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932: Roundly Debunked

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	He looks like a constipated turtle.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	It's Thursday, May 25th, 2017.
	This is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 9 or 3, 2.
	This is no agenda.
	Cracking jokes in times of anguish and broadcasting live from the darkest corners of the internet here in the capital of the drone star state.
	I'm in the Cludio in downtown Austin Tejas.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, and I can say that was a mouthful, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	Crack, blood, and buzzkill in the morning.
	Hey, in the morning to you.
	Morning to you.
	Hey, starting a little late for everybody on the stream.
	Thank you for your patience.
	Yeah, I guess some people would.
	Well, it might be better for some people.
	It's interesting when I checked in and I started some pre-stream stuff just to keep people entertained.
	You know, people like, oh, wow, 10 minutes late, new record for them.
	Okay, thanks.
	Yeah, so the keeper came back this morning from the hospital.
	Don't you have ways of blocking these people permanently?
	Oh, who gives a crap?
	It's the war room.
	They deal with it themselves.
	Anyway, so Tina's back.
	Everything's well.
	She's recovering fine from her partial thyroidectomy.
	Getting operated on is not fun.
	No, it's to be avoided.
	I've never been in the hospital for anything.
	I was in an outpatient clinic once.
	I had a cyst on my back.
	It had to be cut out.
	Oh!
	Oh, actually, I take it back.
	I had this...
	I had a repeat...
	I had that...
	This is a period...
	I don't know what caused these, but I had a cyst on my back.
	It had to be cut out.
	But then I had a...
	Before that, I had a cyst on my neck on the side, which is very unpleasant to look at.
	Yeah, kind of like Frankenstein.
	That had to be cut out, and it was cut out, and it grew back.
	They didn't get to the roof, you know, whatever it was.
	So I had that cut out twice.
	Yeah.
	And then, which is fine now, and I haven't had one of these things since, and it's just like a...
	Groovy.
	I'm sorry.
	It's like a gob of goo.
	So, Tina's...
	But not in the hospital.
	No.
	But I've been in a lot, with other people I've been in the hospital.
	And you know me, whenever times are like, whenever it's weird or anxious, then I make jokes.
	I'm one of those people.
	I can't help it.
	So, you know, so Tina's being brought in.
	She's completely groggy because, you know, it was like two and a half hour operation.
	And, you know, the nurses are there and everyone's hustling and bustling.
	And she's like, you know, what did the doctor say?
	Because it's very important to know that it was benign and all that stuff.
	And I was like, what did the doctor say?
	Oh, yeah, he also said, you got a rocking body.
	And everyone cracks up.
	And Tina, you know, just had her throat basically operated on.
	Stuff oozing out of the drain.
	Don't make me laugh.
	That's funny.
	Yeah.
	She said you had a rocking body?
	No, the doctor said she had a rocking body.
	Well, that's kind of...
	No, he didn't say that.
	It was a joke, John, obviously.
	Hello.
	Oh, I get it.
	Damn.
	Oh, yoy, yoy.
	So I followed most of the news, but it's been kind of a weird 48 hours.
	And, you know, prepping in the hospital and everywhere else.
	So we'll see how we do today.
	We'll do fine.
	If we need to, I have a long report.
	I also have a lot of stuff from the alternate universe.
	This was a great week for alternate universe stuff.
	It was pretty insane what was going on.
	Because of Manchester?
	Uh...
	No, not because of Manchester.
	Manchester was, yeah, it was kind of a big deal the day it happened, but the quicker everyone got back to Trump's going to quit, he's horrible, now there's new memos, there's new things, there's new everything.
	They just don't stop.
	Well, weirder than that, it seems as if there's almost like a rewriting of history.
	Okay, I want...
	Now, whenever you want to get to the alternate universe, you let me know.
	I'm a little queasy, so I'm not ready for it.
	Well, this is kind of in the alternate universe.
	Do we need the machine?
	Do you want to start going there right off the bat?
	Which is kind of, you know, upsetting to many people, but yeah, sure.
	Come on, let's do it!
	Let's do it!
	We can do it!
	Remember, if you get dizzy, just look at the ground and it'll all go away.
	Hold hands with your neighbor.
	We are traveling into the openers!
	Stand by!
	Stand by!
	Here we go!
	We choose God!
	Fuck you!
	Oh my god!
	Man!
	Trump's gonna quit.
	I gotta get this bet down.
	Hey, that dog is still here.
	Yeah, well the dog is, you know, again, the dog is, the dogs always are in multiple universes.
	If they see us flashing, like, uh, uh, uh, and they know what's going on.
	That's why they bark and we hear them on both sides.
	The Trump quits thing.
	I do have a clip, if you're interested.
	Yeah, start with that.
	But it would require me to play a number of clips, although they're very...
	Oh, no.
	Let's get this one thing out of the way, which is the rewriting of history.
	I like how you say that.
	Ah, no.
	Screw that, Curry.
	Well, you said I have one clip, and then you say, well, it's going to take ten clips to get to the one.
	I never said...
	You misled me.
	I never said ten.
	You misled me.
	Fine.
	What are we playing?
	I want you to tell me about this, because this to me was like a footnote, maybe.
	I don't even remember the details, and I think we followed it as closely as anybody could.
	The emergence of a fake letter, CBS1. We have breaking news tonight.
	Breaking news!
	We have learned that the FBI investigation...
	Whoa, hold on a second.
	They didn't do that right.
	What is wrong?
	Is that Pelley?
	Yeah.
	Is this that wrong, man?
	This is how you do it.
	We got breaking news, everybody!
	Breaking news tonight, we have learned that the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton's emails may have been influenced by a document that turned out to be a fake, possibly from the Russians.
	Here's Juliana Goldman.
	Sources say the FBI obtained the potentially game-changing document in the spring of 2016.
	It cited a purported email saying that then Attorney General Loretta Lynch assured Hillary Clinton's campaign that she wouldn't let the investigation into her private email server get too far.
	The Washington Post reported today that the document was unreliable, possibly a fake product of Russian intelligence, and could have been part of what sources tell CBS News was Moscow's efforts to plant fake news Into the bloodstream of the election to discredit Clinton.
	But before it was discredited, the document reached the highest levels of law enforcement.
	FBI Director James Comey believed that if it got out, it would discredit the investigation.
	So he made the unusual decision to announce himself last July that Clinton would not face charges.
	Our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.
	And Comey decided not to consult with Lynch or anyone at the Department of Justice before his press conference.
	Shortly after, the FBI concluded the intelligence was unreliable.
	Yeah, now, I heard this story as I was driving around in the truck, back and forth, hospital, etc.
	But yeah, this sounded...
	How long ago did this happen?
	Play part two so we can talk about it.
	Again, it doesn't...
	Nothing is brought to light as far as I'm concerned.
	No, zero.
	How and when did you first learn of this document?
	Republican Senator Charles Grassley asked Comey about the document earlier this month.
	What steps did the FBI take to determine whether Attorney General Lynch had actually given assurances that the political fix was in no matter what?
	Did the FBI interview the person who wrote the email?
	If not, why not?
	I have to give you the same answer.
	I can't talk about that in an unclassified setting.
	Classified!
	Kits of Comey say he made the best decision he could with the information he had, but Scott Clinton campaign officials point to that July press conference where he also criticized her handling of classified information as contributing to her loss.
	Classified!
	So it wasn't the misuse and scatterbrained approach to classified documents.
	It wasn't the fact that she screwed Bernie Sanders.
	Now we're going to pin it on this document.
	Where did this document come from?
	It wasn't a WikiLeaks document.
	No, but the thing that I like about it is, because I unfortunately just didn't get a chance to clip some of this, but this document apparently was passed on to George Soros.
	A whole bunch of people had their hands on it, and then Comey got it.
	Apparently doesn't think to call anybody.
	It's either completely bullcrap, but possibly completely real.
	It just depends on the universe.
	Well, it could be one of those things where you take a real document and then you redo it so it looks fake.
	Oh, well, yes.
	I mean, I'm reminded of the George Bush situation that got Dan Rather fired.
	I mean, there's a lot of evidence that that's a genuine document, but it appears that it was redone to look...
	With earmarks of it being a fake, which was the small capital T, or the small TH. Right, so it's really just upside down, just making it look...
	Fake, even though it's a real document.
	Everything fits together this way.
	That is truly Occam's razor.
	It's so easy.
	Comey's in the tank for Hillary, which I didn't expect, but okay.
	He sees this letter.
	I'm like, holy crap.
	And then the meeting and all this stuff.
	And notice how there's very little talk about the plane, the tarmac meeting in conjunction with this memo.
	No, no.
	Let's put this red herring out there.
	And since when?
	It wasn't part of the discussion earlier.
	Now it's going to be used by the leftists.
	Because they need something, John.
	They need something.
	This is a good one.
	This is a life preserver.
	It's a gem.
	I'm going to have to bring you a little deeper into the alternate universe.
	So we'll start with just out of order.
	Don Lemon was on Conan.
	And I don't know if you saw that by any chance.
	Hello?
	The noise gate is so tight, I could barely hear your phone ringing.
	Take it off the hook, man.
	It was off the hook.
	And it rang anyway?
	I'll tell you this story later, because when we get out of the alternate universe, it was off the hook.
	Well, you're in the alternate universe, phones start ringing for no reason.
	Even when they're off the hook, dogs barking, phones ringing.
	So Don Lemon was on Conan, and it seemed like this was the week of news hosts going on talk shows, and we'll have Rachel Maddow later, sadly, but we have to do it.
	So Lemon's on Conan, and we know he's the overnight sensation, but he comes in on a skateboard.
	I'm Don Lemon!
	I'm on a skateboard!
	Wow.
	Actually, I'll play that for you.
	I missed that.
	Let me put this right here.
	Yeah, that's fine.
	You know, that says so much about the world we live in today.
	I have a serious journalist on to talk about our reality show president, and you come out on a skateboard, you know?
	It does seem like the whole world is coming undone.
	It is.
	I mean, why not?
	I mean, it's Donald Trump.
	He was, you know, the apprentice.
	So I figure I can come out on a skateboard.
	I love a skateboard, though.
	So here's a guy who wants to be taken seriously as a news guy.
	He comes on a skateboard, immediately starts talking about fake news and Donald Trump reality star.
	He's the apprentice.
	And so they get into an interview.
	Just bring it up a level.
	Let's try.
	Here we go.
	Wondering where you fall in this theory, what you believe.
	Some people think that Trump doesn't like the job.
	He had a better life before.
	He didn't expect to win.
	He has won now, and that he might be looking for a way out because it's been nothing but headaches.
	What do you think?
	Is that a possibility?
	So this is, of course, the bet, the wager that you still apparently have not entered into.
	Can't seem to get these guys to bite.
	Yeah.
	I mean, maybe you should send them clips of Don Lemon.
	I'm sure they'll respect him.
	I'm thinking of that clip that you had, I want to get from you, the one where they said it's going to happen by December, by Christmas.
	I need that one.
	That's a good clincher.
	I'll send that.
	We'll continue with Don Lemon.
	I'm sure that he is some sort of hero to them.
	That's my theory.
	That is your theory.
	You stole that.
	Yeah, that's my theory.
	Come on.
	Oh, Don Lemon made...
	It's his theory, John.
	Don Lemon is responsible if it happens.
	You hear this?
	No one's ever thought this before Don Lemon.
	What do you think?
	Is that a possibility?
	That's my theory.
	You stole that.
	Yeah, that's my theory.
	Come on.
	Can you imagine?
	You are a billionaire.
	Allegedly.
	We haven't seen the tax returns.
	You're a billionaire.
	A multi-billionaire.
	You live in a tower on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
	You have a beautiful wife.
	You have a plane.
	You have golf courses and houses.
	You can go wherever you want, and you're a free person.
	You can tweet and say whatever you want, criticize everyone, call the other president, you know, not American, born in Africa.
	You can do whatever you want with complete impunity, right?
	Right.
	But then now, you are under investigation, your campaign.
	People may end up going to jail.
	The people are talking about impeachment, although I think we're, you know...
	That seems very premature.
	That's a long way off.
	But imagine that.
	You can't do that.
	I don't think he likes the job.
	I think that he will find a way to get out of it at some point.
	Sure, Don.
	That makes nothing but sense.
	I'm sure.
	I think the one thing we can safely say about Trump is he's not going to quit.
	You will have to drag him out or kill him or whatever sequence.
	So here is Don Lemon, serious journalist, man of color.
	Man of color, I tell you.
	Making fun about another man of color.
	So Don, let's say your dream came true and you were able to interview President Trump.
	That would be a good interview for you.
	What would your question be for him?
	I would want to know what level spray tan is it.
	And listen to the slaves in the background.
	Morons.
	Is it Cheeto Orange?
	Or is it like Orangina or the Orange Crush?
	Yeah.
	Are you that certain?
	Are you chocolate?
	Are you mocha?
	Are you poop?
	What are you, Lemon?
	It's got to be a spray tan.
	Come on.
	He's not in the sun.
	I mean, look.
	Do you go in the sun?
	He's kind of a red.
	I'm not allowed in the sun.
	I don't think he's allowed in the sun either.
	I'm getting moonburned, right?
	You have to be jealous of how orange...
	The guy is a golfing nut.
	He's in the sun too much.
	All the time.
	All the time.
	Oh, he's never in the sun.
	So here's our news analyst.
	This guy doesn't even know that because they've been bitching about it.
	He's golfing all the time.
	He golfed more than Obama golfed, but somehow Don Lemon's never noticed this meme?
	Meme?
	How about fact?
	No, it's a fact.
	But it's also a meme.
	It's a fact.
	That he golfs more than Obama golfs.
	He's never out in the sun.
	It must be fake.
	He's never in the sun.
	Are you that certain that it's got to be a spray tan?
	Come on.
	He's not in the sun.
	I mean, look.
	I'm not allowed in the sun.
	I don't think he's allowed in the sun either.
	I'm getting moonburned.
	Don Lemon jumping on the jokes.
	Yeah, he's not allowed in the sun either.
	He's a vampire.
	You have to be jealous of how...
	Orange or sort of brown?
	I had stupid hair.
	What's that?
	The problem is, like, a lot of these guys, they come on these shows and they want to exchange barbs with a pro.
	Yes.
	So they think they're funny.
	They go on there and they try to do one-liners.
	They try to keep up.
	Yeah, and they suck.
	I mean, they all do it.
	The worst of the case scenario is Brian Williams.
	He thinks he can do stand-up, literally.
	Well, when he's serious, it's the best stand-up with Brian Williams.
	Well, so that's what we got here.
	So Lemon does realize, though, that he is, I don't know if he realizes that he's in an alternate universe.
	What you always want to do is accuse someone else of living in an alternate universe.
	We are, it's been a hundred and how many?
	A hundred and thirty days, maybe?
	A hundred and some change, yeah.
	Okay, a hundred and some change.
	And there's seven stories a day that are breaking.
	How do you keep up with that?
	I call it...
	He doesn't.
	You know what improv is, right?
	Yeah, sure.
	It's like news improv.
	They'll say, okay, today, you know, Donald Trump is at the Western Wall, and he's putting something in the rest, and what is he doing?
	Okay, Donald Trump, there's something about, you know, General Michael Flynn, or Donald Trump called you a dummy, which he did, the dumbest person on television.
	And so it's like...
	He called you the dumbest person on television.
	That's right.
	That offended me because I immediately knew he hasn't seen this show.
	And I was...
	Well, I mean, Colin is just bitter about that.
	In an alternative universe, that means I am the smartest person on television.
	Oh, okay.
	No, that's not how the universe works.
	He's been waiting and waiting to use that line.
	That's why he brought it up.
	Why would you bring it up?
	And it kind of failed.
	It was not a good punchline.
	But he's very proud that the president talks about him, of course.
	And I said that on purpose.
	Okay, now what did that do for you when you realized that he is watching your show?
	Did that affect you in any way?
	Hold on.
	He's watching my show!
	Not really.
	I just kind of make fun of it.
	Because, I mean, it's fun at a cocktail party.
	Cocktail party.
	The president watches it.
	But it doesn't change anything I do.
	Every once in a while I'll look in the camera and say, Hey, Mr.
	President, how you doing?
	Yeah, that's a change.
	Because he claims he doesn't watch.
	People say, I don't watch CNN. I can't watch that Don Lemon.
	He's so mean.
	He just says all this bad stuff about me.
	When did he do this?
	Huh?
	What Lemon is describing?
	When did he do that?
	I've never seen him do that.
	No, he's just making this up.
	He's full of crap.
	Because, I mean, it's fun at a cocktail party if you're on the show, right?
	It's fun.
	I bet he likes cocktails.
	But it doesn't change anything I do.
	Every once in a while, I'll look in the camera and say, hey, Mr.
	President, how you doing?
	Because he claims he doesn't watch.
	He'll say, I don't watch CNN. I can't watch that Don Lemon.
	He's so mean.
	He just says all this.
	He sounds like the poop journalist, doesn't he?
	He sounds like his surfer.
	Bad stuff about me, and I don't watch.
	And then he says, did you see what he said last night?
	It's like...
	Well, apparently, if you don't watch, how do you know?
	Okay, so, oh, we've debunked it.
	The president does watch.
	His proof is proof he watches.
	I'm so cool.
	And then they went into this thing, which has been a topic of conversation the past few days.
	And I want to remind everybody, I'm sure you've seen, I think it's a British comedian who does the best version of it, where he plays song lyrics for the audience, but he tells them up front, This is what the song lyrics are.
	And then he plays the song, the actual song, and then he mouths what he just told you is the lyrics.
	So, for instance, Jimi Hendrix, if I said, excuse me while I kiss this guy, you would hear that while he sings, excuse me while I kiss this guy.
	And it's quite a funny bit.
	And you believe it.
	It's like, oh man, I believe it.
	Didn't we have an example not too long ago on the show of other phrases and how people misinterpret what's being said?
	Yeah, we did a whole bit on that.
	The Jimi Hendrix thing is kind of interesting.
	I just want to mention this because I saw Hendrix quite a few times.
	And the lyric is, excuse me while I kiss the sky.
	Yeah.
	Because he's high.
	But when he performed the song, and I think he did this every time I've seen him do it, he says, excuse me, and then he points at the bass player and says, well, I killed this guy.
	Well, that only accentuates the point.
	But the brain makes that stuff fit.
	It really makes it fit.
	Well, many times on the show, like recently, I thought for sure that Fifi Lagarde had said, why tea?
	But she had said, white tea.
	And that was partially my bias.
	My bias.
	I wanted her to say, why tea?
	Well, because it's a metaphor for heroin.
	But I made a mistake on that.
	So what was going around this week, I think, is a classic example of that.
	And the facebag responses, people should be ashamed of what they're doing with this.
	Amazing footage came out today of Trump getting off Air Force One and putting his hand out to Melania, and she swats it.
	Well, actually, I think we have the footage, but I just want to get your take.
	He puts his hand out and she's like, "Get away from me." It's so interesting because...
	Huh?
	Don't you touch me.
	But it's such a curious thing because you're wondering, I'm wondering, he's going to get obsessed with the fact that people are talking about that video, and he's going to feel the need to respond, isn't he?
	And isn't he going to say, no, she didn't swallow my hand away?
	But I don't know what you say about that moment when it's so clear to all of us who've been in a long relationship what that moment means.
	Now, I looked at this, and you can interpret it any way you want, but for this to be non-stop, and it's interesting when near the end of Obama's term, right-wing Republicans, everyone was saying, oh, Michelle's going to divorce him the minute he's done with being the president.
	And now those people who hated that are saying the same.
	Melania's going to divorce him right after he's out.
	And I'm thinking, wow, what are you saying?
	That she's a gold digger or that she's doing it for status?
	And it's rude.
	It's very rude.
	It's rude.
	One last one from this sequence.
	Don't say it's the fake media and, you know, up there goes my skateboard and they always get it wrong.
	Right, right.
	I'm just looking forward to a crazy, if he has a convoluted explanation for what happened.
	She was saving my life because just then a knife was thrown and she batted it.
	The press took the knife out of the picture.
	They were like, there's going to be some crazy thing.
	She saved my life.
	There was a bug on my hand and she was swatting it away.
	Oh, John Lennon!
	Oh, wow!
	Punchline King!
	God, what a dick.
	So we move away from that.
	I only have two more clips in the alternate universe, but we need to go first to alternate universe dimension B central, which these days, no doubt, is Colbert.
	I thought you'd say the view.
	I thought the view.
	No, Colbert is really where they congregate.
	And this is the intelligentsia of alternate universe B. Yeah, they all come on there to agree.
	They come on to agree.
	But just like Lemon, Rachel Maddow is also just full of herself, full of crap.
	What happened to not being a part of the news story if you're a journalist?
	Do they not see the hypocrisy here of going on news, of going on talk shows?
	Hey man, Gonzo journalism.
	Gonzo journalism's okay.
	Okay.
	It's just dumb.
	It's not good journalism at all.
	But listen to Rachel.
	Okay.
	One of the things that the president is saying right now is that this whole Russia thing, total witch hunt.
	Okay?
	Do you think there's any chance this is going to...
	And she cackles like a witch.
	That was kind of interesting.
	It is.
	Yes, she does.
	Hunt.
	Okay.
	If there's any chance this is going to turn out to be a witch hunt, that there really is no there there, because...
	No there there.
	No there there.
	I called that a long time ago.
	It's still in play.
	There is a whole lot of smoke.
	Well, we actually haven't actually seen the spark of the fire.
	We won't know until we know.
	It's totally...
	Wow!
	Now there's a journalist for you.
	Hey, we won't know until we know.
	Because we don't know.
	Nothing.
	No where, no how.
	Everybody is entitled to the presumption of innocence.
	It's totally possible.
	This is all just a bizarre series of coincidences.
	But we now owe it to ourselves as a country to figure out.
	Because there are too many things...
	That weren't explained ahead of time, that were exposed and only belatedly admitted to.
	Like, just last week, Reuters reported on 18 new previously undisclosed contacts between the Trump campaign and Russian government officials.
	The ones that hadn't talked about it before.
	No!
	Still, we're getting 18 new ones now?
	You guys know there's some interest in this topic, right?
	If you haven't done anything wrong, you kind of have to tell people what really happened.
	They still haven't explained why it took them 18 days to fire or get the resignation from Mike Flynn.
	This is ant-fucking to the highest degree.
	That's the number one thing you got.
	That's the top of mind.
	We still don't know why it took them 18 days.
	You should break it down into hours, minutes, and seconds.
	You know, that would make it even more dramatic.
	I can't believe it took 30 million seconds for them to fire Mike Flynn.
	After the Justice Department came to the White House and said, he's a Russian agent.
	Oh yeah, that's what they said.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Don't you remember?
	She said, he's a Russian agent.
	Unbelievable.
	I mean, not only is it not true, that is propaganda.
	Now you are changing the facts.
	You're trying to be funny, perhaps.
	But are you a serious news person or comedian?
	After the Justice Department came to the White House and said, he's a Russian agent.
	Which is like, 18 days...
	With a side of turkey.
	Now, there's a real comedian, actually.
	That was pretty good.
	And the band hits him.
	And there were so many contacts between the campaign.
	How many contacts, John?
	How many?
	How many contacts?
	Ask John.
	One?
	People close to Trump with people in the Kremlin or people who are close to Vladimir Putin.
	And that stuff just...
	We need to know why there were so many contacts.
	It's possible that it was totally anodyne.
	That it had nothing to do with the Russian attack on the election that was happening at that same time.
	The Russian attack on the election.
	Attack.
	Attack with tanks and missiles.
	It's possible that it had...
	There was nothing nefarious about it at all, but there was a million contacts.
	A million, John.
	A million contacts.
	Wow!
	Not one.
	A million.
	Let's keep going.
	And so, we need to know about that.
	We also need to know if the firing of the FBI director...
	And the other contacts that the president had with the FBI about the investigation were something other than obstruction of justice.
	I mean, what can be the...
	I mean, he's saying he was thinking about Russia when he fired the FBI director who's leading the Russia investigation.
	It's interesting how she says, well, obviously you're innocent until proven guilty, but you really have to prove that you're not guilty.
	It's what I heard.
	You have to explain to us why these millions of contacts took place, because that can only be obstruction.
	You're horrible.
	Well, I'm going to give you a clip of the day, because I actually went out of my way not to watch that interview.
	I'll take that.
	But wait, here's my last one in the universe of alternates.
	This is an appearance by Republican Representative Blake Farentold.
	He's from Texas.
	I'm not familiar with this guy.
	He's kind of funny.
	Kind of roly-poly kind of guy.
	I'm going to look him up, see where he's from.
	He's on CNN, and he brings up the tapes.
	Not the tapes, the computers that were not, the DNC computers that were not allowed to be touched by FBI. Which I have not really heard anyone talk about that much on...
	It violates the narrative.
	Well, he did that.
	Thank you for saying it.
	It violates the narrative and the response from the two CNN hosts.
	They immediately jump on him and just keep hammering him.
	And they tie themselves in knots unwittingly.
	But dang, that is exactly what it is.
	It violated the narrative and they called him out.
	Right.
	I'll resolve questions in my mind as to whether or not the Russians have been successful in getting U.S. persons involved in the campaign or not to work on their behalf.
	Again, either wittingly or unwittingly, he went on to say, I saw interaction that raised questions in my mind as to what was the true nature of it.
	That is more than just, you know, the worst part of it.
	That is what he said over and over again.
	Again, constant questioning.
	He was unable to point to any specific evidence.
	And I think that's what we're going to continue to see there.
	And my fear is our constant focusing on the Russians is deflecting away for some other things that we need to be investigating in.
	There's still some question as to whether the intrusion at the DNC server was an insider job or whether or not it was the Russians.
	I'm sorry.
	Violation of the narrative.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm sorry.
	Hold on.
	He's violating the narrative.
	Cut him off.
	He's violating the narrative.
	There's still some question as to whether the intrusion at the DNC server was an insider job or whether or not it was the Russians.
	I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
	The insider job, what are you referring to here?
	Because I hope it's not this information that Fox News just refused to be reporting.
	Now, I'm not quite sure what he said there.
	It sounds like he said, I hope it's not this information that Fox News refused to be reporting.
	Is that what he said?
	Yeah, he's referring to...
	Fox News pulling the Seth Rich material.
	Ah!
	Well, this doesn't relate necessarily to the Seth Rich stuff.
	Oh, yeah, it does.
	I hope it's not this information that Fox News just refused to be reported.
	I guess what I'm saying is...
	They clearly understand how it's related because they've heard the fake news, yet they don't really want to discuss that one fact, which we know is true, that the DNC didn't allow FBI to touch the computers after the break-in.
	So they completely just tried to steamroll this guy.
	Fox News just refused to be reporting.
	Well, again, there's stuff circulating on the Internet.
	My question is, what's circulating on the Internet that you think is worthy of a congressional investigation?
	Because the D.C. police are investigating this, and so far they haven't said there's any there there.
	Yet the D.C. police, nor no federal investigator, has ever had a look at the DNC computer.
	We're relying only on the report of somebody that the DNC contracted to examine their computer, rather than having federal officials.
	To me, we need to let feds look at it.
	Congressman, do you think it's responsible to bring up, as a representative of the American people, to bring up things, in your words, that are swirling on the Internet?
	This is one of my favorite quotes ever.
	As a representative of the American people, do you think it's responsible to bring up things that are swirling on the Internet?
	Holy mackerel.
	It was Alternative Universe.
	I call your credibility into question, sir.
	...acted to examine their computer rather than having federal officials.
	To me, we need to let feds look at it.
	Congressman, do you think it's responsible to bring up, as a representative of the American people, to bring up things in your words that are...
	I think this was fed to her from the control room.
	Ah!
	That's what happened.
	I just realized it.
	That was fed to her.
	Yeah, she can't do that.
	No.
	You're right.
	That was fed to her.
	Let me see if I can time it.
	I bet you I can.
	Rather than having federal officials...
	Congressman, do you think it's responsible to bring up...
	Yeah, nailed it.
	Nailed it.
	Would work perfectly.
	All right.
	Of the American people to bring up things, in your words, that are swirling on the internet?
	And give it justification as if there's a there there when we know nothing?
	Another there there.
	There there there.
	I think the same is true with what the media is doing with Trump.
	We're basing allegations on anonymous sources.
	Okay, so do you mean quoting the former CIA director who said, quote, I saw evidence worthy of investigation by the bureau to determine whether there was cooperation or collusion that was taking place?
	I'm going back to the Comey Memo.
	I'm going back to the Comey Memo, which is based entirely on anonymous sources.
	My overall point is this needs to be fully investigated.
	Let the professionals investigate it.
	Let's not try it in the media, which is serving from a distraction for what needs to be done in this country.
	That's fixing health care.
	That's getting people back to work.
	That's fixing taxes.
	That's securing the border.
	Instead, we're hearing a constant barrage of anti-Trump I'm going to call it propaganda.
	Okay, again, propaganda is coming from the former CIA director.
	If that's your opinion, you're entitled to it.
	Yeah, actually, yeah, I think that's my opinion, too.
	I heard the Brennan stuff.
	I really believe that this was bad, so I said...
	The congressman screwed up this deal.
	He did.
	He obviously let them badger him.
	He didn't call him out for doing it.
	When they brought up the D.C. police, he says, the D.C. police have not solved this crime, and they considered it a...
	And that's when she jumped right on it.
	That's when she was told, given the line.
	Well, she couldn't, you know, she got in before, but he never even attempted to blame the D.C. police for doing nothing.
	They did nothing.
	They have not solved this crime.
	No.
	So how is it all of a sudden you can't speculate about anything, which is the Seth Rich thing.
	They won't even mention Seth Rich, of course, on CNN because the Democrats have decided.
	Well, I have a follow-up to this one.
	To bail on the whole thing.
	I have a follow-up to this, but we can't.
	It won't work in the alternate universe.
	We have to get out.
	While we're still here, I do want to mention something, which is...
	Hurry.
	I'm nauseous, so if you can hurry.
	Maybe I'll slow down because you're nauseous.
	This will be interesting.
	I did a Canadian radio show once from the CBC did.
	I can't remember the name of it, but it was a pretty well and very slick show.
	And it was interesting to me because I've never seen a show quite done like this, even though we do that control room bit that you just did, and people have to realize that that's very accurate.
	Yeah.
	But this show, the whole show, was a bunch of researchers on the mics and guys answering questions and interviewing people, and the entire show was stuff being fed to these two guys.
	Oh.
	In their IFBs.
	It was constant.
	It was like, oh, the height of this mountain is such and such.
	All these details.
	And so the guys would go on and sound like geniuses.
	But there was these guys looking stuff up and then feeding it to them instantly.
	And it was so slick.
	It was frightening.
	When MSNBC launched, which back in the day was a partnership between NBC News and Microsoft, that's where the MS comes from, But my company at the time, which was, I think it was still OnRamp, Microsoft, and this was kind of an interesting story, Microsoft was responsible for the online version of this fabulous project, and they could not keep their chatroom software running.
	Because it was running on Microsoft's internet server, and it kept crashing.
	They could not figure it out.
	So they hired us, and we essentially put a front end on an IRC chat and went, yo, this will be pretty stable, and it was good.
	So for the launch of MSNBC, we were invited out to, I want to say it was Trenton, New Jersey.
	Where they had the studio at the time.
	And the first big kickoff was an interview with Tom Brokejaw and President Bill Clinton.
	And I was in the control room.
	And let me tell you, man...
	Brokaw.
	That guy, what a pro.
	So he would be asking a question and the producer would be continuing to talk in his ear, in his IFB, follow-up questions.
	While the president was answering, questions were coming through.
	But what was most impressive, and I wish I'd filmed it, but I don't think we even had camera phones at the time.
	He's like, you've got 30 seconds to break, and he's talking, and as he's talking, the producer mentions something else, he weaves it in, and he's done, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, boom, we're in commercial, we're out.
	Unbelievable.
	Like I said, the movie Broadcast News is very realistic in that regard.
	Yes.
	Very realistic.
	And that's why Brokaw got the big bucks.
	Because Brokaw had a speech impediment.
	You don't say!
	I'm Tom Brokaw.
	He apparently is one of the best at doing.
	Okay, can we get out of here?
	He never hid the speech impediment from what I can tell.
	Can we get out of here?
	Can we get out of here?
	Are you ready?
	We need to go, people.
	All right, everybody.
	Here we go.
	Back to the afternoon.
	First America first.
	First America first.
	Woo!
	Woo!
	Cheers, God!
	Fuck you! Woo!
	Hey, Doug.
	Come here.
	Somehow the crickets seem louder here.
	Yeah, they are, I think.
	It could just be me.
	Ah, they get bitter.
	This is a follow-up, and we'll play a bit, and then when you think you've heard enough, I'll fast forward to the end.
	This was in Florida.
	This was a hearing with...
	Wait, I'm sorry.
	It was a DC... It's the representative floor.
	It's Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
	Oh, yeah.
	I heard this.
	Have you heard this bit?
	You've heard this clip?
	This is where she's grilling the guy?
	Yeah, what she wants is she wants the computer back that belonged to the now escaped and on-the-run Anwar gang...
	We've talked about this.
	These are the guys who were paid double scale, who were stealing everything.
	They had access to, I think it was 30 or 40 different representatives' office and computers.
	They're in Syria or someplace or Libya or somewhere.
	They took off.
	And the D.C. police apparently has one of their computers, and she wants it back.
	And what she's saying is, and remember, the DNC and the Democrats, and Debbie Washington Schultz is a big part of that.
	They didn't want anyone touching any of the DNC computers.
	She surely doesn't want anyone touching her computers with these bandits who have run off with God knows what.
	Completely not reported.
	And she's saying, hey, well, you know, if it's mine, you should give it back.
	And the D.C. police guy, or I don't know if he's the Capitol Police, he's not going to give it to her.
	But he's also kind of dim-witted, so he's very careful.
	And you can always see him going like...
	Hey, something's up with this.
	I think she wants this computer for something.
	I'd like to know how Capitol Police handle equipment that belongs to a member or a staffer that's been lost within the Capitol complex and found or recovered by one of your officers.
	Lost.
	I love how she frames it.
	It's been lost.
	In other words, they picked it up and went, okay, these guys are gone.
	We're going to take this.
	This may be evidence.
	What happens?
	Well, it's processed on what's called a PD-81, which is a Which is a property record.
	And depending on the property, depending on how it's, if you can legitimately determine ownership, then it's generally turned back over to the owner of the property.
	If it's part of an ongoing case, then there are other things that have to occur for that to happen.
	So if a member says that they have equipment that's been lost and you find it, it would be returned to the member?
	In the general sense, yes.
	Not in your sense.
	You have to be able to positively identify the property and be able to establish ownership.
	And if ownership is established?
	If it's part of an ongoing case, then there are additional things that need to be done.
	Oh!
	But if the member owns the equipment...
	This is where she skips over.
	I think we get the idea.
	You can move to the end.
	Okay.
	Let me just fast forward.
	Okay.
	Last 30 seconds.
	I think there's extenuating circumstances in this case, and I think that, you know, working through...
	My counsel and, you know, the necessary personnel, if that in fact is the case, and with the permission of, through the investigation, we'll return the equipment.
	But until that's accomplished, I can't return the equipment.
	I think you're violating the rules when you conduct your business that way.
	Me, me, me, me, me, me, me.
	I yield back.
	I yield back.
	I'm done.
	I yield back.
	I'm violating the rules.
	You're not giving my machine back.
	So she's a bonehead.
	Why?
	She's got total coverage.
	No one's going to report on this.
	She's not a bonehead.
	She's got cover.
	No one's going to report on this.
	Nobody's going to report on it, but she had her machine stolen by the...
	In fact, nobody reports on these two Syrians or whoever they were.
	The Anwar gang.
	The Anwar brothers.
	The Anwar gang stealing all this stuff, and they could have been responsible for the DNC leaks for all we know.
	It's unbelievable how this stuff is ignored by the media.
	Now, I got an answer for you regarding your Seth Rich medical report.
	Do you have that handy by any chance?
	The medical report?
	Yeah.
	It was a clip.
	Oh, that's right.
	I'd like to listen to that again.
	Do you remember what it might be called?
	Seth Rich something, perhaps?
	Probably has Seth Rich something.
	Was it a PBS story?
	No, no.
	I got this off the internet.
	This was a sketchy story by one of the podcasters, and you've listened to this guy before, you said.
	Yeah.
	Oh, yeah, I think this is it.
	A person on something called BoardNet...
	Yeah, this is 4chan, exactly.
	...posted the following last Wednesday, May 17th.
	I am a fourth-year surgery resident here who rotated from WHC, Washington Hospital Center, last year.
	It won't be hard to identify me, but I feel that I shouldn't stay silent.
	Seth Rich was shot twice with three total gunshot wounds, entry and exit, and entry.
	He was taken to the OR emergency where we performed an X-lap and found a small injury to segment 3 of the liver, which was packed, and several small bowel injuries, pretty common for gunshots in the back exiting the abdomen.
	Which we resected, 12 centimeters of bowel and left him in discontinuity, didn't hook everything back up, with the intent of performing a washout in the morning.
	He did not have any major vascular injuries or otherwise.
	I've seen dozens of worse cases than this which survived and nothing about his injuries suggested to me that he'd sustained a fatal wound.
	In the meantime, he was transferred to the ICU and transfused two units of blood when his post-surgery crit came back at minus 20.
	He was stable and not on any pressors, and it seemed pretty routine.
	About eight hours after he arrived, we were sworn by LEOs, law enforcement officers.
	And pretty much everyone except the attending physician and a few nurses was kicked out of the ICU. It was weird as hell.
	At turnover, change of shift, that morning we were instructed not to make rounds on the VIP that came in last night.
	That's exactly what the attending said, and no one except me and another resident had any idea who he was talking about.
	No one here was allowed to see Seth, except for my attending physician, when he died.
	No code was called.
	I rounded on patients literally next door, but was physically blocked from checking in on him.
	I've never seen anything like it before, and while I can't say 100% that he was allowed to die, I don't understand why he was treated like that.
	I'm just one low-level doc.
	Something's fishy though, that's for sure.
	So we received an email from one of our producers, who is a doctor, who checks out.
	He has a little blue no-agenda checkmark.
	He's verified.
	He does want to remain anonymous in this case.
	ITM Adam and John.
	Holy shit, sons!
	I just listened to the latest NA show.
	The read of the fourth-year surgery resident's account regarding the fishy stuff that went down at Washington Hospital Center involving then-inpatient Seth R., I am...
	Oh, okay.
	Period.
	I am a practicing cardiologist of 24 years.
	I'd say that is...
	He's got standing.
	He's got standing there.
	And this sounds like a genuine report.
	The jargon is consistent and spot-on.
	Very, very suspect.
	Major pharma money in this place.
	All kinds of shady science going on at this hospital, apparently.
	This is also the hospital where a very good friend and graphic designer works, and I'm told that the overwhelming majority in this hospital are all in with the Clintons.
	I know this for a fact.
	This is most intriguing.
	Mind you, this guy was a VIP of sorts, but a very low-level VIP.
	I've seen VIPs in teaching hospitals, and this guy would not have risen to the level justifying all the restriction of entry, as was the case with Rich.
	Just doesn't make sense.
	At that point, he was a DNC employee, not a household name.
	I had no idea he survived even long enough to get to the hospital.
	I fully assumed he died in the street.
	And I tell you, in strictest NA confidence, it would be so easy to snuff somebody out in an intensive care unit, it isn't even funny.
	Well, there you have it.
	Well, let's bring us right to the story that's going around because it was Fox News.
	It was Sean Hannity.
	Actually, let's start from the beginning.
	We're the first people that noticed that this was an anomaly.
	Well, I think Don Lemon, probably.
	That was his theory.
	Yeah, Don Lemon.
	All the people at CNN refuse to discuss the story at all.
	Or even the suggestion.
	So Sean Hannity, I don't know, a couple weeks ago, comes up with this speculation because he has a private detective that comes on the show and he talks about the possibilities and he's heard from this guy and that guy.
	The private detective eventually pulled back on everything.
	Somebody got to him, that's the way I see it.
	Mm-hmm.
	And then Fox News pulled the Seth Risch stuff completely and said the story is bogus and Sean Hannity can't talk about it anymore.
	And Sean Hannity, just as a quick one-minute interstitial.
	Some advertisers are pulling out of Sean Hannity's Fox News Channel show.
	The embattled host is under fire for promoting a debunked theory about the death of a former DNC staffer.
	On Wednesday, Cars.com and exercise bike maker Peloton both indicated they will no longer advertise on his program.
	In a statement, Cars.com said they had, quote, been watching closely and recently made the decision to pull our advertising.
	And Peloton states, quote, we directed our media agency to stop advertising on Sean Hannity's show.
	Despite the controversy, Hannity's ratings have seen a spike.
	Hannity has been pursuing this theory that Seth Rich was actually the person who leaked DNC emails to WikiLeaks and that he was assassinated.
	Investigators say there is no indication that Rich's death in 2016 is connected to his employment at the DNC. Fox retracted that story on Tuesday.
	In an interview, Hannity blamed the controversy on liberal watchdog groups.
	He's now on vacation from his show for the rest of the week, and we'll have more on this later on.
	Good morning, America.
	Well, a liberal watchdog group is Media Matters, which is run by the Clintons.
	Financed by the Clintons.
	We don't know if it's run by them, but it was certainly financed.
	Let's be realistic.
	These guys and everybody else keeps reporting the same thing, and they use the word debunked.
	Yeah.
	Okay, I would like to know who debunked it, because unless they solve the mystery, then it's not debunked.
	And I don't see that they've eliminated the other possibilities, but they have no idea who killed this guy.
	So how can it be debunked?
	Who debunked it?
	I never saw a debunking.
	No, it was just all of a sudden, I guess when Fox says, oh, this can't be true, that's a serious debunking of a crazy Republican conspiracy theory.
	And you might want to notice that the leadership has changed over there at Fox, and it was already run by Democrats, but when Roger Ailes...
	And the ratings have fallen through the floor, I might add, which is...
	Which is total glee at MSNBC and CNN because they hate being lorded over by Fox all the time.
	And, of course, it was O'Reilly that was carrying the day.
	This is what happens when the universes flip.
	This is normal.
	This is normal occurrence.
	Now, the debunk thing they keep bringing up, and we don't know that it's been debunked.
	The family apparently somehow has gotten involved now, and it's just And it's hurting the party.
	It's hurting the party.
	And so that happened.
	There's no proof.
	I can't prove it, but that's the way it would go down.
	That's the way you'd do it.
	And in light of all this, we have to remember a couple of things that kind of lead to us to develop a theory.
	There's speculation, let's put it, as opposed to a conspiracy theory, speculation.
	One is that I've never heard of WikiLeaks putting up a reward for anybody to be caught and to solve a mystery.
	They did that for Seth Rich.
	And I don't recall WikiLeaks paying for a funeral of anybody, but they did that for Seth Rich.
	I think there's guilty conscience involved here with Assange.
	And then...
	Seth Rich apparently was a friend of Kim.com.
	Yeah, and that's good.
	And he says, yeah, he did it.
	Okay, so we have a circumstantial evidence.
	But let's ignore that and just say it's all debunked.
	We have no evidence of that.
	Here's Fox's statement on the story.
	On May 16th, the story was posted on the Fox News website on the investigation into the 2016 murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich.
	The article was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require for our reporting.
	Upon appropriate review, the article is found not to meet those standards and has since been removed.
	Now, under normal circumstances...
	I'm gonna use that paragraph for my ex-wives.
	Now, under normal circumstances...
	The mainstream media, MSNBC in particular, and CNN would ridicule, ridicule that memo because it had that comment in it.
	Yes, you're right.
	But where's the ridicule?
	I don't see it.
	And they'd never drop an opportunity to ridicule Fox.
	Good one.
	I give you a...
	Squirrel!
	Oops.
	Plus one for the day.
	So let's listen to the first intro, the kind of thing that started it up, and then we're going to switch to PBS. This is just the short beginning that was run on Seth Rich CBS. Yesterday, the Fox News channel retracted a story that said a Democratic National Committee staffer may have leaked sensitive emails.
	Before he was murdered last year.
	Well, there's no evidence of this, but Chip Reid reports that several conservative...
	There's no evidence he was murdered?
	That several conservative commentators are still peddling this sensational conspiracy theory.
	I know for sure it is the Russians.
	Most of official Washington believes that Russia was behind the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails.
	Nice keyboard sound effect.
	But some supporters of President Trump have been pushing an alternate theory that Seth Rich, a DNC employee, stole the emails and gave them to WikiLeaks, and for doing so, became the victim of an unsolved murder.
	Yeah.
	Unsolved murder.
	I thought actually PBS, which has turned from being fairly objective, as we point out on and on again, for example, when they have two guests that both take the same side of a topic, PBS is really, really biting on this, on the litany of the narrative, as we put it.
	Yes, the narrative, which shall not be violated.
	So Seth, I got two clips, part one and part two, of a very long story.
	They gave it dedicated a lot of time.
	I actually had to cut it off.
	Seth Rich, PBS story one.
	Now, how an unsolved murder in the nation's capital turned into a conspiracy theory and then became a case study of how false news spreads.
	Wait a minute, why false news?
	Why is she changing the meme?
	I'm wondering about that, too, and I'm glad you stopped it.
	Yeah, they're trying to promote the idea that this is a false news, fake news story.
	Yeah, but this is a style guideline change.
	I think that they want to be taken more seriously, and using fake news is not serious enough for PBS, though they've moved it towards false.
	And I think we can hear this, only PBS, because it's dumb.
	Fake news is the meme, fake news is what you want to use.
	False news spreads.
	Hold on, stop, stop.
	Now that you said that, I think what they may be doing is not what you suggested, but they can't say fake news.
	Oh!
	Fact check, false?
	Because it's not.
	But what about false?
	They're saying that, they're just saying that the story's not true, and so they use false to imply fake news without saying fake news.
	Hmm.
	Well, anyway, play a play.
	...came a case study of how false news spreads.
	A case study that has not been discussed by anyone.
	It underscores once again the problem of polarized politics and divided sources of information.
	John Yang reports.
	To the extent of my ability, I am not going to stop trying to find the truth.
	The story of Seth Rich's death is a story of how fake news spreads from websites and online forums like Reddit.
	Now, you use fake news there.
	Yeah, I guess my theory's wrong.
	Seth Rich's death is a story of how fake news spreads from websites and online forums like Reddit to primetime cable TV. Another massive breaking news story.
	It's like that some kind of big jump, Reddit to primetime cable news TV. That's not a big leap.
	Explosive developments.
	In the mysterious murder of former DNC staffer Seth Rich...
	Early one morning last July, 27-year-old Rich was found fatally shot near his Washington, D.C. home.
	Not according to the report, though.
	Politics had drawn the Omaha native to the city, and he was working at the Democratic National Committee when he died.
	The case is still unsolved.
	D.C. police theorize it was a botched robbery, the latest in a string of attacks in the neighborhood.
	As Rich's family and friends mourned, he became the subject of a baseless conspiracy theory.
	The claim was that he was the source of the DNC emails about the Hillary Clinton campaign that WikiLeaks released later that month.
	A private investigator says there is evidence to show Rich was communicating with WikiLeaks.
	Last week, Fox's Washington station broadcasted an interview with Fox News legal commentator Rod Wheeler.
	You have sources at the FBI saying that there is information that would link Seth Rich to WikiLeaks?
	Absolutely.
	Yeah, and that's confirmed.
	Two days later, Wheeler backtracked, saying his statements were a miscommunication.
	But not before Trump ally Sean Hannity devoted a portion of his Fox show to the story, giving Wheeler a much bigger platform for his unsubstantiated claims.
	With the totality of everything else that I found in this case, it's very consistent for a person with my experience to begin to think, well, perhaps there were some e-mail communications.
	That's another great line.
	I need to do that as well.
	It is very consistent with someone of my intelligence to think this.
	Isn't that basically what he said?
	It's kind of what he said, and what he's trying to say, yes, is what he said.
	And why would you backtrack on that, by the way?
	Why would you backtrack on that?
	I have an opinion.
	I never saw the backtrack.
	I've only read the apologies.
	No, they say backtrack.
	I've never seen it either.
	Ah, okay.
	All he said really was, from what I can tell, the guy probably did some emails with WikiLeaks, and he didn't really say that much.
	It just kind of mostly bravado, the way he's presenting it, like you pointed out.
	Anyway, onward.
	A person with my experience began to think, well, perhaps there were some email communications between Seth and WikiLeaks.
	For some conservative commentators, retractions and fact checks have appeared to make little difference.
	Supporters of President Trump are trying to use the story to discredit the investigation into Russian meddling in the election and possible collusion with the Trump campaign.
	Newt Gingrich on Fox& Friends this past Sunday.
	We have this very strange story now.
	This young man who worked for the Democratic National Committee, who apparently was assassinated at four in the morning, having given WikiLeaks something like 23,000...
	I'm sorry, 53,000 emails and 17,000 attachments.
	Nobody's investigating that.
	There is no evidence for those claims.
	Yesterday, the Fox News website retracted...
	You know, let's just assume or presume for a moment that most people in Dimension B and certainly Democratic Party don't think this is true.
	And they just...
	Well, no, some people know the facts.
	Well, they don't count.
	They all are like, oh, this is bullcrap.
	So what do you do?
	So what you want to do is you want to really ratchet, you know, because right now they have no proof of anything.
	None of Comey's stuff, Brennan's testimony.
	It's all speculation.
	Nothing.
	So the best thing to do is unleash the Newt.
	I think Newt Gingrich is working for the Democrats.
	And, you know, he's a douche.
	He's a turn.
	It wouldn't surprise me.
	You know, bring him out to make it as lavish as possible.
	Do you think that could be?
	No, I really don't.
	I think he really detests the Democrats.
	If he was, I think it would be more interesting because he's the guy, I mentioned it on the other show, that he's a candidate for FBI. What I meant to say was he's a candidate for...
	To replace Rance Priebus as Chief of Staff.
	Now, that would be more interesting with him in there, because he's a blowhawk.
	A thousand attachments.
	Nobody's investigating that.
	There is no evidence for those claims.
	Yesterday, the Fox News website retracted a story it had published on Rich's death, saying it was not initially subjected to the high degree of editorial scrutiny we require and has since been removed.
	Yeah, well, it's just beautiful.
	There's no evidence.
	But everything else with no evidence is proof.
	Well, yeah, we've got evidence.
	Excuse me, I just sneezed.
	Oh.
	Yes.
	We have some examples of that coming up, but let's play part two of this.
	On his radio show yesterday, Hannity initially doubled down.
	I am not fox.com or foxnews.com.
	I retracted nothing.
	You're fired.
	Alexios Manzali says at the Poynter Institute, a journalism school.
	Basic journalistic principles weren't met, right?
	The story was run without the source being properly read and without the D.C. police or the rich family being consulted.
	Today, Rich's parents wrote in the Washington Post, the amount of pain and anguish this has caused us is unbearable.
	With every conspiratorial flare-up, we are forced to relive Seth's murder, and a small piece of us dies as more of Seth's memory is torn away from us.
	We have two grieving parents who would like to find out the truth about their murdered son, and what they're getting instead is an avalanche of conspiracy theories and politically motivated spin.
	On his Fox show last night, Hannity said he'd had heartfelt talks with the rich family.
	Out of respect for the family's wishes for now, I am not discussing this matter at this time.
	But then he spoke to his fans.
	Please do not interpret what I'm saying tonight to mean anything.
	Don't read into this.
	I promise you I am not going to stop doing my job.
	What is his job exactly?
	I don't know.
	Is he an investigative reporter now?
	Stop doing my job.
	Analysts say it underscores the fragmented media world we live in.
	The lesson here is that it's easy to find online and in this enormous wealth of information that there is around us all kinds of stuff, all kinds of conspiracies, all kinds of hoaxes.
	If you are predisposed to think that something sketchy happened with the DNC... Or perhaps that Melania wants to divorce the president and she's swatting his hand away, then yeah!
	...leaks, then you are more likely to believe stories that aren't...
	Wow, is this guy a brain professor?
	He's just, it's incredible logic that he's spewing on us.
	He's a goofy-looking guy, too.
	It's funny.
	And as this one has been roundly debunked.
	He sounds like that.
	Roundly debunked.
	Did you hear that?
	Yeah.
	He sounds like the Microsoft CEO. It sounds a lot like him, but he's roundly debunked.
	Roundly.
	Roundly.
	Where is the roundly debunked?
	Where is it debunked at all?
	What is roundly debunked?
	And by the way, it's not an avalanche of conspiracy theories.
	There's one theory.
	Well, that goes along with the millions of contacts.
	There's one theory.
	Let's outline it.
	Seth Rich stole some documents from the DNC servers, and he's probably logged in as such, and nobody wants to find that, that's for sure.
	Gave them to WikiLeaks and was shot.
	That's it.
	There's nothing beyond that.
	There's not 25 theories.
	He's not an alien.
	He wasn't dropped off on any...
	It's bull crap.
	These guys are not roundly debunked.
	I'm so sick of this coverage.
	I just like the term roundly debunked.
	I don't think I've heard it said that way.
	Roundly.
	Roundly debunked.
	Now there was one other story that kind of slipped in here.
	Fox News covered it, which was interesting.
	They did it all with the new management, the new men on campus.
	They brought in Judge Andrew Napolitano, who I'm pretty sure he won't be brought on again either.
	I mean, it's going to be so boring.
	It's so boring.
	It's already boring.
	And this was about the illegal FISA unmaskings that were admitted in closed session by the Obama administration, I guess, was it two weeks?
	Before everyone was out, they needed to come clean on this because there were like one in like 20 percent of all of these.
	Let's just call it the wiretapping was done illegally and people were were exposed and unmasked illegally.
	Ordinary release of one's top secret document showing the extent to which the National Security Administration under President Barack Obama routinely violated standards, commitments in the Constitution itself to spy on Americans without a warrant, something our next guest has been warning us all about for years.
	Here now, Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News senior judicial analyst.
	I could ask you, how did you know?
	But specifically what this these top secret documents say is that five out of every 20 NSA Internet searches actually violated safeguards the government was supposed to keep.
	So the reason this is extraordinary is because this is one of the rare federal courts in the United States that meets in secret.
	No press is allowed.
	No adversary is there.
	We don't even know what their rulings are.
	But they released a ruling last night that they issued last month, which chastised the NSA for spying without warrants.
	The NSA acknowledged that it violated federal law, but the problem is far worse than the court has acknowledged.
	Back to the book itself.
	The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution specifically says no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation and particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.
	The FISA Court, which you just mentioned, was supposed to be the instrument of that amendment.
	Instead, it's the enabler of the NSA. It doesn't issue warrants that particularly describe the place to be searched and the person or thing to be seized.
	It issues warrants for groups like everybody in zip code 10036, which is where we are now.
	All customers of Verizon, which is 113 million people.
	And its warrants are not based on probable cause.
	It's based on governmental need.
	And we got a taste of what this means by the unmasking of General Flynn, because that was not a wiretap that was focused on General Flynn.
	It was a secondary or a tertiary.
	You're exactly right.
	It was the use of NSA-generated data without a Pfizer warrant, under the guise of being, for national security purposes, used for blatant political purposes, a serious threat to the freedom of the republic.
	And it's not only the second or third person.
	They could go out to the sixth person.
	Six degrees of separation.
	Six degrees of separation.
	If you do the math, it covers about 330 million people, the population of the United States.
	That's what NSA claims it can legally spy upon.
	I love the little 333 million reference.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Always good to receive your...
	Code received.
	Judge Knapp, code received.
	Yeah, so they did wiretap.
	Yeah, of course.
	In fact, a good example of that was on the PBS NewsHour, and I want you to play this clip.
	This is the NYT Reveals Trump chat.
	I have the transcript of this, even.
	How does anybody have the transcript of this?
	This was a wiretap of a private conversation with Trump and Duarte, assuming everything that – here's another little thing you got to – Trump likes to brag.
	He said that the fleet was on its way.
	Your impression is great.
	So now all of a sudden because Trump in private conversation tells Duarte something, we assume that it's – not only is he telling the truth, which he apparently never does, at least from one perspective.
	He's not only telling the truth, but he's revealing some sort of state secret that now the New York Times decides to reveal to the entire public.
	Play this.
	Word has leaked that President Trump disclosed that the U.S. had...
	Just the start of it, John.
	That is not how you start as a journalist.
	I can tell...
	I won't even play my journalist card.
	Listen to how this story starts.
	Word has leaked.
	Word has leaked.
	That's not the start to a story.
	Am I nuts?
	Well, not only that, but when we listen to that other guy go on about journalistic standards and how you're supposed to do things, it seems to be completely violated by this story.
	This is PBS. Yes?
	Word has leaked.
	Oh, well, must be true.
	Word has leaked that President Trump disclosed that the U.S. had positioned two nuclear submarines off of North Korea.
	The New York Times is reporting that Mr.
	Trump revealed the information in an April 29th phone call with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte.
	According to confidential transcripts, he also praised Duterte for doing, quote, an unbelievable job fighting drugs.
	Thousands of drug suspects have been killed since Duterte took office.
	Implication?
	Yeah, Trump's coming to kill you, you weed smoker.
	This is in a confidential transcript, which you have a copy of.
	That's how confidential it is.
	This whole thing, and there's no...
	Do they go to Trump and ask him if he said this?
	Do they do any of the follow-up questions?
	They just take the New York Times piece, which doesn't do it either, and just read it, parrot it, you know, like a stooge?
	I mean, this is unbelievable at this point.
	It's hard to reckon with.
	I do have a theory.
	I have a grandiose theory, which I will...
	I'll outline it with more detail in an upcoming newsletter in the form of an essay.
	Wow, that's value for value.
	You're not even going to do it on the show?
	You're going to do it in the newsletter?
	That's interesting.
	Well, I can give you a preview of it on the show.
	And the idea is that what I'm seeing and what I'm witnessing, I believe, and I think it's all the Democrats and the liberals and the liberals in the media that know all the stuff that we always bitch and moan about.
	We bitch and moan about Republicans, too.
	Oh, yeah.
	Not just liberals.
	But I don't think the Republicans are quite as good at things as these guys.
	Soros-funded.
	Most Democrats are professional liars.
	First of all, there is no real desire to get Trump to quit.
	Especially before Christmas.
	And especially before the big short that is, you know there's a big short in the market right now.
	No, I don't know about the big short.
	Who's shorting what?
	All the funds are short.
	They're shorting their own stocks.
	The theory is they want to get everything down to soften the blow because it's coming.
	And John, everything, it's like the market is one big short.
	I've got to tell Horowitz, if he didn't bring it up on the show Tuesday...
	Well, we didn't bring it up on the show.
	We'll talk about the shorts on the next show.
	Anyway, the point is that you want to keep...
	The idea is the following.
	The Democrats have this scheme, and it's part of the narrative that we talk about.
	And the idea is you keep Trump...
	Under pressure.
	Russia, Russia, Russia.
	He's going to quit.
	He's going to quit.
	He should be impeached.
	He should be impeached.
	And especially that last thing, even though they're backing off on that, but that'll be back because Maxine Waters and the other guy and these other people are going to keep bringing it up on the floor of Congress.
	Impeach him, impeach him.
	Because what you want to do is you want to take it, and you want to keep this in the news.
	The same stupid stories in the news for the next year until the 2018 elections.
	And then you change your narrative.
	Well, we can't impeach him with all these Republicans in Congress, in Senate and House, because they'll never let it happen, even though he's a horrible person.
	Vote for me!
	And he should be impeached.
	Vote for me!
	So then they try to switch things around and get the votes in.
	Now, let's assume they take over both houses with this with this plan.
	Now, can they impeach?
	No, no, no, no.
	You don't want to impeach him now.
	No, because you just talk a lot about it.
	You keep talking about it.
	You keep it in the conversation.
	You still bitch about the Russians.
	You do that because now it's going to go to the to the 2020 elections.
	And then and you're going to say the following.
	We try to impeach him.
	We try to do this.
	We try to do that.
	We can't do it.
	The best way is...
	We need you.
	Vote him out.
	We need you, people.
	Yeah, you're right.
	And the fear is, of course, is that if he does quit or if he does get impeached or anything like that...
	You get Pence.
	Pence.
	And Pence can...
	Pence and the big fear, and the Democrats all know this.
	We talk about it.
	But I came to the conclusion that the Democrats aren't that stupid.
	They know it, too.
	Pence is the kind of guy that, like George Bush, they could never get out of office.
	Could bring out the evangelical vote, which is huge.
	And many times they don't vote.
	They're just kind of a lazy group of voters.
	Yeah, he could totally activate them.
	So he'd activate them and he'd win in 2020.
	And that's a big fear.
	The only wild card in this theory is Trump actually...
	Well, he's not going to quit.
	That's just not what he does.
	He can't quit.
	But he can say that he's not going to run for a second term.
	And then the Democrats are screwed.
	Because all it looks like was they were whining and whining and whining and whining for four years about the same stupid stuff with no proof.
	And now they what?
	Now, are you going to vote for him?
	I don't think so.
	And that, I think that is a very good strategy.
	And if he can get beyond his presumably enlarged ego to say, you know what?
	Country over party.
	I'm going to let Pence run the show.
	Because he'll win.
	And he can activate them.
	That would be interesting to see if he would do that.
	If he would say, you know what?
	It's better for me to step aside.
	Boom.
	Let Pence run.
	He'll win.
	And it's better for everybody.
	I don't know if he could do it.
	Especially if Pence is going to run against an aged Hillary.
	Yeah.
	Aged.
	Aged.
	Now, the only ply in the ointment for the Democrats with this scheme, which I believe is in action because we just witnessed it every time we do this show, that's all we see is the same stuff.
	Is that the public...
	You know, kind of bucks it and decides to vote more Republicans in, completely screwing up their whole idea.
	That could happen, too, sure.
	That could happen, and that's why I think you're seeing a lot of, you know, you're seeing more special elections being watched more closely than like the one in Montana that's taking place today, where they're using Trump as the talking point.
	Well, the same playbook...
	As Maxine Waters would say, the same play out of the playbook.
	Trump, of course, is a horrible, horrible man.
	He's horrible towards journalists.
	And this is the Guardian reporter Greg Jacobs, who I guess he went in to pester Greg Gianforte.
	Is that his name?
	Gianforte?
	Yeah, I think that's how you pronounce it.
	So he went in to ask him something, and this guy, who looks like he's 10 feet tall, he was pissed off.
	If you hadn't heard this, this is what this journalist then uploaded.
	...to the CBO score, because you know you were waiting to make your decision about health care until you saw the bill, and it just came out.
	Yeah, and we'll talk to you about that later.
	Yeah, but it's not going to be time.
	I'm just curious.
	Speak with Shane, please.
	I'm sick and tired of you guys.
	The last guy that came here, you did the same thing.
	Get the hell out of here.
	Get the hell out of here.
	The last guy did the same thing.
	You was a guardian?
	Yes, and you just broke my glasses.
	The last guy did the same damn thing.
	You just body slammed me and broke my glasses.
	Ew.
	Get the hell out of here.
	You broke my glasses.
	The thing I like, you body slammed me.
	Now, there is no video.
	There's only witnesses who say, yeah, I partially saw it.
	This is exactly what happened with the girl in the Trump campaign.
	Oh, he bruised my arm.
	They're violent.
	Yeah.
	And this guy was on every station.
	Yes, this was played big.
	He body slammed me.
	What is body slamming?
	Did he really body slam you?
	A real body slam is you pick the guy up and you flip him over and you throw him down as hard as you can so he hits flat.
	Thank you.
	That's a body slam.
	This guy pushed the guy.
	He said, get out of here.
	And he pushed him.
	Yeah, and he tripped and he fell on his glasses.
	You know, it's a contact sport.
	And before we take a break, I have two terms I want to discuss.
	Not phrases from the Shays, but I decided to look up contempt of Congress.
	Because there was a lot of, well, if Mike Flynn doesn't hand over his records, then we're going to hold him in contempt of Congress.
	You know, this is nefarious at best.
	If you really look into how contempt of Congress works, which initially, the history of it goes back to the late 1790s, it was about bribing representatives.
	So if you bribed a representative, then you could be held in contempt of Congress and they could have you thrown in the brig.
	I don't know if they actually send you to jail.
	The brig.
	But this has changed over time.
	And one thing stands above everything, that you can be held in contempt of Congress.
	And the most recent person to be held in contempt of Congress, I think, was Lerner, Lois Lerner, for her refusal to testify over the IRS controversy.
	Also, she's in jail.
	No, no, no.
	No one has really spent any massive time in jail in all of history.
	Let's see.
	Most people, you know, would come up with whatever was necessary.
	They all complied eventually.
	But Lowe's learner is definitely not in jail.
	The thing with contempt of Congress, you know, this is the legislative branch, not the judicial branch.
	And anything they do, if they want to hold someone in contempt of Congress, it has to be related to legislation, not criminal activity.
	I'm not sure exactly how they want to make that fit, which I think is why they're caging it a little bit.
	We'll use subpoenas.
	I don't think you can actually hold someone in contempt of Congress for not wanting to testify about something criminal.
	It has to be something about legislation.
	So that's just something, you know, I'm not a lawyer.
	We've got plenty of constitutional lawyers out there who can check that for us.
	The second is the term contemporaneous.
	This is bullshit.
	If I hear one more time that Comey took contemporaneous notes...
	It's not true.
	I've never heard this.
	I don't know what you're hearing.
	I've never heard this.
	Oh, my goodness.
	Well, sadly, it was Wednesday, but all day Wednesday, all I heard was, well, we know Comey took contemporaneous notes, contemporaneous notes.
	It's a great word, but he was not taking notes in front of Trump's face.
	No.
	At the time, which is what contemporaneous notes...
	It's like journaling.
	Yeah, yes.
	It would have been better if he said he journaled it or he blogged it later.
	I don't care what you want to say, but it was not contemporaneous.
	CIA and intelligence guys take contemporaneous notes.
	They're trained.
	My Uncle Don does this to this day.
	He's talking about what to...
	This is my story with the guy at the refinery.
	Talk to me.
	I'm talking to him.
	He's taking notes as I talked to him when I was an inspector.
	And he's taking the notes, and we talk back and forth, and he writes something down that he said, and I write something down, or he writes something down that I said, and then at the end, he'd rubber stamp it with a date stamp and put it in his folder.
	And that's contemporaneous notes.
	Yeah.
	That is, yeah.
	So Comey didn't do that, but yet I hear it.
	Well, I'll have to find some clips now.
	I thought you would have noticed this too.
	I didn't notice it.
	A lot of it.
	Certainly Schiff.
	Schiff likes to say that a lot.
	Schiff.
	Somebody described him on a radio talk show.
	Now I can't not look at Adam Schiff.
	I cannot look at him without thinking this.
	he looks like a constipated turtle.
	I like that.
	He should wear turtleneck sweaters.
	It would really complete the picture.
	He looks like a turtle, and he does look constipated.
	Constipated turtle.
	All right, artists, on your mark.
	All right, boom.
	And with that, I'd like to say in the morning to you, John C. He stands for Copacetic Dvorak.
	I think he, no, maybe not.
	In the morning to you, Adam Curtis.
	What?
	In the morning to you, Adam, Curtis, Curry.
	In the morning to all ships and sea, boots on the ground, feet in the air, subs in the water, and all the dames and knights out there.
	Indeedy.
	In the morning to everybody in the war room, noagendastream.com.
	Thank you all for showing up and helping out.
	That is your job there.
	If you want to go toodle around, then you need to go to noagendasocial.com during the show.
	Go there.
	Toodle around.
	Woo!
	You haven't...
	Add that to the list.
	Phrase from the chaise.
	Toodle.
	Toodle around.
	I'm going to roll.
	I'm working it.
	Hey, thank you.
	That copacetic and toodle.
	Thank you very much to Melvin Gibstein, who brought us the artwork for episode 9 or 3.1.
	Now, this really kicked off quite...
	Quite a lot of interesting conversation.
	It was No Agenda, Love Potion No.
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	And of course that immediately resulted in a jingle.
	I took my troubles down to Adam and John.
	I knew that something had gone terribly wrong.
	And we have a longer version, eh?
	End of show.
	I like the...
	Well, I did that.
	That was me.
	I got my orders in.
	I haven't tried them yet.
	But this seems like we need to repackage this.
	Oxytocin.
	Oh, alright.
	Yeah!
	Oh man, there's tons of stories about this.
	We'll talk about it later.
	Anyway, I do want to thank Melvin Gibstein for bringing us that artwork.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can upload everything.
	You pick a piece of art after the show.
	It's often used for newsletters.
	And we love to give our artists credit because it's due to them.
	Noagendaartgenerator.com Alright, so we start off right away with a problem.
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	Um...
	Because I got a note from Eric and everybody, Charles Couch in Broomfield, Colorado, who sends his money and is accounting for his knighthood.
	He says it's $525.25.
	He says, notes sent to jay at devark.org.
	Well, the last note I have from Charles, and I have a few, or it's usually, unless he's got a different email address or something, it was in October.
	I don't have anything from him.
	So if I look up Couch, I won't find it.
	If I look up Charles Couch, I don't find it.
	So there may be something.
	I'll look later and maybe in the second part of our donation segment I'll find it.
	But I don't have it.
	I want to thank Sir Chris Wilson for that jingle, by the way.
	Yeah, Chris.
	Chris is the best.
	Okay, let's see.
	Said with such sincerity.
	Chris, you're great.
	Hey, man, you rock.
	She also sent $337.
	Wait, did we just give him some karma at least?
	Oh yeah, well we're going to get back to him.
	Okay, but yeah, give him some karma.
	You've got karma.
	He's on a nice waiting list until I get that note and we can follow up.
	Probably in the next show.
	Susan Stevens, 33749 in Buffalo, New York.
	Love the show, love the artwork, love the newsletter.
	Instead of paying for fake news, I'm supporting the best podcast in the universe.
	And she has a subscription to, I guess, USA Today or something, and she has it canceled.
	She sent that back to us.
	Set up.
	Good.
	Thank you both.
	She's a beautiful buffalo.
	I'm going to give you some karma as well.
	Thank you so much, Susan.
	You've got karma.
	Highly appreciate it.
	Duncan Martin, Canyon County, California.
	334.
	Hi guys, I'm donating the requisite amount to make you read my spiel on the show.
	Spiel.
	You're over.
	You don't need to send that much if you just want us to read your spiel.
	Just messing with you.
	He says, I won't be a lecture.
	This won't be a lecture.
	I used to listen to the show a few years back, but stopped because I didn't agree with everything you guys said.
	No, no, you gotta rewrite it.
	Because I didn't agree with everything you guys say, in air quotes.
	You can call me out after a while.
	I decided I missed the show and I've been listening again for some while.
	Now the show is better than ever.
	Now I agree with everything you guys say.
	That's not good.
	How do you go from one to the other is what I'd like to know.
	I decided I'd better get off my ass and donate.
	It's time to go from donor to boner.
	From slacker to backer.
	From boner to donor.
	I like from slacker to backer.
	I like slacker to backer.
	Don't be a slacker, be a backer.
	From malefactor to benefactor.
	Don't be a malefactor, be a benefactor.
	From liver to giver.
	From spoiled to sponsor.
	From crack daddy to sugar daddy.
	Keep up the good work.
	I like a triple helping of science, your choice.
	Oh, alrighty.
	Don't be a denier!
	The science is in!
	Science!
	Science!
	The science is in!
	You've got Carmen.
	There you go.
	And you should get a dedouching, too, actually.
	You've been dedouched.
	Deserves that one.
	Yes, he does.
	He's gone from slacker to backer.
	Chris Daly sent you a note, $333.77.
	He did, did he?
	That's what it says.
	Let's see.
	Chris Daly.
	Here we go.
	Executive producer note.
	Hey, Adam!
	You two have been doing brilliant work lately.
	I just made a $333.77 donation for this Thursday show, which brings me about two-thirds of the way to knighthood.
	Congratulations.
	I have a jingle request for Debugging Karma.
	He would like Bugs, Bugs, Bugs, the shortest version without the taste-like poop chaser, dedouching, and karma.
	I think they all have a taste like poop.
	Nah, we just have a short one.
	I also have a sort of complicated value for value requests.
	Okay, I don't have to read it on the show.
	I've got to look through that.
	This just came in and it's been a weird week for me, so I apologize.
	So he wants bugs?
	What?
	Bugs, bugs, bugs?
	I love bugs.
	I guess.
	Yeah, he wants I love bugs.
	And then what else does he want?
	I don't know, you got the note.
	Hold on.
	Yeah, this is difficult.
	I can't read, and so de-douching in karma, I should be able to do that.
	You eat bugs?
	You eat bugs?
	Mmm!
	Nothing like freshly caught bugs.
	What the hell is that?
	Ooh, thanks.
	I love bugs.
	Mmm.
	Hello, Bugs! Bugs, Bugs, Bugs!
	Hey, guys.
	You've been de-douched. Bugs, Bugs, Bugs, Bugs.
	You've got Carmen.
	You weren't kind of cataloging these things.
	You've got a lot of these random clips in there.
	You're a hoarder.
	I'm a digital hoarder of the highest order.
	Woo!
	Made another rhyme.
	You're on a roll.
	Sleepy Doc, meanwhile, gave us $246.80.
	I enjoy and appreciate both your efforts and insights arising from being on the edge of both universes.
	Keep it up, because you can.
	Remember, if you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much room.
	Totally.
	Very nice.
	Thank you, Sleepy Doc.
	Thank you, Sleepy Doc.
	Hans Furburger.
	Furburger.
	I don't like fur on my burger.
	He's Hans Furberger, $200.02, which is a palindrome.
	And he wrote a handwritten note.
	Excellent.
	He's also known as Wolf, Minnesota.
	I heard about your show from my loyal friend Jason Lane, who is a long-time listener and executive producer.
	He's told me about the show several times over the last few years, but every time I tried an episode, I didn't like it.
	I thought you guys were just liberal bashers, rich white guys.
	I gave it another shot early this year and slowly got into it.
	We're a couple of rich white guys.
	If we were really rich, we would be liberals.
	Give me a break.
	Exactly.
	Liberal bashing white guys.
	I gave your show another shot this year and slowly got into it.
	I'm a big fan now.
	And I can say you two have shifted my political perspective.
	I can attest that it can be hard to get into the show.
	I guess, for new listeners, but I'm glad Jason kept encouraging me.
	What's new listeners of a certain mentality?
	There are people that are kind of like Alex Jones listeners or people like that, and they fall into the show rather quickly.
	They do.
	So it depends on you.
	It depends on the individual.
	If you're woke or not.
	If you're woke.
	Yeah, you'll never get into the show if you're woke.
	He says he also started, this is what happens with a fanatic.
	This is like a guy who quits smoking.
	Oh, okay, yeah.
	I hate the smell of cigarettes.
	Here he goes.
	I've also, and this is the quit smoking part, at least to me.
	I've also started on episode one!
	Why pain yourself in such a manner?
	To get more show history and give more of your guys' perspectives.
	I like the old shows as much as the new ones.
	Really?
	I'm a big proponent of the value for value model.
	I'm happy to donate for the first time.
	I also appreciate the feeling of community with the war room, meetups, birthday list.
	But as a victim of identity theft, now here we go.
	I was thinking whether I should read this or not because I disagree with him.
	My son, by the way, Jason Buskill Jr.
	was a victim of identity theft.
	He says he cringes every time I hear a donor give their first and last name city, state, Ah, and birthday, which often includes an age.
	Well, we should stop doing that.
	Way of personal info for a criminal to make your life a pain in the ass for months.
	I recommend using a fun pseudonym like Hans Furberger.
	A vague location and never giving your real date of birth ever.
	Anyway, just lost a friend.
	I just lost some friendly advice from someone who has had to deal with ID theft.
	Take it or leave it.
	I don't think name and location is really a problem.
	Unless you know where you were born, I don't think that's a problem.
	If I'm a criminal, I'm just going to turn it around.
	If I'm a criminal, there are easier ways than to sit through that crappy no agenda show to pick targets?
	I don't think so.
	It's the podcast bandit, I tell you.
	I listen to podcasts and they go rob people.
	Yeah, that sounds about right.
	Get your pencil out?
	I do.
	My pencil is out.
	Well, I mean, the writing instrument?
	Yes.
	Please play New Shit Has Come to Light.
	Whoop'em with the Constitution.
	Resist we much and you will obey.
	Okay, whoop'em.
	New Shit Has Come to Light.
	No, New Shit Has Come to Light first, correct?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Okay.
	Uh...
	Damn it.
	It's lack.
	It's lack.
	Alright, okay.
	So, Manning, and then what else?
	What was the third one?
	Resist we much and you will obey.
	Resist we much.
	Okay.
	And then we obey.
	I've got information, man.
	New shit has come to light.
	Get out there!
	Whoop him, whoop him, whoop him, whoop him, whoop him, whoop him, whoop him with the Constitution!
	But resist, we much.
	We must and we will much about that.
	Be committed.
	You will obey.
	You've got karma.
	All right.
	Not too bad.
	Got through it.
	Got through it.
	And that concludes our list of executive and associate executive producers for show, what is it, 932?
	932.
	932.
	Can I do a self-serving native ad here for a moment?
	Uh-oh.
	I don't do it often.
	In fact, I don't think I've ever done that.
	But I would say it's no different than talking about your column or whatever.
	That's probably...
	Yeah, I talk about my column.
	That's a native ad.
	Yeah.
	But it's not...
	A native ad isn't me promoting myself.
	A native ad isn't you promoting something you like.
	A native ad isn't saying that we'd like to buy hamburgers from someplace.
	A native ad is when someone gives you money to phony up a story about them to make them look good.
	That's native ad.
	All right.
	Tomorrow, I kick off the crowdfunding campaign for my Podcaster Pro.
	Oh, good.
	For the box, yeah.
	So I just wanted to mention that.
	All right.
	I'm very excited.
	And it is something that won't get made if we don't reach our goal.
	Let's put it that way.
	So it's only a native ad if successful.
	It's not a native ad.
	Okay, it's not a native ad.
	Thank you to our executive producers and associate executive producers.
	That was nice.
	Everyone showed up here.
	Although, again, it's kind of top-heavy, isn't it?
	Yeah, we didn't really get that much total.
	I weighed the list.
	Another top-heavy...
	It was a terrible newsletter.
	No, it was a good newsletter.
	It wasn't terrible.
	No, no, I don't know.
	Something happened.
	Here's how bad it was.
	Okay.
	After the newsletter was shipped, of all the responses, the grand total of responses from the newsletter shipped in the morning to midnight when everything's closed, 10 people.
	Oh my.
	Yeah, that's bad.
	That's really bad.
	And that's worse.
	I'd rather have a lot of people or more people with lesser amounts.
	Yeah.
	Only two of those ten took out a subscription that was being promoted in the newsletter.
	Now, I think they didn't get the newsletter.
	I think a lot of people just didn't get it.
	Oh, that's also possible.
	That's possible.
	I don't know why.
	All right, doesn't matter.
	We'll still bring you the best podcast in the universe, and you can take these titles from our show and use them anywhere where titles are accepted.
	Usually, LinkedIn works really well for getting some interest from jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	And remember us, our next show is on Sunday.
	That's right.
	While you're out there looking for jobs, jobs, jobs, why don't you propagate your formula?
	Our formula is this.
	We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
	Backward falls.
	Shut up, Slade.
	Shut up.
	Let's talk about Manchester for a second.
	Manchester.
	Run down if you want it.
	Yeah, let's do the run down.
	You got a Manchester run down?
	Yeah, I got a run from...
	We've got a bunch of Manchester clips, but I have a couple.
	I think...
	Overview.
	Yeah, overview.
	Oh, wait.
	Before you play it, you've got to play the opening, which is Manchester 1, Scott Pelley.
	Oh, must be groovy.
	Evening news with Scott Pelley, reporting tonight from Manchester, England.
	Oh, he just popped on the jet and flew over?
	Yeah.
	Why?
	What's he need to be there for?
	Well, I will say, I doubt that he was a part of that, but the big soccer game...
	Oh, wait, that wasn't in Manchester.
	No, no, no.
	That was in Stockholm.
	No.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	False flag.
	False flag!
	Okay, well here's the rundown.
	This is the, it says, where is it?
	Yeah, it's the rundown.
	The death toll stands at 22.
	At last report, 64 of the 119 wounded were still in the hospital, 20 of them in critical condition.
	ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack carried out by a 22-year-old suicide bomber, a British citizen of Libyan descent.
	He had traveled recently to Libya, and investigators believe Syria as well.
	When police raided the man's apartment, they found no evidence there that the bomb was made in his apartment, and that led to a dragnet and multiple arrests today.
	Mark Phillips begins our coverage.
	Hey, if Pelly is there, that's Pelly.
	Yeah.
	If he's there, why does some other douchebag have to do the coverage?
	Oh, he just sits there and reads the prompter?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Two days of raids and at least six arrests later, including the bomber's brother, and police here have changed their minds that this attack was the work of one man, Manchester Police Chief Ian Hopkins.
	Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
	I think it's very clear that this is a network that we are investigating, and as I said, it continues at a pace...
	Security sources have indicated they no longer think the suicide bombing suspect, Salman Abidi, seen here in security camera footage late last week, possibly buying a backpack in which to carry the bomb, made the device himself.
	He may have been just the mule, to use the security parlance, who carried it.
	Details of the bomb, collected at the scene by British investigators, reveal a sophisticated device with a detonator held in the bomber's left hand and a powerful battery to make sure the device went off when triggered.
	Another indication Abedi was acting as part of a terror group comes from the security chaos of Libya, where ISIS and other militants operate, and from which Abedi returned shortly before the bombing.
	Abidi's brother, Hashem, was detained in Libya today by a self-proclaimed counter-terror militia that operates there.
	The group says his father, Ramadan, was arrested as well.
	At a building in central Manchester, police used an explosive device to break into an apartment, fearing it was booby-trapped.
	We heard a really loud bang.
	The smell inside as well is a bit weird.
	Yusuf Akmal is a student who lives in the building.
	Weird.
	Yeah.
	Something explosive weird or something bad.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Explosive weird.
	You know, one of our daughter's producers was at the concert with her friend.
	They're both okay.
	But it really did happen.
	Yeah, there's a lot of evidence that it really did happen.
	I have some information.
	I want to make sure you get your clips in first before I... I want to get a couple more in.
	For example, I just want to point out...
	Here's the thing that we want to listen for.
	So it started off, ah, lone wolf, you know, not part of a network, I don't know, and I love the...
	It's 22-22.
	22 dead on the 22nd.
	Yeah, that's how it was planned.
	And he left his ID at the scene.
	And how were they able to identify him so quickly?
	So I have answers to that.
	Okay, well, there's also a lot of...
	The reporting was pretty sketchy, too.
	I mean, we had, for example, this is my worst case scenario.
	This is the Manchester bombing BS story.
	We learn a little more of the innocent children who were killed and the adults who accompanied them.
	Michelle Kiss, a mother of three, taken, her family said, in the most traumatic way.
	And Kelly Brewster, a friend, said she died saving a young life, throwing her body on her niece as the bomb exploded.
	Oh, bullshit.
	Oh, please.
	You noticed it, too.
	It's not possible.
	No.
	Has anyone ever seen one of these explosions?
	You're dead instantly.
	You don't look around.
	It's like watching too many movies and you see the explosion in slow motion.
	And then you jump out of the way.
	I mean, come on.
	This is not even possible.
	But let's play this thing because this brings up a problem that I've always had with CBS. I bring it up a lot.
	I'm going to bring it up again.
	This is the Manchester bombing Army Everywhere story, which is talking about the police state, but it stops at a point where I will interject and then I will play the rest of it, and you'll see what my complaint is.
	The investigation is now centered not just on the extent of the terror network here, but on its ties to militants based outside of Britain, and that someone with sophisticated bomb-making skills made the device that was used, and Scott, that that person is still at large.
	Mark Phillips, thanks.
	Also today, thousands of British soldiers fanned out in major cities.
	Seth Doan reports from London.
	It was a show of force on Britain's streets today.
	Soldiers joined police on patrols to protect potential targets, including Buckingham Palace and Parliament, the site of a terrorist attack in March.
	Up to 3,800 troops can be mobilized.
	About 1,000 were deployed today.
	Londoner Peter Athelton says relying on the military makes sense.
	We have a limited number of armed policemen in the UK, so they need to be now doing other things rather than just guarding government buildings.
	This is a scene that has not been seen on the streets here in the UK for more than 14 years.
	The military deployed along with police.
	The last time was in 2003 when tanks and troops were sent around London and to Heathrow Airport following a plot to bring down an airliner with a surface-to-air missile.
	Today, to free up police, Parliament was closed to the public, and the ceremonial changing of the guards was cancelled at Buckingham Palace.
	The extra security reassured Michelle Calvert from Manchester.
	Alright.
	The extra security reassured Ms.
	Calvert.
	Reassured Michelle Calvert.
	So they're going to cut to her and you'd think she'd say something like, it's good to see all these police around here because this extra security reassures me.
	It's good to be around here with extra security from the arm in the place.
	Something like that, right?
	Yeah, I'm ready for it.
	Is that what's going to happen?
	What do you think?
	No.
	The extra security reassured Michelle Calvert from Manchester.
	That's the British way, isn't it?
	We just get on with things, really.
	Good one.
	Stiff up a lip and all you know, yeah, gov.
	So here we go again.
	This is the same old, same old from CBS. You make an assertion.
	Yep.
	And then you cite somebody who's backing this up, and then you throw it to them, and they don't back it up at all.
	And you, as the oblivious user of CBS News, you must think that maybe that's what she said.
	No, she didn't say anything of the sort.
	She wasn't comforted.
	She said, this is the British way.
	We just put up with shit.
	So do you think this is done purposely?
	Yes, I do.
	I don't know why, but I'm convinced of it.
	And that was CBS? Yes.
	Yes, and they do it all the time.
	I have pointed this out on the show numerous times.
	This is interesting, because what happened is right after this event took place, CIA shills were showing up on CNN, one after the other.
	Just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
	Now, a lot of the narrative has shifted somewhat, so when I tell you what I've learned about this attack, it'll probably...
	Some of it falls in line with what is now being suggested.
	But the CIA bots who are out there, this is Tara Mahler, who sounds like a robot, and she was on, I think, CNN. Troubling things about all of this is the idea that it was a relatively sophisticated bomb, although it looks to be homemade.
	It makes you think, or a lot of people...
	A relatively sophisticated bomb, but it looks to be homemade.
	Hey, the bomb is in pieces.
	Yeah, I want to go...
	Hello, is this the terrorist story?
	I'd like to have a sophisticated bomb, because I can't make it at home.
	It makes you think, or a lot of people suspect, that the person who built it wasn't necessarily the person who blew himself up, because if you attain that level of bomb making in general, you're not going to be the one that's going to get blown up by the bomb.
	You're going to be around to make another bomb.
	Do you think that that's a She said buy.
	She said buy.
	Oh my goodness, you're right.
	Good catch.
	I didn't even hear that one.
	Hmm.
	You're not around to buy, I mean, make another one.
	Do you think that that's a realistic assumption?
	What do you think about that?
	Sure, that's absolutely a reasonable theory.
	Now this is the CIA girl.
	Listen to this.
	What are you saying sure to?
	Because she's CIA. How are we talking to CIA? Sure, that's absolutely a reasonable theory.
	It could have been that he was involved somewhat in the purchasing and or building.
	It could have been that somebody with more expertise in bomb building helped make the bomb and secure the materials for the bomb and that he was tasked with wearing it that day and detonating as a suicide bomber.
	We've seen that before in plots.
	They're going to be looking at the...
	Where's the CIA recruiting?
	Northridge High and Reseda?
	I mean, where is this?
	It's insane.
	I know.
	They're just sending anybody out.
	And I'm not sure why.
	I don't think they had anything to do with it, but they are trying to cage the story.
	And I was like, well, you know, maybe somebody doesn't sound like a valley girl.
	They're out of people.
	They're out of people.
	They're busy talking about Trump on the other channels.
	Could have been that somebody with more expertise in bomb building helped make the bomb and secure the materials for the bomb.
	And then he was tasked with wearing it that day and detonating as a suicide bomber.
	We've seen that before in plots.
	They're going to be looking at the forensics of the bomb itself here.
	A lot of times there are signatures related to the materials that were used, the type of bomb that it was that can be tracked to specific types of training, can be tracked to where he purchased these materials.
	And that's going to all be part of the investigation, as well as not just talking to individuals, but looking at his emails, his phone communications.
	his computers, and anything else that they apprehend in the investigation.
	You know, and add to this that apparently the UK officials are upset that the New York Times and, you know, everyone who receives leaks from the intelligence community were popping all this information off.
	They're saying, oh, you know who the guy is, we know his name, we've got pictures of the bombs, and they didn't want that.
	There's some intelligence thing going on.
	I'm not sure why.
	The conspiracy theory would be, ha ha, Theresa May needed this for Brexit.
	And maybe there's...
	The only thing I can think of is, oh man, we can't let people in the UK think that there's a network.
	We have to kind of soft-pedal that and talk about it a lot, but not really be clear.
	While the information is clear on the scene, which I'll get to in a moment...
	Wait a minute.
	You've got to re-explain what you said.
	Are you thinking that British intelligence wanted to...
	Roll this out a little more slowly, and we're the ones who blew the lid off the network?
	No.
	I think that we got a request, or, I don't know, I'm not quite sure how it went down, but this is the slow, I believe what I heard was, first of all, no, no, no, can't be anyone, lone wolf.
	The information was known on the scene, I'll tell you.
	But, you know, maybe, you know, look, Obama and all these guys, they don't want Brexit to happen.
	It's unfortunate.
	I think this was real.
	But then it's like, oh, we've got to slow this down.
	We can't have all of Britain.
	That's why, oh, we just carry on.
	Stiff up a lip and all that.
	We just carry on.
	That's another CIA report.
	So don't worry about it.
	Carry on.
	Nothing to see here.
	I think that's what's happening.
	Well, let's listen to the next CIA guy.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	Stop.
	What would be the point of that?
	Because of the upcoming elections?
	No, it's to help Soros, I don't know, to stop Brexit, to stop unrest in the UK over this event, which clearly makes Theresa May more desirable as Prime Minister.
	That's the only thing I can think of.
	I can think of a lot of things.
	Oh, CIA, they did it.
	No, I don't think so.
	By the way, you mean desirable as a candidate.
	For sure I mean that.
	Here's Michael Weiss, another CIA guy.
	But also the clues about the bomb, Michael.
	What do you make?
	Nuts and bolts of shrapnel.
	The loud banging noise.
	The fact that it was seemingly carried.
	What does that mean to investigators?
	Well, I think as Klerus was pointing out, this wasn't a guy with a knife or an AK-47 even shooting up a bunch of people in a kind of amateurish manner.
	This was somebody who knew how to construct an IED.
	It's not easy to do that, Chris.
	I mean, a lot of people, whether they're in Afghanistan or in Germany, let's say, trying to build one of these bombs, more often than not, it blows up in your face, right?
	Why did he say Germany?
	Just hearing that now.
	Let's just say, I don't know, Germany.
	Something about that.
	Whether they're in Afghanistan or, you know, in Germany, let's say, trying to build one of these bombs, more often than not, it blows up in your face, right?
	So the success rate is low for constructing a device like this.
	Now, that's not to say this can't have been somebody who just really studied manuals for these kinds of things on the Internet.
	I mean, the Janiyah brothers, for instance, the Boston Marathon made a pressure cooker bomb by themselves, and there was no indication that they had any form of training.
	I would be very surprised if this was a lone wolf in the sort of classic sense.
	This might have been somebody who's not gone over to Syria and Iraq, but I don't think this was somebody acting alone.
	There was probably a network or other parties that were coordinated.
	You see, he's so soft on it.
	So soft.
	And you heard the previous show talking about he was wearing it.
	I should have pointed that one out as well.
	So here is what my sources tell me.
	This was a suicide vest, and that means this guy was a part of an actual, very real network.
	And I'm thinking now that the bomb was built in Germany.
	That slip is just way too...
	I don't know what's going on there.
	Well, that would explain a couple of things.
	One, because these guys are connected to Libya.
	Mm-hmm.
	And there's no way you're going to get those components, any of that stuff over.
	I mean, you're not going to necessarily buy a good suicide bomb, all the gear you need in London, because they're pretty suspicious about you.
	You know, can I buy this?
	I need a stick of dynamite or whatever you're going to use.
	You know, black powder, I'm not sure.
	But you can imagine something being constructed in Germany and then shipped over because of the, you know, you just move stuff.
	That's much easier, Mark.
	Yeah, so you can just drive it over, put it on the train, the channel, and go right into England, and you've got your German documents.
	Just wear it.
	Just wear it.
	Wear it on the train.
	Wear it.
	Yeah, just in case.
	So we know this.
	We know that he was wearing a vest, and the clue is that we had his identity.
	This is a gruesome story, but I do love it.
	It's so no agenda.
	Here's why we...
	How do you identify this guy?
	He blew himself up.
	Now, they're being real...
	Oh, he had a backpack.
	He was holding a bag.
	No, it was a vest.
	And you know why?
	Because when a suicide bomber is wearing a vest and he detonates, and just to go back to the vest, very valuable guys in the organization who can create these vests...
	These are valuable assets.
	The idiots on the news are like, well, you know, homemade.
	No.
	It's a skill, and the guys who can do that are kept safe in Germany.
	The reason why we have his identity is when these vests go off, the head pops off into the air completely intact and lands pretty much right near the blast zone.
	They had his head.
	Yeah.
	So they could ID him immediately, and that meant...
	Yeah, they run facial recognition on his head.
	Yeah.
	His head, like...
	And her head is gone.
	Pops off.
	Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, like a ping pong ball.
	Comes back to Earth.
	So they had those two pieces of information.
	And everyone was...
	I don't know, but...
	The fact that they had his identity so quickly and the New York Times and other outfits who got that from their intelligence sources started leaking it.
	That caused the problem somehow.
	Do you think they have to log in the head?
	It's the evidence.
	They put it in a plastic bag, for starters.
	Now, I'm wondering whether or not they take a picture of the head.
	Hell yes!
	So they can run it through the...
	And I wonder, because this has happened a number of times.
	Put it on a stick.
	If there is a stick.
	If there is some sort of a collection of these head shots.
	Oh my gosh.
	What a great art project.
	Yeah.
	And then, well...
	Okay, now we know if something happened that caught you think, there's a rift because they want to control the news at MI6. And let's say the globalists are involved.
	How about this?
	How about CIA? They're talking to journalists all the time.
	Oh, my God!
	That thing in Manchester, his head popped off.
	He had a 22-year-old, a douchebag.
	He had a great vest.
	And so everyone would go, oh, I'm going to report this!
	And then GCHQ goes, oh, you douches!
	So CIA's, oh, man, we'll take care of it.
	We got you covered.
	We'll send out our A-team, which we witnessed, Tara Mahler.
	We'll send out the A-team to go soft-pedal this a little bit.
	Something like that?
	Well, do you think, I mean, I'm reminded again of that segment of the book, A Family of Secrets, where Baker discusses the distinct possibility that the entire Watergate thing was done by the CIA as a botch on purpose.
	To cover up JFK's assassination.
	Well, maybe.
	I don't remember that being in there, but okay.
	But whatever the reason, they did the botched thing to get – the reason was to get Nixon out of office because Nixon was an anti-CIA guy.
	He thought they had too much power.
	Right.
	And there's a lot of clips that give us that indication from more than one source.
	No kidding.
	That girl, I'm thinking, this is not their A-team.
	No, of course it's not.
	She's a botcher.
	Maybe it's just her whole job is to go out there and she's a fast-talking dingbat.
	Sounds like she's from the Valley.
	Fast-talking dingbat.
	I would have to say that something's up.
	Because I've never heard of this woman before, that she'd be a spokesperson and representing the CIA. That is exactly what I thought.
	Why is this happening?
	Now, this event was used for...
	Is she pretty?
	Is she pretty, maybe?
	Yeah, it's okay.
	Okay, that's a plus.
	The news media, there's no way to show you exactly how they turned this into Trump.
	But Hillary Clinton did a pretty good job.
	She was talking about Manchester, again doing some kind of speech.
	My heart, as I know you feel the same, goes out to the families of victims and all who were injured and traumatized.
	Oh, she sounds so sincere.
	Oh, it gets better.
	And all who were injured and traumatized and to that city which reached for love not hate in such a dark hour and I have to say that I hope our country will always choose resolve over fear,
	never backing down from our commitment to work with those who stand against terrorism, but also to exemplify the same kind of compassion and caring that we've seen over the last 24 hours.
	Now, this...
	Yes!
	Yes, Queen!
	Yes!
	Please, that's so misplaced.
	And then something odd happened on Tucker, which one of my producers caught.
	One of our producers caught.
	One of your producers.
	I'm sorry.
	I don't know why I said that.
	I'm tired.
	Tourette's, the whole thing.
	I'm ticking like a mofo here.
	Tucker is going to get someone on the phone, and then he's waiting for this guy to come on the phone who's live in Manchester.
	But then some woman comes on and says something, and he just continues.
	But I'm not quite sure what to make of it, but it was certainly odd.
	This is a Fox News alert.
	Police have confirmed multiple fatalities, perhaps many, in the British city of Manchester after an Ariana Grande concert reportedly was rocked by an explosion, at least one Monday night.
	Jake Wallace Simons is an associate editor at DailyMail.com.
	He's on the scene there in Manchester, and he joins us now.
	Jake, can you hear me?
	Jake, can you hear me?
	He's a jerk.
	All right, we're going to get back to Jake's Wallace Simpson.
	So this woman also comes on and says he's a jerk.
	And I know she's referring to Tucker.
	Or to the reporter?
	But it was really odd.
	On the scene there in Manchester.
	And he joins us now.
	Jake, can you hear me?
	Jake, can you hear me?
	He's a jerk.
	Sounds from Valley Girl.
	She's referring to Jake.
	It's the same CIA woman.
	She's referring to Jake, who's a jerk.
	Now, who is this guy?
	Give me his name again.
	Jake who?
	Let's look him up.
	There may be something to this.
	Let me listen to him again.
	Hold on.
	He joins us.
	Who?
	He's on the scene there in Manchester.
	Jake Wallace?
	Jake Wallace?
	Jake Wallace Simons.
	Oh, Jake Wallace Simons.
	Jerk.
	Jerk Wallace.
	His name is Jerk, not Jake.
	It's Jerk.
	I think that was his name is Jerk.
	I don't know.
	I've got no Jake Wallace Simons I can even find here.
	He's from the British.
	Daily Mail, she said.
	He said.
	Wall of Simons?
	What was his name?
	Jake.
	Oh, I'm looking at the punks.
	Daily Mail Reporter.
	I'll try this.
	I got it.
	I think I got it.
	It is Jake Wallace Simons.
	Jake Wallace Simons.
	He is the editor?
	Let me see.
	Jake Wallace.
	Okay.
	His bio.
	About me.
	I am an award-winning British journalist and novelist.
	That's how I'd start my bio.
	I am an award-winning British journalist and novelist.
	I also podcast on the side.
	Currently associate editor at Daily Mail Online, which is one rung above a blogger.
	I cover UK and European politics in major foreign stories.
	Hmm.
	Jake, well, okay.
	He probably is a jerk with that kind of intro.
	Yeah.
	So apparently he was...
	I have had a...
	Listen to this.
	What were the circumstances of this woman doing this?
	Listen to this.
	This guy is interesting, John.
	I gotta read this to you.
	This is a great...
	Okay, read it.
	In addition to breaking political exclusives, I've reported extensively from overseas.
	Recently, I've covered the collapse of Venezuela, the migrant crisis in Greece, Macedonia, and Sicily, the rise of the far right in Finland and Germany, and the conflict in Syria.
	I've also been on the ground for all, all recent major terror attacks, including those in Stockholm, Istanbul, Berlin, Brussels, Nice, and Paris.
	This guy sounds like MI6.
	Thank you.
	I have, in the, No self-respecting journalist would say this about himself.
	I have had a particular impact covering anti-Semitism in British politics.
	Who says that?
	I don't even say we do good stuff on our own show.
	In 2015, I published a series of articles exposing Jeremy Corbyn's links with the anti-Semitic figures, and this led to what is now known as the labor anti-Semitism scandal.
	I have presented numerous radio documentaries for BBC. I'm a regular on Radio 4's from our own correspondent.
	I review the newspapers for Sky News and have presented TV for BBC Breakfast and others.
	Before I joined the Mail in 2015, I was a features writer at the Sunday Telegraph for about three years.
	Which means it was fired.
	It was there that I wrote my biggest piece of journalism, Meet the Settlers, a smorgasbord of digital wizardry that won the European Newspapers Award, was shortlisted for the British Press Award, and honored at the Webby's.
	Why?
	Honored at the Webby's?
	Honored at the Webby's title.
	Honored at the Webby's.
	That's insane.
	Who writes that?
	I, I, I. Isn't it the third person?
	Mr.
	Curry is known as the podfather.
	You know, something like that.
	I! In addition, I'm a novelist.
	I've written four books.
	Count them all, you fools.
	Four.
	Including the best-selling The English-German Girl, which I completed while gaining a PhD in creative writing at UEA, where I studied after gaining a first in English at St.
	Peter's College, Oxford.
	I'm a visiting fellow at Bournemouth University and I've lectured at Oxford and elsewhere.
	I am rocking!
	This is very unusual for British to be this braggart.
	I think you nailed it.
	It's very un-English.
	You nailed it.
	MI6? And to say, I've been on the ground at all of the recent major terror attacks.
	No piddly small ones, only the big ones.
	Stockholm, Istanbul, Berlin, Brussels, Nice, Paris.
	And now he's reporting from Manchester.
	He's a jerk, apparently, according to his girlfriend.
	Or somebody.
	Somebody's a jerk.
	That's very funny.
	Isn't that interesting?
	He's a funny...
	He looks like a guy...
	Yeah, he could be in my...
	I mean, I'm looking at a picture of him and it's an about-me thing.
	And he's got that frat...
	Like, there's always one guy in a frat.
	There's always...
	Completely plastered.
	He's just drunk all the time.
	That's what this guy looks like.
	He does look that way, you're right.
	Hey, man!
	One song, hey!
	Open up a brewski, man!
	Moving into another segment here, I just wanted to mention this headline I caught the other day.
	Facebook is...
	I think they're in trouble.
	They're not really...
	I mean, trouble may be relative in Facebook terms.
	But their likes, which is a key metric they use for advertisers, decreased by 38% when they purged fake accounts in April.
	But the problem is advertisers are still saying, well, you've got to talk to us about these...
	Fake likes.
	There's uncertainty in the marketplace with this.
	And they have now asked a serious request.
	They have asked the FBI to investigate millions of fake Facebook accounts.
	And I think the FBI is going, because they need, just like everyone else, if you can get the FBI, you can hire the FBI to lie for you.
	They're tight with the FBI anyway, we know that.
	Yeah, Mueller had an office in the Facebook building.
	Building, yeah.
	The FBI apparently uses Facebook as probably part of his investigative toolkit.
	A spokeswoman for FBI declined to confirm or deny the existence of an investigation, citing the Bureau's standard practice.
	Yeah.
	Except Comey was probably supposed to say, yeah, yeah, we're investigating that, so that the advertisers would feel good.
	And you just need to roll up one guy, oh, look at this click farm, we got him.
	We got him!
	It's all good.
	Advertise on.
	Well, advertisers are stupid.
	Oh, once again, you would have been fired.
	Not quite spikable, but worth listening to.
	Sir Kevin Dills, we have a lot of people to thank you, starting with him.
	Baron of the Mecklenburg County in Charlotte, North Carolina, came in with $128.64.
	He says, thanks for the travel karma.
	He's back in the good US of A. I'm halfway between Barron and Viscount.
	Whee!
	So we'll just wait for him to hit the mark.
	Sir Joseph Kasteen, $100, parts unknown.
	He does have a second knighthood in accounting.
	He sent some email in.
	He didn't catch that and so on.
	You want me to, well...
	See if you can find Kasteen.
	Kasteen.
	Let's see.
	Nope.
	Nothing.
	Oh, wait.
	Misspelling.
	Here we go.
	T-I-N-E. Here we go.
	Do I have...
	No, that's...
	No.
	Sorry, I don't have anything.
	I have...
	The last thing I got from Joseph Kasteen...
	I looked up Kasteen.
	I don't have anything since October 19th, 2016.
	I don't have an email either.
	Sorry.
	I think that relates to the other look-up that we did of him earlier in the show.
	Ah, okay.
	Not helping.
	We're going to have to resolve this later.
	Thomas Haney in Dublin, Ohio, $100.
	Aaron Held, $99.
	Gerald Preston, boob.
	Chelsea Sheldon, boob.
	And she has a birthday call-out for her.
	Yeah, she says, my boyfriend donated a boob for my birthday.
	Oh.
	My boyfriend donated a boot for my birthday!
	I thought I'd make it a pair!
	Woo!
	A full rack!
	Alright, yes, we'll say hi to Dan.
	Hank, thank you, Chelsea.
	Hank, I saw the picture of Chelsea, what's her name?
	Manning, that you're talking about.
	And?
	She looks good.
	She looks very good.
	Told you she's kind of hot.
	She's got a kind of a...
	Taylor Swift makeup job.
	Yeah, that's what you nailed it.
	Yeah, I nailed it.
	Tay-Tay.
	Got a Tay-Tay.
	Hank Von Eldrick.
	Eldick.
	Hank Von Eldick.
	8008.
	He's in Lithuania?
	Is he?
	I think so.
	No, that's Luxembourg, isn't it?
	No, that...
	I think so.
	I'm not sure.
	Could be.
	LU. War Room?
	Let us know.
	Something.
	Something out of the country.
	He needs a de-douching.
	Give him a de-douching.
	You've been de-douched.
	Sir Luke, the Baron of London, $58.99 in London, England.
	Sir Kevin Payne in Richmond, Virginia.
	His normal donation.
	We're already dropping down to this.
	Yeah, it's going fast.
	It goes fast.
	Yeah.
	By 4.32.
	Then we have Zachary Staley.
	Parts Unknown is to celebrate his donation anniversary parent's wedding.
	I think he's on the list, if I'm not mistaken.
	And his birthday.
	And his younger brother, Jason's birthday.
	Lots of stuff going on for $52.25.
	Scott Nelson in Melbourne, Florida.
	$50.01.
	And finally, Andrew Beard.
	These are all $50 donors.
	Name and location.
	We got to that quickly.
	Andrew Beard in Belmont, North Carolina.
	Jason Daniels.
	Patrick Maycomb.
	Sir Patrick may come to you in New York City.
	Brendan Menk, Sir Brendan, if I'm not mistaken, in Tempe, Florida.
	Sandy Geisler in Watkinsville, Georgia.
	James Butcher in Florissant, Missouri.
	Mitchell Kuffman in Hillsborough, Oregon, Hawaiian country.
	And last already, but not least, is Sir Bogdan LeHendro in Roanoke, Virginia.
	$50.
	And I want to thank all these folks for helping us produce the show.
	Nine or three, two.
	Nine, three, two.
	Nine, three, two.
	And I would like to particularly thank all the producers who knew that I was having a crazy week and cut clips and sent stuff in.
	Highly appreciated it.
	It is your show, after all, so that's the way it works.
	Regarding donations, yeah, I would rather we had more people at the lower end.
	I mean, I love that it's balanced out, but I don't think it's...
	This is two, three weeks in a row that the lower end has just fallen away.
	It's been tough, yeah.
	I'm telling you, John, you told me...
	Well, you've been talking about it for a while, 2017, but I think it's coming.
	I think the big, you know, let's just call it a reset, which will survive, hopefully, but We'll survive.
	Well, yeah.
	No, there's a reset.
	And that may be reflected in this because people who give the larger amounts of money are more...
	You know, they have...
	They're in good shape.
	They give us...
	You know, they like to...
	They have messages they want to relay, so they give $200 up.
	And so we don't want that to go away for sure.
	No.
	But then the lower guys, you know, $50 is a lot to some people.
	And...
	Hell yeah.
	It's a lot to a lot of people.
	Yeah, it's a lot to a lot of people.
	No kidding.
	Even though we do need it, and they're going to go out and buy something anywhere, they're going to get a parking ticket that's more than $50, at least around here.
	And so, but when they're Starting to think twice about stuff like that.
	That means the whole thing is ready.
	It's ready.
	It's like a rubber band.
	What is the fractal of the 2008 crash?
	Would that be something that's coming up now?
	Is there a fractal of that?
	No, no, no.
	The fractal of the 2008 crash was 1929, 1969.
	It was a major crash.
	So what will this one be?
	Just a massive correction?
	The fractal will be of 1937 is one example.
	1977 is another.
	The best one, the one I'm using as my model, is 1857.
	And it is a practical crash that happened during a moment when free money was being, in the case of currently free money, meaning quantitative easing, printing of extra money, buying a lot of bonds.
	In 1857, it was gold.
	Right.
	It was free money.
	Yeah, you're walking down, you know, you're on a stream in Sutter Creek and you...
	Hey, there's some gold.
	There's some gold.
	It's money.
	It's like you're printing your own money.
	It's a little more people's money instead of what they did with quantitative easing, which became the bank's money.
	Anyway, I think we are seeing some kind of effect.
	And I'm telling you, I'm seeing stuff.
	I'm seeing stuff happen.
	Could be a precursor.
	Could be.
	Little things happen when you start seeing stuff and it's like, well, this isn't good.
	No agenda producers, often the canary in the coal mine.
	It does happen.
	Before we do our birthdays and we have a couple title changes, a special karma request, night karma request.
	From episode one listener, Sir Rory Stone, Adam broke as a joke, unable to donate, would it be possible for a job karma on the house?
	I interviewed last week.
	I'm awaiting the call.
	I think some job karma can be the tipping point.
	Absolutely.
	Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
	Let's vote for jobs!
	Yay!
	You've got karma.
	That goes for all the rest of the people that need that karma.
	Everybody who needs jobs karma.
	And remember, we have another show coming up on Sunday.
	We do need your support.
	Dvorak.org slash NA. Janice Baroness of the Mutton and Mead belated happy birthday.
	We're so sorry.
	We screwed up not once, but twice.
	It was May 17th.
	That was on episode 9 or 3-0.
	Happy birthday from all of us here.
	Sorry about that.
	Chelsea Sheldon, happy birthday to her boyfriend, celebrated on the 24th.
	Zachary Stanley celebrates on the 28th.
	He also says happy birthday to his youngest brother, Jason, who will be celebrating on June 1st.
	Chris Wilson, who brought that great jingle to you today, Sir Chris, 52 on Sunday.
	And happy birthday to my buddy and friend of the show, Sir Gene, celebrating today.
	Happy birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the universe.
	Yes, two changes today.
	We have Sir Jason Daniels, who becomes Sir Jason Daniels, Duke of the South.
	That's right, another Duke on the radar.
	And Sir Joseph Kasteen becomes Baronet.
	Congratulations to both of you, and thank you for supporting the work here at the best podcast in the universe.
	No knightings, but that was kind of to be expected.
	But what was not expected, perhaps...
	We do have a knight in abeyance.
	A knight in a band?
	Yeah, the guy who we can't find the email from.
	Oh.
	But there's no knighting, I'm just saying.
	Okay.
	Well, we're going to fix it.
	Right?
	Right?
	Uh-oh.
	Uh-oh.
	That's right.
	Second half of show, everybody.
	Second half of show.
	I'm bringing this one up to reel you in, because you actually got me started on this one.
	Uh-oh.
	There's a new documentary out, and I don't know if you told me about the documentary, but you told me about Marilyn Monroe, Jackie Gleason, and the aliens.
	And this was separate after the show, and I thought it was interesting that you brought that up, because usually I think you do these things that make me go and look for stuff.
	No.
	No?
	I just do it just to inform you.
	Oh, thank you for informing me.
	So you're well informed.
	Thank you for informing me.
	Especially the Jackie Gleason story.
	That's very good.
	I like that.
	Well, this is called...
	Never been debunked.
	It's never been roundly debunked.
	It needs to be roundly debunked.
	Oh, it's going to get even better.
	This is a new documentary coming out, I think, the 28th.
	And it'll be on video on demand, so I'll be sure to watch.
	It's called Unacknowledged.
	And Jackie Gleason doesn't come up.
	But some other people do.
	Interestingly, there was a man on my executive committee.
	It was a very well-known actor and singer named Burl Ives.
	And Burl Ives, he was a 33rd degree mason.
	So all of you people who think that all these secret societies, everyone in it knows everything, they don't know anything.
	And he said to me, he says, we all know that Marilyn Monroe didn't die of an overdose.
	He said, do you know why they killed Marilyn?
	Mr.
	President...
	The late Marilyn Monroe.
	And I said, well, I didn't until I got this document.
	It's a virtual death warrant because she was found a couple days later.
	3 August 1962, wiretap of telephone conversations between reporter Dorothy Kilgallen, who was looking into Roswell and other UFO issues, and her close friend Howard Rothberg, from wiretap of telephone conversation of Marilyn Monroe and Attorney General Bobby Kennedy.
	Rothberg discussed the apparent comeback of the subject with Kilgallen and the breakup with the Kennedys.
	This is referring to the fact that Marilyn Monroe had been having an affair with not one but both Kennedy brothers and it was becoming conspicuous so they broke it off.
	Rothberg indicated in so many words that she had secrets to tell, no doubt, arising from her trysts with the President and the Attorney General.
	One such secret mentions the visit of the president at a secret air base for the purpose of inspecting things from outer space.
	Now, this is 1962.
	Kev Gohan said that if the story is true, it would be a terrible embarrassment for Jack and his plans to have NASA put men on the moon.
	We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.
	The subject repeatedly called the Attorney General and complained about the way she was being ignored by the President and his brother.
	The subject threatened to hold a press conference and would tell all.
	It's a tragic situation because she was an actress.
	She didn't understand the national security state and the viciousness of those who want to keep these sort of secrets.
	I can't wait for this one.
	This is going to be great.
	Now you have to tell your...
	Well, the Kilgallen thing is kind of interesting, too.
	Kilgallen was murdered after she was part of the, apparently because she knew who killed Kennedy.
	Yeah, Dorothy Kilgallen is worth looking into.
	Tell the Jackie Gleason story.
	Jackie Gleason, here's the Jackie Gleason story.
	And this was related, where did this story come from?
	I can't remember the exact origin of the story, but the story's been floating around and it's never been roundly debunked.
	And apparently Jackie's wife, one of the Meadows sisters, was when Jackie came back from this experience, he was she remembers him being incredibly shook up.
	Jackie Gleason was a good pal of Richard Nixon, and they would hang out once in a while.
	And Nixon, under some circumstances, was down in Florida, and he would occasionally and a lot of presidents used to do this, less so nowadays, ditch the Secret Service and jump into a car and go driving around because he liked to drive it.
	And there's been discussions about this.
	We may have even had some show clips where a lot of presidents get antsy after a couple of years in office because they like to drive, especially people from the West Coast or places where you drive a lot.
	I gotta drive.
	I gotta just get in the car and drive around or something.
	I was in Florida.
	Gleason had this variety show, and he ran it out of Florida instead of New York, which everyone's skeptical about, but it worked out fine.
	It gave a lot of people work.
	He shows up at his house, and he knocks on the door, and there's Nixon.
	And he invites him in.
	He says, you know, there's something.
	I know you're kind of like into certain...
	You kind of avoid talking with the wife around...
	I said, you got to come and I got to show you something.
	Nixon apparently knew that Gleason was a flying saucer nut.
	And so Nixon puts him in the Lincoln Continental, the way the story goes, and drives him to one of the local Air Force bases where the guy at the guard gate apparently just flags him through.
	Sees Nixon, and here he comes with Jaggi Gleeson.
	It's a funny scene, if you think about it.
	And so Nixon drives him around, and there's a warehouse, a big warehouse of some sort, in the way ditched somewhere, and there's some guards around it.
	And Nixon just, I guess, gives the guy the high sign, and they move over.
	And Nixon and Gleeson go in and find a repository of dead aliens.
	Keep going.
	So then, you know, it explains where they came from, because they were part of the Roswell 47 thing, maybe.
	I'm not sure of those details.
	But Nixon said, I know you've always been interested in flying saucers, so here you go.
	So then he drives Gleason back, who was all shook up after this, apparently.
	And Gleason, in a memoir or something, he says he never knew for sure that this wasn't just a gag.
	You know, some joke.
	It was a bunch of phony aliens, and they were all in water.
	They were all submerged in some goo.
	Or if it was true, he didn't know.
	But at the time, he believed it was an actual, like an alien mausoleum of some sort.
	And that's the way the story is.
	Well, I like it.
	It's a good story.
	Yeah.
	I recommend if people like these sorts of things without having to become a nut, you can read the Corso book.
	It's called The Day After Roswell.
	A fantastic book.
	This guy was an army guy.
	This book has been ignored, but never roundly debunked.
	It's not been roundly debunked.
	Speaking of such, maybe you or Mimi perhaps can help debunk this one.
	I was shocked when I heard in Portland, which I know is not exactly next door, but there is a list of over 40 restaurants that are being called out as appropriating other cultures as white people.
	And so here's the story.
	If you are a white person and you have a Mexican restaurant, you're appropriating the culture and you should be boycotted.
	If you're a white person and you own a sushi restaurant, appropriating culture, you will be boycotted.
	Where does this end?
	Well, somebody was sending an email in one of our producers discussing that he overheard A couple of blonde bimbos discussing who are obviously into this, Democrats, saying, is it okay to have a black baby?
	No!
	That's appropriating black culture.
	That's what they were literally talking about.
	Oh my god.
	Interracial sex was appropriating culture.
	Oh my...
	And this is how your brain will fry eventually.
	This is what is happening.
	Because there's too many rules.
	And I'm just going to say, industrial society and its future.
	Go read it.
	This is exactly what Professor Ted said.
	Because of over-socialization, and he used that word before there was even social networks...
	There are so many things that you can't say because you'll offend someone or there are rules that you will break that, you know, when you get totally contradictory, like, absolutely, you should have a black baby.
	You should have a black baby by adoption.
	You should have a black, any brown baby, whatever baby you want.
	It's appropriation.
	It's appropriating the other race's color or baby.
	It's baby appropriation.
	No wonder people's heads are popping off and just frying, man.
	Frying.
	It's very, very bad.
	And then Ben and Jerry in Australia.
	Can't wait.
	Can't wait to go to Australia.
	They're banning two scoops of the same flavor ice cream until marriage equality comes to Australia.
	Come on.
	Way to appropriate culture for your own financial gain.
	Social justice warriors Ben and Jerry.
	Please.
	I had a thought.
	We're still working on the Australia trip.
	The most expensive part is the flight.
	Well, we're going to go to Auckland.
	And Ben, I apologize if I keep saying Australia.
	It's Australia and New Zealand.
	If you say, hey, we're going to Australia, and you imply you're going to New Zealand, then you could get shot when you land in Auckland.
	Here's a thought.
	The current plan is to fly on New Zealand Air.
	Do any of our producers have miles they can share?
	Oh, that's a thought.
	That would be a really cool way to get us at least, you know, economy comfort.
	Completely lose your ass on this trip.
	Yes, thank you.
	We're the two no-agenda listeners down there.
	Hey, where'd my money go?
	We've got two in Perth, we've got two in Brisbane, we've got two in Sydney.
	Where'd my money go?
	Oh, oh, oh, oh, we have to open it up.
	Great report from Florida.
	This is Cape Coral.
	Now, Cape Coral is about the same height as Miami, only it's on the other side.
	Now, what we've heard continuously is the ocean...
	It's on the Gulf?
	It's on the Gulf side?
	Yes, it's on the Gulf side?
	Yeah, but that's still the same water, correct?
	Correct.
	I would think so.
	If I look on my map, there's water here and water there.
	So we know that in Miami, fish are flopping around on the street.
	Yeah, fish.
	Hashtag fish.
	Fish are flopping around on the street.
	Everyone's seen it.
	The president himself has said it.
	Oh, yeah.
	The former president.
	Fish.
	Oh, yeah.
	Obama.
	And this is solely because of global warming, climate change, man-made poison, that the oceans are rising, Miami is flooding.
	Yeah.
	Oddly, just on the other side, same longitude.
	Longitude?
	Latitude.
	As a pilot, I should know.
	Longitude would be the other way around.
	Same latitude.
	Same water.
	No.
	It's very frustrating.
	Very frustrating.
	I don't know why it's mono.
	Sorry about that.
	Ron Brandich has been landlocked on his canal.
	We've lived here five years.
	This is the lowest I've ever seen it.
	He and thousands of others in Cape Coral are dealing with a historic drought for Ron.
	He sees it firsthand living on a canal near Nelson Road.
	You can't move that boat at all.
	I mean, it's actually in the sand.
	It's not good.
	For the past few weeks, running 24 hours a day, water has been pumping from Charlotte County into Cape Coral's canals.
	The city has the capability of pumping 17 million gallons of water a day, not only to help folks enjoy the canals, but also for the community's safety.
	That safety concern falls with the fire department's ability to battle fires.
	They rely on canal water.
	The utility director says the city is on the right path.
	We're seeing positive results north of Pine Island Road, where if there was a grass fire, anything like that, the fire department can draft water from the canals and put the fire out.
	Just across the canal from Ron, the Kovacs haven't done much boating either, but are hopeful because they've seen the canal rise a few inches in the last week.
	I hope that they're going to push some more out.
	Even so, both the city and those affected know it'll take more than the pumps.
	We need help from the big man in the sky.
	We need some help from him.
	Now this is...
	I'm sorry about it.
	A little distracting, that weird stereo they had there.
	But this is just a stone's throw from the Gulf.
	That should be flooded.
	They have a drought.
	There should be fish in the streets.
	They should not have to move the boat.
	Just fish right off of the boat.
	It should be just popping right into their boat.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, well, welcome to the world of scammer news.
	I believe the Trump administration is presenting a budget this week.
	Yes, being presented.
	There's a bunch of debates.
	It's all bad.
	It's going to kill people.
	It's going to kill people.
	Oh, everyone's going to die.
	Some of the new twisted stuff going on in Congress is like this clip.
	This is blaming Trump.
	Now, it's Obamacare, which is, you know, getting expensive.
	Mm-hmm.
	It's still in play.
	It's the law of the land, Obamacare.
	But they're blaming Trump for it being a piece of crap.
	And may I just point out that Tina has outstanding health insurance, and I think we're just a little over five months until the common law says I can be on her plan.
	Yeah.
	And she doesn't see it as she pays for it, because she doesn't see it, but of course she's paying for it.
	I believe it's $500 or $600 a month.
	But I went through this whole process with her.
	It's part of the Ronald McDonald House, part of the healthcare system.
	They have really good healthcare.
	Yet, only 20% is covered.
	And she had her deductible, which is over $1,000.
	And then she's in the pre-op, and the administration nurse comes by with a little mobile station.
	Yeah, that'll be $1,437.
	Huh.
	Right there on the spot.
	Yeah.
	Give it the money.
	Or get out.
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	Obamacare.
	Yeah, sorry.
	I didn't mean to interrupt.
	This is the clip.
	We see health insurers and state officials say Trump is undermining Obamacare and pushing up rates.
	Health insurers plan big Obamacare rate hikes and they blame Trump.
	Perhaps the greatest damage has been done by the administration's refusal to commit to funding cost-sharing subsidies.
	Bullcrap!
	Bullcrap!
	That's a lie!
	That was the only concession that had to be made.
	This is the senator from New Hampshire.
	What a liar!
	That's a lie!
	Oh my gosh!
	Here's a better big lie that's going on.
	This is my...
	I want to hear the rest of this now.
	Commit to funding cost-sharing subsidies.
	The federal subsidy...
	That's the corridor, what they call the risk corridor.
	...that help millions of people pay for coverage.
	To protect themselves, many insurance companies are preparing two sets of premiums for next year.
	Oh, please.
	One premium level.
	Alright, I'm done.
	Yeah, I'm done.
	Liar.
	Liar!
	I can read, lady.
	Okay, what's the other one?
	Well, this is another story they're trying to get some traction on because they got it.
	Like I said, the theory is you got to keep this in the news.
	You got to keep the Russian thing bubbling until the elections in 2018.
	And so here's one of the latest ploys.
	And if anyone – this is out of Deutsche Welle.
	I think this is where they're testing it.
	They're test marketing the idea in Germany to see if they can play it over here.
	And it may show up over here in the news.
	But this is the Trump Deutsche Bank and the Russians.
	Ha, ha.
	I heard this.
	I have a contact, so we'll get more info.
	The German bank could be key to clarifying those ties or alleged ties between Russia and Donald Trump.
	It's a story that is just starting to develop, Brenda, as we know, and we have to keep an eye on that because despite the efforts by the White House, voices saying that Donald Trump is hiding something regarding his ties to Russia.
	Wait a minute.
	Did he just say voices say?
	Is he hearing voices now?
	Let me hear that again.
	It's a story that is just starting to develop, Brenda, as we know, and we have to keep an eye on that because despite the efforts by the White House, voices saying that Donald Trump is hiding something regarding his test.
	Am I mishearing this?
	I think you might be, but I don't know what he said.
	It sounds like he's saying, voices say...
	Voices.
	Oh, I'm hearing voices.
	What it sounded like.
	I'm hearing voices.
	And as we know, and we have to keep an eye on that, because despite the efforts by the White House, voices saying that Donald Trump is hiding something regarding his ties to Russia are still very loud.
	Now, House Democrats are now asking...
	Yeah, he's saying it.
	Oh, the voices in my head are so loud.
	They're saying, maybe they're using the ray gun.
	Donald Trump is hiding something regarding his ties to Russia are still very loud.
	Now, House Democrats are now asking Germany's Deutsche Bank to provide information on credits given to Donald Trump.
	Deutsche lent millions to Trump, even in difficult times.
	But who guaranteed them?
	Could it be Russia?
	That's what U.S. Democrats now want to find out.
	If you want to know who really owns buildings like this, it pays to look at the small print.
	A string of Trump resorts and hotels were financed with loans from Deutsche Bank.
	US politicians say Trump still owes Germany's number one bank $340 million.
	What bothers them is that Deutsche was still being generous to the then presidential candidate while other banks were turning their noses up at him because of his numerous bankruptcy filings.
	One of the loans came to $170 million to redevelop Washington's old post office.
	So who is giving Deutsche the guarantees for these hundreds of millions?
	House Democrats suspect Russia and want clarification.
	Congress remains in the dark on whether loans Deutsche Bank made to President Trump were guaranteed by the Russian government or were in any way connected to Russia.
	That's the pivotal sentence in a letter to Deutsche from Democrat members of the House Financial Services Committee.
	The suspicion is that Russia may have hoped to curry favor with a potential Trump administration.
	A stunning thought.
	For its part, Deutsche is still holding its internal reviews of the Trump loans under lock and key, and isn't obliged to publish them either.
	Well, you know that I'm going to send this clip to my former New York banker who worked at Deutsche, and I'll get the exact...
	He'll tell me.
	And it probably was...
	You know, it was secured by other property or, you know, all kinds of stuff.
	Yeah, no, you secure it with other property.
	You secure it with the property itself.
	What government says, hey, that guy over there?
	Sure.
	No problem.
	These guys are naive.
	Or stupid or just conniving.
	Well, you know, the theater...
	They have a whole theory about how they were washing, how Deutsche was whitewashing rubles.
	There's a whole frontline episode on Deutsche Bank issues.
	But, for example, if they're guaranteeing the loans, which is what they imply, then why does Trump still owe $341 million in the Deutsche Bank?
	It's in the report.
	Why didn't they call Russia and get the money?
	Because...
	Voices, man.
	What kind of...
	I'm sorry.
	I can't get past this.
	We had the first thing.
	I don't even remember what that stupid woman said.
	But now it's voices are very loud.
	Oh, well, it must be true.
	No self-respecting journalist starts a report like that.
	That's maybe for the end.
	Voices are loud.
	The New York Times reports like that.
	Well, it could be shit.
	It could be great.
	You never know.
	That's the New York Times.
	They're always hedging.
	But to start with it?
	I don't know.
	I'm not a journalist, so you tell me.
	I don't think it's okay.
	It's sloppy.
	Everything we're seeing is bullcrap.
	I mean, these anonymous reports.
	You want some news.
	You're bent out of shape when you bring it up.
	You want some news about the budget and about Obamacare and about healthcare in America and money and where the money's going.
	Comptroller General Gene Dodaro...
	I had a little hearing and he just talked about 2016.
	First is the area of improper payments in the federal government.
	These are payments that should not have been made or were made in the wrong amounts.
	Since the Congress has required the executive departments and agencies to estimate the amount of improper payments every year since 2003, the cumulative number of improper payments have been reported In excess of $1.2 trillion.
	So it's a significant amount of money.
	The annual figures that have been reported have grown over the last three years from $125 billion to $137 billion to the most recent estimate in 2016 to $144 billion.
	This includes estimates for 112 programs at 22 federal agencies.
	So it is a pervasive problem.
	As you pointed out, Mr.
	Chairman, in your opening remarks, three large federal programs constitute the large amount of improper payments, Medicare, Medicaid, and earned income tax credit, but there are...
	A number of programs across government where this problem is an issue.
	There are 14 federal programs where there's over a billion dollars reported in improper payments.
	Eleven programs report estimates of over 10% error rates across federal government.
	Now, as significant as these numbers are, they're understated.
	There are 18 risk-susceptible programs, large programs, like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and for 2016, the SNAP program, Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, that did not report estimates at all.
	And there are some federal agencies that do not report that they are susceptible to improper payment estimates.
	So, for a number of years now, we've identified a material weakness in our audits of the federal government's financial statements on improper payments that the federal government really is not able to determine the extent of this problem across the government or have a reasonable prospect that it's managing it properly to reduce these improper payments.
	There was a time when I was a kid that the pitchforks would come out over something like this.
	Are you kidding me?
	That's the tip of the iceberg, too.
	The entire Pentagon has not been audited for, what, a decade?
	No longer.
	Ever.
	And they're just throwing money at it?
	But this is Medicare, Medicaid.
	Yeah.
	This is exactly the problem.
	This is exactly the problem.
	And maybe, you know, all these people running around saying, oh, people are going to die, is taken away from Medicare.
	Maybe they're just going to go solve the fraud.
	Maybe that's the plan.
	You solved the fraud.
	You solved the problem.
	Because your clips, your bimps are on the list.
	These are the clips you last time diss.
	If you forget to play these clips, you'll be a dispel.
	Since we only have about 10 minutes left, I figure we'll just do a little clip off.
	Maybe you have a few you want to get rid of before we bid adieu.
	Well, I actually put together a long piece, which I'll have to push off.
	You sure?
	If you want to take all the clip time for that, it's okay with me.
	No, it would take forever.
	This is a long piece.
	This is something I developed because you said, oh, get some extra clips, so I worked up an entire piece.
	Oh, what, can you just lift the veil a little for us?
	Yeah, it's about campus rape.
	Nice!
	And it's about...
	Finally, your education package.
	Here's what part of it.
	But I do have a teaser.
	Ooh.
	For the whole piece.
	So if you want to just play the teaser, then people will get an idea of what it's going to maybe be about.
	This is the campus rape teaser.
	Okay, this will be a teaser for Sunday, people.
	Pay attention.
	Occidental University.
	Imagine yourself being judged by people under the influence of Professor Danielle Dirks.
	That's a real person.
	She's an anti-male ideologue who calls herself a feminist.
	And who has told New York Magazine, for example, that most male college students, quote, are calculated predators who seem like nice guys, but they're not nice guys, end quote.
	Most.
	That's like the definition of an anti-male ideologue, I'd say.
	Danielle Dirks persuaded a first-year Occidental student to complain to the college's sex bureaucrats that she had been raped because she had been somewhat drunk and because the guy with whom she had drunken sex fit the profile of other campus rapists.
	The guy fit the profile, Dirks explained, to the first-year woman because of certain traits.
	He had a high GPA in high school, strike one.
	He was his class valedictorian, strike two.
	He was on a sports team, strike three.
	And he was from a good family.
	You're out.
	That was the definition of a rape profile subject by this professor.
	The evidence showed clearly that the sex was consensual.
	The young woman had expressed eagerness for sex in text messages, the details of which we have, including one message making sure that the guy had a condom before she went to join him in his room for sex.
	She made no allegation that he'd used horse.
	No allegation that she said no.
	No allegation that she said stop or tried to get away.
	Nonetheless, an accidental panel found the guy guilty and he was expelled.
	The sole basis for the guilty finding was that the accuser had been drunk, which of course did not make the accused male a criminal.
	His drunkenness was deemed irrelevant.
	Wow, I can't wait for this.
	This is going to be great.
	The guy's life was ruined, by the way.
	He also was in possession of one other important thing, a penis.
	You never hear about any other kind of rape.
	And he could also, he could not get into another school.
	Oh, no, he's done.
	You're done.
	But there's example after example.
	This guy's book, for people who want to read it, instead of listening to the little presentation, which he did on C-SPAN, of course...
	It's Stuart Taylor, and the book is The Campus Rape Fantasy.
	He discusses everything.
	Very, very educational.
	Two clips here.
	I got another one of my favorites, a podcast clip with a journalist.
	Yes, there's nothing like it.
	There's nothing, nothing like it.
	I do them.
	Podcasts are better than anything, especially when people are oblivious that they sound like crazy nutjobs.
	Yeah.
	This is Jeremy Scahill with the guy, the professor, Abu Kali, who runs the Angry Arab News blog.
	Which I read.
	I think you read that, don't you?
	I've seen it.
	I look at it.
	You had that bizarre scene where they were all touching that glowing...
	This is about the president in Rome with the Pope.
	No, no, no.
	This was in Saudi Arabia.
	I'm sorry.
	What am I talking about?
	Yes, with the orb.
	The orb.
	The orb.
	Everyone wants to know what the orb is.
	You had that bizarre scene where they were all touching that glowing orb.
	What the hell was that about, by the way?
	Well, I thought it was some pagan rituals, the secrets of which we still do not.
	I know.
	I couldn't help myself.
	Oh, I thought it was some pagan rituals?
	Mmm, and my dot started to glow.
	That's right, you're very racist, Curry.
	Stop doing that.
	Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop.
	The absurdity of the theatrics.
	I mean, this was the inauguration of a center for the combat of extremism.
	We have basically assigned the Saudi Wahhabi regime We're good to go.
	But they have no problem with the most extremist, fanatical, anti-Semitic, misogynistic schism within Islam, and that's Wahhabia.
	So they are at peace with Wahhabia and at war with Islam.
	That's Trump's policies towards the Islamic world.
	I think there's something to it.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, well, I don't think Trump knows Wahhabism from Salafism.
	From hobbyism.
	Sufism from anything else.
	From Wahhabism to soup Nazi.
	I mean, he has no soup Nazi.
	No soup for you.
	He has no idea what he's talking about.
	No service for you!
	The last one I have is a trip back in time to 1998 Maxine Waters.
	Now she's calling for connecting the dots and impeaching Donald Trump.
	We've got to impeach him.
	She was around when Bill Clinton got impeached.
	Are you interested in hearing what she said?
	We all want to hear it, Max.
	Come on.
	I thought you'd want to.
	Mr.
	Speaker, members, how must our American soldiers feel to have their commander-in-chief under attack while they are engaged in battle?
	They have the right to feel betrayed and undermined.
	Today we are here in the People's House debating the partisan impeachment.
	Of the President of the United States of America, while the Commander-in-Chief is managing a crisis and asking world leaders for support.
	This is indeed a Republican coup d'etat.
	Mr.
	Speaker and members, Americans, all the Republicans will couch this extremist, radical anarchy in pious language, which distorts the Constitution and the rule of law.
	Bill and Hillary Clinton are the real targets, and the Republicans are the vehicles being used by the right-wing Christian coalition extremists to direct and control our culture.
	The rule of law has been violated in denying the president notice of charges by the abuse of power in the collecting of so-called evidence.
	And the denial of the presumption of innocence.
	President Clinton is not guilty of the trumped-up charges presented in these four articles of impeachment.
	Yes, Bill Clinton is guilty of certain indiscretions in his private life.
	Grab him by the pussy!
	However, he did not commit high crimes and misdemeanors.
	Rather, the president is guilty of being a populist leader.
	Who opened up government and access to the poor, to minorities, to women and to the working class.
	President Clinton is guilty of not being owned by the good old southern boys or the good old eastern establishment.
	President Clinton is guilty of being smart enough to outmaneuver the Republicans in the budget negotiations, electoral politics and the development and implementation of the people's agenda.
	Ladies and gentlemen, I am an African-American woman.
	I'm accustomed to having to fight and struggle for fairness and justice.
	Ken Starr, I know and recognize abuse of power when I see it.
	You are guilty.
	However, I am greatly disappointed in the raw, unmasked, unbridled hatred and meanness that drives this impeachment coup d'etat.
	The unapologetic disregard for the voice of the people.
	My Republican friends, what you do here today will long be remembered and recorded in history as one of the most despicable actions ever taken by the Congress of the United States of America.
	I dare the Republicans of this House to allow themselves to move just one inch and give me and my colleagues the opportunity to vote for an alternative.
	I dare you to be fair.
	I dare you to allow us to vote for censure.
	I yield back to balance.
	I thought that was just beautiful.
	Just beautiful.
	Everything she said could be applied to today's situation.
	Every single thing, right down to populist president, outsmarted in electoral politics.
	Whoa!
	Yeah, it's a gem.
	What happened to Hillary won the general election?
	Yeah, they'll be in the show notes, niner32.noagendanotes.com.
	It's a beauty.
	I'm glad you liked it.
	Anything else from you, sir?
	No, I'm good.
	I think that's a great way to end the show.
	There's nothing better than ending my day with a little Maxine.
	The best part of waking up is Maxine in your cup.
	All right, bye.
	We'll be back on Sunday.
	With John's college rape expose.
	Very excited about that.
	Very excited.
	It's depressing, so we'll do it early in the show.
	Okay, we'll do it early in the show.
	Thank you, War Room.
	Thank you, Void Zeroes, Sir Bemrose, everybody doing everything.
	And all of our end of show tune creators, they are also listed in the credits of the show notes.
	You can find all the show notes at archive.noagendanotes.com.
	Coming to you from downtown Austin, Texas, in the common law condo, specifically in the Cludio.
	Good morning, everybody.
	I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where it's windy and miserable, I'm John C. Dvorak.
	We'll return on Sunday.
	Please remember us at dvorak.org.
	We know all the support we can get, especially in the lower regions.
	Bring it to us down there, will you please?
	Until then...
	Adios, mofos!
	and stay woke.
	I took my troubles down to Adam and John's.
	I knew that something had gone terribly wrong.
	They give you a way out of dimension fee Selling little bottles of love potion 33 I was just like all the other slaves I need a podcast that would make me brave.
	They hit me in the mouth on no agenda screen.
	They said what you need is Love Potion 33.
	Jumping down and turned around and gave me a wink.
	Adam's gonna make it up right here at the scene.
	It smelled like turpentine, it looked like Indian ink.
	I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink.
	I didn't know if it was day or night.
	I deconstructed everything inside.
	But when Maxine Waters came up on my TV, she broke my little bottle of Love Potion 33.
	I held my nose, I closed my eyes, I took a drink. I took a drink.
	I didn't know if it was day or night.
	I deconstructed everything inside.
	But when Maxine Waters came up on my TV, she broke my little bottle of Love Potion 33.
	Love Potion 33.
	Potion 33.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	You been drinking again?
	Damn it.
	You never drink on this show.
	You never drink on this show.
	Oh, okay.
	I didn't know about the rule.
	It's huge.
	It's a huge rule.
	Who keeps stuff running.
	Holy crap.
	Yeah, well, I'm running our noagendasocial.com server.
	Oh, right.
	Yes.
	Did I get it fixed so I could actually upload GIFs?
	It's interesting.
	I'm going, hey, this is broken.
	Fix it!
	Oh, yeah.
	And then I perform a GIF pull and upgrade, and then the number of people...
	Who put in two-factor authentication on noagentasocial.com on like a Twitter site.
	Why?
	I know.
	I set up a little bot, you know, when you show prep, the thing goes through, then, you know, it's post that.
	People are like, the bot is spammy!
	The bot is spammy!
	Start the bot is spammy!
	You can mute or block the bot.
	But now, now, they gotta tweet me and they gotta email me.
	I don't know how those guys do it.
	I don't know how guys do it.
	I think they're all criminally insane by this point.
	I had something cool happen with this great open source project.
	I'm being very, uh, uh, what is it?
	Uh...
	Cynical.
	Cynical, thank you.
	It was a great project.
	All of a sudden, a little trademark shows up.
	Yes, we're now placing trademark next to the Mastodon name.
	Okay.
	Well, there you go.
	That's the end of it.
	That's the beginning of the end.
	That's the beginning of the end.
	Yeah.
	VC money coming in soon.
	It's going to ruin us.
	It's a fun experiment.
	We're learning a lot.
	A lot.
	Our people, our people, our producers, they're pretty fanatical.
	Yes, sir.
	It's a good thing.
	Yeah.
	It's what you want.
	Now what they did was they gave the person they were pushing onto the track a name.
	Right by the front of the...
	If there's any moment that the press in our country's history has a major role, it is this moment.
	People's noses.
	Where is this?
	It's about people's noses out there.
	So people can understand what is going on.
	It's a toast to me.
	It's a failure.
	Do you push me?
	I get first noses.
	It's about people's.
	It's about the fight.
	It's all about democracy.
	What?
	Even after the events of this week, this is about the fight.
	It's all about democracy.
	What?
	Even after the events of this week, we go, let's do it.
	This is about the fight.
	It's all about democracy.
	What?
	Even after the events of this week?
	Absolutely.
	We go, let's do it.
	How about the cellulose upload?
	It's very political.
	It's on the other side of the road.
	It's a horrible issue.
	The issue is to keep people off cytosin.
	And I'm going through the ceremony.
	And then I'm glad.
	That was to be politically xenophobic.
	In this country, it was very different.
	The whole thing is to keep people off.
	And the food reports are adding them and the people's gang.
	And the homie was just completely discussed.
	And the man for you.
	To get me seen.
	The questions are in the comments.
	Lots of what happened.
	The whole thing is to keep people off.
	The whole thing is to keep people off.
	Brain under stress.
	Your amygdala will have grown larger.
	Wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
	How do you know your frontal cortex is in great shape?
	Oxytocin.
	It's spray oxytocin through the vents and like...
	Oxy...
	It's spray oxytocin through the...
	Oxy...
	Your frontal cortex will have become more sluggish.
	It's spray oxytocin through the vents and like Costco all over this pool.
	It's spray oxytocin through the vents and like Costco all over this country.
	And this has now entered the realm of neuroplasticity, the fact that the brain can change in response to experience.
	And for example, if you've now just spent these last few months mired in trauma and stress...
	Your amygdala will have grown larger.
	It will form new connections.
	The circuits there will be more oxytocin.
	Your amygdala will have grown.
	Oh my god, this is fantastic, John!
	Oh, my.
	The tipping point came yesterday when it was revealed that former FBI Director James Comey had taken notes about his February meeting with President Trump.
	Does this guy have to take an unbelievable dump or what?
	Comey wrote that President Trump said, I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Fling go.
	He is a good guy.
	That raised the specter of obstruction of justice.
	And today, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein decided that the Justice Department could no longer run the investigation.
	He authorized...
	Does this guy have to take an unbelievable number one?
	He has to take a grab any minute.
	We're going to take a dump.
	Last, last, last, last night, the House Oversight Committee asked the FBI to produce all of the notes of former Director Comey's conversations with the President.
	But what, but what can we do?
	Everybody, everybody, the commissioner who is all...
	Does this guy have to take an unbelievable...
	Comey, Comey wrote that President Trump said...
	Does this guy have to take an unbelievable dump or what?
	He Save
	the world!
	Save the world!

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