March 31, 2026 - The Lindell Report - Mike Lindell
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The Mike Lindell Show - March 31st, 2026
Heather Mullins reports on Secretary Pete Hegseth's Pentagon briefing declaring the war imminent end and urging European oil independence, while Kara Kastranova details Air Force captains bombing Tehran after surviving friendly fire. The segment covers Holy Week access disputes in Jerusalem and debates Judeo-Christian values amidst military conflicts. Garland Favarito debunks election fraud claims, exposing how lobbyists Lewis Massey and John Watson hijacked Georgia bills to authorize new voting machines despite security flaws like plain-text encryption keys. Ultimately, the episode highlights ongoing legal battles against the Election Assistance Commission and Fulton County, emphasizing civil liability for certifying non-compliant systems over immediate criminal charges. [Automatically generated summary]
Heather Mullins here, guest hosting for Michael and Dell today.
As many of you know, there was a Department of War briefing this morning at the Pentagon.
I was not there to cover it, but fortunately, our very own Kara Kastranova, our White House correspondent, was able to step in.
So she's going to join us now, and we're going to unpack that briefing.
Heather, how are you?
Good, good.
So you were at the briefing this morning.
And, you know, tell us about what the main takeaway was during this morning's briefing.
The main takeaway was that the Secretary of War said that's to President Trump's war ends.
The next couple of days were critical.
He encouraged European nations to take back their own oil similar to the way the president did with a social person post earlier today.
Coincidentally, here at the White House, President Trump just ended a Oval Office later.
He's signing an executive order.
I don't know if it has anything to do with Iran or not, but he will be taking to the media.
Maybe more clarification.
Secretary Headset didn't really have any news on when the war they're expecting or anything like that.
A really update saying up to the president and the next couple of days.
Critical and again, encouraging the European nations oil needed to Harmuz.
There was a couple of highlights.
I pulled there a sound where the Secretary talked about his with the troops from Operation Epic Fury.
He was over there and surprised the troops he saw with some other people from the Department of War.
Take a look at Pete Hagsoft here today.
Well, over the weekend, I had the opportunity to visit our troops fighting in Operation Epic Fury.
We were in the ground or on the ground, excuse me, in CETCOM on Saturday for about half the day.
For reasons of operational security, so those troops are not targeted.
The places and bases will not be named.
Suffice it to say, the trip was an honor.
I had a chance to bear witness, and I witnessed the best of America.
I witnessed warriors, a brotherhood of men and women, warriors all, active duty, guard, and reserve, united in their love for each other, their shared purpose, and their commitment to the mission.
He went on to say that he's some military member that were, and some of the, I guess, some people in Iran that were asking for more bombs, really didn't finish the deal like in the last press conference.
but that were quote unquote begging for more bombs, which was an immediate statement.
The secretary also said if Iran is wise, they will cut a deal.
And that President Trump doesn't bluff and not back down.
You could ask the former Supreme Leader about that, who's now not with us.
Listen to Pete again from earlier.
But if Iran is wise, they will cut a deal.
President Trump doesn't bluff and he does not back down.
You can ask Khomeini about that.
The new Iranian regime should know that by now.
This new regime, because regime change has occurred, should be wiser than the last.
President Trump will make a deal.
He is willing.
And the terms of the deal are known to them.
If Iran is not willing, then the United States War Department will continue with even more intensity.
Yeah, there's been a lot of questions.
People ask me when is this going to come?
I was just going to say, there's a lot of people asking, just sort of like, when is this going to come to an end?
Was there any sort of explanation from him timeline-wise on maybe when we might see the situation in Iran drop up?
Not really.
He more or less at the next few days critical.
Nobody really actually posed a question today.
If re serves correctly, there was no war would come into it.
It was mostly just an update.
Secretary War, like I said, described the majority of his when he came out, his meetings with troops over there that had been sent over to Iran.
That was really it.
It took like four questions.
There was another clip, I asked one quickly, then we'll talk about what was addressed, I guess, the briefing.
He talked about Al Cooper noting that morning, three captains were down by Kuwaiti from fire early in the fight, never left theater.
Let's just take a listen to this last clip that we'll talk more.
In fact, Admiral Cooper noted this morning that the three Air Force captains shot down by Kuwaiti-friendly fire early in the fight, weeks ago.
They never left the theater.
All dropped bombs over Tehran last night.
Oh, wow.
So that was what Hag said earlier today.
So that was the last I pulled besides just a one we could look at a little bit later.
Just to summarize today's briefing, which was rather short, I'd say it was about 20 minutes long, Not many questions.
One of the questions that I guess was the most inquisitive you could say was when a reporter asked about what is your message to the base uncomfortable with the ground.
And we could play that shortly, but that's more or less that it don't understand why they understand why this is important.
And he went on to talk a little bit about ground, really not clear.
The role, men and women that are there now, the quote boots on the ground, the people that have been the, the soldiers have been deployed, what they're doing there really, what function they're serving?
Were there, if it's a you know, are they operating computers?
Are they literally uh, on the ground in missions?
It's really clear, and he sort of uh alluded to why, why tell you that?
You know, we want that threat to air they, we want them to know what we're doing, what we can do, how many boots on we're going to send, really not going to give that much information, because then therefore we're the enemy, that information and more or less that type of animal we'll play.
Thatly, but and he did not timeline of how long the war would last, nobody asked about.
He really just committing to any mandate or just emphasized missions on the ground and not a timeline.
Also really didn't commit an answer to uh boots on the ground question.
So uh, the messaging was essentially uh, the conflict news, as long as necessary, based on strategic objectives uh, for more or less, which is uh, what he knew.
Maybe president Trump uh, today again opened the Oval Off at five o'clock to refers to press poll reporters.
We'll get answers from president usually sort of opens of warms and then uh, Heg Seth sort of fills it in, really not into the president, sort of makes an announcement that the department is really willing to speak out.
What is going on?
A lot of questions, I guess, left sort of unanswered from this thing.
Uh, you know, guess who?
Certainly uh, you know it is for and don't want your enemies know everything.
But uh still, the press uh, kind of not leaving anything with much more than when they came there.
So I think we do.
We have one more thought here from um, like the boots on the ground, one I think I think we do.
This one was do.
Yeah, that's the point that I pulled the question.
I guess go ahead and play that.
As far as president Trump and boots on the ground uh, I don't understand why the base, which they have already, they understand, wouldn't have faith in his ability to execute on this.
Look at his track record of pursuing peace through strength, America first outcomes.
Uh, what he's simply saying, and it's exactly true, and i've said from this podium too, we're not going to foreclose any option.
You can't fight and win a war if you tell your adversary what you are willing to do or what you are not willing to do to include boots on the ground.
The end, our adversary right now thinks there are 15 different ways.
We could come at them with boots on the ground and guess what there are.
So if we needed to, we could execute those options on behalf of the president, United States and this Department.
Uh, so that was Hegseth's answer to the question.
Like I mentioned earlier, it was journalists asking if uh what, what was the administration's response to people who support the president generally but are not comfortable with quote-unquote boots on the ground?
And that was his response to that.
He sort of pivoted and talked about boots on the ground, not really.
Uh, what is the administration's response, except for saying that he doesn't understand why they don't have faith in president Trump?
So that was the answer.
Uh, from from Pete Hegseth, like I. Like I mentioned um, but we actually Put real quick on the screen for everybody.
We have a tweet that just happened right before this show.
Joe Kent, the former director of the National Counterterrorism Center that had resigned from the Trump administration over the Iran war, put out this tweet saying, Winding down the war is the right call, but for any peace agreement or exit plan to work, we must restrain Israel first.
Israel will thwart any peace deal or come back to us in a few months demanding more support to topple the Ayatolas in the IRGC unless we restrain them now.
I did manage to get a question into him and I said, How do you propose that we restrain them?
And his suggestion was to take away the military aid that we give them that allows them to go on the offensive, only provide what they need for defense.
If they go on the offense in a way that harms our negotiations or peace deal, we take away more military aid.
So I feel like that's a reasonable way to handle the situation.
And Israel did, in fact, go and strike recently.
If you remember, just a couple of weeks ago, I believe it was an Iranian gas field without notifying the United States.
President Trump had put out a tweet trying to manage the chaos that ensued afterwards because Iran had then struck Qatar.
And so there is sort of this issue right now with the U.S. working with Israel and Israel sort of having their own objectives as an independent nation.
We have our objectives as an independent nation, and those don't always align.
So for Joe Kent, you know, to put out that if we're going to have these negotiations, we have to make sure that Israel is also willing to be a team player in them.
Right.
So, yeah, I know I saw that that Joe Kent responded to you.
So, congratulations on that.
And it makes sense.
I mean, you know, a lot of questions, I guess, we have for Pete Hegsek, but Joe Kent is very much responsive, I think, in giving a lot of people a lot of insight to the inner workings of this war, which is certainly appreciated.
He was obviously one of the main people in intelligence here in the government and I think has some knowledge, if not a lot of knowledge, about really what's going on right now in the Middle East, as so many people, I think, in the world and the United States are really just trying to grapple with and understand exactly what is going on, what the ramifications of all of this means for the United States and for the rest of the world, Heather.
Yeah, and we also have another issue that I really wanted to bring you, you know, it sort of ties into the whole Iran-Israel situation.
You know, this is Holy Week, right?
And we had Palm Sunday this past Sunday, and there was a, was it, you're a Catholic, so this impacted you directly as a Catholic.
Can you explain to us exactly what happened on Sunday for those of us that, you know, maybe aren't fully aware of the ramifications?
Well, the Archbishop Pizza Bola, which is a crazy cool name, over there in Jerusalem, was denied entry to one of the holiest churches, Catholic churches there.
And I believe in the end, he did gain entry because there was just so much blowback, but it was such a holy day, obviously, Palm Sunday.
And the week leading up to Easter is such a holy week for all Christians, for Catholics, especially.
And this has never happened before historically.
So it's concerning, something very concerning that a lot of people were speaking out, Christians and Catholics alike, and even people that aren't Christians, saying that this is unprecedented for Israel to be taking control of these Catholic holy sites and these, you know, these traditions that really stopping these traditions that have happened since likely the beginning of time or at least since Christ.
Judeo Christian Faiths00:12:46
And, you know, this was a question that was actually addressed yesterday in the briefing here at the White House with Carolyn Levitt.
And I have her response in front of me, or at least a summary of it.
During the press briefing yesterday, Carolyn Levitt confirmed that the United States communicated with Israel after Israeli police prevented Cardinal Pier Batasta Pizzabola, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem and Father Francesco Lelpo. from entering the church of the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday.
She said, I did speak with Secretary Marco Rubio this morning and we did express our concerns with Israel with respect to those holy sites being shut down.
She said, we want worshipers to be able to access those holy sites.
Of course, but we understand Israel is working on those security measures to reopen the sites throughout the Holy Week.
And that's something that we are appreciative of.
That's what Carolyn Levitt, that is her quote from yesterday's briefing when that was addressed.
I don't believe a journalist or possibly a journalist brought up, she might have brought it up on her own accord.
A journalist did bring up, interestingly, the Pope saying what is the administration's response to Pope Leo coming out and saying that it was sort of not cool in the church's eyes for Secretary Hegset to invoke the name of God when he's talking about war.
I believe we have the response.
If we do, I would like to play that, please.
Please play that response by Carolyn Levitt yesterday.
Pope Leo said yesterday, and I quote him, God does not listen to the prayer of those who wage war.
Can you comment on that?
I think our nation was a nation founded 250 years ago almost on Judeo-Christian values.
And we've seen presidents, we've seen the leaders of the Department of War, and we've seen our troops go to prayer during the most turbulent times in our nation's history.
And I don't think there's anything wrong with our military leaders or with the president calling on the American people to pray for our service members and those who are serving our country overseas.
In fact, I think it's a very noble thing to do.
And if you talk to many service members, they will tell you they appreciate the prayers and support from the commander-in-chief and from his cabinet.
Interesting.
I want to get your opinion here.
What exactly is the term Judeo-Christian values, right?
Like, because I've heard it a lot in the political space and some people sort of take issue with the Judeo portion of it, right?
So where does that term exactly come from?
It's always so, I think it goes back in time, but a lot of people, it's trending right now, as you know, on X, which is the literal, you know, it's the square, the public square right now.
You read comments, people are saying that Judaism, Christian, although they come from the same roots, really that the similarities end there because in order to obviously call yourself a Christian, you have to believe in the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that died on the cross for our sins.
And that is something that Jewish people do not believe.
So when you say Judeo Christian values, a lot of people, commentators on X and members of the public think that that's sort of a paradox.
It doesn't really make sense because to be Christian means you've rejected Judaism for the most part.
Yeah, so the Judeo is like, the roots come from, obviously, the Jewish Bible.
Judeo-Christian, the First Testament, the Old Testament is all about the kings and all about Genesis and how, you know, and Abraham and I guess the patriarchs of the religion.
But once Jesus came, a lot of the laws of the Jewish religion, according to Christianity, have been erased.
Like there's no more animal sacrifices.
There's no more Messiah to come besides Jesus.
There's just, you know, everything changed with the New Testament.
So a lot of people, the issue they have with the word Judeo-Christian values is that the two just aren't in alignment because literally Christians believe that when Jesus came, that literally erased or just completely, it became what became null and void was the covenant that God had with the Jewish people was that they were the chosen people.
And the new covenant is that anybody that believes in Jesus Christ become the chosen people.
So it's just such a big difference.
And it's so, it's just such a big difference to say Judeo-Christian values to a lot of people just doesn't make sense because of the big difference between the two religions and just how it's just completely split.
So I think that's the issue.
And there, you know, of course, there are a lot of interesting comments online under even the post that Carolyn Levitt that we just played for Carolyn Levitt, people disputing these things.
So it is a conversation.
And you could say that I think that in the universal mind right now, in the public square of discourse, a lot of people are really starting to analyze what is Christianity?
What does it mean to be a Christian?
What is quote-unquote Judeo-Christianity?
What are the three monolithic religions?
I guess Islam is also included in that because everybody believes in one, you know, one God.
And, you know, there are obviously a lot of similarities, believe it or not, with Christianity and the Muslim religion.
Some say maybe even more so than the Jewish religion because Muslims actually really, Jesus to them is a prophet.
I was surprised to read that Muslim people, I know we're going to go off a little topic a little bit here, actually believe that when you die, Jesus Christ meets you in the sky, that he meets you in the sky and takes you to heaven.
So they believe that they honor Jesus.
And also, interesting, is there's a book of Mary in the Quran where it literally tells the nativity scene almost verbatim, the birth of Jesus through Mary in the Quran.
Obviously, there's differences between the Quran, massive differences, and the Christian Bible.
But I was surprised to know that there's Mary's in the Bible, John the Baptist is in the Bible, Elizabeth, Mary's cousin, and all of these things almost verbatim what we read in the New Testament, in the Quran.
So there's so many similarities between the three religions, but obviously you could only be a believer in one.
You got to pick the one that you're a believer in, whatever is true to your heart.
So I think saying Judeo-Christian values obviously has become controversial, as probably saying Judeo-Christian Muslim values would be also likely to be controversial as well, Heather.
Yeah, it's interesting.
But it's Holy Week.
So I feel like if we're ever going to have these conversations, we should do it this week, right?
Because, you know, there is sort of a resurgence and like, I guess, like a spiritual awakening in America, certainly over the last like, you know, five to ten years.
But I definitely think in the aftermath of what happened to Charlie Kirk, I know my church in particular saw a tendency skyrocket because people were just, you know, when you see such an act of evil, I think it moves people to want to search for good in the world.
And for whatever reason, they turn toward God and they turn toward the church.
And so these kinds of conversations, I think, are only going to become more frequent as, you know, people navigate this sort of spiritual revival that's happening in America.
You know, but I guess I'll just give you some, you know, final thoughts here.
You know, the takeaway on just, you know, what can we expect?
I guess even in the Middle East leading up to Easter Sunday, is, you know, are we given assurance now that all the holy sites out there, at least until Sunday, are going to be adequately protected?
That was the best Carolyn Levitt could say.
I mean, we could try to reach out to the White House for more comment, but she, like I said, that's what she said that she was working with Secretary Rubio.
I know that Mike Huckabee, the ambassador to Israel, had made a similar statement as well, saying that he was concerned.
So it just was so optically bad and it exploded, as you know, all over the internet, really.
And so many people reported on it that I think that I predict, and this is just me, that everything should be okay on Easter.
And I'm praying that it is.
I'm praying that obviously it is the most holy day in the Catholic religion and the Christian religion.
It's the day that Jesus rose from the dead, literally.
So, and obviously, Good Friday and so many other, you know, holy days that surround Easter, that there will be able to be access to these sites, that the Archbishop is able to go in there and do what he does best, which is talk to the Christians there in that region.
I'm hopeful.
I think that likely will happen.
I just don't think it'll play well if they're literally locked out on Easter.
It's just so bad optically and just for PR.
So I think that they're cognizant of that.
And hopefully they'll keep those Christians over there safe in Jerusalem.
And we're certainly praying for them.
I think that the whole world is really.
Yeah.
And you know, actually, I wanted to bring up one more thing.
The idea that government, right?
Because this was the argument that was made this past Sunday is that, oh, we're going to do this in the name of safety.
And I just want to remind everyone that during COVID, they said the same thing.
They said, we are going to shut down churches in the name of safety.
And it's, it's funny because, like, the very essence of being a believer means that you walk in faith, you don't walk in fear, right?
Like, you don't cave to the things of the world.
Like, I mean, at any time, we can be called home to heaven.
And that's ultimately at God's discretion of when we are called home, not a missile, not a virus, not a, you know, anything.
It's like when we're called home, we are called home.
And so this idea of government, you know, can use the whole, oh, we're going to keep you safe, therefore you can't go worship at your church.
That is tyranny.
And whether they limit gatherings to 50 or 5, that's still tyranny.
And it's incompatible with having faith.
It's like, right.
Just crazy to see how much the actions.
You need faith more than ever in times like these.
And you need to be out praying and gathering with like-minded people who want to worship alongside you.
And it always, I always remember the phrase that a lot of the people that were really fighting the lockdowns used during COVID, which was the Constitution doesn't have a pandemic clause.
And I guess we could come up with something similar for a situation like this, like the right to worship where God doesn't have a clause that if there's a war, you know, that's when you should be praying the most, obviously.
So I'm in agreement on that.
I was completely against the closure of churches, synagogues, and mosques and all houses of worship for all religions during the COVID lockdowns.
And I remember a specific case that went to the Supreme Court when a synagogue and a Catholic diocese in New York, in my home state of New York, sued, sued New York State because they were not allowed to open or have more than 10 people at a time that were gathering and successfully sued.
And those churches and synagogues were reopened.
But it took a while in the sense that it was more towards the end of the lockdown that this actually happened.
So we did go for a long time in New York without being able to go to church, with having to deal with wearing masks in church or having to only have limited crowds where everybody had to sit like one person in an aisle or in a pew or just do the whole online thing.
Literally, people in New York, from what I remember, literally in Staten Island, people were having secret church ceremonies in their yard where people were gathering in backyards to worship because churches were closed down.
It was just a terrible time.
So obviously, this translates into times now.
And the Middle East is one of the most holy places for three major religions.
So our prayer is that they'll be able to worship.
And, you know, God doesn't have, I don't think, a clause in the Bible where any of these houses of worship could be closed down for any reason whatsoever, in my opinion.
So hopefully this weekend, we're praying that everybody is able to go to church on Palm Sunday in Jerusalem.
I'm sorry, on Easter.
On Easter Sunday.
Thank you so much, Kara, for joining us.
And hopefully we have you back again before Easter.
Maybe we can unpack some more of some faith-based information for our viewers.
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Sure.
That would be great.
Thank you so much, Heather.
Thank you, Kara.
All right.
So that was quite the segment there.
A little bit of an issue with our signal in the beginning.
We apologize for that.
We're going to take a short break, but when we come back, Garland Favarito joins us of Voter GA to give us the latest on what's happening down in Georgia.
We'll be right back.
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Warrant Scope Changes00:15:50
Welcome back, everybody.
Joining me now from the Peach State there in Georgia, Garland Favarito of Voter GA.
Hello, Heather.
Good to be with you.
Good to have you back here, Garland.
I love getting updates from you on all things, Georgia.
And there's a little bit of news that we got to talk about here.
So let's just jump right in.
I have a headline here we're going to put on the screen from the number one lawfare group undermining our election.
We're going to put up a headline from Democracy Docket here.
And the headline says, federal judge helped FBI agent correct flaws in Fulton County's search warrant application.
So basically, what you're looking at here on the screen is the FBI, as you guys know, under the Trump administration, raided the election hub down there in Fulton County.
They secured those ballots.
And now Mark Elias and his team of people undermining the election are like, well, how did they convince a judge to issue that warrant?
And that's what they're on a mission to find out because they just can't, for the life of them, understand how that warrant got issued.
But Garland, you were there this week, I believe, right?
Or was it this week?
There was a hearing.
The DOJ and Fulton County.
Fulton County has sued to try to get the ballots back from the FBI under the Trump administration.
So tell us what happened in that courtroom.
Glad to, Heather.
But before we do that, let's go back to that headline.
I want to tell you what is false in it.
So it claimed that the judge basically helped correct a flaw in the warrant.
There was no flaw in the warrant.
So what they did, the FBI, just out of an abundance of caution, narrowed their search.
They went to the warehouse.
They decided that they only wanted to search the clerk's area because the clerk is the custodian of the election records.
So out of an abundance of caution, they went back to the magistrate judge and narrowed the scope of that warrant.
And then they reissued it back to the Fulton County elections folks and the clerk of the court at the warehouse.
So there was no flaw in the warrant to begin with.
And you can see this if anybody has actually read the affidavit, you can see the exact paragraph that was changed down to around very last paragraph around paragraph 83, where they just simply narrow it, the scope, because they didn't want to have any confusion about what it is, any areas that they did not, were not interested in.
Had they not narrowed it, then you'd have the same people at Democracy Document claiming that their search warrant was too broad and they were callously disregarding the rights of everyone else.
And so it's a no-win situation.
This is more propaganda.
And, you know, the only reason that it halfway succeeds is because people are not attuned enough to do their own research.
So they rely on dumbing down their audience and their listeners and their readers to basically buy anything that they are selling, no matter whether it's true or not.
Yeah, absolutely, Garland.
I want to get that clear.
So there was no flaw.
I'm glad you brought that up because, you know, Democracy Dog, as soon as I saw the headline, I was like, I don't, I hadn't even researched it, but Mark Elias is one of the number one people trying to undermine our elections.
And so when it comes to this raid in Fulton County, it was clear that they were trying to take aim at the warrant, right?
They're trying to discredit the whole operation and they'll misrepresent and spread propaganda because they're upset now that this warrant has taken place.
So they need to craft a narrative to try to make it seem as though it was illegitimate.
And so you beautifully articulated, you know, the real story behind that warrant and how Mark Elias, once again, is full of you-know-what.
So thank you for that explanation, Garland.
Let's get into some more stuff here.
And real quick, if you want to tilt your camera down a little more so people can see you a little better, are you able to tilt your camera down a little more, Garland?
I can, yes, I think so.
That should be better.
Yeah, that's perfect.
Okay.
So let's, yeah, go ahead.
Oh, no, I was going to say that this continued on during the hearing, this attempt to discredit the warrant.
And the first thing, I'll just back up to the beginning.
The Fulton County, by the way, I didn't even see Mark Elias there.
So they were represented by Abby Lowell for the most part.
But the first thing you have to do in this case, when they sued, as you said, to get back the ballots, they have to establish that they even have standing.
You know, there's a lot of claims.
The first one is they have to have standing.
So the five petitioners who are on this for Fulton County are three of them are government agencies, and the other two are individuals acting in their official capacities.
That would be Chairman Rob Pitts and clerk of the court, Shay Alexander.
So the first problem is they are claiming that there are constitutional rights violations.
And yet, even Abby Lowell was unable to cite a single precedent where constitutional rights apply to a government agency or a government official acting in their official capacity.
Constitutional rights are reserved for U.S. citizens like you and me, not for government agencies or government officials.
So the first hurdle that was never really addressed in the court yet is do these Fulton County petitioners even have standing to begin with?
So that is that's still an open question that the court really has not answered.
Then the next question would be, Can they even make the standing, the criminal, what we call the substantive criminal procedure criteria that they would have to meet is a four-part criteria, which they would have to meet all four parts, and they don't really meet any of them.
I'll explain a little bit about that.
But then, so for the court case, it all circled around the question of whether or not there was callous disregard for their constitutional rights, whether the FBI in creating this search basically disregarded the constitutional rights of the plaintiffs.
Well, as I mentioned before, they don't really have constitutional rights.
They haven't established that yet.
But let's assume that they did.
So then they get into this whole issue where they are trying to, as you said, Heather, discredit the warrant and saying that, oh, there was a callous disregard on part of the FBI.
So just to be clear, and I want everybody at home to know, the FBI cited five areas of probable cause, not one area, which could be in question, but they cited five areas of probable cause.
They then got a magistrate judge to issue the search warrant, which is proper procedure.
And then, as I mentioned, in abundance of caution, they went back and narrowed the search just to the area of that big warehouse that they wanted to search, 660,000, out of deference to all the other Fulton County officials in other areas that have other spots of the warehouse.
So they narrowed that scope down.
And then they didn't break into the warehouse.
They just served the warrant normally and they didn't harm anyone.
So clearly, it was not callous disregard for their rights.
But yet we spent most of the day talking about that subject.
And they were attempting to discredit the warrant in front of about a dozen news media types who were there, all sharks chopping at the bit, trying to find some way to discredit the FBI, the DOJ, and particularly the president, because that's where it really all goes.
That's so funny, Garland, because I vividly remember sitting in on your case to unseal the Fulton County ballots in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election when you filed that lawsuit with all those affidavits.
And I was the only reporter in the room that cared about what was going on in that case.
So it's funny that now that Mark Elias is in there and they're trying to do political theater, right, to debunk the raid, you have all of these media chomping at the bit, as you say, you know, like that want to tell the story that isn't even a story, essentially, right?
Like that's that is very telling.
And I really want people to understand this at home.
Garland had a judge order the unsealing of those ballots in Fulton County and nobody covered it except for, I think I was the only journalist there, maybe one other like written journalist or something, but they're like mainstream media, nowhere to be found.
Mark Elias goes in there and puts on political theater in a courtroom with no standing, essentially.
And every journalist shows up to cover it and regurgitate his propaganda.
This is what we're up against.
The media in their own way is complicit in the cover-up of what is going on down there in Fulton County because they know what's happening, but they're not reporting it.
And they're providing cover for people like Mark Elias and spreading their inaccurate messaging.
And it's just a very important thing to understand.
100%.
Absolutely.
That's exactly what was happening.
Now, here's another funny thing: that in order, besides having to prove standing, having to prove Cal's disregard, they also have to prove that they have a need for the ballots or the election records and that they would be harmed if they didn't get it back.
And here's where it got rather humorous because the DOJ played two videos.
And one was from our case that you just mentioned, Heather, in June of 2024, where the clerk of the court went before the Superior Court in our case, and her attorney asked for permission to destroy the ballots, claiming that they did not have room to keep them.
And that was about three weeks after they had just acquired that new 660,000 square foot warehouse at a tune of about $30 million and another $5 million a year.
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Sorry about that, everybody.
This is quite the week of tech issues here for the Lindell team.
But, you know, Garland's case, when I tell you, I covered that for quite some time, several years.
The Fulton County judge there, Brian Amero, had actually unsealed those ballots.
And I'll just never forget, like, sitting there in the courtroom as a journalist, feeling like this is one of the most important elections in American history.
And you have a judge unsealing, you know, hundreds of thousands of ballots, and there's no journalists in there.
There was no journalists looking around.
It was me going on Steve Bannon's war room and just reporting what was happening with Garland's case.
And it blows my mind because, you know, CNN is headquartered quite literally in Fulton County.
CNN, right, with their international footprint, isn't even covering the court case going on in their backyard where a judge had unsealed ballots, impacting one of the biggest races in American history.
And it can't be understated how complicit the media is in undermining our nation, undermining our elections, and undermining the American people.
Good friend of mine actually referred to a lot of the legacy media as journalistic terrorists because quite literally their aims are to deceive the American people, not to present truth to the American people.
So it's actually pretty crazy hearing from Garland today that in this DOJ hearing that all these media were in there.
It just, it's so infuriating for me as an American because I covered the incredible work Garland has been doing.
And I think he's now back with us.
We got his tech issues figured out.
But Garland, I was just, you know, sort of telling the audience here about how Crazy it was for me as an American to follow the incredible work people like yourself were doing,
to be in those courtrooms and seeing what you guys were exposing and what was coming out, and then to watch the media that I grew up watching during my college years not even touch the story when you had CNN with its international footprint headquartered right there in Fulton County, and yet there you are doing the Lord's work on with our elections, showcasing all of these issues, and they don't touch it.
And it's like, like it just, it was infuriating to see not only what happened, I apologize.
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I have no idea what is going on with the signals these days.
It's probably because it's holy week and when the enemy attacks, it attacks.
There's just so much good content out here that there's too much truth that we're speaking here on Lindell TV and the enemy just can't have it.
So we're gonna see if we can.
Oh, we got Garland back again.
The enemy is not prevailing today, Garland.
I think that was on my end.
Well, I'm gonna have to check that out.
I've got two.
Yeah, it's done it like twice so far, but hopefully not.
But why don't you tell us about some of these election bills that we got coming up here?
Because I heard that there's some good ones.
One that we just got passed, I think we have a graphic here that we can put on the screen.
What is that?
HB 960 passes.
Why don't you tell us what HB 960 is, Garland?
We are in a really unique position this year because we have three bills, all election integrity bills or election bills that have passed both the House and the Senate.
And now they're up for either an agree or a disagree.
This one is, I we thought is a particularly good one.
And I know Mike Lindell would like this one, but this one, House Bill 960, yeah, handmark paper ballots.
It had ballot IDs to help protect fraudulent duplication of ballots.
We did post-certification recounts to ensure that the voting machine results are correct.
And it has timely preparation of the voter list, eligible voters list, and the voters who voted list, so that you can reconcile the number of voters, voters, who the numbers with the numbers of ballots cast, which has been a problem, particularly in Fulton County and also in other states like Pennsylvania.
So that was passed out of the Senate.
We like that bill.
It's now back over in the House.
The House is under control of all three of our bills right now.
That's the good one.
We have another one that is not as good.
That is, in fact, nowhere near as good.
It's Senate Bill 214, which was kind of hijacked.
That was supposed to be our handmarked paper ballot bill as well.
It turned into a new voting machine bill over in the House and it would authorize a new voting system to be purchased, even though that voting system might be proprietary.
It might be remotely accessible.
It may not conform to the U.S. critical infrastructure.
How did we go from a bill intended to be handmarked paper ballots to a bill proposing a new voting machine?
It kind of feels like we did a 180 there.
What happened?
I think it's the lobbyists got a hold of it and the basically the vendors and also some of the election officials say it was too late to go to handmark paper ballots.
We have this QR-coded voting system down here, which we warned Secretary Ravensberger never to buy before he became Secretary of State.
And so he ignored us.
But so now they're saying, well, we don't have time left to change it before November.
So, which is not true.
We're going to use a compromised voting machine because there's no time to switch to handmarked paper ballots.
I mean, like, realistically, how much time does it really take to print?
I mean, this is something like the federal, we should take notes from the Federal Reserve because they seem to have printing down pretty well over there.
Maybe they can print a few ballots instead of money and we'll reduce inflation and make our elections safer.
Yeah, I mean, and just to answer your question, we went from disparate systems in 2002 to this newfangled, unverifiable voting system.
That was the old DRE systems in six months flat.
Nobody knew anything about it.
And we went did it in six months flat.
And now they're trying to claim they can't go from an electronic voting system on another unverifiable system, the QR code of voting, just back to paper.
Just go back to paper.
And they're telling us you can't do that in six months.
It's just, it's absurd.
Yeah, I feel like it would take maybe a week to go back to paper.
I mean, if you can find somebody, you know, I don't know, I could go on and on about this, but who are the lobbyists in particular?
Do you know who the lobbyists were that were trying to move it from the handmarked paper ballots back to the machines?
Well, we don't know what specific lobbyists are providing input to the bill.
But what we do know is that two of the lobbyists for the original direct recording electronic system are now lobbyists for ESNS, which is a competitor of Dominion.
And that would be Lewis Massey and former RNC chair John Watson.
So Massey was responsible for bringing, and Watson to a large degree as well, responsible for bringing the original unverifiable, unauditable system, not recountable system into Georgia, non-transparent.
The old system just reprinted previous unverifiable results in a recount.
So we've got the same cast of characters back again who appear to be, you know, at least could end up profiting from the disenfranchisement of all Georgia voters.
Well, do you think like with the laws that you guys have gotten passed, is Brian Kemp going to Brian Kemp going to sign them?
Has he indicated whether or not he's going to sign them into law?
Well, so generally speaking, when a bill passes or both houses, you know, there is an agreement already made with the governor's office that he will sign it.
And he did sign a lot of good election integrity legislation in 2024.
People thought he would not sign it, but he did.
Although, you know, it wasn't related to machines, but they had a lot of security provisions that we were able to get through in 2024.
So we're hopefully able to get through a lot more in 2026.
Well, why don't, since we only have a few minutes left, I think we have about four minutes left.
Why don't you tell us what is Voter GA working on?
What are some of the lawsuits that you currently have open and filed that we can sort of stay on top of?
Yeah, well, I'm glad you mentioned that because one of our most important lawsuits is a lawsuit now in federal court.
We've sued the Election Assistance Commission to vacate the Dominion certification on the grounds that it was never properly certified in 2019 because it did not meet the guidelines from 2005 that it was allegedly certified under in 2019.
Specifically, it stores encryption keys in clear plain text, which is a violation of those requirements.
And it also uses hard-coded passwords.
I don't know the last time anybody used a hard-coded password, but in your regular everyday life, but that's what this system does.
So under those grounds, it violates standards, which go all the way back to 2001 and even further than back, all the way back to 1985 on the passwords.
So we have sued that.
We're in federal court trying to vacate that.
Ironically, the folks who are representing the EAC is the Department of Justice.
So, and I find this very ironic because the Department of Justice is representing the EAC and we're suing to get them to essentially abide by President Trump's executive order 14248 that he signed in March of 2025 of 2025.
And we're fighting his own Department of Justice.
And, you know, that costs a lot of money and a lot of time.
You know, we're willing to do that if we have to, but that's the irony of some of these things that are going on right now.
So that's one big lawsuit.
We are still, we have basically shifted that Fulton ballot case over to the state election board.
We filed complaints against Fulton County for refusing to fulfill open records requests.
And they're saying that the reason they need the ballots back is to fulfill open records requests, and yet they absolutely refuse to fill mine.
So it's just, it's just so much BS that they're just spewing out there right now.
And I think the courts kind of have to shut them off.
We have one last lawsuit for the voter rolls.
We currently outsource voter registrations to a cloud.
We tried to stop that before it was implemented.
That's another thing that we are trying to do.
And so if you go there on the screen, if everybody watching can go to voterga.org, you can actually go to Garland's website here and support him and learn about the different cases that he has going.
So, you know, Garland, I just want to ask one quick final question to one of the cases you had mentioned earlier regarding the certification of those machines.
Actually, I probably have one minute, but isn't it illegal if they were if someone certified them and by law they were supposed to meet certain standards and someone certified them anyway, just real quick, isn't that a crime?
Well, we're not even to the criminal stage yet.
We're trying to establish that this has civilly happened.
And then the next question, if it happened, then the next question would be, is it a crime?
Wow.
So we're going to have to certainly stay on top of what you're doing.
Well, Garland, thank you so much for joining us today, as always.
Thanks, Hebrew.
Great to be with you again.
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Great to be with you, too.
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