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Today is Wednesday, August 13th, 2025, James Comey.
Oh, my.
James Comey just had a bombshell document dropped from the FBI
that exposes his authorizing of classified information to be leaked to the New York Times.
This comes in concert with Adam Schiff's disclosures yesterday doing the exact same thing.
Adam Schiff leaking classified information.
Oh, naughty, naughty.
You know that the statute of limitations for that is 20 years?
So both of them can be charged and can be charged immediately.
Things are cooking in Washington, D.C.
President Trump will be live at the Kennedy Center making an announcement.
And he has a very busy week and a very busy schedule.
Unfortunately, we weren't able to pop into the Ovalo.
Don't worry, we asked, but we weren't able to pop into the Oval Office
when we were at the White House yesterday.
something having to do with, like, meeting Vladimir Putin in 48 hours at a U.S. military base?
What a wild time.
Of course, we will be live for that.
Believe that.
That's going to happen on Friday.
Today, ladies and gentlemen, is Hump Day.
We have Mike Benz on the program who's going to elucidate for all of us.
What is happening inside of our deep state that seems to be in deep collapse right now?
What does it all mean?
What are the connections?
The George Soros connection, in particular, I want to talk about.
Mike. Rick Crawford will also be joining the show. He's the chairman of the Arkansas
GOP. I have some questions for him about the Clinton Foundation. Like, why isn't the Clinton
Foundation being investigated? Why can't we investigate? Like, in Arkansas, you can investigate the
Clint's. So we've been working our way through like Arkansas politics and asking the questions,
like, wait a second, if the Clinton Library is there, couldn't we just like get all the documents?
Couldn't we like to find out everything? Yeah, yeah, we can. It's going to be an exciting show.
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Okay, ladies and gentlemen, all right, yesterday, boy, howdy, do we ever, do we ever make
news? I, you know, it was fun being at the White House yesterday because we have a lot of friends
who work in the building and a lot of conversations that happen behind closed doors and
behind the scenes. But let me just reveal something to you, that the White House loves you.
And they love you, they love you wrong time.
Okay, the White House is a big fans of this show, the audience that we've built up.
And you're walking down the hallway and you're just getting pulled into every single door.
Like you're why, you can't go like five steps without somebody like, oh, hey, Petty, come here.
I'm not going to show you something.
I'm going to get over here.
I want to show you something.
Like, you know, no, I'm not like Adam Schiff.
They're not showing me like the class classified information.
And I can't leak it to you, nor would I.
They're all going to go to prison.
We're going to cover that in just a second.
But it's so, so, it's such an exciting and dynamic time to be here in the golden era and to have so many of our friends and allies and strong people working with us inside the white.
Can you grab that Carolyn Levitt photo, please?
It's up on the old timeline.
There it is, man, killer client is snap.
Killer client's fast.
Fast.
Oh, man.
It's just so cool.
We didn't try.
We weren't, we weren't trying to match.
We weren't, we didn't plan this.
Like, I'm not on like the tech.
I'm not on the, like, the girls text chain here with Caroline.
I wasn't like, what you're wearing today?
You know, let's be cute.
I wasn't trying to do it.
And we didn't have, you know, we didn't have cute things to talk about.
There was, I was on a mission in the new media seat yesterday.
And, you know, you only get like a, like a minute to say yes.
You know, they call you.
They're like, can you be here tomorrow morning first thing?
Boom.
And so we, you know, the topic of the day is something that happened to be very, very,
very near and dear to my heart, which is, of course, my family and our children, and by extension,
your children, grandchildren, the children perhaps you may want in the future. Everybody, you deserve,
you deserve, and you don't deserve. It is your right, your birthright in this nation to have a functional
national capital where you can bring your children to. And your children can safely see the
monuments that were built by your ancestors.
Your family bled and died out.
Some of them died in order to build these monuments and create this gleaming capital city.
And at its best, Washington, D.C. is a sparkling and dynamic place dripping in patriotism and
history that is a beautiful crystallization of what America and our story.
is. It deserves to be preserved. And if we can't preserve it, if we let the orcs and the
hordes overrun it, criminals, savage, pillage, rape, and kill throughout our nation's capital,
what does it say about us as a people? What does it say about us as a nation? What does it say about
the ideology we wish to project unto the world? The Western world is crumbling and crumbling
fast. Now, we're going to reverse that trend in my lifetime. We've already have, I think,
a great part. But, you know, when the West is under attack, you must have a citadel. You have to
have Helms deep. And that's what America is right now. America is the place where the
entire Western world is looking to say, please save us. And they've done that a lot. It's kind of
getting exhausting. Like, please get me. Somebody else do the saving. But here we are. This is the
this is the charge that God has placed upon us.
And so when the eyes of the world come to Washington, D.C.,
and what I mean by that is 10 million tourists a year,
come to Washington, D.C., to look at our national monuments,
to look at our nation's capital, to look at the White House.
You can go 24 hours a day.
There's going to be large tourist groups outside of the White House,
outside of the U.S. Capitol, traveling around buses, D.C.
When they come to the world, like when they come to see us,
what are they going to say about our country?
What are they going to say about who we are?
What are going to say about us as a people?
Our nation's capital will reflect that.
And so that is why it is imperative to fix Washington, D.C.
If you just move down to a personal level, you probably know my little story.
I try very hard not to be anecdotal on the show.
I think we fail at that actually quite regularly.
but you know but I'm living life with you and nobody wants their children to be under threat
this happened to me and I my blood was boiling when I saw reporters who were there in the room
who were right next to me you know it's really funny they bring you out it's like the masked
singer or something you know it's like a game show it's like price is right you know
they open the door the door slides open and like you come walking out and everyone's sitting
there in the press room all these like doughy reporters are sitting there all they're twisted
little expressions and then they're all looking like who's going to be the guy who gets trotted out
here for the new media seat you know who's going to be the dumb jackass that we're going to have
to listen to today and when you go walking out in new media seat and they sit you down and you can
hear like the an audible groan from the press room i didn't want to be i didn't want to be goche
and like record you know record like walk out like this recording the whole thing i should have
probably and next time i will but when when i walked out there was an audible
like an alley cat like from the from the front row of the corporate press
Caitlin Collins eyes rolled so far back in her head they like snapped you
could just cure it you could hear a retina snap right now like oh god oh man
what is this guy gonna bring here's the photo actually of all them like just
I stared them down we stand them down yeah yeah
client i could have used jama i could have used some jiu jitsu if a fight broke out it was so close so close
it's okay we would have kicked their even without clients in jiu jitsu training we were to kick their
kick their asses and they're like they're like miserable people and they lie for a living
and um i'll tell you something that happened behind the scenes
i know i'm like getting long-winded on this but it's just been a long time and i feel like
we should chat we're back in the studio uh the white house press corps i'm like sitting there
Backstage with Carolyn Leavitt and her team.
And the White House, the White House team there, Carolyn Lovett's team is like, you want to know what's funny about this new cycle of all these corporate media reporters being like, no, D.C. is actually safe. Crimes down.
Is that those sons of bitches come into our office regularly complaining about how dangerous their commute is into the White House, regularly complaining about getting camera equipment stolen, getting lights stolen.
getting mug, getting robbed.
We played a clip last yesterday of like an actual honest ABC news anchor,
talking about getting mugged outside of ABC News in a very nice and posh part of the city.
And so they, like, they were actually hyping me up, right?
The team is like, listen, they're like, you know, these reporters,
they're constantly complaining about how dangerous DC is.
But they get fed the same talking points that like Donald Trump can do nothing good.
even if Trump is saving their lives or saving the lives of like parents who just want to raise
their children in the city. Because what happens when the capital city is a fall in Gotham is that
good people don't want to go there and work. Good people don't want to go there and start a family
and work, have a job, serve the Trump administration. Let me tell you something. The chances of me
moving back to DC? Zero. Zero. I don't care what I'm offered. Zero. I will never move back to that.
Godforsaken hellscape. Maybe if Trump fixes it. Maybe if Trump fixes it. Not like I'm thinking about that,
right? It's not like even in the cards. But like the what is any paycheck worth losing your
child? Would you trade your child for money? Of course not. And that's what people have to.
That is the barter that you have to have to have in a place like,
DC. Am I going to raise my kids in a place where they're going to get hit by a stray
bullet? I think his name was date. I think his name was like Dayton Martin. I don't
know. No, it was like, I can't remember what his name was. He was on my, he was like literally
in my neighborhood. A little kid football player played football in the league that I used to
coach. He used to coach like the six year old football team. And he just got to freaking killed,
man. He just gets killed. Stray bullet. Boom. Drive by.
Boom. Dead. Well, that could have been my kid because it was my block. Right. Is you going to live in a place like that? Of course not. Like, of course not. Right. It is immoral, in fact, to like exchange your child's life for money. Anyway. The point is that I get angry about this kind of stuff because it's personal to me. So I brought a little bit of that spice to the news to the to the press room yesterday. We got a chance to ask our question.
I know there's a lot of topics.
There's a lot of things to talk about.
But President Trump just within the last 24 hours exerted his legal and constitutional right to take over Washington, D.C. police department.
Oh, an ALX, if we don't have that D.C. police chief saying, what's the chain of command?
Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Do we have that?
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Oh, incompetent the city is.
Here's the chief of police.
Is that correct?
What's her name?
Let's find her name out.
What's her name?
What's her name?
Yeah.
Yeah, that's right.
That's exactly right.
Pamela Smith, here's the chief of police saying,
what do you mean, chain of command?
I've never even heard that before.
That's what the chain of command is now?
What does that mean?
Well, is it Pam Bondi speaking for the mayor, speaking to you, or how does this work?
So the executive order is clear.
The president has requested NPD services in our home rule charter outlines the process.
The president designated Attorney General Bondi as his proxy to request services through me.
According to available reports, the individual in charge of the D.C. Police Department is not a DEI hire, like a literal DEI hire.
What is going on with police forces in the country? Can we just have like, can we have like a hard-boiled, like cop? Can we just have cops hired based on meritocracy? Like the ability to, like, throw criminals in prison? What the hell is going on here with our police forces?
We're going to need to really chat about this, whether it's Cincinnati, that old, like, wench in Cincinnati, or this lady, D.C. Police Chief ripped or mind-blowing response to basic question. Yikes. Yeah, she's asked, what's the chain of command? And she's like, huh? I don't understand what you're talking about. And you're the one that's trying to solve the murders and the crimes. You know, that's the interesting thing. Our house was like set ablaze. There were murders on my ring camera. I said it.
And, um, I had the footage, have to play it for you.
Like so funny, people are like, oh, it's a, oh, it's fake.
Well, I, you know, it's on camera, idiots.
Hey, morons.
It's on camera.
You see the police reports.
It's incredible.
They never did any fault.
There was no arrest for any of this.
You could, like, there's no arrest for any of this.
When the administration says you can just go and kill and murder and D.C.
And you just get away with it.
There's no, there were no arrests.
No detectives called me.
Nobody even tried to find the perpetrators.
They didn't care.
care. You know, I think the sad and kind of brutal reality of all this is they don't care because it's in a poor neighborhood. It's a black neighborhood. You know, who's the victims of crime in D.C.? You know, the perpetrators kind of crime in D.C. blacks. So it's black on black crime. This is just the basic statistics, right? I'm actually an out like I'm an outlier, right? Because we were living in, I don't know what you, I don't know what you'd call it, gentrified or whatever.
But we were living in a neighborhood.
It's just all we could afford, right?
We couldn't afford like a palace, you know, on Embassy Row.
So we had to start our lives.
We didn't have any money.
So, you know, we bought where we could afford.
But the vast majority, this is a great example.
What is going on with our police chiefs?
Why do all of our police chiefs look like there's some type of like,
I don't know, really horrible.
I don't know what this cast would be
some type of awful like Hallmark channel
like Old Lady comedy
right
let's do a vacation to
New England town
and hijinks ensues
right? We're all from Philadelphia
and we decided to go to New Hampshire
to go Apple picking
it's a hallmark special
the golden curls
the golden chiefs
Golden Chiefs, probably Elizabeth Warren's tribal name.
Anyway, the point is that, like,
uh,
point is that they,
the basic and harsh reality of all this is that the vast majority of victims of crime and DC are black.
Goodness, there's the boy.
There he is.
Oh, goodness.
I can't believe it.
Davon McNeil.
I was, I did.
I said, Davon.
I think I did remember his name.
I think I said it right.
Davon, his, I didn't get a, there he is.
A little kid.
he was 11 years old here's a photo of him literally just shot dead like walking distance from
where I live there he is he's a great athlete a happy kid I coached I coached in games
where he was playing these gets killed this shot life ended your kid my kid but he
never you know nobody knows his name right there's just another staff
that they don't want you to see, black on black crime.
And so that is the importance of all this.
And I'm sorry to like rail on it again and again and again.
But this is why I just wanted to underwrite
why we brought these questions to the White House.
Because I know there's a lot to ask.
I know there's a lot of things that people want to cover.
But this is personal to me.
And when given an opportunity to ask a question,
here's what we did.
So let's get started.
And as always, we'll start with our new media seat,
who is our podcast host today.
Benny Johnson. Benny, why don't you kick us off, and thanks for being here.
Thank you, Carolina. As a D.C. resident of 15 years, I lived on Capitol Hill. I witnessed so many
muggings and so much theft. I lost track. I was carjacked. I have murders on my ring camera
and mass shootings. I witnessed a woman on my block and held up at gunpoint for $20,
and my house was set ablaze in an arson with my infant child inside. And so to any reporter,
that says and lies that D.C. is a safe place to live and work. Let me just say this.
Thank you. Thank you for making the city safe because a parent should have to go through
what my family went through, having the fire department rip open their door to save their infant
child. And so thank you for your work on securing this city. My question to you is this.
Nancy Pelosi has attacked the president for deploying the National Guard to the city,
saying that it is to cover for his incompetence.
Hillary Clinton has also attacked the president
for securing the city of Washington, D.C.
I'd like to get your response to Nancy Pelosi and Hillary.
Sure. Well, first of all, Benny,
I'm so sorry that happened to you and your family.
There have been, unfortunately, far too many victims
of crime in this city.
And I know the majority of residents
in the District of Columbia agree with you.
In fact, a new poll from the Washington Post.
I was reading this morning.
This was released in May of 2024.
So it's quite funny how many of you in the media agreed with what the president was saying yesterday,
but now once the president says it, many of you are disagreeing with him.
But this poll released by the Washington Post found that 65% of district residents think crime is an extremely serious or a very serious problem.
And this was up from 56% last year.
So the concern that you share with so many other residents in the District of Columbia is real.
And that's why this president is taking action to address it.
To get to the heart of your question, I think it's despicable that Democrats cannot agree that we need more
law and order in a city that has been ravaged by violence, crime, murders, property theft.
This should be a winning issue for all Americans.
I don't understand.
It's just anything President Trump does the Democrats want to disagree with.
I think the president would love to work with Democrats on this issue to bring law and order to
America's cities, but unfortunately they have failed.
And that's why he's taken this historic action to federalize the National Guard.
And as you're seeing from last night's numbers, we already have seen success.
We are removing violent offenders.
We are arresting criminals.
And we are removing drugs and firearms off of the streets of the city to make it safer for all of this residence.
So let me tell you a little something.
One, the White House does not.
And as far as I know, and I know a number of people, I know pretty much every person that sat in that
new media seat. Never once was I told what to ask, asked what I was going to ask.
Ever once that anybody like, you know, like check me into a corner and be like, hey, here's
what's going to happen, you know, do this, this, this. And then definitely wear the same colors
as Caroline Levitt. You better, you better be matchy, matching with her, right? We want you both
to look cute, like little, you know, anime girls. No, I'm telling you, like nobody asked anything.
I, you know, you could have gone, you could have gone anywhere with it. I could have gone anywhere
with it. I could have been like Eric Swalwell farted on national TV. Is there going to be an
investigation into that? Clearly like a weapon of mass destruction. But I asked about this mass
instruction. This is my house. There you go. This is the, this is the flames that engulfed
my neighborhood, right? So this is the known drug house that that is next to my home. Here's my home
and the known drug house all on fire all on flames right so this is it it's funny how like blue
and on libs like very very smooth brain libs are like well uh like that story sounds fake except by
it really is it really is utterly remarkable to me the indifference of humanity there were a bunch
of lives like celebrating yesterday that this happened to my family they're like thrilled
about it. It's why we'll never celebrate death. It's one we'll never celebrate like bad things
happening to people. If you, if you do, we're going to talk about the crimes of Adam Schiff
and James Comey. If you do crimes, well, you need to be punished, right? But if you're an innocent
family that's living here and just trying to like pay your taxes and make a living and make
the country a better place. And this is how your house ends up with your children inside.
By the way, there were deaths here. They barely saved the kids. And I watched them carry out.
They had multiple dogs. I watched them carry out all the dogs and stretchers. All the dogs
die. That's how dangerous the fire was.
There were death, the deaths of all
their animals, all their dogs were burned alive.
They were all dead.
Oh, man. Oh, man. It was one of the worst
days ever. I watched them carry out these stretchers.
There are these kids living there.
This is Section 8 housing, right? So Section 8
housing. And there are
these little kids living there. You never really know what's
going on. And I watched them carry out
these stretchers. I saw it. They were carrying
out these stretchers with these what looked like small
bodies on them. And I was like, I almost threw up
because I thought maybe it would have been one of the kids.
Our child barely, you know, our kid barely survived with their life, right?
Her name's Eloise.
This is what the house looked like from the back.
So yeah.
Anyway, the point is that like the indifference of the left is just truly and utterly cruel.
I happen to have a platform so I can talk about this.
What about the family here?
Like what, you know, what would happen if they had all burned alive?
Like they wouldn't have cared.
They just wouldn't, they wouldn't have cared.
They're sitting here with their little black lives matter shirts on.
They're stupid little flags, right?
They're damn bumper stickers.
They don't give a damn about black people.
They don't care at all.
They don't care.
I wash it.
I physically watched it happen day after day after day in this neighborhood.
Anyway, I was happy to, you know, show up and throw down for you next time.
When we're doing this, we'll do a poll and ask people about the question.
They sort of don't want you to talk about it beforehand.
And the reason why that was the one thing I got was like, don't talk about it beforehand
because the briefing schedule can change dynamically and we know that on the show.
So don't do a big hype up for something that may well get pulled because briefings come and go.
You know, and the president has, who knows what can happen, right?
And sometimes the briefings get canceled and so on.
So anyway, so I was able to just go off the dome.
Caroline Levitt had it like locked in and she was ready for that.
She's often ready for whatever question is thrown at her.
But I'm not sure she was ready for this one because I came through with a follow-up.
Ladies and general, let's just call it a big old swinger. Here we go.
Just a very quick follow-up to that. Given the heroic actions of a member of this administration, just a few blocks from this building, will the president consider giving the presidential medal of freedom to big balls?
I haven't spoken to him about that, but perhaps it's something he would consider. I'll ask him and get back to you, Benny. Thanks for being here.
In case you need a little refresher, ALX, we could grab, I have a post on X about Big Balls.
In case you need a very brief refresher, Big Balls is a 19-year-old who behaved in a way that is so utterly honorable, you never even see it anymore.
There it is.
Big Balls witnessed a woman getting mugged and beaten, and he stepped in.
Big Balls took on seven young youths.
And got his ass kicked for it because that's just what happens when it's you versus seven youths.
And he was left bloodied and a dead, left four dead on the side of the street.
And Big Ball's works, of course, for Doge.
And he's just in Washington, D.C. to make this country a better place.
He just wants the government to run more efficiently.
He stepped in to save the life of a woman.
He did save her life.
And he took the beating that was intended for that woman.
They were going to beat her.
They were going to rob her.
Who knows what else.
And so this is an action that actually spurred on all of the news cycle that we're talking about right now.
You know, Donald Trump's like, wow, this is like multiple members of my administration are getting attacked and savage.
Members of Congress getting attacked and savage.
Some of them are Democrats.
We care as much about them as here, right?
It's a human question.
So anyway, that's why we asked that question.
It was covered by Fox News last night.
Covered by a ton of
Actually a ton of different
News outlets
But here we go
White House wants big balls
To get the same medal as Rosa Parks
Yes, thank you
Yes, absolutely.
Do you have the hill?
Here we go.
The hill.
Benny Johnson at White House
Rails against D.C. crime.
True.
Bullets presidential medal for big balls.
It's just too easy.
There are a couple other ones.
It's like great.
It was trending, by the way.
and it's fun and the kid deserves it right fox news's coverage of it last night was uh awesome too
do we got that uh yeah okay we got it it was it's uh pretty easy to pop over us to show in the other
chat uh fox news covered it it's great um here we go so yeah like you know we're just bringing the
bringing the will of the people into the into the halls of power here we go
Capital is dangerous. The president simply wants to make it safer. Big balls put up a bad signal, and Trump is responding.
Donald Trump makes himself Batman, and the nation's capital is Gotham City.
Yep, big balls with the straw that broke the camel's back. He tried saving a woman, and he got beaten to a pulp. But his story isn't over.
Given the heroic actions of a member of this administration, just a few blocks from this building, will the president consider giving
the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Big Balls.
I haven't spoken to him about that,
but perhaps it's something he would consider.
It would certainly be an interesting plaque.
Certainly it would be an interesting plaque.
We have that, we have, you got to grab it.
It's on the timeline.
Give me that Presidential Medal of Freedom for Big Balls.
There's like a ton of memes that have been made about it.
It's the last I'll say on it.
Okay, last I'll say, I know we spent a lot of time here.
Let me, uh, get me the last, uh, yeah, give me that, okay, there are, no, it's the memes, it's the memes of him having they, uh, it's the meme. No, it's just reposts. So you just got to go to the, you got to go to the timeline. There's like lots of memes. It was trending and everybody wants to see it happen. And it's our duty to make sure that we make the memes real. Listen, if there's one thing that this administration has done, it's making the memes real.
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Okay, ladies and gentlemen, one more breakdown of this live shot.
So it's going to, the presidential seal isn't up yet,
but the entire podium and everything's been set up.
This looks like the Kennedy Center that has all the Kennedy Center emblems on it.
And so Donald Trump's going to be taking questions from the press from here.
And he's going to be making a big announcement about the Kennedy Center.
All right.
Big announcement from this morning.
Holy guacamole.
you still say that with all the mass deportations i don't know i'm not sure we got the recipes
you know so you know now now we're good comies media mole told the fbii he shaped russia narrative
needed to discount to deny leaking intel oh my so we covered yesterday how adam schiff
according to whistleblower was leaking information and was leaking information in the media that was
classified it's a big no-no
Spent 20 years in prison for doing that.
That would presumably be like the rest of Adam Schiff's life.
You know, he's like middle-aged.
So this ain't good, and it's not a good thing to do,
but now we have James Comey, who clearly did these things,
is now documented for doing these things.
Let's go ahead and read here, the top line from Just the News.
Columbia University law professor Daniel Richmond
admitted to agents in an interview.
that he routinely communicated on behalf of James Comey, his long-time friend,
with Times reporter Michael Schmidt,
whose work among the newspaper's 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning stories on Russia-elected interference.
The goal, Richmond told the FBI, was to correct stories critical of Comey, the FBI,
and to shape future press coverage outside of the Bureau's official press office,
according to the FBI internal memos,
that current director Cashfiel delivered to Congress this week.
While Richmond was known to have been publicly quoted in news stories advocating for Comey,
he admitted to agents who were part of the FBI's classified leaks inquiry that he was given
access by Comey to what turned out to be highly classified information up to an SCI level
as the highest classification and sometimes provided information to reporters on an anonymous
basis. Richmond insisted that he did not believe that he had confirmed or provided classified
intelligence to reporters, oh, really, but said he could not be 100% sure the memo states,
knowing that he could only make a leak denial with his, with a discount.
Richman was pretty sure that he did not confirm the classified information.
However, Richmond told the interviewing agents that he was sure with a discount,
he did not tell Schmidt about the classified information.
Okay, this sounds great.
perfect for James Comey here. In the end, the Justice Department decided not to pursue any
criminal charges. Isn't that amazing? Against Comey or any of the lie lie lieutenants in the now
Senator Adam Schiff led leak operation, potential evidence of the leaks, saying that it could not be
certain who leaked what and when. But the interrogation of Richmond and his admissions of significant
contact with the Times Schmidt provides the most detailed account of how Trump critics like Comey,
who were fired by the president, used the media to craft narratives, ultimately turned out,
to be untrue or misleading or overstated the memos show. Oh, my. Okay, let's go ahead and outline the story
with John Solomon, who of course has been doing just absolutely God's work on this stuff. I'd love to get
Solomon on the show. It'd be really cool. We should reach out. Let's reach out to John Solomon.
Man, he does great work. Here's John Solomon outlining what Adam Schiff was doing. Here we go.
Well, what you find out is that James Comey decided not to work through the FBI press office
when he wanted to change the narrative in Washington,
burnish his reputation against the tax from Democrats
and try to sully Donald Trump's reputation.
If you remember, Democrats were mad that James Comey
let out of the bag just before the election
that there might be some new evidence
in the Hillary Clinton email scandal.
Hillary blamed Comey for throwing the election.
She blamed the Russians for throwing elections.
She blamed everybody but herself
for throwing the election for her.
But Comey was trying to rehabilitate that.
And so he had an intermediary,
a Columbia law professor by the name of Daniel Richmond,
who the FBI confirmed and interviewed,
and Richmond said, yes, I use my relationship with a New York Times reporter
named Michael Schmidt.
He's one of the authors of the Pulitzer Prize winning package
that President Trump is now suing over,
and my goal was to improve negative stories about James Comey
and to set a narrative, i.e., set the Russia collusion narrative.
This guy worked around the official channels of the FBI press office,
and at one point the FBI noted,
met with James Comey. He gave you access to classified information. A short while later,
you had a conversation with that New York Times reporter, and he ends up reporting something
that appears to be classified. Did you do it? And he gives, I think, perhaps the most famous
denial people will remember since Bill Clinton says it depends what the meaning of the word
is, is when he tried to obfuscate whether he had an affair with Monica Lewinsky. He says,
I can say, I don't think I confirm the information, I can say with a discount that I didn't give him
the classified information with a discount means you got to give me some room it's an extraordinary
moment the FBI clearly had strong suspicions that this was a potential backdoor for information
maybe classified information to get out to the media with James Comey's fingerprints on it and they didn't
go much further they didn't put Comey before the grand jury that we can tell they didn't appear to put
this gentleman Daniel Richmond before the grand jury and like Adam Schiff as we told you last
night here they have an eyewitness whistleblower said I was in the room when he authorized leaks of
Intel, these end up being a dead end again.
And it's another reminder of a dual system of justice that the Justice Department had the last
six years.
These are documents that were never given to Jim Jordan.
Jim Jordan confirmed that to me today.
And we're just learning eight years later because of what Cash Patel turned over that
the FBI had all the evidence of how the false narrative of Russia collusion was spread across
this country to the detriment of voters, to the detriment of President Trump's first campaign,
and they did nothing about it.
Ladies and gentlemen, in just seconds, we will have the chairman of the Intel Committee will be on our program live, Rick Crawford.
I need him to respond, however, to this.
This is James Comey responding to these leaks.
Again, this is, some are classifying this as treasonous.
We're going to talk about it.
Here's James Comey's response to this from back in the day.
Maybe for you or your attorney, my understanding is that when you shared your memos with your legal team, that there was a follow-up for a class.
containment operation by the Bureau.
Was there a spill of classified information
when you shared those memos?
Yeah, I'm not going to talk about something like that.
Good.
Well, that's important to talk about
whether classified information was Ms.
Whether you think it is or not.
I'm not going to talk about it one way or another.
Oh, I'm not going to talk about it.
Here's Daniel Richmond, just so that you guys can see
who we're talking about.
Good old Daniel Richmond, James Comey's bestie.
He was also a former federal prosecutor.
I'm not sure he got an archetype there, don't they?
Quite the phenotype.
He's a Columbia law professor.
Comey gave him a special government employee status, and he illegally leaked Comey memos to the New York Times.
He also was handed classified information by James Comey.
Well, wait a second.
Isn't that what they tried to prosecute Donald Trump for?
We're going to talk with the chairman of the Intel Committee about it.
Newly declassified documents show that FBI director James Comey ordered the FBI, including Peter Struck and Lisa Page, to assist the New York Times in the writing of their articles.
Do you want to know why we ask about Operation Mockingbird?
Man, we went viral with that one with Tulsi.
You know what we asked about it?
This, this is it.
Tulsi goes, it's still happening.
And this is what she means.
Here's James Comey directing the writing of the New York Times.
Wild.
It's right there in black and white.
Most federal crimes have five-year statute of limitations.
But the Espionage Act has a 10-year.
And covering up criminal conspiracy continues.
Bottom line, lawyer up, Comey, justice is coming.
And Bureau of Prisons should start ordering six, eight jumpsuits.
Okay, all right.
Well, I can't wait to see what our next guest has to say about this.
His name is Rick Crawford.
He is the chairman of the Intel Committee.
It's our honor to have him on the program right now.
Okay.
Well, he just dropped.
and we're on
is unfortunate that's the case
but uh ladies and gentlemen
I guess he
yeah I guess we just lost connection
I guess we just lost connection
with Chairman Crawford
um he was
he was set and so
it is the way that it is
I guess we'll try and get him back
it is a live show in case you're wondering
and I do want to show you something very interesting
about the Donald Trump setup that just happened they just wheeled in a bunch of red
objects this is going to be a very interesting live they just wheeled in a bunch of whatever
this is like what is this exactly I don't know so they've just brought in like it's the
handmade and Donald Trump's announcing the handmade still now it's all handmade said oh
country's a handmade cell here it is that's what they got so I guess we'll see
ladies and gentlemen all right representative rick crawford from arkansas member of the house of
representatives congress and the intelligence committee something that we've been talking about
for a long time joins us to elucidate for our audience what's going to happen next let's go
Chairman, how are you?
I'm good. I'm happy.
Uh-oh.
I'm so sorry, Mr. Chairman.
We have...
Connected ones out here in rural America, so I apologize for that.
That's right.
We seem to have a little trouble in the connection.
And this is...
We'll just wait to see if we get back here,
but it's just very glitchy.
um why don't we move into the green room my my apologies yeah why don't we move into the green room
all right and my producers will take care of it uh and i'm uh we'll we'll work on that
always seems to happen with these style of guests what i mean is like we're about to cover like
some bombshell stuff we're about to cover like things that the deep state wouldn't want us to
and then we have a connection line we need to get one of those vans that fox news has one of those vans
that like pull up to someone's house right and then they have like a stable connection we need to
get one of those vans we got to get we got to we got to get more successful we got to have a bigger show
please help us get one of the vans so that this never happens again and we'll send a van out to the
middle of the wherever rick crawford is he is from arkansas and i presume perhaps a very rural
place in arkansas i'm not sure but it's just the way that it way that it goes um he looked crystal
clear when we're getting him ready adjust his mic volume and unfortunately then it just goes
right anyhow uh mike bends will be up and we'll be ready to lock in on this topic so let me tell you
what uh no matter what we got we got fire for all of you and blame for all of you uh we hope that we
get the chairman back on i'd uh love to get his take on all of this and one other thing
Adam Schiff.
We didn't even have the time to, like, talk about Adam Schiff.
This is the compounding news cycle here of leaking classified information.
So you have Comey, and then that's locked in with Adam Schiff from yesterday.
Here is a quick summary of what Adam Schiff is in hot water over.
Treasonous and illegal.
That's how a Democratic whistleblower characterized Adam Schiff,
accusing him of greenlighting the leak of classified information.
to undercut President Trump during the 2017 Russia Gate investigation.
The president has already said he wants to see Adam Schiff held accountable for the countless lies
he told the American people in relation to the Russia Gate scandal.
The whistleblower was a veteran House Intelligence Committee staffer.
The FBI summary obtained by Fox says Schiff told AIDS he would quote leak classified information
which was derogatory to the president in hopes of scoring an indictment for the commander-in-chief.
It's beyond unseemly. This was just an egregious breach and a really a reprehensible act on the part of Adam Schiff.
Schiff's office calls this baseless smears, saying the whistleblower was, quote, not reliable, not credible, and was fired.
Schiff was the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee as it probed possible 2016 election interference.
If the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it aided or abetted the Russian,
it would not only be a serious crime, it would also represent one of the most shocking betrayals of democracy in history.
Schiff, who led the Democrats' first impeachment of President Trump now faces an unrelated criminal investigation for alleged mortgage fraud.
Now, it looks like Adam Schiff really did a bad thing. They have them.
Democrats say the GOP is trying to shift the narrative.
Look, this is nonsense. This is an effort to change the subject away from the government.
the Epstein files. The FBI summary indicates that Schiff hoped Hillary Clinton would win in
2016. Schiff aspired to run the CIA. Brett? Schiff aspired to run the CIA. Could you imagine
that man? We're going to talk about Mike Benz. Talk to Mike Benz in just a moment about
Adam and Adam Schiff run CIA. Could you possibly imagine? Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know,
man. What do you think? Should we do the show in a suit? Should I be wearing a suit? Everyone's
like, hey, yo, you wore a suit to the White House.
Well, yeah, I'm not going to Zelensky, these guys, right?
You don't want to look like a slob.
You want to have some respect.
But should I wear a suit every single day?
I'm not sure.
I don't know.
Let me know in the comments.
Should we be wearing suits on this stuff?
Should we be wearing suits in this joint?
I kind of just, like, let a rip.
Like how I literally wear the same thing every single day.
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Okay, ladies and gentlemen, speaking of some very interesting, interesting things,
it might be very cozy fit for James Comey in his jumpsuit.
the Adam Schiff news summary has been wild I guess we've missed our and we'll see I'm waiting
with my producers to check in with me I guess we've missed our member of Congress
they're still working on it come on boys let's get cracking we can't have both
guests now that's crazy right well let's go to a member of Congress anyway
Jim Jordan friend of the show talking about what Adam Schiff
James Comey, Christopher Ray, have done the FBI.
What may happen next?
It's rock and roll.
Yeah, go leak information staff and also make sure it's class.
I mean, that's how scary.
That's how wrong this is.
But my big question is, where's Chris Ray?
Why didn't we have this information?
Why did it take until we get to Director Patel for us to get this information?
Why didn't we get this from Chris Ray?
The documents we got, it looks like this whistleblower was talking about this over a period of years doing FBI doing interviews with this.
guy, 302s and on for like several years. Why didn't we know about it? Why did it take Director
Patel to bring this forward? Why didn't Chris Ray do that? But I think the other big takeaway is
this is a pattern. We all know that they leaked information all the time to undermine the guy
we elected President of the United States. Jim Comey leaked his four Comey memos. Jim Comey went up to
Trump Tower when it was President-elect Trump on January 6th, 2017, talked to the President
elect about the dossier that he already knew was false and then they leaked that information
and thereby gave credibility to a document that was baloney. So this is their M.O. And now we've
caught him with this whistleblower who says they directly told us to go do what we know they've
been doing all along. Ladies and gentlemen, somebody who has, I don't know. I do say this
about the people that I respect so deeply on this program.
Somebody who's just been professionally right.
And I don't know, man, is it been like Mike Davis?
Has it been Tom Fitton?
Has it been Mike Ben's?
Who have been the people who've been the most professionally right?
Probably those three on this program.
That is like the champions team of people who have been on the show
and have years of sound bites from this program
and who have never lied to you
and have only ever predicted the future.
So, ladies and gentlemen, joining us from the dream team from the 96 Bulls is the great Mike Ben's executive director, Foundation for Freedom Online, former State Department cyber employee who could probably talk quite a bit about classified information. Let's go.
Hello, Mike. How are you? Are you on critical infrastructure right now?
I am well I am I'm currently my my Wi-Fi is down so I'm on I'm on the phone but I figured I'd match your fit today I heard you talking about being in a suit and I got sad because then I can't copy your fit people were like yo you're in a suit at the White House we don't even recognize you and I was like you know I'm not going to Zelensky you people that's what I said this is what I pulled everyone I said I'm not going to Zelensky they were all laughing about it you clean up well you look uh honestly you could
You look like you'd make a very good spy.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you, Mike.
That's the meanest thing you've ever said to me.
No, you're, it's like, I actually saw it and I thought, oh, wow, Andy McCabe really cleaned up well.
And then I felt bad about saying.
You, you bastard.
All right.
Well, you know what, man, nothing but love.
Okay, so I don't even know where to begin with us.
The top line here is that Comey and Adam Schiff are leaking classified information.
So talk me through.
what should happen here?
This has got to be a crime.
You say appear on X.
Obviously, everybody follow Mike Benz.
You already do.
Mike Benz said, you have millions of followers, Mike?
Yes, I think so.
So everybody follow Mike Benz.
He says, this has got to be a crime.
Talk us through it, Mike.
I think it's being laid bare right now.
These FBI albums.
Well, the issue is, is this was never declassified.
This was never, you know, these sorts of things really, you saw this a lot during Trump.
one. And one of the operative questions here is the statute of limitations. You know, this is,
we're now in the year 2025. Much of this deals with, for example, 2017 when Adam Schiff and
James Comey were leaking. James Comey was still the FBI director in 2017. I believe the statute of
limitations is five years for many of these crimes. And so just like James Clapper perjuring himself
about domestic bulk collection by the NSA, these sorts of mishandling of classified document crimes
tend to have a five-year statute of limitations. And so you do still have a crime on the books,
but a crime that it appears that in this case they may have gotten away with. But this is,
you played a clip earlier of Representative Jim Jordan asking why Christopher Ray did not disclose this,
why it had to come to FBI director Cash Patel. And I think everybody knows the reason,
which is that Christopher Ray was out to get Donald Trump, that the FBI was completely corrupted
under Christopher Ray. And everything that was done from the moment James Comey was replaced with
Christopher Ray was simply a continuation, kind of just a shorter, frumpier James Comey put in the FBI stead.
If folks remember, there was an incredible event early on where Christopher Ray should have been sacked within his first few months when Christopher Ray threatened to leave because Trump questioned the intelligence community assessment about Russian interference.
This was a pretty shocking moment, I think, in FBI history where the FBI director said, if the president is going to question the intelligence community, then I don't feel confident leading it.
the president's going to throw us under the bus.
Well, she was thrown directly under the bus at that very moment.
I think there was probably so much turmoil in those early months of Trump world
that getting rid of an FBI director you just installed may have looked bad in the heat
of also getting rid of the chief of staff and DHS director.
I don't know if there were donor considerations, but whatever it was, keeping Christopher
Ray, inside your system at the FBI, was like keeping a tapeworm inside because, you know,
you've got some spare food circulating. It was just a, what about the Espionage Act, Mike?
What about the Espionage Act? That has a 10-year statute limitation. What about criminal
conspiracy? I mean, I guess some theories that have been posited on this program is that you
could argue that there is a criminal conspiracy that is currently ongoing in order to
Decap President Trump.
No, that's right. That's a good point. I mean, certainly Julian Assange was was tried under
under the Espionage Act for far lesser crimes than the people going after him.
Yes, that's a great point. Like in what world is Julian Assange and how is this any different,
right? Like is we know we have dead to rights that the the the we had dead to rights,
Comey's friend saying that, hey, yo, he gave me a bunch of classified information.
And then I gave that to the media.
So can you please explain to me how that's any different than them putting Julian Assange,
like walking him away?
Right.
I mean, if a security clearance was granted to the New York Times reporters on a selective
basis to access it and then describe the document without revealing sources and methods,
I'm trying to think of what the defense might be other than that.
that the only other question is, is we are still relying on a kind of anonymous whistleblower.
And in these, you know, there is the question, there's always the question of the credibility of the whistleblower,
especially in these type of situations.
No, this is an interview with Daniel Richmond.
So there's the FBI's interview with him.
And he's just straight up admitting it.
Yeah.
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It gave me classified information.
Like, and I leaked to the New York Times and he's, you know, send out with the eye.
Right, right.
Well, then I guess if, you know, it would come down to being, you know, him on the stand versus, yeah, I do think that you have the criminal conspiracy play here around James Comey for other crimes related to the intelligence community assessment, even if this were not tried as a one-off crime.
I think you still have James Comey, John Brennan, Hillary Clinton, and potentially Barack Obama up for the grand jury
indictment referral that we know that currently grand jury is being arranged in order to determine criminal wrongdoing in the Russia Gate affair.
Certainly these kind of leaks, if not deemed criminal unto themselves, could be entered to show the sort of
of rank partisan hackery that went into the intelligence community assessment itself given
it was so close on the heels of it wouldn't be nice like even if like the process just as the
punishment it just be very nice to adjudicate this in the public arena for people to just understand
how slimy and criminal at all is and i guess that's what we're i guess that's what we're seeing
with these with these emails document leaks it's it's enraging that it's all that we had control of power
working for the trump administration and i know that you only worked for a short time period and
like it's not like anyone was asking you but i had i wish they had but it's so frustrating
it's so maddening that all of this evidence just was sitting there laid bare the critical
infrastructure emails the russia gate stuff Hillary clinton all of it was just sitting there
and this by the way it's all connected the adam shift leaking operation yeah it's all connected
the same people at julian smith um it's it's wild
that it just sat there for so long, locking a ball.
Well, I think it's what everyone suspected.
Everyone knew that the FBI was corrupt under Trump One.
We knew it in the White House.
As a civilian, you could easily surmise it.
But the other was the issue, which was that Trump won, perhaps because there was not as many Trump allies in Congress
or as strong a Trump institutional donor base across the private sector.
But for whatever reason, Trump could not clean house at his own Justice Department,
at his own FBI, at his own CIA.
I don't know if that was for the same reason that he felt unwilling to pull the trigger
about going after Hillary Clinton and the like.
But certainly Trump, too, is much more unchained.
and I think much, much more willing to disregard the intelligence community.
For a long time, Trump refused the presidential daily briefing, refused to receive
intelligence briefings from the Biden, the Biden folk, intelligence folks during the
transition period, doesn't trust them at all.
I think there was a point when Trump became president.
Because remember, this is happening.
These revelations refer to early 2017.
These were Trump's first months as president of the United States.
I think at that point, he still assumed that when a general walks into the White House with enough decorations on his suit, his word actually means something.
I think Trump learned a lot of very hard lessons during that period.
I mean, it was James Comey who set up, who set up Flynn, General Flynn, and then bragged about it after Comey got fired, said that we would, we would.
would never have attempted something like that under a Hillary Clinton presidency, but we figured
Trump was green and we could get away with it. You even had the FBI agents saying, is our goal
here to get him fired or to get him to perjure himself? Basically, is our goal here to entrap him
or to run a domestic political operation to get him fired? I mean, the idea that the FBI would
plot to get a political appointee fired. And that that itself is not a crime. That was known
years ago that James Comey pulled that operation. That's a total violation of the FBI charter.
It's a complete inversion of the Democratic process itself to have a domestic spy agency
plot a political blackoff in order to destroy the employment.
of a political appointee.
But, I mean, this was the FBI was the House of Crimes under James Comey.
I would be hard pressed to think that Pam Bondi can't find one.
Here's one.
This was my favorite post of yours ever.
And it's, I can't read it on this family show.
But since it all ties together and so many of these people,
you know, Julia, like we know who Julie is.
So many of these people are, you know, Julia, Julia was the foreign policy advisor for Hillary Clinton.
She works actually with like Adam Schiff's team.
All these leakers, all these Rushgate leakers, they're all in league together.
It's all an entire rat's nest.
But she recommended the critical infrastructure lie.
That was, of course, the predicate for your entire career, Mike.
Yeah.
And so you've seen it now laid bare, and I have a couple of questions about this,
but what was this like to actually see the original source documents for the terms
that have haunted your dreams, Mike?
Ridical infrastructure.
My mind was completely warped for about three days after seeing this.
It's because of how cavalier it is.
I mean, so that message itself is a total stunger.
I think it's probably one of the most stunning things we've learned in 2025 with classified documents being leaked.
That single paragraph had Hillary Clinton approving a plan to set up Trump as being vilified by Russia in July, months before the Russia Gate hoax was orchestrated through the Intelligence Committee assessment.
in January 2017, that was that we now saw sort of the source documents for John Brennan's
handwritten notes on August 3rd, 2016, where Brennan briefed Obama and James Comey on
the, on Hillary Clinton approving a plan to vilify Donald Trump in a scheme alleging Russian
interference by the Russian security services. We now know that it was that classified annex that
John Brennan was referring to. So the CIA had, the CIA saw that. We saw in that same paragraph that
CrowdStrike would provide the media, which is exactly what was done. CrowdStrike is not a
cybersecurity company. They're a cyber hoax for hire company. You pay them money and they tell
you whoever, whoever you want the media to print as hacking.
an election or hacking solar winds or hacking anyone in the world.
See, a lot of this cybersecurity attribution game is just a Fugazi.
There's no real way to know for sure with so many of these things.
You can simply have a false attribution.
You can simply have a VPN or leave fingerprints from whoever you want.
The CIA famously did this itself.
with its pocket Putin false attribution guide,
which was leaked by Julian Assange in Vault 7.
And CrowdStrike is Dimitri Alparovic joint.
That's the Atlantic Council.
It's the same George Soros-NATO network.
They, but that email in July had them saying,
we have no direct evidence.
Hillary Clinton just approved this plan
to frame Trump as being set up as being helped
by the Russians, but we have no evidence of this.
So CrowdStrike will come in and provide the media, not even provide the proof, provide the media, give the media a story.
And then the following email says later in time, the FBI will come and pour oil on it.
That's what it said.
We read them live on it's like, it's so belligerent, Mike.
And then what they say in the middle of it, though, which I think was not caught by many people, was that, was that.
Say something like critical infrastructure is a menace to elections under Russian threat.
And it's such a glid statement.
Say something like critical infrastructure.
When critical infrastructure was exactly the phrase that was rolled out, and then it was the Russian attack on critical infrastructure, which never existed, and they knew it never existed, which was used as the justification to effectively federalize elections.
by having DHS declare elections itself as critical infrastructure.
This was the reason you had SISA set up.
This was the reason you had DHS control over electronic voting machines,
while DHS simultaneously deemed itself of the Ministry of Truth
to censor anyone who questioned the electronic voting machines that DHS took control of.
It was this critical infrastructure hoax.
that resulted in the entire censorship industrial complex in the United States,
which started off in DHS before it spread throughout the whole of government
and the Biden administration.
I would not be here, were it not for this hoax itself.
But their defense, what you saw happened in the past week since this came out,
is they said, well, this is from Leonard Bernardo,
who was the Open Society Institute Eurasia Center head,
which is just too perfect.
It was the, the, I've been saying all along, this whole thing is, is a, you know,
the great world continent that has been the focus of U.S. foreign policy since the early
1900s in the Alfred Milner plan, but there's $75 trillion worth of natural resources in
Eurasia. So everyone from Black Rock to the George Soros Management Fund to London and Wall Street
has made billions and billions of dollars of bets on Eurasia being folded entirely into NATO,
into the Western civil and political and military control. And Trump represented a threat
to that plan's completion.
That was under maximum pursuit by Obama, by George Bush, by Bill Clinton, all the way through the Cold War.
And so the fact that it was the Open Society Institute Eurasia Center, it was the George Soros, Eurasia.
Now, George Soros met with Hillary Clinton.
You can pull this up in August 2016.
both he and the senior head of the Eurasia Center.
If you look up George Soros, Hillary Clinton, 2016 in August,
George Soros is a hedge fund with a civil society institution attached,
just like Harvard is a hedge fund with a university attached.
George Soros has billions of dollars of investments in Eurasia.
And then he meets with the Secretary of State,
Hillary Clinton, here it is, and you'll see if you just run a control after Eurasia,
you'll see exactly what I'm talking about.
So they would be in position to know.
They were literally meeting Soros with his billions of dollars of investments that depend on U.S.
foreign policy, buttering his bread, setting up those investments to become profitable
because the Secretary of State gets to control all policy in the region.
And so that exact center would know.
Now, their defense in the past week has been, well, Leonard Bernardo said he did not recall writing that email.
And because it was hacked by Russia, we're told, there's no proof that he actually said this, even though it's in these emails.
Well, riddle me this, New York Times.
If Leonard Bernardo didn't write it, then how was this hacker able to,
perfectly predict exactly what CrowdStrike would do, or that the DNC would even employ
CrowdStrike? How were they able to predict exactly what the FBI did? Did this hacker
also hacked the brain of James Comey? How did this hacker predict exactly what the Department
of Homeland Security? Did he hack DHS Secretary Jeff Johnson's brain? Did this hacker hack the
DNC Crowdstrike, the CIA, the FBI,
Barack Obama, this is the most clairvoyant hacker in human history.
No, it was obviously foreknowledge by the Open Society Institute, by George Soros, by James Comey, by John Brennan, by Hillary Clinton, and they got caught flat, busted, and classified this thing for nine years because of how damning this thing is.
So I have to ask, where does this go now for George Soros?
You say that Hillary Clinton is guilty of a criminal conspiracy.
Maybe you can touch on that.
But what does this look like for the George Soros tie-in, which is, while some may have
suspected it, Mike, is now in the black and white.
The Open Society Foundation was critical to this.
And more importantly, we've had members of Congress and senators on our program saying,
well, that makes a lot of sense.
And here's why.
Because somebody has to pay for it all.
You know, it's not easy to employ Christopher Steele.
It's not cheap to get a bunch of Russian spies to write this.
information on Trump. This kind of operation requires a ton of lawyers. It requires a lot of people
to, like, go walk these documents into the FBI and into the CIA. Somebody had to pay for it
and those in the nose say it was George Soros that was actually funding all of this. What kind
of culpability does he have? Well, unfortunately, I don't, you don't see anything in here
that ties George Soros. This is Leonard Bernardo, which is a George Soros,
You know, the Open Society Foundation is obviously run by Soros and its Eurasia Center under it.
What, you know, you don't have in this, in this document trail, a reference that Leonard Bernardo, for example, you know, knew because of George Soros or George Soros arranged.
But I think what you, there are other methods of accountability here.
Now, it is also quite telling. I believe it was Judge Barrell Howell that, that, that, that, you know,
Durham, I believe, attempted to actually run down the Leonard Bernardo leads and to get access to
Leonardo's Gmail, I believe it was, to his personal or to his personal emails and to his
Open Society Institute emails. Because I believe John Durham interviewed Leonard Bernardo about
this. And that's why Leonard Bernardo, that quote that I mentioned, him saying that I, I don't
recall writing this email. Of course, the New York Times, I believe, misreported that quote and said
that Leonard Bernardo denied ever writing it. And of course, that's not a denial to say that
I don't recall is the great American catch-all that allows you to deny knowledge of having
doing it without perjuring yourself because you can never prove that the person didn't did or didn't
remember. What I'm saying, Mike, is why can't we get a subpoena? I mean, we did get a subpoena, actually.
Well, like we have Tim Burchett was on the show saying, no, let's subpoena.
And then Tim Burchett subpoenaed that afternoon.
Yeah.
It's up to him.
You know, it's up to Chairman Comer.
Right.
Well, this is what I'm saying is, is I believe that there was a court fight about this already with Durham and that a judge, a judge, I believe, appeared to block the FBI being able to get a court-ordered subpoena.
of Leonard Bernardo's emails in order to actually validate it because that was, like I was saying, this, this, they've been allowed to deny that these emails are real or that they really wrote those emails because the FBI has been unable to get access through a court to the actual underlying emails, which is another one of these, you run into this, you know, DC court problem, the same one that the Trump admin is experienced, uh, in some,
many other cases. But I think if a fresh case were to be brought, particularly if it can be done
outside of the D.C. jurisdiction, if you can get this in front of a Florida jury because of the
nexus to Mara Lago or the nexus to individuals who were tracked or surveilled or who were subjected
to this conspiracy, outside of the 95% Democrat District of Columbia,
I think that you would probably get a more favorable ruling.
So you could, but James Comer doesn't need that.
James Comer can go subpoenaed George Soros right now, should he?
Well, I mean, that is one of the questions is how would, you know, for, for an, I mean, obviously to the
George Comer doesn't need like some judge to sign off on it.
He's, boom, he's the, he's the authority.
He's the constitutional authority.
Go yet to the extent that that's, to that, that's enforceable.
Happy 95th birthday, George Soros, you know, right?
But there's also.
lots of other things that can be done. Obviously, I support the maximum amount of pressure that
can be exerted through Congress on this corrupt cabal here. One of the things that I'm very
focused on is that I believe that we need declassifications beyond just what's happening at the
FBI layer and the ODNI layer. We need them at the USAID and the State Department layer, as well as
the U.S. Institute of Peace, which Darren BD just became the acting president of. George Soros has made
his whole career on skating on the back of the State Department.
This is why he met with Hillary Clinton in August 2016
exactly at the time that these emails came out
and that exactly the time that Hillary Clinton made her pivot,
her first speech in August 2016,
alleging Trump being backed by Russia,
right as she's meeting with Putin.
I can tell you, Mike, Trump has about ready to come out at the Kennedy Center.
But he hasn't come out yet.
I want to show the preview shot here, ladies and gentlemen.
You can see that everyone's sort of getting seated right now.
I just saw Lindsey Graham and Susie Wiles come in.
Yeah, and maybe Pam Bondi.
So it's going to be one hell of an announcement here.
Mike, I want to go, like, very quickly here.
You have a post up saying Hillary Clinton is absolutely guilty of a criminal conspiracy
to defraud the American taxpayers and Intel community and so on.
How would that prosecution go?
Is that like too much of a pipe dream to even dream about?
Dare a boy dream, Mike?
I'm dreaming right now.
I think that Trump was merciful and naive and innocent when he first became present in 2017 after saying that Hillary Clinton would be in jail.
And then Hillary Clinton campaigned on putting Trump in jail.
They nearly did.
They shot him in the face.
They hit him with 91 felonies, a thousand years in prison if Trump didn't win the election.
And now, you know, they're dead to rights here.
Hillary Clinton clearly approved this plan to falsify information in order to portray Donald Trump as being backed by Russia and then conspired with the head of the Central Intelligence Agency, the head of the FBI, potentially the former president of the United States himself.
I don't think you're going to have riots in the streets if John Brennan and Hillary Clinton are arrested.
I think that Hillary Clinton is not exactly a beloved figure on the left.
I think that you could, I could see there being a tremendous amount of civil disturbance
if Barack Obama is indicted, even though he looks guilty as well.
But I think that, and then you also don't need.
Also has immunity.
He also has immunity.
Hillary doesn't.
Right.
But I think that you don't even need.
I think that having Hillary Clinton.
Clinton and John Brennan indicted for this, you know, as simply alleged the conspiracy that
they falsified information to, you know, conducted fraud, to falsify intelligence in order to run
this gambit. And then their only defense is that they really believe their own BS. I mean,
that's the only defense that they would have. You have an agreement and an affirmative.
affirmative act and furtherance. So you have the two necessary legal components in order to bring
the indictment. Their only defense is that, well, we really believe that Russia, it wasn't,
we didn't know it to be, even though it was false, we didn't know it to be false at the time.
And I think that's belied by several things. We have the circumstantial evidence around
around intent from these emails in the classified annex,
the emails in John Brent's handwritten notes.
But they didn't, this was the magic behind the Trump prosecution.
They never had a intent for Trump to commit crimes,
but they charge them anyway.
This Justice Department has, if that's rule of law,
then it has to be brought against Hillary Clinton and John Brent, too.
Thank you, Mike.
Perfect timing.
Here we go, President Trump.
Godspeed, Mike.
Everyone follow, Mike.
And we'll make it better than it ever was, frankly.
It'll be something that people are going to be very proud of.
Along with, in the bigger picture, a place called Washington, D.C.
That is the bigger one, and we'll talk about that in a little while.
But let's talk about right now the Kennedy Center.
I'm delighted to be here as we officially announced the incredibly talented artists
who will be celebrated later this year at the 2025.
Kennedy Center honors. It's going to be a big evening. I've been asked to host. I said,
I'm the president of the United States. Are you fools asking me to do that? Sir, you'll get much
higher ratings. I said, I don't care. I'm president of the United States. I won't do it.
They said, please. And then Susie Well said to me, sir, I like in our house. I said,
okay, Susie, I'll do it. That's the power she's got. But I just said, I just,
So I have agreed to host.
Do you believe what I have to do?
And I didn't want to do it, okay?
They're going to say, he insisted. I did not insist.
But I think it will be quite successful, actually.
It's been a long time. I used to host the Apprentice Finallies,
and we did rather well with that.
So I think we're going to do very well, because we have some great honorees,
some really great ones.
Since 1978, the Kennedy Center honors have been among the most prestigious awards
in the performing arts.
I wanted one, I was never able to get one.
This year, it's true, actually.
I would have taken it if they would have called me.
I waited and waited and waited.
And I said, hell with it, I'll become chairman.
I'll give myself an honor.
Maybe I'm going to honor.
Next year we'll honor Trump, okay?
This year, the board has selected a truly exceptional class of honorees.
I mean, really exceptional.
First is country music star, actor, and producer, George Strait.
great over an extraordinary four-decade career george has sold more than 120 million records worldwide
amassed 60 number one hits wow and produced 33 platinum certified albums more than any other living
american that is amazing he's believed by millions of people to
just be as good as you can get, and he's beloved by hundreds of millions of people all over the world.
He's really something, and they call him the king of country, and we know him very well.
George Strait.
Thank you.
Oh, it looks nice.
You're a good-looking guy.
I hope he still looks like that.
Second is actor, singer, philanthropist, and star of the Broadway stage.
One of my favorite talents, I think he's one of the greatest talents I've ever actually seen.
I've always said, and just so we don't get in trouble, I'll say among, but among the greatest artists in the world are the Broadway London actors back and forth.
That's all they want to do is they want to do Broadway and they want to do London.
They want to do eight shows a week, including matinee on Wednesday.
And if you said make a movie, they can't even think about it.
If you say, go on television, they don't want it.
All they want to do is be on the stage, a live stage, and it's amazing.
But I've always said that the most talented people.
And this man may be the most of all.
Michael Crawford is being honored.
Michael was born in England.
1942. He made his Broadway debut in 1967. I was there. I shouldn't say that, but I was there. Seems like a
long time ago. And he became an international sensation in the 1980s for his original portrayal
of the Phantom of the Opera, one of the greatest ever, ever, ever, ever. You don't see him
like that very often. Winning him the esteemed Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical.
He won so many awards. Michael is truly a generational talent. Had a voice that was
unbelievable. It was unbelievable. There's never, I don't know, it's Luciano Poverati had a very
different voice. The power was incredible, magnificent. Michael had a different kind of a voice.
These are just unbelievable talents. But Michael
is very special, and one of the greatest roles in the history of Broadway,
and nobody did it like him.
Michael Crawford, thank you very much.
Great guy.
Next, we look forward to honoring three-time Oscar nominee Golden Globe Award winner,
an action movie icon, and a friend of mine.
He's a very unique man.
He's somebody that doesn't do these things.
I said, I wonder if he'll accept
because some people
don't really want to be honored.
They don't care.
But he was
very honored to be honored, I will tell you.
He was very special guy.
A real talent, never been given the credit for the talent.
There was nobody else could have done the roles
that he did like he did him, not even close,
and they've tried it and they didn't work out too well.
His name is Sylvester Stallone.
So it's very few, almost, if any, people that could have taken a name and made it so incredible, like Rocky, Rambo, Creed, and others, but think of it, Rocky, Rambo. If you did one, you're good. You do two. And I'll never forget I was a young guy, and
I went to see a thing called Rambo, and it had just come out.
I didn't know anything about it, but I was in a movie theater.
Like, we used to go to movie theaters a lot.
And I said, this movie is phenomenal.
What the heck?
And that turned out to be a monster.
Rocky is Rocky.
I mean, the way that happened, you know, Sly had no money, nothing.
And he went around, and everybody wants to do a boxing movie.
It's the most, you know, probably more than any other time.
type of character, boxing.
Boxing, always boxing is so great.
And there's rarely been anything like this one.
John Voight did a great one, as you know.
Champ, great.
I think that was right there, too.
John Voigt's a phenomenal person, phenomenal actor.
But Sly came in and he had no money.
He wrote his script, along with thousands of other people writing scripts on a boxer.
And for some reason, a studio picked up this and liked it, and Sly had, he's in an old car that he came in from Brooklyn or someplace in New York, but I think Brooklyn, it barely made it to California. He was sleeping in the car. I mean, he had nothing. And he wanted control over who the actor was going to be because he said it can't be successful if you're going to pick a movie actor with a bad build, okay?
a nice face, but a bad body.
And he said, I can't have these guys because he's a tough cookie,
and he knew exactly what it took.
He knew what a boxer's body was.
So they brought him one, and I won't tell you who it was,
but it was a big name, but the chest wasn't exactly what you need.
One shot, and your heart would pop out.
That wasn't too good.
Then he did another one.
He was fat, sloppy, but had a good.
face. And he did another one and another one and another one. And he turned it down. He wouldn't
take one million dollars. He wouldn't do it. And it turned out that when they saw him, they said,
you know, you'd be actually pretty good for this role. And he had never done this before,
anything like it. But think of it, he turned down a million dollars. He had nothing. He refused to
let somebody else play. He didn't want to play it. He wasn't originally. He did it as a writer. But he
ended up playing it because he couldn't find anybody else that fit the role. And who knew what
would have happened? He's become a legend of the silver screen, a true legend, and he's a great
guy. It's a little bit tough, a little bit different, I will tell you. He's a little tough guy.
But he's a phenomenal person with a phenomenal wife and family, incredible wife, incredible
family. His film's grossing more than $7.5 billion, which is either a record or very close
to it. I can't imagine anybody doing it more. If you add up Rambo and Rocky and these others,
I can't imagine anybody doing much more. Seven point five billion worldwide over the course
of six decades. And Sly is a pillar of the really American pop culture and a Hollywood
superstar, like few others, and one of the biggest names on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In fact, the only one that's a bigger name of the Hollywood Walk of Fame, they say,
is a guy named Donald Trump.
I'm on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, too, if you can believe that one.
But he's amazing.
He's really amazing.
And he's actually a great actor.
Fourth will be together celebrating one of the most revered
singers of the American disco era, Gloria Gaynor.
Best known for her chart-topping
1978 hit, I Will Survive.
Gloria won the 1980 Grammy for Best Disco
Recording, and her song was inducted into the
National Recording Registry in 2016, four decades later.
Gloria won a second Grammy in 2020 for her gospel album testimony, which is incredible,
truly a historic achievement, not only in terms of the years that have gone by to be great
that long, but to have the two top, two top of anything in that span of time and with that
kind of period between is pretty amazing. But I will say that I will say that I will say
survive is an unbelievable song. I've heard it, you know, like everyone else here, thousands of
times. And it's one of those few that get better every time you hear it. And nobody can sing
it like her. And that's an honor. So Gloria Gaynor. Thank you. Thank you. And finally,
we'll be honoring one of the greatest rock bands of all time, Kiss.
So Kist was formed in 1973 in New York City by founding band members and incredible people,
by the way, Paul Stanley, Jean Simmons, Ace Fraley, and Peter Chris.
Kiss became a global phenomenon, sold more than 100 million records worldwide, and produced
30 gold albums and lots of other things they produced.
They made a fortune.
And they're great people, and they deserve it,
and they work hard, and they're still working hard.
And it's an honor to present Chris.
Kiss.
Thank you very much.
Got it.
Yeah.
Thank you.
And they're going to do something very special.
Kiss is going to be here on a little bit before
show. I think they're going to do something very special. We're going to have a good time.
The 48th Kennedy Center honorees are outstanding people, an outstanding group, incredible.
We can't wait to celebrate the Kennedy Center honors. It'll be in December. It'll be on CBS.
In a few short months since I became chairman of the board, the Kennedy Center, we have
completely reversed the decline of this cherished national.
institution. It was being run down. Money wasn't being spent properly. They were building things
they shouldn't have built that nobody wanted instead of taking care of the great gem that
it is. You look at the marble. Look at the quality of the marble. The things that with a little
fix-up and a little work, we can make it unbelievable. These columns, when you see them the next time,
they'll be magnificent. I mean, we have some great plans for this. The bones are so good. The
of a building if you don't have the bones you might as well forget it i'm working in another
building i think called the white house we're fixing it up so beautifully it needed it it's been
many many years since it's been properly taken care of it's incredible one of the great places
of the world maybe i mean truly to me it's is there anything else even close but uh we're doing
that and doing some other things and we're going to also fix up a place called washington dc
we're going to make it so beautiful again we're going to be redoing the parks redoing the grass you know
grass is a lifetime like people have a lifetime and the lifetime of this grass has long been gone
when you look at the parks where the grass is uh uh all tired exhausted we're going to redo the
grass with the finest grasses i know a lot about grass because i own a lot of golf courses and
if you don't have good grass you're not in business very long lindsay graeme by the way you're
And by the way, you have very good poll numbers, Lindsay.
I just saw congratulations.
But a few short months ago, I became chairman
of the Kennedy Center and we completely reversed it.
We reversed what was happening.
We ended the woke political programming
and we're restoring the Kennedy Center
as the premier venue for performing arts
anywhere in the country, anywhere in the world.
This has the potential to be anywhere in the world.
We're gonna make it something that people can't
even believe we have some unbelievable plans and ultimately it's about the talent you get the you know
you can have a beautiful you can have a beautiful building you can have nice marble walls you can have
nicely done columns as i was saying but if you don't have the talent on the stage and we're going
to get the best talent in the world to that end the world renowned musical le mis had a phenomenal
five weeks sold out run this summer beat projected revenues by 35 percent and we've raised over 10 million
and private funds from a lot of generous donors.
And we closed the $26 million budget shortfall that they had for before we got here.
And with the help of Congress, we secured the critical funding necessary to rebuild the building
and to, we're going to get all brand new highest level seats, magnificent seats and going to be all new.
We could have taken the existing ones and do the little paint job, little fabric.
brick, but it's not the same thing.
So we'll be taken out next season.
All of the seats will be taken out.
The room is being completely rebuilt.
And I just want to thank the Republicans and the Senate,
headed by Lindsey in that case.
Lindsay was very much, she's a big fan of this building.
And they got a record, $257 million that's going to go
toward renovations that building really needs
and all of the exterior is going to be incredible.
It's going to be exciting.
So I thank you very much and thank all of your Republican senators.
I don't think we had too many Democrat votes, probably.
You never have.
We don't have Democrats voting even for crime.
But I shouldn't make this political
because they made the Academy Awards political
and they went down the tubes.
So they'll say Trump made it political,
but I think if we make it our kind of political,
we'll go up, okay?
Let's see if I'm right about that.
But I want to thank the executive director
for an incredible job.
He's done great.
He's been with me for just about the beginning.
And everything he's touched has been good.
He was on high intelligence.
He worked in low intelligence and high intelligence.
He did better with the high intelligent people.
But he's been fantastic.
He's the executive director, Rick Grinnell,
for his work.
Thank you very much, Rick.
Unbelievable job.
And as well as Lindsey and all the people
that helped us in Congress, I want to thank.
And the Senate has been incredible.
By the way, leader Thune has been unbelievable.
And Speaker Mike Johnson, these are great people.
What we're doing with the great big, beautiful bill,
is you're gonna see a whole different country.
You're seeing it already.
We're coming in where trillions of dollars
is coming in from tariffs from all over the world,
from countries that took advantage of our
country. They thought we were children. They took advantage of us for decades and now the money
is flowing to us. And we have, we've become the hottest country anywhere in the world. But the
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she's doing is incredible. Thank you very much. Long beyond the Kennedy Center. The Kennedy Center is
the easy part. She's incredible and you're going to see a big change in Washington crime stats very
soon. Not the stats that they gave because they turned out to be a total fraud. The real stats,
the stats went through the roof. You know, they had a man that was forced to put up stats like
they were doing better. They're not doing better. Crime is the worst it's ever been. But it started
as of about yesterday, it started to, you see a big change.
And people are feeling safe already.
I have it so many calls.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you.
They were afraid to walk out.
They're not afraid anymore.
And this will get, this will be like the border.
We started off with millions and millions of people coming in from all over the world.
Gang members and people from jails.
They were unloading their jails into our country.
All over the world, they were coming.
Drug dealers.
They came from Africa.
They came from Asia.
They came from South America, Venezuela, in particular.
They were coming in, Trin de Aragua, and the toughest people you've ever seen.
And by the millions, and for the last three months, we had zero, zero, and zero.
We had zero people come in for three months.
They respect our country again.
That's the other thing.
All over the world, our country is respected again.
So I also want to thank the chief of staff, Susie Wiles, who's fantastic.
She's done an incredible job.
And Sergio Gore for the job he's done with personnel.
Thank you very much, Sergio.
Fantastic.
In the coming months, we'll fully renovate the dated and really the entire infrastructure of the building
and make the Kennedy Center a crown jewel of American arts and culture,
again. I think we'll bring it to a higher level than it ever hit. Actually, it hit a certain
level, but we're going to bring it to a higher level than it ever hit. We have the right
location. And soon we will be a crime-free area. This is going to be a crime-free area,
by the way. You'll be able to go out. People tell me they can't run anymore. They're just
afraid. And they'll be running again. We're going to have a crime-free. It's a big statement
because if one thing happens all year, Pam, you better be good because they'll say,
Trump did not fulfill this one person gets a little injured by somebody.
They'll say Trump did not fulfill his problems.
No, we're going to be essentially crime free.
This is going to be a beacon.
And it's going to also serve as an example of what can be done.
We have to get rid of this cashless bail nonsense.
If you look at New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, which is so badly run, Los Angeles.
They can't get the houses.
They can't get the people that have permits.
build their houses. They're trying to rebuild the houses from the ridiculous fire that should have
never allowed to take in place. They should have had the water coming down from the Pacific Northwest,
but they didn't do that. But they can't get the permits for the people. They want to build their
houses. But I want to thank Lee Zeldin because the federal government has gotten all of their
permits, which are much more difficult permits, actually, and had them literally within 30 days
after the fire. Everybody had their permit. But you don't have the city and state permits.
They've got to get going. The governor and the mayor have to get going. It will just be a matter of
time that we're going to do something that's going to be incredible. We're going to use the Kennedy Center
as a big focus of it. And that's the 250th anniversary celebration that we're having.
So it's 250 years. So we have the Olympics. We have the World Cup. And we have the 200 and
50th anniversary celebration, all in this administration, and it's an honor that we were able to not be allowed to do what we were illegally and what we were supposed to do. And that was, we had a great election in 2020. We won the election by a lot, but it was a rigged election. And we had to wait four years and we waited four years. And it's interesting because I got the Olympics and I got the World Cup.
I can't claim that I got the 250, that one's a big one, but I happen to be here.
But I got the Olympics, I got the World Cup.
And I said, the shame of it is that I'm not going to be president when it happens.
And lo and behold, look what happens.
We have some bad things took place, and now I'm going to be president for the Olympics.
I'll be president for the World Cup, and the 250th is going to be maybe more exciting than both.
It's a great celebration of our country.
We're going to be using this building for a lot of the celebration having to do with 250 years.
But as I said earlier, I'm determined to make Washington, D.C. safe, clean and beautiful again.
It's going to take place very rapidly, be prepared.
And a big part of that is going to include the Kennedy Center.
So thank you very much.
And I want to thank everybody for helping us.
This is mostly the group right here that's they're young, they're smart, they're ambitious,
They want my job.
One of them will probably have it.
But we have a great group of people that are putting this together,
and they're also helping us with Washington, D.C.
We're going to make Washington beautiful.
We're going to redo roads.
We're going to redo the medians, the pavers,
and the medians all throughout the city.
We're going to take all the graffiti off.
We're going to have to remove the tents and the people that are living in our parks.
We're going to be redoing the parks, the grasses and all.
We're going to be going to Congress for a relatively small amount of money,
and Lindsay and the Republicans are going to be approving it.
I don't know about the Democrats.
They don't approve anything.
It's amazing.
It's like they just don't want to vote for anything.
They've got the yips.
You know, in golf, they say the yips.
The Democrats are afraid to do anything because they don't want to be criticized.
But fighting crime is a good thing.
We have to explain.
We're going to fight crime.
That's a good thing.
Already they're saying, he's a dictator.
here, the place is going to hell, and we've got to stop it.
So instead of saying he's a dictator, they should say, we're going to join him and make Washington safe.
But he's a dictator.
And then they end up getting mugged, but the stats are very bad.
But we're going to, I think we'll actually get Democrats support.
I really believe they can't do this one, too.
You know, they talk about 80-20s, 80-20 issues, but I think many of those 80-20 issues
like men and women's sports, I think it's 97 to 3, not 80-20.
And I think crime is maybe 100 to nothing.
So I think we may get very well some Democrat support, but I hope so.
But even if we don't, we have the majority, so we're going to vote it in as Republicans
and we're going to do something.
And that's going to serve as a beacon for New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, and other places
all over the country. This whole, our whole country is going to be so different and so great.
It's going to be clean and safe and beautiful, and people are going to love our flag more than
they've ever loved it. And we're going to do a great job. So I want to congratulate all the
nominees. They're unbelievable people. And we're going to have a tremendous day in December.
And that evening is going to be special, some really special people and real talent.
Do you have any questions?
Yes, please.
Hi, sir.
There's a new reporting that the Russians have hacked into some computer systems that manage U.S. federal court documents.
I wonder if you've seen this reporting and if you plan to bring it up with Putin when you see him later on the week.
I guess I could.
Are you surprised?
You surprised?
They hack in.
That's what they do.
They're good at it.
We're good at it.
We're actually better at it.
But no, I have heard about it.
I've heard about it.
I've heard about it.
Mr. President.
Please.
Thank you, Mr. President.
You mentioned congressional Democrats.
You have not yet met with Democratic leadership, but there's a funding deadline at the end of September.
Would you, do you plan to meet with Leader Schumer and Leader Jeffers to discuss that situation?
Well, I will, I guess, but it's almost a waste of time to meet because they never approve anything.
if we want money to fight crime if we want money to do only good things just good things let's not
even talk about controversy they don't want to meet about anything they really are they're
they're they're stuck they don't know what to do they have probably more i would say more than
half are sane but they are led by insane people and they the kind of things that they're
pushing are not something we have a communist running for the mayor of new york and i wish
him well. I may have to deal with him. I mean, it's not even conceivable. It's not even conceivable
that that could happen. And maybe he won't win, but he won the primaries by quite a bit. You know,
shockingly, he won the primaries. So, and you see some of the people supporting him that truly
don't believe what he's espousing. So, I mean, we will meet, but nothing's going to come out of
the meeting, but here's the advantage we have is that we have a great, we just passed the
great big, beautiful bill that had all the biggest tax cuts in history. No tax on tips, no tax on
Social Security. Think of it. Think of that for the seniors, no tax on overtime. And all sorts of
things. You go out, buy a car. You can deduct the interest payment. If you borrow money, you can
deduct the interest payment for your taxes. So many things. But the biggest thing is from a
business standpoint deductions and you know that was tremendous it's going to our country is roaring
our businesses are you're going to see some numbers in 12 months when these factories are open you
know we're opening up factories all over the world all over the all over the country but that's
all spreading to i think we're spreading the wealth all over the world if you want to know the
truth but we're opening them to this country at a level that we've never seen before we've
never seen so they just don't want to prove anything they just we meet with them and they say
As Nancy Reagan said, just say no.
They go, just say no.
They're afraid to approve anything.
If we say, we want to stop crime in this country, or, as an example, bail, we want to make it so that people of their, if they murder somebody, they're in jail.
They don't get out on no bail.
They say, we don't want that.
We want people to murder somebody, and they immediately are released, and they go out and murder somebody else.
It's a big problem.
A tremendous problem.
By the way, we're going to go for statutes.
in D.C. and then ultimately for the rest of the country, where that's not going to be allowed.
Because it was when they did the cashless bail thing that the numbers really started going up.
In this city, in New York, in Chicago, and Los Angeles, no matter where they have it, the numbers went through the roof.
So we're going to meet with them, of course. I'd like to meet with them.
We're going to tell them all these good things, and they're going to tell us no.
And then we're going to go out and we're going to vote it in by the Republicans.
because I don't believe that we, I don't believe that anybody is capable of making a deal with these people.
They have gone crazy.
Go ahead.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Your federalization of the police has a 30-day limit unless Congress acts to extend it.
Are you talking to Congress about extending it, or do you believe 30 days is sufficient?
Well, if it's a national emergency, we can do it without Congress,
but we expect to be to Congress before Congress very quickly.
And again, we think the Democrats will not do anything to stop crime, but we think the Republicans will do it almost unanimously.
So we're going to need a crime bill that we're going to be putting in, and it's going to pertain initially to D.C.
It's almost – we're going to use it as a very positive example, and we're going to be asking for extensions on that, long-term extensions, because you can't have 30 days.
30 days is that's by the time you do it.
And we're going to have this in good shape.
And don't forget, in the border, everyone said it would take years and you'd have to go back to Congress.
I never went to Congress for anything.
I just said, close the border.
And they closed the border.
And that was the end of it.
I didn't go back to Congress.
We're going to do this very quickly.
But we're going to want extensions.
I don't want to call national emergency.
If I have to, I will.
But I think the Republicans in Congress will approve this pretty much unanimously.
Please, go ahead.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Would you encourage members of the press to do ride-alongs with the D.C. police to understand how serious this crime issue is?
It's okay to me if they want to do it.
We're going to work with the D.C. police.
A lot of very good people in there.
Not all, but a lot of very good, very professional.
And, you know, we have a big force.
I think they said, 3,500, they're always asking the mayor, who's a very nice woman,
We've got to do the job.
You know, we've worked with the mayor for six months, and she's been here for many years.
And the numbers are worse than they ever.
Don't let anyone tell you they're not.
And the whole statistical charts that they made, the whole thing is a rigged deal.
They got rid of the guy that, because he didn't want to do the numbers the way they wanted to,
and they put their own numbers out.
They said it's the best in 20 years.
No, it's the worst in 20 years.
But we're going to have, we're going to be very open about what we're doing.
If the media wants to ride with the police, if they want to do it, if they feel it's safe, that would be okay.
Yeah, please, go ahead.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Very much with D.L.L.A. with D.L.A. 2 questions on D.C. if that's okay.
How do you feel about Mayor Bowser's level of cooperation and her choosing to advocate for D.C. statehood right now?
Well, the statehood, let me do that one for you. Statehood is ridiculous.
We want to straighten the place out.
statehood's ridiculous it's unacceptable it's uh the democrats want it because the democrats have
you know about 95 percent in this little area even i i didn't get it very much they want that
they want to pick up two senators and it's not going to happen it's not going to happen and that's
the least of the reasons why by the way but that's one of the reasons why what we want to do is
make Washington DC the greatest most beautiful safest capital anywhere in the world and that's
going to happen. I mentioned the word bones before. The bones here, the bones, we have the
greatest bones. When you look at that Supreme Court building, I think it's one of the most
beautiful buildings. When you look at some of the buildings here are so magnificent and
everything's good, but it's just dirty and not properly maintained. It's not taken care of.
Potholes in the roads. All of it's going to happen very quickly. We're going to seek a relatively
small amount of money for fix-up, and we're going to put it out to bid. We have great contractors here,
road builders and we're not ripping roads apart so they're closed for four years as they
redo the concrete bases and you don't need that we need a beautiful topping by a very talented
asphalt type person somebody that does the job we we go out you know when we get when i get
contractors i use great contractors to me contractors are a great contractors are very special
like a great surgeon uh like a great teacher like a great nurse uh a great
contractor is very important. We'll only use the best. When you put a coat of asphalt on that
two inches of asphalt, three inches of asphalt, it looks brand new. You take all the garbage off.
They recede it, as we call it, or different names, but they take the bad stuff off and they put
the good stuff down. It takes not a long period of time. A matter of a few days, you'll have
a beautiful, magnificent road. You fix up the curbs. You get rid of the medians in this.
town are just horrible. You know, you're writing. I think to myself, leaders come from foreign
countries. You see with leaders all the time differently as they came in from India recently and from
everywhere. They came in from a war that we just ended, Azerbaijan and you know that in Armenia.
We just ended the war. The two leaders came in. One of them said, my country looks better.
The roads are better than, you know, we were talking about it. I said, what do you think?
He said, well, the roads are better in Armenia than they are in Washington, D.C.
It's embarrassing.
And I was asked at the last press conference, they said to me, how important is it?
You're doing world peace.
We're going on Friday to Alaska, meeting with President Putin, Russia.
How important it is that the capitalism is important?
I said, very, very important.
I told my father, said to me, when you see a restaurant and you want to go,
and you want to have dinner, and then you go up to the front door and it's dirty,
turn around and go back because the kitchen's dirty.
It's the same thing with the capital of the United States of America.
If it's dirty and unsafe, it sets a bad tone for the rest of the world.
So we're not going to do that.
We're going to have this capital fixed up, safe, clean, and beautiful in a very short period of time.
Go ahead, please.
In the back, yeah, please.
Mr. President, how were your calls this morning with European leaders,
And was it your call not to invite President Zelensky to your meeting with Putin?
No, just the opposite.
No, no.
We had a very good call.
He was on the call.
President Zelensky was on the call.
I would rate it at 10, you know, very, very friendly.
I know the leaders because I was at NATO, as you know, I took it from 2% to 5%.
2% that wasn't paid, 5% that is paid, which is trillions of dollars in defense capability.
No, it was always going to be, I was going to meet with President Putin.
And then after that, I'm going to call the leaders and President Zelensky.
I'm going to call President Zelensky, and then I'll call probably in that order the leaders.
There's a very good chance that we're going to have a second meeting, which will be more productive than the first,
because the first is I'm going to find out where we are and what we're doing.
Again, this is Biden's war.
This isn't my war.
He got us into this thing.
And it should have never happened.
This war would have never happened if I were president.
But it is what it is, and I'm here to fix it, and I'm here to stop 6,000, 7,000 people last week.
7,213 people last week were killed, mostly soldiers.
But missiles being lobbed into towns don't exactly help either, but mostly soldiers.
And Ukrainian and Russian, they're not American soldiers, but, you know, if we can save a lot of lives, it would be a great thing.
I've done five, I've stopped five wars in the last six months.
And on top of that, we wiped out the nuclear capability of Iran, obliterated it.
It turned out to be a correct word, by the way, because, you know, some of the press said,
well, maybe it wasn't obliteration.
It was obliteration.
And we're going to meet with, I would say, the second meeting.
If the first one goes okay, we'll have a quick second one.
I would like to do it almost immediately.
And we'll have a quick second meeting between President Putin.
and President Zelensky and myself if they'd like to have me there.
And that would be a meeting where maybe it could be absolutely work.
But the first meeting will not work that out.
Certain great things can be gained in the first.
It's going to be a very important meeting.
But it's setting the table for the second meeting.
I think the second meeting, if the second meeting takes place.
Now, there may be no second meeting because if I feel that it's not appropriate to have it
because they didn't get the answers that we have to have,
then we're not going to have a second meeting.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
I didn't ask you.
Go ahead, please, the arrest, regress.
I just wanted to ask you, thank you, Mr. President.
What involved were you in the selection process of these honorees?
I would say I was about 98% involved.
No, they all went through me.
They came over, Rick and Sergio and everybody.
They said, I turned down plenty.
It was too woke.
I had a couple of wokesters.
No, we have great people.
This is very different than it used to be.
Very different.
These are great people.
And I don't have any idea of the Republican because it weren't people that the Kennedy Center has everything.
Look at the Academy Awards.
It gets lousy ratings now.
It's all woke.
All they do is talk about how much they hate Trump.
But nobody likes that.
They don't watch anymore.
That used to have 45 million people watching.
I remember The Apprentice, first season.
The Apprentice had 42 million people.
The Academy Awards had 41 million people.
We were the second show to the Super Bowl.
But since then, the Academy Awards have gone down to,
I think they've gone down to numbers that are like a regular show
because it went, well, we're not doing it for that reason.
We're doing it because we want the great talent.
But these are great people.
So I was very, I was just a very long answer, but I was very involved.
Thank you, Mr. President.
The Biden administration was auctioning off quarter wall materials,
but we're hearing now that the auctioneers selling those materials back.
Are you finishing building the wall?
Well, I built hundreds of miles of wall, and I was getting very close.
I actually finished the wall, but then I added another 200 miles,
because when you do the original wall that I said I was going to build,
which I got built, and I got it to the specifications of the Border Patrol and ICE,
the exact, they wanted steel, they wanted concrete inside, they wanted rebar inside that,
they wanted it to have wires.
The walls are wired for, you know, all of the Internet stuff and security things.
And we built it hundreds of miles. We did great.
That's one of the reasons even now we're able to have such good numbers at zero,
or essentially very little people coming in.
But Biden, I ordered for another 200 miles.
I was going to do another 200 because it's the way it is.
And we're all set to do it.
Then we had the bad election result,
the horrible, horrible, what happened to our country,
what they've allowed to happen to our country.
And we are taking now that wall back.
They sold the wall.
Now, this is expensive stuff.
Harden steel, very expensive.
9,000 pound concrete and rebar.
Rebar is very expensive.
The hardest rebrand is very hard to cut.
You have different materials.
It's very hard to cut because they cut it down if they can.
It's very hard to cut.
And Biden sold it for pennies on the dollar,
three cents on the dollar, four cents on the dollar.
He sold it.
And I said, these guys really don't want to.
That was when I first realized when I saw the wall
was being put up because we could have finished the rest of the wall in about four weeks, anywhere
from three to four weeks. It was all set to go. It was laying down, ready to be put up. The foundations
were, and they took over, and they said, we're going to sell the wall. And they sold it, as you know,
for pennies on the dollar. Well, Pam Bondi's been working very hard on suing that company,
and I think they reached a settlement where we're taking the wall back. But they stole the wall from
us. That wall is so expensive to build. And we had it, as you know, hundreds of miles of it.
And they came along and they basically sold it for scrap. And what a shame that is. But that was
when I first realized that these people actually want to have open borders. And no country has
open, who has, poor countries don't have open borders. No, we had open borders where people just
walked in that didn't matter what they looked like who they were. They could have, we had
11,888 murderers, half of whom killed more than one person,
I mean, literally, killed more than one person.
And this is who we took into our country.
So the wall is the least of it, but we're going to buy,
we're going to take the wall back.
We're paying a small amount of money, as I understand it,
to get it back, to get rid of the litigation.
We'll take it back.
We'll put it up.
Yeah.
Go ahead in the back, please.
I want to take it back to the Kennedy Center if I can, just for a second, Mr. President.
Sure.
For one, I understand, the late Miss show exceeded everyone's expectations, attendance, revenue across the board.
Do you anticipate future shows to basically do the same?
I like that guy.
Now that's called a question, okay?
And he's a great reporter, actually.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate it.
Yeah, it did great.
Le Miz did great, broke records and was sold out and beautiful.
And we anticipate a lot of that happening.
There's a thirst for it.
And especially when the crime is knocked out,
you know, when we knock out crime,
some people probably stay away from places,
like restaurants and other things.
It ruins your whole fabric.
It ruins your country.
And when somebody thinks they have about a 25% chance of getting mugged,
They say, let's not go to restaurants tonight.
We're going to make it so that they have no chance of getting mugged.
And it's going to happen soon.
And, yeah, we think we're going to have a lot of very successful evenings here, please.
Does Russia face any consequences if Vladimir Putin does not agree to stop the war after your meeting on Friday?
Yes, they will.
There will be consequences.
There will be.
I don't have to say.
There will be very severe consequences.
Yes.
Yeah, please.
I'm asking you a question about the...
Right next to you, please.
Yeah. About the federal.
Oh, federal is there.
My favorite. Too late.
He's too late.
You're considering threat of suing Jay Powell.
Can you update us on your thinking about that and tell us where you are in your search for a new chair?
Well, he took a building that could have been painted and fixed.
Like, we're going to fix this building for very little money.
And that was in better shape.
He took a building and they just, what they did to that building, they built.
the basement under the building. It didn't have a basement. This is simple to understand.
The building is right next to a thing called the Potomac River. The beautiful Potomac River,
that means lots of water. And the water is right under the building. And they decide to build
a basement under the building in the Potomac River. So in order to do that, you need the biggest
pumps that God ever created. And they were pumping their hearts out. But as big as those pumps
are, you can't pump it fast enough
because it's the Potomac River.
If the pump were bigger than this room, you couldn't
pump it. But they tried
and they've been building a basement.
And I said, why did you want to build a basement?
I thought it would be a good idea, sir.
A basement is the least valuable
floor in a building. I know a lot about real estate.
The least valuable thing
is the basement.
And you don't build a basement
under a building that
is two feet above
the river that's
right next door. You know, it's right near the river. People don't realize the river's right out
their window. And that's the beginning. They did just a terrible job. They, instead of, I could
take a ceiling like this, they'd rip out the ceiling because they see a crack. Let's rip out the
ceiling. And I would fix the crack and I would paint the ceiling. And under the ceiling,
they put the most incredible protective material. They go out by three quarter inch, brand new, gorgeous
a three-quarter-inch plywood and sheetrock, hardened sheet rock.
And they had it all over the building.
So if a little piece of flake came down,
but the problem is when they took the ceiling down and it would hit.
They spent millions of dollars on protective material that you didn't have to spend anything.
He could have done that job for $25 million, and they spent $3.1 billion.
He said 2.7, but it's really 3.1.
They just don't want to include one of the buildings in the deal.
But it's going to be much more than that.
And I think he'll be long gone by the time it finishes because they've got a long way to go.
And then I hear they want to hire 3,000 economists.
What are they going to do?
And he got it all wrong.
He's too late.
We call him Jerome Too Late Bell.
We'll live with him forever.
I believe that name will live with him forever, along with the name Pocahontas and some of the others.
He worked closely with Pocahontas, by the way.
She's another beauty.
But we have a real problem there.
They're way over budget.
And they did a job that shouldn't have been done.
It was unnecessary to be done.
Instead of, I could have gotten the greatest wallpaper
anywhere in the world from the finest stores in the world.
I could have fixed up a wall a little bit.
It would have taken about two hours
and covered it with the most magnificent silk
than most magnificent paper for thousands of dollars
as opposed to tens of minutes.
millions of dollars. What a shame it is that they did. But they would take down areas of the
building that shouldn't have been taken down. They could have literally been painted, and they didn't
do that. So they've got a long way to go. And I think it's just grossly incompetent, but not
quite as incompetent as his decision not to do interest rates, take down interest rates, because
just like they shouldn't have taken down a ceiling, they should take down interest rates. Every point,
cost us
$360 billion.
You think of that.
$360 billion for one point.
And we should be down at 1%
because we're the leader of the world.
We were always the lowest interest rate
until like a certain time ago,
decade, a couple.
But we were always because we were the United States
of America. So even if the country
was run badly, we were considered
like to be super prime.
And now he's got us in a
bad place. So we're paying
$360 billion year for each point. Now, I believe we should be three or four points lower,
so that's over a trillion dollars we pay every year in interest. And it's really just a paper
calculation. You sign a document and you save almost a trillion dollars because that number
equates very much to the bonds that we have to buy. But despite that, we're powering through it
and we have the greatest economy maybe we've ever had.
But the housing sector, people aren't able to get good mortgages.
They're paying too much because of Jerome too late, pal.
He's truly incompetent.
And we'll be making another.
We put a very good man in temporarily in the one spot
because one of the people that was appointed by the Democrats left early.
And I heard left because that person wanted lower interest rates.
And I heard quit.
no idea. I'm sure she won't say that. I'll be naming a new chairman sometime within the next.
I think I'll name it a little bit earlier, the new chairman. I'm down to three or four names.
All good, all great. The problem is you name them and then they turn out to be not good. That's
happened to me a couple of times. You name somebody, they tell you everything you want to hear,
and then they go in and they turn out to be not good. I mean, he told me everything that I thought
was appropriate. He turned out to be a stiff, you know, real stiff. But other than that, I think
he's doing a very good job, yes. Okay, maybe one or two more. One or two more. Yes, sir, please.
Go ahead. Mr. President, Scott Besson. Are you the Treasury Secretary? You don't want
me for Treasury. I don't know. I don't know. You look like he could do a good job. Go ahead.
I keep my family budget. Okay. Sir, when you meet with Vladimir Putin Friday in Alaska,
Yeah. Do you believe you can convince him to stop targeting civilians in Ukraine?
Well, I'll tell you what. I've had that conversation with him. I've had a lot of good conversations with him.
Then I go home and I see that a rocket hit a nursing home or a rocket hit an apartment building and people are laying dead in the streets.
So I guess the answer to that is no, because I've had this conversation. I want to end the war. It's Biden's war, but I want to end it.
I'll be very proud to end this war, along with the five other wars I ended.
But I guess the answer to that is probably no, because I would have had a good conversation with Vladimir.
I knew them very well.
I got along with them, great, actually.
I had to go through the Russia-Russia hoax.
And it was actually, it was a strain on the relationship.
I actually told them.
I said, you know, they got this phony investigation going on, Russia, Russia, Russia.
totally phony, created by Adam Schiff, Shifty Schiff and Hillary Clinton and the whole group of them.
And it made it very dangerous for our country because I was unable to really deal with Russia the way we should have been.
I'm looking at Pam because I hope something's going to be done about it.
These people put our country at great danger.
And Adam Schiff, it was all made up.
It was a hoax.
The Mueller report came out.
They all hated me.
They had 18 Trump haters.
And they said, I did nothing wrong.
They couldn't find anything after years of investigation.
It was all a hoax.
It was a hoax created by the Democrats, but in particular, Schiff, crooked Hillary, the whole group.
And now we've learned all the stuff that's come out over the last two months is incredible through intelligence.
And hopefully something's going to happen with it.
These are people that put our country in danger, in real danger.
I want to thank you all very much.
Thank you very much.
all right all right all right always fun to see sort of like where the
you never know what you're going to get you never know what you're going to get
with president trump locking and
Loading, talking about Washington, D.C., saying there's no way that D.C. will ever become a state, obviously.
Posting this on Truth Social, a photo of him at the Kennedy Center, saying that he's going to be hosting the Kennedy Center honors.
And as soon as he said that, I texted Rick Rennell.
And I said, we need to go immediately. We need to go.
Please. Let us go there and we'll bring our audience and we'll bring this audience.
We'll bring you along with us, and we will rock and roll.
How much fun will that be?
Let's do it, man.
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Hey, Alex, did I get that right with President Trump?
I know he's been live.
I know the president's been live for an hour.
So the president's hosting the Kennedy Center honors.
He's shutting down D.C. statehood.
He talked a lot about the D.C. crime takeover.
And he says he's going to like work with Putin.
And he's going to, you know, he's excited to work with Putin over the next couple days.
It's going to be meeting live with Putin.
There's no way we have a time for that.
No matter what, obviously our show will be live for that.
Very important.
It will happen on Friday.
It will happen this Friday.
Foreign-born population down.
2.2 million in January and July.
January 2 July, correction.
Illegal population estimates to have fallen 1.6 million this year.
Ooh.
Cookin. Here's the graphs.
Analysis of the raw data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
household survey shows that Donald Trump is winning in the battle against criminal aliens.
You guys hear for the first time in your lifetime or mine, the criminal alien population
is now beginning to crater in this country. Thank God. Foreign born populations in this nation
take up valuable resources. They create perverse incentives for unlimited mail and ballots
for having foreigners vote in our elections, something that has been passed in multiple
blue cities.
It's not legal.
It's not constitutional, obviously, but shut down on the courts.
But they've passed it.
They've told you what they want to do.
They want to replace you.
It's not a theory.
It's actually happening.
President Trump is wanting to reverse that and protect our culture.
What is that culture?
The culture of being an American.
The culture of our forefathers, the culture that founded.
this country and president trump is saying no actually like it's a good thing to preserve i thought
it was a good thing to preserve cultures whether it's some 70 person tribe in papua new guinea
or some isolated island somewhere what's the island in the indian ocean that like nobody's ever
made contact with and i kill everybody who goes there's like what's that called the sangalese or
something like that there's like there's an island it technically belongs to india
Sentinel Island is what it's called. Okay. It's a great point. It was made by Matt Walsh yesterday. It's called the North Sentinel Island, right?
Can you pop that up just to show people like the little, like the photos of it. You can you go to the photos? Click on the photos.
North Sentinel Island. Here it is. It's a group of people. This is the famous photo.
A group of people who have never been contacted, I guess, never been contacted. And they've just been sort of living the same way since K-van times.
and they are protected by military might by statute by law you're not allowed to go there
no one's ever allowed to step foot on there and they just kind of like live live in their own
little way i would say they live in peace but they like literally kill everyone who steps foot on
their island so it just is what it is there's the entire world governments that are
engaged in the protection of the north sentinel people yet if you say you want to protect western
civilization, and you wish to protect the way of life for Americans and our culture, which
has actually done enormous good for every human on earth, then you're being, you get
castigated as a bigot. How dare you? It's only our culture. It's only our culture that
is allowed zero protection. No, President Trump's saying no. And that's why I celebrate
I celebrate these findings, and I say, good.
It's time for us to reestablish American culture, to protect Western civilization, to protect
Christendom, and our birthright, which is this great land.
And so here, this figure is just, that figure is just something else.
The other one, please claim.
The other graph?
Yeah, thank you.
there you go nearly two million criminal alien population down nearly two million
and i guess it's on this way to potentially the lowest in your lifetime or mine
yeah all right there we go there's our golden moment ladies and gentlemen uh what a exciting
a couple of days for us back to work you know what i mean deuteronomy 31 six our verse of the day be
strong and of good courage do not fear or be afraid for the lord your god he is the one who goes with
you he will not leave you nor forsake you yeah don't ever live in fear we have no there's you know
you're allowed a lot of failings but fear is not one of them fear not is said often in the scriptures
and by our lord and savior jesus christ fear not it's a great way to live and when god opens
doors for you just walk boldly man and be willing to just do the work of god that's what we
want to do on this program so that is what we're going to set about doing thank you so much for
joining us in this wild last couple of days how many cities we went to klein with dc chicago
st louis dallas bozeman montana okay there's the last couple days
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trucking up. It's so fun to win with you and to have this community with you and build this
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we win. That's your boy, Benny. See ya.
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They went off the books, now their balls are cooked.
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