Feb. 18, 2017 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
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If I had a chance, I guess you could dance on the dancing with my setup.
Welcome, everybody, to the night's live broadcast of the Political Cesspool Radio Program.
I'm James Edwards.
He's Keith Alexander.
It's Saturday evening, February the 18th, and we are ready to rock and roll tonight.
I am telling you, we have got a very high-energy show for you this evening.
And so I thought we'd start it off with a high-energy song.
You know, I'm a child of the 80s, just barely born June 22nd, 1980.
So I slipped in there, just missed the 70s.
And I've been watching some of my favorite movies from the 80s this week while working in my office.
And so for the opening song tonight, something high energy there from Billy Idol, dancing with myself.
That actually came out the year of my birth, Keith, 1980.
You know, I'm a big fan of the 50s and 60s pop music, the doo-wop stuff.
That's what we normally feature when we play music on the air.
But there are some good 80s songs, and I guess there's good music from any era.
I like 60s music, but I don't like 60s movies so much.
I just never could get into black and white.
But I did get into 80s movies because those were my early years.
You've missed it by 10 years.
You didn't have black and white movies.
Well, nevertheless.
In fact, you had Technicolor, you had Cinerama, you had Vista Vision, you had all of this, you know, high technology improvements.
What you're thinking about is in the late 40s, early 50s film noir.
That was intentionally black and white because of the starkness that it gave to the movies.
But anyway, look, that music is great because it makes you feel like taking the gloves off.
It's time for us to all take the gloves off because the left has shucked their gloves out, you know, and like I said, they're not fighting by the Marquis of Kingsbury rules.
So we just need to have a death match in a cage, you know, and the winner crawls out.
Hey, we're going to get there.
We're going to get there.
Last week's show, huge response to last week's show with the Red Ice team, Lionel Octiff and Henry Palmgren.
If you missed that, of course, that and every other show we've ever done is available for you on demand 24 hours a day to seven days a week, 365 days a year at our broadcast archives at thepolitical cesspool.org.
If you missed last week's show, you need to go listen to it.
Huge response to that.
A lot of good response to the music we played last week.
You know, on a holiday, we like to play some good music.
Music just stirs the soul.
And so we like to infuse it into the Political Cesspool from time to time.
And a good response from a lot of people for the selections we made on the Valentine's Day broadcast last week.
And so we thought we would open up with a song tonight.
A lot of comments on Twitter.
Show really riding a crest right now in terms of the popularity.
Well that, I guess you could say just the reaction from the audience is just really, really strong right now.
A lot of people commenting on Twitter can't wait for the show tonight.
I need real news and facts, but you came to the right show, you came to the right network, for that matter, and we're going to give it to you tonight.
Let me tell you what's going on.
Let me tell you what's going on tonight.
We are going to have two guests and one of our correspondents on this evening, and that's going to be Sean Bergen, our correspondent.
He's going to be on with us to break down the press conference that Donald Trump held earlier this week during which he essentially declared war against the fake news outlets that dominate our lying press.
That's coming up this hour.
And the second hour, not one, but two all-stars, Dr. Kevin McDonald and Jared Taylor, they're going to be handing out grades for the Trump administration.
The Trump administration now one month on the job.
And so we're going to be handing out that first report card, the one-month report card from Kevin and Jared.
They're going to give you those grades.
And we're also going to talk about Trump's rally today in Melbourne, Florida, which actually just wrapped up a few minutes ago.
We were already in the studio, Keith, prepping for tonight's On-Air extravaganza when Trump wrapped up what was essentially a campaign rally.
I guess you could call it his first rally for re-election there in Florida.
And it was the exact same vibe, exact same temperament, exact same charisma and bravado that we saw throughout the campaign that made us all basically fall in love with Trump.
Well, that's what he's doing.
He's decided that enemy territory is his home in Manhattan and his new home in D.C.
The left wishes he would stay there and just absorb all the body blows that they're going to administer to him.
Instead, he's escaped to his winter White House down at Mar-a-Lago.
That's what Mar-a-Lago needs to be.
He needs to be in Red State America with the people that love him and put him in the presidency and get the good vibrations and the positive energy that he can get from having like a rally in Melbourne, Florida or somewhere else in Red State America and basically just flip off the mainstream media and all the left up there.
You know, we're in two Americas.
The America that elected Donald Trump is red state America.
That's where he needs to be spending his time and he needs to be loyal to those who brought him to the dance.
I think Barry Goldwater once said if we could saw off the East Coast and let it drift off into the Atlantic, how much better America would be.
With all due respect to our fans in California and New York, if we could just cut out those malignant tumbers, America would be just fine.
Led, of course, by the moral rudder of the South and the breadbasket.
Trump is going to have to get radical, legally speaking, radical by any legal means necessary and any constitutionally sound, and there's ways that he can do that.
We'll talk about that later on in the program tonight.
But he is going to have to do more than combat the lying press with just words.
And we're going to talk about it.
He needs to get off the defense, get on the offense.
That's what is going to change America.
America must be changed in the Trump presidency because if it isn't, then it's all over with folks.
We've got four, probably eight, but we know at least four, to be sure, where we can take some steps and enact some measures to reclaim some of America's destiny.
If not now, it will never be.
The demographic trends just won't allow it.
This is it.
This is it.
It's now or never.
I don't think that's hyperbole.
I think that's a matter of time.
Play Elvis, is now or never.
Well, so this is where we're at.
But I'll tell you one thing about Trump, though, like us, very high energy.
And I think that's something a coin he has.
Yeah, but he also needs to overcome his Scots heritage and spend some money.
He basically needs to clean house at NPR, put his operatives in there, and then there needs to be a Trump news network or there needs to be some group that is unabashedly 24-7 wall-to-wall pro-Trump in the news media to try to compete with the non-stop bombass coming from the left.
Well, you saw, of course, Fox News is probably the most pro-Trump network out there, but they're only 50-50.
They're 50-50 at best.
You've got the homosexual.
You've got the sodomite Shepard Smith who wanted to show his.
You had Megyn Kelly before.
Now, you've got Charles Krauthammer, who started off as a never-Trumper.
You have Britt Hume, who started out as a Never Trumper.
They're on there every day.
Well, I'll tell you one thing about Trump, though.
He gives us a lot of fodder every week on the political cesspool.
The next four years of this show are going to be unlike anything you've ever seen.
And wow, we got a busy show tonight.
That's enough for the opening banner.
We're going to get into the meat and potatoes of it all right after this first break of tonight.
Bergen, McDonald, Taylor, all coming your way here on TPZ along with yours truly, Keith Alexander, and Eddie the Bombardier Miller.
It's going to be a party.
Stay tuned.
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Keith and I were talking at the break about some of the correspondence and feedback that the show has received in the last few days.
Pretty much part of the course for what we receive every day.
People thanking us, and I think justifiably so, for bringing to the AM radio airwaves.
It's one thing to have an internet show, and God bless the internet.
Without the internet, our movement wouldn't be where it is.
We have to have the internet, and of course, a large percentage of this show's audience is from people tuning in on.
We couldn't be effective competition to the mainstream if it weren't for the internet.
So hats off to the internet.
No, no doubt about that.
I will never bash internet-only radio programs.
They do great work, and many of them are as professional as ours, and there's no shame in it.
Again, a large percentage of our audience come in from, of course, places outside of markets that carry us on the AM dial.
But we are also on AM radio and FM radio, which makes us very unique.
And in fact, it makes us the only voice that our people have that is an explicitly pro-white program on AM legacy radio, legacy media.
And, of course, we receive feedback from people all the time thanking us for giving voice to guests who would never be interviewed on an AM radio station.
People like Lana and Henrik from last week, people tonight like Kevin and Jared.
And that's what I founded this show to do in 2004.
The mission of this show in 2004 was to talk about these issues, talk about these so-called taboo issues in a very professional and polished way, to present these arguments in a well-reasoned manner, to air these arguments to the people and let us have that discourse in the public marketplace, but to also, in addition to that, bring to you guests that you would never hear on the AM radio airwaves.
And of course, in 2004, that was before all of these podcasts were so ubiquitous, but we're still very unique in what we do.
And of course, with AM radio, we get access to certain guests and obviously events that you well know that other people can't.
So we've got a unique voice here and a unique thing we do here on TPC.
We believe in the old motto, give a light and the people shall find their own way.
That's right.
And so many have and so many continue to do so thanks to this network airing our program.
All right, so we are going to talk about the Trump press conference at length, the one that took place a couple of days ago, and of course his rally in Belbourne, Florida tonight, just outside of Orlando at length.
We're going to spend at least half the show covering those two events, but that's coming up beginning in the next segment.
For this segment, Keith, you wanted to offer some advice for Trump on how he could effectively strategize for the future and some things that will perhaps most unfortunately come his way.
You're thinking, impeachment proceedings may be waiting in the future for Trump.
Not that he deserves them or not that they're warranted, but this is that they will do anything to stop a populist revival, a populist revolution in this country.
And make no mistake about it, Trump is stoking the embers of the American people, appealing to populism and nationalism, the likes of which no president has done in a long, long time.
Well, what we're seeing here is a replay of the 70s with the impeachment of Richard Nixon.
was telling Sam Bushman during one of our breaks that I've never seen the press hate a president this much since Richard Nixon.
Now, there's a difference between then and now.
Back in the 50s, 60s, 70s, there was nothing but the old legacy media as a source of information.
In the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, we used to have home-owned and homegrown newspapers, for example, and radio stations.
These got gobbled up by the left and Jewish power and influence, and as a result, were never an effective counter voice by the mid-60s.
They had been either silenced, taken over, or run out of business or whatever, as much as they could.
Now we have the internet.
But what all of this should have shown us and Trump is the importance of media.
As Marshall McLuhan said in his famous book that we used to have to read when I was in college, the medium is the massage.
The medium is not just fact gathering and giving facts to the people so that giving light so the people can find their own way.
It's psychological conditioning, the way that they report the news.
Like I was telling James over the break, I was listening to an NPR story about Flint, Michigan's water crisis.
And apparently some Michigan civil rights organization that's part of the government said that racism was the culprit.
And they reported this breathlessly like all-points bulletin, some unbiased, objective blue-ribbon committee had come to this conclusion.
It's not a bunch of political civil rights movement hacks who get appointed to this organization.
And, you know, of course they were going to find that.
But they report that.
They put the spin on it as if, you know, Noah came down the mountain with this written on a tablet or something, you know, and that's the way that the left does.
So what Trump is going to have to do is going to have to, you know, reach into his piggy bank and have an alternative media.
He's going to, first of all, he needs to go ahead and clean house over at NPR and fill it with people that are unabashedly pro-Trump because right now they're unabashedly anti-Trump, not only there, but MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, all the other groups.
Well, I was on Sam Bushman's show not once but twice this week and we covered this in depth, Trump and the media.
And we actually talked about this because this was an idea that you put into my mind.
And so I shared it with Bushman's audience there on the Liberty Roundtable show, LibertyRoundtable.com.
I was on Wednesday and Thursday of the previous week, a couple of days ago.
NPR and PBS, for that matter, are both semi-publicly funded entities.
Now, they also have some corporate funding as well.
But there's a lot that he could do with that.
Certainly, there should be something he could do.
And he doesn't even have to put in acolytes or sycophants to compensate for those who are diametrically opposed, radically opposed to his agenda, no matter what Trump does.
I don't care if it's something that these people would agree with.
They would still pretend to disagree with it just so they could oppose him.
All he has to do is just put moderately objective people there and he changes the world.
Well, what it is now, basically, NPR and PBS is an old folks home for people from ABC, CBS, you know, where they go, you know, like the elephant's graveyard to die.
But nonetheless, they bring their left-wing biases with them.
And it's probably as left-wing as any organization, any news organization that you could name.
So he needs to do that first of all.
Secondly, he needs to make sure he wins this next election.
Before the next election.
He's been in office four weeks, but we're thinking ahead.
No, basically, he's got Jeff Sessions now as Attorney General, so he can use the power of the Attorney General's office to start clearing the deck, clearing the field, and getting rid of some of these legacy liberals that are first of all in the bureaucracy in the unofficial fourth branch of the federal government.
We only have three officially, but they're the fourth branch.
He needs to get rid of these people.
He needs to start prosecuting leakers.
He needs to start firing people even suspected of leaking.
He needs to get the fifth column cleared out of his government because they will be trying their best to sabotage every effort he makes to effect real change in the government and in America.
That's one thing.
The other thing is we've got this census coming up in year 2000, right before the next election.
He needs to, without any type of fear or trepidation or any reticence whatsoever, redistrict with Republicans in mind.
We've done away with the Voter Rights Act of 1965 and the pre-clearance position or provision.
And what that did, basically was insist on the legislatures gerrymandering districts for blacks and other minorities who, of course, surprise, surprise, almost invariably vote Democratic.
Now, for example, in Tennessee, there are nine congressional districts.
We have 11 electoral votes.
That's two senators, nine congressmen.
He needs to do away with the gerrymanders and just do straight lines across the state, nine of them.
And you do away with the two Democrats that are in Congress from Tennessee right now.
He could do the same thing throughout the nation, and he needs to do it.
He needs to do it remorselessly.
Great suggestion.
Hey, more like that coming your way from TPC tonight on the Liberty News Radio Network.
We come back, Sean Bergen, our correspondent, former television newsman up in the New York area.
He's going to be on to break down that press conference in which Trump declared war on the media right after this.
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Lillian Tintorre, wife of imprisoned Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez, was given an opportunity to visit with President Trump as a guest of Florida Senator Marco Rubio.
President Trump urged the socialist government of President Nicolas Maduro to free Lopez immediately.
This was in keeping with Trump's campaign promises to support Venezuela's oppressed people.
Lopez is a persecuted political dissident in a country whose economy and whose very social infrastructure itself are being destroyed by its unaccountable government.
Rather than acknowledging the human plight of Tintori and her wrongfully imprisoned husband, left-leaning media figures mocked the dissident's wife.
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Okay, we just lost a connection with Sean Bergen.
Our producer is working to get him back on the phone right now.
What we're going to be talking about this segment is, of course, Trump's press conference during which he effectively, in my opinion, declared war on the establishment media.
I call it Trump's death match with the fight to the finish, no holds barred with the mainstream media.
This is he's got to understand he cannot make any concessions like throwing them a bone or a hush puppy by sacrificing somebody like Flynn.
That's like throwing a bulldog a bloody bone.
That's right.
He should have not accepted Flynn's resignation, but we're going to cover that later in the broadcast.
Hunter Wallace of Occidental Descent took notes on this press conference, and I thought they were actually quite good.
Some of his takeaways from the things that Trump was addressing in that press conference.
Here's a few of them.
Trump made mention of the fact, and this should be repeated, that Rasmussen's daily tracking poll has President Trump with a 55% approval rating that the lying press tells you is the worst.
He has the worst approval rating of any president at this point in his tenure four weeks in.
Well, that was just one of many more that we'll get to before this hour is over.
But now we have with us, of course, our correspondent, Sean Bergen.
And Sean, this story is tailor-made for you, my friend.
Of course, with you being a former television news reporter in the biggest market in the world, the New York area.
Donald Trump gave this press conference.
We've already talked about what it was.
What were your takeaways from it?
And what do you think Trump meant to accomplish by holding it?
Go, Sean.
Well, I mean, first, he he holds this press conference to speak directly to the American people.
I mean, he had an hour and 18 minutes to get up there and just say whatever he wants to say.
You know, one of our local congressman Peter King said, that's what a press conference looks like in Queens, you know, meaning one of the boroughs in New York, knowing for its kind of working-class mentality.
So I think that was the one.
Number two, was to put beta minutes or later or put to bad all of the hype that we were getting over the first 30 days from this liberal news media that, you know, I mean, from where I'm standing right now, it looks to me like they're trying to stage a coup d'état in, you know, in conjunction with the Democrats.
They have no message.
They have nothing else going on.
And Trump literally grabbed the news media by the lapels and kind of backhanded them all over the room.
He treated them like they needed to be treated.
They are really in desperately need now of a real come-up.
And they've gotten that from Trump.
These, uh...
These guys in the media would always argue that, you know, they have specialty constitutionally protected rights because they're seeking truth to power and they're holding those in power accountable.
They're not doing that at all.
They are ambitiously furthering, defending, or promoting a liberal agenda, and that is all they are doing.
And what Trump has done is that Trump stood up and now he's holding the media accountable because they're the ones who need to be held to account because they are part of the establishment or, you know, the former establishment.
I guess, you know, with Democrats out of power now, they're just rambling because they got nothing else.
Well, there's still the, Sean, this is Keith.
There's still the establishment, and they're proving it by their domination of mainstream media.
You suggested that Trump grab them by the lapels.
I would humbly advise he grab them lower than the lapels and get this.
You know, this is not a Marquis to Queensbury fight, a prize fight.
This is a cage match, no holds bar, no referee.
And he needs to win this, and he doesn't need to make any concessions, pull no punches whatsoever.
Do you agree?
Absolutely.
And I think it was really a prelude to the rally that we saw today in Orlando, where he has gone out now and to speak directly to the American people.
And yet again today in Orlando, he was holding the media accountable.
This has got Stephen J. Bannon's fingerprints all over it, by the way.
I mean, Bannon, his favorite book is Sun Tzu's The Art of War.
And that gives you some insight into what this man's mentality is.
He sees this right now as a battle of civilization between the Islamic radical deotics and the Judeo-Christian Western world.
And we are at a pivotal point in history.
And this is a war, ladies and gentlemen.
And this war is fought on many fronts.
And it may be fought in the media.
It may be fought on social media.
It's going to be fought at the ballot box.
But it is a fight.
It is a fight that we are in.
And these guys are not backing down.
I mean, they're tough, bare-knuckle wolves.
And they're in it for winning.
And I think that it's dynamite to watch.
It's dynamite to see.
And anytime you see a mainstream media turning purple with rage, I mean, apoplectic over the way they've been treated by Trump, you know you're on the right track.
You know you're on top of it.
You know that your fight's a good fight.
And this is a fight that desperately needed to be had.
Republicans and conservatives have been clamoring for a guy like this who has the guts to go right back at him.
I mean, right to their face.
He ransom vital accounts, and he, you know, he slaps them around.
And it's beautiful to watch.
It's red meat for his follow, you know, for his constituents, which really right now is half the country.
I mean, it's certainly, you know, we won the election, and we want to return.
Yeah, Sean, this is Keith.
It's 85% geographically of America is red state America, at least as far as they voted, you know, by county by county.
48% of the population.
And I think a lot of that difference is voter fraud, or at least a fair amount of it is.
That's one thing he needs to get Jeff Sessions on, PDQ.
The other thing is...
I hope he will.
But, you know, look, Trump is a master showman.
I think Bannon certainly has a flair for the traumatic.
And while Trump, the master illusionist, is over here shaking his right hand, making the media focus on this press conference to the exclusion of all else, he slipped his EPA guy in through it.
And through it is a guy who sued the EPA.
Now, the fact that he got Pruitt in there as the EPA chief without barely a mention of it is like Trump is up there working his magic.
And they're doing it in very clever ways.
Well, you know, the EPA, Sean, is the reason why no new oil refineries have been built in America since the 70s.
They're the reason why we have to have this pipeline to get down to the refinery capacity down around Houston, Texas, in order to refine the oil that we have.
Hopefully now with the decks cleared and this man in for EPA chief, we can start correcting that situation and having refineries throughout the country.
Well, Sean brings up an excellent point too, Keith, in that packaging, this is politics.
Politics, substance matters in politics, but what matters equally as much is presentation and packaging.
And in order to move in the way that we need things to move, you have to have a master showman.
And Trump, God knows, is certainly that.
There's no doubt about it.
And so I would ask you this, Sean.
What more than calling out the press as Trump is wont to do, and it's important to do.
It's important to set the record straight.
What more can he do to put the press in their place?
I was having this conversation on Sam Bushman's radio show earlier this week.
What is stopping, I mean, Trump obviously knows.
He declared the press to be an enemy of the people.
That is stout rhetoric from a sitting American president when you call the establishment press an enemy essentially of the state.
Congress pay to dirty shells.
All right, so what I'm saying is that's true.
He's right, but what are you going to do about it?
What is stopping Donald Trump from tomorrow clearing out the White House briefing room and saying we're not going to have the very fake CNN in the briefing room anymore?
We're going to have Sean Bergen.
We're going to have Sam Bushman.
We're going to have Edwards and Alexander.
We're going to have people who are objective.
And if you want to know what's going on in this administration, you're going to have to go to straight talk on WLINY in New York and listen to Bergen.
You have to go to Liberty News Radio and listen to Bushman.
What's stopping him from doing that tomorrow?
And why hasn't he done that already?
Not necessarily with us, but why hasn't he cleaned out the – go ahead.
We've already seen some of that.
I mean, we saw that within the last week, Sean Spicer going over the heads of the major networks and the major newspapers to call on someone from the Christian Broadcasting Network, to call on Katie Pavel from Town Hall, to call on this Jewish kid from the news outlet that he was with, but it was a decidedly Jewish news outlet.
I mean, this is rare that you've seen this in the past.
It's normally all in the front row.
Well, he's going to need stronger medicine than that, Sean, in the battle he's facing.
But Sean does bring up a good point.
This is good.
This is good.
Keep going, Sean.
You know, he's not going to Chip Reed.
He's not going to Helen Thomas or the old T Hag Helen Thomas or people like that.
Look, the thing with these journalists that you need to understand is they are supremely arrogant.
They think that they are beyond reproach.
They are beyond criticism.
That they're untouchable.
And as soon as you start going at them, boy, oh, they can't take that at all.
Let me tell you something.
If you talk to a team of investigative journalists and detectives and put them on the heels or on the one of these news directors or one of these news managers when they take a newspaper and start up reporting about, you know, the three times they got busted smoking weed to high school and that time they got arrested for PWI and you know who in their high school football team haters are dunked and that kind of stuff.
I mean, they can really take you know.
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Okay, so we've got Sean Bergen on with us now, former television newsman, host of Straight Talk with Sean Bergen, straight to the point with Sean Bergen, W-L-I-N-Y.com up in New York, and, of course, one of our premier correspondents, and we're so grateful for him.
Bestowing upon us his talents.
Very quickly, Sean, I got 20 bullet points here.
They're just one sentence apiece, so it'll go by quickly.
But it was compiled by one of our compadres, his takeaways from the Trump presser, which, of course, you're on to discuss this hour.
These are just some of the items that Trump brought up during the press conference.
I'll throw them all out there, and then you and Keith can pick apart the ones that you like the most.
Trump made mention of the fact that he has a 55% approval rating, according to Rasmussen.
Called out the New York, D.C., L.A. Axis of fake news, saying that they serve special interests.
Says we have to talk about the lying press.
It's an entrenched power structure, quote unquote, that distorts the truth in order to propagate the narrative.
I swear we've used that exact same line here on this program.
Many of our nation's reporters won't tell you the truth, Trump said.
The press is out of control.
The level of dishonesty is out of control, said the president.
I inherited a mess.
Trump recounts the accomplishments of the last month.
Hard to believe he's been in power less than a month.
Sean, you and I were, of course, together there in Washington doing the show the day after the inauguration.
That seems like 10 years ago.
So much is happening.
President Trump.
Well, absolutely right.
I mean, it seems unfathomable that that was only four weeks ago that you and I were with Sam Bushman for that incredible jam session four weeks ago, the day after the inauguration.
That seems a really long time ago.
Reminds the people that he is keeping his promises.
That's something that I made mention of.
Trump has tackled his hardest of campaign promises right out of the gate.
He pointed out, and that includes vetting the refugee program, the wall, killing TPP, etc.
I mean, he jumped right on to the hardest items to fill on day one.
That's incredible.
He pointed out that federal judges are preventing him from defending the country, that the Democrats are obstructing the confirmation of his cabinet picks.
What else did Trump do in that press conference?
This is all in that hour and 18 minutes that you mentioned, Sean.
He's already fulfilled his promise to appoint a strong conservative to the Supreme Court.
He made mention of the fake Russia narrative in order to scapegoat Russia for Hillary's loss.
Pointed out with regard to General Flynn, the illegally leaked information that was leaked to the press, that they should be ashamed for themselves for publishing classified information.
Buchanan mentioned this in one of his columns this week.
That the Justice Department is now investigating these criminal links.
He upgraded CNN from fake news to very fake news.
I talked about the hatred that the press has for him, his supporters, and his administration.
And I don't think hatred is too weak of a word at all.
If anything, it doesn't cover it.
Yeah, it's not strong enough.
How they would destroy the news conference, which they did, distort the news conference.
On and on and on, how it would be great if we could get along with Russia.
Of course, there were several reporters that asked why he's an anti-Semite, why he's a racist.
What else could you expect?
He pointed out how, of course, how insulting those questions are.
Sean, that is a lot to cover in an hour, but he went straight to the American people then.
He went straight to the American people today outside of Orlando.
This is a man of the people, but he's going to have to do more than just talk.
And he's done much more than just talk.
But with regards to the press, drastic actions are going to have to be taken or they will stymie him with these fake news stories.
He already mentioned that Ryan Spriebus can't get any work done because every day he's responded to fake news stories.
He is going to have to punish them.
Yeah, well, I think he's going to zero in, first of all, on those highly classified leaks of what's called Figgin's signals intelligence.
And those are the phones of September that were picked up between General Flynn and the Russian ambassador.
There is a very small collection of people who have access to that information.
Now, some of these folks may have been.
I've been talking to a CIA operative this week.
who told me that some of those people who may have leaked that information were Obama people because it happened around the 29th or 30th of October.
They may already be on, I know Rex Pillison today cleared off the entire seventh floor of the State Department.
So I would expect that as priority number one also.
And, you know, I think this is very, very noteworthy.
Watch for Trump and Bannon to start feeding out misinformation in the hopes that they discover who is leaking this information.
I want to point to a story that the AP ran yesterday about Trump mobilizing the National Guard for the purpose of rounding up 100,000 illegal aliens.
That was complete nonsense.
And from what I'm hearing, it may have been one memo leaked to one person or given to one person, and that person may have gone ahead and leaked that to the Associated Press.
But Trump would bring them out very quickly if I don't say 100% fair.
So I know where the NP got that scar from, but watch for that to maybe be Trump having set a trap for somebody.
I would not put it past him or Baron or Sexton to lay a trap inside the administration someplace to find out where these leaks are coming from.
Well, I tell you, Sean, this is Keith.
Let me just say this.
I think that the White House may be riddled with hearing devices to spy on the president.
And that's another good reason why I think he's moving down to Florida.
He's basically got a winter White House going, and it'll probably go into the spring and summer.
Also, I think he realized that a cellar corridor, you know, New York and down to D.C. and whatnot.
What is wrong with these people?
You know, if it's in the water, then they've got a bigger problem than Flint, Michigan.
We need to find out.
We need to get him out of enemy territory down to where the people love him in Red State America.
At least that seems to be his instinct.
I want your comments on that.
Well, I can't really comment on any kind of listening devices within the White House.
I don't really have any sources of information for that.
And I don't know.
It seems a little too fantastical for me.
That's like.
Well, the thing is, he's getting out of there.
And that would be another, you know, that may be fanciful.
But on the other hand, I'm pretty sure they don't have them in Mar-a-Lago.
And that's why he's hanging out down there.
Plus the fact that he likes to be in friendly territory rather than in Manhattan, where only 18% of the electorate voted for him.
And D.C. is probably even less left.
Yeah, sure.
All right, final comment to you, Sean.
And then we've got a caller.
Well, I got to tell you, if it was me and it was this time of year, you'd find me in Florida, too, but not because I was running away from listening devices, because the weather was so damn good down there this time of year.
Well, also, the person, the people love him in Red State America, including Florida, but not so much up in New York and in D.C.
Oh, well, yeah, that's definitely true.
There's no doubt about that.
And I think it's a much easier place to hold a massive outdoor rally, you know, Florida in an airplane hangar this time of year because you wouldn't be able to do that certainly in the Northeast.
And he needed to get out there now that his first city game was up and start speaking to the people, say to the people, buying necessity, because the media is so focused not on his achievements and the rapid progress that he made, but on everything else that they can make a federal case out of.
We still don't know what the basis of the conversation was between General Flynn Flynn and the Washington Ambassador.
I have a feeling that he may have either withheld information or maybe a large omission to the vice president, but who knows?
I mean, but we still don't look at the media reacted.
I mean, Dan Brown was out there calling it like, you know, the second quarter game, Thomas L. Cleveland in the New York Times that it's like 9-11 or, you know, Pearl Harbor where thousands of American lines were, just General Flint.
And there's no data there.
There's no footprint to any of this stuff.
And look at the way these guys are reacting.
And then, I mean, they just battle why it is that they have no credibility left.
I mean, we had a news answer from the CBS just a couple of days ago, the guy who both faced the nation.
I think it's Annie's Dickens.
He says, listen, the media, what they call themselves, they created a problem for themselves.
This is not Donald Trump.
They need to sit down and take a hard look at themselves for the way they are.
Sean is capable of that.
And listen, I wish you were in that briefing room.
God willing, you will be soon.
Nobody does it better than you, brother.
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Sean, we're out of time.
God bless you, brother.
Thanks for being with us this hour.
Always a pleasure, James.
Thanks for having me.
Couldn't do it without you.
We have a very quick caller with only seconds remaining this hour.
Wes, you've been calling in, I heard, for a long time.
Sorry to keep you waiting for so long.
You have a question for Keith?
Let it rip quickly.
Yeah, there are three branches of government, the executive, the legislated, and the judicial.
I've always thought they were equal branches of government, but I've come across that the executive issues orders, the congressional issues laws, but the judiciary only issues opinions.
So my question is, if the judiciary is the weakest branch of government, where did they get this power?
What did they do?
Bring the National Guard out for Brown versus Board of Education?
They got it through.
Wes, let me just tell you, okay, real quick.
Great question.
We run out of time.
It was Jewish power and influence.
Felix Frank Furter was on the Warren Court.
He was one who masterminded the Brown versus Topeka Board of Education.
That's the first time that we saw the full-bodied power of judicial review obeyed by the executive.
This is how the 3% rules against the wishes of the 97%.
This is the final Trump card, no pun intended, of the left.
They've always used it when they can't get anything else get their way any other way.
That's what they're going to use against Trump.
70% of the federal judiciary is liberal.
He needs to clear out.
That's one of the main swamps he needs to drain.
He needs to get people in there.
You have to remember everything except the Supreme Court is an Article III court.
He could basically rule the Ninth Circuit out of existence if he wanted to, as well as some of these federal district courts.
He may need to do that.
And he's going to have to do things like that.
But let's not forget he's only been in office for 28 days.
Wes, great question.
Wish we could have given you more time.
Sorry for not getting to you sooner, but I'm glad Keith had the chance to air it out a little bit.
We'll be back with Kevin McDonald and Jared Taylor in the second hour.