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| If you want to be a part of the program, this probably will go down in history as one of the most, I guess, powerful or impactful Supreme Court years in America. | |
| In terms of religious liberty, for example, the second amendment, for example, Roe v. | |
| Wade being overturned. | |
| Then I I I could say in the last decade, two decades at least, uh, certainly it's been impactful. | |
| Um, it was a huge win for religious freedom uh with the Supreme Court um and their decision about a former Washington high school football coach who lost his job because he was like reciting a 30-second prayer after the game alone at the 50-yard line. | |
| It's so upset people. | |
| They've got the vapors. | |
| Oh my gosh, somebody's praying to Jesus. | |
| God help us, what's gonna happen? | |
| Anyway, the issue at hand that was before the court was whether the public school employee praying alone, but in view of students, was engaging in unprotected government speech. | |
| And if it is not, if it's not government speech, does it still pose a problem under the First Amendment's establishment calls, meaning the establishment of a religion clause? | |
| Uh the Supreme Court rightly held uh Monday in a 6-3 decision that the answer to both of those questions is no. | |
| It was kind of a cut and dry case. | |
| Case involves a coach, his name was uh Joe Kennedy. | |
| You're gonna meet him in a second. | |
| He was on TV with us last night, junior varsity coach, varsity coach at the uh Bremert uh I think it's called Bremerton uh school district in Washington from 2008 to 2015. | |
| He began the the practice of reciting a post-game prayer by himself, but eventually students on their own, without any cajoling on his part, uh started to join him. | |
| And according to court documents, that then evolved into motivational speeches, including religious themes. | |
| And after an opposing coach brought it to the principal's attention, why the opposing coach would care. | |
| What did he think? | |
| He didn't want God to be on uh Coach Kennedy's side? | |
| I mean, it's funny. | |
| Um anyway, he did temporarily stop, uh, then notified the school that he was going to resume the practice. | |
| Why should he give up his personal religious views and and personal freedoms? | |
| Anyway, the situation got a lot of media attention when Kennedy announced that he would go back to praying on the field. | |
| Uh, then there were issues uh on the side of that, but the bottom line is the court ruled in what really is another landmark case. | |
| I mean, we're having back-to-back landmark cases out of the Supreme Court. | |
| Uh anyway, uh joining us now is Coach Joe Kennedy and Jeremy Dice is with us. | |
| Jeremy is the special counsel for litigation and communications for the first Liberty Institute. | |
| Uh welcome back, uh, both of you. | |
| Coach, uh, it was great to see you last night. | |
| Uh one of the main questions I wanted answered is whether or not you're getting your job back, because that should happen. | |
| Yeah, I'm I'm still waiting for the call from the school. | |
| Uh, I know that they are, you know, going through the fire drills right now and trying to figure out how that all's gonna work out. | |
| So I think they're doing it. | |
| Just tell them you're gonna hire Hannity's attorneys, and and there's no way you're not getting your job back. | |
| That is, and if you won't accept the damages, which you said you don't want, and you were very clear about I'll take them for you. | |
| There you go. | |
| I'll donate them to charity. | |
| There you go. | |
| Um, look, seriously, let's go through this. | |
| Obviously, your faith is important to you. | |
| Um my faith is important to me. | |
| Um believe it or not, on this show, you're actually allowed to mention the name God. | |
| And and you can do it as often as you want. | |
| Um, but I believe in a creator. | |
| Um, I'm a Christian, or at least a trying to be one. | |
| I'm one of those Christians that needs a lot of forgiving coach. | |
| Amen, brother. | |
| I'm with you. | |
| So anyway, uh, but so this was something that you felt strongly about. | |
| You'd go out after the game, win or lose, I assume, and you'd say a little prayer right on the 50-yard line. | |
| Why? | |
| Well, it was uh it all started from when uh, you know, I was brand new to the church and and figuring out my faith, and then I got offered the job to coach for Bremerton, and I said, Well, let me let me think about it, let me pray about it, talk to my family. | |
| Well, that night over the weekend, I was watching uh TV in the middle of the night and facing the giants came on, and that was it. | |
| That was like the clear sign that he's calling me to be a coach. | |
| And just like in the movie, um I kind of stole it from them that I would give him the glory after every game, win or lose, right there on the battlefield. | |
| So that was my commitment with God, and I held to that the whole entire time. | |
| You know, I mean, uh why did they but why did this other coach why did he even care? | |
| Did you do it on his fifty-yard line? | |
| He didn't want you to pray on his fifty-yard line that that he what might thought he might think it's a jinx or uh you're gonna curse his team because you're saying a prayer to God. | |
| Well, actually he called m whoever it was that called, they gave a compliment to the to the principal and said what our football program was doing was awesome. | |
| So this all stemmed from just a compliment, which still blows my mind. | |
| You know, it's pretty amazing um to me that this is where they took it. | |
| When it was obvious, and I don't like to infer uh Jeremy, uh, as an attorney, I think you would agree with me on this. | |
| When when oh when there's arguments before the Supreme Court, oral arguments, and they can get very aggressive. | |
| When Antonin Scalia was on the court, I mean you might get a word or two words out, and he's gonna come right at you with five, ten, fifteen questions. | |
| Because they've already read all the briefs before going into oral arguments, so they're aware of all the issues at hand. | |
| You know, one of his favorite questions, why are we here? | |
| Why are you before this court? | |
| And and it would be amazing to watch people stammer and stutter and and struggle to answer his questions. | |
| He was very good at at interrogation. | |
| Um but at this i in this case, I felt that it would come out to be a six-three decision, and I took I was proven right because of the questions that you know people like Kavanaugh and others were asking, it was pretty straightforward where they were leaning. | |
| Yeah, the justices seemed to really grasp what was going on here, that there was a conflict between the school district doing what school districts tend to do these days, which is use the establishment clause as some sort of uh cudgel to drive off any kind of religion from their campus, and uh the free exercise and free speech rights of private citizens like Coach Kennedy. | |
| And and so the the justices ended up resolving that very clearly, saying that the establishment clause is not intended to, as Justice Gorser said, ferret out religion for special disfavor. | |
| Instead, it is designed to to balance against uh a government that would try to involve itself in the affairs of another organization called the church. | |
| Instead, the school districts are required under this decision to respect the free exercise rights, the religious liberty rights of its employees, and in doing so, Justice Gorzich notes that that's good for our republic. | |
| We actually have a more inclusive, a more diverse society when we respect one another's religious beliefs and welcome them wherever they may take themselves in the public square. | |
| One of the most interesting things that I observe in the NFL is often after games, you have players on both teams and often coaches, and even at times I've seen referees join in, they form a circle, and together they they say a little prayer and shake each other's hands and go back to their respective locker rooms. | |
| So it's a common practice in the NFL and never it never became a controversy like Colin Kaepernick, which I I put in a different category myself. | |
| You know, the right look, I think this is just completely unsurprising to the anybody who watches football, and I think that's why students are so readily willing to engage that kind of activity after football games, and the Supreme Court just put their blessing upon students doing that. | |
| That's always been the case. | |
| The question mark was whether or not uh it was a violation of the establishment clause if students could see coach engaged in religious activity. | |
| Wasn't it was never a question in this case about whether or not they he was compelling them to do so. | |
| Uh they cleared him of that early on saying that he'd never coerce any student into doing this. | |
| The question was whether or not if he was praying by himself, or perhaps he was praying over his lunch in the cafeteria, or just wearing a yarmika as a part of his religious expression. | |
| Was that sufficient to coerce them by sight into violation of the Constitution? | |
| And the Supreme Court answered answered that very resoundingly, that there there was no chance that that would violate the establishment clause. | |
| In other words, the school district here engaged in discrimination. | |
| Coach Kennedy was following the rules of the Constitution. | |
| Let me ask you, Coach, and I'm having a hard time understanding this aspect of it. | |
| Uh I would think based on this decision, not only are you entitled to your job back, you're also entitled to back pay because it was you should not have been fired. | |
| It was unconstitutional what they did to you. | |
| Uh would you request at least back pay from the school district? | |
| No, I'm not I'm I have no interest in that whatsoever. | |
| It it really is the principle of it, and I guess it comes from being a Marine and and that's what we're called to do is to serve and support and defend the Constitution. | |
| This is the first one. | |
| Well, Semper Fidelis, but hang on a second. | |
| They might be a little naive here. | |
| Unless the school district knows that there is a real possibility that you will sue them for damages. | |
| Now we're talking about a civil case, separate and apart from the Supreme Court victory you have. | |
| In other words, if they don't give you your job back at that point, I'd make it very clear to them that you will demand back pay. | |
| I'd make it very clear to them that you'll also demand damages. | |
| Yeah, I hope it doesn't have to come to that. | |
| I mean, uh that's what lawyers are for to help me navigate through all those, and I absolutely will take your your your advice. | |
| I mean, you're a good man, and uh everybody listens to you. | |
| Well, I'll tell you this, Sean, that uh the the coaching salary was not very much anyway, but I'll tell you I guarantee it's the principle though. | |
| It's a he was fired unjustly. | |
| We're certainly gonna be filing a bill for all of our attorney's fees at the end of this as well, and that's gonna number a very high dollar amount for the school district to consider. | |
| Well, I think so, in other words, up to now you'd be willing to forego them paying for the litigation that they forced Coach uh Kennedy into? | |
| Well, we represent Coach Kennedy for free, so he's never had been given a bill from us. | |
| Now that we've won this case, the school district now has to pay his attorneys for the time they spent vindicating his civil rights. | |
| So you definitely will be pursuing that money. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| Which I don't blame you. | |
| Now, I'm I'm sure I don't know a coach that gets gets paid a lot of money. | |
| I know most coaches do it just out of pure passion. | |
| Coach Kennedy, I'm sure you're one of them. | |
| Uh unless you, of course, you're Nick Saban, then you can write your own ticket and and pretty much get any amount of money you want because he keeps winning national championships. | |
| Uh, but the reality is it I I the fact that they've not contacted you uh and they've not reached out to your lawyers as of now uh tells me that probably huddled with their lawyers, wondering what they ought to do next. | |
| Um I'll give them the the right path. | |
| I'll give them the right answer. | |
| They need to hire you back, give you your position, uh they need to apologize. | |
| Uh they need to pay you for the the time that you should have been paid you because you were fired unconstitutionally, and hope and pray that your attorneys don't send them a bill. | |
| Because if your attorney send them a bill, they're working pro bono, uh it will be in the millions. | |
| Correct me if I'm wrong, Jeremy. | |
| No, you are absolutely correct. | |
| And look, I don't think there's any other option right now. | |
| The Supreme Court directed that uh Coach Kennedy, this case is reversed. | |
| There's nothing left to be done in the courts. | |
| They he's entitled to summary judgment, and with that comes the relief that we requested, which means we're just now waiting for the phone call to find out when he needs to appear for two days this summer. | |
| Quick break, we'll come back. | |
| The 6'3 religious liberty case, another landmark case from this current Supreme Court, uh more with Coach Kennedy and one of his attorneys, Jeremy Dice from the First Liberty Institute. | |
| Or the Camus, all right. | |
| We continue the Supreme Court 6-3 landmark decision uh for Coach Kennedy, who's with us and Jeremy Dice. | |
| Uh, it has to do with this high school football coach and the first amendment and him saying a prayer after games on the 50 yard line, and it is now fully completely constitutional. | |
| When would you start coaching for football for the upcoming season, Coach? | |
| Uh, you know, the summer workouts just started, so potentially I could be there oh, probably tomorrow or by Friday. | |
| Do you do you know the coach that took your place or the coach that there is there now? | |
| Maybe it's a different coach? | |
| It's a different coach, uh new head coach that we got over there. | |
| And so this coach is only starting this year. | |
| No, he's been there for a few years. | |
| He he uh took over in two thousand fifteen when all this went down. | |
| Uh there was a bunch of now. | |
| Do you know the guy? | |
| Do you like the guy? | |
| Oh, I love the guy. | |
| I think he d has done a wonderful job with the program, and I love what he does with the families and our community. | |
| You don't want this guy to get fired, so maybe they can retain both of you. | |
| Would you be willing to work that out with that cook current coach? | |
| Oh, I'll work it out with anybody. | |
| I mean, uh it sounds like a no-brainer. | |
| I I guarantee you, because bureaucracies are so dumb that they they they can't see the forest through the trees here. | |
| And at some point it's got to dawn on the school district that they lost. | |
| They tried hard, they fired you. | |
| It was unconstitutional, uh, it was an injustice, and now they got now they have time to make it right. | |
| And they're just sitting on their hands, and and I guarantee you, if I call you in a month, they'll still be sitting on their hands. | |
| And then they will then force you to take it even further, and you will win on that level as well. | |
| I mean, how many more times does this school district want to lose? | |
| It's not just the school district, too, right? | |
| We could we could assume that they made some bureaucratic dumb decisions, but they actually went out and hired an ideological firm that has entrenched themselves on a wild set of beliefs that uh on facts that just did not happen and did not were not in reality. | |
| And the justices thankfully saw through all of that, read what the record actually presents, and agreed that Coach Kennedy's version of the facts were the right one. | |
| And so now's the time to kind of move past all of that. | |
| Let's go back to reset the clock, the game clock seven years ago. | |
| Get coach back out on the field, put him uh on the on the sidelines to coach the game when he's done. | |
| Let him go to the 50-yard line and take a knee in prayer. | |
| The Supreme Court says that's perfectly in concert with the first amendment, the Constitution. | |
| He's allowed to bring his uh constitutional rights not only through the schoolhouse gates, but onto the football field. | |
| It's time for us in this country to move past this now. | |
| I'm gonna make a prediction. | |
| When that when that day comes, the crowd is gonna be with you, coach. | |
| I didn't mean to cut you off, Jeremy, but I'm just out of time. | |
| Uh, we'll keep following up. | |
| We'd like to know uh what happens the first game back, because there will be a first game back. | |
| And uh congratulations to you uh at the first Liberty Institute, the great work you guys did. | |
| Uh Jeremy U Kelly Shackleford is another and phenomenal attorney. | |
| Uh coach, we're happy for you. | |
| We're glad you won. | |
| This is a landmark case. | |
| They can never take that from you. | |
| Amen. | |
| God, and thank you for everything you've done. | |
| All right, thank you, sir. | |
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| Music What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi. | |
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| Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre? | |
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| We kill the ambassador just to cover something up. | |
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| Uh a historic Catholic church in West Virginia burned to the ground over the weekend. | |
| Police investigating the incident is arson. | |
| Uh many suspecting it may be connected to the Supreme Court decision uh overturning Roe v. | |
| Wade. | |
| We've told you about uh what some 60 plus incidents around the country that have happened, including firebombing of pregnancy centers that are pro life and and churches and the attacks, uh, so on and so forth. | |
| Uh Congressman Tim Wahlberg of Michigan has been a very outspoken advocate for pro life issues, and one hostile leftist group made sure to let him know that they didn't like his use of freedom of speech. | |
| Now we keep hearing about this group, Jane's Revenge, uh, and what they plan to do, uh, and it's getting bad around the country. | |
| Uh, you have, for example, they struck a Michigan pro-life group uh with uh Molotov cocktail in that particular case, but it's been happening around the country. | |
| Portland, Oregon, pretty much everywhere that there are people, this has been going on, and I've we've yet to hear a peep out of Merrick Garland, the attorney general or the FBI director, Ray, anyway, an office building that is shared by a pro-life organization, and Congressman Tim Wahlberg is a Republican Michigan, was vandalized in an attack that appears to be linked to these uh this group Jane's Revenge, according to Fox Digital. | |
| They received exclusive photos of the campaign of Congressman Tim Wahlberg showing the damage done to his office building uh that they share with an organization called Jackson Right to Life. | |
| Uh anyway, the Congressman has said I never shy away from my record as a strong conservative and defender of life. | |
| This is uh strong record puts me in the crosshairs of the radical left, but I'll never stand down or compromise of my convictions, and knowing the people at Jackson Right to Life will only strengthen their determination to protect the unborn. | |
| Uh, Congressman joins us with an update. | |
| Congressman, how bad is it? | |
| Well, good to be with you. | |
| Uh well, you know, Joseph uh of days of old uh when his brothers came to see him in Egypt, uh, he said what you meant for evil, God meant for good. | |
| And we've had an opportunity while we will not back down, we will prosecute the fullest extent of the law if the perpetrators uh from James R Jane's Revenge are found. | |
| We're offering hope out in front of my office and the right to life office today. | |
| You would if you drove by you'd see board uh boarded up windows for the time being from where they kicked the windows in, kicked the door in, painted the uh the right to life sign with James Revenge. | |
| You'll see signs out there saying we will help lives of all lives are precious. | |
| Uh a reminder to people that uh we have to push back against this culture of violence and death that the pro-abortion groups are, and help them understand that there's a better way, and that's uh promoting the sanctity of life, making sure we understand that God created individuals of all kinds, shapes, colors, uh, to be especial in this world, and we are diminished when we take those lives, those innocent lives. | |
| And so uh here, I you know, my my office, Sean, is is three blocks from the birthplace of the Republican Party in 1854, July 6th under the Oaks, Hillsdale College professors came up and others and started what was the Republican Party, the Emancipation Party. | |
| That's what we're involved with, those of us that believe in life, emancing people from doing the things that destroy rather to produce uh uh a culture that promotes life and opportunity. | |
| You know, it seems to me that uh I've as I go through the list of places that are being targeted, um, every major network, including two cable news networks, have ignored it. | |
| Big media looking the other way with all of these attacks uh against pro-life centers or churches, for example. | |
| Um I'm looking at this, I'm saying, why is that? | |
| Why did it why is it not important that a West Virginia Catholic church was burned to the ground by an arsonist? | |
| Why is it not important that far left groups are using a map created by university professors to target pregnancy centers? | |
| Why is it not important that they're doxing Supreme Court justices, giving out their addresses and uh harassing and intimidating justices in their neighborhoods in their homes and giving out the names of the schools that their children attend or the churches that they attend and the time that they attend these these churches? | |
| Um why is it okay uh for them to do this while they're all condemning, quote, insurrection every day and ignoring the the biggest, you know, key most key part of what any investigation should have, Which is, well, did Donald Trump or did Donald Trump not authorize 20,000 National Guard troops that Nancy Pelosi and Muriel Bowser failed to call up on January 6th? | |
| So it gets a little frustrating to me at the just the the outright lying and agenda-driven, you know, crap that goes on in the double standards like the summer of 2020. | |
| We have 534 rights. | |
| But there's no committee looking into that, Congressman. | |
| Well, and and my my army friends tell me, uh especially the Rangers that when the enemy tells you what they're going to do, believe them. | |
| And uh the James Revenge has said that says this is going to be a summer of rage if Roe v. | |
| Wade goes the wrong way. | |
| So that's what we can expect. | |
| We have we have the left last week in in the U.S. House and Senate passing a gun control bill. | |
| But they don't talk about the fact that we've had uh uh sixty-three thousand or million sixty-three million innocent lives taken over the past fifty years, and that's uh taking the sanctity of life down the tubes, and people uh it don't even think about life itself, so why would they not act out in ways uh very few hey Congressman, they're also lying to everybody. | |
| Yeah, because abortion is not illegal. | |
| It's not gonna be illegal in your state of Michigan. | |
| I'd bet my last dollar that's not going to be the case. | |
| Am I wrong? | |
| Well, it no, it it is illegal in the state right now. | |
| In 1931, Michigan passed one of the first anti-abortion laws. | |
| It says that there is no abortion. | |
| So they have they have a trigger provision, but wouldn't you expect with Governor Whitmer and the legislature as it's currently configured? | |
| Wouldn't you expect that the likelihood of them changing that is going to be pretty swift? | |
| Well, they're going to take action, and in fact, our our attorney general, our lawless attorney general, like Merrick Garland, is saying she will not enforce the law if Roe v. | |
| Wade goes away. | |
| Uh that's the challenge we have. | |
| But we're going to fight it in the legislature. | |
| We have a pro-life legislature, House and Senate in Michigan. | |
| Uh they have to get through that legislature if they're going to do it constitutionally, and uh we will battle back. | |
| But again, Sean, that's where you Well, you got a liberal governor. | |
| Her name is Gretchen Whitmer. | |
| Gretchen Whitmer, but she can't change the law by herself. | |
| And that's where the American people, and I I'm grateful for you taking an interest in this uh strongly for for years. | |
| That's where we have to stand up and fight back and say no, the law is the law. | |
| The Constitution is constitution. | |
| In Michigan, we have a law, 1931. | |
| It's as up to date as Louisiana's law, it's up to the date as Florida's law. | |
| It's up to the late the date as any law that's put put through in recent years. | |
| We did it in 1931. | |
| It is an abortion law that says it is illegal except in the case of the life of the mother. | |
| That's not out of the out of the norm now or what we've seen going on. | |
| So we're gonna push back. | |
| Sure, they're gonna fight us. | |
| You bet they are. | |
| But we've got to stand. | |
| And and I think that's where the message has to get out, folks. | |
| If you let this happen, all of your freedom is at risk at this point, and it's gonna go away unless we stand up for what is right. | |
| And the Constitution tells us what's right now. | |
| If you want to change the Constitution, do it the way the Constitution says. | |
| But otherwise live according to the law. | |
| All right. | |
| Well, I appreciate the update. | |
| Sorry you had to go through all this, and sorry about the other group um that chair that shares an office building with you, and I hope they get the protection that they deserve for sure. | |
| Appreciate you being with us. | |
| Thanks for having us. | |
| Quick break. | |
| When we come back, we're gonna give you an update on what's going on at the border. | |
| Forty-eight people in a tractor trailer died, and we have the largest caravan to date making their way to our southern border. | |
| Joe is preparing to get, I guess, enough cell phones available, planes chartered so that you know he can facilitate all the law breaking, aiding and abetting in law breaking. | |
| Let's go. | |
| Let's get to our busy phones here. | |
| Craig is in New York. | |
| Craig, how are you? | |
| Glad you called. | |
| Uh, yes, sir. | |
| How are you doing? | |
| How you doing, Sean? | |
| Um good sir. | |
| How you doing? | |
| What's going on, my brother? | |
| Want some coffee? | |
| My New York brother. | |
| What's happened? | |
| I'm the only one that can't hear it. | |
| Don't worry, I make more fun of Linda than you. | |
| Go ahead. | |
| I'm fine with it. | |
| Um, I can't believe I you know, for the first time ever I watched these stupid hearings today. | |
| And by the way, same with me. | |
| I watched the first night, and I thought this is stupid. | |
| I watched a little today, and I'm like, that's that's it. | |
| It is so orchestrated, it's not even funny. | |
| Liz Cheney asks this woman a question. | |
| Then they go back to they then they don't even let her answer right away. | |
| They go back to tape testimony that she did in the past. | |
| They take out a little select bit of what she said, and then they talk to her. | |
| And then she says about talking about the about being in the Oval Office, how close she was to the president, how she was on first name bases with basis with everybody. | |
| And and and I I don't understand this woman. | |
| She's never going to get another job. | |
| Because I mean, how it's how did you forget about her and her her job? | |
| She said nothing of relevance. | |
| And here's my point in all of this. | |
| Now, I condemned all those riots in the summer of 2020. | |
| I I can't believe that the left, these very same people, they were either quiet and said nothing because they didn't want to alienate their base heading into an election. | |
| Uh, or they just flat out lied and and said that the riots in the summer of 2020 were mostly peaceful, dozens of dead Americans and thousands of injured cops and billions of property damage, or they took it a step further, like in the case of Kamala Harris and tried to support those people involved in the these activities, | |
| uh, like you know, tweeting out support this bail fund for the people that are involved, uh were involved after the burning down of the police precinct, and then you know, praising the cuts to the LAPD. | |
| I condemned all of it. | |
| I condemned in real time on this radio program. | |
| We can't have our institutions in this country attacked. | |
| We can't, we must protect every elected politician. | |
| You got to. | |
| The problem I have with the committee is that they had a predetermined outcome. | |
| They're ignoring a huge gaping hole in the story, the narrative that they had predetermined. | |
| And that is on January 4th, Donald Trump authorized up to 20,000 National Guard troops to be called up, knowing what happened in the summer of 2020, uh, knowing that tensions in the country were running high, he authorized it. | |
| There were five people in the room. | |
| I have four of the five, including President Trump, Mark Meadows, Cash Patel, and Chris Miller, who was the acting Secretary of Defense. | |
| Two of the four, two of the five testified before this committee and told them Trump authorized the troops. | |
| In writing, Muriel Bowser, once Trump authorizes it, this jurisdiction then passes to Nancy Pelosi and Muriel Bowser. | |
| Remember, Trump couldn't just send troops into Portland in the summer of 2020. | |
| He authorized them. | |
| They wouldn't use them. | |
| Well, same thing happened here. | |
| Now, if the guy that you want to blame for what happened, or blame that he didn't respond fast enough, or blame that you know, he had a uh uh a different view on January 6th, you can do that, but how do you ignore this big story? | |
| There was the fifth person in the room was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Milley, and I got in touch with people around General Milley, and they told me directly that he has recollections of talking about security of the Capitol with Donald Trump prior to January 6th. | |
| So that's five out of five. | |
| Here's what the four that I got on tape said to me. | |
| Did you authorize calling up the guard? | |
| And then it became the chain of command went to Nancy Pelosi and to the mayor of DC, Muriel Bowser. | |
| Did you, as required by law, authorize that? | |
| Uh one hundred percent and attested to by many people, and they turned it down. | |
| Nancy Pelosi turned it down. | |
| Mayor Bowser's written refusal, the communications between the leader of the Capitol Police and their chain of command to the DOD refusing our request to allow National Guard's men and women to stage on January 4 and 5 before January 6th. | |
| Did you both ask for the National Guard to be called up? | |
| Uh without a doubt, Sean. | |
| Uh, we've made that very clear, not just once, but on numerous occasions. | |
| We wanted to make sure that there was plenty of uh National Guard on the ready uh in case there was some kind of violence. | |
| I had a meeting with President Trump on the third of January concerning some international threats, and at the very end, he asked if there were any requests for National Guard support. | |
| What was the president's response to you with regard to the request made by Mayor Bowser? | |
| Fill it and do whatever was necessary to protect the uh demonstrators. | |
| Now, Craig, you be the objective voice. | |
| Um does that now change and alter the entire hearings if that testimony were shown to the American people? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| And this has been known for a long time, and the press will not get it out. | |
| It's just like these riots. | |
| I hope to God when the Senate and the Congress take back over that they showed the true riots that happened with Black Lives Matter. | |
| That was the first time. | |
| Here's what I could tell you. | |
| I said on TV the other night that the January 6th committee had sworn testimony under the threat of perjury before their committee that in fact this happened, that the president authorized the troops. | |
| I won't name the media outlet. | |
| They called me, they contact me. | |
| They said, uh, who they and hey, I provided these tapes for them. | |
| Then they didn't want to do the story anymore. | |
| The story uh you know what? | |
| I think we're gonna cover something else because it doesn't advance the narrative of this this you know committee that has a predetermined outcome. | |
| Pretty unbelievable. | |
| Anyway, appreciate your call. | |
| Glad you're with us. | |
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