What Does it Mean to be "MAGA"? Media Pre-Suasion in Full Gear! Jake Lang in Big trouble? AND MORE!
Jake Lang and Viva Fry dissect the Trump administration's deviation from its "peace ticket" promises, citing RFK Jr.'s warnings against endless wars and the administration's alleged escalation in Iran involving potential boots on the ground. They analyze how "media pre-suasion" demonizes critics like Barnes as "black pillars" while Polymarket data predicts Democratic congressional gains by 2026. The episode also covers Cain Velasquez's release after three years for attempted murder, the Tyler Robinson trial's transparency issues regarding withheld forensic data, and dismisses conspiracy theories about Jewish influence, ultimately highlighting a widening chasm between political reality and perception. [Automatically generated summary]
Ladies and gentlemen of the interwebs, there's the old expression, it's always darkest before the dawn.
But it's also darkest right after the blackout.
And we have to decide at which point we are right now.
When I feel a little doom-pilled, I go and listen to RFK Jr.
One of these speeches that he made in the context of his presidential run is a thing of beauty.
Behold.
Let's take up that call from 60 years ago and ask Americans, all of us, to re-examine our attitude.
We have been immersed in a foreign policy discourse that is all about adversaries and threats and allies and enemies and domination.
We've become addicted to comic book good versus evil narratives that erase complexity and blind us to the legitimate motives and the legitimate cultural and economic concerns and the legitimate security concerns of other peoples and other nations.
We have internalized and institutionalized a reflex of violence as the response for any and all crises.
Everything becomes a war.
War on drugs, the war on terror, war on cancer, war on climate change.
This way of thinking predisposes us to wage endless wars abroad.
Wars and coups and bombs and drones and regime change operations and support for paramilitaries and juntas and dictators.
None of this has made us safer and none of it has burnished our leadership or our moral authority.
More importantly, we must ask ourselves, is this really who we are?
Is this what we want to be?
Is that what Americans' founders envision?
Is it any wonder that as America has waged violence throughout the world, violence has overtaken us in our own nation?
It has not come as an invasion.
It has come from within.
Our bombs, our drones, our armies are incapable of stopping the gun violence on our streets and schools or domestic violence in our homes.
Waging endless wars abroad, we have neglected the foundation of our own well-being.
We have a decaying economic infrastructure.
We have a demoralized people and despairing people.
We have toxins in our air and our soil and our water.
We have deteriorating mental and physical health.
These are the wages of war.
What will be the wages of peace?
Wages Of War And Peace00:15:34
I may be projecting, but you can tell that RFK Jr. was a tad frustrated that the clapping interrupted the climax of his speech.
That was RFK Jr. during his presidential run in 2024.
I think that clip is from late 2023, if I'm not mistaken.
And it was a thing of beauty back then.
It's still a thing of beauty right now.
And I can hear a lot of people out there, you know, the same people who have been calling some of us black pillars, doom pillars, pannikins, the same people calling us those names saying, well, we didn't elect RFK Jr. president.
We elected Donald Trump president.
And you're right.
You elected Trump president in the context of a coalition that brought in the RFK Jr. Maha base, that brought in the Tulsi Gabbard, non-interventionist base to some extent, or at least skeptic of deep state analysis base.
You brought that in.
And certain warranties and representations were made.
And it was supposed to be the peace ticket.
And it was supposed to be the no new forever wars ticket, no new regime change war ticket.
And then what ends up happening, like in 1984, George Orwell, you get the seal-clapping sycophant saying, oh, well, this is not a new war.
This war has been going on for 47 years.
This is not a regime change.
This is just policy change.
This isn't a forever war.
It's going to be punctual.
There won't be boots on the ground.
We have literally, in real time, gone from, it's not a war, it's just strategic strikes in July.
Don't worry, you pannikins.
It won't be a prolonged war.
Obliterated in July.
And then you get to six months, what are we, July, August, September, eight months later?
We need to go back in.
Don't worry, Panikins.
It's not a war.
Everybody's calling it a war.
We're now three weeks, two weeks into the non-war war.
It's not a war.
It's just precision strikes.
Oh, don't worry, it won't be a prolonged war.
It might go on three to four months.
Oh, don't worry, there won't be boots on the ground.
Don't worry, there won't be a draft.
And then the people who had been raising these concerns, saying if you deviate too far from the promises to the base, the expectations of the base, it's going to hurt you in the midterms.
Who's been saying that since mid 2025?
The same people that have been demonized off the face of the earth, Richard Barris, Barnes, myself to a lesser degree, warning about it since 2025.
If you deviate and you do certain things and you don't focus on domestic issues, it's going to hurt you in the midterms.
And back then, no, they're going to win midterms.
They're going to increase their majority.
It's going to be ah, boo yah, rah, rah, rah.
And now, like, oh, how does it happen?
Out of the blue, people can't seem to understand it.
Brandon Strzok posted this.
Is the base losing faith in Republicans?
Why?
Because Polymarket's showing Democrats now projected to seize control of both chambers of Congress this November.
How's that happening?
Oh, no, no, no.
It's all, you're just a panic and don't be a doom pillar.
Oh, no, that's just the markets.
It's easily manipulated.
You just get a few bots in there, a few, you know, you can, and you can.
You can manipulate those markets if you have deep pockets, or you can face reality, which is what people have been saying from the get-go.
And what happens when you denigrate, dismiss the most ardent supporters?
You know, like they did the same thing incidentally when Pierre Polyev was running for prime minister.
And they're like, oh, no, no, the markets are all wrong.
The markets, people are just, you know, they're buying it off.
You get some Chinese money in there.
Deny reality, deny reality.
And now you got Mark J. Carney as prime minister in Canada.
Oh, and call the people who are the most ardent supporters for the better part of a decade.
Call them names.
Demean them, denigrate them.
Tell them they're not MAGA, whatever the hell that means anymore.
I didn't realize MAGA meant betraying all of the principles you have espoused for the last 10 years.
And I'm not talking about Trump.
I'm talking about me.
Oh, no, that's right.
What was that?
You were critical of immunity for pharmaceutical companies?
Well, because now Trump decides to immunize through executive order, which is unenforceable, immunize glyphostate manufacturers.
Well, I guess I've got to, you know, I was once upon a time against immunity for pharma companies, but I guess now being MAGA is being supportive of immunity, immunity for chemical producers.
Because you know what?
What big corporations lack, what they really need and don't have, immunity from liability.
So you got the people demonizing the most loyal supporters who have been trying to, you know, ring the warning bell for the last year.
Doom pillars, black pillars, panicans, don't listen to them.
Oh, no, you should look at every single one of those people who have been demonizing the righteous, intellectually honest voices of concern over the last year, and you might want to reflect on their analysis going forward.
Or you can live with your head in the sand, like Mike Johnson, Michael Knowles' interview.
It's worth listening to.
Listen to this.
There are 237 days till the midterms, but who's counting?
Typically, in an off-year after a presidential election, especially if you win really big like we did last time, you face daunting odds.
The poll numbers seem to be getting worse.
There seems to be a chasm between political reality on the economy, on foreign policy, and everything in between, and perception.
Major chasm, widening chasm.
How do we fix that in 237 days?
I love Michael Knowles because he's the polite, clean, sane-looking version of myself to some extent.
I see like, you know, if I were more polished and more refined, I could be a Michael Knowles.
Instead, I'm, you know, a Viva Fry nutcase that people can disregard.
Michael Knowles asked the question so politely.
Let's hear what the answer is.
There's a chasm between perception and reality.
Oh, no.
At first, it was we're going to win the midterms because, you know, it was an amazing first, let's say, hundred, 60 days, amazing first 60 days.
Trump comes in, part is the Jan Sixers, does amazing stuff early on, gets in RFK Jr., Tulsi Gabbard, an FBI that we had the greatest hopes on earth for.
Not so enamored with the AGDOJ.
I was still optimistic until I wasn't.
And then, oh, we're not going to win.
But it's always, we always lose.
It's always the party in power that loses after a year of saying we're going to win.
And now you got Mike Johnson head in the sand.
With a big dose of reality and with a clear message, and we're working on both of those things.
The first ingredient is to have great candidates.
And we recruited extraordinary people to go flip blue seats to Red this cycle.
And of course, our incumbents and all those who've been part of the big successes of the last year and a half almost as we go into the election cycle are going to be out talking about their record of success.
It truly is promises made and promises kept.
I've made the case that the first year of the Trump administration was arguably the most productive and successful in at least the modern era.
I think one of the top five in the history of Congress.
And I'm a student of all this.
You're a student of all this.
Well, in some ways, it was indeed very productive.
They successfully closed the border down.
That in and of itself does make this presidency among the most productive in recent history.
All of that gets wiped out if by not listening to the other concerns or not respecting the other promises, you allow the Democrats to take the House, take the Senate in 2026 and the presidency in 2020.
All of that work is undone.
And why?
Because instead of listening to RFK Jr.'s words from the beginning, where he joined the coalition with Trump and they put together that peace ticket, instead of listening to those righteous concerns, write them off.
Because you're only a MAGA supporter if you do exactly what you're being told at the time you're being told to do it.
Because of all the substance and the big things that we passed and got it signed into law, now there is an incredible media bias, as you know.
And the mainstream media, the legacy media, every day literally repeats almost verbatim the talking points of Chuck Schumer and the Democrats.
Do you see the sleight of hand here, by the way?
Oh yeah, MSM, legacy media, are the enemy of the people, and they most certainly are the enemy of Donald Trump.
But what Mike Johnson and what the others who've been calling other people black pillars, doom pillars, whatever, pannikins, what they're doing is lumping together the most loyal people, the most loyal followers with the fake news so they can disregard them both.
Throw them out, baby with the bathwater.
You don't have to address their concerns because it's the same points as the MSM.
You know, MSM is not always wrong.
Now, the people who are saying the same thing as MSM are not necessarily wrong by virtue of the fact that they're saying something that the enemy of the people is saying at the same time.
Two things can be true at the same time.
And occasionally it will happen that a broken clock will be right twice a day, unless it's just gaining a minute, in which case I don't know when it'll be right again.
Do you see what they're doing, though?
Lump all criticism, righteous, from your most ardent supporters, lump it together with legacy media, propaganda media, fake news, so that you don't have to address it, and then wonder why the hell it is you look like you're about to get your asses handed to you at midterms.
It's a miracle.
Conundrum, wrapped in a mystery, wrapped in a whatever.
Crazy as they are.
And they tried to censor and silence our viewpoint in various ways, as you know.
And so we've got to break through that and get the reality to the people.
So it will be a lot of direct candidate-to-constituent discussion.
They're going to be doing the candidate forums and the town halls and all that to go out and share our message.
We gathered here at this work session, this conference over the last couple of days, was to talk about how to do that effectively.
So look, I'm very bullish about the midterms.
I'm absolutely that's Michael Knowles being polite when he says, hmm, I'm thinking bullshit, but I'm just going to politely nod and let you continue talking.
Oh, yeah, you're bullish.
Maybe, maybe bullshittish, possibly.
Thence we are going to win the midterms and grow the majority.
It will defy the historic trend.
It's only twice in the last 90 years that a sitting president has picked up seats for his party in that first two-year cycle.
But I can give you a very boring 90-minute slideshow for we're done with your very boring slideshow, Mr. No, no, that's it.
We're bullish.
I mean, sure, it's never happened before.
And when people were sort of sounding the alarm that if you don't remain true to the principles of the coalition that got you elected, it might affect your chances at the midterms.
No, no, no.
Shut up, pannikins.
Oh, what's that?
A war in Iran.
It's not war.
It's not unpopular.
Shut up, pannikins.
And then we're getting into this like idiotic purity test of what it means to be MAGA, putting it in quotes now.
Like these idiot, like they want there, they want to be political religious figures, tell you who gets to be MAGA and who doesn't.
They're like at the gates of Sparta saying who is Sparta and who isn't.
You're not MAGA.
I kick you into the hole.
These people who think that they have some sort of political moral authority to write people off as not MAGA or to bring people in as MAGA if they abide.
It's an amazing thing.
I'll tell you, it's genuinely disconcerting.
Having lived through this for long enough, having been, you know, back in 2016, I wasn't tweeting much.
Back in 2016, I still remember not wanting to express myself politically all that often on the interwebs.
But, you know, being pro-Trump in Canada in 2015, 2016 wasn't a very popular thing.
To be pro-Trump in Canada in 2020 was a very unpopular thing.
And to have people tell you to people who have been vocally, publicly, unabashedly pro-Trump for damn near a decade, well, you're not MAGA because you're disagreeing with Trump and you just got to trust Trump.
Real MAGA is shutting your mouth, sitting down and letting Trump be Trump, right?
Oh, okay.
Well, I guess we have to also, real MAGA is now about immunity.
Glyphosate immunity for big farms.
That's real MAGA, right?
You're MAGA.
You don't want to constructively criticize Trump on a bad policy that might impact the base that signed up for Maha.
All right, you're a true MAGA, MAGA, shut your mouths.
You are now for big, ag, big corp immunity from liability.
Enjoy it.
The executive order, he put it out there.
You don't want to criticize him.
Promoting the national defense by ensuring an adequate supply of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides.
Oh, yeah.
What's that?
You're going to immunize?
You're going to immunize the glyphosate manufacturers?
You know, like when they brought RFK Jr. on, who fought Monsanto, who's been fighting cancer-causing agents.
No, no.
Okay.
Real MAGA is now for immunity for big corporations.
I guess you have to be for immunity for the COVID shot as well, right?
That's what it means to be.
You don't want to criticize Trump because, you know, that might be mean looking.
It's blind allegiance.
All right.
This order confers all immunity provided for in section 707 of the act.
Additionally, domestic producers of elemental phosphorus and glyphosate-based herbicides are required to comply with this order in accordance with Section 7.
No, no, real MAGA, you do whatever Trump says.
And when Trump comes out and says no transgender surgery, well, you better damn well be MAGA.
Don't say anything.
Because if you shut your mouths, people, and you see it, don't say anything.
The original tweet might still be up.
Shut your mouths.
When Trump says no, what was it?
No transgender mutilation surgery for children.
And the original version said without consent of the parents.
Shut your mouths.
Trump said it.
You agree with it.
Otherwise, if you criticize him or you say, hey, Trump, maybe you want to take that down, you're not MAGA anymore.
I mean, if you had shut your mouths and just been true MAGA, that truth post would still be up there.
Oh, and then some of you say, no, no, it was a mistake from his staffer.
And, you know, it was a mistake.
They took it down.
We know what Trump says.
It wasn't a joke.
It wasn't an accident.
It was what Trump actually believes being insulated in that DC silo where you think the virtuous thing is, oh, yeah, no, transgender mutilation surgery unless the parents consent.
He said it.
So you can't say it was a joke there.
You can't say his staffer posted it without his knowledge.
Here he is virtually verbatim saying.
Look, this is a party, the Republican Party of Common Sense.
Correct.
Speaking of a conservative liberal, we're, let's say conservative, but we're really a party of, we need borders.
We need fair elections.
Correct.
We don't want men playing in women's sports.
Correct.
We don't want transgender operations without parental consent.
Let me pause you there.
If I'm on the team, Trump, you don't want transgender operations without parental consent.
No.
You don't want transgender operations for those who would require parental consent ever, period, full stop.
That might be popular in DC, where you're surrounded by a bunch of people who say, well, you know, parental authority.
And there's an argument to be made about parental authority and deciding what's best for their kid.
But conservatives, the general population does not want to qualify.
Transgender surgery for minors can be done with parental consent.
And it's not anti-Trump to say, hey, Trump, maybe revise that.
Don't say that again.
Change course.
You're not anti-Trump for saying it.
You're anti-Trump if you tell people to shut up and not try to correct course.
Parental Consent Debate00:07:08
What are some of the other ones?
Well, yeah, that's right.
What's this?
When he picked Amy Coney Barrett as his pick, you don't want to try to correct Trump.
You don't want to disagree with him because that's anti-Trump.
That's what MSM is trying to do.
They always criticize him.
So anybody who criticizes him has to be MSM.
When he picked Amy Coney Barrett, and then he ran into some problems with Amy Coney.
Then people started.
At the time, you may or may not recall Barnes, Viva and Barnes Law for the People, vivabarneslaw.locals.com, our Sunday night show.
We were talking about it.
And Barnes was raising some serious flags.
This is a bad pick, taking flack for it at the time.
Trust Trump.
He knows what he's doing.
This was from March last year.
Jack Posobiec tweeted out, Amy Coney Barrett shows the danger of Republican DEI.
And I tweeted at the time.
I can tell you one thing with certainty.
Robert Barnes called it at the time.
He didn't use the word DEI, but he was extremely skeptical of Amy Coney Barrett.
His observations have proven prophetic.
More recently, you know, it's almost like if Trump had listened to that particular constructive criticism, things might have been different on policy.
This is what he tweeted about the tariffs.
Who voted against Trump's tariffs?
Oh, Amy Coney Barrett.
What happened today with the two United States Supreme Court justices that I appointed against great opposition?
Hmm.
It's almost as if if there were more internal opposition voicing the legitimate founded concerns, he might have avoided this problem by getting someone in there who might have been a little bit better than Amy Coney Barrett.
Who are we talking about potential alternatives at the time?
I forget their alternatives.
I know Strick Stickman was in there.
What happened today with the two United States Supreme Court justices that I appointed against great opposition, Neil Gorsuch and Amy Coney Barrett, whether people like it or not, never seems to happen with Democrats.
The vote against the Republicans, they vote against the Republicans and never against themselves almost every single time, no matter how good a case we have.
At least I didn't appoint Roberts, who led the effort to allow foreign countries that have been ripping us off for years to continue to do so.
But we won't let it happen.
The new tariffs tested, totally tested and accepted as law are on the way, President Donald John Trump.
We'll see about that.
Still going to have to, it's still going to end up in front of the Supreme Court, the same justices, some of whom were, you know, criticized at the time as being potentially bad picks.
Do you remember Kronister?
Who was it that Trump had picked somebody?
It was Cronister.
And some of us were raising concerns.
You're picking, I forget what his position was.
The man was basically a czar during COVID.
And some of us voiced our concerns.
And some of us were called names at the time.
You always have to agree with everything the president does and says.
Otherwise, you're a black pillar.
Yeah, let's just pull this one up at the time.
And then people say, no, no, you've got to support the president.
Supporting the president does not being a yes man that eggs the president on into impossible situations where he then gets punished because the people around him yes, meant him into problems.
Remember this one, Trump has made yet another outrageous and unacceptable pick in Chad Kronister absolutely disqualifying period.
This was a video of Sheriff Kronister.
I forget the position.
I'll double check the position.
In the Bay Area, we've lost law enforcement members because of COVID, something that Sheriff Cronister is very aware of.
I put out a policy a few weeks ago that if you're unvaccinated and you have to quarantine or you get ill, you have to use your own approvals.
If you're vaccinated and for some reason, you fall ill, the sheriff's office is going to cover your time off.
Wow, this has to be for our 4,000 employees to keep them healthy, but absolutely the public.
We have daily interactions with the community that we serve.
We certainly don't want to be the ones that are getting them sick in the Bay Area.
You remember that Kronister was Uh, was was picked to be DEA and but for the blowback from his loyal base who wants to see Trump succeed, he might you might have actually had Chad Kronister, a man who wanted to penalize people for not being vaccinated.
And speaking of vaccinations, if you don't want to be Anti-Trump and you're true MAGA, you do whatever Trump says you have to support Operation Warp Speed and you have to believe that that COVID shot is in fact a vaccine that was the greatest achievement of modern science.
And if you don't, are you not?
Are you not Anti-MAGA?
I'm trying to think of the rule here.
Was it, was it this one here, Donald Trump, back in March 2024 or July, whatever it was there in 2024, when he's running for president, the pandemic no longer controls our lives.
The vaccines that saved us from COVID are now being used to help beat cancer, turning setback into comeback.
You're welcome, Joe.
Nine month approval time versus 12 years that it would have taken you.
This was when Trump was running, and my constructive criticism concern of the time is this is, this is pushing away a lot of people who know, people who have been injured by the jab, who do not believe that Operation Warp Speed was a success, who believe it was hijacked, and those concerns were arguably quelled when he brought RFK Jr.
But you want to be true, MAGA, and say nothing, sit down, shut up.
Just cheer him on.
Go ahead.
We don't know what would have been.
And I wrote at the time: when was this?
March 8th.
Trump is getting raped for this truth post, and rightly so.
The steel man is that Biden is now exploiting the quote success of the experimental mRNA jab to use it in the fight against cancer.
For those who have forgotten his idiotic 2020 campaign promise, he promised to cure cancer if elected.
Trump was, so Trump doesn't want Biden taking credit for what Trump developed.
The problem is, the experimental mRNA jab didn't even cure or prevent COVID.
We are a long way from a technology being useful to cure cancer.
Ironically, many would say the jab is actually causing cancer.
Trump is still trying to tout as a success a shot that has injured or killed countless people.
It is just a politically damaging position to take.
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the quote success end quote of the jab is arguable at best.
The jab will go down in history as an abject disaster.
Trump needs to read Brooke Jackson's whistleblower complaint.
He needs to understand that Fauci lied to him and to us.
He needs to understand that Pfizer lied to him and to us.
He needs to understand that Moderna lied to him and to us.
He needs to understand that Operation Warp Speed was co-opted from its initial purpose and weaponized into an excuse to mass vaccinate even those that did not need any such vaccine in the first place.
He needs to understand that the data was falsified, the risks were concealed, and the manufactured, delivered product was not what was approved in any event.
He needs to publicly admit this and vow to go after those responsible, those who lied to him and to us, those who are responsible for the irreparable harm that so many suffered.
Otherwise, continuing to take pride in this experimental shot will continue to cause him potentially critical political damage in general, and in particular among those whose support he desperately needs and those who desperately want him to support him.
My humble opinion, respectfully submitted.
He brought in RFK Jr., that quelled some of the concerns.
But if people just sat there, shut their mouth, who knows?
Who knows?
Shut Your Mouth Question00:04:42
But so, what does it mean to be MAGA?
Does it mean to sit down, shut your mouth when you think Trump is making a mistake?
I would not want to be surrounded by people like that.
It means, in my view, you want him to succeed and you want him to not make crippling mistakes that are going to devastate his administration, the future of whatever it is that NAGA is, the conservative movement, and allow those scoundrel criminal Democrats to come back into power.
That's what you want to avoid.
Which brings us to where we're at today.
We're in the throes of a war that's not a war.
How many weeks into this are we now?
Six more service members died yesterday, four or six in the plane crash after the original eight that died during operations.
Something like 150 have been wounded.
We don't know the exact numbers yet.
In a war that is arguably unpopular, but not arguably unpopular if you know which polls to read.
Well, 94%, 90%.
I love it.
96% of MAGA approves of the Iran war.
Then it's like down to 94%, then 91%, then 85 to 90% of MAGA supports the war.
What a stupid, stupid poll.
A self-fulfilling prophecy, circular logic.
90% of the people who support the war in Iran support the war in Iran.
I mean, that's basically what it is because you've kicked out everybody else who's voiced the slightest bit of opposition or concern.
So of those who are remaining that call themselves MAGA, whatever the hell that means anymore, and if it means shutting your mouth and trusting the president, well, of those who consider themselves MAGA, which means shutting the hell up and trusting the president, 90% of them support the excursion into Iran.
And I love that.
They're calling it an excursion.
I think they meant to say incursion at the beginning, and now the mistake word has stuck because excursion literally makes no sense.
Incursion would make a little sense, but that might be a little bit too much of a throwback to Joe Biden, who's like, just a tip, just a small incursion.
So now it's being called an excursion.
It's not a war.
We're beyond precision strikes.
It's an excursion.
Arguably wildly unpopular, arguably a reversal.
I don't want to say betrayal, and I don't want to say words like use words like traitor.
It's a reversal of the policy that people thought they were voting for.
Anybody who voices concern or skepticism gets written off, demonized, called names on the internet.
I shouldn't, but I do read the comments on the internet.
I might have to stop.
And like, people naturally want to be liked.
Nobody wants to be hated unless you're a jackass, but you want to be liked for the right reasons.
If you want to be liked for bad reasons, then you are as much of a jackass as people who don't want to be liked.
And once upon a time, you know, 2015-ish, when I, you know, only infrequently tweeted politics, it's like, I don't want to make, I don't want to start fights.
It never goes anywhere.
There's no point in it.
So, you know, just believe what you believe, have your discussions privately, and you won't make enemies.
And then I found out you make enemies no matter what.
People will hate you no matter what you say, and they'll hate you if you say nothing because we've entered the realm where you know silence is violence.
So some people will love you.
Shut up, sit down, say nothing.
And others will say, Why aren't you saying anything?
There's an egregious injustice going on in the world.
So you're going to make enemies.
You're going to get people to dislike you.
At least get them to dislike you for the right reasons.
People sit there calling me all sorts of names for voicing my concerns here.
And what I love, by the way, when you criticize Kamala Harris, when you criticize Joe Biden, well, there I appreciate it.
It was admittedly destructive criticism.
I had no interest in seeing Joe Biden get re-elected when people thought he was going to get re-elected.
I had no interest in seeing Kamala Harris get elected to continue with the destruction of these United States of America, the greatest country that has ever existed.
No interest in seeing them get elected.
So that criticism was admittedly destructive criticism.
You know, to mock, to humiliate, to show the hypocrisy so that they don't get elected.
The constructive criticism for Trump is the exact opposite, but you still get to call the same name.
So when you criticize Kamala, when you criticize Biden, when you point out egregious mistakes, everyone loves you.
Oh, yeah, go, do for it.
When you suggest, hmm, maybe this is going to be politically unpopular, maybe this is going to hurt your chances.
Maybe think of it, you should be, how dare you say anything negative about the government?
I mean, this is where the conservative, a portion of the conservative, oddly enough, the ones defining what MAGA is, are now saying true MAGA is subservience to the government, censorship of free speech.
Shut your mouth, do as you're told.
Constructive Criticism Defined00:13:34
But bottom line, all right.
So I read the chat and people say terrible things.
And it's not, this is not aha, I told you so.
This is, you know, if Democrats come back into power, I would have no doubt that they might then say, hmm, well, we consider January 6ers to be domestic terrorists.
And therefore, anybody who is proactively supporting them, well, we'll go after them too.
No doubt.
With whatever weaponization of federal government the Democrats have systematically done, no doubt that they'll do that.
But we're at the point now in this conflict where the political blowback is undeniable, or at least, you know, people are befuddled.
Oh, my goodness, look at this.
The markets are saying it's even more of a transfer.
Well, how can that possibly be?
Where when you come out and you say, some of the statements this administration is making are very concerning.
This is not destructive criticism.
This is constructive criticism.
When I had on yesterday, Brandon, I always get mixed up with his last name.
Brandon, white starts with a W.
And he told me that, you know, did you hear that Caroline Levitt suggested something about a draft being on the table?
Like, we have gone from, it's not a war, it's just precision strikes.
Okay, it's a little, it's going to be a short war, not a forever war.
It's not regime change, but it is regime change.
Or it's going to be a prolonged war.
There's going to be no boots on the ground, but I reserve the right for boots on the ground.
There might be boots on the ground, but there won't be any draft to not ruling out a draft.
So, when Brandon sent this to me, I said, I have trouble believing this.
I had to go check it up and fact-check everybody so that we can all understand.
Listen to this.
This is Maria Bartaromo five days ago.
And the president had an interesting exchange on Air Force One over the weekend, Carol.
I want to get your take about this idea of troops on the ground.
Mothers out there are worried that we're going to have a draft, that they're going to see their sons get in and daughters get involved in this.
What do you want to say about the president's plans for troops on the ground?
As we know, it's been largely an air campaign up until now.
It has been and it will continue to be.
And President Trump wisely does not remove options off of the table.
I know a lot of politicians like to do that quickly, but the president, as commander-in-chief, wants to continue to assess the success of this military operation.
It's not part of the current plan right now, but the president, again, wisely keeps his options on the table.
But as commander-in-chief, there's no greater priority or responsibility to this president than, of course, protecting the American people and protecting our troops and our bases in the Middle East, which Iran has been threatening for 47 years.
They have killed and maimed thousands of American soldiers.
And President Trump was not going to allow Iran to attack our bases and our troops and our men and women in the Middle East first.
And that's why he took this historic action by launching Operation Epic Fury.
Now, some people took that to mean that the potential for a draft is still on the table.
And Caroline Levitt was asked to clarify a little bit later on.
Is the draft on the table?
And I'll spare you the better part of this video.
This is from Fox News.
Caroline Levitt clarifies White House's position on military draft.
This is the clip that they played, and it's weird.
Stepped up to the podium.
Let's listen in live as she briefs.
Thus far.
And America's warriors are winning this important fight at an even faster pace than we anticipated.
More than 5,000 enemy targets have been struck so far.
Iran's ballistic missile attacks are down more than 90%, and their drone attacks are down by approximately 85% since the start of Operation Epic Fury.
I'll put it on pause here, and I'll just remind you of another section from 1984 when they were talking about the output of chocolate manufacturing, and they said it's up 15%, down 20%, and that would be upfront.
And they said, ultimately, nobody even knows if they're manufacturing chocolate.
So they have not ruled out right now.
And not that you should ever have to rule out things.
You wouldn't want to rule out the draft and then wonder why that might have negative impacts come midterms or come election time.
They have not ruled.
She didn't walk that statement back 180 degrees full throttle.
And worse than that, it's almost like you couldn't script it to be any worse.
This is a clip from Scott Besant doing an interview with Sky News.
He gets summoned out of the interview for an hour and a half to the situation room with the president, comes back.
I'll read you what I think is a little bit of editorializing here.
Clash report says U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant was abruptly pulled from a live interview after being told, quote, the president wants you right away, end quote.
After returning, his voice was noticeably shaken.
I'll respectfully disagree with the qualification of his voice being shaken.
That requires something of a baseline analysis of how Besant typically talks.
And it's indeterminate.
But what's more shocking than that qualification of his voice is what he says immediately after having come back from meeting with the president in the situation room.
Listen to this and you tell me what you think they are presuating the general public for here.
I listened to you on the See you shortly, Mr. Secretary.
You have to work that in.
Mr. Secretary, I have to say, it's a first, I'm sure, a loss as well, that an interviewee's been pulled away to go to the situation room.
How's the president?
Was he stressed?
No, the president is in great spirits.
The Iranian mission is proceeding well ahead of schedule.
And I have to tell you, Wilf, that I've a teenager who's considering military service.
And I could give this team my highest compliment from President Trump to the head of the Joint Chiefs to the Secretary of War.
I would say that I would trust my child's life in their hands.
Can you just digest what it is that we just heard?
First of all, I want to bring it back here where he seems to not have difficulty describing his teenage son or daughter.
The Iranian mission is proceeding well ahead of schedule.
And I have to tell you, Wolf, that I've a teenager who's considering military service.
He comes back from a meeting with the president, comes back to tell his interviewer what the president said.
And then he immediately says that he's got a teenager who's thinking of military service and that he would trust his teenager's life with the Secretary of War and with this administration.
I mean, this is in the context where they haven't ruled out the draft after having alluded to the draft still being on the table.
This is Caroline Levitt, press secretary.
You get Scott Besant gets summoned from an interview.
I don't think he looks visibly shaken.
He might stutter all the time.
Who knows?
And then says, I've got children and I trust their lives with this Secretary of War, Department of War.
Some people might get the impression that not only are we talking about potential boots on the ground right now, which Trump has explicitly not ruled out, and now they're talking about bringing in 2,500 Marines, although I think that's more aqua than land.
Scott Besson talking about trusting his child's life with this administration and the Department of War in the context of the war with Iran.
What do you think people are going to surmise by way of that?
I'm telling you, they are presuating you.
They are preconditioning the general population for boots on the ground.
And God forbid, and I'm using capital G God, a draft.
And then they wonder why polymarket is reflecting Democrats taking more of a lead during the midterms.
I have to double check.
It says AI overview.
Scott Besant and his husband, John Freeman, have two children.
Children were born via surrogacy.
As of late 2024, early 2025, they were studying in Europe.
Something tells me they're not coming back to enlist to go fight Iran.
That's it.
Nobody comes back from that and says, the war is going very good.
I trust my children.
Don't worry about a draft and don't worry about anything else boots on the ground, but my trust my children's life who are thinking of enlisting.
I'd like to see some proof of that.
It's presuasion.
If anybody doesn't know what that concept is, it's sort of, I mean, I guess laying the astroturf, creating an illusion of some form of acceptance of what's to come so that when it comes, it's not quite as shocking.
You know, like much like what they did during COVID, showing you videos of what's happening in China so that when it comes here, you're not quite so flabbergasted.
Here's another one, which is also just absolutely mind-blowing in terms of getting you prepared for what might come because it's the logical conclusion of what they're describing going on right now.
First of all, you know, we've all heard the it's a conspiracy theory to suggest that this was an Israeli-led mission that, I don't know, Israel pulled America into it, that America is doing the bidding of Israel and the region.
It's a total conspiracy until Jesse Waters comes out and explicitly states that regime change is what Israel wants, but there might not be enough time for that between now and April when Trump wants the operations, the war that's not a war, the excursion to be over.
Listen to what Jesse Waters has to say about Israel and then about the impenetrability of the mountains where we're being told now military nuclear programs are back underway, despite having been assured in July that they were obliterated in July.
The Israelis might have a different agenda, full-on regime change.
And they won't stop going down the kill chain until they find a guy they like.
That could take a while longer, longer than President Trump has patience for.
We might not get what we got in Venezuela, but as long as Iran's completely disarmed and can't threaten America and the Strait with missiles, drones, and nukes, the president will take the win.
U.S. intelligence believe the Iranians squirreled away what's left of their uranium into what's known as Pickaxe Mountain, a nearly impenetrable bunker buried deep in granite, where evil scientists have been working around the clock, cobbling back together a program that was obliterated during Operation Midnight Hammer.
The bunker busters might not be able to do the trick.
Reports say special forces might have to be inserted to physically shut it down on the ground.
I don't know why he emphasized that inserted quite that much, but probably the wrong emphasis.
It's just going to be a small insertion of boots on the ground in Iran.
What could possibly go wrong?
And we also have Karg Island, 15 miles off Iran's coast, their main export terminal, essentially the country's cash register.
Karg's Iran's oil lifeline.
If we seize it, it's over.
That option remains on the table.
Both sides waiting to see who blinks first.
So far, the president says, in a way, we've already won.
I don't watch Fox News, so don't think that I get my news source from Fox News.
I actually try to get my news sources from a variety of sources, diverging opinions.
I had a roundtable discussion with three Iranians in diaspora who greatly support regime change in Iran.
But understand what Jesse Waters is telling you there.
A, he's telling you that regime change is Israel's preferred course of action.
Do with that what you want.
Then he's telling you that the nuclear program has not been as obliterated as we were told, and they're squirreling it away in a mountain that's impenetrable by conventional bombs.
He's floating this idea to suggest, well, you might have to insert some military to go in there physically, boots on the ground, to neutralize whatever they have squirreled away in that impenetrable mountain.
Or they are literally persuading you right now to say, well, we don't want boots on the ground.
This is unpenetrable or impenetrable by conventional weapons.
And so we might have to use a tactical nuke to really blow up that mountain to get down in there because our bunker busters, conventional bombs, the Moab or the Foabs won't be able to get there.
They're absolutely laying the groundwork now for either America using tactical nukes or somebody else using tactical nukes.
Not on civilian populations like Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
No.
Tactical nukes because we've told you they got some stuff from the last time we obliterated their nuclear program.
It's in a mountain that we can't penetrate with conventional stuff.
You don't want us to put boots on the ground.
So we're just going to go ahead and shock and awe with some tactical nukes.
Call me crazy.
While Scott Besent is saying, yeah, I'd be comfortable sending my child off to fight in Iran.
Willful Belief In Intelligence00:02:19
And if you raise these concerns and say, this is not what we voted for, and the only people saying this is what we voted for are the sycophant, seal-clapping yes men who will yes men, you into a loss and then they'll find the next political host that they can go be yes men, parasites on.
No, the only people saying this is what we voted for are people who are now buying into each and every one of the uh justifications for the diversion.
This is not a new war.
This war's been going on for 47 years.
It's not a forever war because it's only going to be three to four months, as if any forever war.
Iraq wasn't a forever war.
It was only a 10-year war, 15 year war.
Afghanistan, it wasn't a forever war.
It came to an end.
And if you dare raise these concerns, viva in a bubble.
This is what.
This is what I love, viva in a bubble.
My bubble is so big it actually encompasses critics, so that's not much of a bubble.
If you voice any of these concerns, you get written off uh, you get relegated, brushed aside dismissed, and then nobody understands why it is that polymarkets predicting that Democrats are going to take even more of a lead come 2026, and then you have everybody buying into all of the other, all of the lines that have been used over and over and over again throughout history.
Well, the president has access to information.
Of course he does.
Every president throughout history will be able to say that it will be true of them and then that will be able to be used every day, every time, every year, under every presidency.
Shut up.
You don't have the intel the president has.
The president has the intel on the Pfizer data, so shut up and safe and effective.
The president has the uh has the data on Covet lockdown.
So you know, shut up and Sweden's wrong, America's right, lockdowns are good until they're not good.
The president has the intel as if there are no saboteurs in the intelligence communities, as if there might not be any holdover.
Saboteurs like A Millie that would love to see this be an abject debacle, specifically so that the Democrats can take the House and the Senate in 2026.
As if, as if the intelligence from the government has always been good.
It's an amazing thing.
Not willful blindness, but just willful belief.
Polymarket Rigged Claims00:05:43
Oh, here we go.
No no, Polymarket couldn't possibly be rigged.
No way that's possible.
You know, they said the exact same thing for Pierre Polyevy.
Polymarket is one of the indicators.
It's not the only indicator, but.
But keep living with your head in the sand and see what happens, and and from my mouth to god's ears, from your mouth to god's ears.
May this end well, may this end quickly.
May there be an off-ramp that can be taken so that this ship can be righted within the next March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, never.
Eight months.
From your mouth to God's ears.
But one thing is for certain.
We're seeing all of the indicators in real time to sensitize the general public to something much broader.
The people who were sitting there last week with that graphic showing how oil prices are dropping, they're not showing that anymore.
The people who were making the arguments, this isn't war, they're not making that argument anymore unless they want to go with the absolutely idiotic, juvenile, semantic distinction.
Well, it's not a declaration of war.
All right, so I guess the Iraq war wasn't a war.
Afghanistan war wasn't a war either.
Because we haven't declared war, technically, since the Second World War.
So that's what's going on, and we'll get to some other good news.
Before we do that, did Jeremy raid us?
No, Jeremy goes live earlier today.
Thank you all for being here.
Viva Fry, former Montreal litigator, turned current Florida Rumbler.
How goes the battle?
I've been told that I'm, you know, it's nothing but bad news.
This is existential concern, political, global, geopolitical.
And, you know, it's fun.
I could venture into the Candace Owens fight.
I can go into the Tucker Car.
Well, who is it now?
You got Ben Shapiro and Megan Kelly fighting.
I prefer things of mild importance and not gossip.
But this is important.
And this is not, nobody wants to take the victory lap and say, I told you so.
You want things to get fixed.
And it looks like it's just doubling down, tripling down, and quadrupling down and not going in the right direction.
Let's go here and see what we got here.
Bucklebrush Drone says half Kronistra staff had to resign in scandal recently.
Look it up.
Can we say it?
Well, if we can't see it, my head's covering it, but that's a bad, but don't be a panikin and don't be a black pillar and don't publicly defy Trump.
Cronister was a great choice and we should have him now as head of the DEA.
And I now also support immunity for glyphosate manufacturers.
I didn't realize I was wrong for the last six years.
King of Biltong says premium Biltong from Biltong USA, high protein, keto-friendly, no additives, U.S. sourced beef, authentic South African flavor.
Get some now at Biltong USA.
Use code Viva for 10% off.
Rooftop says the difference is ride or die.
Incremental wins.
We must roll on versus I'd like to focus on things we should all agree are fair criticisms.
It's all over.
Let me see if I can understand this.
I don't try to be obtuse.
The difference is ride or die versus I'd like to focus on things we should all agree are fair criticisms.
I feel dense.
I'm not getting that.
I'll read that afterwards.
Dominant once says Anton's meat is never floppy.
Anton's meat is never dirty.
Order Anton's meat now from King of Biltong, Biltong USA.
But do not sit on Anton's firm and juicy meat.
I will not read the end of that sentence.
And let me see what we got over in viva barnslaw.locals.com in our tipped section here.
We get free publicity for Anton.
That is not Anton.
Is that Anton?
I don't think that's Anton.
Could be.
Joe Maskey says, I still can't believe the irony that Bolton is getting his war with Iran after all.
And F. Charton says, Viva, play this clip.
Let me see what this is here.
Oh, no.
Well, I did.
Okay.
I got it, Anton.
Anton, I got it, Francis.
Thank you.
And that was the clip of Scott Besson during the interview.
Okay, let's go.
Let me just go in, because I'm a glutton for punishment.
Let's go to the chat and see what people say here.
Trump says Russia might be helping Iran a little bit.
LOL, no, why would they help them a little bit?
Wait, haha.
King of Bilta, he got 12.
Okay, let's see.
Damn, Anton.
There is no war unless you are doing war like, okay.
His stupid waters.
They are there already.
I would never take this idiot's take as valid.
Seriously, people fix thinks you are stupid by putting.
All right, well, that's what you get for reading the chat.
All right, let me just go to some of the, here we go.
That is not, there's no way that's him.
If that's him, that's amazing.
Anton's meeting is satisfying.
Everyone agrees arrests.
Everyone agrees arrests, but how are you missing the bigger picture?
As corruption is exposed to drain the swamp, did Trump ever say there's only swamp in the U.S.?
Okay, that's a good cope.
To avoid complications, she never kept the same address.
There should be no immunity for glyphosate.
No, no, no, no.
Can't do that.
DEA must be abolished, says Noelle.
Okay, that's good.
Now, hold on.
It's not all Doompill.
Hold on.
Let me pull up an article here.
I want to get.
Hold on.
I'm just going to bring this up here.
All righty.
Good News Amidst Doom00:02:53
It is not all bad news.
There is something of good news.
And I say something of good news.
It is an old story.
And when it happened, there were a lot of people saying that this is an absolute injustice.
Kane Velasquez, one of the GOATs, the greatest of all time UFC fighters, was arrested.
Basically, I think prosecutors were looking for 30 years to life because he discovered that someone was molesting his child and then chased them down, firing at the vehicle, and I think struck the father of the man who he had discovered was molesting his child.
And he had to be sentenced to a minimum five years.
He served three.
And the good news is he just got out.
A former mixed martial arts fighter from the South Bay is out on parole less than a year after being sentenced for attempted murder.
Kane Velasquez was convicted of shooting a man and wounding a family member during a high-speed chase in Morgan Hill back in 2022.
The man he was chasing was accused of molesting Velasquez's then four-year-old son out of daycare.
He has pled not guilty in that case and is still awaiting trial.
Velazquez was handed a five-year prison term for the shooting.
His punishment included three years time served while awaiting sentencing.
So now that's the overall, that's the general thing.
Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez was released from prison in Soledad, California.
In 2025, he was sentenced to five years.
He sat there for three years.
I think he was in pretrial detention, but I think that he knew that he was going to get time credit for that.
So there was no point asking for a pretrial release.
He was sentenced to five years in prison for attempted murder, which included three years time served while awaiting sentencing.
CDCR says he was also eligible for a credit earning opportunities while incarcerated and had served, quote, his full sentence as defined by law.
The person he chased, Harry Gillart, was accused of molesting his four-year-old son at the time at a daycare.
Gillart's mother, who runs the daycare, and his stepfather were inside the vehicle during the chase.
Goulart's stepfather was shot and injured.
Gillard faced felony charge in the case, pleaded not guilty.
Yada, yada, yada.
Cain Velasquez told the judge during his March 2025 sentencing, he completely agreed with whatever the judge's sentencing sees fit.
He called his actions reckless and dangerous.
And I think there's a great many people out there who would say heroic, except for the fact that there were other people in the car and they ended up shooting the father of the guy.
Although there's probably people out there who say the father of a pedophile probably deserves to get shot as well.
And said that he was truly sorry.
ABC 7 eyewitness reached out.
Yada yada yada Velasquez is not available for statement at the time.
Well, we don't need Velasquez to give a statement in that article because he's out and he just gave a statement right now, which I will bring up to you as soon as I find the link in the backdrop.
Three Years Stolen Life00:02:38
This is Kane Velasquez speaking after having been released from jail.
Hi, everyone.
Now that it's been a couple weeks since my release, I've had some time to kind of get back into things, get back into a normal way of life, get used to doing the normal things, being with the home of the family, being there for my kids.
And I just wanted to thank everybody for their love and support.
Your words of inspiration, of encouragement, constantly just lifted me up, myself and my family.
So I just want to take this time here to thank everybody for the constant support.
You have no idea what your words and your encouragement and your love has meant to me and my family.
So just thank you.
I'll keep doing the work to get back to fighting.
Go back to fighting.
And just for myself now, just slowly get back out there without.
I didn't want to overwhelm myself with the pace of life that I was getting used to to now all of a sudden a new way of life, a new way of living, a new rhythm.
So for myself, I just had to kind of get used to it.
And I've been doing that.
So again, just thank you.
Thank you.
Thank everyone.
And it's good to be out.
Ain't that the truth?
Can you imagine what it's like?
I cannot imagine what it's like to have been in literal prison.
I don't know what the conditions that he was in, and I suspect they're probably not as grotesque as some of the Jan 6ers, what they were in.
But getting out of prison and getting accustomed to life as a free man.
Colin Rugg writes, former UFC Cain Velasquez, shares a message with his fans.
He got into a high-speed 11-mile chase.
Okay, we read that.
DA's office had requested 30 years to life for Velasquez.
He was sentenced to five years at the time, served three of them, but was able to earn additional time off for participating in rehabilitative programming.
Three years of your life stolen, the prime of your life.
He says he's happy to be back home with his kids.
Thanks for the support.
Congrats, Kane.
Yeah, that was one of those situations.
Jury Pool Contamination Fears00:13:17
I remember when he was saying, like, the judge said, there's nothing I can do to give you anything less than five years.
And it's amazing, like, temporary insanity.
If ever there was, I don't know, jury nullification, maybe there was no jury trial.
If there was ever a situation where jury nullification would come into play, yeah, he did it.
And who on earth wouldn't have, or at least who on earth would not have sympathy for someone who did snap after finding out that a freaking Peto Perv molested his four-year-old kid while he was at a daycare?
And the judge said, I can't do anything less than five by law, statutorily.
And so he got the three that he served, and he's a free man now.
43 years old, probably too late to come back to the UFC.
But yeah, that's it.
That was the silver lining of the day, people.
Old man Toby says, Viva, I loved it when you I loved it.
I loved the show when you talked about law.
Now it gives me anxiety constantly hearing how the Jews rule the world and everything sucks.
I see a lot of wins, but good news doesn't pay the bill.
Well, first of all, I cover the wins.
get the Jews comment all the time.
I mean, I got the Jews when I was talking about Alex Jones.
The funny thing is, old man W, and I appreciate it, and I hear it.
And when you reach hundreds of thousands of eyeballs, you're going to get diverging opinions.
First of all, I got hate and it's the Jews when I did fun stuff.
And then I noticed anything that you talk about law or politics, that type of rhetoric comes in.
It's not new.
I can assure you of that.
You might be noticing it now.
There might be high anxiety because that's the world that we're living in.
And then people say, well, you know, I liked it when you talked about the law.
Okay, what law?
talk about uh charlie kirk's uh assassin's trial that's gonna no so talk about some types of law Oh, what?
Tyson, McDonald's hot coffee that no one's, you know, that is, I'm not, there's no, there's no paying bills.
I can talk about whatever the hell I want here, but I'm going to talk about the stuff that I'm personally interested in and the stuff that I find relevant and important.
We can talk about the Tyler Robinson trial.
Thank you for the segue.
I mean, Tyler Robinson is having a preliminary hearing right now on what is going to be made public during the trial and what evidence is going to be made public and what types of motions are going to be made and the access that the public is going to have to the trial.
And so I was listening to that this morning.
I would love nothing more than to go back to just do all day live stream trials.
Things evolve.
And I'm not sure that that would, I would find that particularly interesting, but hold on, I wanted to bring up the clip from the, here.
So Tyler Robinson is having a hearing today as to which motions are going to be public.
They don't want to taint the jury pool.
So they want to have a lot of the pre-trial motions sealed to the public so they don't contaminate a jury.
They're discussing what level of access to the public, public reporting, electronic coverage that you're going to have of the trial.
And during that hearing this morning, the defense counsel, counsel for Tyler Robinson, said something which I found mildly interesting in terms of disclosures that are being made to the defendant.
And they said something very interesting about getting expert reports from the prosecution, but not getting the underlying data.
And they require the underlying data so that their experts can review and analyze the expert reports that are coming from the prosecution.
But the prosecution apparently doesn't have the underlying data because the feds seem to have it, which I found particularly peculiar.
I won't play the entire thing because the second minute is just like courtroom jibber jabber.
Listen to this, speaking of law.
That's our concern.
So we can either, from our perspective, discuss what is a realistic preliminary hearing date based on the representations that we will get certain data in the next couple of weeks, which I understand, and there's total good faith from the state.
Listen to this.
When they said they met with the federal partners to impress upon them, I know what that means.
That means they've done everything they can do, but there are federal agencies which haven't produced fundamental forensic data and files underlying very important expert reports.
So we have the reports, but not the data.
So we can either address that later today.
We have the report data because some federal agencies have the underlying data.
They haven't given it to the state prosecutors.
And it's required by the defense so that they can counter expert the prosecution's forensic expert reports.
But listen to this.
The argument on the pending motions.
We can move in writing and the court could set a briefing schedule for that.
We are cognizant of the fact that at the last hearing, the court said, if I may, we've got a really busy calendar.
We don't have any openings.
So we wanted to bring this to the court's attention today.
Because if we just let this go and we file a motion and then there's a response and then there's a reply and then I don't know when that hearing is going to be because of the court's calendar, that preliminary hearing date may be further out than these preparation issues require because of the court's calendar.
No, I appreciate that.
I appreciate that.
There was something where he said, like, I'm not downplaying the efforts that the prosecution is making.
Total good faith from the state counsel.
When they said they met with the federal partners to impress upon them, I know what that means.
When they say they met with the federal partners to impress upon them the necessity, the importance of getting the underlying data that the federal partners have that apparently they haven't transmitted to the state prosecutors.
Means they've done everything they can do, but there are federal agencies which haven't produced fundamental forensic data and files underlying very important expert reports.
We can pause there.
So that was one of the very interesting statement that was made, not en passant, because they're sort of dealing with separate motions.
And the defense counsel is like, well, we need to address this, but we're here for the determination, the adjudication on what access is going to be given to the public.
Let's side, put that aside for a bit.
We'll come back to it by the end of the day.
And I've been live, so I don't know what the outcome on that was, but the bottom line is the defense is going to get communication of the relevant evidence upon which or the data upon which the prosecution's expert forensic reports were based.
It's just curious that the defense counsel is suggesting that it's in the hands or the possession of federal partners, federal agencies, and that they haven't actually given that underlying data to the state prosecutors.
Set that aside, the update of the day on the motion from ABC 30, Action News, Utah judge in Charlie Kirk killing case denies some efforts to limit media access.
Let's hear this.
This has occurred as we were live.
The man accused of killing Charlie Kirk on a Utah College campus was back in court Friday as a state judge denied some efforts by his attorneys to limit public access to certain documents while not ruling out the possibility of closing portions of upcoming of an upcoming hearing.
The outcome sets the stage for an April hearing in which attorneys for Tyler Robinson will make their case to exclude TV cameras, microphones, and photographs from the courtroom.
This cannot happen.
And the amazing thing is I presume the argument is going to be, or at least the argument has been now for some of the pretrial stuff to keep it private or in camera under seal so that it doesn't taint the jury pool.
Once they've assured that they've gotten an adequate jury pool, sequester the jury.
But so help me, for the name of all things holy, if they block this trial from full public, what's the word I'm looking for?
Full public access, you are going to confirm the conspiracy theories that a great many people have been floating.
No one will have faith in any element of this prosecution to the extent that anybody has faith in it now.
Judge Tony Graff has Judge Tony Graff has been weighing the public's right to know details about the case against concerns by defense attorneys that the media attention could undermine Robinson's right to a fair trial.
Prosecutors, Kirk's widow, and attorneys for news organizations have urged Graff to keep the proceedings open.
You're damn right.
You're damn right so that people could see exactly what nothing bad happens from keeping it public.
It was intended to be public.
This is the rule of prosecutions.
And they're going to, if they limit access, it's going to foment so many conspiracy theories and ratify some of the conspiracy theories that are already there speaking of, you know, to your point, old man Toby, the Jews, Israel behind it.
This needs full exposure.
Once you impanel your jury, sequester them if you have to.
Robinson has not entered a plea.
Attorneys on Friday debated whether the defense's written request to exclude cameras, which was classified by the court as private, should be made public.
Attorneys on Friday debated whether the defense's written request to exclude cameras, which was classified by the court as private, should be made public.
Understand what you're reading here.
The defense has made, and this is what I heard also this morning when I was listening to it, the defense made a motion to keep their written request to exclude cameras private.
And then the debate was if we make public our request to exclude cameras, it would disclose information to the public that could taint a jury pool.
And then the prosecutors are saying, well, you've alleged things in there on the one hand that are already public knowledge, public statements.
And on the other hand, you've alleged things in there that didn't need to be alleged.
And now you want to bank on that to keep your written request private, a written request to exclude cameras, to keep that request private, to keep the trial private.
Graf said the defense failed to make its case to keep the motion private, but that he will continue, quote, balancing all the factors, end quote, when deciding which portions of the upcoming hearing may be closed.
Stacey Visser, an attorney for Robinson, told the judge that the defense is not arguing in the court of public opinion.
Quote, there seems to be an idea that flooding the public sphere with information from this courtroom will somehow dispel conspiracy theories or shift public narratives.
No, just transparency, just abiding by the rule of law that these are public court hearings.
It's not going to shift public narratives.
That's never been the goal.
In fact, that is the reason why you'd argue, well, you don't want it to shift public narratives.
And if you're arguing that that's what people want to do, that's not what people want to do.
Dispel conspiracy theories?
Absolutely.
Reveal corruption to the extent that there is any?
Absolutely.
Reveal incompetence to the extent that there is any?
Absolutely.
That in and of itself is concerning for the defense.
Visser said, all we should be worried about is protecting what happens in this courtroom.
You protect it with a big dose of sunlight.
Robinson's defense team went on to say that the April hearing will involve discussions about prejudicial pretrial publicity.
For example, evidence that has yet to be admitted, confessions, personal opinions about guilt or public statements that would otherwise be inadmissible as court.
They're already all out in the public domain regardless.
We don't want to be in a position that we don't want to be in that position of bringing in front of the court all this prejudicial information and having the press regurgitate it yet one more time.
Seems to me you've just argued against your own case.
Regurgitate it yet one more time.
It's already out there.
It's already public domain information and re-inflicting a wound that we're seeking to avoid.
Re-inflicting means it's already been incurred.
You can't avoid something that's already happened, if indeed it was inflicting a wound in the first place.
Defense attorney Michael Burt said.
Christopher Ballard, prosecutor with the Utah office, dismissed those arguments.
He said careful questioning during jury selection and tools like expanding a jury pool can ensure that a defendant gets a fair trial.
Quote, so just saying that this just saying that this a content tornado, just saying that this is a content container or there's been a barrage of media coverage doesn't necessarily mean there's going to be prejudice to the defendant.
Ballard noted that most of the evidence that will be discussed in the April 17 hearing is already public, so most of it should be open.
Coalitions of national and local news organizations, including the Associated Press, are fighting to preserve media access in the case.
Yeah, the problem is they'll do the same thing that they did during Epstein, which is allow media access, but no televised, no broadcast to the internet.
And so put your phones down, no live tweeting during the hearing, and you'll get access to the media, but the public is not going to get to see what goes down.
Media access has been a focal point of several recent hearings with the judge placing temporary restrictions on local TV stations for showing Robinson's shackles in violation of a court order and filming close-up shots that might allow viewers to interpret what was being discussed with his attorneys.
That was one of the criticisms I had the last time around when that, what did he say?
When they were trying to lip read what Tyler Robinson said to his attorney that was sort of like not, it wasn't caught on a hot mic because then we would have heard it.
Telling him about he was sitting there smoking in jail all day and he's like thinking about it and smoking all day in jail and people reposted that as though it was accurate.
And then people like, this is impossible.
They don't even smoke in Utah prisons.
That I cannot understand.
Hot Mic And Verified Updates00:04:51
But alas, that is the judge said to them, you know, like, keep your mouths away from your microphones if you're talking.
They can pick things up.
If that's the concern, then you take the precautions.
We're not going to close this off to the public because you guys might talk too loud or get caught on a hot mic.
The judge also has prevented full video recordings of Kirk's shooting from being shown in court after defense attorney argued that the graphic footage would interfere with a fair trial.
An estimated 3,000 people attended the outdoor rally to hear Kirk, a co-founder who helped mobilize young people.
Yeah.
No, everybody's seen it.
So anyways, that's what's going on.
We're going to follow that to make sure, you know, in as much as public opinion can have any impact, that that trial remains public, as public as possible.
And with that said, we're going to take this party on over to vivabarneslaw.linkles.locals.com.
Here's the link to locals.
Let me see what's going on in the chat for just a few minutes.
We're going to go raid.
Who do we raid today?
Rumble.
Oh, we get Rumble Premium.
So we're going to have the Rumble Premium after party.
Roseanne Barr is live.
We'll go raid Roseanne.
Jimmy Dore.
No, we'll go raid Jimmy Dore.
I know everybody likes, at least wants to get a different perspective.
And last time it was like, raid Jimmy Dore.
We'll raid Jimmy.
Tell Jimmy I say hi.
I was tagging, I was messaging Jimmy yesterday because people were sharing a video of a hotel in Dubai with smoke coming from it.
And man, I tell you, like, you don't know what's real anymore.
I'm like, I'm not sure that that video itself is totally authentic, but it looks like it might have checked out.
What was I going to say?
Sunday night, Viva and Barnes, Law for the People.
If you want to support what the work that we do here, you can do it via tips.
Did I miss anything here?
We can do, you go to tip, click on the tip, download Rumble wallet, and you can tip with cryptocurrency.
You can tip with XAUT.
If you have a wallet right now, all you have to do is scan that QR code and you can tip with crypto.
If you're watching this in replay, you can tip with crypto.
If you're listening to this on podcast, I will describe the QR code.
I will not.
You can tip with XAUT, which is a gold-backed cryptocurrency tethered to gold.
It's amazing.
Rumble is amazing.
They're doing the Lord's work, allowing us to have a voice and allowing us to be uncancelable.
And that's that.
All right.
So let's go raid Jimmy Dor.
You know what's funny?
Bo in French means gold.
Let's go raid Jimmy Gold.
Thank you all for being here.
And we will hopefully see brighter times.
And hopefully you pray for the best and prepare for the worst.
So that's what we're going to do.
Go raid Jimmy and tell him I said hi.
And go look at all the chat over there about the Zionists.
And they're going to all call me names, but forget it.
Viva, raid, booya.
Call me all the names you want, Biaches.
Jimmy shall benefit from the raid.
And right now, we're going to go to the locals after party and the rumble premium after party.
And we're going to do some stuff.
It'll be fun.
Yeah.
Oh, sorry.
I'll tell, I'll tease it out.
Speaking of, you know, Jan 6 injustices, it feels like gossip.
There's a moral to the story.
Apparently, you know, Jake Lang has gotten himself into Jake Lang, one of the Jan 6ers, a man who I've voiced my, I've made my issues known, brought him on to discuss what I thought was behavior that was destructive for the sake of destruction.
Get called a lot of names for that as well, but you're going to make enemies.
You may as well make them for the right reasons.
Jake is in a bit of hot water.
And there was, I'm hesitant to bring it up, Francis.
I'm going to bring it up.
It's fake.
From my understanding, it's fake news.
Prime Minister of Israel.
I don't know if this screenshot is real.
Okay.
Rumors circulating on social media about PM Yahoo's status are unconfirmed.
We urge citizens to rely on verified updates.
Efforts are underway to establish contact.
Oh, that's that's uh Francis.
That's not what I thought it was.
I thought it was the well, that's a little hold on one second.
Let me just make sure that that's real.
Francis is among the most reliable of our awesome vivabarneslaw.locals.com members.
Let me just see here.
That's Israeli PM.
I'm just going to go see on their handle.
I don't believe I follow them.
Israeli PM.
Israeli PM.
And if that's what they actually wrote, that's a little more concerning because okay, I'm not seeing it.
Francis, we're going to have to see if this is true.
Let me see if I go unconfirmed.
So it's not coming up.
Israeli PM official statement.
Okay, well, so I'm not seeing it.
We're going to, I'm going to do this over on vivabarnslaw.locals.com, and then we're going to cover one last article.
So, Rumble, if you're not coming, Godspeed, have a great weekend.