Jack Smith faces a subpoena over alleged spying on the MAGA movement and Congress following January 6th, which the host frames as a political tool involving metadata collection by officials like Merrick Garland. The segment contrasts this with Democrats suppressing evidence of Trump's pre-attack National Guard request while CNN's Mark Warner hints at a potential coup against Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth due to loyalty concerns. Amidst broader media shifts like Comcast's bid for Warner Bros. Discovery and Rachel Maddow's departure, the narrative concludes that mainstream outlets now prioritize political narratives over factual reporting on national security and executive conduct. [Automatically generated summary]
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It's good to have you here, everyone.
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We've got a lot going on.
The studio has heat again, right?
So I can't complain.
That's pretty good.
There's a lot of heat.
A lot of heat.
A lot of heat in Washington, not just here, okay?
And in the media business, shall we say.
So we have a lot to talk about today.
We've got the Comcast deal looking like it might possibly happen.
So Comcast is upping its bid for Warner Brothers Discovery.
This is the owner of CNN.
What is that going to mean for talent?
Probably a lot of them are going to be out should this deal go through.
I'll tell you, there's other players there, though.
Netflix is there.
And you also have Ellison's CBS, Paramount, in the mix as well.
So whatever the outcome is, all I can say is this.
Some heads are going to roll.
Meanwhile, talking about heads rolling, Jack Smith.
Jack Smith just got subpoenaed.
He's getting subpoenaed.
He's going to have to go testify.
What do you know unless he decides to take the fifth or something clever like that?
This is all about the alleged spying that went down on the MAGA movement on members.
Of Congress, sitting senators.
It's pretty wild.
He got subpoenaed.
We're going to talk all about that.
Meanwhile, the deep state still trying to take out Pete Hegseth.
It's like they they're like circling like sharks in the water.
I mean I gotta tell you this is getting strange.
Okay, this is getting strange to the point where now one of them, a Democrat senator from Virginia, is calling for a, a freaking coup.
I mean I don't know how else to interpret what the heck he just said on CNN.
We're going to discuss that.
I'm going to play the sound all as Letitia gets called out by her own state because apparently she's like harboring 7 000 criminals.
I've got some reporting to tell you about.
She apparently might have been pulling a Tim Waltz move because there was some money laundering going on and it was right under her nose.
Apparently her team, according to Gateway Punnet, had been even informed about it and they did nothing.
All of that news here today on the Trish Vegan show welcome, oh my goodness.
Comcast Comcast, NBC.
They may be looking to do a really big deal here and if this happens, i'm kind of wondering what it means for some of the key talent.
I mean the key talent that, by the way, is already kind of facing, well, the end of the mile, right?
Because look what's happening with the likes of Rachel Maddow and Scarborough and all them over at MSNBC.
They're getting sent out to pasture effectively in that spinoff that's happening, Versant, because you see, nobody wants them.
Like, kid you not, nobody wants them.
They don't want them in part because of the toxicity associated with some of what they talk about, but also because of the reality that that business just doesn't exist anymore.
Okay.
Who wants to be in the cable business anyway?
Certainly not me.
Believe me.
And when I tell you, I've had a lot of opportunities to go back and do other shows or you name your time, whatever you want to do.
And I'm like, I, you know, I love you guys, but sorry.
I'm having way too much fun over here.
Way too much fun.
And this is the future.
And I only wish I had realized it ages ago.
What do you know?
By the way, we're up to what?
1.14 million subs.
So make sure you subscribe, share, like all that good stuff.
So you get some talent that may. be forced to depart as these deals come to fruition.
I mean, first of all, Bloomberg's reporting here that Comcast is making this bid for the NBC Universal unit of Comcast to buy Warner Brothers.
But here's where it gets kind of interesting.
They actually really don't want the talent over at NBC or MSNBC.
So they would continue on here, per this Bloomberg article.
They would continue on, if you would, with basically having their spinoff with Versant.
I love that.
You know, it's actually Versant, but I like to give it a little panache, you know, in the French spirit.
Anyway, Bloomberg was reportedly saying this.
Bloomberg actually reported, I should say, that.
Comcast was looking to put in a bid, did put in a bid apparently for this company.
And they're hoping because they want to try and somehow manage to get something that could rival Netflix.
And so the idea is if we buy Discovery, we buy Warner Brothers, we get all those assets, and then you could hopefully not have to get CNN because nobody wants CNN.
They're still trying to spin off CNN, just like MSNBC is getting spun off with Versant.
So, Comcast apparently has offered Warner Brothers chief executive David Zaslov a management role with the new entity.
Now, that's important because David wants to still work, even though he's clearly worth hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars.
He still wants to work and be in it, if you would.
And I get it.
I get it.
You know what?
Good for him.
He wants to stay involved.
And so, that may have an effect on things too.
Like, does he get along with people there at?
Comcast and NBC better.
So, like Comcast, I should point out Netflix is interested only in Warner Brothers Studios and streaming business.
What do you know?
What do you know?
They only want the Warner Brothers Studio and streaming businesses, just like what Netflix wants.
So, what does that mean for all this talent?
All this dare I even call them talent, right?
Dare I even call them talent?
That's the funny thing, guys.
I'll tell you.
I don't know what it means.
I think that they're all kind of managing their own sort of exits into some kind of future.
Regimato has a podcast now, right?
Joy Reid has a podcast.
You know, Joy Reid is probably thanking her lucky stars that she's no longer at MSNBC.
Funny how that all works out in the end, right?
I don't know how her podcast is doing.
We've been pretty consistent managing to be in the top one, 150 podcasts in the entire universe here on YouTube.
So I appreciate.
All that you guys do to make that happen and, by the way, i'm watching your comments in live time, so keeping an eye on things.
Uh, i'll get to some of them in just a moment.
I would say that this is very interesting though, because you would have David Zlaslav with a management role at Comcast, at NBC, with probably peeps that he likes, as opposed to Netflix, which maybe, you know, he may not like everybody that much over there, and maybe he doesn't like everybody over at Ellison's Paramount, with CBS, you know.
That might be the only deal though, where you actually get a network scooping up the cable entity, CNN.
And I guarantee you, they would love to get rid of CNN.
I mean, if they don't get rid of it in one of these merger deals, they're going to get rid of CNN in this sort of spinoff that they're attempting.
So that's one of the plans.
Look at it.
It's so fascinating, right?
That they're trying to spin off all these cable entities.
Why?
Because the cable entities no longer are where it's at.
Big change from years ago where you wanted to have the cable content along with the cable pipeline.
But now the cable pipeline isn't relevant anymore.
Content still is, right?
Content is king.
Content is going to continue to be relevant, which is why, amazingly, here I can be in my little studio where the heat is back on today.
You better believe it.
Lots of heat.
Anyway, we're here in this little studio and able to do a show and come direct to you.
Back in the old days, you would have spent, what, $10,000 for a live truck for me to be up on CBS Evening News or NBC Nightly News or one of those shows for a lousy 10-second live tag.
Better not make it 12.
They're very tightly wound.
They're very tightly scripted over there.
They have to get to their commercial breaks.
They have 22 minutes and a whole different thing.
Whereas here, oh, watch out, I can talk.
You know I can talk, right?
Anyway, Netflix is also emerging as a possible contender here.
They're interested in buying Warner Brothers as well.
So apparently, according to a new report out today by my former colleague, by the way, we work together at, I was going to say Bloomberg, but not at Bloomberg, just at CNBC and at Fox Business.
Charlie Gasparino is a very, very good MA reporter.
He's actually reporting via his column in the New York Post that you've got.
Warner Brothers Discovery Board looking at that offer from Netflix as well as competing bids from Paramount, right?
That's CBS, as well as competing bids from NBC Comcast.
So I suspect the Netflix offer is interesting, is probably good, but maybe, maybe Zaslov's not warming to it because he wouldn't have the management role that he would have, say, at something like NBC, and they kind of want Zaslov to stay there.
So these things get very complicated, very, very, very complicated.
But I'll tell you, the upshot for the talent is that any way you slice it, They're not in a very good spot because if Paramount comes in and they decide CBS decides to buy CNN, you're going to have a lot of duplication there.
So that means, sorry, you know, Jake Tapper, or maybe Jake's fine.
Maybe it doesn't cost that much.
Maybe it's, I don't know, whoever's over there at 60 Minutes that Barry Weiss is trying to get rid of.
Right?
Like maybe they got some expensive heads over there that they can actually replace with the likes of Jake Tapper.
You're going to have some musical chairs here.
I think Anderson might be in for a pay cut.
And then, well, you know, the most expensive woman in all the show business because she makes 25 million bucks for one show every Monday night for one hour that doesn't even perform.
Rachel Maddow.
I mean, I don't know how that one goes on much longer.
Do you?
I mean, I'm curious, guys.
Do you, do you, do you?
Anyway, there are some changes coming.
It is going to affect talent.
And you know what?
The whole medium is changing.
I mean, look at print, for example.
Print is like seriously out of fashion, not just because everybody's migrated online, but because they're no longer telling you the straight up truth.
I mean, if they ever were, I think at one point in time they were like, go back to the 1920s, go back to the 1930s.
And sure, everybody had a certain spin and probably the deep state, even back then, existed and had its own spin.
But you didn't feel like.
things were so aggressively sabotaged the way that they are now.
Well, the New York Times has it coming to them.
There was a brilliant moment earlier today, and I'm talking brilliant.
This is good TV, okay?
You know, if you're going to sit through this darn deal book conference with CNBC and NY Times, you might as well get a little color along the way.
And that color was provided by none other than our Treasury Secretary, Scott Besant, who took out a reporter straight to his face.
The guy who like created the deal book conference, Andrew Sorkin, over at CNBC.
He also double times over at New York Times.
So like, you know, this is a busy, busy guy.
I mean, hey, you got to take some lessons from Rachel, Andrew, because, you know, Rachel, she does one show a week for $25 million.
I don't know what they're paying you, but you poor guy, you're doing that morning show from 6 to 9 a.m.
And then you're, you're moonlighting for the New York Times.
Anyway, Besant took you down in rare form today.
Let's watch.
The question is, how should this be?
Is this a new normal?
Andrew, there's no new normal.
And I can tell you that I actually don't read the New York Times anymore.
But sometimes I do watch CNBC.
But occasionally people send me articles.
And there's just this fever swamp.
And you're now a pop historian with 1929.
And in 20, 30, 40, 50 years, The New York Times is no longer the paper of record.
I read this article.
President Trump is slowing down.
President Trump's mental capacity is 100% fake.
He only called me twice at 2 in the morning last week instead of 3 times.
You're saying he called you?
I believe that he called you at 2 or 3 in the morning.
Andrew thinks that he can use that as fodder, as material.
The guy's insane because he's calling you at 2 or 3 in the morning.
Watch.
That whole narrative, you had what was one of the greatest scandals of all time.
That the coverage of the Biden administration, Joe Biden's diminished capacity, and the cover up.
And that's why it's probably fair to raise these questions.
Where was the New York Times?
We just had a three hour cabinet meeting yesterday, Andrew.
For 10 months, the Biden administration did not have a cabinet meeting.
How are you going to invoke the 25th Amendment if the cabinet secretaries never see the president, which they didn't?
I hear from people in the Treasury building that I see President Trump more in a day than my predecessor.
saw Joe Biden in half a year.
Smackdown, right?
I mean, this is like WWF style, for goodness sakes.
Way to go, Besant.
You know, I hear he has a really good right hook.
Apparently, legend has it.
Elon learned that the hard way.
Anyway, Besant, wow, one tough guy.
And he just let him have it.
It reminds me the other day when he was on MSNBC and the MSNBC anchor was like, oh, you know, something about the Argentine debt credit swap that we did, the deal that, you know.
basically made us money, but don't tell MSNBC that, right?
They're like, why are you giving money to Argentina?
He's like, have you heard of a credit swap?
And the guy's like, oh, because you know he has never heard of a credit swap in his life.
I say this as someone who started actually at Goldman Sachs on the emerging debt markets desk where we did cover Argentina.
So I know all about things like credit swaps.
Okay.
I'm watching this and I'm like, oh, this is going to be good.
And Besson's like, do you know what it is?
And the guy's like, ah, ah, ah.
Anyway, suffice it to say, yeah, we made money on the deal with Argentina.
And by the way, we're keeping the guy that we want.
Our friend in control down there.
So, hey, win, win, win, right?
Anyway, this is just hysterical to watch him at it.
I love it.
It's like a good right hook, except with words.
But you got all this going on in the midst of these deals happening, right?
These deals for possibly a pretty big media company.
And so, you got to ask yourself, what is this really about?
Well, on the one hand, right, you've got a changing industry.
And I'm living proof of that right here, streaming to you live, watching your comments live.
I mean, this is a whole new game and it's going to get better and better.
folks.
I mean, this is just the beginning and I'm amazed every day with all the sort of technological advances that we're making.
So all these changes are happening while the mainstream, lamestream media is stuck over in left field, not knowing Well, I got to watch myself and my language.
Let's just say not knowing what day it is, okay?
Because they're clueless.
They're clueless.
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And they have just like literally no ability to manage all of this.
I mean, I think they're ginning up some kind of coon.
We're going to get to that in just a moment.
But think about what's going on as you see these changes in the media industry coming and everybody's looking at MSNBC like a hot potato.
Everybody's looking at CNN like a hot potato.
Nobody wants them.
Nobody at all.
And the president.
May actually force this even faster than you'd think, right?
Because he wants to take away their licenses, as he so eloquently told us just last week.
I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and it's so wrong.
And we have a great commissioner, the chairman, who should look at that because I think when you come in and when you're 97% negative to Trump and then Trump wins the election in a landslide.
That means obviously your news is not credible, and you're not credible as a reporter.
So I've answered your question.
You should go and look at the Democrats who received money from Epstein.
Yes, I am reading these all in real time.
And you may have seen the lower third on there.
Jimmy Kimmel has been called out as well by the president.
So you get ABC being called out.
I mean, they're all being called out, for goodness sakes.
You get CBS being called out, NBC, all of them collectively together.
So yeah, these things are hot potatoes.
Wow, And yes, you guys, I am.
I am reading your comments in real time.
And yes, my knowledge of finance is killer.
So thank you for being here.
And thank you for all your comments.
Turning to another big story right now Jack Smith.
Ooh, a bad day for Jack Smith.
He's getting hauled in for his alleged J6 spying.
Yeah, uh-uh-huh.
Here he is, Jack Smith.
Remember him?
He's getting subpoenaed.
They promised that this would be coming.
Remember, Comer was telling us, Jim Jordan was telling us.
They've been telling us, telling us, telling us.
Okay, well, I'm glad it's finally happening because I certainly have a lot of questions.
I have a lot of questions that go back to that day, January 6th.
That day as a way to try and literally take out the other side?
I mean, did they use that maliciously to then go and spy on members of the Senate and try to weave together, map out an entire MAGA movement and take out everybody involved?
It kind of feels that way.
I mean, Nancy was asked that question.
She didn't appreciate it now, did she, recently?
Congresswoman Pelosi, are you at all concerned that the new January 6th committee will find you liable for that day?
Are you at all concerned about the new January 6th committee finding you liable for that day?
Why did you refuse the National Guard on January 6th?
Shut up.
I did not refuse the National Guard.
The president didn't send it.
Why are you coming here with Republican talking points as if you're a serious journalist?
The American people want to know.
We still have questions.
Thank you.
I love her look at the end.
She's like, I love also the, how dare you come here as if you're a serious journalist?
Because if you were a serious journalist, clearly you'd have the Democrat talking points, not the Republican.
Come on, for goodness sakes.
I mean, whatever happened to just having some questions, plain and simple, just some questions.
I mean, you should be able to handle them from either side, Nancy, shouldn't you, without becoming totally unhinged?
But you see, she knows there's this tape out there.
I don't know how this managed to get leaked.
She was controlling everything so well with her daughter, Alexandra, running all the footage on J6.
That was who she invited in.
Remember, her own darn daughter was the one who was invited in to take all the footage, and that's the footage that we wound up seeing all over CNN and all over ABC.
I mean, heck.
Think she sold it to them?
I wonder.
I wonder.
They presented it almost as though it was their own.
They'd occasionally say, you know, as shot by Alexandra Pelosi, documentary filmmaker that she is.
Well, this one somehow got shot.
Take a look.
We have responsibility, Terry.
We did not have any accountability for what was going on there, and we should have.
This is ridiculous.
You're going to ask me in the middle of the thing when they've already briefed.
The inaugural stuff that should we call the Capitol Police?
I mean, the National Guard?
Why weren't the National Guard there to begin with?
They thought that they had sufficient resources.
No, there's not a question of how they had made it.
They don't know.
They clearly didn't know, and I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for war.
Oh, you do?
That's interesting.
You take responsibility because, you know, after the fact, you absolutely refuse to take any kind of responsibility.
So a lot of people believe that they made something more out of this than there actually was, all in an effort to.
Basically make sure that they could take out the other side for good forever, and this is why Jack Smith is now being subpoenaed.
It's why he's getting hauled in over these uh alleged J6 spying allegations.
It was basically a giant metadata collection, gosh.
You know who he looks like.
Just look at that picture for one second.
Can you guys think of this?
You know the guy who uh started outkick sports?
He's he's, he's great, he uh Clay Travis.
Clay Travis is his name and he, He runs a show, a radio show, with my friend, Buck Sexton, who's wonderful.
And he's on Fox a lot.
Let's see.
I think we have a picture.
Do we have a picture?
Yeah, we have a picture.
Okay.
Here he is.
I mean, they're like, sorry, Clay.
And I like Clay.
This is not, this is probably not a comparison he would ever appreciate.
But gosh darn it, they kind of look alike, right?
It's like, you know, Clay's just a better looking version of maybe that's just a really good picture of Jack Smith.
I think it's just a really good picture of Jack Smith.
That's what it is.
You know, the media loves Jack Smith, right?
They make sure they put really good pictures of him out there.
Anyway, a lot has to come out in this whole thing because I think there were a lot of questions as to why Jack Smith basically was given all of these phone logs.
We can't call it wiretapping.
It's not called wiretapping.
They'll say we're imprecise when we say that.
But basically, they were looking at the metadata.
So they were logging calls saying, oh, well, Marshall Blackburn, gosh, did you talk to Trish Regan?
If you did, sorry for me, right?
Because then now all of a sudden they're looking at my phone too.
So.
if Marsha Blackburn talked to Trish Regan or Tom, Dick, and Harry out in the middle of nowhere, they were suddenly now looping all of this stuff together and they were trying to see how long they were talking to people for and for what locations they were in.
And that really kind of seems to be excessive to me.
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It seems to be against the law to me.
Meanwhile, you know, the actual stuff that they should have been looking into, like why it is that Nancy Pelosi didn't actually call out the National Guard, they didn't care.
They didn't care about that stuff.
And that's all come out.
They just didn't care.
By the way, Nancy has sat there and she was, you know, she's still so, so Lionel, she's blue in the face saying that now, you know, how dare Donald Trump over the summer, he was activating the National Guard in D.C. to distract, she said, from his incompetent mishandling of terrorists, health care, education and immigration, just to name a few blunders.
And then.
Look at that.
Chief Stephen Sund comes back and says, and this is the guy who was running the Capitol Hill Police at this time.
Ma'am, it is long past the time to be honest with the American people.
On January 3rd, I requested National Guard assistance, but your sergeant at arms denied it under federal law 2 U.S.C. 1970.
I was prohibited from calling them in without specific approval.
That same day, Carol Corbin at the Pentagon offered National Guard support, but I was forced to decline because I lacked the legal authority.
On January 6th, while the Capitol was under attack, and despite my repeated phone calls, your sergeant at arms Again, denied my urgent request for up to 70 agonizing minutes, running it up the chain for your approval.
Your approval.
When I needed assistance, it was denied.
And yet when it suited you, you ordered fencing topped with all kinds of wire, surrounded the Capitol with thousands of armed National Guard troops.
In other words, when it works for them, they can bring in the National Guard.
Heck, they can do the whole war on drugs.
We're going to get to that.
When it works for them, they can go after Ukraine.
But oh gosh darn it, you know, if Donald Trump thinks that you need to take out the Venezuelan dictator that's making everybody's life really miserable, causing his people to go from the highest standard of living in all of Latin America to the lowest, causing extraordinary poverty, you know, wealth confiscation that we've witnessed there in Venezuela.
If he happens to try and maybe move things along to try and get somebody decent there in power, one for the people and two for us, because hey, that's like two and a half hours south of Miami, right?
We don't need the Chinese, the Iranians, and the Russians running around Venezuela.
It makes sense that we would have somebody that we trust, much like we have now in Argentina in a critical country like Venezuela.
We're going to get it in Chile.
Looks like we're going to get it in Honduras.
I mean, you're just seeing a wave, a wave of good old-fashioned capitalism taking over South and Latin America, which I predicted forever.
It was actually a college thesis of mine, but I digress in all seriousness because I'm like, hey, it's our hemisphere.
Let's go back to Monroe Doctrine, right?
I bet you Pete Hegseth knows about the Monroe Doctrine.
Anyway, J6 committee here, Liz Cheney, January 6 committee, suppressing, exonerating evidence of Trump's push for National Guard.
That was the other piece of this that was reported by the Federalists.
Molly Hemingway had that story.
So there was this evidence showing that Donald Trump had been pushing for the National Guard, but they buried that.
Like they buried so much, right?
Because they were trying to fit a narrative.
And I mention this as a precursor to what we're going to get into with Venezuela and Hegseth and what they're trying to attempt with this effective coup, which is just bonkers and wild and we haven't seen anything like this.
I want to be very clear, not even in the Civil War days.
I mean, this is new uncharted territory for the United States of America as we approach our 250th birthday.
They're trying to undo the whole darn thing.
But this, take a look at this.
I mean, you got the metadata showing that Timothy T. Bolt, he's the guy who apparently authorized the initial investigation into Arctic Frost, which violated the Bureau's own no self-approval rule.
Three, five, two, three.
Remember that because you're going to hear it a lot in the coming days.
So why were they authorizing this investigation?
and then continuing to authorize the investigation themselves, or in this case, himself.
He's no longer there.
And then why would Cheney and Company, oh, Adam Kinsinger, remember him, he's no longer there.
Why would they be taking this information and bringing it to Jack Smith for his investigation?
I think we know why.
I think they were doing some funny stuff.
And you know what?
Ted Cruz was right.
When he said this is bigger than Watergate, I'm telling you, Jackie Boy, you're going to have some answers that need to be given.
You better be working overtime with your lawyers right about now.
Arctic Frost is Joe Biden's Watergate.
Merrick Garland was a fundamentally corrupt attorney general.
Jack Smith was a fundamentally corrupt prosecutor.
This was a political enemies list from the beginning 197 subpoenas for 430 Republican entities and individuals.
That is an absolute and egregious abuse of power.
Yes, you think so?
I think so.
And there you have it, okay?
Egregious abuse of power.
So, Jackie boy, I'm sorry.
You know what?
We're going to start getting the truth, and it has to happen.
It has to happen soon.
In the meantime, you get total chaos going on.
I mean, I want you guys to hear this because I'm curious what you think.
This sounded like some kind of call for a coup to me.
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And I hate to say that, but what the heck was going down, right?
At CNN.
First of all, just know the background of all this.
They're going after Pete like you've never seen.
I mean, sharks circling in the water because they've wanted to take him out from day one.
They never wanted him to have the gig to begin with.
He got it.
And then they've just been like all over him.
All over him.
And I think they smell vulnerability.
I mean, first, the signal chat, right?
So today, this just broke within the last 20 minutes or so.
They are now.
According to the investigation that just came out of the Pentagon, they were faulting Pete Hegseth for using Signal to discuss military strikes.
Yeah, I mean, it's probably not great.
I mean, look, the other day this happened to me.
I thought I was texting my friend, Anna, and it turns out I was texting my other friend, Anna, who happens to be a producer over at Newsmax.
And then at some point I realized I'm like talking about the kids and everything, and then I'm like, oops, wrong, Anna.
And she was very gracious and she's very sweet.
Actually, it happened, I think, three times in a row.
I said, Anna, I'm now putting you in.
As Anna, Newsmax, as one whole entire thing together.
Because, yeah, that could get dangerous, right?
It could happen to anyone.
But good thing I'm not head of the Pentagon, shall we say.
And good thing she's just getting what the kids are having for dinner or what they were learning in school today.
But for Pete, somehow, some way, and it may not have even been him, right?
It may have been his staff that put together this chain.
And Signal's thought to be very secure.
And by the way, the CIA, like, told everybody, hey, go ahead and use Signal.
It's really secure.
Good sort of promo for Signal there.
But I also kind of wonder, and this is just the ultra suspicious side of me.
What can I say?
It just kind of exists, right?
I sort of wonder when they were setting this up, if somebody intentionally did something or if they told him, you know, we're setting this up and whoever was on his team.
And, you know, he's running a little scared right now, I think, looking, you know, behind his shoulder every which way to Sunday because of this initial incident.
Like, how do you trust your team if they're putting together chats on signal?
And you think that a certain cell phone is a certain cell phone number and you know this is this is, by the way, a reminder for all of us to know the actual phone numbers.
How many phone numbers do you even know nowadays?
You know, you know maybe your, your childhood phone number, your spouse's phone number, but you know your, my case, my parents phone number, although I don't know my dad's actually, because my dad just recently got a cell phone.
You know he's resisting technology, he's resisting, and now it's just I put him in his dad and and so we're in a an era now where you rely so heavily on the phone if the contact says that, so this could happen.
I'm just saying to anyone, just like it happened to me recently with Anna from NEWS MAX anyway.
So Pete is is, you know, getting just attacked on all sides, including because he's trying to address this war on drugs and he's trying to prevent all these boats filled with really, really bad stuff that will infect our kids from coming here to the United States, and he wants to make that clear.
And they're sending a message.
But Given what the quote-unquote sedacious six, as the president has labeled them, have been saying, it's now turned into a you-know-what storm.
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Yeah, it begins with an S, ends with a T. Here is Senator Mark Warner with his own little begins with an S, ends with a T, storm, speaking, I believe it was on CNN.
It could have been Ms. now, that other network.
But let's listen to Senator Mark Warner, because if I'm hearing this correctly, and I hope I'm not, It sounds like this guy wants some kind of military coup.
What do you think?
Unprecedented disrespect when they were all brought to get a pep rally in front of Hegsef and Trump.
This is an administration that's fired uniformed generals from the head of the NSA, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
And I think in many ways the uniformed military may help save us from this president and his lame people like Hegsef because I think their commitment is to the Constitution and obviously not to Trump, and I expect Bradley to adhere to that.
So, Senator, let's go a little further on this.
We're concerned about that.
That was on Ms. The Ms. Now Network.
Glorious 9-11 would be happy.
Anyway, Senator Mark Warren saying some kind of aggressive stuff, kind of saying, look, we need to rely on our military because our military is not going to go along with Hegzeth.
It's not going to go along with Trump.
By the way, if they take out Hegzeth, that's like taking out Trump.
It's one thing if Trump makes the decision to get rid of Hegzeth, but when you get the mainstream media and the liberal media pushing this hard, it gets a little alarming.
It's funny that they don't want to take out pambandi.
Kind of interesting, right?
They want to take out cash and they want to take out Pete.
Well, Pete is actually trying to do something in Venezuela.
He's actually aggressively trying to pursue a change.
By the way, we've tried this before.
Like we've tried it in, you know, going back a ways to the Chavez days.
We tried it again with Juan Guaido that, by the way, like Nancy Pelosi loved, right?
They brought him to Washington.
It was like a big kumbaya.
Everybody was on the same side.
We want to get rid of Maduro.
Until now, second time around, with Trump there and he wants to get rid of Maduro, and suddenly everybody's like, oh no, you can't, like we're not going to engage Uh, in in this way and we're certainly not going to go after any boats that are coming here with illicit material, which is amazing, considering what they used to say.
I mean, let's go back down memory lane for just a minute.
1989, I was in high school and uh, Joe Biden was a senator and he was really passionate about one thing, The war on drugs.
Joe Biden Passionate Against Republicans00:00:13
He kept criticizing Republicans because they just weren't passionate enough.
You got to take them out, he was telling us.
You got to actually go after these.
I mean, for goodness sakes, why couldn't this Joe Biden have been president?