#RolandMartinUnfiltered - Roland RIPS Stephen A, Sage Steele, Clay Travis, MAGA over Jan. 6 DOJ report

Episode Date: January 6, 2025

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A review of the Federal Bureau of Investigations handling of its confidential human sources and intelligence collection efforts in the lead up to the January 6th, 2021 electoral certification. OK, so this is the actual report that was released. Well, they saw this report and it was like, see, see the FBI, the FBI, they were involved. They were involved in January 6th. They allowed it to happen. And so, oh, they have been going crazy in social media. Well, then it took it to a whole new level when Stephen A. Smith on his podcast dropped this rant. The news comes amidst a bombshell report from the Justice Department that revealed the FBI had at least 26 confidential informants on the ground when the Capitol was stormed on January 6, 2021. The report says most of the informants engaged in illegal activity during the chaos.

The Justice Department says only three of its 26 informants present had been instructed to observe potential domestic terrorist suspects on the day of the riot. The rest of the 23 appeared to have gone to the Capitol on their own accord. Upon hearing news of the report, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance posted the following on X, quote, for those keeping score at home, this was labeled a dangerous conspiracy theory months ago, end quote. Didn't hear anything about that for the election. Didn't hear anything about that when the, quote, unquote, insurrection was broached by Vice President Kamala Harris as a Democratic nominee. The belief that Donald Trump was a danger to democracy and using this as a profound, illuminating bullet point

to make that case. And now here we are yet again, finding even more evidence to Donald Trump's claims when he articulated that the process is rigged. My big issue is that I'm really, really sick and tired of every time I turn around finding something else that the Democrats have lied about or downplayed or misrepresented along the way. I mean, I see Republicans like Megyn Kelly or Officer Tatum or Candace Owens or,

you know, the Sean Hannity's of the world. You know what I'm getting tired of? I'm getting, you know what I'm getting to the Democratic Party? You know what I'm getting really pissed off about? I'm getting really ticked off. And every time they open their mouth About something pertaining to y'all They seem right To make the case That the right Had a monopoly On insidious

Evil tendencies Corrupt Tendencies Duplicitous Hypocritical untruthful tendencies. And every time they made those accusations. We turn around and find out that at least some of them are guilty of the same shit. I don't know about y'all.

But I'm sick of all of it but I'm sick of all of it. I'm sick of all of it. They've actually made Donald Trump look like he was right instead of them. You know, Stephen A normally dons a cowboy hat when he's talking about Dallas Cowboys. I have no idea what the hell Stephen A was just talking about. I know Stephen A. I respect Stephen A. Stephen A, you know sports.

On this, you don't know what the hell you talking about. Like, I literally have no idea what the hell he was talking about there. How he's pissed off and the Democrats and Trump said stuff was rigged. And y'all, Magda is running that clip everywhere. All day saying, oh, see, even Steven, the truth, the truth. They all know the truth. Go to my iPad. Associated Press, fact focus, Inspector General's January

6th report misrepresented as proof of FBI setup. The basis of what the right has been as proof of FBI setup. The basis of what the right has been saying is that January 6th was fine, it was great, it was wonderful, but the FBI, it was a setup. The FBI, they were behind the whole deal. They were agents, they were the ones who were starting stuff. The report, this is the AP, the watchdog report examined a number of areas. Go back,

including whether major intelligence failures preceded the riot and whether the FBI in some way provoked the violence. Claims spreading online focus on the report's finding that 26 FBI informants were in Washington for election-related protests on January 6th, including three who had been tasked with traveling to the city to report on others who were potentially planning to attend the events. Although 17 of those informants either entered the Capitol or a restricted area around the building during the riot, none of the 26 total informants were authorized to do so by the Bureau according to the report. Nor were they authorized to otherwise break the law or encourage others to do so. That's the report. And so when Stephen A. is going on and on, they said hearing.

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No, he lied. He lied. Claim. A December 2020-2024 report released by the DOJ's Office of the Inspector General is proof that the January 6th Capitol riot was a setup by the FBI. The facts, that's false. The report found that no, go back.

Report found that no undercover FBI employees were at the riot on January 6th and that none of the Bureau's informants were authorized to participate. Informants, also known as confidential human sources, work with the FBI to provide information, but are not on the Bureau's payroll, undercover agents, or employed by the FBI. Those are facts.

And so for Stephen A. and Clay Travis and Sage Steele, all Russian people, let me help y'all out with something. I'm about to help y'all out. The FBI

and the state police and the DEA and the ATF and a sheriff's office and a local police department and a campus police department, even top flight security, doesn't come out and tell the public who the fucking informants are. Do you know why? Because the informants are inside the groups. The Proud Boys, that racist group, the FBI had people on the inside

feeding them information. You can't arrest somebody unless a crime is committed or unless they were planning, let's say, to kill somebody. Every law enforcement agency has undercover cops. These were not undercover agents. They were informants. So Stephen A, what were Democrats lying about?

What were they lying about What was he lying about All of a sudden Maggots like oh no no no This is all the FBI No They were informants Tell us what's going on Feed us information In fact one of the proud boys

Who's in prison At Enrique, dude, he was an informant. This is stupid. And I tried. I tried not to go here. I tried. And I tried. I tried not to go here. I tried and I'm sorry. Damn it, weed. Call somebody. Check the damn facts.

These MAGA people want it. The election results overturned. That was their aim. That's why more and more people are still being convicted because they participated in an insurrection. Never in American history had someone, an occupant of the Oval Office, tried to overthrow the results of an American election. The report details the actions of the informants,

Stephen A., Sage Steele, Clay Travis, and the rest of you MAGA yahoos. So Democrats weren't lying. The report breaks down that the FBI field offices did not send up the activities that were being planned. The report details their failures.

It's all in the report, y'all. It's right here. Table of contents. You see right here. Pre-January 6th election related protests. The protests. Law enforcement jurisdiction over the Capitol complex. Assess and investigate reports of information

concerning potential criminal activity or threats. Share information with other law enforcement agencies. Support other law enforcement agencies. It breaks down the relevant field offices. It breaks down the messages field offices. It breaks down the messages, how it's collected, sensitive information. It goes on and on.

Y'all, what you're seeing, I'm scrolling through for you this entire report. It lays out recommendations. It lays out the FBI's response to the report. This is the all right here. So Democrats weren't lying.

The facts are the facts. And that is, single fans of Donald Trump were doing all they can to overthrow the results. We know for a fact because of the laws, the gun laws in D.C., they stashed weapons, cashier weapons, outside of D.C.,

and it was going to send the message, bring the guns in. They were there with zip ties and other things. If you ain't trying to, why are you walking around with zip ties and other things if you ain't trying to why are you walking around with zip ties not ziplock bags with food zip ties so I had to go here because I just didn't I didn't know what the hell Steve Day was talking about like you trying to blame Democrats? And what were they lying about?

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MAGA has been lying. They have been claiming that January 6th was staged by the FBI. More than 100 cops were injured in that insurrection attempt. And let me tell you something right now. I'm going to go ahead and say it. Donald Trump has even floated giving the January 6th defendants pardons on day one. That's right. I'm going to go ahead and say it. I do not put it past Donald Trump

to sign their pardons on the steps of the Capitol during his speech. And I'm going to tell you right now, if Donald Trump says in his speech,

or if he says, I'm going to sign the pardons right now, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff and Democrat Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries should all stand up and walk the hell out. If Donald Trump says

my first act is to pardon everyone involved on January 6th, 2021, they should walk. First of all, I wouldn't show up. His punk ass didn't show up after he lost. I wouldn't show up. I wouldn't give him that type of deference. But I'm telling you right now,

if he does that, I will stand up and walk out in protest because he is standing at the crime scene. He will be standing there looking out at people who were

beaten and attacked that day because he loved it because it was all about him and so I'm sick of people and yes Stephen A they using your clip but Stephen A you wrong you are 100% wrong in your analysis. And I don't want to have to make this video, but you're wrong. Everything that you said in your video was wrong. Democrats did not lie about this. The fact of the matter is, there were FBI informants, and again, there's a reason why law enforcement has informants to feed them information. I'm just going to show you this real quick.

An informant exposes the inner workings of the KKK. If it wasn't for Joe Moore, a former Army sniper, turned FBI informant, then we would have never known when the KKK was plotting to assassinate then-Senator Barack Obama. That right there. He wrote a book called White Robes and Broken Badges.

He's an FBI informant. This is what informants do. If I sat here, and matter of fact, I'm just gonna pull this up, because I need people to understand this whole deal, there's a book. It's called The Informant. The FBI, the KKK, and the murder of Viola Laiuso. When Viola Laiuso, a white mother from Michigan, was returning from the march in

Montgomery back to Selma, a pickup truck came by and blew her head off. It was a black man who was sitting in the driver's seat who played dead. The only reason we know, it was a lonely road. If you go down sitting in the driver's seat who played dead. The only reason we know, it was a lonely road. If you go down that road between Montgomery and Selma, there's an actual marker there where she was murdered. The only reason we know what happened is because in the truck was three of them.

In the truck, it was a FBI informant who was in the truck with the two other KKK members who shot and killed Viola Uzo. That brother who was next to her, I interviewed him in Selma a few years ago. So criminal informants do. So how silly is it to say that Democrats lied about January 6th? The FBI agents were not involved. It was informants who were feeding them information. And I am just, Jade, I am sick and tired of these MAGA people with their crap. And yes, I was greatly disappointed to see that rant from Stephen A because he was absolutely positively wrong.

This is not about protecting Democrats and it's not about criticizing Republicans. It's about speaking truth and the report has been grossly misrepresented by these. A lot of times the big economic forces we hear about on the news show up in our lives in small ways. Three or four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding, but the price has gone up. So now I only buy one. The demand curve in action. And that's just one of the things we'll be covering on Everybody's Business from Bloomberg Business

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It's crazy to range MAGA people. Yeah, well, and I guess the one positive light at the end of the tunnel is that Stephen A. Smith, his delivery and what he was saying was so confusing. Like you said, I listened to it for about four times and I still could not figure out what he was trying to say. So the majority of us probably will not receive the message that he's attempting to deliver. But on the flip side of journalism, that's very unfortunate because a simple click of the AP News or any other source would have revealed what the actual report said. So it's kind of like a lazy journalism, if anything. So that's very disappointing. But the good side, no one probably understood what he was trying to relay. Omar Congo? Stephen A. Smith is dangerous. And the fact of the matter is, as I've often said about him, I don't have a somebody have a problem with somebody jumping into different genres.

But you need to apply the same journalistic principles that you use in sports, Stephen A. Smith, to the politics. And you're not doing that in any way, shape or form. You're serving as a puppet for these guys. It makes me wondering. It makes me question who you really voted for. And just like with the lady, Miss Lee, you know, the Asian-American woman, it seems like people are doing their best to curry favor with Trump and his ilk. This is factually inaccurate. And it's disgraceful that Stephen A. Smith continues to jump into politics when he does not know what he's talking about. And the fact that he would put insurrection with air quotes shows everything that it says about where he really sees things. And people need to really start calling him out like you did tonight when he's doing this type

of nonsense. And I can't wait for the clip to share it. Stephen A. Smith, if you're going to jump into this fray, I don't know what you're talking about or just come out and say you're 100 percent MAGA so everybody can be clear about it, because you can't keep trying to straddle the fence and think anybody on this side of the world, meaning this side of the truth, is going to respect you. I mean, this is the tweet, Candace, from Clay Travis, of course, one of these right wing MAGA Fox News people. It's interesting to see how many people in media are waking up to all the lies we've been told.

Here's Stephen A. Smith on January 6th revelations. No, facts are facts. January 6th, they were insurrectionists. They attacked the Capitol. It wasn't this, oh, peaceful walk in the park. Oh, they were just walking around the Capitol. That's total bullshit. You know, I think about maybe midnight, you know, when he was in bed, he might have said to himself, I think I read that wrong. Because clearly he did not know what he was talking about.

You can't have an undercover sting operation and know about it beforehand, which is what he was crying about. Why didn't we know about this beforehand? If we'd known about it beforehand, it would have been different crying about. Why didn't we know about this beforehand? If we'd known about it beforehand, it would have been different. But this is because, you know, we were close to the election. You can't tell people about informants before the information that you want has been received or attained. It would take the sting out of a sting operation. But his air quotes was just mystifying. I don't know what he was talking about,

putting insurrection in air quotes. It's as if somebody had said to him before he went on, look, we need to bring up our ratings. And he went up there and just said anything outlandish in order to get some clicks. It didn't make sense. You know, and I know him as somebody who is good at what he does in the world of sports.

That's how he was able to get to where he was. And like he just said on the panel, he took such care in sports, knowing all about the history and all about the scores and the people involved in the teams. If you're going to cross over into this world where it involves politics and you move the needle in how we are living our lives in terms of being in a democratic society, you have to do better. You cannot take on this role and cross over from sports into politics and then hang your hat by putting air quotes around insurrection when you saw what we saw on TV. That makes no sense. He has got to be in a moment right now where he's thinking, my bad, I don't think I

read that right. That's my only guess in terms of where he's going. And let me also just remind A lot of times the big economic forces we hear about on the news show up in our lives in small ways. Three or four days a week, I would buy two cups of banana pudding. But the price has gone up, so now I only buy one. The demand curve in action. And that's just one of the things we'll be covering on Everybody's Business from Bloomberg Businessweek. I'm Max Chavkin. And I'm Stacey Vanek-Smith. Every Friday, we will be diving into the biggest stories in business,

taking a look at what's going on, why it matters, and how it shows up in our everyday lives. But guests like Businessweek editor Brad Stone, sports reporter Randall Williams, and consumer spending expert Amanda Mull will take you inside the boardrooms, the backrooms, even the signal chats that make our economy tick. Hey, I want to learn about VeChain. I want to buy some blockchain or whatever it is that they're doing. So listen to Everybody's Business on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time,

have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops call this taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed everything that Taser told them. From Lava for Good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multi-billion dollar company

dedicated itself to one visionary mission. This is Absolute Season 1. Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. It's really, really, really bad. Listen to new episodes of Absolute Season 1, Taser Incorporated, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge episodes 1, 2, and 3 on May 21st, and episodes 4, 5, and 6 on June 4th.

Add free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. I'm Clayton English. I'm Greg Lott. And this is Season 2 of the War on Drugs podcast. Yes, sir. We are back. In a big way. In a very big way. Real people, real perspectives.

This is kind of star-studded a little bit, man. We got Ricky Williams, NFL player, Heisman Trophy winner. It's just a compassionate choice to allow players all reasonable means to care for themselves. Music stars Marcus King, John Osborne from Brothers Osborne. We have this misunderstanding of what this quote-unquote drug man. Benny the Butcher. Brent Smith from Shinedown. We got B-Real from Cypress Hill.

NHL enforcer Riley Cote. Marine Corvette. MMA fighter Liz Caramouch. What we're doing now isn't working, and we need to change things. Stories matter, and it brings a face to them. It makes it real. It really does. It makes it real.

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because of how people voted in four cities. Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia, and Milwaukee. January 6th, it's because Donald Trump was pissed that black people booted his ass out of office. January 6th absolutely was an insurrection. That was their aim. They were

plotting. They had a plan of action. It has been confirmed by Peter Navarro. It's been confirmed by Steve Bannon. It's been confirmed by Ted Cruz. They were doing all they can. It's been confirmed by Vice President Mike Pence. And that's why Mike Pence was on the ticket again, because Donald Trump was pissed that Mike Pence did not break the law on his behalf. What we're not going to do is sit here and take a report and misrepresent it and lie about it. Ain't going to happen. I don't care whether you to continue to lie about January 6th because they want those hooligans out. And every single person who has been convicted on January 6th, the punk asses should remain in jail and they should serve their full sentence because their actions were shameful, despicable, and they were illegal.

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