 90% that you're just like, that's when I hosted Fear Factor.
Okay, so yeah, that aspect of, I think really exists in politics if you like actually care.
And I had a meeting recently where I was with two other members of Congress that were helping me with the JFK investigation.
And we actually met for the first time since 1990 with the ambassador to the Russian government.
And I bring that up because at the time of the JFK assassination, the KGB had actually come forward with their own independent investigation.
And they actually gave it at Kennedy's funeral to U.S. officials.
We never got those documents.
And it's my belief that the CIA actually destroyed that information and evidence because it would have confirmed what this, the KGB.
And mind you, at the time, JFK was actually in talks with the president of Russia at that time.
And his perspective is that he actually wanted to do a joint mission between the U.S. government and the Russian government to the moon.
And there are aspects and divisions within the intelligence community.
You obviously saw the Cold War was happening.
They wanted war in Cuba.
They wanted war with Russia.
So for them to be able to say that Kennedy, who was not a communist, but that he was a communist sympathizer and how dare he talk to these dirty communists, I mean, that in itself would have given them any ammunition to turn a blind eye or at least not fully figure out who assassinated Kennedy.
But I bring that up to say that, you know, when you have these people in power, you know, you can see a lot of it in regards to there's a summit on the 15th actually with President Trump and Vladimir Putin.
And I think the aspect of, you know, anytime you have peace and trade, it's way better than war for everyone involved, for the people of Ukraine, for Russia, for the American people.
And I think for the surrounding regions, like I recently got back from meeting with government officials in Romania and Moldova, and it didn't matter if, and I actually met an actual member of the Moldovan government who was a communist, like an outward communist.
And it didn't matter who I talked to, everyone wanted peace.
And then when we had met with the European Parliament and the EU, some of them wanted peace, but then the countries that had the shittiest economies, excuse my language, they were the ones that were advocating for war.
Well, you have a war-based economy.
It always helps your economy.
So if you have terrible policy perspectives, obviously you would advocate for something like that.
But it just goes to show that the people that are going through it, the people that are living it that are directly impacted, no one would advocate for war.
And so in even just having this conversation, you know, a lot of people, even, you know, two administration ago, maybe two administrations ago, probably would not have had that conversation.
But to be able to develop that dialogue, the end result of that meeting was the Russian government agreed to release their investigation onto JFK that the previous congressional task force in the 90s had tried to obtain from the Russian government, and they said no.
So they agreed to release that, and they'll be posting it publicly for the American people to go through later on this fall.
So when I was talking to the ambassador, he's actually a history buff too.
And so he had actually said that the Russian government, when Oswald was actually in Russia, had done a psychological profile because they thought, you know, they're like, is this guy part of American intelligence?
Like, what's his story?
And they thought he was basically nuts.
And apparently he had tried to go hunting when he was out there and they were observing him and he couldn't shoot for shit.
So they're like, you know, he didn't meet our psychological profile.
Then he shows up to the Russian embassy in Mexico City with a gun and they're like, what the hell is it?
Like crazy guys showing up at that.
Like, what's going on?
And then we find out simultaneously as this is all happening that the CIA, kudos to Director Radcliffe, had actually released something called the Joe Nides file.
And George Joe Nides was actually, he's basically our version of James Bond, but more corrupt.
And he was basically observing Oswald.
He had lied to Congress.
This was all in his file.
He was then the CIA liaison to Congress during the investigations, stonewalled their investigations, was later awarded something from the CIA.
So we have the CIA admitting that they lied to Congress, covered up the assassination, covered up the investigations.
We had admissions from the Warren Commission, people that had been subject to the Warren Commission's investigation saying that the Warren Commission engaged in witness intimidation.
They omitted evidence.
The single bullet theory never exists.
The CIA admits that Lee Harvey Oswald was not a lone gunman.
People ask, well, you know, does this mean that you'll ever get the name of who killed him?
No, because I don't think the CIA was like, kill JFK on this day and use this gun and have this person assigned.
But there was evidence of multiple shooters for sure.
And actually, what's interesting is when we first launched the task force, we had left-leaning news outlets that were trying to write hit pieces saying that I was basically launching a conspiracy theory task force.
Intergeraldo Rivera, you know, when Dick Gregory brought that film on the Geraldo Rivera show and you got to see the Zapruder film, you got to see what looks like a shot that makes his head go back into the left.
Yeah, and then I think he got shot multiple times by multiple shooters from multiple different directions.
And I don't think necessarily Lee Harvey Oswald wasn't in on it.
Well, here's the problem.
People say, oh, Lee Harvey Oswald couldn't shoot.
You don't have to be that good with a rifle to be, you're on a ledge, so you have a secure rest if your rifle sighted in, and they said his scope was off, but that doesn't mean shit because you could just drop your scope and it's off.
Like, all you have to do is take your rifle off of that ledge, drop it on the ground, and now that scope is off.
Well, what's interesting is, is the Warren Commission did omit multiple female witnesses who were actually at the book depository that day that actually stated that they had never witnessed Oswald actually in the location or going down the back of the book depository.
But to have their own government say, no, that's not true, to gaslight them and to push this narrative of if you question it, you're wrong, you're crazy.
That in itself, I think when you're talking about like, why do the American people not trust their government?
It's really this fracture that starts around the Kennedy era in timeframe.
And you can see then that distrust kind of evolves.
But why do you, going back to your original question, why do people refuse to kind of question conspiracy theory?
Maybe there's some substance to it.
And I think it's because it's more comfortable for people from a psychological perspective to live in this comfort area that their government might not do something like that.
But the fact is, is that, look, I've traveled a lot.
I've dealt with a lot of world leaders.
We are still the greatest country in the world.
Make no excuse about that.
But it doesn't mean that we can't call out and hold our own government and officials accountable.
And so that's kind of what I've guessed my mission has been this Congress and what I hope that it will continue to be.
But I'm not trying to do this for like even the next 10 years.
So for someone like me, you know, people are like, oh, initially, you're going to ruin your political career talking about this.
This is crazy.
Why would you even want to do that?
And then, you know, they're seeing all these big wins coming out in regards to transparency.
And I will say, had it not been for the secretaries that have been appointed by this administration, this wouldn't have happened because under President Biden, he actually also tried to declassify things pertaining to JFK and the National Archives never released it.
The other part is still outstanding, but hopefully when the documents are released from the Russian government later on this fall, that might be able to provide a full picture.
Granted, I'm going to take it with a grain of salt because it's still, you know, it was written by the KGB.
But at the end of the day, we have a good mosaic that's been put together with at least the documents that have been released with this administration.
And for any outstanding documents, I actually have a team assigned to me from the CIA that is actually helping me chase down these documents.
And I've already had some interesting experiences, like not creepy, but for example, after President Trump signed the executive order and Radcliffe has been super helpful, we actually were made aware of this.
Allegedly, there had been a document that was at the CIA that was a report from the inspector general that had implicated the CIA allegedly in the assassination of JFK.
So I'm following up on this lead and trying to find this report.
And the archives is like, we don't have any documentation of this.
The CIA says they don't have any documentation.
And they've been good with us so far.
So I go to the archives because they're like, we found this weird bag, though, and it's in the skiff.
And it's been here for five years.
And it was left by our former attorney for the archives.
And so we don't know what's in it.
And I was like, well, go open it.
They're like, well, we don't have the key and it's in a vault.
And I said, well, I'm coming over.
So I drive over, literally, I like put myself in the car.
I get in the car and I go over to the National Archives.
We go into the SCIF.
I pull out this bag and I'm like, does anyone have scissors?
And we like cut open this little folder.
And there was a CD-ROM in it.
And this has, again, been declassified now.
So I can talk about it.
But there was this CD-ROM of a ton of wires from the State Department.
Some of the wires were pertaining to the Kennedy family.
And it was actually a WikiLeaks document.
And so I think the reason why it was kept at the archives is because you're not actually supposed to have these documents on government computers, WikiLeaks, obviously don't happen with that.
But here I was like cutting it out of a bag at the National Archives.
And I think I saw recently Tulsi had actually talked about some of the State Department wires that had been found that, and I think these are the same ones that had talked about the assassination of RFK.
There were wires going up from the State Department prior to his assassination, which is interesting.
So our next investigation, so we've done multiple hearings.
Well, I haven't seen the actual wires themselves yet, but what that would imply is that the State Department knew about the assassination before it took place.
It doesn't, like, he went so far off the deep end.
Then he died later.
I think he died a few years later of cancer, but I think he completely lost his mind after Jolly West visited him.
And Jolly West was, he was involved with the Manson family thing.
He was involved with Operation Midnight Climax, where they had brothels.
The CIA was running brothels, and they would get these Johns to come in with the prostitutes, and the prostitutes would give them acid, and they didn't know it.
And so they were sitting there, and there was two-way mirrors, and they were filming them.
Why these guys were like, well, for blackmail, for observation.
They knew these people were never going to say, hey, you did that to me.
You know, look what the government did.
It dosed me up with acid.
Because they're not going to admit they went to a brothel.
So you have like the perfect group of people to victimize and just try stuff on.
And so, look, anyone watching this can go look at this information.
Go to CIA.gov slash reading room and know it's not going to be a phishing website that's going to steal your information.
But you can find this guy's like, we're accessing.
But, you know, it's always been one of those things.
And, you know, if people ask me, I'm just very transparent about it.
And I will say something that started out with a stigma of being, you know, this conspiracy theory investigation, wasting taxpayer dollars has been arguably one of the coolest task force in Congress, I think.
And we have a lot of good people that are behind it.
Also, there's a time-honored tactic of taking, look, if I was in the intelligence community, and I'm not accusing anybody of doing this, but if I was an intelligence community and I had some truth that was very inconvenient to a narrative and I wanted to label that truth as being a preposterous conspiracy theory, I'd add a bunch of kooky shit to it.
Like the one thing I wanted to do when I first got the task force is open up a skiff to any person who held a clearance to come brief us on what they knew about UAPs.
And I can tell you that we've now had a lot of things.
That is one of the biggest things that we've had people bring up is that you're a whistleblower, but whistleblower protections only go so far and you can't do anything for my physical safety.
And some of them do allege that there's these actual physical concerns.
We actually had someone that we wanted to bring in to testify because our next hearing on UAP is going to be, I believe it's next month.
And the individual that was actually told tests by David Grush is actually a former combat controller.
And so my husband, Air Force Special Operator at Combat Control.
So we knew the guy via some friends.
So we knew that the guy wasn't nuts or crazy and reached out to him and he did not want to come in.
I mean, and also the competitive advantage you would give company A if this company gets access to a down craft that can traverse space and time, that can move through the universe instantaneously, that utilizes an unknown element that has some unknown process of defying gravity.
It's utilizing no interior mechanisms of control.
Everything is done with the mind of the pilot.
If this is the truth, if this is what they're saying, and these are the kind of things they find, that getting to a contractor would be a massive advantage over the other contractor that also should be on equal standing with the government, right?
They both make jets.
They both make whatever it is.
So it's like, what do you do?
Do you divvy up your spaceships in between these folks?
Like, are they the only ones who get to know it?
And then how do private contractors, how are they the gatekeepers of the most important information in the world if it's true?
Well, so, and that brings us to what happened at Eglin Air Force Base.
So, in a nutshell, we had been told by, so Representative Gates had come forward and said that he had two or two or three pilots said to contact him saying that the Air Force was covering up information regarding to UAP activity in the Pandown handle, and he wanted us to go with him to investigate.
So, we show up at Eglin Air Force Base.
We're met by the base commander.
Previous to us, even showing up on this congressional delegation to investigate, the Pentagon had tried to cancel the meeting.
And you can't, so this was under the last administration.
So, you can't just cancel a meeting and say you can't come to the base.
That doesn't work.
So, Gates actually was on House Armed Services at the time that oversees the U.S. military.
And so, Gates got the chairman involved, calls back onto the Pentagon, gets this meeting on the books.
And, you know, we told them specifically we want to see information on UAPs.
We want to see the evidence and we want to have the pilots that saw these aircraft, whatever they are, or these spacecraft, we want to have briefings from them.
In a nutshell, we get to Eglin Air Force Base.
They keep Air BSing us about the Chinese spy balloon.
That's not what we were there to see.
And ultimately, we were in the SCIF.
We got into a verbal disagreement with the base commander at the time who was denying us access to the pilots and to the information and said that we didn't have the authorization.
In the SCIF, there were many members of the intelligence community.
We then go back upstairs to the conference room and proceed to again, basically have it out with this commander.
And Representative Burchett said, you know, we could do this the easy way or the hard way.
How put off during the Bush administration was assigned.
He was one of many scientists.
And this is also in the age of disclosure.
He was one of many scientists that was assigned to put a numerical value to pros and cons of UFO disclosure.
So they said to him, we have a crashed UFO that we have been back engineering.
And we want to release information to society to let people know that UFOs are real and that there is something else out there that's not us.
It's much more intelligent than we are.
So they have this list of pros and cons, banking, religion, societal structure, you know, everything, everything on one side.
And then the pros, like, you know, whatever the positive aspects of it would be.
And every single scientist said that the cons outweighed the pros.
And he said, I would have loved to have had disclosure, but this was just what they asked me to do.
They asked me to compile numbers and to do it in a way that's super objective.
And he said, look, if I'm doing my job, this is where I think it would completely wreck our government, completely wreck any idea that the people that are in charge of us have any position of authority when there's something that can go 100 million times faster than we think is physically possible through the universe, appear out of nowhere, stop all of our nuclear programs, shut down bases, do weird shit.
But don't you think that that's where kind of it's been interesting because society has moved away from this aspect of like having a spiritual grounding and even believing and like, you know, most people today think when you talk about like praying, even that whole concept is kind of just like, oh, you know, they're just, and I feel like that thing's kind of poo-pooed.
But if you have like a grounding in that, and going back to what I was saying earlier, I think that that's not, like, I don't think that society would do that.
Granted, I'm not a scientist, I'm not running numbers, but just based on how we've kind of been evolving with access to information and kind of the questions, the discussions that have been happening, not just here, but I think internationally, I just think a lot's changing.
Now, to say that we were, you know, and I've heard some wild theories, like people think that, you know, humanity was seeded by UFOs.
But I mean, the Old Testament, if you go back to the oldest works of the Bible, weren't most of those stories handed down generation after generation and then eventually written down?
But what's interesting is that even if that's the case, though, you have the Atheian Orthodox Church that actually there's Ethiopian Jews, and that's considered the most pure form of the Bible.
So you actually have a division of the Ethiopian Jewish class that actually recognized Enoch.
Another reason for the exclusion of the text might be the textual nature of several early sections of the book that make use of material from the Torah.
For example, Enoch is a mid-rash of Deuteronomy 33.
The context, particularly detailed descriptions of fallen angels, would also be reason for rejection from the Hebrew canon at this period, as is illustrated by the comments of Tripfo the Jew when debating Justin Martyr on this subject,
the utterances of God are holy, but your expositions are mere contrivances, as is plain from what has been explained by you, nay, even blasphemous, for you assert that angels sinned and revolted from God.
So it was a it seems like some people made a decision that something shouldn't be in there.
Well, there's always a problem when people get involved.
And when people get involved in making decisions that this could be real and this could not be the problem is like all these years later, you're dealing with the repercussions of that.
Like imagine a world in which if Enoch was left in the Bible and people were like, wait, what happened?
Like explain the nuttiness of the book of Enoch to people.
So if you read it, it talks about the fall of angels, thus creating really the precursor of civilization that led to the first flood.
I think that when you even go into potentially the technology that was given to mankind by these angels, it talks about the hidden beliefs and theories in astronomy, et cetera, metalworkings, all of it.
But it really does explain, you know, you were talking about earlier how you have a lot of these religions around the world that kind of say the same thing.
This is kind of the OG text that leads to those stories that we're hearing from many religions around the world.
To talk about angels mixing with mankind and then seeding a super essentially race of humans that essentially were responsible for basically damning mankind to the flood.
I mean, you hear about stuff in Greek and Roman mythology, people who had these super crazy powers.
And you talk about it out loud and it sounds crazy, but that's what the book says.
And then the fact that it was taken out and then it's poo-pooed, yet you have one of the oldest religions in the world via the Ethiopians that actually still have it.
You have, you know, the Catholic Church that has books that are missing out of the King James Version.
I'm just saying that, you know, when you read it, you should read it and decide for yourself.
Don't listen to what I'm saying, don't listen to what you're saying, but truly give it a chance and see what you have to say.
And then, you know, you're going back to this whole concept of if you have this information pertaining to UAPUs, whatever they might be, the origins.
I mean, if you have an understanding of what Enoch was talking about, kind of makes sense.
If you're playing the telephone game, you want to be second.
You don't want to be 15th.
Exactly.
And whoever was writing it down the earliest, that's probably you're closer to their depictions of what that truth is than after King James starts fucking around with it and all this stuff.
It's, you know, I would wonder what the impact to all these religions would be if we had definitive proof that we're not alone.
Like if there was an introduction, like some sort of an event where they decided, look, this government is too secretive with all this information.
You're holding back the understanding of these intelligent life forms that they are not the apex of this planet, nor are they anywhere close to the peak of the intelligence that's available out there in the universe.
But I think that brings us back to the fundamental question on do you believe that God exists?
Because if you do, then you realize that our freedom, the freedom of choice, is not a man-given right, but a God-given right.
And I think that that goes back to the fundamental principles of what we believe in true representation.
So if you believe that God is real, God is powerful, then it shouldn't be a king or a man that you're looking to, but to God for divine inspiration and to make your life decisions.
But I think even the Catholic churches acknowledge the idea that if there is intelligent life somewhere else, it doesn't mean that God didn't create it.
Well, it does say in Enoch, and then also too, I think in Genesis that the stars cried out.
And so if you're looking, well, a star, if it's not, you know, what do they mean by stars crying out?
And then Enoch actually alludes to stars in certain capacities being potentially angels.
Now, I'm not saying like, and this is kind of interesting because, you know, I have this aspect of my task force, what we've been investigating, but then I have, you know, my personal beliefs and, you know, my religious beliefs.
And what I'm telling you is that in my position officially, I've seen men pervert information to get what they want.
So it's not unlikely that an entire, you know, very secret, very truthful text was omitted in an effort to control population and to insert yourself between an individual's relationship between them directly and God.
But what I'm saying is I really like the Strassman idea of learning ancient Hebrew to be able to read the source material.
That's where it gets really interesting.
Because what were these people trying to write about?
And if these people like Graham Hancock and Randall Carlson are correct and these folks that believe in the younger Dryas impact theory, you know, the Bible was written a couple thousand years ago.
These people that are talking about the Younger Dryas impact theory are talking about a cataclysmic event that wiped out advanced civilization 11,800 years ago.
Like, if you can get back to 11,800 years ago and read what they thought went down, because I think that's probably where the oral traditions come from.
The oral traditions come from complete collapse of society, rebuild over time, takes forever, and then a re-understanding of what you know to be true about the origin of man and the birth of the universe and why we're here.
Well, so I actually, when I was in my early 20s, I actually went to Egypt to see the megalithic structures there.
And then I went to Turkey to see the Sumerian inscriptions and carvings and what they thought the ancient Sumerian gods were, the Anunnaki, all that.
What's interesting is in Enoch, it actually has reference to the Anunnaki, but a different, I think it's like Anu is like the term, the root term that's used for it.
Well, I will say with all of that going back to if you read Enoch and then follow about the fall of mankind and the angels with, you know, and this is Christian theology, right?
So like angels came down, rebelled against God, interbred with humankind.
That would be, I think, a good starting point for what potentially the Anunnaki were.
It actually talks about this in Enoch about a divine justice.
And so I think, you know, again, going back to what is our job?
You know, how would society function?
You have aspects in like government.
Do you trust your government?
Is government going to follow through and bring accountability?
You know, that's our job at the same sense in that we have to ensure that if we are to truly have an equal and fair society, that you have to have this aspect of justice that has to be carried out.
And I can go back to something that I've found kind of crazy, but the mandatory minimums for child predators are not that high in this country.
And so Congress can actually increase the mandatory minimums.
But there's been a lot of lethargy about that.
And it's like, why would you not want to increase it?
Some people are against the death penalty.
And I always say that it's not my job to play God or to judge people just to help to arrange the meeting.
We're pushing for it, and there's a good group of people that are assigned to it.
I did say recently, so the MLK documents just came out, and we're wrapping up our JFK investigation.
So after we finalize the JFK investigation, we're putting out an official congressional report on our findings, and people can read it and decide for themselves.
Then we have RFK and then MLK.
But I think a lot of the MLK family was actually very concerned that we were going to go into extracurricular.
And that's not the objective of the task force.
It's to specifically expose what the government was doing, if they knew about the potential threats.
And people say, well, why do we care about?
I constantly get, well, we shouldn't care about this.
No, you should, because there has to be a check and balance.
And when you know if the CIA was operating outside the purview of the federal government, if you know that whistleblowers are being punished, if they need to be reformed to the FOIA Act, all this stuff, then we have to be able to put forward legislation to ensure it doesn't happen again.
And what's been very interesting and almost serendipitous about the whole GFK investigation is you have President Trump now in the second term that's released all this information and multiple presidents tried to, but they were worked against by their own secretaries within these agencies and then deep sea actors that try to block the efforts for release.
Now you're seeing kind of a flush of the system and even though information hasn't come out as fast as we would like it to, the fact that they've made these admissions is really good.
But moving forward into how do you prevent this from happening again, it's people really do, like young people especially, because there's so much fatigue for people that have been in office for, you know, and the reason I say like I don't even want to do this for the next 10 years is because everyone, even people I've looked up to, after a certain amount of time, they lose their edge.
And I think that that's because like you're up there, you're taking in a lot of incoming.
It's not a fun job.
Like you're getting attacked, like you're getting beat down.
It's stressful.
But if you can put all your energy in it now and then you can cut ties and pass it on, that's how our founding fathers wanted us to do is like pass the torch, stand up the next generation.
So I'm trying to do a discharge petition now on term limits.
So back in January of my first term, so back in January of 2022, I'm sure you saw there was like this massive speaker's fight about confirming Kevin McCarthy as the Speaker of the House.
And I was part of one of those 20 that said, we're not going to vote for you just yet.
We need to reform the institution and the way that we function because power had been consolidated within the speaker's position so much so that how it's supposed to work is you're supposed to be able to bring a bill forward.
That bill's supposed to come to the floor.
All these policies were being consolidated in one person.
And if you didn't fall in line, you wouldn't get committee assignments.
You wouldn't be able to fundraise.
They would basically cut off all aspects of fundraising in Washington.
And the mainstream media for a while was like, you guys are disrupting the process.
You guys are fighting.
Well, what the hell do you want Congress to do?
You want us to just fall in line and not argue our principles?
Like that's last time I checked, you're supposed to fight for that.
And so we were able to reform the institution.
But one of the things that we had negotiated with the former speaker was we wanted a vote on term limits.
And that never came up.
And so now because of our very slim majority, one of the most slim majorities in U.S. history, we have the ability to do something called a discharge petition.
And it's where you can physically go down and basically collect signatures on a bill.
And so I'm bringing forward two that have already been filed.
One is going to be to force a vote on term limits.
So I'm going to see if members of Congress will actually put their name to actually bring that bill to the floor.
There's going to be a massive, I hope, pressure campaign to activate members to do that.
And then the other one is banning insider trading.
Well, it's not, you know, there was a comms director meeting for the entire GOP, and I'm calling up Burchett's bill on banning insider trading, and we were not invited to that meeting.
It's crazy how openly corrupt that part of the business is.
But the thing is, once you've become accustomed to be able to do something and you've been able to do it for decades, you're very reluctant to give that up.
But last time I checked, when you are given access to CEOs, when you're given access to information that are affecting markets, and then you're on the committee that has purview over those bills, you do have information like creative.
You know, you can look at people's, you know, they go in, you're making $175 a year, and then all of a sudden you come out, you're worth like $20 million, $200 million.
Like if you were, whether it's this country, a corporation, another country, why wouldn't you automate your system or have AI or even just have actual people that have a job and their job is to type inflammatory whatever it is, insults, whatever it is, like whatever their accomplishment, whatever their goal they're trying to accomplish is.
Why wouldn't you have a group of people that you have at your command if it's legal?
And in politics, what's interesting is they'll test, like, especially when you're running for office, it's kind of interesting because you'll actually, during my first race, I actually had a firm that I was going to for consulting.
And they had someone that had worked at the firm that had also worked with like McDonald's branding.
So like people that are running for office will bring on these terms and then they'll like give them kind of like a branding profile.
What was interesting about that is that you have this aspect of bot activity.
Social media at the time was kind of just resurfacing is if you want to be kind of influential, you have to be able to use social media, share your message, and get that out there.
And I think Trump really kind of refined that and was kind of one of the leading figures in that, especially when Twitter 1.0 was in existence.
But then you had this aspect of people that were running for office and then there was actually a censorship state in this country.
And we found that out that Twitter 1.0 was coordinating with the Department of Homeland Security.
We found this out actually in a congressional hearing where they were actually, and DHS had a division under SISA that was supposed to be monitoring terrorist organizations and they were using it on the American people to censor information, specifically on COVID on January 6th, all that.
That is scary.
You still have censorship issues in places like the EU.
So to think that they wouldn't use social media platforms, especially to influence masses is just that's not a conspiracy theory that happens.
Yeah, but you can get banned from Twitter for a variety of things, particularly during COVID.
But I think code was also a great test case for them to see if there is some sort of catastrophe, some natural disaster, some national security issue where we could now enforce new regulations of censorship.
Well, and scary regulations at that because COVID was really kind of dystopian.
And going back to kind of, you know, I think you'd mentioned foreign government influence using bots.
The one thing that's been interesting is in our investigation, so like taking now my task force hat off and going into actually problems that we see right now happening.
You saw this like massive a couple weeks ago rift that was taking place between the American people specifically on immigration and all of a sudden these like pop-up riots.
I actually call them the Timu riots, like the Timu Chinese app, because it came out via actually this woman, her name's Dada Republican on X, and she actually tracked down the funding line.
And what was happening was the Chinese government was basically propping up this billionaire, American billionaire, Neville Singham.
And actually he was donating money to organizations like Party of Socialism and Liberation.
And they were actually funding a lot of these riot pop-ups in the area.
So you had people that were being used, divided, for example, on the immigration topic.
You literally have them passing out, you know, Mexican flags saying that they cared about immigrants when in actuality, the financial ties is actually coming from the CCP.
So the Chinese government on many occasions, and it's not uncommon within Congress to know, even on apps like TikTok, they were showing certain information in order to cause a rift and influence people.
This same individual, Neville Singham, actually, once we got this information, we sent a request to have him come testify to Congress.
And he spends part of his year in Shanghai, China.
And so we were not able to deliver him his subpoena, basically.
And so there's a letter that Chairman Comer has now authorized to be sent that will go to the Treasury Department to freeze his assets unless he comes to testify to Congress.
And that, mind you, this is not, you know, people, and like, look, I started out before politics with my feet getting wet as an activist.
Like, that's actually how we started out in politics.
So, like, I understand the immigration, the board, I like, I understand all arguments because I've been through it and I've had a debate on debate it.
But what's the problem for me is that you have foreign governments trying to cause a rift and then promote ideologies that will empower people specifically to push forward policy that will actually put us as like second tier as opposed to the Chinese government.
And I do think that the Chinese government in their execution has been very, very specific about how they want to hinder our ability to be global dominators.
And I think when you're looking at what happened in COVID timeframe, right?
So like a lot of people said that Wuhan lab leaked, that that was a conspiracy theory.
We now know that it happened and that was true.
But at the same time, if you look at what President Trump was doing, he was actually trying to negotiate trade with China and he was winning.
And then all of a sudden COVID happened.
Well, what was interesting second time around in Trump 2.0 is that you have all these Timu riots taking place at the same time and it almost got no coverage in the mainstream media, but you had multiple Chinese nationals that were caught trying to release agro-terrorism weapons.
And then at the same time, the tariff war was taking place and then you actually saw them trying to infiltrate.
So I don't think it's by accident, but I do think that it's important to remember that just because you see something happening on the mainstream media, the media will always try to amplify something because it's rage baiting and it's click and its views, which translates to money.
But when you actually look at where the funding stream is coming from, it actually goes back to China.
And this is not the only incident where they try to drive a wedge between Americans and then actually like sexual, like compartmentalize with Hispanic Americans specifically.
So in 2016, now the largest voting minority in the country are Hispanic Americans specifically of Mexican descent.
And I think you can find that stat on pewhispanic.org.
So when you're looking at voting demographics, how could you influence an entire demographic to help skew or influence a midterm election?
And it would be specifically probably on the immigration topic to try to race bait people.
But then you have this aspect of the same guy, Neville Singham.
His wife actually funds an organization called Code Pink.
So this is all Chinese money now going to a separate cause.
And this one specifically is on the Israel versus Palestine issue.
They don't care about Israelis or Palestinians.
This is a Chinese-funded group.
And what they're doing is they're using that front in an effort to then divide on that topic as well.
So it's a multifaceted approach using minority classes in order to actually push the end goal, which would be communism.
And also, too, you can actually look on the flyers for these organizations.
So PSL, Neville Singham is actually an open admirer of Mao Zedong.
I mean, like, it's all up there and it's out there for you to find.
But it's just crazy because most people, you know, you see this aspect of propaganda that's being shown to you and you're not going to be like, who's funding that?
You know, you're going to say like, you know, tell with that person.
I'm going to fight for this.
But that's, they don't actually realize the more nefarious perspective of what's happening behind the scenes.
So I absolutely believe this is true, that I'm sure other countries fund similar things.
But also it was in reaction to some of the ICE raids, right?
I mean, it was a visceral reaction that a lot of people had, the idea of people just showing up and pulling people out of schools and pulling people out of Home Depot and pulling people that were just hardworking people that maybe snuck over here because they didn't have a legal way to get over here.
But since they've been here, they've been good people and they're a part of communities.
And that's what freaks people out because when people thought about ICE, they thought, great, we're going to get rid of the gang members.
They didn't think, great, you're going to get rid of a landscaper.
I actually, yeah, we actually, last year, I was putting out some messaging on them because I'd watched this documentary about the slaughterhouses, how they're actually using migrant children, like 14, 15, in some of these slaughterhouses.
And the lobbyist from Tyson Chicken Corporation contacted my chief of staff at the time and was like trying to basically say like, hey, like basically back off, but like I don't care.
Like it's wrong.
Like I don't care where you're on the spectrum.
You shouldn't allow migrant labor with children specifically because it's child slave labor.
Is one of the top cases that I handle aside from Social Security help and refunds, like within my congressional office.
So a congressional office does constituent services, and it's basically like customer service.
Like, have you been victimized by the federal government?
You know, call this number.
That's your congressional office.
So specifically on immigration cases, like if you've had an issue with the State Department visas, all that, you can contact your local congressman.
And so what I will say is that we've had people that have spent like tens of thousands of dollars to come here, but it takes like 20-something years to do.
And that's part of the problem is there's been such an influx and such a bog down of the actual system that our actual system is not functioning at the capacity that it should to actually help people come here the correct way.
And if you want to immigrate to the United States, the application, one of the things they ask you is, are you an expert in something where people in the United States can't do it?
Like a doctor or maybe you're a musician and like no one else could sing your songs.
Like you, you maybe you could get citizenship from that.
But if you're just a landscaper, you're just a guy who lives in a third world country and you want a better life and you say, I heard you can get across and I heard when you get across you can get work.
Like what is that guy going to do?
That guy doesn't have the money to hire a lawyer.
He's not going to, how is he going to prove that he's more valuable than a United States citizen that's already here doing the exact same job?
I do think that unless we are able to A, assign probably more lawyers, more judges to actually hear these cases, it's going to continue to be a problem.
And I have heard, okay, on the floor, these are conversations between members that to a certain extent, especially when you're talking about, you know, like an e-verify system within the ag industry, that actually members of that committee don't want that because they know that the farmers are actually heavily relying on some of these illegals to work at the city.
Well, yeah, because you don't have the decrease in wages.
However, I think the bigger problem that we have here, though, is that, at least specifically in my district, and then also to having argued this, is that this gray area that's been created, in my opinion, they don't want a solution for.
They do it intentionally with the understanding that both sides are going to fundraise off of it.
In my opinion, if I was to be able to actually fix this, I would say that you have to, I would say, pause, let the system run through, take everyone in, vet them, make sure that they're not criminals, et cetera.
But then the system allows time for it to actually catch up to itself and then you can continue as is.
We need to, I think AI can be used in good senses.
Like I can, and I ask Grock things a lot and I will argue points.
But I think we need to work alongside it because there's this aspect of AI that removes the humanity.
Like I don't think you can teach AI empathy.
And there's a certain aspect of humanity that needs to be kept involved in these decision-making processes.
For example, if you have a drone that's been targeted to, let's say, eliminate a terrorist at this grid location and it's functioning solely on AI, well, what's going to enable it to be able to pause on destruction of a location if there's children within it?
No, I think you can have an AI decision-making process, but where there's a human involved in that step process.
So, like, the human would be the final step in authority.
So, the AI would rank it.
And, like, granted, I'm not an AI programmer, but I am saying that I think that there's an interface where you can have humans involved in the final step.
I agree with that, but I also think that even though we probably have the best military contractors, we also get infiltrated by the Chinese government and the Russian government all the time.
The one thing that's been interesting is, and a lot of people aren't talking about it, there's one representative member, Republican from California that's addressing it.
But when they have surrogates have children here for U.S. citizenship, but then they take them back and fully integrate them and educate them in China.
And so technically they're U.S. citizens, but they are being totally raised with the ideology and perspective of the Chinese government.
Oh, that has been, and I get, you know, I love our libertarian brothers, okay, and sisters.
But I have gotten into so many debates on this because they're like, well, you know, we shouldn't limit an American's ability to actually sell their property.
And I'm like, yeah, but the Chinese government literally wants to eliminate the West as we know it.
And so we have to be cognizant of that.
And also, too, by the way, it's not like you're just buying a military installation.
You think that they're not actually putting tech and or observing, monitoring, pulling all of our resources.
And a lot of the tech that they actually sell here, whether it's to our law enforcement, so like anytime you have specifically, I would say like within even our craning and like our actual shipping operations, those things are sending signals back home.
And I think that that's where you're seeing this aspect of people that are very like, if you talk about, and I'm not like an isolationist by any means, but like I do believe that we should have, especially with COVID, everyone saw this.
We should have certain things that are just manufactured here.
I think tech is extremely important.
I think Palmer Lucky is doing like laptops or something now.
And the United States are trying to actually move that over.
I bet he's thinking about it because he's in some sort of a dispute right now with Apple because Apple won't.
There's something about the way Grok AI shows up, and he's saying that their algorithm is essentially rigged where open AI is like Grok AI is never featured.
Well, it's still freaky, though, then you have these phones that are considered actual safe phones that aren't ripping your data and basically turning on every 10 minutes to kind of be able to target you for sales, whatever it might be.
I can tell you that, you know, given my job and some of this stuff, I am totally freaked out by having an iPhone, and I look forward to the day where I don't have to have a phone.
So there's multiple different OSs that people use outside of the Google, but you can only use it on Android phones, and a lot of people use it on pixel phones.
You can actually buy them.
What is that guy's name?
The Asian gentleman who has that Rob Braxton.
He sells them.
And he is like a security advocate.
He's always talking to you about how insecure all of your technology is and explaining why they added this and what this means now and where your data is going and how they can track you.
It's made me – So he sells de-googled iPhones.
Oh, he's a response to Joe Rogan.
Joe Rogan is wondering what I'm hiding.
Five years ago, I was fucking around.
I was just saying, what's that guy hiding?
He's scared.
So this guy's been at this forever, right?
So five years ago, we were talking about him and he was making these phones five years ago.
And that's because if you're giving up something to come here, it means that you're doing it for the right reasons.
If you have nothing to gain from this position and this is the only thing you've ever wanted to be, you're usually not the best person for that job.
And I say that because you are then only going to do what it takes to get reelected, which means that you are willing to compromise your principles.
Because there will be decisions that you have to take where you're going to have to stand firm on your principles and be like, I can't vote for that.
And there's massive pressure campaigns.
Like when a certain bill comes up, if I'm voting against it, you have planted stories in the press.
You have super PACs that will come in and drop text messages in your district to your constituents saying that, did you know that Representative so-and-so voted against this?
And so you have to be able to be like, all right, I'm just going to just disconnect.
And at a certain point, you do have to do that because then you're just, you'll go crazy.
So I actually was on oversight with all this people, except for Federman.
And what I'll tell you is that oversight tends to bring out the characters for sure.
And what I will say is that actually I have been able to on certain things, like with AOC, I introduced a piece of legislation.
So there was a partner bill in the Senate with Bernie Sanders and I think Josh Hawley to cap credit card interest at 10%.
And then we started getting, I started getting a lot of heat for it because people are like, you can't do that.
And I was like, well, most of these banks that we're talking about are actually taking government bailouts.
So if you're taking a government bailout and you're essentially operating off the goodwill of the federal government, then you should be held a standard.
Because then you have like predatory lending.
And what ends up happening is some of these people will take out a you know credit or max out their credit cards and then for the rest of their life they're paying back the debt.
And then also there's something that we've been able to introduce.
So this is like the more populist representation where you see both the right and the left kind of agree on certain things.
And there's another bill that I'm introducing with another Democrat and another Republican that's a more moderate Republican, but it's actually to cap student loan interest at 2.5%.
It's if for people that are actually trying to better themselves that might have to take out loans for that, it's crippling and then they actually can't get a good start at being contributing members of society because they're always in the debt.
But I ended up actually going to Venice High School one of these times.
And that was around my junior year.
And what the LA Unified School District was doing at the time is they were actually bussing in kids from other parts of LA County.
And at the time, specifically in the early 2000s, there was a big issue with the black and Chicano gangs in LA.
And so, you know, what was happening outside in the neighborhoods was carrying on into the school districts.
And when you have gang activity and like kids, the only opportunity that they have is like being able to join a gang and that's it.
You know, they're never going to go to college.
They're never going to have the opportunity.
And so that carries on into the education system.
They're never given a chance.
And so I think in Florida, we've been doing it right with school choice.
President Trump's been pretty big on that.
But being able to give students or their parents the ability to send them to good schools without gang activity outside of their zip code, that matters.
Honestly, so like seeing all that, though, like being able to see that and then kind of tell that story, like I do think that there's power in that because there's people that go through that and like think like, man, I might not be able to like be successful.
But that's not true.
You can always fight your way out of it.
I joined the military at 19.
Best thing I ever did.
And I met a lot of other people in the military who like grew up in inner city Chicago or wherever it was.
They're able to go back and help their family.
And like to my mom's credit, my mom also has like an incredible story, but she had me at 20 years old, seeing a mom.
My dad ended up eventually getting clean, but my husband and I moved him in with us and then he got sober.
And so that story in itself, I think, you know, you tell your story and it empowers other people, especially to be fighters and not just give up.
But it's also great for someone to hear a story like yours or someone who came out of a similar childhood maybe that they're having or maybe even worse than they're having.
And it's powerful, I think, to an idea that would like to box certain people, whether like you're a woman or you're Hispanic, into this stereotype on like how you should believe and think and vote.
So like, remember, I told you, I started out as an activist, and I would tell people this because, you know, I do feel like, too, at a certain sense, when you tell your story, you can share that.
You're empowering other people to take something and turn it into a positive.
And within maybe a couple weeks of me getting elected, I all of a sudden started having this Washington Post reporter reaching out to my family and actually asked my mom whether she had proof that my grandmother had actually passed away HIV positive.
And also, too, if I were on the other side, I'd probably be like a rock star.
So long story short, so this article comes out.
Time magazine investigates after doing like 20-something hours on background.
I gave them all the evidence and they actually ended up writing an article on me called The Influencer That Came to Congress and then named me as Time Magazine's next 100 most influential in the world.
You know, I know that it's always going to be a part of politics, but it's so disappointing as an enlightened culture that we don't disavow that kind of reporting.
And recognize from both sides how detrimental it is to finding out what's real and what's true.
And so like I think most people are going to know why they did it.
It's pretty obvious, but it's just bizarre that we allow it as long as it's from our side.
You know, progressives will allow the most devious behaviors from their side.
Republicans are the same thing, the most devious shit, as long as it's beneficial to their side.
That's what's really stupid.
And we need to disavow that.
You could disagree with someone, don't think they're the right person for the job, vote against them.
That's all great.
But when you start deceiving people with false depictions of who a person is and making up a bunch of stupid shit and calling into question how Hispanic they are.
You don't have to be fighting if you believe what you believe and you have a rational argument.
You can have a conversation.
And this seems to be something that people don't want to do anymore for some weird reason.
They want to just stick to what they think, stick to what they believe, and they don't want to hear a rational opposing viewpoint because they're so married to their stupid ideas.
It's a lot interesting how Congress functions when the cameras are off.
And I think people would definitely change their opinion because a lot of people will do it for clicks, ratings, and social media has not helped with that because people are looking for what can go viral next.
There's like this viral theory that people, you know, they think that they could only be successful on their policy or their argument, whether it's committee hearings or whatever.
They want that clip that they can post and then get notoriety for.
So social media has been both a blessing and a curse in this social media sphere or in the political sphere because you can get your information out directly to the American people using it and refute bad information.
But then there's also this aspect of like, I wish people could see the conversations that take place behind the scenes because it wouldn't be so inflammatory, basically is what I'm saying.
So when I first started out in politics, I started out as so I joined the military at 19.
I paid my way through college.
I wanted to be a doctor.
So I got into a med school program at SU and Grenada and I was supposed to go to that.
And then I kid you not, like the day before I was supposed to leave, I got recruited to work for a nonprofit to basically help lead out Hispanic activism nationally.
And I thought that's how I could make a difference.
And then I realized that as part of that job, they were putting me on television.
I had a booker.
And so I was talking about stuff happening, but it was more the commentary on inflammatory things.
I actually wanted to address what was happening with human trafficking.
And I actually requested the State Department's report.
I was a big activist with that.
I was working with the nonprofit at the time.
And I realized that they only wanted me to talk about what was getting them the ratings.
And so I did realize, I was like, well, they keep, though, talking about what people in D.C. are doing.
So if I want to change the discussion, I have to go to Washington to do it.
I was like, well, from what I gather, everyone's like a team effort.
And it's totally true.
If your spouse isn't on board, good luck because politics is nasty.
And so he ended up basically figuring it out with me.
And for someone like me, there's no how-to manual on how to run from office.
It's usually family, like literally family affairs where like people, like their parents did it, or they have like a direct immediate tie to it.
So I figured it out.
And now that I'm in office, I'm realizing that I can make an influence impact to an extent with some influence, but it would be a lot more helpful if there were 10 other of me.
And so when I'm done in office, I'm going to help recruit younger candidates that have the ideological perspective that I do to run them.
And then I'm going to help do things for them behind the scenes to help get them in.
It's also a mess because the people that have been in positions of power for so long are so set in their ways and are so deeply ingrained in the system.
And all the tentacles of all these different special interests and all the money that's all connected to all these decisions is so unit's.
I don't know if it's possible to unwind all that stuff.
And so, right now, we have an interesting time period because we have divisions.
So, like, going back to kind of the declassification efforts that we've been working on, for the first time in U.S. history, you have an aspect of the government that's being transparent and releasing information.
And, like, we're helping wherever we can on that.
But that is only possible because the right people with the right mindset were appointed in those agencies to be able to try to force the system to do something.
But there's this aspect of that's just the executive branch, but you have the legislative branch.
And the legislative branch needs younger people that want to do this because they truly believe in fixing the system.
And you cannot be a pessimist in this job or else you will go crazy.