Badlands Media - Badlands Daily: 6/4/26 - Bolton Flips, Pulte DNI Theory, Blanche Confirmed

Episode Date: June 4, 2026

CannCon returns after saying goodbye to his stepdad, and Alpha Warrior shows up to carry the weight alongside him. The show opens with grace and moves into one of the biggest news days in weeks. John Bolton reaches a plea deal on classified document charges during the broadcast, and Alpha immediately explains what it means: he cooperated. Alpha had predicted on this show that an early plea is a 100% indicator of cooperation, first witness gets the best deal, and Comey is next. Trump officially nominates Todd Blanche as permanent Attorney General and the Senate advances reconciliation after dropping the anti-weaponization fund. Trump immediately signals it is not fully off the table. Bill Pulte's appointment as acting DNI while keeping his FHFA role triggers a GOP meltdown, and Tom Tillis accidentally says the quiet part out loud by calling Ratcliffe the tallest pole in the intelligence tent, confirming the CIA considers itself above DNI. CannCon and Alpha map out why Pulte's mortgage fraud visibility from FHFA combined with DNI authority is a devastating combination for the Sinaloa cartel laundering operation in Arizona, Tennessee, and Georgia. Trump signs an executive order shutting down illegal immigrant bank accounts. California produces a governor runoff between Steve Hilton and a Newsom chief of staff with a pending guilty plea in her own campaign.

All right. Good morning, Badlandia. Welcome to Badlands Haley. It's Thursday. So we've got the one and only Alpha joining me today. How you doing, brother? You're muted. Amateur hour. I drop fire right there too, man. It's such a great opener. Yeah, well, we'll never hear it now. How you doing, brother? I promise you guys, it was awesome. I'm doing good, man. I hope you're doing. doing well uh i am not um yeah i'm obviously you guys know i've been gone the last few days um had a family emergency and uh you know this morning uh said goodbye to my stepdad and uh And here I am got to life goes on right you got to move on. But yeah, that's why I've been gone. And so I'm going to fight through this real quick here for a second and I'll be fine. But yeah, it was it was a it was a rough. It was a rough month and a half for my family.

And yeah, we're going through it, man. And I got to say thank you so much to to everybody here at Badlands. you, Gordon, Ash, you know, picking up the slack for me and helping me out, you know, with all this. So thank you guys so much. Love you guys. Yeah, it's a feeling to mutual, man. And, of course, you and your entire family would be not just in my prayers, but the prayers of a lot of people. You're in the prayers of people you'll never even know, probably you never even meet. And that's the great thing about prayer. You know, this was last week.

and, you know, young, I'll say, content creator, influencer, you know, someone in the movement, who I also consider a good friend, and I try to do my best to mentor this guy. I do see a lot of great potential in him. And he was doing some stuff where he's going against the advice that I gave on when it came, comes to this arena that we operate in, right? And, of course, we're all still learning myself included. And so, you know, Marines, right? You know, we debrief situations, right?

And so essentially we kind of had a debriefing. And, you know, during the course of that, he kind of laid out that there was also a family event that was going on. So I'm very close. And, you know, getting ready to pass on to a better world, better life. And that was kind of impacting where his anger was coming forward. from and which I understood you know and but I had this conversation with them kind of to like you know probably explain the purpose that you're here this morning you know that a lot in the audience may not have or understand and I said you know man people that choose the roles and responsibilities

that we do you know like you know audience of thousands of thousands of people that that will watch this and rely on this you know we got to to just show up, you know, and, you know, we're still human. You know, we still have, you know, grief and pain and emotions. We're still vulnerable to everything that everyone in our audience is vulnerable to, but it's like, we just have to show up and keep pushing on. And maybe there's a moment where we get to have our human reaction. But, you know, during the fight, we, we, we don't. We, we don't, get that and I told him in it it's unfair but we also chose it you know all the great stuff that comes with what we have you know and and the things that we get to go

to do this is also you know part of that price tag and and then I started thinking you know afterwards to debrief my debrief with him and I was like was like too hard on him like you know did you know was I put in too much responsibility on him this especially because he's not military you know he's he's a civilian but like I said he's he's he's a good dude and I was like no no and he reminded me and I'll give it here so we can get into the show unless you want to respond to it um there's a video I listen to quite often and there's a part in that video where Patrick bet David's talking and he goes you know sometimes people tell me that I'm pushing my guys too hard that I demand too much from them he goes

And I say no as a matter of fact, I'm going to raise the bar again because this is why we will be the best. This is why everybody that continues to join us is going to make sure we're always the best. And he goes, never lower your standards for any situation. There was no asterisk there. And I just want to say, man, I know the world of hurt that you're operating in and right now. And the fact that you show up, you know, love you and respect you. Yeah, you know, it is, I will probably talk about it more tonight. Like I just found out this morning when I left that, you know, that he passed away this morning.

I left last night when he was at the point where you just couldn't get through to him. You know, I got like a brief moment of cognitive thought where he could, you know, see. and I was able to to say my goodbyes. And he did get to go to Gart Cocoa Beach. So if you guys were at Coco Beach, you guys probably got to meet him there. But yeah, let's get into the news, man. No more doom and gloom, right?

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because I can see, we can see each other backstage when that's playing. We can see and watching their reactions when the sleeping thing at the end gets the most laughs out of everybody from that. So all right. So today's show, man, I missed a hell of a couple days. Like I tried to watch, you know, daily to make sure I don't double cover anything. And it's probably going to happen. Although Ash and Ghost yesterday kind of, I think they covered like three stories.

I'm watching. I'm like, guys, guys, this is daily news. Come on, come on. But they did a great job. It was a really awesome episode. Hearing Ghosts go off on everything that's going on right now with that Miranda Divine interview. I got a little bit from that. But there's a lot of mixups going on right now.

at the in the Trump administration and we got this announcement yesterday from President Trump nominating Todd Blanche officially the Attorney General. He's acting Attorney General tomorrow I'm instructing Dan and everybody else that's involved in that very complicated process which is going to go I think very quickly that we are going to make him permanent Attorney General. All right so you have that there announcing that he will be the the permanent attorney general. We also have this, David Stavoc putting out that Tillis told me today he has a lot of respect for Blanche and credits him with de-escalating the impasse over Jerome Powell,

quote, Todd was instrumental in kind of de-escalating the whole Powell matter. But Tillis reiterated his red line on Jan 6, calling it a quote-unquote circuit breaker for him. Quote, outside of that, I mean, he's got good credentials. People are good, are going to hammer him because he was the president's personal attorney. But I'm just more about getting through the J6 stuff. It's not a gray area for me. Either he equivocated and said, harming these capital police officers was an okay thing or he didn't. And we'll find that out in due diligence. And again, Tom Tillis, I don't know why we're putting so much, you know, weight in what he says. He's out. He is not going, you know, he's retiring. He's going to be gone. He's the same delusional J. Sixer that that went against

Ed Martin saying, you know, Ed Martin would be great for any other U.S. attorney job, but not the one in DC. He's not qualified for that because of J6. So you're being, you know, he's being very selective in, you know, his nomination, his confirmation process there. But before we move on to the other mix-ups, I'll let you go jump in on Blanche. The words I want to say about Tillis, I won't, because this is the daily show, which you guys can all. As long as you get to PG-G. PG-13. We get away with PG-13. I'll just, I'll say he's a jerk. He's a dick.

He's a dick. I wanted to say that one. I was thinking PBS in my head. So I was like, can I roll with that one? But no, the dude, he absolutely is, man. He absolutely is. And unfortunately, he's not the only one. You know, with, you know, Trump's, you know, taking him from the acting AG to the actual AG.

I'm glad he waited a while. before making that decision. And I think it was strategic. And I don't think it was strategic for the opposition that he's going to get from the congressional approval. He knew that from the second that he was acting AG to now. But then, you know, and again, this is just my assessment of it. So then why would the president make this delay and not just within a few days come out and say, yeah, you know, I'm going to do what he did yesterday.

And I think the reason is because he knows the information. that was circulating in the back channels to people like us, you know, people directly working with this guy that said, you know, that I got to reach out to and say, hey, man, you know, what the F of this? Look, we're trying. He's not letting us. And this is not second layer. Like, these are people that were in that sphere.

And so then, you know, you all, you guys, you know, I didn't keep it, you know, private. I was very public with, you know, he's one of those people I think needs to be removed because he's creating, you know, this, this resistance to people trying to do what we want. I know they're trying to do it. So then, and then like said, to go back to the point I'm trying Trump knows that we had that mentality. So then you have Blanche go through. And during these couple weeks, he's, you know, put a bow on a lot of the stuff that we know also happened under, you know, Pam Bondi's, you know, leadership and direction. And so we got to see him in action. We got to see his public comments and we got to say like, man, like, I like, I like this. You know, why was he doing this? But now he's doing this. I like this. And again, it just brings me

back to the final conclusion that everything that is happening or not happening is because it's the direction of the president. And when the president gives the green light to go, they're going to go. And so I trust my president and we'll go from there. Speaking of green light to go, you ever been at like a traffic light? And I don't know that they have these in California, but the walk and don't walk signs and how they have the countdown. You ever seen that? So when I'm sitting at a traffic light and I look and I see, oh, the countdown started, that means we're going to be green here pretty soon, right? So put down your phone or whatever the case you were doing that you were distracted before and get ready because the light's going to turn green and you're going to go.

I think we're seeing that countdown now. And we're seeing that countdown. And we're going to get into the next nomination here or appointment. I should say the appointment. And I was racking my brain on this one, trying to figure this one out. And I think I might have something on this. And I think it's pretty significant. So we'll jump into this one.

I'm appointing the director of the federal housing finance agency and chairman of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, William J. Pulte, to serve as the acting director of national intelligence. William has a deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America, the safety and soundness of the markets, and over $10 trillion at Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, a substantial increase from where it was just 12 months ago. During this period, he will remain director of the federal housing finance agency and chairman of Freddie May and Freddie Mac. And that is significant to me, that he's going to remain at the FHFA, okay, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

And you'll understand why on this as well. And I think you'll understand why when we get to that point. But let's go through first, before we get to that point, let's go through some of the meltdown on this. And so Reuters put this out yesterday. Or no, this was on the second. And again, if I'm double covering this, I apologize. I didn't hear too much about it other than some of the meltdowns. Trump appoints ally Bill Pulte is acting U.S.

Intelligence Director. The only takeaway I have from this is when you jump down to the bottom, Reuters brings up 2020. And that is significant to me. It says she was present, meaning gabbard, was present in January at an FBI search of an election facility in Georgia, one of the key battlegrounds in Trump's 2020 election loss to Biden. The search records later showed was based on questionable data supplied by a White House political appointee known for echoing Trump's false claims about election fraud. Now, there's nobody at Reuters that knows those claims better than me, period.

There's no question about that. Those claims are not questionable. Those claims are sound, solid sound, to the point where I've scrutinized them for three or four years and have not been able to poke holes in any of it. Pulte's views on the 2020 election were not immediately clear. He deleted 25,000 social media posts before Trump nominated him to serve as FHFA director head, according to Democrat Elizabeth Warren. Now, let's jump over here to this is TILUS or excuse me, Thune and Tom Cotton talking about Bill Pulte.

Do you think that Bill Palti has the experience to be the acting DNI and same with you are Senator Cotton, as the chairman of the intelligence committee, is the kind of person you want meeting the intelligence committee? I'll defer the chairman on that. We was made aware of that appointment this morning. Obviously, it's something that if the administration decides to pursue a permanent appointment to that position, have to come through the Congress and have confirmation hearings and and ultimately a vote here in the Senate.

But Senator Cotton, you want to speak to that? We have four more weeks with Director Gabbard as the DNI, and I look forward to implementing last year's Intelligence Authorization Act with her to implement wide-ranging reforms that will shrink the DNI and take it back to its original intent to provide a mere coordinator or process role for the intelligence community. I have no observations on the matter. So they get.

Gas cotton. They press cotton on Poulton. I have no observations on the matter, which is like the most like formal like FU response that you could possibly give right there. He is not pleased about this. And seeing Tom Cotton not pleased about something makes me extremely pleased. They thought they had their guy. Yes, they did. They thought they had their guy and they don't have their guy. And again, when we get to it, I'm telling you, I think there's a reason for this. I could be totally wrong. But here's Tom Tillis with Secretary Besson yesterday, or I think it was yesterday. Again, if I mess up the timeline a little bit here, the last week has been a blur to me, so bear with me. I do have one awkward question to ask you real quick, and then I want to get to some of the trends and how you're going to work on them. Did you actually tell Pulte you were going to punch them in the face? No, sir. I actually said it was going to kick him. actually said it was going to kick his ass. Good, okay, good. I share the emotion.

No shit. Thank you. And as I said, that was last summer, summer 25, and many teams have fights in the locker room and then go out and win for the team on the table. Yeah, now I was just curious because everybody's going to be showing that. I made it clear. I'm not going to support Pulte for DNI, but I'm sure they're going to dredge that up. So I thought it gave you an opportunity to. I had a very good exchange with the director yesterday, want to keep the momentum going on the epic.

Yeah, well, he lost me when he went after Powell. So we can move on to your core job. Okay. Okay. Tillis wasn't done. He then joined CNBC. By the way, Joe, I think that's his name, Joe, the co-host, the Squawk Box, fires right back at him.

And I love, I love what he says to Tillis right here. Watch this. He seems to be doing okay in the current role. I don't believe he's ever had a security clearance. He clearly has no experience in intelligence. He has no geopolitical experience, no international connections, the sorts of things you would look for. He's a far cry from Dan Coates, but he's got a structural problem. He simply doesn't have 51 votes on the Senate floor, and he may not even have the votes in Intel Committee, and we just need to tell the president that clearly. Now, we'll also tell you, whoever told the president to go ahead and commit to this publicly before vetting it should lose. their jobs because they should know that the math just works against Pulte being confirmed. Someone could have told the president that.

What's that? Someone could have told the president that and it still happened. That may be true, but then it's all the president. But hopefully somebody was out there saying, look, boss, we've done the math. He doesn't have a path. He may not even have a path through the committee, let alone, anyone vote. But they'll do the acting thing. They don't think they care.

Well, I just, I don't think the job will be taken seriously. Ratcliffe is the tallest poll and the intelligence. Did you hear that right there? Listen to that one more time, folks. I don't think the job will be taken seriously. Ratcliffe is the tallest pole and the intelligence tent anyway. No, he's not. No, he's not.

We had this conversation with the Ermond release last week. He might literally, you know, be the tallest pole. He's not supposed to be. He is subordinate to DNI. And Tillis is saying the quiet part out loud right there. The CIA director. Now take Ratcliffe out of the equation because, you know, I have my opinions. I have my opinions on John Ratcliffe.

And I think that, you know, I think he's still on the right side here. But the CIA director, he's, he's literally saying the CIA is insubordinate, is above the, the, or superior to DNI. And that is not. So, so one of two things is true here. Either CIA has gone completely rogue or D&I is just a make-believe Patriot Act, you know, position that was created and probably never should have been created. But either way, that was a bold acknowledgement from TILUS right there. One, you know, I think all of that's true. You know, the DNI position is a position that it should, should have never existed.

you know i agree because of the the patriot act however it is now time to weaponize those positions against the deep state and i'm all 100% behind that as well and i i think just you know to bring clarification to that point you're trying to make it'd be like somebody coming out right now you know talking to another government and being like well you know bp vance you know that that's the most you know powerful position in our u.s government and he's behind this and they'd be like well I know it's your president right that that's essentially what he's saying right now and and this just confirms from a from an actual government official what we've all been screaming that that the CIA is absolutely rogue right now again there are some good people within it that I think are trying

to do the best that they can to support what the president's doing that the agency itself and it's I mean, it's intentions from the very beginning. It is a rogue agency that is controlling our government. And I think this is why they're so pissed. You know, when when Trump rejected in Venezuela, what's her name? Machado. Yeah, I put Delci in, yeah. Yeah.

You know, they were pissed. Why? Because that was the intelligence agency's puppet. And then we go into Iran. And they wanted to put in Pavlov. right and Trump said nah what do you do rejecting the intelligence communities guy and what you're seeing right now is now that's happening stateside they think and and if you saw what uh what tillis said he goes well i'm sure somebody told him and he rejected he's getting that because he got on the

phone with those people and said what the F and they're like man we told them we told them and that's why he made the comment oh they told them he just doesn't care they're going to keep using the acting position which that into itself is it's a chest move we can talk about but what we're seeing is trump just did it to the intelligence community here at home said you're not getting your guy in the most important intelligence position that exists and if trump's doing that to them now that's because there's some shit coming down the pipeline that they're not going to be able to have influence and control over so big deal exactly it's spot on and and trump has has outwardly laid down, you know, the foundations that we are, he is at war with the, with the

intelligence, the CIA specifically going back to Venezuela when he announced CIA operations being conducted in Venezuela. We've all known that for years that, that then that the CIA has been operating in Venezuela, Colombia, all these other South American countries. I mean, Colonel Towner has outlined that explicitly. But Trump just flat out says it. And then, you know, I point to the attacks there where the CIA was conducted. strikes while the Navy SEAL, SEAL Team 6, or I think it was SEAL Team 6, it might have just been SEALs in general, were the ones that were down doing the intelligence work on the ground. And those are reverse roles right there. And I, you know, I immediately, when I saw that, I immediately said, was this a rogue operation? Was that something that was conducted outside of the president's purview? Because you had the roles reverse there. And, you know, a lot of people think Navy SEALs. Oh, there's a lot of Navy SEALs that have a lot of three-letter agency ties to them, right? And. And so we want to hold them in high regard, but at the same time, you got to remember that they do have intelligence infiltration. And it's not necessarily that they, it's so compartmentalized that they think they're operating in the right way, but they may not be.

Right. And there may be things that go on that are not going all the way up the chain, but they're not aware that it's going up the chain. And I think that's what we're seeing, you know, with a lot of this stuff right here. you know last week we read an article and i sent it to ash immediately where it was talking about the rocky mountain labs the rocky mount labs and and the munster you know arrest and everything else over there and the the article i think it was from the guardian starts out with the tv show scandal should have a new season with you know episode season seven being uh uh the rocky mount lab scandal or whatever and the whole time i'm i'm reading this article right here all i can think of is b613

And if you've watched the show scandal, you know, Ash turned me on to it. And I watched the whole thing and I was texting her the whole time. I'm like, man, this is like the playbook over the last 10 years, just everything that we've seen being laid out. And the whole, the glue on the whole show is this organization called B613. Now, it's, you know, a branch off of the CIA, so to speak. But there's no question that there's an intelligence apparatus that has that type of influence. in our country and tom tillis basically said the quiet part out loud with that little piece right there now i again i think pulti not having any experience in this in this realm that we know of um

is very interesting because it's fresh eyes on the whole thing right it's somebody that's going to go in there good let me provide you a perspective on that and and i'm not going to go too tinful but i think you guys will catch wrong going with this is you know when as when Tulsi, well, she still is. Tulsi as the head of the DNI, he's still military. And for those that are not familiar, you know, with her military career,

she did have some law enforcement gigs too with the police in the military, as well as civil. I think the last thing she's been a part of his civil affairs, you know, she deployed the Middle East, deployed Africa. But again, she's still military, right? Reserve, but military. And I think we all, I won't say,

maybe I'm being too general. but I think there's a lot of us in this community that are tired of the intelligence apparatus because of what we've been doing all around the world only to train for what they wanted to do here at home. And that's why, you know, there definitely has to be a restructuring of how that operates. But I don't want to confuse that intelligence apparatus with the military intelligence apparatus, which is something we absolutely need to always have. And I think this is my, speculation that the the intelligence that Trump is actually relying on is coming from the military that that's my opinion and so when it brings it to to Pulte he has no experience now with that

normally I would be like yeah you know you want somebody with experience to be in a role but let's also remember Trump became president with no government experience and it's what's made him so damn good so Trump does have that argument I think we'll probably see maybe one or two people make that argument when it comes to to try to pass Pulte but here's the thing I really think is what's going on with him and it goes into the Hang on hang on we're not ready to get to that point yet

we're not ready to get to that point yet Hold on just the what Pulte is real objective and and we will be in just two seconds I promise but the point you just made right there, Bill Keating, William Keating, whatever his name is, tried to make that point to Rubio yesterday during his Senate or his House testimony. The Intelligence Committee up to last year and you and Senator Warner are some of the most respected and knowledgeable people at that time and voices in the entire intelligence community,

earning the trust of Democrats and Republicans alike, Senator and House members and other countries. So with all your intelligence committee experience and now a secretary of state and national security advisor and all those years of experience, have you ever specifically in the context of the intelligence community heard the name Bill Pulte? In the context of intelligence? That's what I said. No. I never heard his name. Okay. Thank you. And that was when I heard that, that was exactly the point that crossed my mind with President Trump in the context of politics and the government specific context have you ever heard the name Donald Trump up until 2016 2015 2016 no no because he was never involved in any of it and now he's in there he's got fresh eyes on this

whole thing and he says whoa we got to rip this whole thing down we got it we got to tear this whole thing apart and he's doing it so that that you hit that on that on that on that last part right there now here's where it gets interesting and we'll get into our theories on what uh pulte's role could be and if there's a specific reason for this axios pulti picks uh pick pulty pick pulty pick sparks a senate gop rebellion and again this is just a continuation of the war that president trump in my opinion has been waging covertly against the gop uh it says just when president trump removed one thumb from the eye of senate republicans scrapping is one thing point eight billion dollar anti-weaponization fund he put another right back in with his choice of bill

palti as d and i this time the stakes are even higher democrats are threatening to let the government's spy powers lax lapse next week unless trump yanks the appointment oh please don't yank the appointment please don't yank the appointment uh republicans need at least eight democrat votes in the senate for section 702 which is lapsing on june 12 potentially forcing trump to choose between sticking with Pulte or keeping 702 alive. Tough choice right there, guys. Senator Mark Warner said, quote, I thought I had gotten to the stage where I could no longer be shocked by Donald

Trump's choices, but this may be the most outrageous of all. And Thune himself did not mince words about Pulte, who used his perch as head of the federal housing finance agency to target Trump's adversaries, quote, we don't need a weaponized DNI. We need professionals there, he says. So I've got my theories Very specific to elections But also a little broader than that

I'll let you go ahead and take the first crack I hope you don't have the same theory as me Although it'd be pretty cool if we do Mine's not tied into elections So I definitely am interested in hearing that perspective Because I think that'll build on what the confidence I have On what Trump's trying to do here Pulte is tied into housing

Yes you're going to stay side side Okay. And if you guys remember to a couple years ago to the recent history, a guy that's a friend of mine who I brought on my show several times, Sean Taylor. And some of the things that he's been investigating for the last couple of years was act blue. But how did he get to act blue? He got to act blue through mortgage fraud. That's where he started to make these connections. And you guys seen the shows that we did at length with the, you know, the cartel stuff coming into the Maricopa County and all this other stuff. But who do you think has been witnessing since they've been in this position all the housing fraud crime going on? Of course. Be pulting. And so now as he gets put into the acting role, because this isn't where I grew with him, Trump's going to just use the acting role because he doesn't give a shit. And he'll just keep putting another person and another person, right? Well, in the terms of a RICO case, if you now get put into D&I, which we just articulated,

to go against the CIA position with Ratcliffe is you have all the intelligence. So now if you've gone to the highest threshold you can with the scope of his current position, which he's still going to maintain, and that's a key indicator for what I'm saying here, because he's keeping that role as he's coming in as the acting one, he now gets to finish every one of those investigations with the eyes and scope of the DNI to make the connections to the other RICO cases. And I think what's going to happen is once he's done fulfilled that and he starts to approach maybe the end of the term limit for an acting one, Trump is then going to move in the next one to fulfill whatever stuff they have when it comes to that. And that person, unless he has the scope of this too, that's why I want to hear your election stuff.

Because I was kind of wondering, is there someone else that is probably who, like who would you consider right now the highest person in government with access to election fraud? and maybe that person comes in the heels and that. If that's the case that ends up happening, then what I think Trump's doing is he's allowing all of them to use the DNI position to solidify the independent RICO cases that they have going on before he gets to the final person that he's going to nominate, whoever that may be, which is going to be post midterms because he's going to do that when he has a super

majority in complete control and there's no opposition. So we're kind of aligned here. I went a certain, a different direction. Like we got to the mortgage fraud and then we kind of veered off into two different directions. And ironically, you brought up Sean Taylor and the person I'm about to bring up here, his name is a direct rhyme, like exact rhyme. But before we get into that, remember, I think it was with you a couple weeks ago when we covered the operations that were taking place in Mexico, the CIA, the ground force, right, as they called themselves, the ground force that was taken place.

over there and we've seen a lot of arrests coming down and we've seen a lot of government officials in Mexico turn themselves in to the DOJ over the last couple weeks these are people that were part of the what is the Morena party which is a shine bombs party this is these are people that have been government officials in Sinaloa and you know alleged to have participated in in crimes or the furthering of crimes by the Sinaloa cartel. And one of the things that immediately popped into my head when I heard that this guy was, that Bill Pulte was not only going to be DNI,

but he was also going to stay at FHFA. And then I saw the reaction from all of the politicians, you know, over him. I just want to bring this back up. And again, I didn't give this much, I didn't give this much like thought back in the day because,

it was so far out there that I wouldn't be able to verify it. It can absolutely happen. It can absolutely make sense. But do you remember this from PBS? Arizona House expels GOP lawmaker who presented unproven accusations. The Arizona House of Representatives expelled a Republican lawmaker who organized a presentation making unsubstantiated accusations that a wide range of politicians, judges and public officials of both parties took bribes from a Mexican drug cartel. The committee's report said that Liz Harris knew the person she invited to a legislative hearing in February would accuse her colleagues of criminal activity that she took steps to hide from its house from house leaders ahead of time, ahead of time and misled the committee investigating her actions. Now, those crimes were explicitly mortgage crimes, crimes, you know, having to deal with mortgages.

And at the time, she had produced evidence that, you know, there were elected officials in Arizona who had mortgages that made absolutely no sense. And, you know, again, I'm going off the top of my head because this was three years ago. But, you know, a lot of this stuff was just like, holy crap. And going through crimes like this are very difficult. It's not something that I would be able to do. But Jacqueline Breger gave a 40-minute presentation alleging without reliable evidence that two women working on behalf of Mexico's. Sinaloa cartel used fraudulent mortgage documents to launder money to a range of officials. Before she was elected to the legislature, Harris led a door-to-door canvassing effort searching for proof of fraud following the 2020 election.

Her effort drew scrutiny from the U.S. DOJ's civil rights division, which warned about potential voter intimidation. You know who else draw scrutiny from the U.S. DOJ during the Biden administration for voter intimidation by going door to door? Ash in America. And you know what Ash in America did? They whoop their ass pro se in a directed verdict with a liberal judge. Yeah. Whop their ass because it was all crap, just like the accusations that were levied against,

Lobb did Liz Harris as well. Republican Representative Alexander Colladin said Harris, quote, made an error in judgment, end quote, but expelling her would send the wrong message. Quote, it will be perceived as setting the precedent that if you rock the boat too much, you will be expelled, end quote, said Colladin. who voted against expulsion. Now, Alexander Colloden is, he's running for office, higher office in Arizona.

Do you know what office he's running for, Alpha? No. Secretary of State. He's running for Secretary of State in this next coming election. SOS. You know what else? Yeah, right? I'm pretty sure the SOS has a little bit of engagement in business operations in a particular state.

the interesting thing about his quote right here alpha is it says she made an error in judgment but then it says it will be perceived as setting the precedent that if you rock the boat too much you will be expelled what is the one thing he is not doing in that statement right there saying that she was wrong exactly if you rock the boat too much you will be expelled now when you rock the boat you're typically means you're you're shaking things up to expose things you're moving things around in the boat and whatever's buried underneath is going to come to the surface you are going against the green he's not saying she's wrong he's saying you're rocking the boat don't rock the boat keep everything status quo and so you know again now here's the last thing i'll add to this and then

i'll let you jump in here it's it's not just arizona and by the way d and i was involved in in in arizona they Tulsi gabbard did that member she did that press conference conference and we were all like, what's this press conference going to be? And we didn't get much out of the press conference itself, except that she had to bus all of the reporters in under, you know, cloak, like didn't tell them where they were. Basically, I mean, I'm sure this isn't what she actually did, but basically put a bag over their head and went to an undisclosed location in order to do this press conference, which means that I don't know. It's probably some other stuff going on there. But either way. The last thing I'll say, and outside of Arizona, the only other mortgage issue that I know of off the top of my head that would tie into elections would be in Georgia.

And there was a specific employee of a specific company that has a lot to do with voting machines that had a mortgage that was financed by China, that was backed by China. and he was not a United States citizen. And so was that a, I don't want to say a payoff? Was that a, was that compensation for actions that were taken? These are questions that Bill Pulte now will, maybe, maybe that's the whole point here. He'll be able to get to the bottom of with not just the DNI resources, but also the FHFA resources. Very interesting move. That's the only thing I could think of there.

I 100% with you. And we know, I know for sure that you have these mortgage investigations taking place in Tennessee, Georgia, and Arizona. It's direct contact with the person that's a part of them. What I'll also say is those aren't the only states because they literally have a team to train people how to look for these very specific mortgage fraud crimes that are going around all these different states to do that. And so what does that tell you? They're absolutely looking at all this. And you see names being brought up from Democratic politicians. I'll tell you what, it's not just Democratic politicians, folks.

But that's what's going to get, you know, that's the fuel to the fire that's eventually going to bleed over to expose the Republicans as well. But I'm very interested. And of course, you know, I, you know, those other things. involving Pulte with some very interesting posts on social media that has since been part of that 25,000 that were deleted are pretty badass too. If you know, you watch certain shows like DefCon and and Q after hours, you're like, wait, what did he post? So if you guys don't know about that stuff, too, not Sunday to Q after ours because definitely be talking about that. The other thing that's pretty big right now is that, you know, Steve,

Hilton is going to a runoff now against Bashara and uh, Bashara, you know, you and I talked about a long time ago, Gavin Newsom's, um, he's evil. Oh, he is he is pure evil. But you know, we, we talked about it on this show when Gavin Newsom's and she's pled guilty now, by the way, I think it was his former chief of staff. Yep, she played guilty to, uh, basically taking money out of Besheera's campaign account and using it for, uh, you know, her, personal expenses and all that stuff.

And right before the election in California, just the news started putting out an article exposing Bashara's ties to a lot of these Mexican NGOs and these illegal immigrant NGOs. And, you know, a lot of them had get out the vote campaigns, right? What was it? I'm trying to remember the names. Shurla was one of them. And like Unitos R.S. or something like that.

another one and you know they you're an NGO dealing with illegal immigrants and you have a get out the vote arm of your NGO that doesn't make sense because the illegals can't vote your entire targeted audience is ineligible to vote in the united states but becherra was very intimately involved to the point where his daughter was doing an intern with them a decade ago um you know where he's received money from them he's received endorsements from them he's received you know lobbying efforts from them. So I think there's a possibility in addition to, you know, his responsibilities as HHS during the Biden administration and COVID and everything else. This, I mean, there could be an opportunity, a possibility here that he doesn't even make it to the ballot in November, that he

has to remove himself from the ballot and create, you know, kind of a Joe Biden, Kamala Harris situation in California where they have to thrust somebody in there at the last second. And I don't know if it's going to be a stire or who it's going to be. be, but I'm curious to get your take on that. Yeah. Even if they charged him today, it's, he'd run.

He'd still, he'd still run because they're, they are going to do the delays. They will 1050 the shit out of this, you know, review evidence and they'll, they'll take this, they'll take this beyond,

um, the, the midterm date, you know, but the point is how much information can they get out there without jeopardizing the investigation into him, but to affect the court of public opinion. And I think that's what we're going to see.

And even if they don't do it as a direct attack on him, because they don't want to open up, like I said, jeopardizing his investigation, if you start to knock the dominoes down of everybody around him, which is why I think she's getting the plea deal that she got, you know, I think there's going to be other people that she said, well, this person did it, this person authorized it. And I think we're going to start to see more people

in that investigation tied to those the campaign funds and all that that are going to start falling. I think it's going to get to the point where people are going to be like, how did he not know? You have two, three people that were power hitters in his campaign, people that had direct contact to him and they've all pled guilty. How did he not know? And I think that's the part that will probably get weaponized against them. We'll see. We'll see. But just remember before we leave, you know, when you brought up, you know, Liz Harris.

Uh, if you think back to, you know, there was, yeah, I know, I know exactly where you're going with that. I knew, I knew. I was like that entire things come full circle, bro. Come full circle. Come full circle. And, uh, yeah, and Tina Peters being released at the same time. Everything, man.

I mean is everything. Man, I wasn't going to bring that up because you just tease the shit of our audience, man. Hang around folks. Oh, man. Well, eventually we will talk about that eventually, but not now. Oh, you are such a tease, bro. You are such a tease, man. All right.

President Trump also put this out, and I think this could tie in as well. I'm curious to get your take because you have a little more information about this kind of thing from a law enforcement perspective. But President Trump said illegal immigrants and foreign fraudsters steal billions every year from American taxpayers. As part of my administration's historic effort to end fraud and reverse mass illegal immigration, I recently signed a powerful new executive order, which will be led by the Treasury Department to stop banks, credit cards and financial institutions from being used to facilitate human smuggling, drug trafficking, illegal immigration, and criminal cartels who orchestrate these activities. Access to our nation's financial systems must be limited to those who have a legal right to be here and who are engaged in lawful and legitimate commerce. Bank accounts being used to enable illegal immigration or to store the welfare received by illegal aliens will be shut down and funds will ultimately face.

and poundment and seizure so they can be returned to taxpayers. It's not ludicrous, but profoundly dangerous that any illegal alien can simply present a blue state driver's license or Biden border document and have unrestricted access to the U.S. financial system. This also sends a clear message to the anti-ice rioters that your violent disruptions are only strengthening our resolve. My executive order will also allow us to stop billions from leaving our country in all manners of criminal activity. It has been said this measure we are taking as the most effective means of reversing Biden's border invasion. We shall soon find out President Donald J. Trump. How do you think that ties into, you know, this crackdown on the cartel and the funding apparatus behind it? Well, the first thing is this goes back to the conversation we had during Trump's campaigning of the,

this will be the largest deportation in American history. And if you guys remember back then, and we had this conversation. I think it was on SIPRAP where I said, you, we just don't have the staff to do that. You know, you can't use local law enforcement and that argument that was he's going to use the military. There's no other way around it. And what we saw is Trump's thinking outside the box by encouraging self deportation. And when you remove people's ability to use money in the United States, that is going to encourage self deportation. So brilliant in that. Just another way of showing how to get rid of people. But then like you said,

the other way too with with the cartels. This is going to hammer them because they money laundered through some of the dark channels, right, to eventually get that money into the banking system where they're more free to operate, right? And what Trump's saying is even when you go through all the work to try to clean that money the best you think you can through social services programs, through these other things,

we're still going to shut it down. If you can't verify you're an American citizen, it is shut down. I mean, hats off to the guy. And the ripple effect that it's going to have because even with the outside the the like extreme criminal activity like, you know,

narcotics trafficking, human trafficking in the cartels, this is also going to help with the housing, the housing in the states because they, illegals use the banking institution to buy homes, especially like here in California. And they're not going to be able to do that either. And so,

you know, I'm pumped up about that because, you're going to start you know the banks aren't going to be able to kind of use the gray area the way they've been doing and and so i'm all for this man i think um the doge expose not so much expose but the work that doge did when the when the administration first kicked off i think a lot of that was laying the foundation for a lot of this stuff and you know everybody was freaking out we're not seeing anything from doge we're not seeing anything from doge well you know Doge wasn't like an influencer on X. They don't run out there and they're like,

breaking, we got it first with the sirens and the emojis and everything else, right? They played their hands very close to their chest. They knew that this is a long, this is a marathon. This is not a sprint. And, you know, I think we're reaching that first checkpoint. Uh, you know, the baton handing off. We're seeing that now. We're seeing a lot of people that came in and maybe played specific roles in the administration are starting to bow out and go into other sectors. and I think some of those sectors that they're going to are going to be relevant. The gap they're going to be, I think, a Bondi going to national infrastructure, right, on a panel on national infrastructure and also AI,

but more so the national infrastructure, which kind of got like a side note on all that. But going back to the Social Security Administration, and when Elon Musk came out and was talking about that, and, you know, the excess that exists in there, President Trump has come out and said, you know, you're talking billions of dollars in, in Medicaid and Medicare, you know, and Social Security that are going out to people. He said last week, I think it was last week, he said, just cleaning up Social Security alone

could save, he could save Social Security was what he said, that you could save Social Security just by cleaning all of this up. I think there's a major, major play. And I've said this since the day Elon Musk announced that excess in Social Security, major election implications in this, because it's used to validate voter rolls and it's used to to authenticate citizenship. It's used as a, you know, as a means for when you register a voter, you go to SSA, oh, okay, this person's a U.S. citizen. Okay, they're registered to vote. And then you're starting to see all these NGOs that deal with illegal immigrants that are putting people out there to vote,

you know, having get out the vote organizations, arms to it. I think everything has been pre-gamed. we're starting to see like I said we're at the traffic light we look to our left and the crosswalk is starting to count down right and you're like okay now we're getting ready to turn green here we're we're getting ready to go and uh I still think it's after the 2026 midterms that we start seeing some of these big arrests but I do think we're going to see some election movement in the next uh you know couple months before before November two things to that real quick we're bringing up you know bonding with the infrastructure and the AI.

Elections, don't forget folks, elections are now considered part of our infrastructure. You know, so, you know, let that kind of resonate with you. And then, too, you know, when Doge was coming out, Doge operated

the way the FBI should have always operated as an investigation and analysis apparatus. That's it. With no arresting powers, no indicting powers go in investigate and then if the way if it was really the FBI doing this then it's like hey US Marshals here's what we found hey state authorities this is what we found you know the

FBI should have been an institution that was strictly investigations only zero arresting powers that that should have always been left to the US Marshals you know state and local authorities you know sheriffs and so you know Doge to me is a strong indicator of what I think Trump is going to try to convert the intelligence and FBI apparatus into. I really think that just looking at how it operated and what he's doing and some of the things that he's done to expand on it, I really think that Doge, maybe not that name, but that that concept is going to be what we see ultimately happen to our FBI and all these other institutions. like the CIA and all that. I'm a man, I'm thinking that. I agree. I agree. I mean, you got to think that that that whole we didn't get we didn't get the full disclosure on all that because a lot of stuff that was going on was just not stuff that could be presented at that time,

you know, and I think Marine in the Woods said arrest by September. I don't think we see them before the midterms. I don't and the reason for that is because it's too contentious of a thing. You don't want to give them any thing that they can use. You know, as much as you can pregame that out, you don't know how that's going to blow back on the, on the, on the, when you, when you don't have control of the media, you can still lay the narrative foundation that the people are pissed about these arrests and Trump has fully weaponized the government. I don't think you need that right now with the, with the Clay's decision in, in, in the Supreme Court, I think you've got enough. I think you've got enough ammunition to go into the midterms

and still win. I think we saw just in California 6th that they gerrymandered. And guess what? A Democrat's not even on the ticket. The Democrats not even on the freaking ticket. Crazy. Isn't that crazy? They tried to gerrymander a seat. They tried. And people are like, I think it was two. I think it's California 6th.

They have an independent that's a former Republican, which is speaking to my heart. And then I think it's another party, like a weird party that's also there as well. So newsome's like, what the backfire, man. Real quick to California too, you know. And we saw this before we got into, you know, election day here in Kelly. I think it was like two weeks ago, two and a half weeks ago, one of the polls, and I get it polls that came up. But one of the polls showed, you know, the early voting. coming in was way beyond anyone's expectations when it came to Republicans in California.

So that alone was that, that's a big deal. If people are that motivated because people don't show up for these kind of elections. And we saw, like they said, they even, even with their predictions, they, it just blew their predictions out of the water. I mean, that's a, I, man, I'm kind of fired up. I'm kind of fired up. I'm very fired up, man. I am very fired up right now. Let's pause here and hit another sponsor before we keep moving on and got a lot more to get to.

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And I went to go look at some other ones. John Bolton will reportedly plead guilty over mishandling of classified documents. CNN exclusive. John Bolton reaches plea deal over mishandling of sensitive and national security documents. CNBC, former Trump advisor, John Bolton agrees to plead guilty to retaining classified document. Dude, Brennan is cooked. Here we go. The lighting is on the wall. Plead Dale and and here's here's what I wanted to tell everybody this is what if you guys remember it was daily I think it was daily where I said it too I'll say it I said if you see

Comey and Bolton plead this early in their cases they're cooperating because again and to put it in perspective what I'm saying and just give me like 90 seconds here just because I want to make make sure people understand when you go back to my case right sing sing felony charge by the U.S. government, you know, regarding January 6. And I was able to, because my goal was always to stretch that as close as I could to 2025 when Trump was going to be coming in. So either my trial would be happening under Trump's administration or at least the appeal part would be happening under Trump's administration. And so we, we use the certain things that are available to postpone and delay, postpone and delay. And here's the thing, anybody can do it.

It's very expensive. I'll tell you that much, very expensive. But money's not an option. That's not an issue for people like Comey and Bolton. These guys could have easily delayed their investigations well past the next two years to try to outrun Trump's administration. They could have done that. And I said, if they don't do it, there's only one reason.

I go, and you guys will remember, go find the clip. I said, if you guys see these guys reach, deals in under six months eight months nine months they are cooperating that is that is a 110 percent indicator they are cooperating and you just see bolton coming to a plea deal and it's only been you know what hasn't even been that long if we go back to look the day that he was in he was indicted i'm telling you these guys are absolutely cooperating i am I'm 130% confident, 200% confident in that now. And this tells me that we're going to see a plea with Comey.

That's going to happen in the next few weeks, few months as well. So the chat saying, no jail time, only pled to one count and a $2.5 million fine. The first person to roll is going to get the best deal. The first person. So that is not, don't be discouraged by that. Don't be encouraged by that. Because if he would have, if they would have, because here's the thing, he's cooperating, if they would have hammered him with the sentence, do you think anybody else after him is going to cooperate? They're going to be like, fuck that. You gave this guy 10 years and he cooperated. Here's a thing, folks. And we said this back then too. You're going to be pissed off with some of the sentences you see some of these people get. Again, it's about taking down the global cabal deep state network. These guys are low hanging fruit.

There's a thousand guys to replace Comey and Bolton and stuff. They're low hanging fruit. So now that this, this is, this is big, bro. This is big news. Let me just play my favorite clip here. I disagree with that. Is somebody who has helped plan coup d'etat. Yeah.

Not here, but you know, other places. My favorite clip right there. All right. All right. So let's jump in. into this clip here, John Thune talking about the anti-weaponization fund, which I'm surprised that they pulled that off the table, but maybe we could see it reemerge here. So check this out. My weaponization is done. If you try reconciliation, they insist again on putting safeguards. And does that sidetracking effort this week to do reconciliation? We had a quite robust conversation about that just now. The Attorney General Todd Blanche is testifying in the House today.

I think he probably are all aware of that. And I had a conversation with him shortly, a couple hours ago, in which he sort of previewed what he was going to say. And I think his statements are going to be very definitive, very clear, and create the certainty that I hope all of our members and House members need as well in order for us to proceed on the reconciliation bill. But I'm not guaranteeing that happens yet. We're still continuing to have conversations with our members.

I think as I conveyed to you before, everything comes down to a function of math. Let's do we have the votes? Do we have 50 votes to execute on getting a bill like that across the floor? Because we have to have Republicans hanging together in order to do that. Mr. Mr. Gosson, it's his understanding that this fund is off the same. So is that your understanding is well after speaking with the accurate. That is correct. Do you think that Bill Pulte has the experience? I did not mean to play that that long.

pull that down. So jump into this story here quickly from CBS News. Senate advances reconciliation bill dropping White House ballroom funds, which Trump never asked for in the first place. Ahead of final push, Senate Republicans advance a package to fund DHS's immigration agencies following a back and forth over the anti-weptization fund. In a 5346 vote, the Senate voted along party lines to proceed with the reconciliation package. A revised version of one part of the package released, also. drop language that would have provided a billion dollars in security funding for the secret service including for president trump's east wing renovation where he plans to build a massive ballroom he's already building it uh blanche testified before house committee on tuesday that quote we are not

moving forward with the fund some republicans express reservations tuesday that the fund could be res resurrected despite blanche's assurances the president declined to say that the fund was totally abandoned telling reporters at the White House that he would quote have to ask the lawyers end quote going on to say quote the weaponization fund as far as I'm concerned was a beautiful thing I thought it was the greatest thing because people like you have abused our people so badly so again it's not completely off the table just Blanche as far as he knows it's not moving forward I don't know it's not lost on me that like right after Blanche is like yeah the representation is not moving forward. And then Trump's like, Blanche is my guy for attorney general.

You know, it's almost like maybe Trump's going to come out and say, well, I didn't tell Blanche because he was just a deputy, you know, acting attorney general. And I didn't want to disclose it to him at the time that I was going to go and actually, you know, do it a different, go through a different venue to get this done. A different route to get this done. Now that he's my actual attorney general, I read him in on this. I don't know. Maybe. Maybe. Trump, he's already showed us his playbook of how he operates. He'll initiate something some way to expose the weaponization of lawfare and government. And then he'll revert back to the part where he knows it's a little fine. They got no argument. He did it with the tariffs.

We've talked about that. He's going to do it here. And the part. And when he even introduces, I think I talked about this on daily too. When he introduced the, you know, the weaponization fund, right? You know, that's getting a bunch of pushback, right? I had said, hey, as I looked into this, because you always want to see if there's precedent, right? And Obama had did this.

I'm trying to remember what it was called. There was something like Eagle or something like that, but Obama had did it. And then even when the funds weren't being, you know, called upon, then those funds were still getting outsourced NGOs that was beyond the scope of it. So, and guess what? I'm not the only one that probably did that. So by Trump even introducing this fund, I got people to dig to see, hey, there's precedent that this went on. And again, I still think, like you said, when he reads them in, we're probably going to find some other stuff out. There's probably another route that he's going.

And, you know, we'll see. I'm not stressed about it. So speaking of the weaponization fund, speaking of, you know, people getting deals and everything else. You know who else has kind of reemerged over the last few days in a big way? Hunter Biden popping back up. He's had a couple of interesting posts over the last few days. this one back on June 1st seven years sober today thank you to everyone who has walked this road with me and we had this one here which was also kind of interesting trump hasn't made a public appearance

in eight days this is after an unscheduled visit to the hospital because he quote likes getting checkups thank god jake tapper as i like to call him the brick tamland of his generation is on the case hunting down clues in a book about my mom's experience his first lady four years ago and then what's interesting is like as he was saying this Trump was live in the Oval Office. And every response to that, with that as a response, you have Hunter Biden saying, that's a clone. Like literally going out there and saying that's a clone. Just hilarious, embracing, you know, the things that we've said.

And he goes as far as like putting pictures up. And he's like, oh, yeah, look, that's totally a clone. Totally a clone. Then he had, go ahead. I'll let you jump in before we get to the last one. So he comes out and says. seven years sober today. Now, I find that very interesting because when was it that they found cocaine in the way? Who's cocaine was it? That was 2023. Yep. It had been seven years. That wasn't seven

years ago. So is he actually telling us that cocaine won't mine? Well, the interesting thing is if you read through the comments and he's very active in the comments, he makes it a point to basically say I, I'm not snorting cocaine. I never, cocaine was never my thing. Crack was. I would not waste cocaine snorting it. Kind of interesting how he responds when people bring up Coke in the comments

and he's like specifically like no, Coke is not my thing. Crack is my thing, was my thing. And I, you know, somebody that was in, you know, law enforcement, drugs, gangs and all that stuff, you might have a little more insight as to, you know, crack versus cocaine. Is there distinguishable difference between them?

There is a distinguishable difference. The other thing, too, is I think anybody that's either had an addiction or been very close to someone with an addiction is it's very offensive. If you associate a drug, they never did to them. Very offended. Like, they don't like that. Like, hey, hey, man, don't say I used X. I never did X. You know, I did this.

You know, don't say I did Coke. I did crack. You know, don't say I did crack. I did Coke. Like, his response there is not uncharacteristic to what I would expect. from from someone that was an addict to something and like I'm saying it wasn't his coke whose was it yeah very very good point there and then the last post and this one this one he's taking shots at president Trump here and it's kind of interesting so let me get this straight

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my mom he's not attacking your mom he's attacking your stepmom who you know there's a lot of concerns about Hunter Biden's relationship with Jill Biden. All right. But, but fair enough. Fair enough. I'm, you know, somebody that just lost my stepdad. I would never consider him my stepdad. He was more of a, well, not more of, but he was as much of a father to me. I mean, raised me since I was 12 years old. So, yeah, I don't want to disparage that. But Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land. Don Jr. married the daughter of Epstein Banker and a startup. And a startup, his fund backs just got a record $620 million dollar Pentagon loan. Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for one and a half billion

dollars of a war with Iran that nobody wanted. And I know, quote, what about your paintings, Hunter, please? Kind of interesting that he's going off on all this, you know, stuff. And he's, he's gotten a lot of weird responses from people in MAGA. Here's one just example here. What's on your laptop, Hunter? And he responds, go look for yourself. It's been available to anyone and everyone since it was hacked and stolen years ago you've been living under a rock i'd rather live under a rock than smoke it and he responds uh he responds me too it was awful and then the the the tables turn well damn hunter that makes me sad glad you're off it hope you stay clean you deserve a better life than you were living good luck just kind of interesting how the script is uh flipping a little bit

on hunter um and i do want to point out a couple times president trump has addressed uh hunter biden I think the only one he actually signed was Hunter's by, you know, Hunter's pardon was actually signed by him. You know how you can tell? It was like chicken scratch. My father uses, my father's Juana Rail signature. This was like chicken scratch. Look a little. The auto pen looked much better.

And so you got that one mention there. We had another one that he mentioned here. I think it's 95% of the things were signed by auto pen. You can tell because the auto pen is a nice plain signature and his signatures a mess. The only thing he signed was, which is nice, was Hunter's pardon. No, that's the only thing that we can find that he signed. Most of it he didn't sign. So somebody's sending papers to sign and he wasn't the president.

So I dug up this old article. And again, we've talked about, we've talked about pardons and what they mean. and the protections that you're afforded and not afforded when you have a pardon let me address something real quick one the bolton thing's firing it's fired up on the internet uh so don't keep saying crack is cocaine crack is crack is made from cocaine you're changing the chemical form and and and and it's a step the onset just the onset alone shows you the difference you know one one is going to be you're talking within seconds you're going to have the effect the other one's going to be drawn out a little bit longer over a few minutes. So it is you make crack from cocaine,

but you're changing the chemical form of it. So it's not the same thing in the aspect of that. Cocaine is a glamour drug, right? It's the it's the nightlife down in Miami. Crack and crack is is weaponized to control populations and has been for a very long time dumped in. And you're and especially when you get into crack and everybody that's trying to make money off of it, that's when you start getting you know it's not just baking soda and ammonia you start getting into this is where you start getting some of the other toxins that people put in there to make more product and the more poisons and like i said with the cocaine you're going to get more of that purified you know drug that the cocoa leaf so let's get into speaking of hunter and you know whether

or not i've i think a lot of us have theorized for a long time that hunter has been you know acting he's he's one of the the I hate saying the good guys but he is he's cooperating right he's been a cooperating individual whether it's giving the laptop to a blind illegally blind computer repair guy and just completely forgetting about you know dropping off like every dirty secret that your family has ever you know engaged in and then he authenticated it just if was it a week could go yeah yeah well i mean he did in that post my laptop's been out there for a long time yeah but then he says he i think i think he said in a post too i want to say maybe it was last week but he goes and it's like someone invaded my privacy those are all my photos those were all my videos he didn't say hey some

of that stuff didn't belong there wasn't mine he says it was all mine you were seeing a very play here. So let me jump into this story here. This was from 2017. The president's pardon's paradox, granting them aid, could aid, granting them could aid the prosecution. While not limitless, the authority of the president is to, to pardon is undeniably substantial. The president cannot pardon for prospective crimes or violations of criminal law. Interesting, prospective crimes. There is a strong argument that he cannot pardon himself and certainly cannot insulate himself or others from the conviction of impeachment, as expressly stated in the Constitution. But other than that, other than these and perhaps other narrow limitations,

a president's pardon power is vast. Indeed, the president's power to pardon others, including his family members for past federal crimes, even without evidence of specific criminal investigation or prosecution, is arguably plenary in nature. I mean, Alpha, if you read this article and you just change out Trump for Biden and push it along, you know, six years, seven years? Very interesting. Trump reported interest in pardons that has generated an avalanche of commentary exploring the legal limits of presidential pardon authority. Less attention, however, has been paid to why President Trump has not exercised his pardon authority yet, especially with so many of his confidants caught in a web of

criminal inquiry. Most likely the president has been informed of one important fact about his pardon power. Anyone he pardons is no longer under criminal jeopardy for federal crimes and accordingly Fifth Amendment protections for self-incrimination evaporates. Manafort, Paige, Cushner, and Flynn at this point, pre-pardon need not answer any questions from Robert Mueller, Congress or anybody. The Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution provides no person, quote, shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself. Once pardoned, however, there's no legal jeopardy for past federal crimes. Therefore, the Fifth Amendment can no longer be a shield and permit Trump's pardon. associates from refusing to answer questions under penalty of perjury.

This creates a paradox for President Trump. When he pardons an individual, they are free from possible prosecution, but they're also uncloked for their most robust constitutional protection. So you ask, why has President Trump not brought, why have they not brought Hunter Biden in yet to have him start to talk and question him about it? I think there's a specific reason for that. I think we will uncover it, maybe with, Maybe this part right here, going back to calling an audible here, going back to Bill Keating,

and I think this is the right moment, but this was from yesterday's hearing. The U.S. gave their word to Ukraine, they would defend them. And I found this amazing in your opening remarks that you took us all over the world, and you mentioned 15 different incidents where you've interested in, 15, the top 15, Not once did you mention Ukraine when you were prioritizing the achievement that's there. Now let me go on. Try to stay. Let me go on.

Oh, you tried to stay. Yeah. It's not funny. It's not funny, Secretary. Now, in Iran now, in Iran now, I reclaim my time. I'm not, I reclaim my time, Mr. Chairman. You guys make these statements and he is interrupting me. I'm doing it.

I'm asking you to reclaim those seconds back. Did you hear what he said? Do something about it. Now in Iran, what goes around comes around, Mr. Chairman. Now in Iran, the Trump administration issues a general. Oh, you haven't seen these clips yet? Not this one. Oh, bro.

Like, all of them are like, I reclaim my time. And they're like, no, go. What goes around comes around. Is that a threat? General license to Russia providing billions in oil profits every month, several billion in every month fueling Putin's war machine. You didn't mention that in your opening remarks. And then this is a war of aggression

of Russia attacking Ukraine to which we gave our agreement. And this is to a country that's assisting us in Iran, Ukraine, and helping a country with a war machine that are aiding Iran against us and putting our service members in jeopardy. Look, we have an opportunity as members just today to vote on the Ukraine Support Act. I hope we do it. And I am confident that we have bipartisan support.

But I hope this administration would act on its own. They could do things themselves that you didn't mention. Like we send these general licenses, complete a bilateral drone agreement of Ukraine, provide direct military assistance that has access to the Ukraine, implement comprehensive sanctions packages and condemn the arresting. Representative Smith of New Jersey is recognized.

My time and squandering it. not how a chairman should act. Representative Smith, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Secretary, if you need a moment to respond. Well, I also didn't mention Cuba, because I wrote, I literally handwrote what I was going to say to you guys, and I told you I was a submit written for the record. And I think everybody understands Cuba's a priority for me. Just on the Ukraine front, I'll address it now, if it's okay with your time that I could do so. We've, I think it's well documented that we've been very involved in trying to get the two sides to the table. We've invested a lot of time in it. Unfortunately, so to this point, neither side has

been willing to make concessions, particularly on the Russian side necessary in order to bring peace about. We remain ready to play any role we can in that context of bringing a piece about because we think the war in Ukraine, devastating war, has no military solution. It can only be solved through a diplomatic route, and it's been unfruitful. I would characterize it as the ongoing challenges. That said, let's be clear, we are not, to be fair and to be frank, we are not impartial mediators in that war. We don't provide weapons to Russia. We only provide weapons to Ukraine. We don't impose sanctions on Ukraine. We only impose sanctions on Russia. All right, we can land that there. But to tie this in with the Hunter thing, and again, this is just me spitballing here,

but you can't go after Hunter until the Ukraine conflict is resolved because a lot of hunters alleged crimes that he's been preemptively pardoned for deal specifically with Ukraine. And a lot of the co-conspirators that will be presented in the, that, I think, are engaged in the government in Ukraine right now and you're not going to be able to remove them. So when that war ends and Zelensky and his regime are ousted, which is going to happen almost the day the war ends, right? Zelensky is already a year overdue, right? That's how desperate they are in Ukraine that Zelensky's like, screw elections. I'm just going to stay in power and keep my regime in power. All of that goes away. And again, I could be, I could be

wrong on this hunter could be willing he could be unwilling he might be forced to do this whatever the case might be we already know we already know joe was involved and i'm i'm not talking like you know the big guy and all that stuff i'm talking the the blue star strategies expose the the bazaarski expose where obama biden Biden was literally appointed specifically specifically to influence uh you know the the investigations into into barisma and it that has been one of the most cut and dry. I've written in several articles. John did incredible research on this to spark it all.

And it's been one of the most cut and dry things that I can imagine in terms of going after it. But you can't do it until the war is over. And that is why you see all of these people fighting so desperately to keep the Ukraine war front and center and to keep that thing going as long as possible. And I think you're going to eventually see something that they're like, now the war's over we're done we're done and ukraine is going to have to uh concede all the you know all the concessions that russia wants i'm right there with you brisma metabiodo all that's off i'm there with you yeah it's got to be it's got to be stabilized when you bring that to the table well and that's the last part the stabilization part um you know when you see keating going after

rubio there and saying you know why aren't we doing all these things they brought up uh the budapest agreement, right? They bring up the Budapest agreement. So just quick bullet points that I took down before the show. The Budapest is a refrain. It's first off, for those that don't know, the Budapest, what was it, the memorandum or the agreement? The Budapest memorandum, it was not security guarantees. It was security assurances. And it did not call for U.S. military engagement or involvement in any way, shape, or form. said that Russia and the U.S. will not engage in hostilities against Ukraine, but there were stipulations. One of them was that Ukraine refrains from economic core or we, excuse me, the signers of the

Budapest agreement refrained from economic coercion designed to subordinate Ukraine's sovereignty. Okay. We did that first, by the way, the Maidan Revolution, not necessarily the United States, but the UK also signed on to onto the Budapest agreement. It was the US, UK, Russia, and Ukraine. That's what the whole Maidan was over, was the EU at the time,

going in there and trying to use Ukraine as a pass-through to gain access to Russian markets to bring Ukraine aligned with EU and NATO, desires and all that thing, all that stuff. And then, of course, like you just said, Metabioda, Black and Veach, you know, all the bio labs that we had over there, the CIA operations that we were running out of Ukraine.

We totally violated the Budapest memorandum long before Russia finally decided enough is enough. We're taking military action. And so, you know, to invoke that is a cover your ass, a CYA. And so yeah, I'll land that there. That's all I got on that. I agree. I want to, well, I had to call an audible there. So give me two seconds to go back here.

and play this clip here of Representative Dean and Rubio, talking about the Gaza Humanitarian Fund briefly. Secretary Rubio, why did the State Department approve the $30 million to GHF at a time when other well tested agencies were there and able to provide distribution? Well, because one of those were in cahoots with Hamas, and we saw an incredible amount of the aid flow into Hamas's hands. reclaiming my time, the aid was held up at the border by Israel and you know it.

You've got a picture of rules here. You can't even answer a question. You're not calling the rules. You're very familiar with how this works. No, I don't. I never served in the house. This is a weird rule. Will you ask the question and I can't answer?

Would you please add time to the clock? A comedy show over there. I'd say in the last. This is serious stuff. I agree. That's why I shouldn't have to answer questions about she. Mr. Rubio, according to public reporting, nine counterterrorism and anti-fraud safeguards were waived to approve this.

I wonder who specifically made the decision. I wonder, were you aware of this decision? I'm not asking you a question. And was there any written justification? I don't want any last year. I don't want an answer. There's the last thing she was going to say right there. No, you don't want an answer.

Because the GHF, whether you like it or not, the GHF was a replacement for the United Nations humanitarian relief that was going in there. And I want to play the next clip because the next clip, because the next clip ties all of this together, in my opinion, and an organization that we are all very familiar with. Go ahead. You want to comment before? I'm just cracking up on the chat.

People, it cracks more clean than cocaine because you cook out the impurities, bro. You guys got to get off Google. All right. Yeah. Because go look up fanacetin, look up fentanyl. There's painkillers that they use when they do cracks. So yes, when you go through the chemical change of cocaine to crack, is there impurities that are cooked out? Yes, this is why they use other more powerful things that don't get cooked out to give crack the impact that it has.

So again, y'all need to get off Google and or if you're talking to your crack dealers that your crack dealer line the hell out of you because they absolutely put some crazy stuff when they start to go and make crack out of cocaine. I don't know, man. If you ain't law enforcement, we got a very educated audience. Well, that's what I'm saying. If you're looking at a lot of cops in the audience. It's, it's, you know, it's this stuff has come a long way from where it was in the 60s and 70s. You know, I mean, look at wax, you know, look at what, look at, you know, the things that have changed from from marijuana, you know, and wax is not the same that. it was 10 years ago, you know, because of stuff that gets added to that, you know, drugs have unfortunately, you know, become very dangerous. And, and, and, and, and, and, and some of the reasons, like a lot of these, you know, designer drugs, you know, they'll, they'll, they'll bring

them into, because now, I mean, and now it's probably even easier with AI, but you had a lot of these people that were recruiting, you know, college university students that were in these things, to say, hey, how can we get this by changing a chemical? Because if you change the chemical, you change the structure, and now 7-Eleven can sell it. And so then, of course, you had the FDA that's trying to track these things down. And so they track it and they ban it and they go right back to the chemical board, right? And it's like, are this change another one? This is, I guess I've all heard of bath salts.

Well, that same stuff is happening with crack. But since it's an illegal drug to begin with, that tracking isn't taking place. place, you know, and that's why one of the things with crack is, and a lot of people don't recognize it, the painkillers were being put into it because it made people wanted even more. So it's a no, crack is not cleaner than cocaine. I don't care what people think Google says. All right. Well, uh, thank you for the, the drug, uh, lesson there. We got a very well educated audience on crack cocaine. So, um, yeah, let's jump into this clip here. So, so, talking about GHF and how it's you know NGOs and it's it's it's uh it's private sector that's

that's distributing this instead of the united nations which is all run distribution is not all but it's mostly run by NGOs and other groups like that here's rubio talking about us a id goes right there the criticisms that i keep hearing from that side over there about us not spending the money because we got rid of the u s a id program usa id basically was a program was a system that was completely devoid of our public policy, operated almost as an independent state department. And often times, USAID was operating in contravention and contradiction of what the embassy was trying to accomplish in the host country. And one of the complaints you would get from many developing countries is that they would get flooded with NGOs that were picked for them.

These NGOs would then operate in the country without even coordinating with the government, doing whatever they wanted and pursuing what they wanted. And in some cases, it extended well beyond food and medicine. It extended to political interference and also. sorts of other activities in these countries that were undermining the national interest in the credibility of the United States. Now, these compacts in particular are promising and exciting because they are government-to-government arrangements. No longer do we put money into a bucket and says, this is for vaccines, or this is for medical care, or this is for standing up clinics globally. We are doing it individually country by country. And the reason why that makes sense is

because every country has unique needs. Some country may need more help in some area than in others. But at the core of this arrangement that we're making with countries is their desire and our goal to ultimately help them build their own national health systems so that eventually they no longer are dependent on foreign aid. So he's going back to USAID, the NGO networks that USAID was funding, how they were subverting U.S. policy, U.S. influence, and basically acting as the extended arm of the CIA. And he alludes to something he talked about months ago, and that is compacts with the governments themselves where we give the money to the government, rather than to USAID to distribute to NGOs who then go over there and, you know, purport to do the things that they were supposed to be doing in those countries. We're just going to give it directly to that government and then have direct accountability government to government and say, hey, are you spending this the right way? What I hope doesn't happen is we have an infiltration of NGOs in those particular countries. that then take over the government, so to speak, right? And we know that they can do this.

Our intelligence is more than capable of taking over governments from the inside out. And then, you know, getting those NGOs that are localized in those particular regions to be the distributors of this. Hopefully it is state run. And I know this kind of sounds like, you know, socialism. But when there's an infiltration of, you know, public private partnerships and NGOs that are in a particular country, you almost have to rely on socialism because there is the accountability that, the United States will have with that government to ensure first and foremost I think we should cut off most of that funding but in the cases that we are funding you know sending this funding to these particular countries it should be going to the to the government rather than to NGOs that we send over there so I think that was promising again like I saw you shake your head to it so I know you agree with me we shouldn't be sending foreign money over in in that type of quantity in the first place but I'll land that there.

I'm not going to argue with you on that one. Well, here's one that I thought was absolutely hilarious. We got a couple of hilarious moments from the Todd, from the Rubio hearing. And this one is from Ted Lou. And have you seen this clip here? I've seen some of the Ted Lou clips. The Trump sleeping one? Yes, I've seen this one.

Thank you, Secretary Rubio, for being here today. You have been at multiple meetings with President. Trump. In a moment, I'm going to show you a video of one of these meetings. It is from last December. It's a cabinet meeting. I'm going to ask you to focus on President Trump, and you will see that he is sleeping while you're talking. Please show the video. Products they make and what American farmers grow and produce has a fair shot to be sold around the world. On issue after issue, that's been the case. You talk about foreign aid reforms. This is not our money. taxpayer money. Alpha. Let me pull that, hold on. There's one more. Let me play one more.

Secretary Rubio, have you been at more than one meeting where President Trump has fallen asleep? That's false. That's false. I've never seen him fall asleep. On the contrary, the guy doesn't sleep, which is a big problem because he calls me at two in the morning. He calls me at five in the morning. And, you know, I like to sleep a little bit, maybe not 12 hours or at least six. So he works, the other day he was at the Oval Office until 12. 30 p.m. I, I, I, I, I'm talking about. 12.30 a.m. I don't know what you're talking about. I'm going to show you in a moment a video that shows you just lied to Congress. Oh.

So this is a video of a cabinet meeting literally from last month where Donald Trump is sleeping while you are talking. Please show this video. A coalition of countries that line up behind the peace deal, behind the board of peace. And it's still not every day is a challenge. But it's been driven personally by the president. It's the reason why we're involved in this whole. Ukraine, Russia conflict. That's not our war. It's not the president's war. This war started. It never would have happened if you've been president. But this war is going on and the president

is trying to end it. Now, Alpha, you and I both are Marines. We've been through our fair share of death by PowerPoints. We've been through our fair share of boot camp sitting in the auditorium when they're trying to teach us, you know, history and everything else. And it gets you, you you're broke off man you're getting three hours of sleep four hours of sleep and then you go in there and you do death by teaching and uh we have a very specific term because when you fall asleep involuntarily sitting up like that it's a very specific thing that you do and it is not something that you can ever not do and it's completely elizable and and and i'm gonna give you permission to use some foul language so if you have sensitive ears go ahead and cover them up but

What is it called? Me and Alfa have not pre-discussed this, but what is it called? I'll modify it for the point of daily, but you guys, it's bobbing for rooster, folks. Ha ha ha ha, you modified it. It's bobbing for rooster, but use another term because what you do

is when you fall asleep, the second that your body cuts out, right? And you go into sleep, you go like this. And it's slow, it's slow. you go and you jump up there's nothing you can do to stop it there's nothing you can do to stop it if if i knew how to stop it i would have been a genius in boot camp because i would have been we would have been perfect trump was not sleeping there now now i did a thing in boot camp alpha i used to do a thing where i would like i'd have my eyes closed like this and guys would be like up

lupo sleeping again i'd be like no i'm not i just keep my eyes closed a lot i just you know you think better i don't know whatever i like when they had the table the little folding arm that went so you could write on the little pad and i was in dude i mastered balance oh yeah that was a but the problem with that is that every once in a while you'd roll off and yeah that wouldn't work out too well yeah trump was not sleeping ted lou is such a well you guys go on social media they've done it to ted and a few other people where they've got them in clips where they're blinking and they're like jude lou you're sleeping because he's like this It's just hilarious, bro.

I'm just like, hey, that's what he's doing. You know what I mean? You're trying to take a clip and saying that when he's not. He's just, you know, he's got his eyes closed. He's thinking, and some of them, I don't even think there's clothes. You know, people always say, you know, it's an alpha high. And you guys, no, I'm not. You know, some of us just, you know, maybe, maybe there's some Asian in my blood and Trump's blood.

We don't know about from this. You are a Kung Fu Master. All right. There was another moment from the hearing that was absolutely pathetic, and this was it right here. Last question for you. Mr. Secretary, who won the 2020 presidential election? I'm not here to answer. I'm talking about 2020.

This is a foreign affairs committee. Okay, great. You can't answer the question, even though we all know that President Biden won. Because the secretary of state, I do not participate in domestic political issues. This is not about domestic political issues. This is about our democracy. You're asking me to apply, just like I don't do campaign rally. It seems like you...

I don't know because as Secretary of State, we're not supposed to. That's been the long tradition of the department. And you should know that if you've been on this committee for any period of time. Mr. Secretary, it seems like you have an issue admitting facts. You can't say that the president lost the 2020 election. Just like you won't admit President Trump is losing this reckless war of choice. And just like you couldn't admit that the shoes the president bought you were too big. You clearly don't know what winning means.

And not because the facts are unclear to you. It's because telling the truth would cost you your job. and the American people are entitled to a Secretary of State who tells them the truth, even when the President doesn't want to hear it. And my constituents, our service members, deserve better. Mr. Chairman, I yield back. I don't know what shoes she's talking about. Representative Burchett, you were recognized.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The guy in the back is cracking. Yeah, I don't know about the shoes. I mean, he gave me some floor-shymed shoes. They're actually pretty good. They fit fine. I don't know. I don't know what she's talking about.

And maybe that's what she's referring to. Your shoes look very nice today, Mr. Secretary. how can you see them the way down here are you guys kidding me I mean is this the foreign affairs committee or is this like a circus what is this I think it's the circus and I oh man yeah

he was laughing right there because when he said there let me translate what you just witness there when he goes how can you say that they're at the table you see him kind of going to grin he's like catch you you lying take away the speech and debate clause man please like when these people lie when they go up there and just it's it's embarrassing man this this was a dog and pony show this might have been the most

let me clarify something with clay because clay is he's he's trying to go old school marine in boot can't they let you put your hands in your face absolutely not clay land nav talking about the course that we did in the school of infantry were we were now Marines during that time I didn't even see that there, but, uh, so here's another lunatic leftist meltdown. Fortunately, representative's expired representative Salazar's records. And giving contracts with no transparency is exactly the reason why you shut down USAID. So practice what you preach. I feel like that.

Oh, she gets the screen now too. Chairman, can we take down her words? I'll give you some time. I'll give you some of my time. Then you just, uh, okay. What kind of thing is this? What is this? You don't, you get asked questions for five minutes and you don't.

get time to answer it's not a hearing I think you said clowns show before I don't I don't have to tell you I don't I've even used their time how can I answer the question don't even give me time I've had to use their time to answer your questions yeah all right whatever all right so I don't need to tell you that in my community that with the city that I represent the city of Miami you're one of the most illustrious our representatives and that we're very proud of you not only the Cuban Americans but the Hispanic Americans in in why is she leaving I'm gonna answer the questions I will.

Oh, she's got, okay, I got it. Well, thank you for coming. All right. Oh, man. Just keep exposing the clown show. Just keep exposing the clown show. You know, clown shows that D-D-97-89, you, man, you are way emotionally invested in this. So he hasn't made crack, hasn't done crack, and only knows what he's been told.

I will put my record against his job. D, what do you think I did for a decade and a half is talk to crack dealers, arrest, crack dealers, talk to crack addicts, and to the comment, everything you can put in crack you can put in coke. No, not necessarily because Coke hits immediately when you do it. So there are certain things that have a higher propensity to create an overdose, which is why you would put it into crack and not put into cocaine. you you are speaking off the experience to you i'm talking with thousands of crack dealers and crack addicts and formal training and street training so again you're way too emotionally invested in

crack and coke so if you want to believe that crack is cleaner than coke then believe it but max don't care about your feelings man all right and uh one last last last clip here before we actually you know what let's hit our sponsor our final sponsor the program before we get into this last clip and then we got one got two quick stories to get to and i'm one of them i'm really interested here your take on uh guys we hear a lot about crypto but here's one part that people miss crypto was created so you could actually own and control your money after the 2008 financial crisis bitcoin was designed as an alternative to bank so instead of a bank holding your money delaying transfers or limiting access you are in control and if you've ever had to

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In just a few minutes, you can go from hearing about crypto to actually owning some. All right. And let's get into, you know what, let's play this, this Dan Mullins, Mark's Dan Mullins, Mark Wayne Mullins clip real quick, just because it's hilarious. Al Green is, you know, he's been voted out. He's moving on. And that was such a great that that that's a great win for everybody man. That is it is.

But he's like he's like, yo, I'm on my way out so I can say whatever the hell I want to say. And I don't have to worry about any repercussions. A racist. Mr. Secretary would do what happened to. Are you calling me a racist? A racist. I'm asking a question.

Reclaiming my time asking to shut up. That's a pretty. Shut up. Stop up. Shut up. It's my time. I'm not going to let anyone call me a racist, Chairman. I've never called him a racist. It's my time. It is, gentlemen.

He will not. Tell him to shut up. It'll gentlemen suspend. No, the gentleman will suspend. No one will call me a racist. I'm chairing too. My family has been pretty, pretty tall. I ask if my time be restored. I ask that my time. The clock has been stopped since I suspended the clock. I will continue to interrupt as long as someone's assuming they're calling a racist. As I said before, there will be no addressing anyone's character.

And I think this is because he was holding up a sign that says black people rent apes. And he was covering the A with his hand so you can't see that A. And I think Mark Wayne Mullins, by the way, that's, that's his name, Mark Wayne. That's where we're at right now, man. Like Al Green's like, shut up. I'm going to call you a racist if I want to call you a racist. Just exposing how stupid these people are. What's the last thing I want to play here?

Man, Trump had an epic, this seven-minute clip right here about Iran. We don't have time for it today. Maybe we'll play it tomorrow. But there was attacks on a Kuwaiti airport, right? And there was apparently one person was killed. they allege it was Iranian drones. I think we're seeing, we're going to see a lot of false flags being thrown up here over the next couple of days. Given what Trump just came out and said to Netanyahu, you're effing crazy, stop the fighting and all that stuff.

Here's Trump's response to the Kuwaiti attack or the Iranian attacks on the Kuwaiti air ports. fire with the run still off? Well, you know, there's a reason for everything. And we hit them pretty hard the night before and actually last night. And when it was explained to me, I said, all right, so we'll do that. But we've been hitting them pretty hard a little bit. So there is a reason for certain things. And there's usually a reason that sometimes it makes sense of it. But they did something, not a big deal. We got it. We nipped it in the bud very quickly. as we do with the greatest military in the world but uh some people would say they were slightly provoked because we took a strong action for a different reason so uh they were reciprocating

i hear the uh the negotiation itself has gone very well actually very well mr president yes you could have if it happens it might not happen you know who knows but if it happens it could happen like over the weekend Pretty much the way it is. It's a different part of the world. You know, I'd say that part of the world ceasefire is when you're shooting in a more moderate manner. It's not bad. But it's true. I mean, it's a ceasefire there is much different than the ceasefire in other parts of the world. All right. So, you know, making a lot of illusions there. I agree. So yesterday. it's kind of well known by now that I kind of jokingly kind of serious told John that I

think it was on when they were on only lands that I think gas could be around 240 a gallon by July 4th and obviously that's average I went yesterday you know Tuesday I had to drive up to my mom's house and stopped at a gas station on the turnpike gas was three weeks ago when I had driven up there to see my stepdad. Three weeks ago, gas was about 477 a gallon. Okay. When I went up there, this past week, it was $3.85, I think. So that's down almost a full dollar in three weeks.

And the street's not even officially opened yet. Stand by, guys. Trump knows what he's doing. And, you know, you're seeing a lot of people trying to keep this thing going. And I think the closer we get to the peace deal, the more you're going to see that type of reaction. Before I play this next brief clip, I will let you respond to that. Like I say, a ceasefire in that region is more of a, to quote Trump, that entire meeting had me very perturbed. Yeah.

Yeah. So here is a clip I want to play briefly and then we'll get to rants and get out of here. So you think. And this is a, I don't even know who this guy is, but thank God he's not running anything in the White House. Drop the ceasefire, finish off the target list. Jesse, I actually think that the first six weeks of operations against Iran were at the operational level, that we never really focused our strikes on the heart of the regime. And I think once President Trump realizes that Iran is going to continue to act and negotiate in bad faith, then now we take the strikes to the heart of the regime, the things that keep them in power, the things they value most. And I think that changes the strategic calculus and returns the initiative to us. So you would focus on regime collapse through a full-blown aerial assault. You don't think the naval blockade, if you give it patience, would do the trick?

Jesse, I do think that the blockade has been massively effective. I wish we would have started six weeks prior when we started combat operations. But it's a bit of a race against the clock and whether the regime reaches its tipping point first because of the pressure of the blockade or the president of the United States reaches his tipping point because of domestic and international pressure. But the way that you accelerate that clock in our favor is to return to kinetic activity again at the strategic level. war monger's going to war monger i love the part where he's like the president's going to realize dude trust me that president trump knows a fuckload more than you do bro just he doesn't go wandering bullshit somewhere else man they just see money bro that's all they see is money oh dude it's money in power all right guys again if you have not done so yet smash that thumbs

up. Let's get to our Rumble Rance. Huck Fillery, just a Huck Buck to ask a question. Has Alpha shared his opinion on the Rick Chow shooting yet? I've been anticipating it, but haven't heard it yet. The Rick Chow shooting. I don't think I'm familiar with that. What are the circumstances around that one? Maybe we can do that on sit rep. Yeah, I don't know, but we'll dig into that on sit rep. I don't know what it is. Is that the bank, the 16 hour bank thing? No, that wasn't Rick Chow. I don't know. I don't know. We'll look into it, though. Lee Walden, attention on Feck. Coast Guard in the house. Praise men to you and yours continue to share your lights. It's getting brighter every day. Semper Phi and Semper Paradis Lee. Thank you for our

coasty brother out there. Thank you. Mama of three boys, Cancon, came in late. I'm truly sorry for your loss. Praise God. You got to see your stepdad and send them off to our heavenly father with your family. Glad you took that time. Big hug. Yes. And thank you to everybody. I saw the chat going through. I had to stop reading it because I would break down again. And, you know, it is what it is. Thank you guys all so much. Hugely, hugely appreciative of all the prayers and support that we've gotten. True deplorable. Cancun, sorry for your loss. Here's something to cheer you up. Carolina Museum of Marine prepares to open after decades of planning. Heck yeah. Hell yeah. Where is that located in? It doesn't say I'll look at that after the show. Thank you so much.

True deplorable. Appreciate that. Ran 132, deepest condolences for you and your family. I appreciate your dedication and commitment in the midst of overwhelming sadness. Yeah. I will for sure talk about some of it tonight on sit rep. I'm trying to keep this a little bit more professional. But yeah, it's been rough.

And I'll tell some stories and all that stuff. So tune in tonight. 9 p.m. Hiddy 724, sorry about your stepdad can prayers and thoughts coming in good thoughts coming your way. Thank you so much. Appreciate it guys. And I think that was it. I forgot to pull up the API. I'm a little bit out of sorts. So there we go. Play answer the question. He said it's Jacksonville, North Carolina and it opens this month. All right. Jacksonville, Cancon opens this month. I thought I said cancun opens his mouth. And I was like, what did I do now to piss Clay off?

Hell yeah. Next time I'm in Jayville, Jay Nasty. Next time I'm in Jay Nasty, I'll stop by. All right, Alpha, besides sit rep tonight, what you got coming up, brother? That is it. Sit rep tonight. But I would say I've been telling people all week, you know, every now and then you do a show and you're like, damn, I had a home run with that one. That was good.

That was a good show. Go watch Monday's show, Just Alpha. And I think you guys will be very satisfied with that, the information and assessments that are on there. All right. And guys, real quick, June 25th through the 28th, Badlandsmedia.tv slash events. We will be in Deadwood, South Dakota for the 12th stop, third time in Deadwood for the Great American Restoration Tour. If you already have in person tickets, keep an eye out. We'll be sending out an email here in the next day or two about if you want to play in the golf thing.

We're going to do it on Thursday morning at 8 a.m. So Thursday, 8 a.m. If you want to play in the golf thing, we'll get an email out here soon. Just tying up the final details. And we'll get that out to you. Badlandsmedia.com. TV slash events. Be sure to check it out.

And we will see you guys. I'll be on in about two hours with Ash on Badlands Book Club doing Creature from Jekyll Island. I think we're on Chapter 5. And so I will see you guys over there at 2 p.m. Otherwise, I'll see you tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern. Alpha wants me to play this as an outro, so this is for all of our drug aficionados out there in the audience. We'll see you guys later.

Is there anyone out there who still isn't clear about what doing drugs does? Okay, last time, this is your brain. This is drugs. This is your brain on drugs. Any questions?