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	Put on your seatbelt.
	Get back here to your seat, slave.
	Adam Curry, John C. Devorak.
	And Sunday, June 11th, 2017, this is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination, Episode 9 or 3, 7.
	This is No Agenda.
	Battling the Algos of Gitmo Nation and broadcasting live from the darkest corners of the internet here in the capital of the drone star state in the Cludio.
	In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley where we ask the question, is it Algo or Al Gore?
	I'm John C. DeVore.
	Well, the essential question is, does it make a difference?
	Al Gore!
	Al Gore!
	Al-go.
	Al-go, Al-goer.
	Maybe Al-goer should Al-go.
	Oh, that's a good one.
	I like that.
	Al-goer, Al-go.
	Yes, very nice.
	In the morning to you, sir.
	In the morning to you.
	How's everything going there?
	What's the weather like?
	Rain, they said again.
	Oh, really?
	Weird.
	Very well.
	We have a lot of good news.
	None of it good, I mean.
	We have a lot of news.
	Just a lot of news.
	Yeah, that's a lot of news.
	We got the British thing, which I have a good...
	I have finally figured out the mechanism.
	Well, let's start with that.
	Let's start with the British thing.
	Well, I've been trying to figure out exactly what it was that happened that they couldn't foresee, but then I realized that they could have foreseen it.
	And it's all kind of explained, but we're discussing here the British election, the snap election that...
	I would say, I don't know if you'd call her an idiot, but Theresa May decided to have so she can consolidate her power, even though she had the majority and they were running things.
	But she wanted more.
	She got greedy.
	Now, they had a very narrow margin win the last election, did they not?
	No, they had the majority.
	But it was narrow.
	It was narrow, but once you get to that certain point...
	Yeah, 326, yeah.
	You end up getting to run the presidential coalition.
	And maybe just briefly explain, because a lot of people don't understand the parliamentary system, and certainly not Americans, because, you know, we have a two-party system.
	There's no independence or anything else.
	So you can have as many parties as you want, and you have to have, very much like the Electoral College in the United States, you have to have at least the majority, there's 326, in order to govern.
	And if no party has it, then you've got to put a coalition together.
	Right.
	So it looks like they're going to get the dupes from Northern Ireland.
	Is it dupe or dup?
	I don't know what it is.
	Dupe?
	Democratic Unionist Party.
	It's a Democratic Unionist Party, which is a bunch of Presbyterians that seem to be running the place, and they are for Brexit.
	Although this is kind of interesting, there seems to be, if you listen to enough news reports, which I ended up doing, there's a bunch of people that say they're against Brexit, and then a bunch of people that say they're for Brexit.
	I think they're for Brexit by their nature.
	Aren't they all against gays?
	They're against gays.
	Well, they're not against gays per se.
	I think that's what they like to portray.
	They're against gay marriage.
	Oh, okay.
	Which nowadays, if you're against gay marriage, you're against gays.
	Right.
	And they're very conservative.
	I have some great gay stuff coming up later on for you.
	I can imagine.
	Oh, you'll love it.
	So let's start with this one.
	British election.
	This is the British election in a nutshell, PBS. A demonstrator wearing a May mask laid flowers on a mock grave amid rising calls for the Prime Minister to resign.
	Labour leader Corbyn led the charge.
	It was her campaign, it was her decision to call the election, it was her name out there, and she was saying she was doing it to bring about strong and stable government.
	Well, this morning it doesn't look like a strong government, it doesn't look like a stable government, it doesn't look like a government that has any programme whatsoever.
	Corbyn's success came in part from cooperating with the grassroots campaign organisation Momentum, which took advice from Bernie Sanders volunteers.
	Adam Klug is a national organiser.
	You build up relationships with people on the doorstep, you listen to them, you communicate your ideas effectively and help train people on persuading people of why Labour's policies made sense.
	Ha ha!
	Whoa!
	Portraining!
	Persuading!
	Not training, persuading!
	I'm so sorry.
	Why Labour's policies made sense.
	But May's opponents aren't the only ones questioning her role.
	Anna Soubry is a Conservative member of Parliament.
	This is a very bad moment for the Conservative Party, and we need to take stock, and our leader needs to take stock as well.
	Yes, take stock!
	Stock!
	Uh...
	That, by the way, a couple things about that clip.
	One where they said they had a mock grave.
	Yeah.
	And they had somebody dressed up as the, you know...
	Uncle Sam.
	Death.
	As death.
	Oh.
	And the mock grave.
	And the mock grave was it didn't have Teresa's may name on it.
	It had Brexit.
	Ah, okay.
	Well...
	They didn't bring that...
	They didn't want to say anything about that, but this is something of a Brexit redo.
	Is this a done deal?
	Is this a done deal with the...
	The dubs?
	The dubs?
	Yeah, the dubs.
	That's a done deal.
	It'll be interesting.
	I think it's a done deal because the dupes had come out publicly and said, yeah, they're all in.
	Because they actually will have a lot of power because they'll have the final deciding votes and stuff in many cases, won't they?
	Well, yeah, but I don't think it's going to be as big a deal as a lot of people like to make it out to be.
	Well, hello, we're not in M5M media.
	You've got to make it a big deal if you're doing that kind of stuff.
	Theresa May campaign takedown.
	This was a good little clip.
	May has been criticized for running a lackluster campaign.
	It was marked by a proposal to force elderly people to pay more for their care and her decision to skip a televised debate.
	Then came the terror attacks in Manchester and London, which refocused the race on security and May's role in cutting police ranks.
	Wait, wait, wait.
	So they're going to blame the terrorism on her now because she cut the funding to the London police.
	This is the clip that we had the last show that I was befuddled by where the mayor of London, who is now slated to become the next head of the Labour Party, the mayor of London kept harping on this.
	And I said, why doesn't he blame the Home Secretary?
	Why may, may, may?
	Yes, of course.
	It was a political point.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Wait a minute.
	So you're telling me that Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, used the death of people and the maiming of up to, what, 50, 60 people for political reasons?
	Gee.
	Gee, hold on.
	Let me just give him a little present.
	Douchebag!
	There you go, douche knuckle.
	That's despicable.
	Definitely.
	Now, let's play this.
	There's another one.
	This is kind of interesting.
	I got one more clip after this, and then I have my conclusion.
	You'll see.
	Oh, yeah, obviously.
	It's too obvious.
	Theresa May, the Coalition, and Borrowed Time.
	For now, May needs a coalition partner to form a governing majority in Parliament, most likely Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party.
	The group is pro-Brexit, but well to the right on social issues.
	There's broad agreement across the political spectrum that Theresa May is living on borrowed time.
	Borrowed time?
	Yeah, well, she's going to be ousted, everyone thinks.
	But again, you have your Jeremy Corbyn, who was supposed to be ousted from labor, and he stuck around.
	So here's the last clip.
	Now, this clip was on RT.
	This is Nick Clegg.
	Nick Clegg, the very famous British politician.
	And in fact, Angus Robertson, the guy who was running the Scottish Nationalist Party, they got voted out, both of them.
	Yeah, it was an upset.
	So we don't get to see Angus anymore coming in.
	He was very, very talented in the parliament.
	But in this particular, and I started noticing this more, in this particular clip, the liberal Democrat slash labor representative news guy, They're in a little panel here on RT. You don't see it too often.
	I think it's from RT's London offices.
	This is a journalist.
	He's like your age.
	Oh, he's very young and dapper.
	Well, he's young.
	He's probably a little younger than you.
	But he's got a mohawk.
	Shaved head mohawk.
	Is he that guy from Yahoo?
	What was his name?
	Yiggly?
	Squiggly?
	I don't know.
	Remember that guy?
	The crazy guy?
	No.
	Their marketing guy?
	Oh, no, no, this guy's worse.
	There's no comparison.
	The marketing guy was just kind of an eccentric.
	You know, Nick Clegg speaks fluent Dutch.
	Did you know that?
	I think we may have discussed it before.
	Fluent Dutch.
	It's very freaky to hear him suddenly switch to Dutch.
	I'm sorry.
	I'm so wrapping his little description here.
	He's got a mohawk.
	He's wearing a kind of a, I don't know if it's a waistcoat or a tails, a flowery shirt with a black bow tie, and white tights.
	Ready now?
	I'm watching this guy, and he's extremely, he's very well spoken.
	He doesn't have any affectation.
	If you don't, you'll hear him, but you wouldn't spot him looking like this in a million years.
	You'd have to see it.
	And then I noticed when Jeremy Corbyn was up there giving his victory speech, even though he didn't really win, he had a guy behind him.
	And I think this is going on in England.
	We have a lot of English producers and they can clue me in on what this is all about.
	The guy behind him is wearing a velvet suit of some sort with long tails again.
	A big yellow shirt, a yellow cummerbund, and a giant top hat of the style you would see on Alice in Wonderland that was kind of flares out and is furry with a yellow band around it.
	And he's standing right behind...
	I need a picture now.
	I need to see this stuff now.
	This is too fantastic.
	You look around, you'll find the pictures of this guy.
	He's like one of Corbin's guys.
	And so I'm thinking this place has gone crazy.
	So let's play this clip and then I'll explain what I think happened here.
	And of course, not immediately relevant, but of course Nick Clegg lost his seat as well.
	Yeah, and I think that that was, just going back to what Steve was saying earlier on, that's directly down to the student vote.
	There was a massive campaign to get students to register to vote, a massive drive, thousands of new registers from under-30s over the last sort of month or so.
	And that's not only affected Sheffield Hallam with Nick Clegg, it's also taken out Greg Mulholland in Leeds Northwest.
	Again, a direct result of students registering and getting out to vote.
	And it's because Jeremy Corbyn has mobilised and motivated young voters.
	So here's what we saw.
	Corbyn, who also has this momentum group that works with Bernie Sanders theories to get the young vote out.
	During the Brexit vote, the one common element and theme that we continually heard from people bitching and moaning about the vote going Brexit instead of stay were students.
	All these students.
	There was hundreds of them.
	But everyone would say the same thing.
	They'd say...
	Oh, this is terrible.
	I'm not going to get my job in Europe.
	I have no freedom of movement.
	I've got no freedom of movement.
	I'm going to be stuck here in this hellhole.
	And then the question would be asked, did you vote?
	No.
	Why bother?
	None of them voted.
	But this time they did.
	And the Tories should have saw this coming.
	Because what they did was they got all these pissed off kids who are irked about the fact that the Brexit vote went through.
	And they all feel guilty about not voting.
	All came out to vote.
	How dumb.
	How dumb.
	Well, she made it through, so it's okay, but still it's risky.
	She's done.
	She's through.
	She's ruined her career.
	This was a stupid decision, and it could have been foreseen.
	Yeah.
	But nobody foresaw it.
	It was the students came out to vote.
	They still couldn't swing it fully to labor, but it was a possibility.
	Pretty damn close, I'd say, yeah.
	So anyway, that's kind of the summary, and that's what's going on in the UK, and I think it's not going to stop.
	I think these kids are going to see that they got a little power.
	They got rid of Nick and some of these other guys.
	I don't know why they didn't like him, but they didn't.
	And now this could become a huge difference maker, and it's going to change the politics.
	But it's also going to bring in more of these crackpot-looking characters, like the guy in the yellow and the guy in the bulldog.
	The guy I was talking about was Shingy.
	AOL's digital profit.
	So he looks like Shingy a bit.
	Is that the deal?
	No, he's way over the top compared to Shingy.
	Oh, okay.
	Good.
	Yeah.
	There's your update.
	Thank you.
	Hello, Gitmo Nation GMT. Actually, did I have something on them?
	Just while we're on the topic for a moment.
	I had...
	No, I just have a couple of articles for people to read in the show notes.
	We don't talk about the show notes that much anymore, but...
	If you go to archive.noagendanotes.com, you can find an entire collection of all of our clips.
	Everything is in structured data.
	You can also go to search.nashownotes.com.
	That thing is kicking ass ever since one of our producers picked up the project from GitHub and rebooted it and started it up on a different server.
	It's really good.
	And it integrates beautifully now with the No Agenda player.
	They should have podcast awards for best audience.
	We call them producers.
	They're doing more work than we are.
	Ixnay on the earthway.
	So let's move to Comey.
	This happened during the show.
	Most interesting things do happen on show days.
	So right after the show, I went straight to the couch and I watched, it was about, what, two and a half hours, I think, the full testimony, the full hearing of Comey.
	Did you watch it all?
	No.
	No, I watched pieces of it.
	I did get a lot of clips, but I didn't watch it all from beginning to end.
	I couldn't do it.
	Well, I see that you have a couple.
	I also have some media clips, how the media obviously responded to it, which was quite funny.
	I pulled a couple of clips from the hearing itself, because there were some really revealing things that you will not hear discussed on the M5M anywhere.
	In fact, they're even manipulating things that...
	Well, okay, I got a pre-clip that we can do.
	Oh.
	I think it falls right into what you're going to do.
	Is that like pre-cancer?
	It's a little bit like pre-cancer.
	This is from RT, and they picked up on the two world, the two dimensions.
	Oh, okay, nice.
	And the girl comes into...
	Where is the clip?
	Everyone hears what they want to hear, is what she concludes.
	And I think this is a good pre-clip because it really does symbolize what happened after the Comey hearings.
	I think she could have been a little stronger with the report, but she did, I think, a good job of analyzing the two dimensions.
	One of the most watched Senate hearings in American history has come and gone.
	And the testimony of sacked FBI chief James Comey was everything everyone expected.
	For those who thought it would spell the end of Donald Trump, it did.
	For those who thought the US president would come out unscathed, he has.
	How is that possible?
	Liberals say the stakes have been raised in Team Trump's Russian scandal, while conservatives are calling this sweet vindication.
	And the media takes its own interpretation.
	The president's rebuttal, a combative statement from his private Manhattan lawyer, Mark Kazowitz.
	The president feels completely vindicated.
	Has Trump obstructed justice by hoping Comey would let go of the Michael Flynn case?
	I took it as, this is what he wants me to do.
	Now, I didn't obey that, but that's the way I took it.
	You may have taken it as a direction, but that's not what he said.
	Correct.
	He said, I hope.
	Those are exact words, correct.
	You don't know of anyone that's ever been charged for hoping something.
	Is that a fair statement?
	I don't as I sit here.
	What?
	Like everything political, opinion is divided.
	Some say Comey stopped short of accusing the president of obstructing justice.
	On the other spectrum, the case against Trump is only strengthening.
	There were very specific questions asked of James Comey that clarified the situation and that's why we're not hearing anything.
	In major media outlets in America today about a Russian collusion story anymore.
	In fact, there was a story about collusion that was published on February 14th that he said was completely false.
	Also, the media is trying to push this story that Donald Trump is under criminal investigation when James Comey clearly said that he was not up until a month ago when he left his position as FBI director.
	There are a lot of stories out there that the mainstream media here in America is trying to push.
	They're just completely untrue.
	Story spinning is reaching new heights, and in some cases, the facts have been completely turned upside down.
	The specific ask was that you would tell the American people what you had already told him, what you had already told the leaders of Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, that he was not personally under investigation.
	Yes, sir.
	Somehow, CNN seemed to take that to mean that Trump was under investigation.
	Well, here we know in June, Donald Trump is under criminal investigation, and that's a big deal, and that's...
	Important.
	We also saw Comey reveal he passed information to the press.
	And my judgment was I needed to get that out into the public square.
	And so I asked a friend of mine to share the content of the memo with a reporter.
	Didn't do it myself for a variety of reasons, but I asked him to because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.
	And yet, somehow, not everyone understands that as information was leaked.
	He, quote, leaked.
	He made that memo available after he was no longer an employee of the federal government.
	He did that as a private citizen.
	So it feels like Comey's testimony hasn't changed much.
	Everyone sticks to their guns and hears exactly what they wanted to hear.
	Jacqueline Vuga, RT, Washington, D.C. Wow, another nice effect they got going on there.
	Is it this?
	Nice.
	Wow.
	I swear to God, that was in there.
	No, you didn't produce that?
	I did not produce that.
	No, no, no.
	That's your thing.
	No, I know it sounds just like my cowbell, but I'm telling you, it was on RT. Hey, everybody, it's RT. Whoa, here we go!
	Ah, those Russians, man.
	Love that.
	I should have clipped it now in hindsight because I heard Don Lemon, Anderson Pooper, and who's the guy over at Fox?
	Shep Smith.
	It may be a sexual orientation thing.
	Sounds like a gay cabal.
	They kept talking about this being a Rorschach test.
	Which is the famous ink blot.
	Look at the ink stain.
	What do you think it is?
	Ooh, I see a butterfly.
	And I think Don Lemon called a Warshak test.
	So now I have to go back.
	I've got to go find that because that would be funny.
	But that's their version of this is two universes.
	And boy, it was very true, the analysis of it.
	But I took the time.
	I watched it.
	So you don't have to.
	Not you, John, but everybody else.
	I would say within 15 minutes all questions had been answered and all the answers we needed were given, but that doesn't mean that it wasn't some really interesting little nuggets we picked up.
	And it was Jim Rich, the senator from Idaho, Republican, who...
	He seemed to be the only honest guy on there.
	He had a lot of good questions, but what I like so much, and there's obvious reasons the M5 men will not talk about this, Comey pretty much said, you know, mainstream media is full of shit.
	I remember you talked with us shortly after February 14th when the New York Times wrote an article that suggested that the Trump campaign was colluding with the Russians.
	You remember reading that article when it first came out?
	I do.
	It was about allegedly extensive electronic surveillance.
	Correct.
	And that upset you to the point where you actually went out and surveyed the intelligence community to see whether you were missing something in that.
	Is that correct?
	That's correct.
	I want to be careful in an open setting.
	I'm not going to go any further than that, so thank you.
	In addition to that, after that, you sought out both Republican and Democrat senators to tell them that, hey, I don't know where this is coming from, but this is not the case.
	This is not factual.
	Do you recall that?
	Yes.
	Okay.
	So again, so the American people can understand this, that report by the New York Times was not true.
	Is that a fair statement?
	In the main, it was not true.
	New York Times is wrong!
	Have they issued a retraction?
	Have I missed it somehow?
	They said, we were wrong, we were wrong?
	No.
	No.
	The old gray lady, the paper of record.
	And again, all of you know this, American people don't.
	Tell us, we're all so stupid.
	The challenge, and I'm not picking on reporters, about writing stories about classified information, is that people talking about it, We often don't really know what's going on, and those of us who actually know what's going on are not talking about it.
	No, we just leak.
	And we don't call the press to say, hey, you got that thing wrong about this sensitive topic.
	No, we have our friends send it to them.
	We just have to leave it there.
	I mentioned to the chairman the nonsense around what influenced me to make the July 5th statement.
	Nonsense, but I can't go explaining how it's nonsense.
	Thank you.
	All right, so those three things we now know regarding the active measures with the presence under investigation and the collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians.
	Okay, so what he just says to summarize, the collusion, the wiretapping, and what was the third one?
	Russian something.
	Some other Russian thing.
	Explaining how it's nonsense.
	Thank you.
	Alright, so those three things we now know regarding the active measures when the president is under investigation and the collusion between the Trump campaign.
	So there was no active measures, i.e.
	wiretapping.
	The president is not under investigation.
	There was no Russian collusion.
	And this was in the first ten minutes.
	We're kind of done.
	28 words that matter is how Senator Rich positioned the quote that Comey wrote down from the President.
	I want to drill right down, as my time is limited, to the most recent dust-up regarding allegations that the President of the United States We're good to go.
	This is the President speaking.
	I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go.
	He is a good guy.
	I hope you can let this go.
	Now, those are his exact words, is that correct?
	Correct.
	And you wrote them here and you put them in quotes?
	Correct.
	Okay.
	Thank you for that.
	He did not direct you to let it go.
	Not in his words, no.
	He did not order you to let it go.
	Again, those words are not in order.
	He said, I hope.
	Now, like me, you probably did hundreds of cases, maybe thousands of cases, charging people with criminal offenses.
	And, of course, you have knowledge of the thousands of cases out there where people have been charged.
	Do you know of any case where a person has been charged for obstruction of justice, or for that matter, any other criminal offense, where they said or thought they hoped for an outcome?
	I don't know well enough to answer.
	And the reason I keep saying his words is, I took it as a direction.
	I mean, as the President of the United States, with me alone, saying, I hope this, I took it as, this is what he wants me to do.
	Now, I didn't obey that, but that's the way I took it.
	You may have taken it as a direction, but that's not what he said.
	Correct.
	He said, I hope.
	Those are exact words.
	Correct.
	You don't know of anyone that's ever been charged for hoping something.
	Is that a fair statement?
	I don't as I sit here.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, Mr.
	Chair.
	This whole hope thing.
	Yeah.
	You have to play this.
	And there's three versions of this I just want to play.
	You played the clip that would follow what I want you to play, which is...
	You have to be careful you don't play the wrong one here.
	Classic Peli Comey.
	This is Peli.
	This is on CBS Evening News.
	What we just heard is what was at the hearings.
	Here's the way Pelley, and this is the Comey misleading audience, this is what Pelley says.
	President volunteered to testify to the special counsel investigating Russia's tampering with the U.S. election.
	In a Rose Garden news conference, President Trump denied yesterday's testimony by James Comey, the FBI director that he fired last month.
	Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that the president directed him to drop the FBI's investigation of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
	Let's listen to what he actually said.
	Are you confident that no votes cast in the 2016 presidential election were altered?
	I'm confident.
	By the time when I left as director, I'd seen no indication of that whatsoever.
	Director Comey...
	Did the president at any time ask you to stop the FBI investigation into Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. elections?
	Not to my understanding, no.
	Did any individual working for this administration, including the Justice Department, ask you to stop the Russian investigation?
	No.
	No, that doesn't really mesh very well with Mr.
	Pelley's words, does it?
	What did Pelley...
	Pelley...
	Pelley...
	Pelley's the liar.
	Let's hear him again.
	That is a terrible report for him to put on CBS. And you know, I heard Rachel Maddow do the same thing.
	...by James Comey, the FBI director that he fired last month.
	Comey told the Senate Intelligence Committee that the president directed him to drop the FBI's investigation of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.
	You lie!
	That's direct contradiction to what happened.
	That is an actual lie.
	And that's an actual lie.
	That's an actual lie on CBS. And I have to just say, who's responsible for this?
	Who wrote that line?
	The CIA? Why was he required to say it?
	The CIA? Everyone was saying this.
	I'm sure you have clips.
	You have tons of clips about how crazy the analysis was.
	The word hope, though, has been bandied about.
	It's like, oh...
	I mean, you know, he's like the mafia, you know, he's sitting there like, I hope you understand, I hope you drop this thing.
	And then Kamala Harris came in.
	When a robber held a gun to somebody's head and said, I hope you will give me your wallet, the word hope was not the most operative word at that moment.
	No, yes, that makes so much sense.
	Director Comey, was the president holding a gun to your head when he asked you if you hope you drop this Flynn thing?
	No!
	Oh, man.
	Outrageous.
	But...
	That is outrageous.
	Here's something that I think everybody missed.
	I'm flabbergasted this would be perfect for the cable news outlets, certainly for CNN, MSNBC. Listen carefully.
	Did you limit that statement to counterintelligence investigations, or were you talking about Any kind of FBI investigation.
	Now, this is regarding the first meeting the director had with President-Elect where he told him about the MI5 intelligence memo about the hookers peeing on the bed where Michelle and President Obama slept.
	That was MI6, by the way.
	MI6. Of course it was MI6, not MI5. This is what this is about.
	Listen very carefully.
	I didn't use the term counterintelligence.
	I was speaking to him and briefing him about some salacious and unverified material.
	It was in the context of that...
	Thank you.
	my reading of it was it was important for me to assure him we were not personally investigating him.
	And so the context then was actually narrower, focused on what I just talked to him about.
	But it was very important because it was first true.
	And second, I was very, very much about being in kind of a kind of a J. Edgar Hoover type situation.
	I didn't want him thinking that I was briefing him on this to sort of hang it over him in some way.
	I was briefing him on it because we had been told by the media it was about to launch.
	We don't want to be keeping that from him.
	And if there was something, he needed to know this was being said.
	But I was very keen not to leave him with an impression that the Bureau was trying to do something to him.
	And so that's the context in which I said, sir, we're not personally investigating you.
	Unless I misunderstood what Comey just said, he said the report was true.
	He said it was true.
	First of all, he threw J. Edgar Hoover under the bus.
	No, that's next.
	We're going to get to that next.
	Well, he just did it.
	No, hold on to it.
	I have another clip for that.
	Hold on.
	Let's just talk about this report.
	Listen again.
	Then was actually narrower, focused on what I just talked to him about.
	I thought it was very important because it was first true.
	It was true.
	He says the report was true.
	I'm not...
	Okay.
	Why is no one talking about this?
	Because I think you're taking it out of context.
	You have to be, because I don't...
	I watched the whole thing.
	I'm not taking it out of context.
	Are you kidding me?
	They would be all over this if you were...
	I think...
	Can you start the clip over?
	Yes.
	Did you limit that statement to counterintelligence investigations, or were you talking about any kind of FBI investigation?
	In fact, John, I left a little bit of her question on there so that you could hear the context.
	He answers completely about...
	Any kind of investigation.
	I didn't use the term counterintelligence.
	I was speaking to him and briefing him about some salacious and unverified material.
	It was in the context of that that he had a strong and defensive reaction about that not being true.
	And my reading of it was it was important for me to assure him we were not personally investigating him.
	And so the context then was actually narrower, focused on what I just talked to him about.
	But it was very important because it was first true.
	The context of what he was talking to him about.
	Here's what...
	No.
	I think you're taking this...
	Okay.
	I could be wrong.
	I could be wrong.
	Because what he...
	He prefaces it with unverified.
	That means it can't be necessarily true.
	Unverified and salacious.
	Yes.
	He uses the word true about some other aspect of what he's trying to describe.
	What I heard is that he said he narrowed the conversation...
	Just listen again.
	I could be wrong.
	I could be wrong, but I'm just, you know, he's a lawyer, you know, so it's kind of hard to figure it out.
	Personally investigating him, and so the context then was actually narrower, focused on what I just talked to him about.
	What did he just talk to him about?
	What did he just talk to him about?
	The salacious report, or am I mistaken?
	The unverified salacious report.
	I think he's not talking about the report when he says true.
	He says it was true that he had the conversation.
	Let's listen again.
	And so the context then was actually narrower, focused on what I just talked to him about.
	But it was very important because it was first true.
	Okay, maybe it was just true that that report was coming out.
	That's possible.
	Okay.
	To me, the...
	Now you're hearing what you want to hear.
	Totally.
	Totally.
	J. Edgar Hoover mentioned in this clip.
	Wait for this one.
	I'm not going to say a thing.
	Just play.
	When I was appointed FBI Director in 2013, I understood that I served at the pleasure of the President.
	Even though I was appointed to a 10-year term, which Congress created in order to underscore the importance of the FBI being outside of politics and independent, I understood that I could be fired by a president for any reason or for no reason at all.
	Director Comey, and this is repeated everywhere.
	That is not why the term limit was imposed.
	Let me read to you.
	In 76, in response to Hoover's lengthy tenure and during the Watergate era, Congress imposed a term limit of 10 years for future directors, which was waived by the Senate for Robert Mueller July 27, 2011.
	This was not to ensure the independence.
	It was to ensure we didn't have another J. Edgar Hoover who was spying on everybody and blackmailing them.
	And everyone is wrong about this.
	We're not.
	We're bringing this up all the time.
	This is not the first time we've said this.
	But the director of the FBI to say this and everyone's, oh yeah, we could read it in Wikipedia.
	Snopes, where's Snopes?
	Get Snopes on the case.
	I thought that was flabbergasting.
	Yes.
	I think he said this before, too.
	Oh, yeah.
	This just plays into the hands of the one-sided dimension B, and they're...
	Okay.
	Those guys.
	Now we have a couple of interesting little things here.
	And what I'm going to do is I'm going to play this.
	That's actually two clips.
	And then I'm going to play ABC's version of it, which is so much better than what he said.
	This is regarding Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
	The decision to publicly go out with your results on the email.
	Was your decision influenced by the Attorney General's tarmac meeting with the former President Bill Clinton?
	Yes, in an ultimately conclusive way.
	He just said he was influenced by the Attorney General.
	This is actual obstruction of justice.
	That's what I was thinking.
	Attorney General's tarmac meeting with the former President Bill Clinton.
	Yes, in an ultimately conclusive way.
	That was the thing that kept it for me, that I had to do something separately to protect the credibility of the investigation, which meant both the FBI and the Justice Department.
	Were there other things that contributed to that that you can describe in an open session?
	There were other things that contributed to that.
	One significant item I can't.
	I know the committee's been briefed on.
	There's been some public accounts of it which are nonsense, but I understand the committee's been briefed on the classified facts.
	Again, great work, news media.
	Probably the only other consideration that I guess I can talk about in an open setting is that at one point the Attorney General had directed me not to call it an investigation.
	Directed me?
	This is, this isn't, so there's someone who actually directed someone to do something regarding an investigation, meddling in the investigation.
	But instead to call it a matter, which confused me and concerned me, but that was one of the bricks in the load that led me to conclude I have to step away from the department if we're to close this case credibly.
	Here's a little follow-up.
	He explains exactly what happened and why it really bothered him.
	Probably the only other consideration, but I guess I can talk about in an open setting, is that at one point the Attorney General had directed me not to call it an investigation, but instead to call it a matter, which confused me and concerned me.
	But that was one of the bricks in the load that led me to conclude I have to step...
	Now, what he...
	Damn it.
	Maybe it's in another clip.
	He said...
	Oh, wait a minute.
	Here it is.
	The attorney general, previous attorney general, asking you about the investigation on the Clinton emails, saying that you've been asked not to call it an investigation anymore, but to call it a matter.
	And you had said that confused you.
	Can you give us additional details on that?
	Well, it concerned me because we were at the point where we had refused to confirm the existence, as we typically do, of an investigation for months.
	And it was getting to a place where that looked silly because the campaigns were talking about interacting with the FBI in the course of our work.
	The Clinton campaign at the time was using all kinds of euphemisms.
	Security review matters, things like that, for what was going on.
	We were getting to a place where the Attorney General and I were both going to have to testify and talk publicly about it.
	And I want to know, was she going to authorize us to confirm we had an investigation?
	And she said, yes, but don't call it that.
	Call it a matter.
	And I said, why would I do that?
	And she said, just call it a matter.
	And again, you look back in hindsight, you think, should I have resisted harder?
	I just said, all right, this isn't a hill worth dying on.
	And so I just said, okay, the press is going to completely ignore it.
	And that's what happened when I said, we have opened a matter.
	They all reported the FBI has an investigation open.
	And so that concerned me because that language tracked the way the campaign was talking about the FBI's work.
	And that's concerning.
	So we have not only interference with an investigation, we have evidence of collusion between the Attorney General and the Clinton campaign.
	Yeah, Bill Clinton on the tarmac.
	But they were talking about it, yeah, talking about specifically a matter.
	Everyone's talking about a matter.
	Now listen to, what's the guy, King, not Larry King, the other guy, the gray-haired guy from CNN. Just listen.
	Director, did the special counsel's office review and or edit your written testimony?
	No.
	Was General Flynn at that time...
	Oh, sorry.
	This is the one I made.
	He was asked specifically about his statements to the FBI. Do you have any reason to believe he gave false statements to the FBI? And he said that's one of the reasons he was under criminal investigation.
	A number of significant things.
	One, this won't get much attention because it's in the rearview mirror.
	But a pretty damning account from Jim Comey there about Loretta Lynch, the former attorney general in the Obama administration, and her handling of the Clinton email investigation.
	Yes, that's John King.
	Knows very well how it works.
	Oh, this won't get much attention.
	This is what was going on with the Attorney General.
	Yeah, too late now.
	Now listen carefully how ABC... I just pulled a little piece that had a whole montage of the testimony.
	And listen to how they take what Comey said about Loretta Lynch...
	Interfering and telling him what to say and pressuring him and how they edited that right into Mike Flynn's name.
	Director, did the special counsel's office review and or edit your written testimony?
	No.
	Was General Flynn at that time in serious legal jeopardy?
	And in addition to that, do you sense that the president was trying to obstruct justice or just seek for a way for Mike Flynn to save face given he had already been fired?
	General Flynn at that point in time was in legal jeopardy.
	There was an open FBI criminal investigation of his statements in connection with the Russian contacts and the contacts themselves.
	And so that was my assessment at the time.
	I don't think it's for me to say whether the conversation I had with the president was an effort to obstruct.
	I took it as a very disturbing thing, very concerning, but that's a conclusion I'm sure the special counsel will work towards to try and understand what the intention was there and whether that's an offense.
	I had to do something separately to protect the credibility of the investigation, which meant both the FBI and the Justice Department.
	Were there other things that contributed to that that you can describe in an open session?
	There were other things that contributed to that.
	One significant item I can't.
	I know the committee's been briefed on.
	There's been some public accounts of it which are nonsense, but I understand the committee's been briefed on the classified facts.
	Probably the only other consideration, I guess I can talk about an open setting, is that at one point the Attorney General had directed me not to call it an investigation, but instead to call it a matter, which confused me and concerned me.
	But that was one of the bricks in the load that led me to conclude I have to step away from the department if we're to close this case credibly.
	I think that is the most deceptive editing job I've ever heard.
	Wow, it made it sound like it was all about Flynn.
	It was about Hillary's emails.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	It's really bad.
	You know, it's not as blatant as my Pelly clip.
	No, but it's pretty...
	It's worse.
	It's worse, yeah.
	It's worse.
	Just to refresh our memory.
	The only thing is easy.
	The guy just lies on camera.
	This was an edit hit job.
	That's unbelievable.
	I should start listening to some other networks.
	I've got to get off CBS. And they put that freaky music under it just to mind control you.
	Yeah, that freaky music.
	A little flashback to Loretta Lynch at the Aspen Conference.
	What on earth were you thinking?
	What happened?
	Well, I think that's the question of the day, isn't it?
	People have also wondered and raised questions about my role in the ultimate resolution of matters involving the investigation into the State Department emails.
	As I've always indicated, the matter is being handled by career agents and investigators with the Department of Justice.
	They've had it since the beginning.
	They are independent.
	Which predates your tenure as Attorney General.
	It predates my tenure as Attorney General.
	It is the same team.
	And they are acting independently.
	They follow the law.
	They follow the facts.
	That team will make findings.
	That is to say, they will come up with a chronology of what happened, the factual scenario.
	They will make recommendations as to how to resolve what those facts lead to.
	The recommendations will be reviewed by career supervisors in the Department of Justice and in the FBI. And by the FBI director.
	And then, as is the common process, they present it to me, and I fully expect to accept their recommendations.
	And we now know how that really went.
	She pressured Comey and, you know, it's just career people.
	I have nothing to do with it.
	Well, she obviously did.
	I have two more clips from this hearing, and then we can go off to some media stuff about it.
	Everybody is laughing about John McCain.
	How he was...
	Was he drunk?
	What was going on?
	He was incoherent.
	All true.
	He said, oh, I was watching baseball late at night.
	But I listened to this clip a couple times.
	I've cut it down somewhat.
	And although incoherent and nuts, I think he's making a valid point that no one really understood.
	Tell me the difference between your conclusion as far as...
	Former Secretary Clinton is concerned and Mr.
	Trump.
	That investigation was going on.
	This investigation is going on.
	You reach separate conclusions.
	No, that one was done.
	That investigation of any involvement of Secretary Clinton or any of her associates is completed.
	Yes, as of July the 5th, the FBI completed its investigative work and that's what I was announcing, what we had done and what we had found.
	I think that the American people have a whole lot of questions out there, particularly since you just emphasized the role that Russia played.
	And obviously, she was a candidate for president at the time, so she was clearly involved in this whole situation where fake news, as you just described it, big deal.
	Now, what's going on here is McCain is trying to communicate something which is not uninteresting.
	He's doing a very bad job.
	At a certain point, he doesn't even know if Comey's the president or who the president is.
	But Comey is only thinking about the Clinton email investigation, which was closed in July of 2016.
	McCain is saying something different.
	You're going to have to help me out here.
	I'm a little confused, Senator.
	With respect to Secretary Clinton, we investigated criminal investigation in connection with her use of a personal email server.
	I understand.
	And that's the investigation I announced the inclusion of on July 5th.
	So, but at the same time you made the announcement there would be no charges brought against then-Secretary Clinton for any activities involved in I don't quite understand how you could be done with that, but not done with the whole investigation of their attempt to affect the outcome of our election.
	No, I'm sorry.
	We're not, at least when I left, when I was fired on May the 9th, there was still an open, active investigation to understand the Russian efforts and whether any Americans work with them.
	But you reached the conclusion that there was no reason to bring charges against Secretary Clinton.
	So you reached a conclusion.
	In the case of Mr.
	Comey...
	You, the President Comey, an ongoing investigation.
	You see, what he's saying, and I understand what he's saying.
	Yeah, why don't you explain it to us, because this guy has lost it.
	What he's trying to communicate is the Russians meddled in our elections.
	People use the word hacked, all kinds of different things.
	He's saying, if they meddled in the entire elections, why are you not at all looking at the Clinton camp?
	We know that they haven't...
	I found out, although I didn't clip it, not only...
	Comey, the FBI did not have access to the DNCC or the DNC servers.
	Neither one were handed over to the FBI. I thought at least one of them was handed over, but no.
	Neither one.
	None.
	But, you know, it was a trusted third party, so, well, of course, we're all the crowdfire over and all about...
	McCain is saying, why aren't you talking to them?
	Why is there no communication with that side?
	She was in the election.
	How can all of that be shut?
	You didn't even investigate them.
	That's, I think, what he's trying to say.
	What has been brought out in this hearing is more and more emphasis on the Russian engagement and involvement in this campaign.
	How serious do you think this was?
	Very serious.
	But I want to say something to be clear.
	We have not announced, and there was no predication to announce, an investigation of whether the Russians may have coordinated with Secretary Clinton's campaign.
	Secretary Clinton's campaign.
	No, but they may not have been involved with their campaign.
	They were involved with the entire presidential campaign, obviously.
	Of course.
	Yes, sir.
	And that is an investigation that began last summer, and so far as I'm aware, it continues.
	So both President Trump and former candidate Clinton are both involved in the investigation, yet one of them, you said, there's going to be no charges, and the other one, the investigation continues.
	Well, I think there's a double standard there, to tell you the truth.
	McCain knows something.
	He's confused and he's nuts, but he knows something that he's trying to allude to about the Russians and the Clintons.
	That's what he's trying to say.
	I think you're right, but he's doing such a piss-poor job of it.
	Yeah, he really messed it up.
	Why even bother listening to him?
	I think you're right.
	I think he does know.
	I mean, there's a lot of these guys always...
	You can tell by the way they ask these questions that they're trying to get the guy to say something that they know, but they know they can't say themselves.
	Exactly.
	I don't know what it is.
	You know, remember that the Russians might have all of her emails.
	There's all kinds of stuff going on.
	I mean, if there's an inkling of a thought that the Russians had access to her emails, which pretty much all the intelligence world, I think, had access to her emails from her private server.
	That would mean, yeah, everyone has it.
	Then you need to see that thing.
	You know, you need to see everything.
	You can't stop investigating.
	Anyway, I'm going to play one last short clip from Comey, then give you a conclusion before we go over to some media analysis on how they reported on this.
	You're big, you're strong.
	I know the Oval Office, and I know what happens to people when they walk in.
	There is a certain amount of intimidation.
	But why didn't you stop and say, Mr.
	President, this is wrong.
	I cannot discuss this with you.
	It's a great question.
	Maybe if I were stronger...
	Is that a great question?
	...amounted intimidation.
	But why didn't you stop and say, Mr.
	President, this is wrong.
	I cannot discuss this with you.
	It's a great question.
	Maybe if I were stronger, I would have.
	I was so stunned by the conversation that I just took it in.
	And the only thing I could think to say, because I was playing in my mind, because I remember every word he said, I was playing in my mind.
	What should my response be?
	And that's why I very carefully chose the words.
	And look, I've seen the tweet about tapes.
	Lordy, I hope there are tapes.
	Lordy!
	I remember saying, I agree he's a good guy as a way of saying, I'm not agreeing with what you just asked me to do.
	Again, maybe other people would be stronger in that circumstance, but that's how I conducted myself.
	I hope I'll never have another opportunity.
	Maybe if I did it again, I would do it better.
	All right.
	So as an American citizen, I'm very happy this man is no longer a director of FBI because he's a whiny little bitch.
	And now let me tell you what I think about Comey, who was director of HSBC, on the board of directors when they were going through the whole Mexican drug money laundering.
	He's a fixer.
	He helps people.
	He was intimately involved with the Clinton Foundation.
	Then he's in New York.
	Does he send bankers to jail?
	No!
	He sends Martha Stewart to jail.
	He prosecutes Dominique Strauss-Kahn to get Fifi Lagarde into the IMF. This guy, here's what happened.
	He got burned on, because he was told by Lynch, listen, stop this, look, no more Clinton investigation, close it down.
	So he says, okay, it's all done.
	We're closed down.
	But then he really got burned because they had to reopen the investigation.
	And then he's like, oh crap, what am I going to do now with this Trump thing?
	He's a pussy.
	He's weak.
	He has no backbone, no spine.
	And then he goes and he, I have to get the word out into the public square.
	I have to let everybody know what's going on.
	He's covering his own ass.
	And what man says Lordy?
	Lordy, lordy!
	It's cultural appropriation, if anything.
	This guy, I'm glad he's gone.
	What a douchebag.
	Douchebag.
	You may now play the pet peeve jingle.
	Okay.
	I don't see Curry's petty holiday.
	My goodness.
	I'm, you know, just a pussy boy.
	Lordy, lordy, lordy.
	What a pussy boy that guy is.
	Ah, glad he's gone.
	Well, that's funny because that somewhat contradicts some of the media reporting.
	No kidding!
	No kidding.
	I have a few.
	I only have like three.
	This is the Comey memo leaks, part one.
	This was on CBS again with Scott Pelley.
	The president also said he did not ask for Comey's loyalty.
	And there'd be nothing wrong if I did say it according to everybody that I've read today, but I did not say that.
	The president attacked Comey for leaking details about their conversations to the press.
	I was honestly concerned that he might lie about the nature of our meeting.
	Comey testified yesterday that shortly after he was fired, he gave memos documenting his conversations with the president to a friend, who in turn gave them to a reporter.
	Because I thought that might prompt the appointment of a special counsel.
	Now the president's lawyer, Mark Kasowitz, plans to file a complaint with the Justice Department Inspector General and Senate Judiciary Committee.
	He argues Comey released sensitive information.
	Threatening legal action is a tactic often used by Mr.
	Trump.
	According to a CBS News tally, Mr.
	Trump promised to file at least 24 lawsuits during the course of the campaign.
	And we're going to have people sue you like you never got sued before.
	But he followed through on just two.
	Comey's defense is that Mr.
	Trump's own tweet prompted him to leak the memos.
	Yeah.
	Now, hold on.
	There was a switcheroo in here.
	Again, CBS does this all the time.
	Where they're talking about one thing and then click it up a notch to something completely different, but it sounds like it's kind of in the same thing.
	They talked about his lawyer filing a complaint and then equating that with lawsuits.
	Which is a hugely different thing.
	But they made it so smooth.
	They smoothed it out.
	So it's like, and his lawyer is bitching about this.
	Just because Trump files all these lawsuits.
	And then they go on and then they demean him.
	I say he only comes through with two, meaning he's a big bull.
	He's a bullshitter.
	It was very slick clip.
	And this is a classic way they do these things on CBS. CBS is really showing up to be...
	Really?
	Well, they're right up there with ABC today, as far as I'm concerned.
	Well, let's play Comey Memo Leaks 2 when Pelley comes on.
	The president had suggested he might have recorded tapes of their conversations.
	Lordy, I hope there are tapes.
	Today, the president would not confirm the recordings, but said he'll discuss the tapes in the near future.
	Oh, you're going to be very disappointed when you hear the answer.
	Don't worry.
	Neither the White House nor the President's lawyers have announced any plans for the President to testify.
	Scott, but there are some in Congress suggesting that he may be deposed by the special counsel.
	Margaret Brennan at the White House, thanks.
	Now, in his testimony, Comey described a series of highly unusual meetings and phone calls in which Mr.
	Trump bypassed Comey's boss, the Attorney General, to speak with Comey alone.
	The investigation now pits a lawman with a long reputation for integrity against a president often ridiculed for falsehoods and conspiracy theories.
	A long reputation of integrity.
	Nice.
	And I really wanted to like Comey.
	We've been looking at this guy for years.
	Yeah, we've always kind of liked him.
	I kind of liked him.
	He's weak.
	Just as a citizen.
	No to these guys in the FBI. Not this guy.
	No, no, no.
	No.
	But the long reputation, and then he can't resist, Pelley, can't resist putting a little dig at the end.
	He has to do it.
	It adds conspiracy theories to it.
	I mean, it's unbelievable how bad these reporters are.
	It's editorializing somewhat.
	A little.
	Editorializing a lot.
	Now, I got some real honesty out of Chris Matthews from MSNBC. The world is upside down.
	But the big story to me has always been, as all of us, and I think Nicole really touched on it there, the assumption of the critics of the president, of his pursuers, you might say, is that somewhere along the line in the last year, the president had something to do with colluding with the Russians, something to do with the helping hand, encouraging them, feeding their desire to affect the election in some way.
	Some role they played, some conversation he had with...
	Michael Flynn or Paul Manafort or somewhere.
	And yet what came apart this morning was that theory, because in two regards, the president said, according to the written testimony of Mr.
	Comey, go ahead and get anybody's satellite to my operation and nail them.
	I'm with you on that.
	So that would mean Manafort, Carter Page, someone else like that.
	And then he also came across what was fascinating.
	Comey said that basically Flynn wasn't central to the rushed investigation, that he was touching on it.
	Gee!
	Oh, you mean that all these, like how many months now?
	Just half a year, a year?
	How long we've been talking about this?
	Yeah, exactly.
	It all fell apart.
	Now we've got some interesting information coming to us from CIA. And we're pretty convinced that FBI and CIA are at war internally, and I'm pretty convinced that the struggle continues very wildly at the moment.
	I would think.
	Catherine Herridge, the pixie girl from Fox.
	We know she's an intelligent asset.
	And she has a pretty cool accusation.
	Everything that has been indicated to me is that the investigation will continue and it may wrap up at some point soon this year.
	But the accusation against the former FBI director, and this comes mostly from Republicans, is that he has been sort of slow-walking records about the Americans who were identified or unmasked.
	In these intelligence reports and providing them to Congress.
	And the reason that's a big deal is that everyone in the IC and the intelligence community knows that there is no bigger, deeper, wider, more extensive paper trail than there is when you unmask or identify an American citizen.
	And it should not take months.
	It should take Weeks, if not the course of several days to know who was unmasked and who made those requests.
	And that has not been provided to Congress based on our reporting.
	And it's obvious it was Comey.
	He's the one that unmasked.
	Didn't they take this stupid girl, throw her under the proverbial bus, get rid of her.
	He's the one that unmasked.
	And he's a leaker.
	He's a leaker.
	I can't remember a time ever where a former FBI director Has deliberately leaked the contents of a government document so it would get to a reporter in the hopes that it would prompt a special counsel investigation.
	And one of the problems, I'll say, for James Comey right now is that in his last public testimony here on Capitol Hill before the Senate Judiciary Committee, right out of the gate in that hearing, he took a series of questions from the Republican chairman, Chuck Grassley.
	And Chuck Grassley asked him whether he had ever been an anonymous source for reporters about the Hillary Clinton email investigation or the Russia case.
	And James Comey testified no.
	Then he asked him whether he had ever authorized someone else to be an anonymous source on his behalf on the Clinton email case and the Russia case.
	And James Comey said no.
	So at the very least, what you can draw here from that testimony is that once he left the office of FBI director, he was not necessarily a person of principle.
	He made a decision to leak information on an anonymous basis in the hope of really changing the entire focus And the reason is he's covering his own ass.
	Here's a little element here that I think you don't want to overlook.
	Grassley...
	I remember these questions.
	They seemed a little weird to me.
	He asked the question as though he already knew the answer.
	Have you ever leaked?
	No.
	Have you ever given your stuff to someone else to leak?
	Was not a question that you're going to normally ask.
	No.
	Because it's not something you'd normally think of.
	The guy leaked or he didn't.
	Right.
	But no, no.
	He knew something.
	And this, again, brings us back to the CIA-FBI battle.
	Go, man!
	Sorry.
	When you're dealing with the news media, which is infiltrated, infiltrated by CIA. Yep.
	He obviously gave it to a CIA guy who told Grassley about it because he knew it was going to happen.
	Judge Jeanine had her own take on this.
	Jim Comey comes across as someone who is so wily and so calculating.
	He's a predator.
	He makes a decision that the president is going to lie to him before he even has his first meeting.
	And so he decides that he's going to start recording or memorizing what was said in their conversations.
	And then he gets to the point where he says, you know what, I'm going to leak this stuff now.
	Why is he so comfortable leaking?
	What is it about his history, his background as a prosecutor?
	And what I would want to know is, is he the leaker?
	Is he the guy who was so comfortable?
	And the answer to why he didn't leak it himself about the seagulls on the beach and my wife was hogwash.
	It was a distraction.
	And you know what?
	He did the same thing just now with the senator.
	What he said basically was, Lordy, I hope there are tapes.
	Well, that doesn't answer the question as to why someone else was asked.
	Does it matter who he leaked it to?
	Because Daniel Richman isn't just a buddy.
	I've been talking about this.
	This guy is a liberal guy.
	Look, he He worked with them in the United States.
	He worked with them in the U.S. Attorney's Office.
	He was the appellate attorney there.
	You develop a very close relationship, I know, from being DA with my appellate people, okay?
	You talk to them about serious issues.
	But the fact that he was so comfortable that he did this to a liberal professor, and it's linked to the...
	It tells me that this isn't the first time that the guys leave.
	It tells me he's a predator.
	He was looking to take Donald down, or the president down, excuse me.
	And what he wanted to do was preserve himself.
	He is an operator.
	He is part of the Washington elite.
	That's right.
	And he's a pussy.
	But I think that this went so poorly for the Democrats that it's not unsurprising that Nancy Pelosi showed up on the Morning Joe's for half an hour?
	Half an hour!
	This woman is on Morning Joe.
	Yeah, the speaker of the House, not the speaker, but the...
	Second in line of the House of Representatives.
	Runs it.
	She's the minority leader.
	Minority leader.
	She hasn't got time to waste doing this.
	Why don't you go do her job?
	A very interesting little exchange between the panel on the Morning Joes and Ms.
	Pelosi.
	Besides telling the president not to tweet, if he came to you and said, I've got this problem with Russia, all these investigations, I really do want to get back to the people's business, what could he do?
	What would you advise him to do?
	What would I have advised him to do?
	Go to sleep.
	Yeah.
	Get some sleep.
	Yes.
	Bring yourself to a place where their synapses are working.
	You said that to him directly?
	I agree with you completely.
	You can see it.
	You said that to him?
	Well, when he called me the night of the Syria invasion, not to go into the conversation, it was late at night, like at midnight, well after it was all finished.
	He was going on and on.
	I said, it was like midnight.
	I said, why don't you go to sleep?
	I think that there's something not...
	More sleep might be a solution for him.
	But the thing is...
	Just to expand on that, his own people say he doesn't sleep.
	He wanders around the White House.
	His family's not there right now.
	He bangs around there like Steve Bannon.
	He's obsessed with the news.
	He sits and watches TV six hours.
	Joe really knows a lot about what the president's doing at the White House, doesn't he?
	He's just painting this picture of Trump going...
	TV, I need news!
	Where's Banyan?
	You know, I don't know.
	I'm just saying.
	He's not in a good place.
	Well, we're not in a disagreement on that, but what I would say is this is really important, and I say to my members, if you want to talk about...
	Now, mind you, she just said the president, he doesn't sleep, his synapses aren't firing, you know, he's probably mentally challenged, he might have syphilis.
	You didn't say that, but I'm just painting the picture for you.
	Making a judgment about his presidency, you have to have the facts.
	So let's have an independent outside commission to have the facts about what the Russians try to do to our election to make sure it doesn't happen again.
	Why didn't he ask any questions about that?
	Amazing.
	He wasn't even curious about it.
	Amazing!
	It's easy.
	They're running interference.
	Oh, well, no question about it.
	I did it wrong.
	He's even curious about it.
	Why is he beholden to Putin that he would put him on a pedestal, question Article 5, which is practically an article of faith?
	He didn't question Article 5, did he?
	Did we miss something?
	He didn't question Article 5.
	Yes.
	In terms of our mutual security arrangements, why would he question whether he would do sanctions on Russia?
	What is it the Russians have on him politically, personally, and financially?
	Given the fact that very few people other than you, especially you, are more familiar with the stress of the job of the presidency, given your remarks a few moments ago, are you concerned about the president's health?
	Okay.
	Now, Nancy Pelosi, we know, they all think he's nuts.
	Concerned about his health, his mental hygiene, perhaps.
	But wait, what happens to her?
	I think his family should be concerned about his health.
	But the fact is, is that this is hopefully not repairable.
	He is the President of the United States.
	You mean you hope it is repairable?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	It's not irreparable.
	Irreparable, yes.
	Maybe you should have a checkup, Ms.
	Pelosi.
	You have the clip.
	I didn't get the clip, but I should have gotten this clip.
	Did you have the clip of her?
	Yes, I got that clip.
	Okay, good.
	You played it.
	Well, maybe I was right.
	I just don't want them to have that headline up.
	She just had a senior moment right there after she accused the president of being confused and mentally challenged and not having enough sleep.
	Needing sleep.
	She's sitting there and she's going, yeah, we can't repair this.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Irreparable.
	Irreparable.
	Yes, exactly.
	Well, maybe I was right.
	I just didn't want them to have that headline out there.
	Maybe I was right.
	Exactly.
	And then, maybe I was right.
	Maybe I was right.
	Jump on it.
	Pile jump, Mika.
	You know what?
	Hopefully it's not repairable, and perhaps there is an impeachment.
	No, no, no.
	My word.
	Very good.
	Bunch of douches.
	Impeachment.
	Now, she...
	You can stop for just a second.
	I do not see how this can continue because this is what the idea is.
	This is my theory.
	Maybe you don't agree or you do.
	They have to keep this up until the elections of 2018.
	It's like they're shooting their wad.
	Not only that, but they were so proud of Hillary Clinton never sleeping.
	Oh, she doesn't need any sleep.
	She's a superhero.
	She doesn't sweat.
	She's a superhero.
	She's fabulous.
	She can do everything like that, but not the Trump.
	No, the Trump man can't do it.
	No, he can't do it.
	So she does...
	I forgot about that.
	You're right.
	We were all happy about how Hillary...
	She doesn't need any sleep.
	She's a superstar.
	Yeah.
	Superstar.
	Superstar.
	So Nancy has her daily speech.
	She does one just like the State Department, the White House.
	She does them herself.
	And she's so proud of herself.
	Do you see it as something criminal?
	Oh wait, that's not the one.
	Hold on.
	This one, here we go.
	What I did say this morning, in case you missed me, on TV is follow this.
	You hear what she says?
	In case you didn't see me on TV yesterday.
	Did you see me on TV? What I did say this morning, in case you missed me.
	In case you missed me.
	Did everyone miss me?
	Did you see me?
	You missed it?
	I was really good.
	On TV is follow this.
	Now, this was early this morning, and in light of events that have come forth since, I said to him that New Yorkers have said to me, those who've had business dealings with him, he operates this way.
	First, he tries to charm you.
	President Bush tries to charm you.
	If that doesn't work, he tries to bully you.
	If that doesn't work, he walks away from the deal.
	And if that doesn't work, he sues you.
	So, charm, bully, abandon, sue.
	And then an aide walks up to the lectern, hands her a piece of paper.
	...to where that is.
	So I would hope that we could work in a bipartisan right now.
	Again, indicative of what's going on in the administration, you have the Secretary of the Treasury saying we want a clean debt ceiling.
	I said President Bush.
	I'm sorry, I meant to say...
	It's hard for me to say it, you know.
	So she said, she inadvertently said President Bush.
	Again, you've got to be concerned for her mental hygiene.
	She said Bush instead of President Trump.
	And she's done this numerous times.
	And then she says, I can't even say it.
	I can't even say President Trump, which she doesn't say.
	I said President Bush.
	I'm sorry, I meant to say.
	It's hard for me to say it, you know.
	It's so hard.
	Poor President Bush.
	I apologize.
	final short clip, uh, of her spinning the obstruction of justice, Do you see it as something criminal or is it just inappropriate?
	Well, it certainly is inappropriate.
	And let me just get back to your question, Mika.
	Yes, I do think it is abuse of power.
	But in terms of obstruction of justice, I think there's reason to believe and that Mueller should look into this.
	Because you don't say, as they said, well, nobody ever was prosecuted because they said what they hoped.
	Yeah, but if you're the President of the United States in the Oval, with this pattern of behavior that we have seen, while the Justice Department, their tradition is not to indict the President of the United States, it's certainly, in the court of public opinion, very incriminating.
	Which is exactly what this is about.
	It's about the court of public opinion, it's about the elections, the 2018 elections, And even she says, well, you know, probably it should be looked into this obstruction of justice, but it's about the court of public opinion.
	Oh, thank you very much.
	Well, they can't make this drag on this long.
	We're just a few months into the whole thing, and they want to carry this for over a year?
	Didn't they do the same thing with the elections?
	They also started way too early with shooting their wad on stuff?
	They started too early, and then they run out of steam at the end.
	This is a real problem that the Democrats have.
	They're going to have to correct this.
	I shot my wad, so you can...
	Let's wrap this up with your clips, and then we can head off into the sunset.
	Well, I don't really have anything on top of that.
	I do have, let's see.
	You have a leaker, I see, PBS leaker.
	Yeah, this is just a different leaker.
	And, well, maybe we can play this.
	It's got really nothing to do with Pelosi or all this other crap going on.
	But this is kind of an Ask Adam.
	All right.
	It says Ask Adam, and I want you to identify the leaker.
	She told ABC News that she felt obligated to expose civilian casualties while serving as an intelligence analyst in Iraq.
	We're getting all this information, and it's just death, destruction, mayhem, and eventually you just stop.
	I stopped seeing just statistics and information, and I started seeing people.
	I've accepted responsibility.
	No one told me to do this.
	Nobody directed me to do this.
	This is me.
	It's on me.
	Wait a minute.
	Who is this?
	I missed...
	Oh, you missed it.
	Yeah.
	That's what I thought.
	Play PBS Leaker 2 and you'll know who this was.
	Oh, sorry.
	The transgender soldier formerly known as Bradley Manning is now appealing her conviction.
	Wow.
	Now let me listen to the clip again.
	She told ABC News that she felt obligated to expose civilian casualties while serving as an intelligence analyst in Iraq.
	We're getting all this information, and it's just death, destruction, mayhem, and eventually you just stop.
	I stopped seeing just statistics and information, and I started seeing people.
	I've accepted responsibility.
	No one told me to do this.
	Nobody directed me to do this.
	This is me.
	It's on me.
	Huh.
	So unlike Bruce Jenner...
	Yeah, Chelsea's got the voice down.
	Yeah, she's gotten the right hormones, and she sounds, and if you look at her, and you'd like to consider the...
	She's cute!
	She's cute!
	Can she pass?
	Yeah, totally.
	Yes, she can pass, and now you have to wonder if she might have been a chimera or something.
	She looks like she should have been all along, like she claimed, a woman.
	She carries herself like one.
	She sounds like one.
	She looks like one.
	Okay, done.
	She may be intersex.
	Yeah, it could be.
	Or something.
	Whatever the case is.
	When you see her, it's not like some guy with a beard talking like this wearing a dress.
	I mean, it's not that.
	Well, with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say, in the morning to you, John C, where the C stands for Comey is a Pussy Dvorak.
	In the morning to you, Mr.
	Adam Curry.
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	Listening for a while, I've not donated until now, but hope this will reduce my guilt a little.
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	It's in his note, which I have right here.
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	So I'm thinking, you know, his name, which I first thought was Sir Ononymous, was Onimus.
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	And he put it together, Sironimus.
	Sironimus.
	I think Sironimus means something.
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	Oh, another note from Seronimus.
	So I'm thinking 1080p maybe for HD, no?
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	1080 equals the results from an online random number generator.
	A real random number this time.
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	Does he have any requests or just a big, big dose of karma?
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	P-Nonymous is their next executive producer.
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	I'm listening to the last episode and get to the part where the French president's trying to say engineer followed up with Al Gore.
	Well, I had to stop it right there and donate.
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	Aero-gay and ambien.
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	Glenn Campbell, man.
	man, he's hurting now.
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	You know, poor Glenn Campbell just did his last album.
	I know, he's got Alzheimer's, I think.
	Yeah, Alzheimer's.
	He's screwed, man.
	He still sings.
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	I love the original, too.
	John F. Hogarty.
	Jacksonville, Florida came with $261.40, and he did send us an email, which will have information in it.
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	Donation represents two quantity of 6 over 14, Flag Day, as well as mine and Trump's birthday.
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	Oh, Adam, I'm proud to say I've never visited that diarrhea-infested club you mentioned.
	Would prefer to be recognized as...
	Did you read that story?
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	About a strip club?
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	Well, this flows into it.
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	I would prefer to be recognized as Ho Ji Hung, my Chinese name.
	Not sure if I qualify for a Chinese name.
	Ho Ji Hung?
	Really?
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	Wait a minute.
	Wait a minute.
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	Why would he be on any list?
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	It's a letter that came into me, an email.
	Not sure if I qualify for a jingle.
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	He says he's a knight.
	Did he call himself a knight?
	Well, just read what he said again, because maybe I misunderstood.
	No, he just wants to be called Ho Ji Hung.
	Oh, I thought he wanted to be called a knight.
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	I'm sorry.
	I don't think it's a knight yet.
	No, he's just got birthday stuff.
	All right, all right.
	But he does have enough in his associate executive producer to Zika, Zika, Zika, whoopee, get out of my vagina and don't eat me, Hillary.
	Zika, Zika, Zika.
	Whoopee, get out of it.
	And what's the third one?
	Don't eat me, Hillary.
	Okay, and that one I always mess up.
	It's always a little...
	Okay.
	You know why?
	It's because I don't put an apostrophe there.
	I got a chip.
	What?
	It's one of those chips.
	Spring is here.
	The temperature is rising.
	That's not the right Zika either.
	Oh, this is great.
	It's been that kind of a day.
	Yeah, hold on.
	Let me see.
	Zika.
	Why can't I find the Zika?
	I can just say it.
	Zika, Zika, Zika.
	No, it's not as funny.
	Small heads.
	Oh, here it is.
	I got it.
	I got it.
	Sorry about that.
	We'll fix it.
	May I have your sense in fleece?
	Oh, Zika.
	Oh, Zika.
	Zika, Zika, Zika, Zika.
	A little baby.
	With a little bitty head.
	With a baby with a small head.
	They're going to have to make a little head.
	You watch...
	Zika, zika, zika, zika, zika.
	Yeah.
	Where's the money?
	$1.9 billion.
	Zika, zika, zika, zika, zika.
	Yeah.
	Where's the money?
	Let's have it now.
	Zika, zika, zika, zika, zika.
	Yeah.
	Where's the money?
	Small heads are coming.
	You're going to do it.
	You watch.
	We're going to have a fucking affair.
	I'm not in a hive.
	In my container.
	Don't eat me, Hillary Clinton.
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	By the way, this year's highlight, Sir Peter Bockelman's knighthood.
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	So the story will flow into your story.
	The story about the strip joint was something I tweeted, which is quite interesting.
	I'm sure it was bogus, but I tweeted it, and immediately people were like, That's bullcrap!
	This is the guy who deconstructs noose!
	What are you doing?
	They sound exactly like that.
	You know I'm nailing it.
	Oh, totally.
	And there was about a strip joint where the food the girls had eaten before Showtime had some kind of bug in it.
	And so the story is that they were on the poles.
	Especially spinning around the poles.
	Yes, yes.
	It's very detailed in its description.
	I'm pretty sure it's not true, but it was very, very funny.
	And that flows right in, flows literally right into your story.
	From the newsletter.
	From the newsletter.
	It was a very interesting...
	I had no idea.
	I've lived in San Francisco, so I know about the problem, but I didn't know about the maps.
	Please do that.
	Explain.
	Yeah, in the last newsletter, I did a special on human feces based on the fact that the Denver City Council legalized pooping in the street.
	So, I had to mention that I had to one-up Denver because San Francisco, not only do people poop in the street, but there's a poop map, which you can link to on this newsletter.
	And the poop map is...
	It's very brown.
	It's really horrible.
	Well, if you zoom in on the poop map, you can go street by street and see where all the poop is.
	Who maintains the poop map?
	I don't know who maintains it, but I know the public keeps it up to date because Jay, who has to walk dogs...
	It's crowdsourced poop.
	It's crowdsourced poop locations.
	It's not crowdsourced poop.
	She always checks the poop map for her dog walking regimen to see where they go because, you know, it's just poop all over the place.
	And when it rains, you have to assume that the poop is all over the place because the poop gets wet and splashes.
	It's a disgusting situation.
	The map is bad enough.
	But here's the kicker that I didn't mention in the newsletter.
	Which was a really shitty newsletter.
	Yeah, it was crap, man.
	Um...
	Apparently a lot of this stems from the high-tech companies that have bitched and moaned about the homeless.
	And the word on the street, and I think there was some reporting on this, but I don't know if it was detailed, Twitter, which is right on Market Street where there's a lot of homeless people, I had bitched and moaned and groaned about a bunch of porta potties that were all around their offices saying that the porta potties were the problem.
	They were causing the homeless to congregate.
	So they prefer poop on the street?
	Apparently, they didn't realize that that would be the result.
	So a lot of the port-a-pollies that used to be in San Francisco were taken away because of these tech companies saying, it's the blight and it's making the homeless gather around here.
	We don't want to even see them.
	And that is exactly what they sound like.
	Yes, I've been working in the industry long enough.
	That's one of the few imitations I can do accurately.
	Very good, very good.
	So they removed all the porta-potties, and now the poop problem, there's always been a problem, but not like it is now.
	The poop problem in San Francisco, human...
	Humans just crapping.
	And this, of course, we brought up on the show probably more than any other show.
	We discussed it with the immigrant situation in Europe.
	Where are they pooping?
	Where are they pooping?
	Exactly.
	Where are they pooping?
	They've got to be pooping somewhere.
	You've got to poop.
	Poop has to come.
	And so San Francisco is poop-laden.
	Taxes and poop.
	It's life.
	San Francisco, I'll say it again, San Francisco is poop-laden.
	So good luck when you want to come out here as a tourist.
	If there's nothing else, get a hold of the newsletter.
	And I've tweeted it too, so it makes it very accessible.
	And go to the poop map and then figure out where you want to stay when you're in the city.
	To the poop map, Robin.
	To the poop map.
	But the crazy thing is that everyone's so careful about their dogs pooping.
	Yes, I mentioned that.
	Yes, if you're a dog walker, you have to pick up the poop and do all these things.
	I mean, why couldn't we have people who pick up dog poop anyway?
	Just be a mensch.
	Pick up some human poop.
	They're not going to do it.
	I'm telling you, it's disgusting.
	And it's not like a small dog poop, which has usually some, you know, it's usually, because they feed dog dry, which is more like rabbit pellets.
	It's pretty easy to pick up.
	There's wet, you know, human poop all over San Francisco streets.
	It's gross.
	Yeah, that's really not okay.
	See, they're obsessed with poop, John.
	Yeah, they are, and they're pooping everywhere.
	So anyway, so...
	Another reason to subscribe.
	The newsletter isn't a gem every time, but this last one was very valuable information.
	Information you can use.
	It's great for cocktail parties.
	You can sound knowledgeable.
	I'm a poopologist, I tell you.
	I knew all kinds of things about this.
	Yes, indeed.
	Let's see.
	Enough of that.
	Yes, enough of that.
	I wanted to, let's see, what was I going to say?
	Well, I do have a little analysis here that would be interesting.
	Okay.
	Because I've been kind of listening to the Qatar thing, and, oh, the Russians hacked the newspaper.
	I didn't even know the full story, but now I have the full story before me, and I can tell you, I think I know what's really going on here.
	And it's kind of in these clips, but Qatar news hack, we'll play that clip.
	Okay.
	Hi, very good morning.
	Hope your weekend's going good, the early part of it.
	My name's Kevin Owen.
	Our top story, then.
	Donald Trump has weighed in to the diplomatic crisis among the Gulf states now by accusing Qatar of backing terrorists at a, quote, very high level.
	The nation of Qatar, unfortunately, has historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level.
	The time had come to call On Qatar to end its funding.
	They have to end that funding.
	But former U.S. diplomat Jim Jatris thinks that Trump's focus on Qatar ignores the elephant in the room.
	The accusation that Qatar is funding terrorism, of course they do.
	They support the terrorists in Syria, the same ones the Saudis support, and for that matter, Turkey.
	That's really not the issue here.
	Evidently, this is part of the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
	So it's very strange that in the name of fighting terrorism, President Trump is coming down so hard.
	On Qatar in supporting Saudi Arabia, which by far is the world's biggest funder of terrorism and its top ideological inspirer.
	Both Saudi Arabia and Qatar deny any involvement in terrorist activities.
	A number of Arab countries have severed diplomatic ties, though, with Doha.
	Some have even closed their borders with Qatar, leaving it really isolated now on the Arabian Peninsula as it stands.
	The crisis was in part triggered by an article that was published by Qatar's state-run news agency in which the country's Emir was quoted as calling for dialogue with Iran and then went on to criticize the US leader.
	But then the Emir denied the comments were ever made and insisted the news agency had actually been hacked.
	Neighboring Arab nations as well as the United States, as we've just seen, apparently we're convinced by that.
	Ilya Petrenka breaks down then the growing rift right now in the Gulf and the formation of new coalitions.
	I love that.
	It was a hack, man.
	Okay, here's what I have a take on this.
	I think it was a hack.
	Now, they like the Russians again.
	Russian, Russian, Russian, Russian.
	If you remember, I think it was about a year ago, I visited with this company in San Francisco that is the anti-hacking group called Cloudflare.
	And Cloudflare is responsible for blocking IPs universally.
	Yeah, whenever you get a DDoS, they always jump in when someone's getting DDoSed.
	You're getting big-time DDoSed.
	And one of the things, and I discussed this on the show, the leading hackers and the biggest DDoSers is not the Russians or the Chinese, it's Iran.
	Hmm.
	That was the weird anomaly I discovered when I was, oh yeah, Iran, they're number one with doing this stuff.
	That makes total sense then.
	Iran hacked them.
	Exactly.
	That makes sense.
	Iran hacked, and Iran knew a couple of things.
	One, first they promoted themselves, and then two, they slammed Trump knowing he'd go nuts.
	Whoa, you got butt slammed!
	Whoa!
	And deeper into the clip, there's this little tidbit which just sounds like Iran was all over this.
	Take Qatar's ties with Iran.
	Business was good indeed, but the politics, definitely not.
	When in winter 2016 the Saudis came down hard on Tehran, drawing the line at war, Doha clearly took Riyadh's side.
	Qatar has become the latest country to side with Saudi Arabia in its dispute with Iran.
	After protesters attacked the Saudi embassy there.
	Wow, it's June this year and we hear this from Tehran on its supposed foes.
	We are ready to export any kind of foodstuffs to Qatar in light of the sanctions imposed by the Persian Gulf countries.
	Starve, you fools!
	I mean, this has just got Iran written all over it.
	There's not been one analyst that has even thought of this possibility.
	And we have thought about it clearly.
	And the more I've been thinking about it, this is, I think, taking the pipelines into account.
	Well, first of all, all of this benefits Russia, because there's stuff they can do with Syria, and they want to stop this pipeline from Qatar or Qatar going up to Turkey and getting their gas into Europe.
	So in a way, it's helping the Russians, but also, I think, driving a wedge between Iran and the Russians.
	It seems pretty planned.
	Well, it doesn't seem like a Russian hack like the mainstream media is telling us.
	If there's a hack at all.
	Now, I guess the litany is not a hack.
	They actually did it.
	The Amir actually said these stupid things and it wasn't a hack.
	You can hack a newspaper.
	This was a while ago.
	This is, what, a year ago maybe this came out?
	No, this has been boiling only recently.
	Because I think that he...
	Trump just made his speech a couple days ago.
	I think the Saudis, if I recall correctly, they accused hacking because an article showed up about, and it was the emir or whoever it is, saying, oh yeah, we just give the Clintons a million dollars and everything works out okay.
	You recall the story?
	Vaguely.
	That's a different line of, yeah.
	Again, it sounds like it could be an Iranian hack.
	Totally.
	I don't know why they're so good at this and why it's been ignored by the mainstream media, this fact.
	Because they don't, what, do actual work?
	Yes, citizen, you may return to your harpsichord.
	No, they're not going to do any work.
	I did come across a fabulous article.
	In The Economist, surprisingly enough, since it's been ruined by the new editor.
	Yes.
	Now, we know that the Maldives and all these other countries like, oh, global warming is eroding.
	You know, my house is falling into the ocean.
	We're being flooded.
	And we deconstructed that as they are selling their sand.
	Then that and when you when you take the sand away from any coast, it's not like there's just a hole in the ocean.
	No, it fills up.
	Where does it fill up from?
	From the land, from your land that you're sitting on.
	And so this article came out.
	It's a month old, but I only just found it.
	I want to share a little bit of it with you.
	Sand is in high demand.
	In some parts of the world, people are going to increasingly great lengths to get their hands on the golden grains.
	Yes, a sand mafia in India intimidates locals in order to extract and transport the material.
	In Morocco and the Caribbean, thieves are stripping beaches bare.
	Even though fully accounting for illegally mined sand is not possible, sand is easily the most mined material in the world.
	And this is according to the United Nations Environmental Program.
	Their sand and gravel account for up to 85% of everything mined globally each year.
	And there are pirates, John.
	Pirates of sand.
	Thieves stealing sand.
	Singapore and Qatar, coincidentally, are big importers.
	Australian sand was transported to, built the Burj Khalifa Tower in Dubai.
	I'm thinking, this is a good business.
	The sand and gravel business has always been a good business, and I ran into one of these guys who owned a quarry.
	And quarries are interesting.
	First, you've got to know what to look for.
	You can't use desert sand.
	Desert sand is too thin.
	It's no good.
	Well, the sand and gravel is the best sand, at least locally.
	I just thought I'd mention this.
	This has nothing to do with the piracy of sand, which is, yeah, the beach sand is what you want for the stuff you're talking about.
	And you can't just go to the Sahara because it's almost like powder.
	And in fact, if you've ever been in a sandstorm, which I have, it looks like a fog.
	It's not like you're getting sandblasted.
	It's just all this powder that goes in the air.
	It's like a big wall.
	It can be, yeah.
	When it comes up, yeah.
	When I went to Iraq in 2003, we landed in Kuwait City, and we had to stay on the plane for about 45 minutes because of a sandstorm.
	It was pretty interesting being in the plane while that happened.
	Anyway, the sand and gravel guys seem to be like these independent guys who just can live wherever they want.
	They spot a spot where, oh, this looks like it.
	I know what this hill looks like.
	It looks like we can exploit it, buys the land, makes a sand and gravel pit, exploits it for five or six years, makes a few million dollars, and then sells it off to a land developer.
	I always thought that was a fascinating kind of life.
	Once you learn how to do it, you can just do it.
	It's like podcasting.
	Yeah.
	Sand bunnies are podcasters.
	Two sides of the same coin.
	Exactly.
	And you know, there was a very interesting speech at the United Nations I think about LGBT. And if you're talking about the globalists, the no nations, no borders people, the people who are really laying down the land of political correctness, how the world has to be, what you call things, what you do, what you don't do, I would think the United Nations is where you can get factual information.
	Would you agree?
	No, but go on.
	I mean, of course not, but obviously I'm being somewhat facetious.
	Okay.
	The idea is that, you know, this is the United Nations, they're all in on everything, and they have, this is the...
	They're part of the mechanism.
	They are a big part of the mechanism.
	Yes.
	And this is the independent rapporteur, which is a job I want.
	Independent rapporteur, which means a guy has to go out, and this was for the Human Rights Council, a big human rights meeting.
	The guy has to go out and find out about what's going on with gender and sexual orientation and LGBT. And I'll listen to this guy.
	First of all, he's a good speaker, but he's Asian.
	I'm not sure where he's from exactly.
	It was kind of entertaining to listen to.
	But what surprised me is, one, the extent of how horrible life is for alternative lifestyles in the world in general.
	It really made me think, wow, why are people complaining about America?
	You have some work to do if you really care about your LGBT brothers and sisters.
	But also the acronym itself.
	Now, we have tracked this for many years.
	The acronym clearly, to me, is LGBTQIAAP. That is the most inclusive.
	Lesbian, gay, bisexual, bicurious, transgendered, queer, questioning, intersex, allied, asexual, and pansexual.
	I think that really encompasses everything.
	Wrong.
	Wrong, wrong, wrong.
	He is going to introduce us to the correct acronyms, and he has some pronunciation even for us, and I thought it was entertaining and educational to learn about what's going on.
	And before you run it...
	And this came from the UN? Yes, the United Nations, the independent rapporteur.
	Okay, so this will be the word of the day.
	This will be the definitive statement.
	The definitive.
	You bet.
	Everyone has some form of sexual orientation, in short, S-O, and gender identity, in short, G-I. G-I. So you've got to write it down, John.
	You've got your pencil?
	I better start, you gotta start to clip over because I don't want to miss any of this.
	Alright, so remember, everybody has some kind of SO. Yeah, I would think so.
	And GI. Everyone has some form of sexual orientation, in short, SO. And gender identity, in short, GI. The former SO has an external dimension.
	It indicates a person's sexual inclination and feelings towards others.
	The latter has an internal dimension.
	It implies how a person self-identifies in regard to his or her own gender, which may be different from the gender assigned at birth.
	Even though human rights are inherent to everyone and propel protection for all persons without exception, Regrettably, persons with an actual or perceived sexual orientation and or gender identity diverging from a particular social norm are at times targeted for violence and discrimination.
	And violations are pervasive in numerous settings.
	Killings, rapes, mutilation, torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, lashings, abductions, Arbitrary detention, harassment, physical and mental assaults,
	bullying from a young age, pressures leading to suicide, and discriminatory gestures and measures All right.
	So, S-O-G-I is really what he's focusing on, and I didn't know if it was just an...
	This is a guy?
	This is a guy, yeah.
	Sounds like a woman.
	Yeah, well, I believe his S-O is G-A-Y. But S-O-G-I, that is very important because this is something we need to learn.
	There's also a pronunciation guide.
	The international human rights system has been strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights without distinction.
	The protection of persons on the basis of SOGI, or SOGI, and the mandate of the independent expert are based on international law.
	SOGI, John.
	SOGI. SOGI. SOGI is the new one.
	SOGI. They're like, well, hold on a second.
	What happened to LGBTQIAAP? That is gone, and I think it should piss a lot of people off.
	And I just want to say, he's going to talk more about...
	Especially people who have already made and paid for their logos.
	Yes.
	There is a lot of violence against Sogi.
	And I'm not making light of that.
	Just last week there was a transgendered woman in Austin who was raped and beaten with a hammer.
	Yeah, Austin!
	Austin!
	Austin, you're a liberal capital.
	That doesn't happen.
	Well, it does happen around here too, unfortunately.
	Now let's get into the familiar acronym and give it to you straight.
	And we're going to have to disappoint some people, some cues.
	First, words are most sensitive under this mandate.
	The acronym LGBT... Oh yeah, he has a report and a mandate and all...
	It's a mandate.
	Oh yeah, oh yeah, I got that for you.
	First, words are most sensitive under this mandate.
	The acronym LGBT often appears in discussions and is closely linked with this mandate.
	It stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender persons.
	The mandate will cover intersex persons, namely I in short, where there's a link with SOGI, while recognizing that the group has special features not necessarily related to SOGI. So it's LGBTI is the correct acronym according to United Nations mandate.
	If you call yourself queer, get out.
	Get out.
	Queer is no longer in the book.
	I find this very insulting.
	I know people who identify as queer, and this is the United Nations.
	No, they get their act together.
	The entry point for the mandate is action against violence and discrimination.
	This is based on existing international feminist law and its interrelationship with SOGI. There is no advocacy from this mandate holder of new rights for particular groups.
	So he has a mandate, and the mandate, which we'll get to in a minute or two, has some very specific things that must happen.
	But he's saying, look, we're not really making any special rights for any new people, anything like that.
	It's all the same old, same old, but we've got to take some action.
	Fifth, also important is the context-specific nature of each country and situation.
	Let's talk about those countries.
	It's really bad.
	It's really, really bad what's going on in the world.
	And again, when you listen to this, just think about all the people complaining about the current administration or just the society in general.
	Wow, if you really care about LGBTI and SOGI, You should be doing some work.
	Everyone should be doing some work, because it's a mess.
	Various elements interrelate closely with the root causes and the environment behind the violence and discrimination.
	I've called them various underpinnings, such as A. Decriminalization of consensual same-sex relations.
	Laws and policies which criminalize consensual same-sex relations are part of the background environment which leads to violence and discrimination.
	Some 70 countries criminalize same-sex relations.
	70?
	70?
	How many countries are there in the world?
	170 maybe?
	I can't remember.
	There is a number.
	It's like 165.
	Yeah, 164, 165.
	So, 70 countries criminalize.
	Criminalize it.
	We had criminalized here until recently.
	Oh, yeah.
	He mentions this.
	Which leads to violence and discrimination.
	Some 70 countries criminalize same-sex relations with particular impact on men who have sex with men.
	Right.
	Some 40 countries criminalize same-sex relations between women, particularly those who have sex with women.
	That should be celebrated.
	There are also challenging implications related with religious laws today.
	B. Effective anti-discrimination measures.
	Many countries are still hampered by the lack of or insufficiency of anti-discrimination measures, and this is also linked with the environment leading to violence and discrimination.
	This is a longitudinal challenge, starting in the home, extending to the educational system, the workplace and life beyond.
	The discrimination is also intersectional and aggravating and aggravated and multiple in its linkage with other issues such as race, poverty, migration and other vulnerabilities.
	C. Legal recognition of gender identity.
	In many countries, transgender persons are not able to have their self-identified gender recognised by the state, even with gender reassignment surgery, and have to go lifelong abuses and discrimination.
	The fact of non-recognition is interlinked with the environment leading to violence and discrimination.
	This is really bad for my Tourette's because all I can think of now is discrimination.
	Discrimination.
	D. Destigmatization linked with depathologization.
	Depathologization.
	This is a big one for me.
	What do you think that means?
	I mean, I can deconstruct a word and kind of...
	...figure out what it means in general, but I have no idea what it means in her context or his.
	...leading to violence and discrimination.
	D, destigmatization linked with depathologization.
	Stigma based on SOGI and concomitantly violence and discrimination may arise in a variety of situations, including in regard to the medical sector, and this is linked with the issue of pathologisation.
	For example, until 1990, even at the international level, homosexuals were regarded as mentally ill.
	This exemplified a pathologizing approach looking at LGBTI, regrettably, as some form of illness, mental order, or dysphoria.
	This approach is now being questioned increasingly.
	Yeah, and I think that the people who really care about LGBTI SOGI issues should really be looking at some other things.
	I think we're doing pretty good here in the States.
	The mandate does have some ideas of how we're going to change the world.
	And finally, F, promotion of education and empathy.
	Promotion of education and empathy.
	Biases and prejudices tend to emerge from a young age, and it is the lack of education and or awareness and understanding which may feed the phobias and bigotry which underlie the violence and discrimination.
	This is interlinked with both the quality and accessibility of the educational spectrum and how to nurture kindness and empathy for SOGI as an inherent part of ourselves and others.
	With due respect for sexual and gender identity.
	So you can just wait for all the educational materials to come out, mandated by the United Nations, so that we all make sure that we're not running afoul of what should be really happening.
	And we do need some conclusions here.
	In conclusion, I look forward to explore further the various underpinnings already mentioned.
	I also invite you please to reflect on and respond to the various recommendations in this report, which vary from an encouragement to ratify human rights treaties and to apply them well, to the request to collect disaggregated data, to build checks and balances against abusive power, to work closely with the UN system, to promote and protect human rights defenders, and to shun violence and discrimination.
	The preferred path to the future must be that of building bridges, premised on prevention of transgressions, remediation of violations, participation of the concerned groups, and protection of human rights for all.
	Resonant with the universal colors of hope and dignity as our shared horizon.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	So, this came down to a vote, because this was a mandate, and it did not pass because of the 57-strong Organization of Islamic Cooperation saying they do not recognize his mandate as legitimate.
	Despite him being an external rapporteur.
	I got his report, which there's no clip of it, and he says countries that had...
	Here we go.
	Countries have objections to LGBT agenda, important to respond to them in a measured and judicious way, bearing in mind the connectivity with international standards.
	Consistent, he calls for censorship of dissenting views by internet service providers through takedown policies for homophobic and transphobic messages, and for hate speech laws, industry codes of conduct, and co-regulation between the government and private sector.
	I learned a lot from his speech.
	I found it very informative.
	I'm really disappointed that this is what is now being proposed.
	Takedown policies.
	This is all speech.
	You may not like it.
	It's all free speech issues.
	You may not like it.
	And the irony, of course, is the same people that want what he proposes...
	Also, here's what the irony is.
	The Muslim-majority countries voted this down, along with some African countries.
	A lot of them are partial Muslims, because they're not buying into this in a million years.
	It's not going to happen.
	No.
	They're the same ones who want these free speech restrictions when it comes to hate speech about them.
	Yeah, I know.
	So we have a screwball use of hate speech, and I want to mention, and I do have a note to read from a reader which kind of touches on some of this, is that Katie Hopkins, one of my favorite commentators on LBC, I think it was a month ago or so, she was fired.
	What?
	What?
	Yeah, you didn't know this?
	No.
	She's gone.
	She's done.
	Hate speech.
	Because of hate speech.
	Yeah.
	Well, her hate speech consisted of a tweet.
	It wasn't even on LBC, which is the London's, like the name of this, a radio station in London that has talk shows all day.
	Yeah, LBC. And it wasn't even on the station.
	It was that she had tweeted that, well, we wouldn't have these terrorist attacks in England if there were no Muslims in the country.
	That is hate speech.
	Yes.
	Also known as just speech.
	Yes, it's actually just speech.
	A.K.A. speech.
	I want to read something from one of our producers, Duncan.
	Adam questioned why the British are not angry about the terrorist attacks.
	You did a couple days ago.
	Well, they seem to be all like, oh, carry on.
	No.
	We are furious.
	Katie Hopkins has been sacked from LBC and is under police investigation for her angry reaction to the attacks.
	The police have charged many people for hate crimes on the social media, which has only inflamed the situation.
	Pierce Morgan pointed out about differential treatment of football hooligans and terrorists on the clip you played last Thursday.
	And the police emphasis on hate crimes whilst 2300 potential terrorists walk freely in the country again is over.
	only inflaming the situation.
	The reason that Sadiq Khan, loved by Londoners and hated by the rest of the country, focused on cost, cost of policing, I guess.
	He is a member of the Labor Party and is tipped by the liberal elite to be the new leader of the Labor Party.
	This That's where he got it from.
	When Jeremy Corbyn has been dispatched, one of the attack lines in the election was that during Theresa May's tenure as Home Secretary and Interior Manager, she kept police members by 20,000.
	It's a bit disingenuous as the issue is MI5 obsession with solving every crime by algorithms rather than infiltrating the community with real people.
	The algo will fix it.
	Don't worry.
	The algo is all-encompassing.
	He goes on and on.
	And he does have a little tidbit at the end.
	I'm not going to read the rest of this.
	It appears as if the father of the Manchester bomber was an asset for MI5, which would explain why in your recent security service, FBI, I think, alerted ours in February.
	No action was taken because presumably they thought he was one of ours.
	No!
	Yeah.
	I thought that was kind of interesting.
	And then the only other interesting thing was a report that most of the, you know, he bitches about the 23,000 and people moan about the 23,000 and all these terrorists.
	800, I guess, that went over and it came back and they're roaming around.
	Apparently, during the Libyan situation, here it is, Sorted by MI5, how the UK government sent the British Libyans to fight Gaddafi.
	And then they came back.
	Yeah.
	Fighters say the government operated an open-door policy allowing them to join the rebels as authorities investigate the background of the Manchester bombers.
	Because they're from Libya.
	The British government operated an open-door policy that allowed the Libyan exiles and British Libyan citizens to join in 2011, the 2011 uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, even though some had been subject to counter-terrorism control orders.
	It goes on.
	There's a mess over there.
	Wow.
	I didn't know.
	Well, you know, to be fair, we were only playing what we were given.
	You know, we do media deconstruction, so it's not like I didn't believe that they're pissed off Brits.
	But that's what the news is showing.
	Oh, I just have a beer.
	You know, I didn't even spill my beer.
	Oh, I just want to have a beer with my friends.
	Who cares?
	They're not going to stop us.
	And I should mention that the two of us are just as susceptible to the brainwashing propaganda if we can't get any other source.
	Exactly.
	And I noticed that some of the producer listeners, occasionally they drift off and they get suckered or they start thinking, well, I can do it without the show.
	I don't need the show to tell me anything.
	The thing about the show, and I want to emphasize this because this has gone on.
	We've done the show long enough that I've seen this effect.
	Adam and I are both subject to the same hoaxes, internet bull crap and everything else that goes on.
	But because we do it, we do a kind of a competitive thing with the two of us.
	We can always catch the other guy if he falls trapped or if he falls prey to some hoax.
	It's like a wingman.
	We do it all...
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	We do it to each other all the time.
	It's not that you're noticing it on the show all the time, but I'd say about three or four times a year, one of us will drift off into some bull crap and the other one will say, that's bull crap.
	Exactly.
	It's hard to do that by yourself.
	Absolutely.
	If you're by yourself, If you're by yourself, you will get pushed into dimension B, and you'll never get back.
	And when you listen to this show, you're not only not by yourself, because you have two of us, but the two of us keep the tab on each other.
	So it's actually three people that can maintain kind of a solid view of the universe, a reality check.
	Yeah.
	Just saying.
	And I'd like to say that, you know, besides just the two of us, we have listeners who send stuff in.
	You know, producers, as we call them.
	You know, mainstream media, do they even publish letters to the editor?
	You know, like, to change anything?
	Or, you know, they just publish them.
	Who gives a credit?
	Put it on a page and let them complain over there.
	Right, that's why I read this letter.
	A good example.
	Perfect example.
	Perfect example.
	Yeah, that's true.
	And we really appreciate that.
	And I would not have gotten the idea that Sadiq Khan would become the next leader of the Labor Party.
	I mean, that's crazy.
	No, no, it's par for the course, man.
	Par for the course.
	Please.
	Just because I just kind of bumped into it.
	It was on the Google blog.
	They have a new ad blocker for Chrome.
	Or what they call, I'm sorry, a filter.
	Which is coming out.
	Have you been reading up on this?
	Not at all.
	I don't use Chrome.
	A lot of people do.
	Most people do.
	Well, it's a coalition.
	It's the Coalition for Better Ads.
	Right.
	And what it is, they're coming up with a standard for ad blocking.
	That is Google and Facebag, mainly.
	This is so they get their ads in there.
	Yes!
	Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
	Exactly.
	So they're going to put in some bull crap thing where if you don't want to look at the ads, you can send money to the website and then still get through.
	But they are going to determine what a good ad is.
	So this is very subjective.
	Personally, I don't think ads that tell me that if I take this that I might die or have anal leakage or both is a good ad.
	You know, it's not a good ad at all.
	And I would just appreciate it if you gave me an ad that I cared about, not the thing I just bought, which again, that happens all the time.
	So be on the lookout for the Coalition for Better Ads.
	I think it's a cartel.
	I think it should be illegal, honestly.
	Sounds like it.
	Yeah, but it won't be.
	And just, you can wait for that to happen.
	Better ads are in your future, thanks to Google and the FaceBag.
	Here on the No Agenda show, ads?
	I don't think so.
	I'm going to show my salute by donating to No Agenda.
	Imagine all the people who could do that.
	Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
	Yeah, on no agenda In the morning Woohoo!
	We have a few people to thank, and the first one, which is at the top of the list, there's Candace Harris, and she sent a note in.
	I guess I could have bumped her up, because I think we're going to, for the rest of the year, allow Canadians to donate their native money, and we'll credit them for it.
	This is a very nice idea.
	And also Australians.
	Yes, and I'm glad you're doing that.
	So we're taking a hit.
	Well, we're not really taking a hit.
	Because they're not going to send us more anyway.
	It's just that they're not even getting more for their money.
	$200 to a Canadian is the same as $200 to an American.
	It's $200.
	It's not like you're getting paid a fortune.
	But that's my point.
	We're going to let them be an associate for $200.
	Yes.
	But we're taking the hit.
	200 Canadian pesos.
	Dollarets is better.
	I like dollarets.
	Either one.
	I don't care.
	So let's start with this one, which is Candace Harris.
	So we'll treat this as an associate executive producer.
	We'll put her on the list as such.
	I've donated over Canadian 200, which is unfortunately equal to US 150.
	But this might still be acceptable to earn my dad, Brett Harris, Executive producer credit.
	Okay.
	So we'll put Brett Harris in there then.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	Associate executive producer would be exact.
	Okay.
	On a side note, this donation is a Father's Day gift and is no way a sign of my...
	Oh, yeah, this letter I had to read anyway.
	On a side note, this is what I'm going to try to do.
	On a side note...
	Side note.
	This donation is a Father's Day gift and in no way is a sign of my support for the show.
	Okay, gotcha.
	I think it's a terrible influence on my dad.
	He never shuts up about political conspiracies now, and as a result, the family can no longer turn on the news, discuss current events, making headlines, or even think about using words like Clinton and Obama around the house in fear that it might trigger another lecture or rant beginning with Quote, well, according to no agenda.
	The bastions of truth, the guardians of reality.
	My dad did something about people paying.
	He said, my dad did mention something about people paying for de-douching.
	Yes.
	Consider my donation a request for one de-douching for each of you.
	You've been de-douched.
	And one for him, too.
	One more?
	And she says, sincerely, the very tired daughter of a diehard No Agenda fan.
	What's his first name again?
	This is Brett Harris.
	Brett Harris, okay.
	He'll be hearing that.
	Well, let me just tell you one thing.
	What a beautiful gift for a daughter to give, even though it is against her dimension.
	So that I take as a very, very positive outcome of this.
	Yes.
	One more de-douche.
	You've been de-douche.
	Sir Christoph the Cantankerous, 9999, Sun City, Arizona.
	Oh, Sun City.
	Sun City, Lauren Littlefield.
	Boob.
	Boob.
	Lauren Litterfield in Manchester, New Hampshire.
	And she has to call out, Hunter is a douchebag for not donating.
	You guys are awesome.
	Keep up the great work.
	We will.
	She nails it.
	Sir Alan Hawes in Windsor, Berkshire, UK. 7777.
	Great town to visit.
	Eric, or Elric Blackwell.
	Parts Unknown.
	He needs a dedouching.
	Let's give him one.
	And we'll give a job to Carmen.
	You've been dedouched.
	Wait a minute.
	Hold on.
	Sir Alan Hawks, who was just in Windsor, he says, F the EU, which gave me an opportunity to play this.
	I always want to play that one.
	Okay.
	Eric Blackwell, 75 bucks.
	I guess he's got to dedouching.
	Sir Brian Green of Hams in New York City, 73, 73, 73.
	It's from KC9YJM. Kilo Charlie, 9 Yankee, Juliet Mike.
	Kilo 5 Alpha Charlie, Charlie 7, 3's, 88.
	Sir James Zuckel, 7142.
	He says, no agenda gets me through the week.
	Black Knight, sir, linemen of the something of the networks, I think.
	I'm sorry, John.
	We missed something really important here from Sir Christoph the Cantankerous.
	Yeah, we missed something here.
	He said, could I please get an F cancer for my father's wife who finally lost the fight at age 87 and some karma for my dad.
	Absolutely.
	You've got karma.
	Make sure we stay on top of stuff like that.
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	Pothole in St.
	Louis, Missouri.
	What is Mr.
	Pothole?
	He's calling me Mr.
	Pothole.
	He is your arch nemesis.
	Arch nemesis, according to Eric.
	Small boob, lowercase donation.
	Oh, 6006 is small boob.
	Okay, if you wanted to go that way.
	Well, he says it right there.
	He says it, but I thought he'd be...
	It looks like it's a lowercase b.
	Oh!
	Oh!
	Oh, Boob is a little...
	Okay, I'll give him that.
	Baron Mark Tanner, he needs anything else for him?
	No.
	Hells Selling Karma at the end.
	Baron Mark Tanner, our buddy, 5533 in Whittier, California.
	Eric Hoff...
	In Edmonton, Alberta, 5510.
	Double nickels on the dime.
	Sir Selverin, 51.
	Michael Holbe, 59.
	Robert Hausner in Marmora, Ontario, Canada, 5017.
	Richard Gardner, 50.
	These are all $50 donors.
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	Name and location, if there is a location to name.
	Jesse Nolet, Arlington, Texas.
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	I'm out the window.
	David Peet in Aubrey, Texas.
	And last but not least, a short list, let's say the least.
	Kyle Meyer in Atlanta, Georgia.
	We want to thank all these folks for helping us out on show 927.
	Yeah, 937, yeah.
	3-7, 937.
	How many left?
	How many left of what?
	How many more episodes left?
	We're going for that big 1K, baby.
	The 1,000, episode 1,000, yeah, that's coming up.
	1K. In a year.
	In a year.
	No, I can handle a year, no problem.
	Hey, thank you, everybody.
	The list is still just the summer months.
	It's always tough, despite a great poop newsletter.
	Thank you.
	And also thanks to everybody who came in under $50.
	This is typically for reasons of anonymity, but also lots of people on some cool subscription donations.
	In that group, I think we do have a couple of at least one way down at the bottom.
	Somebody said great newsletter.
	It gave, I think, a dad call out.
	I think it's on here.
	Oh, you want to find that?
	Yeah, there it is.
	Matthew Cash.
	In Lenexa, Kansas, from his son Matthew in Lenexa to his dad's...
	I've got to find my cursor and click on this box.
	I'll bet you his name is Daddy Cash.
	No, the guy says, though, he's related to Johnny Cash, which I find interesting.
	Happy Father's Day to my dad, Lonnie Cash.
	Lonnie.
	All right.
	Okay, that'll be that.
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	Social justice today.
	Do you still receive broadcast in Cable Magazine?
	No.
	I look at it online once in a while.
	You should look at the great cover.
	The new one.
	Front page.
	Dear white people, do not adjust.
	That's what it says.
	Dear white people, do not adjust the colors on your set.
	Diversity has arrived and multicultural audiences are being served.
	Very nice.
	That's telling us.
	Yeah.
	I don't know if they think that's cool or funny, but it's racist.
	Totally racist.
	It's racist to do that.
	I mean, it may be true.
	I'm fine.
	I don't care.
	I really don't care.
	Well, I just hope they know it's racist.
	No, they don't.
	They totally tone deaf.
	They are tone deaf.
	There you go.
	Tone deaf.
	But CNN had a bit on...
	Well, I'll just play this.
	This was Cuomo and his co-host in the morning.
	trying to spur on a little bit of self-moral self-licensing or what is the other one?
	Virtue signaling.
	Signaling, yeah.
	Virtue signaling.
	Since the election, the Southern Poverty Law Center has tracked more than 700 hate But Muslim women say a year ago, their sense of safety began to change after this picture of San Bernardino killer Tashfeen Malik went public.
	What they're saying?
	You remember that picture of the two of them?
	The selfie after Malika apparently shot up everybody in the nightclub?
	No, it was not the wagon.
	The picture in the airport were the two of them.
	It was a picture of the two of them in the airport.
	They were the ones who shot up the government party.
	The government building.
	Yeah, the government party.
	With their workmates.
	They shot up their workmates, people they worked with.
	And this woman is claiming that since then, discrimination is just off the hook.
	She can't even pray in public.
	She has to stay home.
	But CNN has a solution.
	It's just like...
	Go ahead.
	I'm just saying, you know, I'm at the airport.
	I'm at the SFO. And some guy gets off the elevator in the parking lot and throws down a prayer mat and goes into it.
	Yeah.
	He doesn't say anything.
	You know, it's kind of interesting.
	And guys like that, religious...
	Kind of something you have to kind of admire, I think.
	Yeah, I've seen it happen in airplanes, where people get into the aisle and throw down their mat and start praying.
	I haven't seen that.
	Oh, yeah.
	Put on your seatbelt!
	Get back to your seat, slave!
	Since the election, the Southern Poverty Law Center has tracked more than 700 hate incidents.
	But Muslim women say a year ago, their sense of safety began to change, after this picture of San Bernardino killer Tashfeen Malik went public.
	After that, people started to see us differently.
	Muslim women began taking self-defense classes driven by fear.
	The only places where Abdugani feels free to express that part of Islam is in the privacy of her apartment and her mosque.
	To the incoming Trump administration, this young Muslim woman has this message.
	When you hold that kind of position and you think it is okay to make these racist, Islamophobic, sexist statements...
	Really?
	I can't believe that a news organization allows this on the air.
	It's really pretty blatant accusations.
	But again, they have a solution.
	Make these racist, Islamophobic, sexist statements There are people, unfortunately, as crazy as they are, who look up to you, and they will follow you, and they will act out in response to what you're saying.
	It's an interesting story.
	Maybe there'll be a movement where people wear the headscarf in solidarity, you know, even if you're not Muslim.
	Maybe it's the way people shave their head, you know, sometimes in solidarity with somebody who's going through something.
	Maybe you'll see a wave of the opposite.
	I'm gonna do it.
	I'm all in.
	I'm gonna wear a headscarf.
	You.
	No, I'm not going to wear a headscarf because some dumb fuck on TV tells me to.
	There it is!
	There it is, ladies and gentlemen.
	Note the time.
	The John C. Dvorak F-bomb of the day.
	Yeah, I'm going to try it.
	Make sure to get a couple pictures and put in the newsletter because you would look like a charmer with a head scarf on.
	I will look fabulous.
	No doubt about it.
	Let's see, what else do we have happening?
	I got a couple of things.
	Let's get these out of the way then.
	Let's catch up with, because I have a, well, let's, here's the reality winner update.
	Let's keep where she is so we know that.
	Meanwhile, a federal contract employee charged with leaking classified information will stay in jail until her trial.
	Reality winner was denied bond yesterday in Georgia.
	Prosecutors warned that she might have taken other classified documents.
	Not only that, but she wrote in her journal that she wanted to blow up the White House, which she got from Madonna.
	Yeah, they should be picking up Madonna.
	That would do everyone a favor.
	Mm-hmm.
	Let's play this.
	I want to kind of catch up with some things.
	Here's the war in Afghanistan update, and I have a question for you.
	I'm Don Daylor.
	This is our Western edition.
	Three U.S. soldiers were killed today and at least one wounded, fighting America's longest war.
	It was apparently an insider attack in eastern Afghanistan.
	An Afghan army soldier opened fire on the Americans before he was killed.
	The U.S. casualties have not been identified.
	The Taliban is claiming responsibility, releasing this photo of the man they say was the gunman.
	The attack comes as the Trump administration is considering sending more troops to Afghanistan to help in the fight against the Taliban, al-Qaeda, ISIS and affiliated terror groups.
	Since 2001...
	More than 2,200 U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan.
	More than 20,000 have been wounded.
	The 16-year war has cost American taxpayers more than $800 billion.
	Woo!
	We're number one!
	So the question to you is, what have we accomplished, what, 14 years and $800 billion?
	By the way, $800 billion that could have been spent fixing the roads of the United States.
	It's almost a trillion dollars, probably a trillion also.
	You could have cleaned San Francisco streets of all poop?
	There wouldn't be any poop.
	What have we accomplished?
	What is the point of us being there in the first place?
	Three things.
	Three things.
	I can tell you what they are.
	Okay, I know what they are too, but I'm going to ask more questions after you tell me the three you have on your list.
	Number one, the poppies.
	Number two, the Unicall pipeline.
	And number three, the minerals.
	The Unicall pipeline could be there without us being there.
	Well, you need pipeline protection.
	You can do pipeline protection in other ways than having...
	We do, with drones!
	Wait, are you telling me we've drawn $800 billion to protect this one pipeline?
	Well, hold on.
	It's a jib.
	Well, yeah, it's different to say it's a jib.
	We know what a toilet seat costs at the Pentagon, but that's what it has accomplished.
	And we're number one.
	It has accomplished nothing.
	And the poppies are ruining this country.
	We're getting too much heroin and other drugs in here, and it's encouraged.
	The whole roundabout thing with the fentanyl king and all the rest of the stuff going on is ridiculous.
	We've got the country all drugged up.
	We've lost 2,000 soldiers and 20,000 injured.
	$800 billion that could be better spent.
	And the minerals?
	You mentioned the minerals?
	What are we doing about the minerals?
	We've been there 14 years, and we haven't extracted anything.
	Oh, that's lame.
	They've got to stop this stupid war.
	It's wasting our money.
	Yeah, but that would ruin our economy because we run on war.
	And screw Unikel's pipeline.
	It is, but if you look at all the bases, certainly in Waziristan, down near the Pakistani border where we have the drones, that's pipeline protection.
	That's why no one's going to sit there and sit in front of a pipeline.
	No, you have drones.
	Hey, hey, hey, you jihadi, towelhead.
	Pfft.
	That's what we do.
	We help extract and we help protect.
	To extract and protect.
	It's a jip.
	It's too much money.
	Unical should be picking up the tab on this thing.
	Well...
	I got a clip here, just speaking about our economy, maybe the world economy.
	You have predicted that we got a big one coming.
	Yeah, a whopper.
	A whopper.
	It's a cycle.
	And Jim Rogers concurs with you, and he was on, I think it was Business Insider, and I'd like to share his thinking about what is going to happen in the next year.
	Well, what's going to happen is this is going to continue.
	Some stocks in America are turning into a bubble.
	The bubble's going to come, then it's going to collapse.
	You should be very worried.
	So when is this going to happen?
	Later this year or next.
	Later this year or next?
	Write it down.
	And what will trigger it?
	Well, it's interesting because these things always start where we're not looking.
	In 2007, Iceland went broke.
	And people said, Iceland?
	Is that a country?
	They have a market?
	And then Ireland went broke.
	And then Bear Stearns went broke.
	And then, you know, Lehman Brothers went broke.
	They spiral like that.
	Always happens where we're not looking.
	I don't know.
	It could be an American pension plan that goes broke.
	And many of them are broke, as you know.
	It could be some country we're not watching.
	It could be all sorts of things.
	It could be war.
	Unlikely to be war.
	But it's going to be something.
	And how big a crash could we be looking at?
	It's going to be the worst in your lifetime.
	I've had some pretty big ones in my life, and it's long.
	It's going to be the biggest in my lifetime, and I'm older than you.
	No, it's going to be serious stuff.
	It's going to be...
	We've had financial problems in America, let's use America, every four to seven years since the beginning of the Republic.
	Well, it's been over eight.
	Is that true, every four to seven years since the beginning of the Republic?
	Well, not really.
	We've had long...
	Periods where it's not every, what did you say, four to seven?
	That's what he said, every four to seven years since the Republican Party.
	I think there's ups and downs, but he may be, I think, from my look at the cycles, I think he may be exaggerating it a little bit.
	Every four to seven years since the beginning of the Republic.
	Well, it's been over eight since the last one.
	This is the longest or the second longest in recorded history, so it's coming.
	And the next time it comes, you know, in 2008 we had a problem because of debt.
	Henry, the debt now That debt was nothing compared to what's happening now.
	In 2008, the Chinese had a lot of money saved for a rainy day.
	It started raining, they started spending the money.
	Now even the Chinese have debt, and the debt is so much higher.
	The Federal Reserve, the Central Bank in America, the balance sheet is up over five times since 2008.
	It's going to be the worst in my lifetime, too.
	Be worried.
	I am worried.
	Good, good.
	Can the Fed rescue us?
	Can anybody rescue us?
	They will try.
	What's going to happen is they're going to raise interest rates some more.
	Then when things start going really bad, people are going to call and say, you must save me.
	This Western civilization is going to collapse.
	And the Fed, who's made up of bureaucrats and politicians, We'll say, well, we better do something.
	So they will try, but it won't work.
	It will cause some rallies, but it won't work this time.
	You're going to see governments fail.
	You're going to see countries fail this time around.
	Iceland failed last time.
	Other countries failed.
	You're going to see more of that.
	You're going to see parties disappear.
	You're going to see institutions that have been around for a long time.
	Lehman Brothers have been around over 150 years.
	Gone.
	Not even a memory for most people.
	You're going to see a lot more of that next time around, whether it's museums or hospitals or universities or financial firms.
	Horowitz just texted me.
	Rogers has predicted a collapse every year for the past seven years.
	Exactly.
	I follow this guy.
	He doesn't even live in the United States.
	He lives in Asia.
	Singapore, I think, or Malaysia.
	Singapore, someplace fancy.
	He's got a fancy thing going on.
	Anyway, yes.
	But I think he's generally right.
	But a couple of things, at least from my perspective of studying this and talking about blah, blah, blah.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	If this is, you know, it's not going to be a pleasant experience, but if it's what I think, which is it's a fractal of 1857, Economic depression, which by many accounts from that era claimed it was the first true depression in the United States, as opposed to these little skirmishes called panics that came and went.
	Everything is analogous to the 1857 collapse, which means printing money and the gold infusion into the economy back then.
	It's about one-third as bad in terms of printing money as it was in 1857 when all this gold was injected into the economy, about $15 trillion worth.
	So I think it'll be about one-third as bad.
	I think it's just going to be like 1937 maybe.
	Oh, I remember it well, yes.
	A year and a half of bad times, and that's going to be it.
	It's not going to be as bad as it.
	He makes it sound like the whole world's coming to an end.
	It's ridiculous.
	So the idea is donate and donate often because it's coming.
	Well, usually yes.
	Well, yeah.
	Absolutely.
	You should donate often.
	Yeah.
	It's going to be problematic.
	You know, it usually affects about a third of the public really badly.
	The other two-thirds survive these things.
	The podcasters get by because they're getting by anyway.
	And I think, you know, it'll probably cut into our...
	Our cash flow, but I think it should be okay.
	I hope so.
	I hope so, too.
	It'll show us how good our model is.
	Well, there is a way out, potentially.
	I got more details on Apple's new podcast app and what it will do.
	And I'm very pleased.
	Okay, well then I have something to ask you.
	According to Comic Strip Blogger...
	The new podcast app requires a 3,000 by 3,000 image.
	Yes, we already do that.
	I've been doing that for six months.
	3,000 by 3,000?
	You just blow up the 512 by 512?
	That's what I've been doing, yeah.
	Just all pixelated.
	It's got to be a mess.
	Yeah, this was a, you know, that decision was made funny enough.
	And when we had the podcasters meeting at Lance Armstrong's house and the Apple guys were there, they said, well, what do y'all think?
	You know, $3,000, $3,000 for the artworks.
	I don't give a crap.
	I'll do it.
	I'll just blow it up.
	Whatever you guys want to do.
	That's one of the, that was always one of the standards for them for highlighting.
	If you want to be on their homepage, that's to be that size specifically.
	Yeah.
	That's ridiculous.
	No screen can even maintain an image that size.
	I have no idea why they want it.
	But let me tell you...
	It should be like about...
	I think 512 is fine.
	I think it's a good size for an image on a screen.
	What, are they going to do it projected on a billboard?
	Yeah, maybe you need a little more resolution.
	I got to tell you, well, we'll talk about my Apple issues in a minute, but here's what's going to happen with a new podcast app.
	And, you know, whether you like it or not, Apple does pull the cart.
	They are the ones that have the easiest subscription method.
	They have, you know, sometimes we've looked at our server stats.
	The main, certainly mobile client is iPhone.
	So here are the changes that are coming.
	And at first, I'm not a big fan of this, but they're doing something legal.
	They're expanding their namespace, which is legal under RSS 2.0.
	And it's going to include specifications to allow podcasts to define individual seasons and explain whether an episode is a teaser, a full episode, or bonus content.
	These extensions will be read by the podcast app and used to present a podcast in a richer way than the current, more linear approach.
	So that way, I guess you can say, oh, here's the season one of Serial.
	That's what it's made for, pretty much.
	I'm sure NPR pushed that.
	But here's the thing that I'm very excited about.
	Also, I see the freemium content is also used.
	Yeah, same idea.
	Yeah, freemium.
	That freemium, yeah.
	They are going to open up to podcasters in episode analytics.
	Which means, you know, so all these people, oh, I got a million listeners, 300 million downloads, oh, we're great advertising our podcast.
	No, no, no, here's what's going to happen.
	It will be using anonymized data from the app to show podcasters how many people are listening, where in the app people are stopping or skipping.
	They can do that?
	Sure they can.
	But only for the Apple podcast app.
	Well, that's streaming, though.
	It's only streaming.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	They can't do that.
	No, it's not only...
	Look, get off of that.
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	But when you hit play, whether it's streaming or it's downloaded, that is registered in the app.
	You will have to go into Apple to get these statistics.
	But this is going to become the norm.
	This is how it works.
	Because you can say, all right, it's just a sample, but it is probably the biggest sample of any player.
	And advertisers are going to say, show me your Apple stats.
	And you're all going to be fucked, you mainstream douchebags, because you've been lying about your numbers.
	Lying.
	And it will be very interesting to watch what happens with podcast advertising.
	I agree with that.
	It's going to be very interesting.
	And personally, I'm very excited because you and I can see exactly what's going on and not have to share it with anybody.
	Yeah, we don't have to tell advertisers, hey, look, we've got millions and millions of listeners.
	I guarantee you this is going to ruin some careers.
	We'll see.
	I can imagine it being...
	A lot of these advertisers seem to be pretty lax about getting scammed, which is why we promote this model, because we're not cheating anybody.
	No, certainly not.
	I don't even know how many people listen.
	It'll be interesting to find out.
	Yeah, it's a good number.
	It's obviously a good number.
	But we don't really know.
	But we don't know.
	We just really don't.
	There is no way to accurately or even semi-accurately determine that anyone who tells you they do are liars.
	Well, you can reverse engineer and get within 150,000.
	No.
	I disagree.
	I think so.
	Within 150,000?
	I totally disagree.
	You cannot come up with those numbers.
	No.
	Okay.
	Well, I'll come up with some reverse engineered numbers and then we'll compare it to the real numbers.
	Good.
	I'm FTPing the log files to you now.
	No, no.
	I go by...
	No, no, no.
	That's not the way I do it.
	I do it by reverse engineering the donations.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	I got you.
	Because there's so many people who are going to donate under whatever circumstances using old models that are used in direct marketing.
	You can kind of figure out how many people are listening.
	Now, if you're way off one way or the other, it can have some implications.
	But generally speaking, I think most of our listeners don't donate.
	I agree.
	And by most, I mean most.
	Too bad it's anonymized data, and we can't just, like, you know, if you're...
	Call them up?
	No, yeah, hey, hey, it's Adam.
	Hey, Bill.
	All right, hold on a minute.
	Hello?
	Hi, it's Adam Curry.
	Hey, how you doing?
	What?
	Hey, hi, it's Adam Curry, your guardian of reality.
	Hey, listen, we've noticed that you've been listening to the show for about 10 years, and you have not donated?
	You're talking about no agenda?
	I got you a personal douchebag.
	Dang!
	What?
	Bastard.
	Here's what I'm working on, because there were some other things that happened during this Comey fracas.
	We had a couple airstrikes against the Syrian government, but it wasn't reported.
	See, we have a repeal of Dodd-Frank, which I'm reading currently.
	We have...
	What else do we have?
	Well, there was the explosion at the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine, also not really discussed.
	Nope.
	So, I'm working on some of that for Thursday's show.
	Well, I got a couple of things.
	I got one that I want to finish with, but I do want to mention something that's kind of interesting to our listeners, which is I got another robot call.
	I didn't record it.
	Unfortunately, I wasn't ready.
	But I have to give these guys some credit.
	It was a robot, and she sounds just like a person.
	But when you asked her if she's a robot, there's a long pause.
	It's like way too long.
	And then she comes back and she says some bull crap about it.
	Well, we used high technology.
	I said, well, that means you are a robot.
	Long pause.
	And she comes back with some other nonsense.
	Hey, you stumped the algo.
	But the interesting thing, unlike the other previous calls, which were kind of creepy because they had that What is it called?
	Wacky Canyon?
	Whatever it is.
	That thing where you try to act human in a cartoon style and it always has something creepy about it.
	The old version was creepier.
	What are you talking about?
	It's called Crazy.
	Somebody in the chat room would know.
	It's called Crazy Valley.
	It's a term that's used to describe people trying to do computer reproduction of humans and then they don't move around right.
	I'll get you the name of it next show if somebody doesn't come up with it.
	Anyway, Uncanny Valley.
	Uncanny Valley.
	Are you reading the chat room?
	No, it's just what I said.
	Anyway, so, no, I'm not.
	So here's the deal.
	It was kind of Uncanny Valley when I first heard this robot.
	This time, it was covered up by boiler room sound effects as if she was in a boiler room.
	Nice.
	I was very impressed by that.
	Hmm.
	So instead of just a lone robot talking to me, when there's silence, and so every time she went silent, it went dead silent, like, you know, creepy CD, super silent.
	Right.
	It's just noise.
	There's a bunch of racket going on, like a bunch of people talking in the background.
	Well done.
	Well done.
	Dynamite improvement.
	Have you seen all the Watson commercials?
	It's not like we didn't predict this would happen.
	I hate these commercials.
	Oh my God.
	The talking box.
	Yeah.
	I'm still learning.
	I'm still learning.
	Yeah, I read a lot of the IT dude named Ben, dudette's name Bernadette blogs.
	And so really it's an SDK into Watson.
	Apparently it's really problematic to integrate it into anything.
	And it's great marketing is what it is.
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, IBM has always been pretty good at that.
	Something you can tell you're bored.
	You know, we got Watson on the case.
	Don't worry.
	Yeah, Watson.
	Watson here, man.
	Yeah.
	I need that voice.
	Does someone have a computerized Watson voice?
	I'm sure someone has a version of it.
	Oh, we need that.
	I'd love to have that.
	Yeah, it's probably some guy.
	Anyway, I got one last clip.
	Mm-hmm.
	Because I was just about something you might know about.
	If that's the last clip, let me do a shorty before because your mind isn't that good.
	It just surfaced.
	It's Seth Rich talking to the I guess the DNC or the DNCC about ballot integrity.
	Excuse me, Seth Rich with the DNC. I think Sullivan, you've spoken about provisional ballots and rejected ballots.
	I guess we've looked at, as an outside practitioner with a vested interest in training our voters, how do we get better access to data that tells us why ballots are rejected, why ballots are cast as provisional, so that we can analyze that and then develop better training guides?
	I don't know.
	Their answer?
	Yeah, good one.
	Good punchline.
	You could have finished with that.
	So this is a clip I want you to discuss if you have any knowledge of it or what's going on.
	But listen to this.
	This is about privatizing air traffic control in the United States.
	Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao has appeared before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee this week to answer questions.
	About the Trump administration's proposal to privatize air traffic control in the United States.
	President Trump has described the current air traffic control situation in America as, quote, horrible and broken, adding that the way to fix it is by transferring some of the responsibilities to a private organization.
	Joining me now with the latest is Boombust correspondent, Maddie Marapolo.
	Maddie, let's start with the proposal itself.
	This is the first time we're hearing the U.S. Transportation Secretary outline this plan.
	What did she outline?
	What were the details of this?
	Sure.
	And up until now, when we heard that initial announcement by President Trump, it was very vague, as he tends to be, calling the system broken, saying that for once the flights are going to be on time, that sort of thing.
	Thankfully, Secretary Chao did speak before the Commerce Committee this week, actually giving the details of that plan, outlining exactly what it is.
	And privatization of air traffic control, by the way, is not a new concept.
	This is something that airlines have been prioritizing, have been pushing for since the 80s and 90s.
	And lawmakers as well have also attempted at making this a possibility, but it's never actually been adopted.
	So I'm going to play you a clip from Secretary Chao talking exactly about what the privatization plan is all about.
	This administration has taken a bold step and joined many of our counterparts worldwide by separating air traffic control operations from the safety oversight functions of the FAA. This administration's proposal will create a separate non-governmental, non-profit cooperative to operate our country's air traffic control system.
	The new entity would be a fully capitalized, financially self-sustaining entity funded by users of its services.
	So the reason that we're seeing this sort of momentum behind the privatization idea right now is because existing next generation technologies that pilots and airlines rely on for commercial air travel, it already exists.
	It's too slow to catch on.
	It's not being implemented fast enough.
	Bullshit!
	Alright, I'll give you the answer.
	Yes, I do know about this.
	And we just didn't get to it because of all the other stuff.
	This is not about the privatization bit, the non-profit partnership.
	They really are not telling us what it is, but it'll be a public-private partnership.
	And the reason is the systems in place that the FAA uses, which I think are okay, this is just marketing.
	Oh, it'll be cheaper, you'll be on time, all this stuff.
	It is just a ploy because the current FAA, the administration, is not able to implement the next-gen system.
	And this I have a huge problem with.
	We've discussed it on the show.
	You can go to search.nashownotes.com or maybe even no agenda player has one of the episodes.
	The next gen is this crazy bureaucratic dude named Ben Dream that we can automate everything.
	And eventually you won't even need a pilot.
	You don't need air traffic controllers.
	Planes will be talking to each other.
	It's going to be a disaster.
	Look, hear me now.
	Believe me later.
	When I reboot my router before every show, the whole house goes haywire.
	All the Sonos is disconnected.
	The Nest turns it up to 75.
	You have to go back and tell it to go down again.
	This is not going to end well.
	This dream of, oh, we don't need the stupid pilots who are, half of them are jihadis.
	They're going to kill us or they're drunk or whatever.
	Good luck.
	Good luck with that.
	Good luck with that.
	Next Gen is crap in my humble opinion.
	And that's why I asked.
	Yes.
	And that's what this is about.
	It's not about how it's being financed.
	It's about bringing in the computers, bringing in the algos, you know, the same ones that show me ads of stuff I just bought.
	You just bought two minutes ago.
	Yeah.
	Oh, it's still showing me this little magnetic phone mount.
	Thanks, Amazon.
	And...
	Thanks, Obama.
	Thanks, Obama.
	Exactly.
	Thanks, Obama.
	All right, everybody.
	That is it for our program for today.
	And we will return on Thursday, obviously.
	You never know what can happen in the meantime.
	Things do seem to happen these days.
	Something will happen.
	Something will happen somewhere.
	And your guardians of reality will be right on top of it, as usual.
	And please remember to support us at Dvorak.org slash NA for that Thursday show.
	And until we meet again, I'm coming to you from the Common Law Condo.
	Broadcasting live from the Cludio in downtown Austin, Texas.
	We are FEMA Region 6 on the map, if you're looking for it.
	Until Thursday in the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
	And from northern Silicon Valley, where I forgot the FEMA region, but it doesn't make a lot of difference.
	The traffic's still jammed up and there's lots of potholes.
	I'm John C. Dvorak.
	And poop in the streets.
	Until Thursday, everybody, and you know what we say.
	Adios,
	mofos! Adios! Adios! mofos! Adios! Adios!
	Adios!
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	For a podcast coming over my phone Yesterday, which even that was, you know, the universes have never been so apparent the universes have never been so apparent and separate from each other.
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	The Florida's in drought right now.
	Hold on a minute.
	We have to decarbonize.
	One of these is don't emergency with a number.
	People are going to die.
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	There is no there, there.
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	Calling me a denier...
	That is a word.
	You want answers?
	I want the truth!
	You can't handle the truth.
	Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	We lost a lot of time. . .
	It has the magnitude of the industrial revolution, but the speed of the digital revolution.
	Every night on the TV news is like a nature hike through the book of Revelation.
	70% of Florida is in drought right now.
	Missouri just declared an emergency.
	Another one of these is historic climate-related.
	It has the magnitude of the industrial revolution, but the speed of the digital revolution.
	We lost a lot of time.
	It has the magnitude of the industrial revolution, but the speed of the digital revolution.
	We had 11 once-in-a-thousand-year downpours in less than 10 years in the United States.
	So we have to move faster.
	And it's not just the scientific community reporting us now.
	It's Mother Nature.
	But we're still not changing fast enough.
	It has the magnitude of the industrial revolution, but the speed of the digital revolution.
	Well, we lost a lot of time.
	The best podcast in the universe.
	Adios, mofo.

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