The David Knight Show - 14Jun23 Tucker's Defense of Trump — What Tuckers WON'T Say About Iraq War & Trump or the Lockdown/Jab War

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Starting point is 00:01:00 www.microsoft.com www.microsoft.com Using free speech to free minds. Using free speech to free minds. You're listening to The David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13, it's Wednesday, the 14th of June, Year of Our Lord 2023. Today we're going to be talking to FBI whistleblower Stephen Friend. He had a book that came out yesterday talking about his experience. He worked for the FBI for 12 years. If you remember, he pushed back because they were coming after anyone and everyone

Starting point is 00:01:53 that had the most tenuous connection to January the 6th, even people that weren't there. They said, as he saw the FBI being politicized, he tried to blow the whistle and they purged him. And we have to understand that what began on January the 6th has now metastasized with the Department of Justice and the FBI coming after parents and school board meetings and that type of thing. This is what you need to be concerned about more than Trump. And we'll talk about Trump and we'll talk about what Tucker had to say. But in the third hour, we'll be talking about the real issue, the politicized police force that the federal government has now become, coming after citizens, not just their high-ranking political enemies, but you and I. We're going to begin with the news before we get into the Trump back and forth. We'll be

Starting point is 00:02:45 right back. As a matter of fact, it is kind of interesting. And let me just point out today, we turned off the ads on the podcast. So just think of it this way. You can now get what Subscribestar supporters get on a daily basis, and that is the podcast without any ads. So if you would like to support us, one of the things that this really bothered me when I saw it, this is what they were advertising on the show. Their Can't Cancel Pride thing. And this is being promoted by Procter & Gamble

Starting point is 00:03:24 and by iHeart Radio, which owns Spreaker, which is where my podcast is hosted and where the ads are put on. And they started putting on ads themselves and pushing this. They started doing it at the beginning of Pride Month. I didn't realize it until somebody sent me a thing about it. Well, I think we can cancel Pride. And I know that I can cancel their ads. This is an event that is going to be, I think, on Friday. That's what they're pushing everybody for.

Starting point is 00:04:00 So we'll see what happens after that. I'll do a test maybe and put it back on. But it is a bad situation. And let me just say too, I went back and I looked at all of my, there wasn't any way that I could tell them I don't want a particular category of ad. The only thing that I could do was to define and allow sensitive content. And this is my settings that are there. They have four different areas that they say are sensitive content. And this is the, my settings that are there. They have four different areas that they say are sensitive content.

Starting point is 00:04:29 Do you really want this stuff? Right? Cause I mean, typically there's a lot of automobile part ads and things like that. Right. And so do you want to enable ads about pregnancy? Well, you know, that's about abortion. So I said, no.

Starting point is 00:04:43 Uh, do you want to enable ads about sexuality, which is what I thought this stuff would be all this pride month stuff and LGBT stuff. I said, no. Do you want illegal content? Well, no. Uh, I'm not sure exactly what they had in mind, but let's not do that. They, they give you an opportunity though, to advertise illegal content and they got a code for that. Um, I think they think my content is illegal. And then they say, uh, do you want to enable politics? Well, yes. And the way I described the podcast to them was news politics and Christian. Perhaps that last one was why they felt compelled to fly their flag over my program. But anyway, we would appreciate your support. If you'd like to support

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Starting point is 00:06:14 So we would appreciate that help. Let me just say, as I looked at the emails here, let me begin the news with this. This came from Spence. He said, I was listening to your show today. Surprised when you mentioned TWA 800. He said, I was actually on a flight from Islip to Baltimore that took off within minutes of that flight. I'll never forget the eerie feeling of the BWI terminal when we landed.

Starting point is 00:06:42 It was obvious something had happened, but I didn't know what it was until I got home. I'm glad to know I'm not the only person who remembers the cover-up and how the witnesses who saw the missile slowly but surely disappeared. Anyway, thanks for bringing it up. Remind people that 9-11 wasn't the first time that we were lied to by our government. And quite frankly, TWA 800 was not the first time that our Navy shot down a commercial airliner. You realize that, of course. They couldn't cover it up when they did it with Iran. And it was a mistake. They didn't do it intentionally in either case, right? And

Starting point is 00:07:22 they offered compensation to the families in iran you know iran did not go to war with us over that because they didn't have the power to uh but we're supposed to be afraid of the fact that they are going to aggressively come after us no i think if they were going to do it they probably would have done it then they don't have the you know it's suicidal for them to do that uh but um you know we're going to continue to use that to ramp up the military industrial complex. However, it was an exercise that went wrong. Military was doing it. Shot down an airliner, a couple hundred people killed.

Starting point is 00:07:59 And they worked out, I think it's like 200-something thousand dollars per person. It might have been more for children. I don't know. But it's not the first time. But when it happens under U.S. jurisdiction, you can cover it up with the FBI. And that's what they did. They went around and they collected. They intimidated people.

Starting point is 00:08:20 They stole evidence from people and destroyed it. This is why when you talk about this whole thing with UFO stuff, it's like, I can't even get close to believing that. Yeah. Tell us the truth first about flight 800, about 9-11, about all these other things. Tell us first why you lied to us. If it is true, if you're telling us that this is true, why did you lie and cover up for decades about this? But now we can believe everything that you have to us if it is true, if you're telling us that this is true. Why did you lie and cover up for decades about this? But now we can believe everything that you have to say, right? No matter how incredible.

Starting point is 00:08:55 And now, as I said, didn't I say yesterday, I said, the next thing that's going to come with this UFO stuff is going to be them talking about the aliens themselves. And sure enough, that shoe dropped. And he started saying, yeah, we've had people who've been killed by these aliens. It's a big threat. Well, let me tell you, this is either an increase in demonic activity, which would be really bad. The next, the next least bad problem is that the government is lying to you. Neither one of those things are good, but I would take the government lying to us before

Starting point is 00:09:30 I would take this kind of increase in demonic activity and manifestation if it is in fact real. So we'll see what happens. Anyway, Spence goes on to say, I also wanted to offer my thoughts on something you mentioned from time to time, the idea that the earth is not millions of years old i've always seen this as a possibility because it seems clear that adam wasn't a newborn baby when god created him he was a grown man yeah in other words he was already old at least in the way that we understand age on that day he was created yeah interesting thing which came first the chicken or the egg? You know, ask that to the evolutionists.

Starting point is 00:10:07 Right? Well, interesting to know what they think happened. We know that God created the animals, and not just Adam, but all the animals as they are. So he says, you know, I think that it's, in other words, he was already old, at least in the way that we understand age, on the day that he was created. If that's true, then why couldn't the earth be a million or a billion years old on the day that it was created? I'm not saying that's what happened, but always seemed like a possibility to me. Seems like the case for Adam. I've never understood anyone other than myself proffer this theory, but it doesn't seem to conflict with scripture as I understand it.

Starting point is 00:10:44 Am I missing something? I'd be curious to hear your thoughts. Well, here's how I understand it. Go on, go on. theory, but it doesn't seem to conflict with scripture as I understand it. Am I missing something? I'd be curious to hear your thoughts. Well, here's how I understand it. At this year's Cheltenham, glory rests in the lap of the gods. Curses. Alas, our hero hasn't placed. But there are still divine offerings

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Starting point is 00:11:15 T's and C's apply. 18 plus. Bet responsibly. Gamblingcare.ie. No one ever tried to read millions or billions of years into the Genesis account until you had the evolutionary ideas come along. And then, according to the science, we had to somehow find a way to fit what the scientists were telling us into the truth. Essentially, we put it above the Bible, and that was called higher criticism.

Starting point is 00:11:49 And it began with higher criticism, skepticism, about the archaeological things that are described in the Hebrew Bible, the Old Testament. Those places existed. They were wrong. There were civilizations that they had lost track of that were then found with my archaeology. Then they moved into evolution.

Starting point is 00:12:06 But it was all this idea of higher criticism. We're going to put ourselves up as a higher standard than the Bible. And our scientific authorities, like Fauci, will become the standard of truth. And our scientific authorities, like Fauci and Darwin, will stand in judgment of the Bible. Well, again, they had to read the science into the text. Nobody ever thought it was anything other than six days of creation, a seventh of rest, as a pattern. Where do we get the week?

Starting point is 00:12:43 You know, when you look at our calendar, you know, we have an annual calendar. That's one time around the sun, roughly. The month, that's based on the moon, the moonth, right? But what is it that lasts seven days? Only the Genesis account of creation. Where'd that come from? Why does everybody understand that? Augustine actually was the only person to question six days of creation. He says, I have a hard time believing that it took God that long. Speak it into existence. But he was setting up a pattern for us. Look, if you want more information about it, I think,

Starting point is 00:13:18 and especially when you look at the age of the stars and things like that, they could have been created and then put into place as they were. And, you know, the Bible speaks, perhaps poetically, perhaps descriptively, of God stretching the heavens. Well, if he were to create everything in one particular physical place and then stretch it out, that would, because of the, you know, do it very quickly, that would fit into the theory of relativity. But God exists outside of our dimensions of space and time. And so it's not unusual to see accounts of these unidentified flying objects. People saying that they're existing in another dimension outside of space and time.

Starting point is 00:14:11 If they're divine beings, that comes with the territory. God exists outside of space and time. Anything that he creates is outside of space and time. So I'm not too hung up with the time aspect of it. The key issue with all this is what is your source of authority? Is your source of authority the Bible? If the source of authority is not the Bible, then you wind up with things as we see now in these LGBT embracing churches. For them, LGBT is L-O-R-D. And so they have to deny the Bible to justify their sexual sin as defined by the Bible. And that's what we saw yesterday.

Starting point is 00:14:57 But does the Bible really say that? Well, the Bible really says that those are the questions that Satan always uses. So be careful of a satanic church that has a satanic hermeneutic that it tries to push on you. Let's twist this. Oh, yeah, sure. We'd love it. Just like these people. I love the Constitution. I love the Second Amendment.

Starting point is 00:15:20 But, you know, let's completely deny it with what we do. Oh, I support it completely. And another letter that I thought was interesting. This is from a retired software engineer talking about what I had to say about quantum computing. He said, this is what I've written before. In my professional opinion as a retired software engineer, where my career began before Windows was even a thing, and included hitting the metal coding and assembly language. There you go.

Starting point is 00:15:47 Essentially coding at the lowest level of the processor. Yeah, I did some of that's where I started at that point in time, but it's been a long time. I mean, I've been away from software for a long time. So I'll go with what you have to say. This is Daniel, Daniel B. He says, uh, utilizing hardware interrupts. He says, quantum computers are just another scam to fleece wealthy investors,

Starting point is 00:16:08 where you can't do sod all with merely quantum bits, any number and frequencies to exclude the wrong answers. It doesn't even sound complete bunk when I lay it out simply like that, doesn't it? He said, with all the exotic looking hardware, they reek of flim flam scams of the past. Well, good. And quite frankly, this is so far from reality. Recognize reality, quantum computing.

Starting point is 00:16:38 This is one of the reasons why I called Steve Pachinik on this from day one when he's talking about the scam. Oh, yeah, they're using quantum computing and they've got, you know, barcode, they've got, what did he say? Quantum computing, they've got ballots that they have marked and tracking them with quantum computing, all the rest of this stuff. And he really doubled down on this quantum. That's not anywhere close to being ready if it's ever going to happen and so all that stuff was a lie it was every bit as much of a lie as his fantasy that he was selling people about the fact there were 20,000 National Guard units had already fanned out two days after

Starting point is 00:17:15 the election and were arresting people two days after the election and uh had conversations with Alex actually recorded one where I told him, I said, you want to double down on this lie, you're going to lose any respect that anybody has for you. I was wrong about that. I was wrong. He continued with that lie. He continued to milk that for money.

Starting point is 00:17:40 He fired me for opposing it, but he continued to milk that even after January the 6th. He brought Steve Pachinikon and said, hey, you can have David's job. Yeah, because he needs a liar. He needs a liar for that post. Anyway, the rest of his letter here, he says, also about Rand Paul. He said, the other day I discovered another bombshell article on Rand Paul. I've been wondering whether he had ever objected to the

Starting point is 00:18:05 FDA's disgraceful approval of remdesivir for treating COVID, given that it was well known that the lethal drug had killed over half the patients in the Fauci Ebola trial. And before that, you had Fauci trying to use it for HIV. We had two different trials where everybody said, well, it doesn't work. And it's killing people. And so, of course, Fauci's response was to say, here's my study. It's not reviewed, not peer reviewed. And he said, and I'm pronouncing it the standard of care. And even more damning was he put that out one week after a Chinese study on remdesivir

Starting point is 00:18:49 showed how dangerous and unsafe it was and how ineffective it was. That was published on the WHO and it was taken down the same day. And then one week later, Fauci comes out with his study. He says it doesn't cure anybody, but the people who survive get better 30% faster, right? That's never been the standard for a therapeutic. Therapeutic is supposed to cure people. Anyway, he says, would you believe it? I found a January 2022 article where Randul is doing the exact opposite in january 2022 he actually is recommending

Starting point is 00:19:28 remdesivir the deadly drug and he said and disgustingly it might have something to do with his wife owning shares yeah that's right shares in gilead who uh had done it and by the way gilead was about to lose their window of patent on this thing as well. It had been around a long time. Like I said, Fauci tried to use it for HIV, for Ebola.

Starting point is 00:19:52 It's like, hey, Fauci, come on. We got to make our money back on this remdesivir. All right, I'll do it as a standard of care. I'm going to be retiring soon, right? I'm going to do you a favor. The drug father. It's like the beginning of the Godfather movie where the undertaker comes in, right? Yeah.

Starting point is 00:20:11 Well, Gilead is the undertaker. Underminer. Anyway, he said another bombshell that never hit the mainstream media is that a registered nurse caught Trudeau obviously faking his COVID jab, uh, where us propagandists voice of America, hopefully provided close up video footage. Wow. Well, you know, that's interesting. And, um, I haven't had time to go back and vet that yet, but, uh, anyway, he talks about how he tried to get Jesse waters to cover that. They were not

Starting point is 00:20:46 interested in it. This is an interesting thing that was put out by Focus on the Family. I talked yesterday about the mother in the UK who killed her baby that was nearly full term. Estimate 32 to 34 months. 36 would be full term. Not anywhere close to being able to argue that the baby could not survive on its own. And she was unrepentant about it, essentially. Would not plead guilty, but fought it.

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Starting point is 00:21:50 And she lied to people. She was able to get the abortion pill by mail. And so the judge put her in jail. I have, this is another, as we're talking about artificial intelligence and stuff like that, I have a program that a, um, a program that looks, produces a transcript for me because I cover so much stuff in a three hour program.

Starting point is 00:22:14 I want to give people an idea of different topics that are discussed so they can jump through it. I know people don't have the time to listen to the entire program all the time. So you try to put that in, um, well, we do put that in the full show. First we post the full show up on video and then I do that transcription and, um, and we do it for the podcast as well. But, um, in terms of producing it, it gets, it's gotten to where it's pretty good. It does a pretty good outline for me, which really helps me. I can't read through, you know, I don't have to read through all of it. Uh, but it gives me an idea of where I change

Starting point is 00:22:49 topics, but I got this interesting thing yesterday. This is what it looks like. Um, and this is a person that says a topic was a listener's conversations. Uh, don't turn the ads off. Somebody had said that after I said, I was going to turn off the ads on Spreaker because of the, uh, don't cancel pride event. Uh, but anyway, um, so don't turn the ads off says Nick. And then it says, Aaron Moss, thank you for taking the abortion pills. This is my own version of chat GPT that it does this on my program. It gives me a great little insights like that. This is one of the reasons why it takes me as long as it does still do a transcript. Um,

Starting point is 00:23:31 so yeah, thanks Aaron for taking the abortion pills. Uh, it just conflates stuff like that. So it's doing the same thing that chat GPT does. And that's why I mentioned it. You know, it's not just that it's hilarious, but this is the way

Starting point is 00:23:47 artificial intelligence works. It pulls this stuff up and, and many times, well, I can't just copy and paste that outline that it gives me because it comes up with completely crazy takes on stuff sometimes. And other times it's uncannily good. It's amazing. It's just all over the place. But it does get into that hallucination thing.

Starting point is 00:24:08 So let me play you an ad that was put together by Focus on the Family. And it is, they're using the idea that abortionists cover up the fact they're killing a baby. Well, that really gets them upset when you say you're killing a baby. Well, that really gets them upset when you say you're killing a baby. It's not a baby, it's a fetus. Okay, well, let's illustrate that with absurdity, they said. Well? It's positive.

Starting point is 00:24:38 We're having a fetus. Having a fetus? We're having a fetus. And here we are. Would you look at that? Hi a fetus! And here we are. Would you look at that? Hi, fetus. Hey, got names here? For the fetus? We've got a few we like.

Starting point is 00:24:56 Focus on the family. Would like to remind you that no matter where you are on your pregnancy journey It's almost here. Keep pushing. Your fetus is doing great. Call it what you want, but the truth does not change. You want to feel the fetus kick? Um, it's a baby. It's still a baby that's a baby.com so it takes a kid to remind you just playing with semantics that the left

Starting point is 00:25:37 has as usual chosen the terms that they want to make themselves look good. They did it by calling themselves liberals. They used to mean people who were about freedom. They did it by calling themselves progressives. No, they're socialist Marxists. And it's not a fetus, it's a baby. It's just they choose the terms to make themselves look good. By the way, talking about arbitrary Fiat terms, uh, kim.com put this out and it's a video of Africa saying goodbye to the U S dollar.

Starting point is 00:26:16 Very interesting. Kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, kwa hivyo, How is US dollars part of the trade between Djibouti and Kenya? Why? And we are saying that today Afri Exim Bank inaweza kwa kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa hivyo, banka Exim Bank inaweza kwa hivyo, banka That is why Kenya champions the Pan-African payment and settlement system that is done by our own institution, the AfriExim Bank. Why members? Why is it necessary for us to buy things from Djibouti and pay in dollars? Why? There is no reason.

Starting point is 00:27:44 Absolutely. Absolutely. And we are not the Africa, uh, XM bank is not export import bank. And why is it that we in America need to use the federal reserve notes? This is why we all ought to be looking to our state governments to do the same thing these African nations are doing. Get rid of the Fed, the federal government, and the Federal Reserve. And we need to be setting up things like they're trying to do here, like Senator Frank Nicely is trying to do here. A Tennessee Reserve System in parallel with the Federal Reserve. We need to follow the Constitution and say that states will not accept anything

Starting point is 00:28:28 in payment except gold and silver. That's what we need to do. We need to get back to honest money and we need to have something that's backing that up. What they're doing in Africa as a Ken Kim.com says, so with every nation that rejects the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency, the U.S. government will pay a higher price for printing money, inflation. And we need to do this on a state basis.

Starting point is 00:28:56 We need to do this on an individual basis. And again, you can get out of this system. You can opt out of this system with gold and silver. It's like the financial equivalent of homeschooling. You know, set up your own system and encourage other people to lay the foundation for that as well. We start creating our own systems away from relying on the federal government. I had a couple people mention, as I was was talking about the monetization of the podcast being turned off.

Starting point is 00:29:28 We turned off for that. Audi MRR says, I'm concerned that an illegal content box actually exists. Yeah, we're talking about this sensitive content here. Yeah, they've got, you can enable illegal content. And I don't know what that is. My son said, what is illegal content that they advertise? Uh, would you like to push drugs? No, that's not too different from what Fox and other mainstream media are doing right now. Right. It's okay to push big pharmaceutical drugs that kill people. Oh, but we don't want fentanyl,

Starting point is 00:30:01 just remdesivir or opioids or whatever, right, that people are abusing. And that the pharmaceutical companies are enticing doctors to prescribe for people who don't really have a need for it. That other things would work. And that if they're not in intense enough pain, they can become very, very addictive. You know, people who are in an incredible amount of pain don't seem to get addicted to these drugs. That's one of the big problems with the war on drugs and the fact that they have overreacted and denied palliative care to people. You know, if somebody has got terminal cancer,

Starting point is 00:30:43 the FDA and the DEA should not be breathing down the neck of the doctors if they're going to give them some painkillers. And history has shown that they don't get addicted to that anyway if they're in severe pain. But they've been intruding themselves into the doctor-patient relationship for a very long time. Of course, we saw it on steroids with this other stuff. And Jay Caravella writes, groomers have stuff all over YouTube. They don't have any trouble with that content being made for children.

Starting point is 00:31:16 That's right. That's right. Phil in kind says, uh-oh, Africa has figured it out. Yeah, you know, the other thing they figured out, which really amazed me to see Ted Cruz done. I talked about Ted Cruz's response to that. Yeah, the fact that they had criminalized homosexuality. When you look at what they're saying in Uganda,

Starting point is 00:31:34 the people who were saying that said, we know what this is about. We know that the West wants to normalize this, and we know the West is coming for our kids, and we're going to stop it at the very beginning. So, again, if you understand, it's the same thing the gays for groomers are talking about. They said, well, we were fighting for our civil rights to be able to do what we want to as adults, but they turned this into coming after kids. And one of the women who was with gays for groomers said, I would have never done any of this if I knew that it was going to end up coming after

Starting point is 00:32:03 the kids. So is that what they're doing? And is Ted Cruz out there virtue signaling on Pride Month? Is that what this is all really about? Let's jump over to entertainment here. The Beatles were released their last record 50 years after their breakup and 43 years after John Lennon died, you had George Harrison die of cancer in 2001 at the age of 58. And their last actual record was the end from the Abbey Road album in 1969.

Starting point is 00:32:41 That's the last one that they recreated. But now they're saying that artificial intelligence is going to allow them to do another album. Paul McCartney said that director Peter Jackson, the guy who did The Lord of the Rings, used AI to clean up the audio for the Get Back documentary and was able to extricate John's voice from a ropey little bit of cassette. He said, we had John's voice and a piano, and he could separate them with AI. They tell the machine, that's the voice, this is the guitar, lose the guitar. You don't need AI for this, by the way. You can do this kind of stuff right now with the tools that we have.

Starting point is 00:33:18 It's not artificial intelligence. It's been around for a long time. It's amazing what can be done with recording stuff and isolating things like that. And they've had deceased artists like Nat King Cole decades ago. They were isolating his voice and doing other stuff like that. We have much better digital tools right now. Maybe AI has tweaked some of this stuff. Now, AI would be used.

Starting point is 00:33:44 I don't know. Maybe they did tweaked some of this stuff. Now AI would be used, not as, you know, I don't know, maybe they did use AI to separate this stuff. Maybe they've enhanced some of the, um, audio workstation stuff with that, but, um, you know, they would use it primarily to piece together the different parts, uh, just like they synthesize somebody's voice, you know, get a sample of somebody's voice. I think that get a sample of somebody's voice. I think that's the way that it's being done. I think Paul McCartney may be misspeaking here. I don't know. But that's typically the way that AI has, the new feature that AI has introduced is to be able to synthesize the voice after you've got it isolated.

Starting point is 00:34:21 But not to isolate it. Anyway, for whatever reason, the point I bring this up, the reason I bring this up was because I talked about that Robin Wright movie that happened, was it 2013, 2014, I think. I did a report on it. For Love of the Road actually found my 2014 report and sent it to me. I haven't gone back and had time to watch it yet. But I talked then about how that was going to happen.

Starting point is 00:34:48 That movie was, the interesting part of the movie, the first part of the movie was how Robin Wright, and I actually refer to the actress as Robin Wright, said, well, we're going to scan you, we're going to digitize you, and all the rest of the stuff. And then it ends up with this kind of hokey animated virtual reality that it gets into. But the first part of it, the fact that they were going to digitize her and then own her and she couldn't act anymore or do anything. They owned everything about her, all of her movements, her voice, you name it, her looks. And I said, we're moving into a future where everything is going to be recycled.

Starting point is 00:35:26 They're going to recycle the actors. They're going to recycle the music. And here you see it. They're going to recycle John Lennon. So they're putting together a song. They're going to release this called Now and Then. It's going to be the song that they're going to put out. They've got to find somebody to do George Martin's part as well.

Starting point is 00:35:46 I think he was one of the most important members. They called him the fifth Beatle. He was the one who brought in all these eclectic instruments that they used. Yeah, they laid down the ideas for the lyrics and the melody and the chord and stuff like that, but he was the one who really made it pop. More than a chording engineer, he was the arranger for their stuff as well.

Starting point is 00:36:07 We're going to take a quick break. When we come back, we're going to talk a little bit about power. I want to make a correction as to what I was talking about yesterday. But I think it's pretty amazing when you look at the record amount of power that's going to be used in Texas as the heat is starting to ramp up finally. It's about a month late from what we experienced. But they're talking about the massive power usage. They expect to have record usage in Texas. And I want you to see just how big one of these AI clusters, one of these GPU clusters is

Starting point is 00:36:42 compared to the entire power output of the state of Texas. We'll be right back. Thank you. Making sense common again. You're listening to The David Knight Show. Welcome back. I love the comments here about what I just said about the Beatles. One person says, Robot Beatles, great, as Aaron Moss. I like what Phil and Kine said. Yoko Ono will screw it up.

Starting point is 00:38:48 Yeah, it was actually a great story from Goat Tree. I'm sure I can tell it. He had one of the people who worked for him. They do cybersecurity and stuff like that. He was gone on assignment for a while, and he had some people who moved into his house. And I mean, you know, they essentially broke in or got in somehow and they would not leave. And he calls the police up and these people, well, we're not going to get into a dispute like that.

Starting point is 00:39:18 We're not going to do anything to remove him. It's like, what? You know, they're squatting in his house and he can't get rid of them. Well, he had his house wired up for all kinds of stuff and goat tree and his buddies started doing all kinds of things to the house, like ghosts in the machine. One of the things that they did was in the middle of the night, they would have Yoko Ono doing her singing scream that she did. It was just

Starting point is 00:39:46 fingernails on a chalkboard late at night. Really loud. Max it up on the speakers. That was kind of the coup de grace after all the different things that they had done. Bringing in Yoko. Yoko was their ace in the hole to drive these people out. They would not come back. She'll probably mess it up. Atomic Dog says, David, AI replaced a sound engineer to do the audio cleanup work.

Starting point is 00:40:11 That's right. That's probably what it was. Took a job from a human at probably one one hundredth of the cost. And CPGB85 says, modern music is so bad they're going to have to rely on AI. That's right. Just like the movie stars. This is the only way that, quote, mainstream music, unquote, can stay relevant. Yeah, I agree.

Starting point is 00:40:35 And Charles Solomon, thank you very much for the tip on Rockfin. It says cheers and warmth from Charlie in Chumphon Province, Thailand. If I'm pronouncing that correctly, it's my guess. But thank you very much. I appreciate that. Appreciate the tip. Yesterday, I was talking about the new NVIDIA processors as they were talking about how they're ramping up the speed.

Starting point is 00:40:59 And whether we have quantum computing becomes a real thing or not, as Daniel B. says, he doesn't think that's going to happen. Thinks it's a grift, but regardless, they are ramping up their performance significantly. And of course, the thing that he was selling it for was, Hey,

Starting point is 00:41:17 we've got a package deal here. You know, you can buy a thousand GPUs and only cost you $10 million. And, uh, and look at what it can do. You know, we got this thing uses one third of the power than it did before, and it is 44 times faster. So they're making big strides in terms of computer speed.

Starting point is 00:41:38 So they may be able to, and the reason I mentioned that was two reasons. So if you understand why the government is saving everything about everybody, everywhere, all the time, and putting it on these big data servers that are using more power and electricity than cities do just to run the computers to save all this information. You have them out in Utah and other places. There's at least two of them that I know of. What's the power requirement for that? Well, they don't care. They get all bent out of shape about the power requirements for crypto mining, but they don't care about that. And they don't care about the power requirements for these

Starting point is 00:42:17 massive, I don't know what they call them. They're clusters of GPUs. Graphics processor units are better than the CPUs. They can use the GPUs and parallel processing and a neural network configuration. So, you know, they have these things, and money is no object when it comes to buying these things or the power requirements. And I thought the power requirements were just staggering. But I did get it wrong because I was comparing the 11 gigawatts to the annual consumption of houses.

Starting point is 00:42:49 I was doing it fast before the guests came on. I said 11 kilowatts. No, they're going to use 11,000 kilowatts in a year on average with the homes. So it wasn't a million homes, a million homes. It was, uh, a thousand homes. So just understand, but I thought it was odd as I went back and looked at it, why they would quote the power consumption of the GPU clusters as gigawatt hours. I mean, we'd look at the power consumption of something is typically in Watts. Okay. Millawatts are not millawatts, but some things it is, but you know, kilowatts or

Starting point is 00:43:32 gigawatts or something like that. They, but you are charged for the amount of time that you got that on, right? You might have a 70 watt light bulb, but you know, you're going to be charged for the amount of time that you're running it, obviously. So why would they put the hours in there as a unit of measurement? And then I looked at it from another way yesterday. I said, so what is the kilowatt hour charge here in Tennessee, for example, is 14 cents per kilowatt hour? I thought, well, if that's the case, how much are these people spending to run their machine for a year? Well, those power requirements, the older model, last year's model,

Starting point is 00:44:15 they'd be spending $1.5 million on electricity. Even with the new model, they're spending between $300,000 and $400,000 a year on electricity. But maybe a better way to look at this is that as they're looking at the temperatures going up in the triple digits in Texas, as they tend to do and stay there most of the summer, which is why we're here in Tennessee, a big reason why we're here in Tennessee, a big reason why we're here in Tennessee. They said they expect it to soar, to break the record that they had last summer of 80.1 gigawatts, or as Doc would say, gigawatts. And so when you look at that, and again, they're not saying hours, right? That's the total, that's the peak of the power consumption. 80 gigawatts. Now, this one cluster that they're using for AI, their language learning model, was 11 gigawatts.

Starting point is 00:45:15 The entire state of Texas was 80 gigawatts. And of course, when they cut it with a newer model of power consumption, the bottom line is, is that just one of these clusters, and I don't know how% of the entire power usage of Texas at its peak, at its peak. Maybe this is one of the reasons why power consumption is going up so much. They don't want to talk about that, but they'll talk about the crypto mining as if it is some kind of an existential threat. Even at the reduced power consumption, you're looking at about 4% of all of the power in Texas at its record-setting level. I don't know what the typical power requirements in Texas are, but we're talking about record power requirements. That's an idea of just how much electricity is being consumed

Starting point is 00:46:24 by these computers that they don't care about. They don't care about the surveillance computers. They don't care about the store until we can decode it stuff. They don't care about the real-time analysis of the biometric information that they've stored on you, right? They don't care about any of that stuff. They don't care about AI and their large language models.

Starting point is 00:46:48 They only care about crypto because they want to shut crypto down. They want to have a reason to do it. So Angus Mustang says AI is going to need more AC, which means more wind turbines and solar farms to sell. There you go. Yeah. But, you know, you're talking about the solar panel stuff. They just found out in the UK that they've had extra hot weather there.

Starting point is 00:47:18 And we talked about how power had dropped 50% with the smoke in New York City on solar panels. But in the UK, the output is dropping because it got so hot. You see, what they're creating is a Goldilocks grid. It's got to be just right. The wind has to be blowing just right. And the sun has to be, you know, not too hot, not too cold. Maybe they could pass a law here a long time ago in Camelot, right? Summers cannot be too hot. Uh, and so, uh, autumn starts on the dot or whatever the lyrics were, but, uh, Joni Ernst is introducing a bill to disarm the

Starting point is 00:47:59 IRS. She doesn't like the idea.'ve got gun-carrying members. Do you understand why she's doing this? I mean, it's virtue signaling, yeah, I'm against the IRS. What can I do about it? I don't want to get rid of the IRS. Let's come up with something short of calling for the abolition of internal taxes. Let's stop short of what our country thrived on for the first couple of hundred years. Let's not go back before 1913 and the Federal Reserve and the income tax. No, no, no.

Starting point is 00:48:31 Let's see. We got 83,000 new IRS agents or something coming at us. Well, let's take away their guns at least so people feel good about that. You can destroy people's lives with a pen, you know. You don't have to shoot them. Why don't you disband the IRS? Why do we have an income tax? It's never come close to the money that they spend. And they just illustrated yet again that they don't care about increasing the debt. All bets are off. If we're not concerned about the annual deficit, if we're not concerned about the exploding cumulative debt, if we're going to say that none of this matters, if we're going to go

Starting point is 00:49:12 to the modern monetary theory, why would you even have taxes there? Well, again, it's to keep the middle class under control. They don't want anybody climbing up that ladder of success. The people on the top want to cut it off, right? That's what the IRS is there for. The IRS is there for that and to come after their political enemies. And Joni Ernst is going to do a limited hangout with this. Yeah, let's not worry about increasing the size of the IRS from $16 billion and giving them another $80 billion.

Starting point is 00:49:46 Let's not, you know, we'll cut it down, said the Republicans. Instead of giving them $80 billion increase over their $16 billion total, we'll only give them $60 billion increase. And they say, we cut 20 billion dollars from the irs yeah well we'll grow them uh you know seven times instead of eight times that the democrats want to grow them and then we'll say no we'll take away their guns do you feel better about that you know eventually somebody's going to come with a gun to confiscate your property if the bean counter guy says that you owe them the money uh that's the real thing that we should be concerned about. Okay, we're going to take a break.

Starting point is 00:50:30 Well, let me read a couple more comments here before we take a break. Jay Caravello says, The Utah Data Center holds as much power as any large blue city, but it'll never go without power, and it certainly doesn't feed and house anyone. And it also uses a tremendous amount of water, tremendous amount of water in an area that doesn't have a lot of water. Uh, Bluffdale, I think is where it was in, in, uh, Utah, Angus Mustang. Thank you very much for the tip. I appreciate that. And, um, on a rock fan, Michael Pomeroy. Yeah. 11,000 kilowatt hours is two and a half times my usage in a year. Yeah. That's the average. It's, um, on a rock fan, Michael Pomeroy. Yeah. 11,000 kilowatt hours is two and a half times my usage in a year. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:51:08 That's the average. It's, um, you know, it's going to vary by people. And of course, when I look at it, um, various places, they say, well, it depends, you know, in homes, whether they've got electric heat or not, you know, but of course they want us all on electric heat. They want us all on electric, everything. What's your car on the grid. They want heat your stoves everything has to be on the grid so they can shut it down that's the whole point jason barker hey jason uh yeah they now

Starting point is 00:51:37 they just need to get to 88 miles per hour that's and of course that was a big joke to a 1985. The federal government had decided that speed, uh, the, uh, um, when they, when Nixon put in the 55 mile an hour speed limit, uh,

Starting point is 00:51:56 and I'll never forgive him for that. But anyway, when they put that in, then they also dictated that the car manufacturers could not let the, the speedometer go above 85 miles per hour. So that was kind of the joke, burying the speed limiting, uh, burying the, uh, speedometer and getting it up to 88 miles per hour. Okay. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back to talk about Tucker. Everybody is so excited about what Tucker had to say.

Starting point is 00:52:26 And you know what got me excited as well, but in a different kind of way. We'll be right back. Thank you. you're listening to The David Knight Show. Well, as Zero Hedge said, and of course, he's gotten boffo reviews from everybody with his program. He's extended his program. He's getting his chops up. He went for 10 minutes with the first broadcast. I noticed his last one was 13 minutes. He's really stretching it out here. Does a show like once a week or something like that that's 10 or 13 minutes long.

Starting point is 00:53:55 Anyway, he delivered an epic tour de force condemning the deep state, says Azir Hedge, which over the past six years has been focused solely on one goal, to put away the one person who stands in its way and in the way of countless neocons and war profiteers from attaining their trillions in deadly spoils, Donald Trump. Well, I never thought that I would see Zero Hedge go full. MAGA Trump shill. It's just amazing to me. It's just amazing.

Starting point is 00:54:21 Is that their takeaway? The one person who is going to shut down the deep state force that's still amazing. Is that their takeaway? Uh, the one person who is, uh, going to shut down the deep state force, there's still going to sell that. What is a deep state? All of these alphabet agencies, all these bureaucracies are under the executive branch. He couldn't manage that. He didn't shut a single thing down. He couldn't even defend himself. How is he going to defend you against the deep state? Come on. It keeps going back to this thing. You know, it's like the, the Daisy thing.

Starting point is 00:54:48 Yeah. She loves me. She loves me. Not, she loves me. And we see this from these people, you know, trying to distance themselves from Trump when he does something really incredibly stupid, but not anymore. No matter how stupid the stuff is that he does, they love him. That's where this is all wound up with the daisy. But then the other thing that comes in, kind of like the daisy, is he's a fool. No, he's a tool.

Starting point is 00:55:18 No, he's a fool. No, he's a tool. Which is it? Is the guy totally incompetent or is he a traitor? I vote for traitor. This thing that was put out by Tucker is complete bs it is a stinking pile of bs from the very beginning his premise is that all this is happening to trump because trump stood in the way of the military industrial complex's wars it's about. It's about the lies that got us into the Iraq war, he says. He says, I can pinpoint the moment when they came after him. And it's when he called it out and said that the Iraq war is based on lies. Is that really true? If Trump believes that, and you know, Tucker Carlson doesn't say anything about Gina Haspel.

Starting point is 00:56:06 Gina Haspel delivered the lies. Gina Haspel and the CIA tortured people to get the lies. Gina Haspel covered up the video, destroyed the video of the torture, and then when John Kiriakou blew the whistle on it, he got sent to jail. But Trump promoted Gina Haspel to the CIA. How is that fighting the deep state? How is that fighting the lies? Those of us, those of you who have listened to this program know that I've harped on that forever. The fact that he, you know, proudly, well, I called this Iraq war a bunch of lies. And it was.

Starting point is 00:56:47 And then what did he do? He promoted the people who sold us the lies. He promoted the people who put us into the war. And he did nothing to stop the war. Nothing. He didn't stop any wars. Yes, he didn't start any wars. Okay?

Starting point is 00:57:02 But he didn't. And that's different from Obama. Obama added a lot of new wars. But he didn't. And that's different from Obama. Obama added a lot of new wars, but Trump didn't stop any. The troop pull down did not happen until July, 2021 in Iraq. It didn't happen under Trump. We still have 2,500 people there. They say, who knows, right? You know, they lied to us about the troops that have stolen the oil fields in Syria. You know, we've got troops occupying Syria, parts of Syria, occupying the oil fields, stealing the oil, which I would imagine maybe that's a Trump thing,

Starting point is 00:57:36 since Trump always said, take the oil, take the oil, you know, send some troops in, set up a, you know, defensive perimeter and steal the oil. Maybe that's his thing in Syria. Maybe that's something that he started. But the bottom line is that he didn't end the Afghanistan war. He didn't pull any troops back from Iraq to end any of this stuff. And you know, Biden didn't end the Afghanistan war either. The Taliban did. They didn't pull out. They ran away. It was a retreat. It was a defeat.

Starting point is 00:58:10 And it was a fire drill the way they did it. Could have been done in an orderly fashion. Should have been done in an orderly fashion. Should have been done from the very beginning. And I said that in 2017 as Trump takes office. Get the troops out of Afghanistan. What are you waiting for? Bring them home.

Starting point is 00:58:26 Put them on the border to defend our border. You don't have to beg for money to build a wall. And if you want money, there's tons of money in the defense budget. You can't find any money in the defense budget as president to repurpose to defend our border. Are you kidding me? What a fraud. Oh, I can't do anything about Obama's executive orders about DACA. When they said they're not going to enforce a law.

Starting point is 00:58:53 My hands are tied. I've got to ask the Supreme Court for permission, said Trump. And all the rest of this stuff. But from the very beginning of this clip here that I've got. And it was really at the very beginning. He starts an introduction where he shows the motorcade and Trump being arraigned and all this other kind of stuff to play to his base. That's what he's playing to. And then he says, when Congress decides to start a war, whoa, whoa, whoa, right there, Tucker, when Congress decides, has that ever happened? Not in my lifetime, and I'm older than Tucker is.

Starting point is 00:59:26 No, no, no. We had a police action in South Korea. We had a resolution, Gulf of Tonkin resolution. It wasn't a declaration of war. Based on a false flag, as McNamara admitted later in a documentary. We got him on tape admitting that in a documentary, that the Gulf of Tonkin incident was based on a false flag and lies, just like the Iraq war was. And then, of course, we got the authorization for the use of military force, which they say gives them a blank check to start any war that they want.

Starting point is 00:59:59 Tucker, we don't have Congress deciding to start a war. We have dictatorial presidents who get us into these things. He says, anybody who's been paying attention knew that this was coming. It was inevitable since February the 16th, 2016. That's the day that Donald Trump made a blood enemy of the largest, most powerful organization in human history, the U.S. federal government. See, Tucker doesn't even call it the military-industrial complex. How did he make that force an enemy?

Starting point is 01:00:31 Well, it wasn't rapists from Mexico or trade with China, the stories that dominated the media at the time. What matters most to them is the wars with trillion-dollar price tags. Here's what he had to say. But when Congress decides to start a war, no matter how foolish or counterproductive or obviously disconnected from America's core interests, that war may be,

Starting point is 01:00:52 when that happens, the leaders of both parties automatically jump behind it like circus clowns. And then they stay there, sometimes for decades. They defend that war relentlessly against all evidence until somebody finally rings the all-clear bell and they can begin to admit that actually, maybe it wasn't such a great idea. We meant well, but it just didn't work out. The good news is we've learned a lot of important lessons. In the end, they usually do say something like that, but only after emotions have cooled

Starting point is 01:01:21 and the damning details have begun to fade from collective memory. It's an apology that's not actually an apology, much less repentance, and it's years too late to matter in any case. But until then, that's all you're getting. Until then, no dissent is allowed. That's the first rule of Washington. But somehow, Trump didn't bother to follow it.

Starting point is 01:01:42 He is from out of town, so maybe he didn't know it was a rule. Maybe he just didn't care. Either way, seven and a half years later, we can point to the precise moment that permanent Washington decided to send Donald Trump to prison. Here it is. It's from the Republican candidates debate in Greenville, South Carolina. We should have never been in Iraq.

Starting point is 01:02:02 We have destabilized the Middle East. They lied. They said thereabilized the Middle East. They lied. OK, they said there were weapons of mass destruction. There were none. And they knew there were none. There were no weapons of mass destruction. OK, all right. We should never have been in Iraq, Trump said. We destabilized the Middle East. Now, by the time Trump said that, a lot of Republican primary voters were starting to reach the same conclusion. How could they not? But it was the next line that doomed Trump to today's arrest. They lied, he said. There were no weapons of mass destruction, and they knew there were none.

Starting point is 01:02:36 Now, when he said that, a few in the crowd booed. Most just sat there in silence, stunned. Can he say that? Well, he said it anyway. And by saying that, he sealed his fate. That was the one thing you were not allowed to say because it implicated too many people on both sides, which on this topic is really just one side. Hillary Clinton was guilty of it, but so was Paul Ryan. All of them were guilty. They all knew they all lied. And to a person, they hated Donald Trump for exposing them. After that, it was pretty clear that even if he did get elected president, Trump was going to have a very hard time controlling the federal government he was supposed to be in charge of.

Starting point is 01:03:13 Most of permanent Washington decided that thwarting Trump was the single most important mission in their lives. Everything depended on it. Many of them said so publicly, but others didn't say so publicly. In fact, the stealthier ones took another path. They ran toward Trump, not away from him. They sucked up to him. They ingratiated themselves.

Starting point is 01:03:34 The man they intuitively understood was susceptible to flattery, which Trump is. And they did this in order to subvert his new administration from the inside. There were a number of these, and you could spot them immediately. They were flatterers. Yeah, I spotted one of them immediately.

Starting point is 01:03:50 Rex Tillerson. I was on vacation during that December as he was about to anoint Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State. And so I started tweeting about that. That was back in the days when I actually had the ability to use Twitter. I wasn't being shadow banned. And so I made my comments clear about who Rex Tillerson was. And I was pointing out that he was the guy who rainbowed the Boy Scouts. I pointed out that he was a climate alarmist grifter at Exxon.

Starting point is 01:04:30 And I had all these people coming back and saying, you're crazy. That's an oil company. He's not. No, you're crazy if you don't understand where he was. And I was vindicated. My views are validated within six months because he was fighting tooth and nail to keep us in the Paris Climate Accord. vindicated, my views are validated, within six months.

Starting point is 01:04:49 Because he was fighting tooth and nail to keep us in the Paris Climate Accord. I know exactly what Rex Tillerson was about. Why didn't Trump? As a matter of fact, I knew that Alex was talking to Trump on an irregular basis. I knew that he was also talking to Roger Stone who talked to him on a more frequent basis. And so when I was putting out the tweets about Rex Tillerson and what a stupid move and or betrayal that would be, I included Alex's Twitter handle as well as Trump's and then I got a call, an angry call from Alex. Why are you tweeting at me about this stuff? Or stop this. You know, it's going to be fine. You don't care that he's going to put

Starting point is 01:05:29 Rex Tillerson in? You don't care that he's going to put a groomer in as secretary of state? You don't care that he's going to put a climate change grifter in there who pretends, oh, I'm with an oil company, so I don't want any of this environmental lockdown stuff. Okay, fine. Yeah, these people who are running to him, not just Rex Tillerson, not just Mike Pompeo, Nikki Haley, and all the rest of these people, but people like Alex, people like Tucker, were running to him.

Starting point is 01:05:57 Running to him for audience. That's what it's about, really. Yeah, Trump was not to blame for the bad people they picked. They're all just coming to him. Now, as I point out many times before, and as RFK Jr. has pointed out, Trump called RFK Jr. and said, hey, let's talk about, you know, taking a look at the safety of these vaccines and doing some studies. Called him to Trump Tower during that same transition period.

Starting point is 01:06:23 He was doing that to get money from big pharmaceutical companies. They gave him a bunch of money, and then Trump appointed Alex Azar, the CEO of Eli Lilly, as head of HHS. And it was Alex Azar who began all this lockdown. And many of you pointed that out. The big war that Trump started was a COVID war against us. And that's where I'm going with this. You know, but he used that.

Starting point is 01:06:53 He used RFK Jr. to bid his price up. Trump is a grifting crook. And so are the people who cover for him, like Tucker Carlson, quite frankly. He said, Trump is the only one who dissents from Washington's longstanding pointless war agenda. And they're trying to take Trump out before you can vote for him. He's gone full MAGA shill. The lockdown, Trump's sponsorship of these kill shots, Tucker held his fire. Tucker sucked up to Trump.

Starting point is 01:07:31 We should call him Sucker Carlson. He's like a sucker fish attaching himself to Trump. Just like he attached himself to Big Pharma at Fox. Tucker was getting paid $20 to $25 million a year to keep his mouth shut about the kill shots that he knew were there and he did that. He did that for a very long time and then when he wanted to get away from Fox News and we wanted to kind of pull back and kind of get some of his credentials back from people after my opinion he doesn't have any credibility this is what he

Starting point is 01:08:08 had to say remember this well here's one measure of their badness you can try this at home ask yourself is any news organization you know of so corrupt that it's willing to hurt you on behalf of its biggest advertisers yeah you you do that you do that basically pablo escobar level corrupt and should not be trusted. You did that. What would that look like? Looks like you. Corruption. Well, imagine that the Trump administration had made it mandatory for American citizens to buy my pillow. That's one of Fox News's biggest advertisers.

Starting point is 01:08:38 Imagine the administration declared that if you didn't rush out and buy at least one my pillow and then at least another. He's getting nervous. He's telling the truth. You would not be allowed to eat out. You couldn't re out and buy at least one MyPillow and then at least another MyPillow. He's getting nervous. He's telling the truth for a change. You would not be allowed to eat out. You couldn't re-enter your own country. You couldn't have a paying job. MyPillow, they told you with a straight face, was the very linchpin of our country's public health system. Now imagine if they told you that, that Fox, as a news organization, endorsed it, amplified the government's message. Imagine if Fox News attacked anyone who refused to buy MyPillow as an ally of Russia,

Starting point is 01:09:11 as an enemy of science. And then imagine that Fox kept up those libelous attacks, even as evidence mounted that MyPillow caused heart attacks, fertility problems, and death. If Fox News did that, what would you think of Fox News? Would you trust us? Of course you wouldn't. You would know that we were liars. Thank heaven Fox News never did anything like that.

Starting point is 01:09:33 Liar. Liar. You hear that? He lays out exactly what they did. He's getting breathless talking about his employer and blowing the whistle on what they did for big pharmaceutical companies. And he goes, well, thank goodness they didn't do that. No, you want to use that pillow as an analogy. They smothered people with that pillow, just like Scalia at that Cibola Creek ranch thing. Okay. That story. I forget that place. We're talking

Starting point is 01:09:58 about dark satanic hole anyway. Yeah. The, uh, yeah. Smother people with that. You notice that he puts in there the mandate. That's always the escape clause for all these Republicans. Well, you know, we didn't really have any problem with what Trump was doing. It's fine to create a poison pill. It's, it's fine to create a depopulation shot. It's fine to kill millions of people, but you got to give them a choice as to whether or not they take it. You know, that's, that's the only thing that Biden did wrong. It's just fine for Trump to create this pill. And I played for you in the past, and I won't play it again,

Starting point is 01:10:30 a clip from a movie where you have this nutty woman, and she has a beautiful basset hound. She pours some poison in the milk and sets the milk bowl in front of the dog and says, there's poison in that. I wouldn't take that if I were you. The dog goes up and smells it. Like, is he going to drink the poison? He walks away.

Starting point is 01:10:56 Smart dog. That's what Tucker did. That's what Fox News did. That's what the Republicans did. Because they didn't want to criticize Trump. Yeah. Solo cat, 1980 Trump did launch wars,

Starting point is 01:11:10 a medical martial law lockdown war leading into a biological war. This jab. Yeah. You were non-essential, right? As I've said many times, just call me deplorable. Don't call me non-essential and try to kill me with your shots.

Starting point is 01:11:26 My son pointed out the same thing. Yeah, it's a war. We all know who did the war. This is misdirection from Tucker. He's got to find one thing that makes Trump look good. Well, look, Trump actually talked about getting us out of the war, but then he didn't do anything with it, right? Jason Barkerer how can we

Starting point is 01:11:45 be at war when we've not officially declared war everything we do now is a police action again we are the freedom force we force freedom on people yeah that's right aaron moss uh because nobody does anything when they subvert the constitution outie mr response to jason says yeah totally correct congress hasn't declared any wars in Nobody does anything when they subvert the constitution. Audi MRR response to Jason says, yeah, totally correct. Congress hasn't declared any wars in 20 years yet. Our military is bombing the hell out of half of the planet. As they also pointed out, Obama took us from two wars to seven wars.

Starting point is 01:12:20 Trump maintained those wars, right? You know, people say, well, he didn't start any new wars. Okay, fine. But he kept those going, right? And then we have what happened in Syria. As CPGB85 says, Trump is a guy who dropped the mother of all bombs in Syria for no reason. Well, it was to get the oil. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:12:39 Yeah. Yeah, we invaded that country. What we did in Syria is we have not as much justification for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, quite frankly. Geesebusters. Good to see you there. The news media is putting Trump back in the White House, playing the same card they did in 2016, making him a victim. I can't believe people are falling for this again. Neither can I.

Starting point is 01:13:04 Yeah. Here's the sad truth about all this stuff The FBI protection of Biden From being prosecuted for bribery and all the rest of stuff. It shows their corruption doesn't it? it shows how politicized and corrupt this whole thing has become and It shows that the FBI is criminal as well And we're gonna be talking about that coming up with our guest in the third hour, Stephen Friend, FBI whistleblower. But look, the non-prosecution of Biden and the non-prosecution of Hillary

Starting point is 01:13:38 does not excuse the crimes of Donald Trump. You know, we have this same, you don't say to somebody, well, so-and-so got away with murder, so now I can commit murder, right? That's not the way the system works. We should be demanding, for sure, the prosecution of Biden for corruption, obvious corruption, but that doesn't give a free pass to Trump to do any of this stuff. Just because somebody else gets away with murder, you don't get a license to kill like 007. Instead of having t-shirts that say, let's lock him up, let's lock her up, let's have a t-shirt that says, let them all up it's a district of criminals and they're all

Starting point is 01:14:27 committing these crimes you know one of the amazing things about all this is how trump came back and his idea of this was well you know i thought we had kind of this gentleman's agreement they were going to let each other's crimes go well now they've opened the pandora box by opening looking inside my boxes so now if I get to be president the gloves come off listen to this back and forth you wrote today on truth social I will appoint a real special prosecutor to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the USA Joe Biden and the entire Biden crime family and then on from there but I mean would you really appoint someone or do I mean where mean, where does this all end?

Starting point is 01:15:06 Well, they've opened up the box. Look, Bill Barr is a weak coward, and he didn't want to do anything on this. And yet, in many ways, a lot of people, sort of including me, I said, you know, I get it. Because you don't want to go after sitting presidents and vice presidents and all of the things. So I sort of got it. Not necessarily a believer, but now they've opened up the Pandora's box. And now we're in a position where we can say and look at the corruption in the Biden family, the millions and millions of dollars pouring in from China and other places.

Starting point is 01:15:40 It's a disgrace from Burisma. You take a look at the money coming in from Ukraine, so much money, and nobody does anything about that. Well, we're going to get to it. And now we can do it, because now the box is open. Now we can do it. The Pandora's box that has been open and has been wide open, so I'm allowed to do that. People will- He's allowed.

Starting point is 01:16:02 Now we get it. I couldn't enforce the Constitution anymore, but now I'm allowed to do that people he's allowed now we get it i couldn't enforce the constitution anymore but now i'm allowed to do this type of thing now so it'll be all different this time yeah well every time you know in this new banana republic that we got the new normal banana republic they lock you down and then when they win our election they get to lock up their opposition. That's where we are right now. But, of course, you know, as a geesebuster said, I can't believe people are going to fall for this again.

Starting point is 01:16:34 But Trump knew this. And he's been using these people from the very beginning. Remember when he said this? The people, my people are so smart. And you know what else they say about my people? The polls. They say I have the most loyal people. Did you ever see that? Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't

Starting point is 01:16:48 lose any voters, okay? It's like incredible. It's like incredible. That's the way I feel about it. I said, oh boy, we are in trouble. This guy understands the power that he wields over this cult and he's going to use it to the nth degree and so we pause here for a second and of course i want to thank a rim thank you very much for the tip on rockford appreciate that yeah it's my turn to jail them those are the rules now that's a real banana republic yeah you know first of all it's a banana republic if you decide that you're not going to prosecute criminals and corruption, right?

Starting point is 01:17:26 Well, you know, I'm not going to come after Hillary. I'm not going to come after Biden for this corruption because, you know, we're all in the kind of the same club and that'd be a bad thing. You know, you know, we don't want to start, uh, you know, throwing stones in a glass house, do we? You know, because you want to talk about the millions that Biden got. Well, what about the billions that Jared Kushner got from the Saudis? Well, maybe they did that in a way that they can't get caught.

Starting point is 01:17:50 You know, we have a lot of this stuff. As H.O. Minkin said, politics is an advanced auction of stolen goods. And the way this typically works is you have people like Bill Clinton and all the rest. When they get out of office, then they go around and collect their paychecks. They give a little one-hour speech, and then they get an honoraria of several hundred thousand dollars for that little speech. That's pay all up.

Starting point is 01:18:18 That ought to be banned, by the way. We give these presidents lifetime Secret Service protection. We give them retirement benefits. Just lavish all this stuff on them. Can we ban them from then taking anything from anybody else? Shouldn't we be able to do that? But that's the way they do this stuff. Anyway, this is out of the UK.

Starting point is 01:18:42 This is the expose. I want to show some of the people some of these charts, so pull this up. Government reports prove COVID vaccine has killed hundreds of thousands weekly in the UK. Weekly. And your government knew that it would happen. And I think Trump knew it would happen too. And I think Trump knew it was happening. And he kept pushing this.

Starting point is 01:19:06 If you remember, he kept pushing the shots, proud of them, until just a couple months ago, spring of this year, before he declared his candidacy. He's still out there saying, the best thing ever. I saved so many lives. And the crowd is just eating this up. These people who would not come after him if he shoots somebody in Fifth Avenue, they won't come after him if he shoots and kills a million people with his jet.

Starting point is 01:19:36 And the people sinned a great sin, for they had made them a God of gold. They bore him upon their shoulders and rejoiced, saying, This be our God, O Israel. Yeah, yeah. You commit the crime, you do the time, Trump. It isn't a whataboutism. Yeah, you can complain about the corruption, the double standard that is there. We understand how the FBI has been weaponized into politicized police force, and that is a separate issue as to him committing the crime. But you know, if

Starting point is 01:20:13 Tucker takes the role of Aaron in the story of the exodus, right? I just put this gold in and this calf came out. The people put the gold in and this calf came out the people people put the gold in and this calf came i didn't have anything to do with it i don't know how this thing got there well it's people like tucker who helped to create this idol and he got a lot of gold for doing that didn't he yeah the maga cult will sacrifice their kids to this trump idol, their kids and their country. So show this chart here, the excess mortality across Europe. This is not a one-off. This has been happening all year.

Starting point is 01:20:56 Monthly excess mortality. They don't have any statistics for Spain, but most of the countries have. That's happening all across Europe. We're also seeing thousands of excess deaths every week across England and Wales. The full analysis and chart after chart after chart is at expose-news.com. The Office for National Statistics in England, or Britain, publishes weekly figures on deaths registered in England and Wales. Not Wales, Wales.

Starting point is 01:21:30 The only week that England and Wales did not record any excess deaths in the 22 weeks between April and September of last year is week 22. And it said what is most likely due to underreporting of deaths that week? Because it was a bank holiday weekend for Queen Elizabeth's Platinum Jubilee. And the bureaucrats were not putting the numbers in because they were not showing up to work. They were taking the time off. But that's the reality. Going across there.

Starting point is 01:22:05 And they went through the statistics and said, look at this. One out of every 73 vaccinated people was dead by May 2022 in England. And Trump brags about his, I say millions of lives. No, you killed one out of 73 vaccinated people in England. He was the father of the vaccines, he points out. He was the producer. He was the marketer. Fauci did some marketing.

Starting point is 01:22:33 He was the director of it. Fauci, not Fauci, but Trump, owned stock in Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson. Fauci owned patents. He was getting paid that way. And then, of course, Tucker was paid $25 million by Fox to keep his mouth shut. And they're still into spin it for people. So they didn't think anything was strange about the fact that Trump was demanding that the FDA violate their rules, violate ethics, and rush this thing through without doing any testing whatsoever.

Starting point is 01:23:02 You approve it. Why? Because it was in what he thought was his perceived self-interest. That's why. He wanted that thing pushed out without any testing so that he could claim that he did this so that in his mind he could win the election, but he killed one out of every 73 COVID-vaccinated people. Here's how they came up with that figure.

Starting point is 01:23:26 They said 44.48 million people got at least one dose of a Trump shot in England. 606,537 deaths among the vaccinated. This equates to one out of every 73 COVID vaccinated people. Now you can say they died from other things, but of course that wasn't the game that we were playing during the Trump Fauci pandemic. We were locked to everybody that died was dieting of COVID, right? COVID vaccines are at least 75 times deadlier than every other vaccine

Starting point is 01:24:01 combined. And this is coming out of the UK. We saw the same thing happening here in the US with the VAERS database. This is from the very beginning. I was absolutely astounded at the beginning of January as these numbers started to go up. January of 2021. Mortality rates are the lowest amongst the unvaccinated and every single group.

Starting point is 01:24:26 You see, if you want to say, well, you're just lumping everybody just that could have died of anything. But we look at the overall thing, every single group, then vaccinated or dying at a much, much lower rate.

Starting point is 01:24:38 It takes approximately five months for the Trump shots to kill thousands of people. So even though it was unprecedented for us to see people passing out immediately, to see people dying within 24, 48 hours of these shots, that was absolutely unprecedented. But of course it continues and it continues to ramp up and it continues to kill in a stealthy way. you see that's the way poisons work right poison is a sneaky way of murdering people not walking up and shooting them in the street no you poison them it's like the people who poison their spouse by putting arsenic in on a daily basis and letting it accumulate. Fauci and Pfizer lied to Trump about the COVID vaccine, claims Peter Navarro.

Starting point is 01:25:31 Well, there's a real problem about this. Navarro, why was Trump still bragging about this until spring of this year? Until finally his people told him to shut up. Now you're trying to cover for him? Peter Navarro? He said they made him believe that it was a true vaccine when it's really mRNA. That's not even the point. Trump knew that it was not being tested for safety. I don't care what it is, right?

Starting point is 01:25:57 It needed to be tested for safety. It doesn't matter whether it was mRNA or something else. Yeah, it was very novel. And that created all kinds of issues, and we all talked about that ahead of time. It wasn't matter whether it was MRNA or something else. Yeah, it was very novel. And that created all kinds of issues. And we all talked about that ahead of time. It wasn't a secret. All of his voters knew and they didn't care because they had that golden idol that they'd lifted up. Trump.

Starting point is 01:26:17 He's the only one who can save us. I can't believe in 2023, Tucker Carlson is selling that bolt, that BS, right? Total BS. Your golden calf is total BS. Anyway, he said they were clear with him. They made him think that it was a true vaccine when it's not. It's mRNA technology. Well, if it were a true vaccine or whatever it was, it needed to be tested. But because of his outsized ego and his political ambitions, he shut all that stuff down and continued to brag about it. Even after everybody knew it was a kill shot, continuing to tell people how wonderful it was going, get it.

Starting point is 01:26:54 And Tucker Carlson until just recently continued to take the coin. And he's still being paid by these people, by the way. You know, they're going back and forth. They got their little legal games. They're going, but he's still, they're still paying him under contract. They're sending him cease and desist letters and all the rest of this stuff.

Starting point is 01:27:10 But they're, you know, we'll see how that shakes out. But he demanded that they violate their rules, violate ethics to make him look good. That's what we see there. And it's disgusting to see people like Peter Navarro and Tucker Carlson covering for this. Here's another thing. You know, we talk about gun control by executive order that Trump did. Now you've got the Republican-controlled House approving a pistol-braced legislation.

Starting point is 01:27:40 And, of course, this is not going to probably be passed by the Senate. If it is, it'll be overridden by Biden, and they don't have the votes to override a veto. But now that it's Biden, the GOP can safely come out and say, we don't like gun control by executive order, and we don't like the pistol brace. Well, it was Trump who set the precedent for gun control by executive order, and after he banned the bump stock, Trump tried from 2019 until December of 2020 to do the pistol brace.

Starting point is 01:28:12 And then he removed it because he wanted people to go to January the 6th. And the Republicans, who now passed this thing, sat there quietly and did nothing about it. When Trump was doing executive order gun control of the pistol brace, they had absolutely no problem with it and would sit there for a year and a half, letting him do whatever he wanted to. But then when it's done by Biden, now they wake up.

Starting point is 01:28:42 Here's another one of these grifters, Charlie Kirk. $80 million raised with his organization. Turning Trump. USA. Turning Point. USA. Now, he's actually

Starting point is 01:28:58 turning Trump into a profit center. They have hosted activist super conventions, had Trump as one of their big featured speakers, had Tucker as their big featured speaker. And they have gone from revenue of $55 million in 2022 to $80 million last year.

Starting point is 01:29:23 And that's up from $55 million the previous year, a 46% increase. Yeah. Charlie Kirk can say, yes, me and Trump for the win, buddy, big bucks and all of this stuff. Charlie Kirk came out, said, uh, all of you candidates. Now that Trump has been indicted for this, you need to just drop out of the race and you need to show up in Miami when he's in arraigned, show up in support of him. And if you don't do that, you better explain to us why you're not doing that.

Starting point is 01:29:55 That's how much of a shill that guy is. It disgusts me to see him pulling in pastors into this stuff. Trump is now fundraising over the possibility that he'll die in prison. He and his aide, Walt Nauta, I guess is the way you pronounce his name. Guess what? Not a penny is going to go to Walt. It'll all be kept by Trump. In the same way that his Save America, he kept all the money and, uh, on any legal procedure, the first $8,000 that anybody gave

Starting point is 01:30:27 went to Trump and he gave a cut to the RNC. And if you give them 8,001, $1 goes to the legal fight, right? So, uh, again, it's winning for Trump. You know, he's getting the money that he wants out of it. And so you have these articles asking, why did he do this? He could have avoided the charges, which could bring up to 20 years in prison. If he had allowed national archive officials to retrieve all the official government records last year, this is what everybody is saying. And the only person that I've seen that's a lawyer that defends him on all of this is Alan

Starting point is 01:31:02 Dershowitz. And even Dershowitz says, but we've got this recording where he's talking about how he willingly kept this out and it's not been declassified. He doesn't think that he declassified it by taking it. I mean, that one exchange right there is enough to hang him. And so Alan Dershowitz says, oh, the rest of the stuff we could handle. But I don't know, that one is pretty tough. Yeah, how are you going to do that? Well, every other person in the country would have turned over the files,

Starting point is 01:31:29 said Bill Barr, but everybody is saying that. I think that the reason he did it was because he is, as his other lawyer said, a Thai cop. He's a deeply wounded narcissist, incapable of acting, except out of his own perceived self-interest. And he thought that his perceived self-interest was to have these documents. He saw them as a point of power, of prestige. And as he's bragging about this on tape, on tape, says, this totally wins my case. Oh, the irony of that. but now he's allowed to go after other people

Starting point is 01:32:08 and so one of the things that's going back and forth about this again the most damning thing about all this is that recording but now the line of defense for people trying to defend trump is to say that they penetrated attorney-client privilege. And this was a question in my mind. I thought, you know, they got information from some of his attorneys. How does that work? Does that no longer apply if the person is no longer your client? You can now snitch on him?

Starting point is 01:32:37 I don't think so. And so Judge Napolitano explained why they could get this from his attorney. Question. Did Donald Trump actually speak to the FBI or to the grand jury? Answer, no. Question. How did he make these false statements? Answer, through his lawyers. How do we know they were false?

Starting point is 01:33:00 Well, this is very interesting. There are two principal witnesses against Donald Trump here. One is his own words, and the other is his former lawyer, I've just been accused of robbing a bank. What are my defenses? And you go through the defenses. The money was yours. It wasn't you. You were a thousand miles away. Insanity defense. You have no memory. The bank hates me and they've been accusing me of this all along and none of it is true. That conversation between the lawyer and the client is absolutely privileged. Second example, client walks into your office and says, I plan to rob a bank. If I do, what defenses will be available to me?

Starting point is 01:33:55 That conversation is not privileged. So if the client uses information from the lawyer to perpetrate a fraud or a crime, or if the client uses the lawyer to perpetrate a fraud or a crime, D.C. that the lawyer in this case, Evan Corcoran, was used by Donald Trump to lie to the federal government. Therefore, the attorney-client relationship was used for fraud or crime. Therefore, there's no privilege. That's what the judge ruled. And that was appealed to an appellate court, and the appellate court upheld the trial judge. Once the appellate court upheld the trial judge, then Mr. Corcoran had no choice but to testify. And in the indictment, there's a lot of information that comes directly from Mr. Corcoran.

Starting point is 01:35:03 And so that is the line. That's how the attorney can testify against his former client. Now, what you're seeing being put out by Information Liberation, a lot of other people, they have focused on a former Trump defense attorney, Timothy Parlator, who was interviewed on CBS and said that this is an extraordinarily dangerous thing. The government will now try to charge you for asking a question of your attorney. Well, you just heard what Judge Napolitano said. You know, you can go in and say, hey, I've got a problem. I robbed a bank.

Starting point is 01:35:39 Okay, here's what we can do. You know, you go full Better Call Saul. Here's what we can do. We can say this and that. But if you say, I'm planning on robbing a bank, and that's what this judge ruled. I had to take it. This wasn't something that Jack Smith did.

Starting point is 01:35:54 It's something that he took to a judge, and the judge agreed with him. The judge agreed with him that Trump was asking his lawyer to participate in the cover-up and to do certain things to cover up these documents. Well, here's what I want you to tell him. I've got these documents, and here's what I want you to tell him. This and this.

Starting point is 01:36:13 Well, now he's committing a crime as an accessory, and he cannot claim attorney-client privilege. The tact that they're taking, Michael Tracy put this out, and again, the former attorney that was on CBS is putting this out. They're saying that this is an inappropriate penetration of the attorney-client privilege. But the judge agreed with Jack Smith that Trump was telling his attorney to help him conceal this stuff and to lie to the government. And I said, this is always his biggest exposure. The fact that he will not be very careful with the truth.

Starting point is 01:37:01 I said his big mouth, he can't keep his trap shut. And his trap is going to get him caught in a trap. And it has, that's exactly what has happened. Again, people going to jail for lying to the government and their, uh, investigation.

Starting point is 01:37:17 You can't do that. But as judge Napolitano pointed out, and as Alan Dershowitz has pointed out, the most damning thing against Trump is his own words. His own words. Well, I see a question here from jbird388. David, who are you voting for? I'm voting for Sheriff.

Starting point is 01:37:38 There's a good Sheriff here. I think there is. I haven't looked into his background that much. I didn't even vote in the 2020 election. First time in my life I haven't looked into his background that much. I didn't even vote in the 2020 election. First time in my life I haven't voted since I turned 18. First time I've not voted. There was nobody I would vote for. In 2020, they were all still trying to lock me down,

Starting point is 01:37:59 and I wouldn't vote for a single one of them. There wasn't anybody on the ballot anywhere at any level that I would have supported. Not a single one. I'm not going to vote for people who try to do that to me. I'm not going to vote for people who defy the Constitution and my God-given rights. I'm not voting for a single one of them. And the solution is not in Washington. And I'm not endorsing any of these guys.

Starting point is 01:38:21 Look, I'll tell you when I agree with what RFK Jr. is saying. I'll tell you when I agree with what DeSantis is saying. But I don't trust any of them, frankly. And I don't endorse any of them. So who am I voting for? If I can find a good sheriff, some local politicians, I'll show up to vote. Because that's where the solutions are. Because the problem is in Washington and nobody,

Starting point is 01:38:46 whether we're talking about Republican congressmen or any of the rest of these people, they all sat on their hands and did nothing through this lockdown, or they were in active opposition to us. They were either passive participants in this or they were active participants in it. And I'm not voting for any of them. But perhaps we could learn a lesson about this attorney-client privilege from Saul Goodman.

Starting point is 01:39:16 Illegal tiger possession. This one's easy. So one day you hear a knock at the door. Suddenly the cops have you face down in the dirt. Turns out the meter reader came by and got himself a big surprise or the neighbor boy climbed the fence and Fluffy or Princess mauled the kid up pretty good. Here you are facing three to five in an orange jumpsuit. Oh no, you aren't. Bitter call Saul. Repeat this key phrase. That's not my tiger. Turns out the best defense is still a good offense.

Starting point is 01:39:47 Where'd the tiger come from? The zoo. And you can bet we're going to sue the bars off of them. What were you doing buying 80 pounds of raw meat every week? Ever hear of the Atkins diet? And I'll help you get that tiger's furry ass to Texas ASAP. Because guess what? Tigers are still legal in Texas.

Starting point is 01:40:06 Yeehaw! I have fun doing this job. Oh, one thing, you don't have to bring the tiger into my office. So if a tiger's got you by the tail, legally speaking, better call Saul. Yeah, yeah, Trump better call Saul. We'll be right back. The David Knight Show is a critical thinking super spreader. If you've been exposed to logic by listening to the David Knight show, please do your part and try not to spread it. Financial support or simply

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Starting point is 01:41:35 All right. Welcome back. I said earlier, we're talking about the Goldilocks grid. It's now too sunny in England to get the solar panels to work effectively look i love solar panels for individual use now they're great because it gets you off the grid right and so yeah they can be expensive they can have their every technology's got its upsides and downsides but the key thing about solar panels is that they can be used to get you independent of the grid and that's a biggie because everything that they're doing now is

Starting point is 01:42:09 to make us totally dependent on the grid as they shut it down, banning everything, unless it's an electric appliance or electric car or this or that. Uh, but you have to understand on the downside of this, and it is a big downside for renewables, but not steady state. The key thing about the grid is that you must have steady state power. If you have factories that are working on some of this stuff and you don't have steady state power, it could cause them to have to reboot the entire factory if you have a bit of a brownout, if the power drops a little bit. So it has to be steady state.

Starting point is 01:42:42 So in England, they had to fire up a coal-powered plant in Nottinghamshire, producing electricity for the first time in weeks, while another coal-powered plant was warming up just in case they needed it by early afternoon. The national grid turned to coal to generate electricity as a rush to turn on air conditioning and fans across the country during the heat wave led to a spike in demand. And so they explain the sweet point, the Goldilocks point for the solar panels is 25 degrees C. That's about 77 degrees Fahrenheit. For every degree rise in temperature above this level, the efficiency is reduced by a half a percent. The temperature level refers to the solar cell temperature rather than the temperature of the air.

Starting point is 01:43:28 And in direct sunlight, these cells can easily reach 60 or 70 degrees centigrade. That's 70 degrees to 158 degrees. And, you know, as I look at this, I'm thinking about the report we had last week. We had the people very upset about this gigantic, the size of a small state solar project that began under Obama out in the desert, you know, California around the Joshua tree area. People are saying you're destroying the ecology. Do you realize that there really is an ecology in the desert? You're going to kill it. You're going to kill the desert with these things. And then there's other issues with it.

Starting point is 01:44:07 But also look at this and say, are these things even going to work well there? Did anybody ever even think about this before they put it out in the desert? You know, just, you're not going to, you'd be out of your mind to set up a giant solar panel farm in Death Valley. Most of the year, it wouldn't work very well.

Starting point is 01:44:24 So why are they putting it in the desert? Because this is about making money, not making power, you see. And that's what this is all about. And this new so-called Inflation Reduction Act is an entitlement program for this. There are no limits. Anybody that qualifies with some kind of a green imagination project, you come in with your Don Quixote windmill project and we should do that. Set up Quixote Incorporated for windmills

Starting point is 01:44:56 and submit a business plan. Yeah, I'll actually put them up. I'll make a nice profit off of that. Maybe that's what I should do instead of the podcast. Anyway, compared with a cool and cloudy day, the cells might be a maximum of 25% less efficient. And so they're having to bring this stuff online. Now, James Cameron, Jason Barker says, I'm glad David's covering this. When you go to get solar, they show you charts that are from

Starting point is 01:45:25 an ideal situation. Yes. They're never as efficient as they advertise and they don't last forever. Nothing does, right? Nothing in this lifetime lasts forever. The windmills wear out, windmills fall apart, windmills fall over. The wind stops blowing. The solar panels, sometimes it's too hot, sometimes it's too cold, but Hey, here's the bright side. It's going to use a lot of silver. So get some silver at davidknight.gold. Take you to Tony Arteman, you know, because if it, if they keep building these things, if they make this the only way that people can get any power, they're going to be using

Starting point is 01:46:00 a lot of silver. That's for sure. Now, the other part of the mining part of this is also a big issue for them james cameron the guy who did the titanic and avatar this you know this uh environmentalist uh dream or nightmare depending on your perspective um uh hang on a second marvin uh says right on with no vote david i saw that it was rigged. 2020 was the first election I also skipped since 1976. That's right. That's right. So James Cameron went down to Argentina.

Starting point is 01:46:31 He said, I was used by the Argentinian government there. He did deceptive PR on their dirty lithium mining. Lithium mining. We're not talking about the cobalt mining stuff, right? Here's what it looks like. All these people who are all about white privilege, and we have to help the poor, we have to help the black. And look at what Western civilization did to black people in Africa. They enslaved them. Do you see what's happening today with the cobalt mines. Look at this.

Starting point is 01:47:06 Look at these kids. Look at the conditions are working around 40,000 kids working cobalt mines on democratic Republic of Congo. Look at this sticking this stuff out by hand, working in the rain, working in the mud, they earn less than $2 a day, $2 a day. Yeah. Carrying the stuff. The Democratic Republic of Congo has the largest cobalt deposits in the world. And these guys are carrying.

Starting point is 01:47:35 This is clean energy, by the way, as we look at these people digging in the mud. The mineral powers smartphone batteries as well as laptops and electric vehicles. Child slave labor. Used by Apple, Samsung, Tesla, major auto makers now, Ford, GM, all of them. Yeah. So that's a bit of a problem, isn't it? See, they want you tearing down statues, but they don't want you doing anything to help kids today. As a matter of fact, it's an imperative. We've got to put those kids out there you know you look at that and you look at

Starting point is 01:48:06 uh greta lecturing us about all of this stuff greta by the way just graduated from high school she's like 20 something oh she took leave of absence or whatever look i don't care about high school degrees anyway but uh she basically didn't learn anything, whether she's got a degree or not. It is what we decide now that will define the rest of humanity's future. Think about her. Whether we choose to do that or not. And those African kids you just saw digging in the dirt for $2 a day. It will be a death sentence to countless of people.

Starting point is 01:48:41 And it is already a death sentence to countless of people living on the front lines of the climate crisis today but this makes me want to scream white privilege if anything ever made me want to scream white privilege is to juxtapose greta with those kids digging in the mud for two dollars a day young children, elementary school, which is, um, about the level of her education, regardless of whether she's got a degree or not. But anyway, back to James Cameron. So there's a virtue signaling environmentalists is upset because the virtue signaling politician used him to cover up his dirty lithium mining. We're not talking about cobalt.

Starting point is 01:49:25 Now we're talking his dirty lithium mining. We're not talking about cobalt now. We're talking about the lithium mining. He said he used me to put a positive spin to his lithium mining operations. He attempted to use my image as an environmentalist. Well, hey, Cameron, that's what the environmentalists are demanding. They're demanding lithium for everything. Everything's got to be run off of lithium. Everything's got to be run off of lithium, right? Everything's got to be battery operated. Ironically, he said, the outcome of this is that I'm now aware of the problem and we will now assist through my foundation with the

Starting point is 01:49:57 issue of indigenous rights with respect to lithium extraction. Yeah, he was embarrassed by the reality of this. He was embarrassed about the exploitation of the people who live there. He doesn't care about the exploitation of Americans, of course, that are going to be exploited. They're having their homes confiscated, their farms confiscated. In South Dakota, Kristi ohm isn't even caring about that she's a republican governor she doesn't care that people are going to have their farms confiscated so they can build a useless co2 pipeline to pump co2 in the ground instead of giving it to plants so they can grow i mean mean, this is not only useless and nonsense,

Starting point is 01:50:45 it is actually negative to take the carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. We only have 0.04% of carbon dioxide. More would be better. Anyway, I believed that I was coming here to make some kind of a motivational speech about environmental causes. But then the reality caught up to him. Oh, he's all about making motivational speeches and you can get on your private jet and you can go anywhere to make motivational speeches about this

Starting point is 01:51:12 stuff. But, um, there's actually a documentary, an environmentalist action film about how to blow up a pipeline. Now, if Biden is out there looking around for domestic terrorists, as our next guest is going to be talking to us about, Stephen Friend, who blew the whistle on what the so-called Department of Justice and the FBI were doing in the aftermath of January the 6th, setting people up. So, you know, they're concerned about everybody that they disagree with.

Starting point is 01:51:51 They label as a domestic terrorist. But here's some real domestic terrorists producing a documentary. Where's Merrick Garland on this? Why are they investigating this? How to blow up a pipeline. It's a dangerous shot across the bow, says Real Clear Wire. For anyone who cares about safe and reliable energy, the film criticizes climate activists who are too pacifist.

Starting point is 01:52:20 Come on, you need to blow some stuff up. Now, if you really agree with it, you need to blow things up. Now, if you really agree with you need to blow things up, boy, if you just talk in terms of, uh, war metaphors as a conservative, Oh, they want to paint you as some dangerous extremists. Well, these are people who are literally saying, yeah, let's blow stuff up. They argue for the adoption of strategic property destruction as a tactic to destroy pipeline infrastructure projects. Do you remember how they kept trying to say, well, we got switching stations that are being shot up? And it's conservatives who are doing this. I bet they just wanted to turn out the lights so there wouldn't be a drag queen story time hour at this place. My son says will the documentary have interviews with ci experts

Starting point is 01:53:06 and destroying pipelines so here's how you do it even when it's underwater yeah good good point but of course you know biden is um biden is going to uh double down on all the climate threat uh here's what he had to say about this if i can find it yeah addressing the existential threat of climate change in a real way for the first time it is the existential threat to humanity it is the existential threat to humanity i hope i have no climate doubters out there because it's real yeah you are the existential threat to the climate, to energy, to environment, to everything else. You are an existential threat to those kids in Africa. You are an existential threat to our food supply.

Starting point is 01:53:54 You are an existential threat to all of it, Biden. You yourself. But you're not concerned about actual domestic terrorists who are producing documentaries about how to destroy infrastructure in the United States. As this article from Real Clear Wire says, pipeline infrastructure ensues the delivery of safe, reliable energy to hundreds of millions of Americans to power their homes and their businesses. Because see, the secret agenda these guys have got is that they don't want you to have

Starting point is 01:54:23 any power. They don't want you to have any power. They don't want you to have any food. They don't want you. While supporting essential services such as health care and emergency response. Oh, there's that word again, essential. Except we've already been told by Trump that we're not essential. As the United States transitions away from coal and toward a new energy future, maintaining the integrity of the pipeline system that transports natural gas

Starting point is 01:54:48 to power generation stations will become increasingly important. Natural gas can be transported by truck, by rail, by ongoing ocean vessels. The same thing is true of oil. You can do all that stuff. It's just more energy efficient to do it by pipeline. There is less risk of environmental problems if you do it by pipeline because there's less risk of a major derailment or a truck accident or something like that.

Starting point is 01:55:18 But nothing is perfect. You can have leaks in a pipeline, but it is still one of the things that can move stuff efficiently. I don't think we should be moving carbon dioxide in a pipeline and sticking it in the ground. I always supported the Keystone pipelines in terms of what they were trying to do in terms of transporting energy. What I did not support was the eminent domain, taking away people's farms and doing it without just compensation and doing it for the benefit of another private user, the pipeline company. How do you do that, right? And having the pipeline company be a foreign company, TransCanada, was given the power to condemn farms

Starting point is 01:56:07 so they could take their property and use it for their pipelines. This is property that had been in the farms for, in many cases, 150, 170 years. And so, as we look at this, just understand what this is really truly about. Trudeau told us very succinctly. Here's what he had to say.

Starting point is 01:56:32 What we learned from this climate, this COVID crisis, we will be applying to the climate crisis, to the housing crisis, to reconciliation, to making sure that everyone has good jobs and careers that carry them through and create opportunities for their kids. Yeah, what we learned from this COVID crisis, it's the MacGuffin, isn't it? Yeah, we're going to have government by crisis, government by executive order,

Starting point is 01:57:02 government without any concern of the rule of law, and we're going to use this template, this MacGuffin, by crisis, government by executive order, government without any concern of the rule of law. And we're going to use this template, this MacGuffin, you know, whatever, you know, the, whatever the emergency of the day is, we have the same thing that we want to do. That is ultimately population control, locking us down and controlling us and then reducing the number of us with depopulation. That's what it always comes back to. That's why I said these people are the ultimate existential threat. We're going to take a break, and when we come back,

Starting point is 01:57:34 we're going to be joined by Stephen Friend, a whistleblowing FBI agent. I think it's going to be very interesting. Stay with us. We'll be right back. common past to track and control us. Their commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing and the communist future. They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary, but each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God. That is what we have in common. That is what they want to take away. Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation.

Starting point is 01:58:31 They desire to know everything about us while they hide everything from us. It's time to turn that around and expose what they want to hide. Please share the information and links you'll find at thedavidknightshow.com. Thank you for listening. Thank you for sharing. If you can't support us financially, please keep us now is Stephen Friend. I have talked about Mr. Friend and what he did in terms of standing up to the weaponized, politicized FBI, coming after people after January the 6th. And, of course, what began with January the 6th is now metastasized to the Department of Justice and the FBI being concerned about parents who show up at a PTA meeting or at a school board meeting or things

Starting point is 01:59:45 like that. This is the danger of this, and I'm always interested in talking to whistleblowers. I've talked to John Kiriakou many times about blowing the whistle on CIA torture program, which ultimately bore the fruit of lying us into the war in Iraq. I've talked to Joe Bannister, who was an IRS agent, who was an investigator, part of the criminal investigation unit, carried a gun, and he did that for a number of years. And then he came across some things that people were saying. He said, well, how do I answer this? How do I answer this concern that they've got about the income tax code?

Starting point is 02:00:23 The supervisor said, don't talk about that. What? You know, he was, when you look at people who are honestly concerned about the law and about justice, this creates a real conflict of conscience for them. And of course, many had that same kind of situation presented to them throughout 2020 and 2021 with the mandates and the lockdowns. And do I give up my job?

Starting point is 02:00:48 What do I do? I'm violating my religious principles if I take this type of thing. These types of tests are always coming to us. He's now written a book. It came out yesterday. True Blue, My Journey from Beat Cop to Suspended FBI Whistleblower. And it dropped yesterday. You can find it on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, all the regular places that you buy books.

Starting point is 02:01:12 Again, it is True Blue. The author is Stephen Friend, who joins us right now. Thank you for joining us, sir. Thank you very much for having me today. And thank you for being a whistleblower. I really do appreciate it. I mean, I know that's a difficult thing. I know that it had tremendous consequences for you and for your family. And I want to talk about those,

Starting point is 02:01:32 but first tell us what was the tipping point? You'd worked as an FBI agent for, what was it, 12 years, I think? No, actually today would have been my nine-year anniversary date of my hiring. I'd worked in law enforcement though before that. So I've got about 14 years of law enforcement experience at a state, local, and federal level. So what was it that you saw in this that I can't go along with that, is what you had to say. Tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, I didn't really have a moment where I sat down and said I'm going to become a whistleblower. I just had a concern about the cases that were in my office that were January 6th related. And to take a brief step back on my background, I joined the FBI in 2014.

Starting point is 02:02:12 I spent my first seven years on Indian reservations. And the nature of those cases are quickly evolving. You have a huge, tremendous volume of cases. And as a result of that, I became very familiar with the FBI's rule book for how to work cases and brought that with me when I eventually transferred to Daytona Beach, Florida, where I am currently. And once I was reassigned to work domestic terrorism cases in my office, I was reassigned from child pornography cases and told that those were no longer going to be resourced. Those were local matter. Correct. What kind of cases were you seeing at the indian reservations i mean it was a lot of drug trafficking and stuff like that and and you know

Starting point is 02:02:50 violent crime things like that yes it's violent crime major offenses you know i've worked a lot of uh aggravated assaults and and homicides sexual assaults child molestation uh you really do the work of like a like a city violent crime detective on the reservations. And it's an interesting jurisdiction that the FBI has to take on due to some weird federal laws that we currently have on the books. And it basically precludes the tribal police officers from investigating some defendants who aren't Native American, and then even from bringing heavy charges against others. So they could only really charge misdemeanors for some fairly significant crimes and the FBI has to come in and fill that gap. Wow, that's interesting. So you were a police officer and then when you started working for the

Starting point is 02:03:33 FBI on these Indian reservations, you're still kind of doing police officer type of work that you're doing that. But when you became an FBI agent, did they first put you on child pornography and things like that? Yes, I accepted a transfer in the summer of 2021. And my understanding was it was going to be a position in the office to work on pornography cases and human trafficking cases, which are sort of a weird kissing cousin to the Indian reservations within the FBI because they're very hard to staff. Just people don't want to work it. It's sort of a violation that you can actually beg out of

Starting point is 02:04:07 because it's so mentally taxing for a lot of folks. Oh, I imagine. But it also gives you a great opportunity to work with local law enforcement, which is what I believe is the prime directive of the FBI. I wanted to work with local detectives, deputies from the sheriff's offices, the police departments, and learn from them and then basically partner with them. And if we could bring something

Starting point is 02:04:30 federally, then I was all in to do that. But the end of the fiscal year happens and the decision was made to reallocate resources and manpower, which is another major problem within the FBI. They basically have a quota system that they try to hit every year. And when I saw the January 6th cases, it was immediately apparent to me that the FBI is not following its rules with those cases. And I became concerned about, not because I had any sort of political ideology attached to it, I'm not a simp to one side or another, but I'm a law enforcement professional. And when I go to trial, I want to make sure that my case is as buttoned up as properly. And the fact that these cases have been just rubber

Starting point is 02:05:16 stamped as they've gone through the District of Columbia doesn't mean anything to me. If my name's at the top, I want to make sure my case is buttoned up. And I knew for a fact that these cases were not in, they were departing from the FBI's rules for how they managed the cases, which was interfering with how we were able to actually do our investigations. We were waiting for directives from Washington, D.C. when we were on paper supposed to be in charge of our own cases. Wow. So it's coming straight from D. Your, your concern is like a prosecutor. I don't want to take this to case cause this case to court because I could lose. Right. And you don't want to have a long streak of losses there. Uh, but you're, you're concerned about that. And this is coming straight out of the district of Columbia. They're identifying people and, uh, you know,

Starting point is 02:05:59 telling you, uh, to do what to them? Well, there are the january 6 case should be one case with however many subjects uh there are they're already being investigated but very early on in the process a decision was made that they were going to open up a separate case for every single person and then instead of running those from washington dc where the incident happened they were going to assign those cases to the field to all the various 56 field offices around the country where the incident happened. They were going to assign those cases to the field, to all the various 56 field offices around the country where the subject lived. So if you lived in Florida and you went to the Capitol that day, the office in Florida would be handling your case. And you could make the case that it is in compliance with the FBI rules. It's a little atypical, but it certainly presents a statistical narrative that domestic terrorism is on the rise significantly

Starting point is 02:06:47 because now you have thousands of cases and they're spread around the country as opposed to a one-time four-hour incident at the Capitol, which could be attributed to a Black Swan incident. And I compared it to the September 11th World Trade Center. So if you look at police officers in the land of duty deaths, there's a spike in 2001. And that's because there were a significant number of officers in the towers who died. That doesn't mean that nationwide there was a spike in violence against police officers. It's a statistical anomaly. And the FBI has now perpetuated that and has brought it the last three fiscal years and argued in front of Congress the need to enhance salary funding and uh and then on top of that the bosses in each one of the field

Starting point is 02:07:33 offices get bonuses for hitting the quotas because there's a demand for domestic terrorism cases it is the charge du jour that we are seeing now from the political leadership in Washington. So the FBI, if you ask for it, you shall receive. And because of the quota system, the FBI that's been around for the last 10 years, it's not really a mystery why the number of domestic terrorism cases has quadrupled in the last 10 years. Yeah. It's like any other bureaucracy, they're trying to make a case to grow. They succeed by growing their little fiefdom. That means a bigger head count. That means more responsibility and a higher salary for everybody at the top if they do that. And the big game that they always play is statistics. And we've seen these types of games played by a lot of different agencies.

Starting point is 02:08:16 The FBI has played these kind of statistical games to show that you've got to increase their department. But again, they're like every other bureaucracy, and there's a federal bureaucracy of investigation, if you look at it that way. You know, we have seen this, Stephen, we've seen in the past. The FBI has, in my opinion, been weaponized against people on the left, and conservatives said, that's right. You know, we don't like those people.

Starting point is 02:08:42 Let's go after this. And they kind of bent some of the rules with that stuff in the past. But now the politics has, the pendulum has swung in the other direction. And now they're starting to come after people who are conservative. And it really does seem like a politicized issue here. But before we get into that, I'm jumping ahead a little bit here. Tell us a little bit about some of the incidents that you had that really bothered you, because you mentioned one of them in particular that you went to interview somebody. Tell us a little bit about that. Yeah, the cases that were in my office were basically investigated, and there wasn't much

Starting point is 02:09:19 to do on them, which is, again, they were sitting in Washington, D.C., our own cases. We weren't really in charge of them. So I didn't have a whole lot of investigative work to do i really had only a couple things uh one was i was tasked to go and interview a gentleman who was said to have been at the capitol that day and had been inflicting violence against police officers uh the uh the the folks in washington dc had done a work on his workup on his phone GPS, and that was negative. The facial recognition that they had was negative, and it was an anonymous tip. So there was really no way we could actually bring a successful prosecution forward, even if the man were to confess, because he could just be a crazy person. But nevertheless, I was told that I didn't have

Starting point is 02:10:00 the option to just say it shouldn't be resourced. And I went and contacted that gentleman at his house and wasn't going to waste his time, but it was very direct and said, we're at the Capitol on January 6th. And he responded that he was not because that was the day of his son's funeral. And that is just one case of the collateral damage of this giant dragnet that the FBI has now inflicted on on the population and uh and we see that even with righteous subjects who may have committed crimes on january 6th yeah and in in the case with my office where i eventually came forward and said i didn't want to participate uh was a individual who's going to be charged with a felony, but had pledged to be cooperative with

Starting point is 02:10:46 the FBI. And when he'd spoken to the FBI, a year and a half had transpired between him being recontacted and they were going to send SWAT to his house to arrest him. And I'm a SWAT guy. I was on SWAT for five years, but I know that that is not in keeping with the tradition of law enforcement. You should be using the least amount of force necessary. That's an unnecessary risk to the public, to our personnel. Ridge and we can Monday morning quarterback those incidents into perpetuity and say, well, if I had been there, I would have voiced a concern. Well, I was there for that incident that I foresaw the potential to have another incident like Ruby Ridge or Waco. And I wanted to voice my concern. And unfortunately for me, for my professional future with the FBI, at every level, I went to three different levels of management. I was rebuffed and I was told that I had a really great reputation and that I was risking my career by expressing my concerns. And I voiced that I had an oath of office to upkeep. I had specific

Starting point is 02:11:58 training where at the FBI Academy, they send you to the Holocaust Memorial Museum and they send you to the MLK Memorial. And the purpose of that is to really hammer home that unless someone throws the flag in law enforcement and law enforcement just puts their head down and follows orders, that can only lead to civil rights atrocities and genocide. And it was my sincere belief that that is what the FBI is on course to do at this point. But again, management didn't share my sentiment and actually pushed back when I said that I had an oath to upkeep. They told me I had a duty to the FBI and had to follow orders and was being insubordinate. Wow.

Starting point is 02:12:35 And we've seen this even with military who were told that they had to take the vaccine. And they said, well, you know, we've got a lot of problems with that. You know, religious liberty, for example, is one of those that I have. And people say, well, you have an obligation to obey orders. I said, no, I have an obligation to defend the Constitution, and that's what I'm doing by defending my rights. You're very right to point out how, you know, Ruby Ridge and Waco blew up because of the excessive use of force, and so many people died. I wanted to get back, though, to this person that they reported to you that was an anonymous tip or something that somebody had accused them. There were so many people who were flagged because of geofence information.

Starting point is 02:13:25 They had the phone companies and Google and all the rest of them turning over people's records if they were anywhere in that area. We had Bank of America go even further, and they gave a list to the FBI, presumably, of anybody who had any financial transactions around the Capitol, but not necessarily buying anything there at the Capitol, but anywhere in Washington, D.C. or in the suburbs of Virginia or Maryland. I mean, they had a very big net. Anybody that bought anything went to the FBI. And presumably the FBI then looked at their political background and looked at whether they owned guns or anything like that, and it was that type of circumstantial stuff that got people caught up. Did you have any situations like that, that kind of wild circumstantial geofencing or transactions?

Starting point is 02:14:12 And then, oh, by the way, this person's also a conservative, maybe owns a gun, so let's go visit them. Was that what you were saying too? I know that the individuals in my office saw that, but when it came to my involvement, I was moved over in Octoberober of 2021 and all of that all that background work had already been done but that is very consistent with everything i've talked about with uh with the other agents who investigated those those cases and not my office but in a multitude of other offices and i think it's sort of in line with you know we were warned uh in president eisenhower's farewell address about a military

Starting point is 02:14:44 industrial complex and a scientific industrial complex. There's now an information industrial complex that exists with the ease of which digital information is shared. And there's a collusion that has gone on between the federal government and private industry to share that information. And it is circumventing the constitutional protections. And they sort of think they've found a hack, but nobody's in the room saying, well, if you're doing the bidding of the government, regardless of whether or not they've asked you to

Starting point is 02:15:12 with the proper service, a proper subpoena or a search warrant, you are in fact an agent of the government. And that needs to be challenged in court. It needs to be upheld and it needs to be confronted at a legislative level by our elected officials. I'm glad to hear you say that. I've talked for the longest time about, you know, everybody likes to talk about the deep state, the dark state, all the rest of the stuff. It's the deputized state. And we've seen it, as you talk about information, we've seen it with

Starting point is 02:15:40 censorship. They deputize the social media companies, but they also deputize bank of America to do the search warrants for them and, and the, the pretense that they've got, of course, with it, uh, Steven is that they always go back to the, uh, rulings where AT&T was spying on people and they said, well, you know, you want to get this information from them, you got the pin number stuff and it's data that belongs to you. So would you like to turn it over to us since, you know, we give you a nice monopoly of all the phone lines and all the rest of this stuff? Sure, yeah, we'll turn this over to you. We're happy to be of help to you.

Starting point is 02:16:11 And so that's really kind of, you know, part of, there's a lot of different things that are going on to violate the Constitution, due process, search warrants, and all the rest of this stuff to say that, well, this data belongs to the corporation. The corporation is voluntarily complying with us, and we're not actually doing it. Now we see that there's all these back channels where they're actually telling them who they wanted to come after and all the rest of this stuff. This is very concerning, and I'm glad that you're talking about this because I think as a whistleblower who has seen this kind of stuff happening, you've got a lot of weight and a lot of integrity for standing up to this. Tell us a little bit about how, again, you raised your concern and they said, well, gee, you know, we really would like, you got a great job here and a great work history, would really

Starting point is 02:16:55 hate for you to ruin it. I mean, how did they really respond to this? Was that kind of it? And then what happened? Yeah. So the real seminal moment for me was the day before the arrest operations were going to be happening. I was summoned to my headquarters in Jacksonville, so I drove up there and had a long conversation with two assistant special agents in charge of my office. I expressed all the concerns here that I've spoken about and said I believe that we could be people's. Oh, did we lose? Okay. Well, shoot.

Starting point is 02:17:31 Okay. We're going to try to reestablish contact there. Has it dropped or still connected? Okay. Drop it and then try to reconnect with him. And we just lost our line there. But I do want to ask him about that and i want to ask him is he back okay oh good okay great we lost yeah i never lost you there sorry oh you

Starting point is 02:17:53 didn't okay all right good well we it froze up on on our end for some reason uh i'm sorry you were in the middle of talking about how um they responded when you told them that you weren't good with this if you can back up a little bit. Yeah, yeah. So, I mean, I expressed that to them. We had a long conversation about it. During that course, that meeting, several remarks were made to me that were credibly concerning, especially when I said I have an oath of office, and they said I had a duty to the FBI. One of the bosses in the room said that police officers were killed on January 6th by the protesters. And when I said that that was not actually accurate, he told me I needed to

Starting point is 02:18:34 go and re-examine the facts. I proposed alternatives that we could use to bring folks into custody. I mean, it could just be a phone call to an attorney, surrender, we could send local law enforcement, we could use surveillance to interdict somebody. I didn't feel that SWAT was necessary, but all those were turned down. And at the end of the meeting, I'm just a pretty straight shooter. So I said, fellows, where are we left with this?

Starting point is 02:19:02 And I was given the assurance that this was going to be a long process. This is the federal government and things take a really long time. And I went on my merry way. And three hours later, got an email that told me that I was insubordinate and I was ordered to stay home the following day and report myself as AWOL. So I never actually had the opportunity to be insubordinate and not show or something like that. I was ordered to be AWOL, which I did and was docked at Days Bay before returning to work and then subsequently had a meeting with the next level of the chain of command with

Starting point is 02:19:38 the special agent in charge, wherein which she told me that I was a conspiracy theorist and that I represented a fringe belief and that I needed to do soul searching to determine if I wanted to have a future with the agency. And then after that, she told me she had already referred me for investigation to the FBI's inspection division and to the security division. And at that point, I kind I knew that the writing was on the wall because the FBI has retaliated against whistleblowers using a very nefarious process, and that is the security clearance. Because in order to work at the FBI, you need to have a security clearance. So my security clearance was suspended 30 days after my initial disclosures that I made to my bosses. And the reason that it was

Starting point is 02:20:26 suspended was not because I blew the whistle or raised concerns. It was because they determined I accessed the employee handbook improperly. And therefore, they had to do a full investigation of that and walk me out the building. I was placed in a unpaid yet still employed status, which is a strategy that they use to essentially wait people out and hopefully, I hope that due to financial stress that they will resign and then they can attribute any sort of accusations that you make as being the concerns of an angry ex-employee and not taken seriously. But unfortunately for them, I'm pretty stubborn and I'm also pretty financially savvy. I had done a fair amount of saving in preparation to be fired during the COVID vaccines. I knew that they were developing a

Starting point is 02:21:20 registry and I told my wife, look, we're going to have to prepare for a time that I'm going to be looking for a new job. So we had sort of a war chest built up. Didn't anticipate having her lose her job, which did happen a few weeks after my suspension under some suspicious circumstances. Her Facebook account was also shut down immediately. And I was denied my training records, which I would need for outside employment. I put in two requests for outside employment, which you're entitled to do when you're unpaid, and they denied both requests. My medical information was leaked to the New York Times. They also told the Times that I was accused of shooting a firearm in my backyard.

Starting point is 02:22:03 Finally, I received communication from the fbi inspection division that attempted to put a gag order on me and i was told that i was not allowed to speak about anything that was happening as far as the investigation of the allegations against me with anyone to include my family friends attorney which is an illegal gag order so this is just a long train of humiliations and abuses that came from the FBI and ultimately culminated where I had an opportunity, I had a job offer from the Center for Renewing America. They had a fellowship come available that I applied for, submitted samples of my writing and interviewed for and was actually offered a position for and ultimately accepted the day that I testified in a closed

Starting point is 02:22:47 deposition for the Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. And I want to talk to you about that. I want to talk to you about the organization that you're working for now. But that is absolutely amazing. The fact is that they were the ones who were insubordinate. They were insubordinate to the Constitution. They told you you had a duty to the FBI. You got a duty to the Constitution. You are supposed to be subordinate to that.

Starting point is 02:23:08 And yet, you know, it doesn't surprise me that they would call you a conspiracy theorist because of course that's what the FBI coined that phrase, you know, in terms of JFK assassination. But it is truly amazing to see the lengths that they will go to in order to set up dirty tricks and to, again, leak what they think is derogatory information about you, make accusations about you that aren't true. Take your, shut down your wife's social media account to try to gag you with all this stuff. That truly is amazing. But I've seen this before, Steve, when I, I talked about how I've interviewed, um, you know, whistleblower for the CIA, Jane, John Kiriakou and, um, Joe Bannister from the IRS. But of course also talked to some NSA whistleblowers, Thomas Drake, William Benny, Thomas Drake. When you mentioned the fact that they, you know, accused you something about the employee manual, they tried to get Thomas Drake sent to prison because they said that he had

Starting point is 02:24:05 taken home documents with him. He denied that he had them, but you know, the documents that they had were things like securities. My friend, it was a opening employee trainer manual. And, uh,

Starting point is 02:24:16 you know, it was ludicrous what they even consider to be documents that were, uh, of concern. And then the fact that they tried to set him up with those and tried to put him in jail. Did they ever come after you with any kind of criminal charges? I mean, you're mentioning things about, you know, well, he had accusation

Starting point is 02:24:32 of shooting a firearm in his backyard and other things like that. Was it even a setup to try to say, we're going to take your security clearance and then try it and then wait and see if you latched a hold of something that had a security classification on it? Was that part of it? They tried to set me up to be charged with a process crime for lying to an investigator. So I had to submit to a compelled interview with the FBI Security Division. And one thing that you have to know is in the meeting that I had with my two assistant special agents in charge i wanted to memorialize and i

Starting point is 02:25:05 was law enforcement i consulted with a i live in the state of florida it's a two-party consent state there's a law enforcement exemption to recording conversations um consulted with state certified law enforcement beforehand to confirm that i was in the good to do that i might be outside of the fbi's policy but policy isn't the law. And I recorded the conversation that I had with them. And when I submitted to this compelled interview with the security division, they asked me point blank, did you record the interview? And I answered honestly, yes, I had. And it was very apparent to me, and it's sort of like one magician trying to impress another magician with a trick. When you're a trained investigator or a trained interviewer, I kind of knew what they were doing. And the natural follow-up to that question where I had

Starting point is 02:25:48 given them some information that there had been some pretty damning statements made during this interview, this meeting that I had with these executives that were trying to compel me to violate my oath of office. You would think the natural follow-up would be, Steve, can we get a copy of that interview? And they never did that. They were hoping that I was going to say no, and then they could cut the search warrant for my house and charge me with lying to a federal investigator. Because in going back and having listened to that meeting that I had, which I actually have transcribed and it is in my book so anybody who uh who gets a copy will have access to uh they and then the FBI tried to get me to redact during the publication process but I'm not going to do that um they it was very clear to me that

Starting point is 02:26:37 they were recording the interview as well they were trying to divorce my my ability to come forward as a whistleblower from my orders to submit to to to participating in those those uh operations and they can repeatedly kept saying so what you're telling me Steve is you're refusing to do your job and I kept saying no I'm doing my job um so I think that they have a recording of it they know what was said and they weren't concerned about what was said they were just worried about the exposure that the FBI has because the FBI is their prime directive is, uh, protect the image, protect the shield. That is the reputation.

Starting point is 02:27:13 That is, is all that matters to the FBI. Well, I'll tell you what their reputation is in the toilet. Now it's the things that have happened in the last few years, especially, uh, that must be a very interesting transcript because i can imagine and and that is what i've always said about all this trump stuff i said his real jeopardy is going to be a perjury trap you know blathering about something and carelessly talking about things and uh and so you know that you know things like how they come after celebrities like martha stewart you know they got her for things like how they come after celebrities like Martha Stewart.

Starting point is 02:27:47 They got her for lying to the FBI, not for insider trading. So this must have been a real mental battle to try to carefully phrase these terms in ways that they could not get you in the perjury trap. It must be a fascinating read. Of course, that transcript is in your book, True Blue, Stephen Friend, I imagine that would be worth the price of the book right there to see that back and forth with you and these interrogators trying to entrap you, you know, any kind of an error that you would make, you know, any kind of factual error. They would come after you as a crime to lock you up. It's truly amazing. And it is frightening for the rest of us because you know

Starting point is 02:28:25 how those rules are and you know how they're operating, but the rest of us don't. We're babes in the woods, right? Somebody is accused of something and our first instinct, if we're innocent, is to say, yeah, I don't mind talking about this. I've got nothing to hide. I'm innocent. And it's that kind of an entrapment that is really a danger for the average citizen, isn't it? Exactly right. And we've gotten to a point now where the FBI is no longer an objective force for good. They have weaponized the process crimes to go after people. We saw that happen with somebody like Mike Flynn, where James Comey sent agents over to specifically get him to answer a question that lacked candor or could be contrived to have lacked candor in a way and they could bring charges to force his either criminal charge

Starting point is 02:29:09 or at least his firing from the national security advisor um and uh and that is why uh we'll see this these ongoing investigations of somebody like former president trump where they could just say well you you weren't an illegal necktie and he could say that's ridiculous that's not illegal i'm not going to participate in your in your witch hunt and he could and they could just say, you worn an illegal necktie. And he could say, that's ridiculous. That's not illegal. I'm not going to participate in your witch hunt. And they could say, oh, well, now you've obstructed our investigation. We'll charge you with a process crime. Wow.

Starting point is 02:29:33 Yeah. It truly is amazing what has happened. Now, you are working since you testified. Before we get into what you're doing right now with the Center for Renewing America, let's talk a little bit about the response from Washington, congressional hearings, all the rest of this stuff. I mean, what has been the response, since this is a politicized investigation, what has been the response from Republicans, for example, to any of this?

Starting point is 02:29:57 Or even from Democrats? You know, do Democrats care? Are they full on with this? What have the Republicans said, if anything? There was definitely some appetite from some of the Republicans on the select committee, on the weaponization of the federal government. Matt Gaetz and Dan Bishop both participated in my deposition. They both brought questions forward and seemed genuinely interested in not only the information I had as a whistleblower, but also other information and concerns that I have,

Starting point is 02:30:22 which I feel is very vitally important to bring to not just Congress's attention, but to the American population's attention. Unfortunately, the FBI and the Democrat Party and mainstream media have all colluded and attacked the messenger. And here's the thing about being a quote unquote whistleblower. I've been a self-styled whistleblower, as I believe what CNN says I am. It's 5 U.S.C. 2303. I followed it the letter of the law. I made a protected disclosure to numerous members of my chain of command, the inspector general, the office of special counsel, and to Congress, both Democrat and Republican. So I've gone through a list of those. Each one of those was a protected activity on my part. I don't have to be right about my concerns. I just have to be reasonable. And it is incumbent on those authorities to take that information and do an appropriate investigation and assessment as

Starting point is 02:31:22 to whether or not I'm right. And I've continued to say that I brought that information and they could say, Steve, you're wrong. Here's why. And I would have said, okay, going back to work now. Or they could say, Steve, you're right. We're going to fix the problem. And I said, okay, I'm going back to work now. But instead, all of the guns were turned, all the energy and the resources of the FBI and the Democrat party and the media were turned against myself and the other gentlemen that were at the table with me when we testified last month, which in fact can only mean one thing. You get the flack when you're over the target. which we were prepared to discuss in great length in great detail but instead uh the the members of the minority there were were happy to just pontificate for five minutes each and then

Starting point is 02:32:10 accuse marcus allen of uh tweeting improperly even though that wasn't his twitter account and accused me and gary of oil of being bought and paid for when we were given a charitable donation several months after being suspended indefinitely without pay. And we're accused of doing that by Dan Goldman, who is one of the wealthiest members of Congress. Truly is amazing. How many other people were there? Were they other FBI whistleblowers in this testimony or were they from other agencies? Were they all FBI people? How many were there? There were three FBI whistleblowers and Tristan Levitt, who was an attorney for Empower Oversight, who represents me. And that's an organization,

Starting point is 02:32:50 501c3, that represents government whistleblowers. And then they've been defending me as well as Marcus. So he was there to sort of be a subject matter expert and share his knowledge. He has a wealth of it with Congress. But uh you know it's just just the three fbi uh personnel uh two agents and one support staff uh and uh we were we were able to present some information i mean obviously i wanted to get in the um you know there's the more salacious information about like you know having gone to school board meetings and and gotten license plates from people um as part of the the the FBI's effort to marry school board protesters with domestic terrorists. But to me, my project now at this point is the integrated program management system that the FBI has and has had for 10 years, which is the quota system.

Starting point is 02:33:40 That's the ticket book for the traffic cop, where there are quotas for opening number of cases and using certain tools and getting a certain number of arrests. And in order to keep the budgets flowing, there's games played, like where they will open up thousands of domestic terrorism cases off of January 6th, which is not a, uh, inadequate and an accurate representation of what that actually was. Uh, and, uh, now you have the special agents in charge of all 56 field offices since those cases were spread around the country. Uh, they're all collecting bonuses somewhere in the area between 30 and $50,000 because those numbers were met. Wow. Wow. That's amazing. I I've covered the case of Adrian school craft who is a New York city whistleblower for the police.

Starting point is 02:34:26 And he had situations like that where they said, you know, Hey, it's Halloween. I just want you to round up anybody that you can bring them back and we'll book them. And we'll find out what to charge them with later. We don't care. Just bring people in, you know, it got a quota type of system like that. And he started recording and recording other police officers. Once they found out about that, his father was a police officer. Again, your book is True Blue. He was a True Blue believer as well.

Starting point is 02:34:49 He really believed in being a cop. They tried to punish him by making him walk a beat. He goes, well, that's good. I think it's a good thing for me to be out there and deter crime and get to know the people in the community. He didn't see that as a punishment. But they eventually came around, and he had another recording that was up on the wall behind some books that memorialized what had happened with that.

Starting point is 02:35:10 But they went to his apartment, the guy who was number two in the New York City Police Department. They arrested him and put him in an insane asylum. His father, who was a retired cop, found the other recording and got him out. But, I mean, that's a retired cop, found the other recording and got him out. But I mean, that's the thing. They turn against people. And when the institution becomes that level of being corrupt, exactly what do you think we should do with the FBI? I mean, is it to the point where it is salvageable? I don't think it is. I think you need to do away with the FBI entirely. And I know that sounds scary to people,

Starting point is 02:35:48 but this country existed before the FBI. It can exist after the FBI. There's a strong argument that I've been making for the last several months that the FBI isn't a constitutional organization. It was not, there was no legislation brought forward to originate it. It was actually backdated.

Starting point is 02:36:04 And so the FBI was about preserving status quo, was not there was no legislation brought forward to originate it it was actually backdated and so the FBI was about preserving status quo not necessarily about protecting the Constitution or the rights of Americans uh so in the 30s 40s and 50s the FBI to preserve the status quo went after communists and I think Americans assumed that they were the good guys but then the FBI went after draft Dodgers because you know and then you can have the debate over the legitimacy of the Vietnam War. And I think there were still people that thought they were doing good, good work. But COINTELPRO and infiltrating the Black Panthers, there's some civil rights concerns there. into the 21st century where after 9-11 and national security mission creeps started to occur because our military stomped down the foreign threats significantly. The FBI had to justify

Starting point is 02:36:52 its national security branch existence and budget. So they started to look from counterterrorism abroad to homegrown terrorism. And that's where you saw some entrapment of Muslim Americans. And then when they ran out of those, now they've come after domestic violent extremists, as they call them, which are the conservative Americans. And you look no further than last September, the red speech that President Biden delivered at Independence Hall, he identified Republicans. First, it was MAGA Republicans, then it eventually evolved into Republicans as being anti-government white supremacist. And two of the top priorities for the FBI in counterterrorism are anti-government extremism and ethnic extremism, parenthetically,

Starting point is 02:37:39 white supremacy. So you've now got the FBI preserving the status quo for a very radical left that is in charge of our government. So to answer the question about the FBI, I think that you can look to locals. I think very similar to the way we used to elect senators in this country where they came from the state houses. We can eliminate the FBI and empower US Marshals to deputize more. We're there to currently do it, but more local detectives in sheriff's offices, police departments, and allow those guys who have the local knowledge of what's going on in their town. They know the usual suspects. They know the crime that's going on on Main Street.

Starting point is 02:38:16 They can pursue criminal cases at a federal level, local, state, however they see adequate. Bring those cases to a US Attorney's Office if it's appropriate. And that will empower the local agencies to essentially staff the federal government and really let federal law enforcement do what's best for the locals as opposed to what their minders are asking them to do

Starting point is 02:38:41 in Washington, DC. I couldn't agree with you more. I am so happy to hear somebody give an honest assessment of the FBI. And, of course, it goes all the way back to the beginning of the Palmer raids and J. Edgar Hoover and his and his. He was a master politician. He was a master salesman, if you will. I mean, he was the one who was behind the FBI series with Ephraim Zimbalist Jr. That's how he built this this reputation.

Starting point is 02:39:02 And, of course, since they were coming after, as you point out, the communists and people on the left, everybody was concerned about them at that time. And now they have switched which side that they're on. And now a lot of people who have been applauding them are seeing this, but it's always been that way. And it's always been an unconstitutional agency. Let me ask you, because we talked about the deputized state, what about things like, you know, the Southern Poverty Law Center has been used as a consultant for the FBI in the past, pointing the finger at other people. It gives them plausible deniability. It gives more credibility to these charges,

Starting point is 02:39:33 but they work in a kind of public-private partnership type of thing. Did you see some of that when you were working there? Yes, yes, even at the FBI Academy when we had training on terrorism. We had to watch a video provided to us by the Southern Poverty Law Center, where they ranked pro-life activists as higher on the threat level than ISIS. Wow, really? That's amazing. Doesn't surprise me, I guess, but that truly is amazing. Let's talk about what you're doing right now with the Center for Renewing America. You're a senior fellow on domestic intelligence and security service. Tell us a little bit about the organization first, and then tell us what you're doing there. Well, thank you for that. So Russ Vogt, the director of the OMB under the Trump administration,

Starting point is 02:40:21 is our president and founder of this organization and we are focused on confronting woke and weaponized government in any way we can and my contribution to that is in this domestic intelligence and security sphere so bringing my knowledge about the FBI and the problems within the agency forward and producing some white papers and also some policy recommendations. And CRA liaises very well with many of the congressmen who stood up against Speaker McCarthy's speakership during that week-long event that we had in January and brings those concerns forward and has basically crafted a new budget that should be implemented on day one if power were to change hands and and i'm trying to just provide my insight there and as well as advising this select committee on the weaponization

Starting point is 02:41:11 of the federal government uh so in a cruel twist of irony i get to investigate the fbi who was investigating me and uh and they continue to just represent uh you know what uh what this group means and and speak out and you know I've just started to come around to the message of I'm swinging a hammer at a giant stone, and it might not break for the first 999 times, but on the 1,000th strike, it does. That doesn't mean that my 1,000th swing of the hammer was what did it. It was everything along the way, and then I'll just continue to hammer away to get this message out there to as many people as possible. That's right. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance and it's persistence as well. And this is such a dangerous thing with the power, the money, and the technology that

Starting point is 02:41:54 is behind the federal government for it to have this massive, weaponized, politicized police force is a very, very dangerous thing for all of us. I mean, we should learn the lesson from the Stasi and, and they didn't have, uh, you know, but only a fraction of the, of the power and the technology that is currently possessed by modern states. And if they're going to be allowed to act in a lawless way without any restraint whatsoever, uh, then we do have essentially a much more powerful Stasi that is there. This truly is something that should be a concern to everybody.

Starting point is 02:42:34 And I think it's very important that people read your book. And I hope that they get that. Again, the book is True Blue. And Stephen Friend is the author. You can find it wherever books are sold. He doesn't have a separate website to sell that, but you can find it on Amazon anywhere that you buy your books. Is there anything else that you would like to, in kind of a parting way, to tell people in America about the dangers of this or anything else you'd like to tell us? Well, yeah, thank you.

Starting point is 02:43:02 And thank you for allowing me the opportunity to share that information about the book um you know it's not intended to be it's it's not political in any way it's just the information being brought forward and i certainly share your sentiment um with uh the this this growing intelligence state that is now the fbi has evolved into an intelligence agency with a law enforcement capability um if there's any you know final idea that i just threw out into the ether uh everybody wants to say that their first amendment uh absolutist and uh the second amendment is there to support that uh i think we need to start looking at our third amendment and i know that that's the quartering of soldiers and kind of makes an eyebrow raise but when we look at

Starting point is 02:43:41 things like the way that big tech has colluded with government, there's not a whole lot different than a red coat listening on your bedroom asking you for potato chips. That is so good. We are in 100% agreement on these things. And I'm so glad to hear you saying that. You have so much credibility for walking the walk. Freedom is not free. Somebody has to pay the price for it. You've paid the price for this. You have kept your integrity.

Starting point is 02:44:19 You've been honest and faithful to the Constitution. I cannot thank you enough. And certainly, you are spot on in understanding what the real dangers are here, and you have the courage to speak out. I can't thank you enough for doing that. Thank you. Well, thank you very much. Have a great day, and God bless you.

Starting point is 02:44:34 Thank you. Again, the book is True Blue. The author is Stephen Friend. And I think it would be worth the price of admission just to see the transcripts going back and forth between him and the FBI. Obviously, he won because he's not in jail. Thank you, Stephen. We're going to take a quick break, folks, and we will be right back.

Starting point is 02:44:53 Stay with us. oh you're listening to the david knight show well we had a lot of comments there uh people talking back and forth to each other let me read some of these uh aaron mosser is no constitutional provision for the fbi i agree with that and so does steven friend uh jason barker the fbi the cis blah blah blah they're all 100 unconst. States can keep them out if they so desired. You're absolutely right. That's why I say, you know, we talk about elections, pay attention to your local election. I can't tell you who's on the ballot. I don't even know myself who's on the ballot for this 2024 election, but that's where the

Starting point is 02:46:19 importance is. And that is, uh, the area it can be rigged as well, of course. There's a lot of different ways to rig elections. They don't have to be rigged from central place. And, of course, there can be dishonest jurisdictions, and there are dishonest jurisdictions. But if you're going to have a pushback against the government, it will begin there if it can be done.

Starting point is 02:46:43 And if it's so hopelessly corrupt in your area, get somewhere else. I mean, that's the bottom line. We have to take that power back at state level, and that means that we've got to get active at the ground level. But we have to understand that what they're trying to do at the national and international level, because these national governments in every country, the U.S. is no exception,

Starting point is 02:47:11 all these so-called national governments in every country, the U.S. is no exception, all these so-called national governments are now operating on an international global agenda. That is not a conspiracy theory. That's a fact. Audi, MRR, right on, Jason. Let's not forget CIA literally has its own army as well. And it says, I hear terrible things about these Indian reservations. U.S. law does not apply in those areas, and there's child trafficking. It is a huge issue there.

Starting point is 02:47:32 A lot of corruption happening in those Indian reservations. And I've talked about that, the whole reservation system. You want to see what they want to lock us down into? Before there were concentration camps in Germany, we had Indian reservations and they took people away from their land that they lived on. They took away their ability to grow crops or to hunt or any of the other stuff that they were used to doing, put them into an area and put them on, let's see, what could we call it? Oh, universal basic income. They took their children away from them and sent them to a government school to be propagandized.

Starting point is 02:48:10 And that particular case, in many of these cases, they would ship them across the country to another place. So removing the kids from the care of their family to break and destroy the bond to the family, to break and destroy, uh, the, the bond to the family to break and destroy that culture and to inculcate them with their values and then to run all of this stuff, they put an incredibly corrupt bureaucracy in charge of it. Yeah. That's what they want to do to everybody.

Starting point is 02:48:41 It began with the Indian reservations. They did some of that in the black communities with the welfare state, certain aspects of that. And of course the government schools that are there doing that to all of us to a large degree. But if you want to know what a 2030 city is based on, it's just an Indian reservation with computers and cameras. In my opinion,

Starting point is 02:49:02 that's where we're headed. Audi MR says a duty of the fbi i know he had a duty of the constitution he understood that that's right hats off to this guy says jason barker for standing up it's not an easy thing to do given the power that the deep state has that's what i said that wrestling match and that interrogation uh the links that they will go to to entrap you over the most minor misstatement. I mean, that is,

Starting point is 02:49:27 you know, you listen to Jason. He's a very, not Jason, but Steven, he's a very precise guy in the way that he speaks. And he had to be, or he would be in jail right now.

Starting point is 02:49:38 Um, a cult priestess soul searching. The FBI doesn't believe it. That's right. Um, uh, the FBI is a criminal institution should have ended decades ago they entrap people smear innocent people commit crimes against humanity on epic scales that's right absolutely well you know it is kind of interesting when we look at the massive uh surveillance state uh this is um uh from uh the um from wired wired magazine is from Wired, Wired Magazine.

Starting point is 02:50:08 Wired Magazine is very statist. Anything is okay. And whatever the technology, they typically never have any concerns about its misuse. Hardly ever see anything like that from Wired Magazine. So it's kind of interesting to see Wired Magazine saying that the U.S. is openly stockpiling dirt on all of its citizens. Well, yeah, that's true. And that part of it is not interesting.

Starting point is 02:50:36 The part of it that's interesting is that they would admit that. And the fact that this is being admitted by the Director of National Intelligence, the office of the Director of National Intelligence, the office of the Director of National Intelligence. The federal government is buying troves of data about Americans. They are profiling everybody. As we saw with what he was talking about in the early days of January 6th, bring me the man, I'll find the crime. Bring me the man that's got this political belief and I'll find the crime.

Starting point is 02:51:11 And now that they've done it to the man, I'll find the crime. Bring me the man that's got this political belief and I'll find the crime. And now that they've done it to the left and now that they've done it to the right, can the left and the right understand that they need to come together at least to stop the FBI and this kind of surveillance state that we're rapidly falling into. And it is much worse, of course, than what they are saying in their article. But then on the other side of this, you have a person who wrote this article on Medium, A Tale of Unwanted Disruption. My Week Without Amazon. This person is writing an op-ed piece, very upset about the fact that Big Brother was taken out of his life for a short period of time. On Wednesday, May 31, 2023,

Starting point is 02:51:57 I finally regained access to my Amazon account after an unexpected and unwarranted lockout that lasted nearly a week. This wasn't just a simple inconvenience. I have a smart home and my primary means of interfacing with all the devices and the automations is through my Amazon Echo device via Alexa. This incident left me with a house full of unresponsive devices. What he didn't realize is he had put all this stuff in here, the Internet of Things.

Starting point is 02:52:30 You got intelligent appliances, and you got an intelligent home, and all the rest of this stuff. You got a smart home. Well, as I said, whenever you see something with the adjective on it of smart, and you're talking about technology, understand this is something for stupid slaves. And you're going to be a stupid slave if you buy into this you know the smart uh the smart home and all the rest of the stuff and that's exactly what happened to him he set up his house where he thought he was in charge but what he was doing was setting up a

Starting point is 02:53:02 massive surveillance system and then he ran into some woke policies. If you want to call, I hate that term again, they pick the terms. They're not awake. They're completely asleep. Like this guy, he doesn't understand the implications of what he set up.

Starting point is 02:53:19 And, um, so, you know, he did this, he thought it was going to be convenient, uh, but he was essentially building a surveillance state around himself with his own home and paying for it himself.

Starting point is 02:53:32 And he was very upset about what he called his digital exile. Wow. He said it began innocuously. A package was delivered to my house. Everything seemed to be fine the following day. However, I found that my Echo show had signed out and I was unable to interact with my big brother devices. It's smart devices, he says. My initial assumption was that someone might have attempted to access my account. And so he started looking at all this stuff. Look, he's got set up the internet of things. And I remember when David Petraeus, who's now a regular Bilderberg attendee,

Starting point is 02:54:08 now works for Kravitz and Roberts or KKR, whatever they, you know, forget the initials of it, but, you know, he's a regular attendee there at Bilderberg with those people. And when he was CIA director, he said, we're going to have your refrigerator and your microwave listening to you and reporting on you. And we reported that and people called us conspiracy theorists. It's like, no, the conspiracy is these guys turning everything in your house

Starting point is 02:54:38 into an eavesdropping device, into a big brother device. And people just don't believe there can be any malice behind this. This guy got off light. The only thing that happened was that Amazon didn't like him and cut his services off. They didn't call the police on him or anything. And this is what this is designed for. When they talk about the Internet of Things, understand that if you buy into that, if you buy into this smart stupidity, you're going to be one of the things that they're monitoring.

Starting point is 02:55:07 You're going to be the thing that they're monitoring with all of those, that internet of things. So he said, um, I went through all this stuff and all, I didn't see any place where I was hacked. And he said, then it took a surreal turn. He said, the representative told me that I should have received an email, which I indeed then found in my inbox and it was from an executive at amazon as i dialed the number provided in the email i half wondered if amazon was experiencing some issues and i was unwittingly

Starting point is 02:55:34 falling into a scam and when i yeah he was he was he was scammed he just doesn't still understand how he was scammed when i connected with the still understand how he was scammed. When I connected with the executive, they asked if I knew why my account had been locked. When I said I was unsure, the tone turned somewhat accusatory. I was told that the driver who delivered my package reported receiving racist remarks from my ring doorbell. He says it's actually a Eufy, but I'll let that slide. I guess that's a different brand of one of these surveillance cameras. He says, here's where things got even more baffling. First, I have multiple cameras recording everything that happens on my property. And if the driver claims were accurate, I could easily verify them with video footage.

Starting point is 02:56:18 Second, most delivery drivers in my area share the same race as me and my family. It seemed highly unlikely that we would make such remarks. Finally, when I asked what time the alleged incident occurred, I realized it was practically impossible for anyone in my house to have made those comments as nobody was home around that time, about 6.05 p.m. I reviewed the footage, confirmed that no such comments had been made. Instead, the Eufy doorbell had issued an automated response. Excuse me, can i help you

Starting point is 02:56:46 the driver who was walking away and wearing headphones must have misinterpreted the message must have been that rap song that he heard or something you know rap songs are pretty racist sexist violent the rest of this stuff anyway he said nevertheless the following day my amazon account was locked and all my Echo devices were logged out. You see, this is the key issue, too, about how they are going to start not only monitoring and storing everything about us, but they're going to have artificial intelligence that's going to be making the determinations and making the accusations, right?

Starting point is 02:57:22 Reporting us as, you know, you had some anonymous person making a baseless claim to Stephen Friend about somebody having been at January the 6th when he was at his son's funeral that day. He had an airtight alibi. Well, good luck with that when you get flagged by artificial intelligence and they decide to send a SWAT team and they get spooked and kill you right and that's the big problem with all this stuff in the same way that um as i showed you before uh the transcript program uh that i had that uh that that does all this stuff and says, um, you know, well, um, uh, this is, um, I think,

Starting point is 02:58:07 uh, auto Aaron, Aaron Moss, thank you for taking the abortion pills. See that kind of thing. They get that, uh, misconstrued. So he's concerned about that.

Starting point is 02:58:17 We should all be concerned about that, but it is absolutely amazing to me that he would write this long thing about how he had lost his access to it. So Brian, Deb McCartney, our state invites all reservations because they reap the profits from gambling, drugs, and sex trafficking. Yeah, that's the other part. Yeah, I was talking about the way it was in the 1800s. Look at what has happened now has happened now right you know when you look at casinos right that's a big red flag about trump isn't it this involvement in the casino stuff and i remember when he first started running in 2005 i started doing some background checks on him as like when he had that atlantic atlantic city casino he wanted to expand his parking lot and there was a widow there and it was

Starting point is 02:59:06 straight out of Pixar's up, except it was a widow instead of a widower. And I want to buy this and I want to build my parking lot. I don't want to move. I've been here all my life. I'm not moving. And, you know,

Starting point is 02:59:18 so they buy everything except that one particular house. He can't buy that person off. So he goes to the Atlantic city government and he gets them to condemn her house and take her off. But before he can finish his parking lot, he declares bankruptcy with the Atlantic city casino. I was like, wow. Yeah, that, that says it all, but you know, yeah, they want all they want all the gambling, the drugs, the sex trafficking. There's so much corruption in these Indian reservations. And, of course, it all flows from the overarching centralized control that was imposed by the federal government as part of that entire system from the very beginning.

Starting point is 03:00:01 Brian Deb McCartney says smart equals self monitoring analysis and reporting technology. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, snitch on yourself. You're so smart. You're going to snitch on yourself or maybe a secret militarized armaments and residential technology. I like that acronym better from Taylor Saunders. That's a good one. Uh, that really is what it is. Yeah. Anytime somebody says something is smart, I've got a whole folder that I've just not gotten around to doing the report on yet about smart guns. You know, that's raising his head again. This has been one of the pet projects of Joe Biden.

Starting point is 03:00:34 Smart guns. Uh, give me a break. Um, smart guns, smart cars, smart, everything. Again, it's for people who are stupid enough to become enslaved by it. Well, tomorrow we're going to talk about, I've had this on for a couple of days here, Second Amendment. And there's some updates on the Second Amendment. One of the key things about it is the fact that Gavin Newsom,

Starting point is 03:00:59 who has presidential ambitions, that should keep you awake tonight. Gavin Newsom has come to the realization that the second amendment is a real bulwark against the gun control stuff that he and the people who would vote for somebody like him wants. So he wants to come up with a constitutional amendment to eradicate and eviscerate the second amendment. Well, it's real easy. You know, you just rewrite the whole thing and take out the part of the rights of the to eradicate and eviscerate the Second Amendment. Well, it's real easy.

Starting point is 03:01:28 You just rewrite the whole thing and take out the part of the rights of the people and the part about infringement, and you're there. It becomes completely meaningless. But, of course, that's the way they already interpret it, except that the Supreme Court, that's what he's upset about. Thank you for joining us. Have a good day. The Common Man They created Common Core to dumb down our children. They created Common Past to track and control us. Their Commons Project to make sure the commoners own nothing. dumbed down our children. They created common paths to track and control us. Their commons

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