The David Knight Show - Wed Episode #1976: “ChatDJT” or “SignalGate” Ignites Partisan War in DC

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Starting point is 00:00:21 If you have questions or concerns about your gambling or someone close to you, please contact Connects Ontario at 1-866-531-2600 to speak to an advisor free of charge. In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. It's The David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13, it's Wednesday, the 26th of March, year of our Lord, 2025. Well, we're going to take a look today at what has everybody on both sides at war with each other. And this is the chat session about war that was on Signal.

Starting point is 00:01:30 It shouldn't have been on Signal. And we have already had a grandstanding inquiry in Congress. So we're going to talk about what has come out of all that. I call it Chat DJT. Donald J. Trump. We're going to talk about what was revealed in it and what the mainstream media is not talking about what came out of that. We're also going to take a look at some of the actions that Trump is taking. Of course JD Vance is going to be going to

Starting point is 00:01:58 Greenland. What do the people in Greenland think about that? But he's also done some things for election ballots, which are very instructive. Some of them are good, but it's interesting some of the things that he did not do. We'll also talk about how he's cutting down taxpayer-funded housing for illegal immigrants. That's a good thing. Planned Parenthood is still getting money from the federal government. They're going to try to get rid of some of that as well we're also going to take a look at the private central bank digital currencies

Starting point is 00:02:33 Yeah, there was a hearing that revealed a lot about that Well again, this is set both the left and right on fire over this signal stuff. And again, it's partisan competition. It's not really about the core issues that are constitutional, that are about war and peace and other things like that. And also, how did this guy wind up getting on the list? Well, I think we've got an idea of how Goldberg got on the list of waltz. But let's take a look at what happened with it. First of all, Jeffrey Goldberg

Starting point is 00:03:11 is the editor-in-chief at the Atlantic. Now, the Atlantic is a very... Should we characterize it? They like to call it the deep state or whatever, but it is the establishment, right? The military-industrial complex, the globalist complex establishment, very much a mouthpiece for that. And big critics of Trump, and so he thought throughout this entire thing, this is going to be a trap, you know, like this is something like Project Veritas or something. And he really didn't believe it until after it happened, exactly as they said it was going to happen. This is his account of it, which interestingly enough, most of the mainstream media and most of the alternative media

Starting point is 00:03:57 doesn't really talk about it from his account, his personal experience that he wrote in the article. Most of them are talking about, well well what can we do to these people look they violated the security agreements just like hillary clinton and on and on you know so they're they always like to excuse what they do when they violate their laws their procedures and so forth they like to excuse it by pointing to the other person and so now hillary

Starting point is 00:04:21 clinton is uh... saying oh look look what they did anyway this is what Goldberg said. He said on Tuesday, March 11th, I received a connection request on signal from a user that was identified as Michael Waltz signal was an open source encrypted messaging service that is popular with journalists and others who seek more privacy than other text messaging services are capable of delivering by the way, you know, that is a key part of this, the questions as to more privacy than other text messaging services are capable of delivering. By the way, that is a key part of this.

Starting point is 00:04:48 The question is as to whether or not it was legitimate for them to be using Signal. So we'll give you both sides of that argument. But of course, the other thing about Signal is that these messages disappear. And so there is a requirement for them to record these messages as well. So there's a bit cloudy as to whether or not this is a legitimate use. I assumed that Michael Walz in question was President Trump's National Security Advisor. I did not assume however that the request was from him. I've met with him in the past, he said, and though I didn't find it particularly strange

Starting point is 00:05:25 that he'd be reaching out to me, I did think it's somewhat unusual given that the Trump administration's contentious relationship with journalists, especially with him, and Trump's periodic fixations on me specifically. I immediately crossed my mind that someone could be masquerading as Waltz. So he said, I accepted it, hoping that this was the actual national security advisor, that he wanted to chat about Ukraine or Iran or something other that was important, and he said and then two days later he got a message at 430 in the afternoon. He said, I got a notice that I was to be included in a signal chat group, chat DJT.

Starting point is 00:06:05 Now they didn't call it that, I call it that. It was called the Hootie PC small group. And I know it's Hootie, but I just prefer to call them Hooties. Look, this is, and part of the thing that came out of this, the back and forth messaging with JD Vance and others, JD Vance is saying, maybe we ought to wait on this, maybe we ought to try to get public opinion on our side first.

Starting point is 00:06:29 The opinion of Hegseth, though, and others is, well, we do what we want to do and then we will bring them along afterwards, right? We'll tell them what to do because he knows that the people who are on his side are going to rubber stamp anything they do and the people who are opposing them are always going to oppose him. But whenever you go to war, isn't it supposed to be a public debate about that? Yeah, there wasn't any about that. And so this is when we look at the actual conversations that are going back and forth, I think it

Starting point is 00:07:07 tells us a lot about where we are with all this and how dangerous it is that we have the largest war machine in the history of mankind, that we spend more than, I don't know if it's still, if it's more than everybody else combined, but it is pretty close to that if it isn't true. And yet there is really no oversight or control of this, not by the American people. And they do this in our name. And they attack people in our name. And that puts us at risk.

Starting point is 00:07:38 They want to talk about national security. Let me tell you, national security is not about your private secret messages. National security is not about continuity of government, although that is what they're focused on and that's what they mean. National security would be doing things that protect Americans and America, that would keep us at peace. Everything these people do with their secret messaging, you know, there's, there's spy rings and all the rest of this stuff. It's nonsense

Starting point is 00:08:07 if you stop and think about it, but it is very dangerous and it endangers all of us. And these people are clowns. So he said two days later he got this invitation to be in this group and they got messages coming back where they were establishing principles, a principles group and so forth. And of course they misspelled principles. You have the wrong principles in here. They spell it with a P-L-E-S which of course they don't have. They have the principales, right, important people.

Starting point is 00:08:45 You remember that by the pals, right? Principale at the school. Anyway, so they said for the next 72 hours, and so they start coming back and said, please provide the best staff point of contact from your team, force coordinate, and so they're messaging each other, saying, you know, here's my guy, here's my gal, whatever, have them contact each other and that type of thing. But then when they actually got to the messages, it was actually going back and forth between these principles, as he points out, you know, when you have a principles group, that's going

Starting point is 00:09:21 to be people at the secretary level. And that's exactly what it people at the secretary level, and that's exactly what it was when the meeting actually happened. So the term principles committee generally refers to a group of senior, the senior most national security officials, people like the secretaries of defense and state and treasury and the director of the CIA, and they were all involved in all of this. Not all of them commented. He said, I'd never heard of one that was being convened however over a commercial messaging app. He said one minute later a person identified only as

Starting point is 00:09:56 Mar, which he said he believes is Marco Rubio, Marco Antonio Rubio, started putting in the people that were going to be the contact person. And he mentions all of these individuals except for the person who was coming from the CIA. He said, I won't mention that name because the person is an active intelligence officer. He said, the principals had apparently assembled and all 18 individuals were listed as members of the group and so he said after he got a text from Waltz related to the Hootie PC small group I consulted a number of colleagues we discussed the possibility that these

Starting point is 00:10:37 texts are part of a disinformation campaign initiated by either a foreign intelligence service or more likely a media gadfly organization. What he means by that is a project veritas type of thing. And so he met with the people at the Atlantic and he said I had very strong doubts this text group was real because I could not believe that national security leadership of the US would communicate on signal about imminent war plans. But then they kept communicating. So at 8.05 on Friday, March the 14th, Michael Waltz texted the group, team you should have a statement of conclusions with taskings per the president's guidance this

Starting point is 00:11:18 morning in your high side inboxes. So that means the classified computer and communication systems, which interestingly enough they chose not to use. They wanted to use this. I don't know how these skiffs work and things like that. I don't know if it's real-time messaging, but you know, even if it is email and you got to type, you know, you could find somebody that could type if you can't type, who knows. But at this point a fascinating policy discussion commenced. The account that was labeled JD Vance responded and said, �Team, I am out for the day during an economic event in Michigan, but I think we are making a mistake.�

Starting point is 00:11:54 He was the only one that was reluctant, interestingly enough. Three percent of US trade, he said, runs through the Suez Canal. Forty percent of European trade does. There's a real risk that the public doesn't understand this or why it's necessary. The strongest reason to do this is, as POTUS says, to send a message. And he goes on, he says, well, I'm not sure the president's aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now. There's further risk that we see a moderate to severe spike in oil prices. I'm willing to support the

Starting point is 00:12:29 consensus of the team and to keep these concerns to myself, but there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the messaging work on why this matters and seeing where the economy is, etc. The reality is is that there is no discussion of why this is happening, who benefits from all of this when we pay the expense of lost life if that happens. And fortunately that didn't happen on the American side, but it does happen on the other side. You know, we are at war now with the Houthis because of our allies Saudi Arabia and Israel. And the Saudi war against the Houthis has been going on for quite some time.

Starting point is 00:13:11 One of the poorest nations on earth. Now they are getting their weapons are being supplied by Iran. So again the Saudis don't like Iran. Israelis don't like Iran, and Iran is using the Houthis as their surrogate. They're Ukraine, if you will. And so we have to go to war with them, not because they've attacked us, but because we do what the Saudis and the Israelis want to do. Pete Hegseth said, I understand your concerns and fully support you raising this with POTUS.

Starting point is 00:13:46 However, important considerations, most of which are tough to know how they play out, such as the economy, Ukraine, peace, Gaza, et cetera. I think messaging is going to be tough no matter what. Nobody knows who the hoodies are, which is why we would need to stay focused on one, Biden failed, two, Iran funded. So just say it's Iran and we're done and That gives us carte blanche because it's Iran and we don't like Iran or more importantly Israel doesn't like Iran Because it's Iran now we can bomb this poor nation when look they are not without any guilt themselves either they've been firing missiles at shipping and things like that and

Starting point is 00:14:36 So not without any guilt themselves either. They've been firing missiles at shipping and things like that. And so they fired missiles at US ships. But again, are we going to have a discussion about this, even with Congress? They said the messaging is the issue here. So as you see, they're going to do what they want to do. And they don't really care what Congress says. They don't care what the Constitution says. And if the American public is not with them, they will just message us about it. Not with signal. They will use propaganda tactics and other things like that. So he said, so we've got risks on this. He said, number one, we could look indecisive if this leaks. Number two, Israel might take action first or the Gaza ceasefire might fall apart and we don't get to start this on our own terms.

Starting point is 00:15:18 Now think about this. Israel might take action first. Do they not have any control over what Israel is going to do? How much money do we give Israel? But you never know what Israel is going to do. We can't tell them what to do. They won't listen to us. We won't even bother to try to get them to listen to us in spite of all the aid that we give them. They'll do their own thing even if it's not in our best interest, is what they're saying.

Starting point is 00:15:49 And the other part of this is the Gaza ceasefire. Because it was a Gaza ceasefire, the Houthis were not attacking any shipping at that point in time. They said, they had stated that the reason that they were attacking shipping was because of what Israel was doing in Gaza. So while there is a ceasefire, they're not attacking any shipping. So what they're saying is we want to attack them under the cover of a ceasefire. Now Israel has violated the ceasefire, but of course America does as well.

Starting point is 00:16:21 What is it with this country? We do preemptive strikes like Japan did at Pearl Harbor. We call that infamy. We We violate ceasefire agreements. So we take advantage of the ceasefire to do a sneak attack on somebody. Do you see that issue? I don't see people talking about that issue. Besides, you know, whether or not they can justify the war, whether or not they can do it constitutionally even. So again, Pete Hex says, so if you think we should do it, let's just go.

Starting point is 00:16:53 But I hate bailing out Europe again. And so he said, I fully share your loathing of European freeloading. That was actually JD Vance. I just hate bailing out Europe again. Then Hegseth says to Vance, I fully share your loathing of European freeloading. It's pathetic, all uppercase pathetic. But Mike, Mike Waltz, is correct. We are the only ones on the planet, on our side of the ledger, who can do this. The question is timing. I feel like now is as good a time as any given POTUS directive to reopen shipping lanes, but POTUS still retains 24 hours of decision space. By the way, in terms of talking

Starting point is 00:17:39 about reopening the shipping lanes, there was a ceasefire and the Hooties, who theese, were abiding by that. So some of the key takeaways. Information Liberation was the one who published that back and forth, unless you want to go to the Atlantic, see the actual article. But he also in his article he talks about some of the comments that other people have made on ex Ryan Grimes. So the reason that Jeffrey Goldberg's name popped up in signal for Mike Walz is that Mike Walz is already leaking to Goldberg, an ally in some internal Trump administration fights per a source that is familiar.

Starting point is 00:18:29 A probe may be possible here. And of course, Waltz is very much, as Information Liberation points out, an APEC favorite, who puts Israel ahead of America's interests? And he was probably leaking to Goldberg before this happened. So he's somebody who is dearly beloved by Israel, puts their interests first, and then he is leaking to Goldberg, which as other people have pointed out, if you understand what Goldberg's background is, he was a member of the Israeli Defense Force, the IDF.

Starting point is 00:19:08 He was a prison guard there. And he was involved in doing cover-ups of things that were happening there and getting us involved in the Iraq War. But of course, so was Gina Haspel torturing people and using those lies to lie us into the war with Iraq and then Trump promoted her to be head of the CIA. Informational Liberation says Vance was smart enough to realize that the strikes were stupid but was not smart enough to realize this is all being done for Israel. At least he would not say that to these other people. They might tell their

Starting point is 00:19:44 Israel controllers. Hegseth apparently shares many advances, idiotic beliefs, and loathes the Europeans for freeloading off of America, yet he's doing everything in his power to let the Israelis guide US foreign policy. And again, he points out, hey, Israel's going to do whatever they want. This could go sideways for us if Israel does its thing. They're not going to do what we ask them to do, our ally. They're not going to cooperate with us in all of this stuff. There is no suggestion at all of even asking them to cooperate.

Starting point is 00:20:18 Ryan Grim goes on to say, �Honestly, the American policymakers in this Atlantic article are quite literally insane, totally detached from reality. They keep complaining to each other that Europe is quote, freeloading off the American military because we're going to go in and bomb the Houthis in an effort to end their shipping blockade. They said the blockade only exists because Israel is bombing and starving Gaza with US weapons. How is that Europe's fault? And number two, our bombing of the Houthis won't actually work. That's most of our military apparitions. He said, so this free ride to Europe, what are they getting? He says, that's like offering somebody a lift and your car is on cinder blocks." But he says none of this reality is discussed at all. So he says you got it as again you look at the connections with

Starting point is 00:21:12 Jeffrey Goldberg, former IDF prison guard, maybe he was involved in some of these lies and tortures with Gina Haspel, helped to lie us into the Iraq war. Alan McLeod said that more people should know that the Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, dropped out of an Ivy League university to volunteer to be an IDF prison guard during the first Palestinian indifada. In his memoirs, he revealed that he helped to cover up serious prisoner abuse." Well, I don't know specifically, but it certainly all points to this being a Gina Haspel type of thing. Trump team, however, was, as they were passing the messages back and forth in real time,

Starting point is 00:21:58 this continued on. Now, I just read for you some of the exchanges and the lead up to it. But as it's happening and they're announcing this, they're sending emojis back and forth to each other. You know, arm flexing, American flag stuff and people have commented on that the use of emojis has sparked outrage and accusations that officials made light of these topics. So said as news broke out of the strikes the journalists checked the group where he found a flurry of emojis and congratulations flooding the text chain. Waltz updated the group at 1 48 p.m. saying the operation had been an amazing

Starting point is 00:22:41 job he said before sending three emojis a few minutes later. A fist, an American flag and fire. There you go. This is kind of a game, isn't it? This is the kind of thing I have noticed in the American government since I started paying attention back during the Vietnam War. These people are totally detached. Totally detached from the reality of war. And what it means for both sides. For them, it's an intellectual abstraction, it's a game. And I think that's really what these emojis are really about. It's intellectual abstraction for them. As

Starting point is 00:23:49 Kissinger said, we don't have permanent allies. We have permanent interest. And guess what? They really don't care about Americans, American soldiers, sailors, you name it. They don't care. It's about their agenda, their geopolitical strategies, and the rest of this. The rest of you are expendable. All of us. So a lot of reaction from politicians on both sides of the public about these emojis. Classified details leaked while officials celebrate with fist emojis, said one ex user.

Starting point is 00:24:22 The emojis, another said, are sickening, adding that it shows a lack of respect following an attack on Yemen, who, I'll mention again, has not attacked America. And what was happening with the ships is because of what was going on in Gaza and we used the ceasefire which they were abiding by in order to attack them. A German political commentator said emojis, puberty outbreaks and amateurish war plans, the banality of stupidity. Another one, Mike Walsh using emojis in a national security war strategy group chat, like he's a 14 year old. Responding to news of the strikes, the account named Mar, which is Marco Rubio's, said, good job, Pete and your team.

Starting point is 00:25:15 America, America. Susie Wiles name was also texted. Uh, she texted, uh, kudos to all, most particularly those in theater and sent com really great. God bless Steve. He texted, kudos to all, most particularly those in theater and CENTCOM. Really great. God bless. Steve Witkoff then responded with five emojis, two hands praying, a flexed bicep, and two American flags.

Starting point is 00:25:33 Two hours later, head of the strikes, Hig Seth, reportedly shared a message containing details of the forthcoming operation, including information about targets, weapons the US would be deploying, and attack sequencing. The bottom line is they don't take war any more seriously, they take the Constitution. Don Bacon, a Republican congressman from Nebraska said none of this should have been sent on non-secure systems. Walsh's messaging, he said Russia and China are surely monitoring his unclassified phone. Hillary Clinton texts out the article and says you've got to be kidding me. But see it justifies it now

Starting point is 00:26:13 for her. This is somebody who deliberately did it. She set up Clinton emails dot com as essentially a drop-off point for people who are paying her through back channels, in my belief. Lisa Murkowski, a liberal Republican, said, what would we do if Biden were president and this came out? We would raise the roof. It's going to be interesting to see if anybody loses their job over this. Well, I think they found a lower level staffer to blame so they can keep Mike Waltz in position. Everyone in the White House can agree on one thing.

Starting point is 00:26:47 One source who was identified as a person close to the White House told us to Politico. The source says, everybody in the White House can agree on one thing. Mike Waltz is an idiot. Well, they can also see who he puts first. The use of signal rather than more secure government channels to hold these conversations has raised questions over whether there has been a violation of the Espionage Act, which sets rules for the handling of classified information. Except they never did anything to Hillary Clinton. And you've got a CNN legal analyst say, well, I don't think anything's going to come, of

Starting point is 00:27:22 course nothing will come of it. And they'll play the, but what about, but what about? They both violate their own rules as well as the constitution. And so this is a reasons take. And I agree with you. They said the Atlantic, meaning the publication that got this information, Jeffrey Goldberg, should not find out about a war before Congress does. And this goes back to which, and you know, it's interesting, I can't find the clip anymore. It seems to have been scrubbed from the internet. Back and forth with Leon Panetta and Jeff Sessions when he was a senator. You know, you're going to tell, and Panetta is Secretary of Defense, right?

Starting point is 00:28:03 You're going to tell us before you put troops in Syria, right? Well, Senator, we'll consult with our allies at NATO and we'll talk to the people at UN and we'll let you know what we decide. But you are a congressman, you know how this is supposed to work and the Constitution is supposed to talk to us first. As I said, Senator, we will talk to our allies and we will inform you about what we decide to do. That's the same approach. That arrogance of Leon Panetta, Democrat, congressman, then became head of the CIA,

Starting point is 00:28:32 then became secretary of defense. That arrogance is right there with Pete Hegseth and the rest of these people on there. We'll do whatever we need to do and then we'll square this later on with the American people because we know that we've got all of the Republicans to do whatever we say right and we know the Democrats are going to oppose whatever we do whether it's right or wrong so because of this two-party system so reason so this demonstrate how unconstitutional the US war making has become. And so they said the leak became an opportunity for Democrats to clutch their pearls and to

Starting point is 00:29:14 talk about the sanctity of classified information. And I'd understand the Russian ambassador is to be admitted to entrance to the war room? That is correct. He is here on my orders. I don't know exactly how to put this, sir, but are you aware of what a serious breach of security that would be? I mean, you see everything. You'll see the big board. You'll see our emojis. That is precisely the idea, General. That is precisely the idea General. That is precisely the idea. You'll see the big board. Yeah they they can see the big board on signal. Russia

Starting point is 00:29:52 and China can see the big board on signal. Well there's a much bigger scandal than Walsh's alleged carelessness however says Reason. The US has been involved in Yemen against the will of Congress for years. Trump reopened a dormant war without any kind of public deliberation. The timing was being driven by the hawks' desire to sell the war and to go over Congress's head rather than any urgent threat to American lives. Justin Amash, the former congressman, said there was no emergency. The executive branch unlawfully sidestepped Congress, taking military action on top officials

Starting point is 00:30:34 admit was elective. Let's decide when we're going to do this. We've got broad guidelines from Trump. We'll just do whatever we want. The discussion establishes unequivocally that the strikes in Yemen are unconstitutional. In other words, says Reason, the scandal was not that too many people knew about the war planes, knew about the big bird, big borch, before they were carried out. It was that not enough people knew.

Starting point is 00:31:03 It wasn't too many people knew. It wasn that not enough people knew. It wasn't too many people. It wasn't not enough people knew. There wasn't a proper discussion of this or wasn't deliberation about it even. The constitutional aspects of it. Before the administration deliberately tried to prevent a public debate from breaking out. There was a real risk that the public doesn't understand this or why it is necessary, said Vance to the group. There was a real risk that the public doesn't understand this or why it is necessary, said Vance to the group. There is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing a messaging work on why this matters and seeing where the economy is and so forth.

Starting point is 00:31:33 Hegseth says, well, the messaging is going to be tough no matter what, so let's just do it and we'll message them later. You know, we can always gaslight our own people. We'll come up with some kind of propaganda nudging and we'll use our spokespersons and the conservative media, our influencers, Fox News, things like that. Hexess comment about Israeli action revealed another assumption, that if a war breaks out, the US has to be involved. We must go in.

Starting point is 00:32:03 Because they're owned. These politicians are owned. You look at the Adelsons. Over three campaigns they've given Trump over $600 million. It's worth mentioning that the shipping lanes were open at the time, again, because there had been a ceasefire. What reason doesn't point out is that we violated that ceasefire as well, as Israel later did. Same assumption has been driving two decades of U.S. policy towards Iran. Since the Bush

Starting point is 00:32:33 administration, Israel has wanted to bomb Iranian nuclear sites, and the U.S. has scrambled to respond. As successive administrations tried to threaten or to buy off Iran, the working assumption was that the U.S. would automatically be dragged into any hot war. So Washington had to be prepared to quote, start this on our own terms, as they put it. War is the most serious decision the government can make. But of course it's one that it loves to make. It is the lifeblood of the state. Citizens of the republic should not have to perform criminology, in other words, try to read the tea leaves of what these officials are doing, or to wait for an official to fat-finger

Starting point is 00:33:16 his contact list in order to figure out what their leaders are planning. And of course, nowhere in any of this is there any moral discussion of what they should be doing. There are constitutional issues, there are legal issues which they violate. There are security issues which they violate. But then there's God's issues, which of course they violate and nobody even calls them about it, not in our society. So the Pentagon was issued. So now let's talk a little bit about well we're going to take a break and we come back we're going to talk about whether or not they did violate the national security

Starting point is 00:33:55 issues and this chat DJT. So we're going to take a quick break, folks, and we will be right back. Your You're listening to the David Knight Show. By the way, I talked yesterday about this pic for the CDC and how she's heavily involved in these DARPA-like biological biosecurity and all the rest of this garbage that's there. Very, very dangerous and dark proceedings there. And again, with the Intelligence Committee, her husband is part of the Intelligence Committee. I'm going to give you more information about her, but it was absolutely amazing to see that RFK Jr. congratulated her and said that he had handpicked her. Any questions about RFK Jr. now? Are there any questions at all? This is one of the reasons I engaged my guests yesterday the way I did. When I hear ma-ha

Starting point is 00:35:40 anymore, that sets me off. What a joke it is. I said ha ha is really what it ought to be called. The joke is on us if you believe any of that stuff. But I'm gonna go into some more of the details of what she's been working on and what I told you yesterday. I said you can expect the same kind of stuff. It's interesting that Trump began one that at the very beginning he starts with that Stargate thing. Larry Ellison, we're going to use AI to custom design a genetic vaccination for you. Wow.

Starting point is 00:36:13 Wow. And that's exactly what she's been working on. What a coincidence, isn't it? Now, I think the other guy Weldon, I think was just a bone that they threw as cover to their people. They know they can control RFK. And it's interesting that Children's Health Defense did a lot of investigation into her. It's very critical about her. I don't know if this, maybe they will go their own way, who knows, instead of hanging there with RFK Jr. But let's finish with this, the classified issues, because this is also important, I think.

Starting point is 00:36:52 The Pentagon issued a warning about signal messaging one week before its head was caught using it. They said, NPR reported that a Pentagon-wide advisory was sent to staffers on March 18 less than a week before the screw-up went public, explicitly warning against using Signal for any sharing of information, whether or not it was classified. The advisory claimed that, quote, a vulnerability had been identified in the Signal Messenger app and that Russian hacking groups were targeting Signal Messenger to spy on persons of interest. They're going to see the big board. You think these people might be persons of interest?

Starting point is 00:37:39 The Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, the Vice President, the head of the CIA, the Director of Security, and all the rest. They're all there, okay? It's everybody but the President. You think they might be interested in that? So senior defense officials often have dedicated spaces to their homes called sensitive compartmented information facilities with approved communication equipment for discussing military activity. By discussing highly sensitive information on signal while out in the public instead,

Starting point is 00:38:16 the officials risk exposing the data simply by losing their phones or having them stolen. But again, when we look at this and look at the timing, they said it was a week, less than a week before the screw-up went public, but it was after the screw-up. When they talk about March 18th, remember, it was, this stuff began prior to that. And so maybe that memo that went out from the Pentagon was in reaction to this. But anyway, whether they knew it or not. Nevertheless, senior defense officials have had these skiffs, sensitive, compartmented information facilities.

Starting point is 00:38:59 They even have them in their homes. So why don't they use them? But I just got to say, I'm not on board with all this national security paranoia. They got to know your customer, the bank and all the rest of the stuff. They got to know everything about us. Everything they're doing is to track every single thing about us and to keep everything about them secret from us. And this isn't about the plans for a nuclear bomb anymore, like it was after, at the end of World War II. That's how this kind of stuff began. But now it has metastasized as we moved into this military-industrial complex in this

Starting point is 00:39:39 militarized police state. Everything. I tell you this, you know, from going trying to talk to any officials about anything the government is doing, they always appeal to, well, I can't tell you, you know, it's classified or whatever. This is even local or state officials are pretending this kind of stuff. And of course, we know that it's to protect their job. Nobody was texting any war plans, fumed Hegseth. Goldberg has since shot back telling CNN in an interview that Hegseth is lying about that. He was texting war plans, he said.

Starting point is 00:40:14 He was texting attack plans. When targets were going to be targeted, how they were going to be targeted, who was at the targets, and when the next sequence of attacks was going to happen, he said. So CIA Director John Radcliffe, again, they had them all lined up there in the Senate. They wasted no time in doing a kind of a rat line inquisition of all these people. They had Radcliffe, they had Tulsi Gabbard, they had all of them in there. CIA Director John Ratcliffe testified

Starting point is 00:40:50 that the signal messaging app is authorized for government use. Now this is coming from Breitbart. So when you go to the Drudge Report, you'll see it's all, they violated this, they did this, and then when you go to Breitbart, this is all legit, okay? It's this polarized news environment violated this, they did this, and then we go to a bright bar, this is all legit. Okay?

Starting point is 00:41:05 It's this polarized news environment that we all operate in. I'll let you read between the lines, but the real issues of war and peace and constitution and all the rest of this stuff, those are not being discussed. It's all, was this legal or not? You know, I don't like this person, let's fire that person. Here's another excuse why we can prosecute them. So CIA Director John Ratcliffe said yesterday in the Senate hearing that government officials are authorized to use the encrypted messaging app Signal for work. He said one of the first things that happened when I was confirmed as CIA director

Starting point is 00:41:40 was a signal was loaded onto my computer at the CIA, as it is for most CIA officers," said Ratcliffe. One of the things that I was briefed on very early, Senator, was by the CIA records management folks about how the use of signal as a permissible work use, and it is. This is a practice that preceded the current administration. It goes back to the Biden administration. Oh, OK. So the Biden administration decided that it was OK. They recovered. Don't complain to me. Hillary Clinton did this. And Hillary Clinton said, don't complain to me.

Starting point is 00:42:13 The Republicans have done it. And they said, well, this is something that was done by the Biden administration. Now, the Pentagon is saying the Russians and Chinese have access to this. CIA doesn't know that. saying the Russians and Chinese have access to this. CIA doesn't know that. Communications of the group were entirely permissible and lawful and did not include classified information, he said, again. Whether or not there were,

Starting point is 00:42:36 this is a direct conflict disputed by Goldberg, and Goldberg says, should I release this stuff? I imagine at some point he will. At which point then it'll be shown that yes there were war plans that were being put out there. I would think that there probably were. But we'll know eventually. He's not going to do it if there's plans about what the next steps are, but I would imagine that after the next steps have been taken that he would Release that so we'll see we'll see what happens. We'll see who's telling the truth

Starting point is 00:43:12 but When you when you look at the overall scheme of things It really stinks and they all excuse it because they say the other people do it. That's their excuse their alibi So Senator Warner who was running this, attacked by Breitbart. They call him a hypocrite. They said he slams the Trump team for using Signal after his own messages were exposed on Signal. He was using Signal to do the Russiagate stuff, right? He was communicating with Christopher Steele and other people like that, says Breitbart.

Starting point is 00:43:44 And so, and that was exposed. communicating Christopher Steele and other people like that says Breitbart. And so, and that was exposed. So now, you know, we'll see what happens with all this, but that's everybody's alibi. Yeah, but what about so-and-so? They did it, so that's okay if I do it. Senator Mark Warner is the biggest hypocrite imaginable. He loves using signal to advance the Russia collusion hoax. Then he gets on the fainting couch when Trump's great security team takes out the terrorist

Starting point is 00:44:12 hootie barbarians," said an aide to a Republican, an anonymous aide. And this is, like I said, this is this partisan back and forth that keeps us from looking at the real issues here. Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was also there being interrogated by the senators. She testified that no classified material was shared in the group chat, says Breitbart. Well, we'll know whether or not the attack information was there. But you know, when you have – here's the other argument we're talking about. And this was the – I called it semantics when Hillary Clinton used that excuse, and it was. Because if she's

Starting point is 00:44:56 writing emails about what she is saying to other foreign heads of state as somebody who is a secretary of state, Conversations like that and information like that, according to their rules, and again, I don't care about national security rules. Not whatsoever. I try to avoid doing anything, they get me in jail, but I have absolutely nothing but contempt for the secret state, the Star Chamber process, everything they do. Their Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and all the rest of stuff, it just disgusts me. And I had a little bit of a taste of it, you know, when I worked in a co-op thing and I had to get really, really low-level security clearance. This is a joke, especially for what I was doing, that I would need to have any security clearance but the when

Starting point is 00:45:48 when you look at this Hillary Clinton use that excuse now they're using the same thing but when they are talking about that it is born at top secret or above top secret or whatever now Breitbart says well Tulsi Gabbard said that there wasn't any any classified stuff there, but actually it's just not that simple. They leave it at that. But here's what happened in the the back and forth with Warner. He says, Director

Starting point is 00:46:20 Gabbard, did you participate in the group chat with Secretary of Defense and other Trump senior officials discussing the Yemen war plans? Gabbard, did you participate in the group chat with secretary of defense and other Trump senior officials discussing the Yemen war plans? Gabbard said, a Senator, I don't want to get into the specifics. She said, and then he was cut off. It was very contentious going back and forth. I'm not going to play it for you. Uh, but anyway, so, so why aren't you going to get in specifics?

Starting point is 00:46:37 Is this, is it because it's all classified? She said, well, it's because this is currently under review by the national security council. Now national security, that makes this secret. And again, this is just like the low-level official at an airport who won't talk to you about anything. Well, I can't, you know, national security here. It's job security. Anyway, so because it's all classified, well, it's not classified.

Starting point is 00:47:03 If it's not classified, share the text now. So he said, so you're saying that you're not gonna do this because it's classified? Well, if it's not classified, if it was classified, then you shared classified information on signal. If it's not classified, then you can share it now. And they turned to CIA Director Ratcliffe, who readily admitted to participating in the chat, claiming that its use was permitted under Biden-era policy, that's what I said,

Starting point is 00:47:31 with the caveat that the decisions made within the chat had to be recorded formally, because that's one of the things that signal it'll disappear. So that's one of the things that was brought up so Warner moved his attention back to Gabbard asking whether she had requested a sensitive compartmented information facility or a skiff to discuss the strike plans and She doesn't want to answer. She said there was no classified material He said so if there was no classified material then share it with a committee. You can't have it both ways These are important jobs. This is our national security. But again, whether or not they formally have classified it, if all of them are discussing what they're

Starting point is 00:48:13 going to do in war, that is born classified. The conservatives said that about Hillary Clinton and they were right. But the conservatives aren't going to say that about this group. Because they're going to see it in the big board. She said, Senator, I'll reiterate, there was no classified material in the signal. Okay, well, there's no classified material, then give the stuff to us now. So they kept going back and forth. So it's not as simple as Breitbart made it, right? Trump reveals who was behind the signal text chain link, or we should say, who is going

Starting point is 00:48:52 to be the scapegoat to get fired. He doesn't want to fire Mike Waltz. So he says, there's one of Michael's people that was on the phone. A staffer had his number on there. Again, why did the staffer have his number on there? Was Michael Waltz�s office leaking to Goldberg information about Israel? �Michael Waltz has learned a lesson, and he�s a good man, and he�s not getting fired. He made a mistake. There�s nothing important in the signal text thread.� Really? Well there's not going to be any legal action and they're not going to be able to do that. CNN has already had their lawyer explain why this is going to be too complicated for them, but they're going to run this and make a lot of political capital off of this.

Starting point is 00:49:38 The Atlantic's Goldberg has said, well, I might just release the entire chat transcript. Meanwhile, at the exact same time, exact same day, Trump signed an executive order to release all the Russia collusion hoax. You see how this works? Oh, Hillary violated this. Oh, you know, what we did was not as bad as what Hillary did. She says the opposite, right? They're both going back and forth.

Starting point is 00:50:03 And so, if Goldberg is going to release all this chat stuff, Trump has signed the executive order to release all this Russia collusion hoax. So it's just going to escalate it on both sides. Oh, see, see what they did? Now look at what I did. Look at what they did. Nobody wants to take any responsibility for this. They want to hide everything behind their national security veil. And yet they don't care about the national security veil. Neither side does.

Starting point is 00:50:29 They violate it all the time, and when their opponent is violated, they don't come after them either, and they're not going to come after them. So this is where this thing is going to go. I'm going to take a quick break, and we're going to move on to another topic here. When we come back, I want to talk real briefly about several things that are being done by the Trump administration. There are a lot of different policy moves that were made. Some of them are good and some of them are incomplete but a good start in the right direction. So we're going to talk about some of those when we come back stay with us and we will be right back good evening tonight's tale is a story of paranoia and a most unexpected

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Starting point is 00:53:18 Gallas and social events if you want to save on shipping just put it in the next package of bombs and missiles coming from the USA. known as Mother Nature's Sib. Though it's horrible to visit, it's a miserable place to live. Horrible place to visit, but evidently, uh, Usha is going to be visiting it this week. She wants to go to this dog sled thing or something, right? It was the last time that she had the Vice President's wife go to a dog sled event in Greenland. They had 56,000 people. That's not what it's about. And at the same time, she was not invited either, by the way.

Starting point is 00:54:21 She just decided that it would be nice to go. And now, JD Vance has announced that he's going to be joining her. He would like to go see the dogs run as well. And you've got a couple of high-ranking officials who are also going to be going to Greenland. They're going to be Mike Waltz. You know, maybe he'll be texting people on Signal up there. Mike Waltz is going to be going, as well as Energy Secretary Chris Wright. Now they're not going to the dog sled race. They are going to go visit the military base that is there because as I pointed out before,

Starting point is 00:54:55 even though they keep saying that it is essential for the US to control Greenland and Greenland must join the United States, they've had a military base there since the end of World War II. As a matter of fact, it was very large at that time. It was 10,000 people. They have reduced it now to the size of only 400. Because with satellites and other things like that, it is really not necessary to have an advanced warning system. That's why they put it there, to get an advanced warning of any Russian missiles that were headed towards the United States. But that is no longer necessary with the technology that we've got. So they've only got 400 people there. They are part of the Space Force. And JD Vance said, I'm going to visit some of our guardians in the Space Force.

Starting point is 00:55:44 Did you realize that they called them guardians? I did not pay attention to that before this. I did not realize that, you know, just like you're in the Navy, they call you a sailor, right? If you're in the Army, they call you a soldier. What do they call people in the Space Force? Guardians. And you know where that's coming from too, don't you?

Starting point is 00:56:06 It's uh... That's part of their recruitment, I guess. I mean, who wants Anchors Away where you can have Guardians of the Galaxy? You can have that as your theme song. That should help with recruitment. So, JD Vance says, I'm going to go visit some of our guardians in Space Force. Uh, yeah. Say hello to group for me. Um, on the Northwest coast of Greenland, check out what's going on with the

Starting point is 00:56:37 security there of Greenland, you know, cause they're under such threat. Uh, he said, speaking for president Trump, we want to reinvigorate the security of the people of Greenland because we think it's important to protecting the security of the entire world. Unfortunately, leaders in both America and in Denmark, I think, ignored Greenland for far too long and that has been bad for Greenland. No, it's always good when you're ignored by government. It's always good for the people to be ignored by government. It's when the government starts paying attention to you that things get really bad. Especially when it's the American government, especially when they do it in the name of

Starting point is 00:57:14 national security. They kill people in the name of national security. They start wars in the name of national security. Everything is the beard and the veil of national security. Again, here we are. It was reported by a Greenland-based outlet that Usha's visit was not official, but for a private matter. However, you know, again you have Mike Walz and you have the Energy Secretary, Chris Wright are going to also be there. But the Greenland Prime Minister said that the visit is part of the U.S.'s quote, very aggressive, unquote, attempt to take more control

Starting point is 00:57:46 over land and the region. We are now at a level where this cannot in any way be characterized as a harmless visit from a politician's wife, he said. The only purpose is to demonstrate power over us." Well, they got that right. You know, they just had an election and the two parties that had long been there, kind of a socialist vent, right? Leftist socialist vent. And then there were two parties that were less bent that way.

Starting point is 00:58:21 I don't really know what their political aspects are, but all four parties were saying we want to have independence. So all four of them agreed on that. And all four of them said we don't want to be a part of America. So we don't want to be a part of Denmark and we don't want to be a part of America either. All of them said that. But they moved to the two parties that were very anti-American because they're very leftist. Those two parties moved from first and second place to third and fourth place, and the other two parties went to first and second place. But again, there's still, the interesting thing I think is that the harder the Trump

Starting point is 00:58:57 administration pushes this, the more these other people are going to push back. They do not want to be dominated rightfully so. Trump has said that it's important for security in the United States, do not want to be dominated rightfully so. Trump has said that it's important for security to the United States, for the island to be under some sort of US control. Again, they've had as many as 10,000 troops there. They've got a base there. If they wanted to add more troops there, they could add more troops there. So it's not about national security. Whatever it's about, it's not about national security. Whatever it's about, it's not about national security.

Starting point is 00:59:25 So, Trump said, for the purposes of national security, the U.S. feels that ownership and control of Greenland is an absolute necessity. Well, it's not about that at all. Founder and managing director of Polar Research and Policy Institute, Think Tank, is based out of London, said, it is is quote, highly unusual, unquote, that a high level delegation of US officials are visiting Greenland without being invited, especially after a national election in the country where the parties are still in talks about forming the next government.

Starting point is 01:00:00 He said it is quote, inexplicable, unquote, for Washington to take such an aggressive approach especially in light of Trump's comments about acquiring the territory. He said disrespecting the people of Greenland by saying the US will require one way or the other is unhelpful, counterproductive as a tactic. Yeah, it is the bullying the ugly American approach, which I don't think is really going to work out too well. It hasn't worked out too well in Greenland. It certainly hasn't worked out well with Canada.

Starting point is 01:00:32 Greenlanders are uniting to fend off the US as Trump is trying to get control. And some very interesting pictures in this article, Travis, you can pull it up. It's nice pictures of the big blue glaciers that are there. But they interviewed in this article from AP, they interviewed a woman whose father designed the red and white Greenland flag. And so the whole gist of this article was how they just want independence. They're very concerned about the US government. Yeah, that's a nice picture there. So again, Usha is supposedly going to see the national dog sled race.

Starting point is 01:01:17 Oh yeah, you believe that. They have been part of Denmark, by the way, since 1721. Isn't that interesting? You know, it's about as long as Crimea was a part of Russia before it got split off as well. So Denmark has recognized Greenland's right to independence under the 2009 Greenland Self-Government Act, which is approved by local voters, ratified by the Danish parliament, the right to self-determination, was also enshrined in the UN Charter, approved by the

Starting point is 01:01:51 US in 1945." By the way, you know, we talk about Denmark and all the Scandinavian countries. They have, as I mentioned before, when we talk about countries breaking apart, regions seceding from other governments. So these Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, they have combined and split apart and recombined and split apart again in different configurations multiple times without having to have a war. But we say to the people of Greenland that if the US gets its clutches on you, you will not get out without a war.

Starting point is 01:02:29 They will not let you go. Denmark may let them go, but the US would not let them go. So again, after the war, and I mentioned this before, Harry Truman said, we'd like to buy Greenland. They said, well, no, you can put a military base there, but it's not for sale. And so Trump had mentioned that again in his first administration, kind of half-heartedly, but now he's all on board for this. Moving on to voting. This is something that is good, but there's a question mark in how far Trump went with this in my mind. Trump has mandated proof of citizenship in order to vote.

Starting point is 01:03:11 And if you don't do that, he's going to cut funding to the states. Now I would just say to judges who said, well, the president can't cut funding to people because he doesn't like what theyíre doing or whatever.î Presidents, all the presidents have done this. And this is what Iíve said to MAGA over and over again, that the role of the presidency is to bribe people with money to do what you want. Instead of violating the 10th Amendment or even challenging it, what they do is they offer states money to do what they want, and then they say, we're going to take it away if you don't do what I want.

Starting point is 01:03:52 We saw that with the COVID stuff. You had Trump sending out all kinds of emergency funding, giving it to governors, not to the state in general, but to the governors to operate as their own discretion. So you had Republican governors like Brad Little in Idaho, who had so much money given to him by Trump to be dispersed at his discretion. That is a very dangerous thing to give that kind of money to a politician because they'll use it to buy favors and stuff like that. But anyway, he gave so much money to the governor of Idaho that it dwarfed what the state budget was under the control of the legislature. And he gave money to hospitals by doing it through CMS.

Starting point is 01:04:38 And then when Biden comes in, he says, and now if you don't vaccinate all your staff, I'm going to take away not only that bonus money that you've been getting for the last year and a half that Trump gave you, but I'm going to even take away your Medicare and Medicaid funds." And so that's the way they do this. And so what funding is Trump threatening to take away if they don't get proof of citizenship for voters? Well, he's not talking about

Starting point is 01:05:05 taking away all of their funding. He's talking about taking away the money that is given to them just really for the running the elections and that type of thing. The order will mandate the voters show proof of citizenship to state or local officials before they go to the voting booths and the officials record the details of the citizenship document, the date of expiration on the form. The executive order will also instruct the Election Assistance Commission to cut state funding if they don't comply with taking measures to secure the election, and will instruct

Starting point is 01:05:38 the Department of Justice to crack down on election-related crimes. So as I pointed out many times to the MAGA people who think that Trump had no control over any of this, he was paying the governors, he was paying the hospitals and folks, he was paying the state boards of election to do vote by mail. He's paying them to do that. All the way through, All of this stuff. And again, when we talk about the judges who are opposed to Trump right now and trying to shut down his executive orders, they say, well, you have to spend the money.

Starting point is 01:06:12 No, if Congress approves the money, the president can spend it, but he doesn't have to spend it. And again, we've seen this happen over and over again with Obama and Biden saying, if you don't put boys in the girls bathrooms, I'll cut your funding. Trump doing exactly the opposite. If you put them in there, I'll cut your funding. So they don't have to because this money is allocated to go to school. They don't have to send them that money. And so the judges are wrong and MAGA is wrong. And we know that because we see what they're doing. That's all political.

Starting point is 01:06:49 Both the judges who oppose Trump on cutting funding and MAGA that says they didn't have anything to do with any of the globalist fake pandemic that was there. No, he funded it all, including the vote by mail election. And I think it was all planned, quite frankly. I think that they wanted to switch out to Biden so they could have him do it by force and then come back to Trump to regain your trust again. It's already illegal for non-citizens to vote in the U.S. federal elections. However, we know how that works out.

Starting point is 01:07:25 The House passed a bill in July mandating voters to present proof of citizenship, but that bill has stalled in the Senate because the Democrats want foreign citizens to vote. That's not a guess. We have seen legislation put into a lot of Democrats to explicitly allow illegals to vote in state and local elections Foreign citizens people were not citizens of the u.s. Allowing them to vote The order calls on the Department of Homeland Security as well as doge to comb through publicly available voter registration list in parallel with immigration data DHS secretary Christy gnome is instructed to provide Attorney General Pam Bondi with a list of non-citizens discovered of illegally voted in elections.

Starting point is 01:08:09 I'm going to have to find something here. That's not necessarily going to be easy to do. I mean, if they got fake ID or whatever for the case of North Carolina, they didn't have to supply any ID. So lying on your application as a non-citizen could result in deportation. But here's my question. Will it be used to push digital ID? Yes, of course it will be.

Starting point is 01:08:35 You notice that, and I've said that this is yet another example of how the Republicans use the border crisis that has been created by government. They say, well, we've got a lot of people in here, they're going to take our job, so we have to have mandatory e-verify. Well, we want to make sure they don't vote in our elections, so we're going to have to have mandatory ID. Guess what? That ID is going to be digital.

Starting point is 01:08:59 They've already talked about this. I've played this over and over again. Ukraine, 2030, everything that you do, including your your voting all it's gonna be done with your digital ID what do you think Ukraine got the idea for that stuff from us so all the mail in ballots that happened during the COVID-19 pandemic as it says you know well no it happened during the Trump lockdown it didn't happen through a COVID-19 pandemic that was not real what was real happened during the Trump lockdown. It didn't happen through a COVID-19 pandemic. That was not real. What was real, folks, was the Trump lockdown, his response to a non-pandemic.

Starting point is 01:09:32 And there was absolutely no way that there was, even by their own records, there was no pandemic when it was declared by his HHS secretary, Alex Azar, in January 31st. They only claimed six people had contracted this in the entire nation and he declared it to be a pandemic and then Trump shut it down March the 13th. No, it was a Trump lockdown. There was never any pandemic. Trump has since called for paper ballots and for voting to finish up after one day. He said, we should go to one day voting, we should go to voter ID and just one other thing, proof of a thing called citizenship in the United States. Wouldn't that be nice?

Starting point is 01:10:16 He said. Well, isn't that interesting that he identified? I think that's right. I would like to see it on one day. Just like my guest yesterday said, you know, let's do it on Veterans Day. That's a good idea, I agree with that. Have a paper ballots, count them by hand with observers that are there. One day voting and all the rest of this stuff.

Starting point is 01:10:37 So the question is, why did he only focus on digital, Why did he only focus on ID? There's nothing in this executive order about paper ballots. There's nothing in this executive order about having the voting on one day either. Why is that? Because folks, it's not about the election. It's about the digital ID. Yes, I said digital because that is coming. He didn't do any of the other very important things to keep this honest. So this is not about reform.

Starting point is 01:11:17 Here's the other thing that he didn't mention. How about if we had ballots that were open to third parties and individuals so they would actually have somebody to vote for? How about if we had ballots that were open to third parties and individuals so they would actually have somebody to vote for? How about if we had debates so we could actually hear them discuss issues? Trump didn't want any of that. He skirted all that and so did Biden this last time around. What a garbage election this was. Both of the major candidates, nobody wanted to have any

Starting point is 01:11:45 discussions about any of that stuff. They didn't want to debate their opponents, they didn't want to debate each other really. Colorado's Democrat Secretary of State called the order unlawful, weaponization of the federal government. Of course it isn't. Trying to make it harder for voters to fight back at the ballot box. No, no. There's nothing wrong with IDing people. I'm just concerned it's going to be used for digital ID. And I'm concerned they didn't do the other things that were there. Get rid of the vote by mail. You know, that was also not something that was there. It was there by implication.

Starting point is 01:12:19 He says, you know, we need to do it on paper. You need to do it on one day. That would imply that you're going to get rid of this vote by mail stuff. But again, he could have explicitly said, we're not going to do vote by mail, or you're not going to get federal funds. He could have done all of these different things, but the only thing he focused on was I.D. Democrat Representative Joe Morrell of New York said, ranking members of the House Committee that oversee elections, that's what he is, He's a ranking member, rather. He says this is not just misguided. He said it is immoral and illegal. No, it's not. Not at all. If you think that it's immoral and illegal, if you think it's immoral to ask somebody

Starting point is 01:12:57 for an ID before they vote, why don't you go talk to TSA about morality when they put their hands all over us and all of our kids when we fly? Now that's immoral. And that's also illegal. We have a right to privacy in our person, not just in our papers and effects. So why don't you talk to a TSA about that or shut up? And why is it that everybody has to show their ID to cash a check at a store but you don't have to show an ID to vote? Everybody sees

Starting point is 01:13:30 through these Democrats and what they're doing. The US Election Assistance Commission, which distributes federal grant money to states, runs a voluntary certification program for voting systems. Again, that's where they're going to do is they're going to cut down some of that money. And I think you'll probably see some of these Democrat places will say, well, we're going to forgo that money because it's so important for us to have illegal aliens voting. But I think what the Republicans,

Starting point is 01:14:00 as we said before, look, they also want to, they want voters. Republican interests want cheap labor. As we said before, look, they also want to, they want voters. Republican interests want cheap labor. And Republicans also want to use these people to scare everybody to have a voter ID. That's what this is really about. The Trump administration is going to end taxpayer funding, housing for illegal immigrants.

Starting point is 01:14:22 Well, that's good. That's a big part of the welfare magnet. And I've said this before. I said the most important and effective thing that they could do is to get rid of the welfare magnet pulling people here. I said even if you've got a wall, the welfare magnet will pull people over the wall, around the wall, under the wall, through the wall, you name it. And so get rid of that welfare magnet. So I'm glad that that is happening. That's a move in the right direction. Trump signed executive order in February to direct federal agencies and departments to identify all federally funded programs that provide

Starting point is 01:14:55 financial benefits to illegal immigrants and to take corrective action. So it's not going to be just limited, hopefully, if they follow through on this, it's not going to just be limited to limited, hopefully, if they follow through on this, it's not going to just be limited to free housing. I wonder what they're going to do about education, because even when you get to the college level, they get superior educational benefits to American citizens, foreign citizens do, who are here illegally. So, we'll see how this plays out. This is the first time that anybody has tried to implement any of that to get rid of some of the welfare magnets. So, time'll see how this plays out. This is the first time that anybody has tried to implement any of that to get rid of some of the welfare magnets. So time will tell how that's going to play out.

Starting point is 01:15:32 The Trump administration is also planning to freeze family planning grants to planned parenthood. Yeah, planned non-parenthood. And so you might ask yourself, why are they still getting money? Well, because they play this game saying that, well, we're not giving them money for doing abortions. We're giving them money for all the other things that they do, except that that keeps them going so that they can provide abortions.

Starting point is 01:16:04 Now what is the basis for this? The basis for this is they have frozen the funding to Planned Parenthood so that they can take a look at DEI, while babies D-I-E. Right? It's amazing. However, the good thing that may come from this is they may it's now become a major funding operation for Planned Parenthood to mutilate and sterilize people with the hormone blockers and things like that as part of this gender transition stuff. So if they include the gender transition stuff as DEI and then

Starting point is 01:16:52 cut the funding to them based on that, which they've already said we're going to do that to universities and other things, if you have DEI we're going to cut your funding. So if they apply that same rule to Planned Parenthood, and if Planned Parenthood, this is their new profit center, the hormones and things like that, puberty blockers, I don't know if they're doing the sex, if they're doing the bottom surgeries and things like that, but if they could use that to block that, that would be good. So they're looking at an immediate freezing of $27.5 million in grants that are going to Planned Parenthood still, even though they say they don't fund abortion

Starting point is 01:17:32 with that. Finally, five top reasons to end the U.S. Department of Education. This is from the Cato Institute. You can also find it on Freethought Project. And of course we all know this. It's unconstitutional. It's ineffective. As a matter of fact, look at this clip here. This is a meme somebody put up. When Jimmy Carter purchased the Teacher's Union endorsement in 1979 by establishing the Department of Education, the USA was number one in education worldwide 46 years and four point one trillion dollars later

Starting point is 01:18:10 the USA is number 40 worldwide We are however number one and cost per student any questions And it's not just the cost per student K through 12 But it is also the cost of tuition. Tuition costs have exploded. Why? Because they're throwing money at the colleges, and the colleges can afford to do that.

Starting point is 01:18:36 So it continues to go up. It's kind of the same game that you have if you've got health insurance. They look at it and they say, oh, okay, well, we can charge you more now because you've got health insurance. And so what happens is you wind up, and this is before you had Obamacare, as a matter of fact, you had the LA Times doing an investigation, and they looked at people who didn't have any health insurance, they went to the hospital or whatever, their bill was less than the people who had insurance and had, let's say, 80% coverage.

Starting point is 01:19:07 That 20% deductible that you had to pay, that was more than typically what people who did not have insurance pay. Why is that? Well, because if you don't have insurance, there's a lot of things that are not necessary that they will do to you. And of course, everything the hospital does to you carries a risk to you, health-wise. So they loaded up with services. And so even though your insurance is paying 80% of it, you've got so many more things that are being done to you that even with that 20%, you're paying more than the person

Starting point is 01:19:40 who doesn't have any insurance. I know that personally because we didn't have insurance. We had Samaritan Ministries that we used for years. And so you go in as a cash basis and then you share those costs with other Christians who are there. And there's some non-Christian organizations that do that as well. But you go in as a cash patient and they've set it to our face. Well, normally we run these other things here, but they're not really necessary. You don't need to have those tests done and things like that.

Starting point is 01:20:10 That's why it happens that way. So it's unconstitutional. It is ineffective. It is incompetent. It is unnecessary. As Cato Institute says, we've been educating kids for centuries before the department launched in 1980. And the thing is, because states and districts and families

Starting point is 01:20:32 and educators are responsible for education, not Washington. Well, here's the thing, Kato, for centuries, we didn't have states educating children. We didn't have districts educating children. We didn't have districts educating children. We didn't have teachers in their unions educating children. We had parents who were educating the children. Yeah, they would hire teachers, some of them. Sometimes they would pull the resources together in a local school room, you know, the one-room schoolhouse, tightly controlled by parents. Where all the kids were there, it's kind of like a homeschooling thing in a sense.

Starting point is 01:21:06 More like a homeschool co-op is what they really did. But it's not the job of states or districts or professional teachers to educate children. It's the job of parents. Even Cato Institute doesn't understand that. Finally, they said it's expensive, about 2.8 billion dollars for salaries and expenses. But, the salaries and expenses of the bureaucracy are not the big expense. That may be what Linda McMahon and Trump are going to get rid of, and they will brag about it and boast about it to no end. And fine, I'm all for saving 2.8 billion dollars. However, how did we get to that $4 trillion figure there? Well, just the last year they have data for it,

Starting point is 01:21:52 they gave out $150 billion in grants. So if you're gonna go in with Doge and you're going to cut the Department of Education employees and things like that, shut down offices and so forth but you're still gonna hand out these grants of a hundred fifty billion dollars so you're gonna save 2.8 billion and you're going to still be spending a hundred and fifty billion and you're gonna pat yourself on the back and say you got rid of the Department of Education?

Starting point is 01:22:19 No. And if you fund it, you control it. Just what I was saying about the elections, about the lockdowns, about the pandemic, about everything. Why is it that they can keep gaslighting people over that fundamental obvious truth that if you fund it, you control it. And if you go to the government and you ask them for money, whether it is a voucher or anything else, if they fund your child's education they will control it. They will control the curriculum. And that's one of the key purposes of the Department of Education. And it's one of the reasons why the US has dropped from number 1 to number 40 is

Starting point is 01:23:06 Because they've been controlling the curriculum and that goes for both parties It goes for things like no child left behind that George W Bush was doing I used to always when I talk about it I'll call it the no child left alone They don't leave any of us alone They want to dictate everything to all of us. On Rumble, Wally Walrus, thank you very much for the tip. And also on Rumble, DG8, thank you. And he says, David, will Trump stop AIPAC, Big Pharma, Big Oil, the military industrial

Starting point is 01:23:36 complex controlling our politicians and elections? Trump took almost a billion dollars from Musk and Adelson combined. Absolutely. I agree. That's where the corruption is. You know, they're going to focus you on the other things, paper ballots showing up one day and all the rest of the stuff, but it's all about the money. That's what I said to my guest yesterday.

Starting point is 01:23:59 I said, you know, well, you can get a measure for the corruption of our government if you look at how much money is going to these politicians and how that has exploded. Again, George W. Bush was accused of buying the election in 2000 because of $100 million for his campaign. Gore said, I've only got 70. He spent like 50% more than me. He bought the election. Now, $170 million is, you've got a lot of Senate campaigns and things like that where

Starting point is 01:24:26 they're getting more money than that. A lot of them. A lot of... some congressional campaigns. More money than that. And why do they need all that money? Well, it's a payoff. It's payola. They're buying these politicians.

Starting point is 01:24:41 Nothing could be more obvious than what is happening with that. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. The The The Making sense, Common again. You're listening to the David Knight Show. Well on Rumble, Jim Z7, thank you very much for the tip. I appreciate that. He says, DEI started way before it was labeled. Government curriculum is all about dumbing it down so that everybody gets participation diplomas. Yeah, they use these labels, they call themselves woke, and we stupidly use their labels. That's another thing that never ceases to amaze and annoy me is the fact that the left will come up with the labels and then we'll use that. You let them establish the rhetorical high ground when you do that type of stuff. It's not woke, it's simply Marxism.

Starting point is 01:27:09 She-Man Fleet, Survivor's Warning, let's see, what was it? Mao's America, Survivor's Warning was her book. And she talked about her childhood in China. Said, what we're looking at here is just the same stuff they did with struggle sessions, that's what DEI is, but all of these Marxist things that are being done run through these universities. That was all part of Mao's educational propaganda that was happening. You had to, it wasn't enough not to be racist, you had to be anti-racist, you had to denounce yourself and that type of stuff. So using race instead of using the class warfare that they did. And of course they always, they openly talked about how they're going to have to use race

Starting point is 01:27:54 rather than class warfare when they came to America. That's what that's all been about. On Rumble, Vic Fish says exactly, grants are the big problem. The BOE got big grant money here and it went to New River Health doing testing and jabbing and building a quote unquote clinic. Yeah. Well, let's talk a little bit about what's going on with the CBDC with the bait and switch really.

Starting point is 01:28:22 Yeah, we talked about digital ID and the many ways that they want to bring that in. And if you remember Zuckerberg tried to get ahead of all this stuff and he wanted, he wrote a white paper. He wanted to come up with a digital currency that was global, he called it Libra. And in the middle of that white paper, there's just like one little sentence there that says,

Starting point is 01:28:45 this can serve as a global ID. That was his offering to the various governments to get them to go along with him. Well they didn't do that. They said, well we can do that on our own. And they are doing it on their own. That was kind of interesting. Tony Ardaban, Wise Wolf Gold, was on with Free Thought Project, by the way. You can see his interview that he had with them, a good interview.

Starting point is 01:29:08 It's on their podcast. And it's still there. Tony Arterbon unpacking Trump's tariff turbulence and the CBDC bait and switch. And he's exactly right. Got a cool blue suit there, Tony. That's pretty cool. Got a cool blue suit there Tony that's up pretty pretty cool look at that. So anyway in it what he's saying is a lot of stuff that he says when he comes on with us as well. While Trump made headlines for banning CBDC's we unpack how stable coins now receiving

Starting point is 01:29:40 bipartisan support may serve as their stealth replacement to usher in a new era of financial surveillance and control." And that's exactly right. And we now have several people starting to see that. The Epoch Times is saying that as well. I said this from the very beginning. I said, yeah, they're going to, you've got states are banning CBDC Trump says we're not going to do it and so forth and yet it's even more dangerous when they do it de facto and as Aaron Day has pointed out a lot

Starting point is 01:30:14 of the surveillance and control is already there. We already have digital cash you use digital cash you're already using a CBDC they'll bring it in gradually they'll bring it in the back. They'll bring it in gradually. They'll bring it in the back door. They'll bring it in by stealth. They'll bring it in so that they can make money off of it. Trump and his billionaire buddies. So the epic times. Replacing cash with digital dollar would pose a grave threat to our rights and freedoms. And I would expect that as this moves along you'll probably have them back off of that a little bit if it's going to be in direct opposition to Trump. We'll see what happens with it. But

Starting point is 01:30:57 they pointed out that there was a hearing and what people were saying at the hearing when they're talking about stable coins, we'll get into that. It makes it pretty clear that we've already, as Aaron Day says, we've already got a digital currency, digital cash that is about surveillance and control. As Epic Times said, you know, cash alone made it possible for the victimized Canadians of the trucker-convoy protest, right, they had their accounts frozen, things like that, for the victimized Canadians

Starting point is 01:31:31 to be able to buy groceries, to pay their heating bills in winter, to secure other necessities. If Canada's economy had been cashless in February 2022, the government's freezing of bank accounts would have inflicted far more harm. Totalitarian communist regimes have always used that against people. When Solzy Nixon was talking about his live not by lies, he said, you have to understand that if you oppose the government, what they're doing, they're going to take your job, they're going to kick you out of your home because everything came from the government. Now in our societies where they don't yet have that much centralized control, they can still exercise that kind of control by freezing your bank accounts and blocking that if you have digital money. So they said when they

Starting point is 01:32:24 shut down the protests, and again, you know, China loves this because they can shut down people's protests. People like Trudeau, Christia Freeland, isn't it amazing that her name is Freeland? When she did everything she could to make sure that Canada was not a free land. But the things that block them are the things that they want to ban. The fact they were able to have cash. The fact that they, that people had cars, for example,

Starting point is 01:32:51 or trucks. Oh, they don't want you having control of cars or trucks or cash. That's why we have to make sure that we keep those things. On rumble nights of the storm say, that was an amazing interview Tony did with Free Thought. Good, good. Yeah, I am Highly recommend that you check that out. And again, it's on a free thought project calm

Starting point is 01:33:13 CBDC could be designed without programmable restrictions just like cash is printed without such restrictions But would the government do it? Of course the government wouldn't do it It's in their nature to want to control everything and so if they do it or if their partners do it? Of course the government wouldn't do it. It's in their nature to want to control everything. And so if they do it or if their partners do it, they will control everything. Just look at this example of somebody bank to withdraw £2500. Are you going to let me, I've got £1100 in my account. Are you going to let me, are you going to let me have the money or not? Hello, are you going to let me have the money or not? I thought you can't remove that restriction I've done there. You can't remove this restriction? You can't remove this restriction, okay.

Starting point is 01:34:05 After your colleague told me I'm a liar, yeah? So your colleague told me I'm a liar yesterday. I've come in to withdraw £2,500, yeah? And you're not going to let me have my money today, is that right? But you can still use your card. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, answer the question please, yeah?

Starting point is 01:34:21 I can still use my card. Are you going to, are you going to let me withdraw two and a half thousand pounds from my account today yes or no in the branch? And what is the two and a half thousand pounds for Mr Jackson? To buy a motorbike for my son. What's it for? Right okay so have you got any evidence of the motorbike you've got? No I haven't got any evidence of the motorbike at all no I haven't got it.

Starting point is 01:34:41 Prove it. I wonder what one I'm getting yet. Okay so if you don't know what you're getting, how do you know how much you need? Because I've got a budget of two and a half thousand pounds for the motorbike, so that's why I want to withdraw two and a half thousand pounds for the bike. What business is it of the banks? So when you find the bike for your son, if you can show us some evidence of that. So I need to show you evidence? You can't do it. You can't locked it. So I need to show you evidence. So I need to show you evidence. I'm doing it.

Starting point is 01:35:07 You can't film me. We've got my permission, sir. You cannot film me. You can't film me about my permission. And you can't have your cash without my permission. Absolute joke, this place. Absolute joke. You're an absolute joke, this place. Wow. See, they don't want to have those kind of encounters. So it's so easy if you've got digital cash, they just shut your account down. That's what this is about. Well, what are you going to use that money for? I need to know. You don't need to know any of that. That's none of your business. You're a bank. That's my money and my account. You agree that that's my money, but you won't let me have it." So in practice, what politician, what bureaucrat would resist

Starting point is 01:35:51 the temptation to be able to use CBDC tool to control people by controlling their access to their own money, their own money,-unquote own money well at a congressional hearing it's also on the free thought project they reveal that stable coins and CBDC share the same financial control risks this is what I've said don't get fooled by the label got all these Republicans everywhere patent themselves on the back oh yeah no CBDC and all the rest of the stuff. Tom Emmer, Tom Emmer who was the house whip number three. So they got the speaker, they got the leader, they got the whip. And he was taking the lead in opposing CVDC a couple of years ago when we were talking

Starting point is 01:36:36 about this. Because he was working with the crypto people. I thought, well that's kind of strange. He doesn't really have a background, even though he's the number three in the Republican Party, maybe because he's the number three in the Republican Party, he doesn't have a background standing up for individual liberty, of course. So why is he doing this? And then I found out how heavily involved he was with the crypto community. Now the crypto community basically owns Trump. You know, there's another one of his big financial

Starting point is 01:37:06 contributors that are out there. And of course he's looking to make a lot of money off of this stuff as well himself. So stable coins and CBDCs have the same financial control risk. Private sector digital currencies come with built-in surveillance and built-in control. You have to look at the functions, not at the label. It's like looking at a political party and saying, what is it that they're doing? Not, what do they tell me that they stand for when they're running for election? No, no, no, no. It's not about the positions

Starting point is 01:37:35 that they assume or the policies that they claim. It's what they practically do. And so, but that works. They're able to get people to line up and fanatically support the Democrats or Republicans because of what they say that they're about. And nobody ever looks at what they actually do. And so, I think they're going to be able to be successful with this. Because they're going to be able to sell this as, hey, this is private, it's not the Federal Reserve coming up with a digital currency, it's going to be private. Now some countries in Europe, they don't care anymore. Europe has gone so far down the road to totalitarianism, they're upfront about it, say, at CBDC, just

Starting point is 01:38:15 like Joe Biden, that same attitude. They're unapologetically totalitarian. A congressional hearing, and actually this makes headlines, yet this week's debate over stablecoins and central bank digital currencies revealed more than technical disagreements. It exposed deeper anxiety about financial power, privacy and control, and an increasingly digital world. Those skeptical of CBDCs warned of creeping surveillance and government control. Advocates, meanwhile, framed it as a necessity, a matter of American competitiveness in a

Starting point is 01:38:59 world where China and Europe are already moving ahead. So they're going to spy on their own citizens and control their own citizens and we're not going to be able to survive unless we become just like them. We got to become like China. We got to have complete control over our citizenry if we're going to be able to compete with China. Isn't that sad? But that's really the way all these people think. Freedom is the thing that would allow us to out-compete China, but they're going to take that away because they want to be just like China. And that's, I don't even think that they truly believe that.

Starting point is 01:39:36 That's what they've been told. China is the beta test for all of this stuff. And then they use it and say, Oh, but look, they're getting ahead. So we're going to do this. The CBD opponents, CBDC opponents championed stablecoins as the free market alternative. Testimony from industry leaders revealed that stablecoins, despite their branding as decentralized private sector solutions, already carry me at the same risks, the ability to freeze assets like that, to enforce government mandates, to track transactions in real time. And so what do we have now?

Starting point is 01:40:15 Well, we've got the Democrats and people like them in Europe who want to have a government digital currency. And then we have the Republicans who want to have their billionaire friends and contributors control the digital currency. Either way, we lose. Either way, unless you get out of this system, we lose. So they said, especially when you combine all this stuff with the know your customer laws, that, you know, that's in the UK.

Starting point is 01:40:49 But that's the kind of know your customer. Well, what do you need this for? You need it for a motorcycle for your son? Well, then show me the receipt that you're going to spend this money on. That's the prior approval stuff. This is the digital stuff, whether it's going to be privately controlled or whether it's going to be controlled by the government. That's just the difference between communism folks and fascism, right? When you look at the difference between Stalin

Starting point is 01:41:16 and Hitler, for example, both of them were horrific totalitarian systems to live under. But you got there from a different direction. You know, again, if you look at the Nolan chart where you take a chart where you have economic freedom on one axis and on the other axis, you have personal freedoms. And if you rotate it 45 degrees so that it looks like a diamond, down at the very bottom, yeah there you go, thank you Travis, show the chart, scroll down so we can have the chart up there so people can see it. There'll be a picture of the chart further down. There you go. So if you take it, you know, you have personal freedom, economic freedom, and if you rotate it by 45

Starting point is 01:42:02 degrees, then you can get your left right and you can have the liberals on the left and the conservatives on the right the conservatives who want economic freedom but they don't care about personal freedom and the liberals want personal freedom but no economic freedom at time so there you get your left right thing you get the people in the center but down at the bottom you have the authoritarian area and both the Hitler and Stalin were down there they were not on opposite ends of anything. They were both down in the same authoritarianism. It's just the basis of how they got there.

Starting point is 01:42:32 And when you look at what Hitler said about Stalin, he said he's foolish. He's taking over control of the economy and of manufacturing to have the government own it and run it, because they can't do that well. He says, I'm going to let them continue to run it until the very end and then I'll take it. They both called themselves socialists. They were both authoritarian. They were both totalitarian. And yet one of them said, well, I'm going to seize control of this and I'm going to

Starting point is 01:43:01 make it mine. And the other one said, now I'm going to use the people who are smart, who know how to do this, and at the very end I will take it over and I will use it for my purposes. Or maybe I don't even have to take it over if they work with me. That's why when we talk about fascism, Hitler, we say it's a merger of economic, of companies and of government, right? That's what he did. Whereas the communists want to run everything.

Starting point is 01:43:27 Now, when we talk about CBDC and things like that, that's what we've got with the difference between Biden and Trump. It's the difference between Stalin and Hitler. They both want a totalitarian, authoritarian control of our finances. But one of them, Biden, wants to run it himself. finances. But one of them, Biden, wants to run it himself. And the other one wants to partner with corporations who know how to do it so that he can make more money. That's what we're looking at here, folks. So pick your poison or get out of this system. Again, go David Knight, die gold, I'll take you to Tony Aarderman. So you can get some gold and silver and start to get out of this system as much as you can. But this is what's coming. And this is why you need to start setting yourself up into a parallel society. When we look at that back and forth in the UK, I just talked about it earlier

Starting point is 01:44:20 this week, the Trump administration wants reports. If anybody takes more than $200 out of an ATM, they want to identify it and send to them, they want to make a federal case out of it. They want to look at it. Now, right now, that's only in 30 some odd counties and Texas and California that are close to the Mexico border. But they'll find some other reason to do that. It was Biden who took the limit down to $600. Okay, you got a payment of somebody for $600. I want to know about it. And Trump takes it down to $200.

Starting point is 01:44:54 He says, oh, well, it's about the drug war and the cartels and so forth. They'll always come up with a rationale. The bottom line is it is a race to the bottom of the Nolan chart for both of these guys. It's just the excuses that they tell you to get you there and how they like to run things. Some of them like to partner with the corporations and I think that's an even more dangerous way to do it because the government is very incompetent. And so if you're going to take the fascist approach and you're going to partner the government with the corporations, that's even more dangerous because it makes the government a lot more

Starting point is 01:45:34 efficient and competent. And of course, that's the path that's being taken by Trump and by Doge and Musk and everything. Like I said before, I don't like virtually anything that our federal government is doing, so I don't want to make it more efficient at any of that stuff. I don't want to minimize the government bureaucrats while they maximize the governance with AI. A CBDC would give the Federal Reserve staff direct window into virtually every transaction of every person in America that they make.

Starting point is 01:46:07 At least one of them will not be able to resist the temptation to use that information to promote what they consider to be a worthy political goal. That's the comments of the chairman of the financial institutions group who was speaking at this hearing. He said, CBDCs are going to give the federal government unprecedented control over personal finances. He said it could function as a financial surveillance tool. We know that's the purpose of it.

Starting point is 01:46:35 Just like the Chinese digital yuan and China authorities can track purchases in real time, even restrict how certain funds are spent. The US government could use CBDC to implement similar controls, whether to enforce political objectives, to regulate behavior, or even deplatform individuals from the financial system. This is something that really concerns me as somebody who has been deplatformed from one financial system after the other because of my unpopular, with the government unpopular views. Because I criticize the government. They have kicked me off of Peter Thiel and the technocrats,

Starting point is 01:47:10 PayPal, Venmo, other things like that. I've been kicked off of a lot of different platforms. So I know what that's like. Another reason is why I am not interested in anything that is digital. Nothing, none of that stuff. So, Representative Stephen Lynch, a Democrat, dismissed the opposition as misguided.

Starting point is 01:47:36 He said, as every major economy races ahead of the US in developing a central bank digital currency, as every other country is establishing totalitarian control over their citizenry, how are we going to survive if we don't do the same thing? This is what this Democrat is pushing out there. All your friends are jumping off the bridge right now. You've got to do it quick. Yeah, they're more like they're pushing everybody off the bridge. They're trying to drown us.

Starting point is 01:48:01 Yeah, so dollar dominance requires keeping pace with China and Europe, even if it means sacrificing financial privacy, he said. No, no. Yeah, turn in your Senate, your House of Representatives card, because you just violated your congressional oath there. The strongest objection to CBDCs came not from those who wanted to stop digital currencies altogether, but those who favored an alternative, the stable coins. Maybe we should create our own coin, like the Trumps did.

Starting point is 01:48:35 We could call it crypto night. We could sell it as it's poison to financial tyrants. It's kryptonite. It would be backed by as much as the dollar is. That's right. We just make it up. If the Trumps can make it up, we can make up our own thing too, right? Well, you know, the private digital cash stuff, right?

Starting point is 01:49:03 Yeah, there's going gonna have just as much surveillance as ACBDC, again, because it's gonna be the know your customer rules, as you just saw enacted there, and all the rest of the stablecoins are issued by private companies. So you might think that this would make them have greater privacy. No, it may be by a private company,

Starting point is 01:49:23 but that doesn't mean that you get privacy. Just like when they talk about crypto, right? It's not private. It's not, you know, your transactions are not encrypted. Your transactions are on a ledger, as Aaron Day says. You know, you put things on a ledger that nobody's going to be able to look at. You know, you're running a business, you've got a ledger there, and you write down all your expenses.

Starting point is 01:49:46 That's what they want from you and the blockchain. The blockchain is visible for all but a handful of these things. And like Monero, Piratecoin, there's one, I think another new one called Zano or something like that. I'm still not interested in any of that stuff. I've still got on and off ramps that are not private. So this whole thing is a dodge. You've got a private company, but your transactions are not going to be private.

Starting point is 01:50:13 You've got something that they call crypto, but your transactions are not encrypted. See, they use the language. It's just like the left use the language of woke. They're not woke. They're completely asleep to what they're doing to themselves. They're walking into slavery and they want you to go into that as well with their eyes shut and they call themselves woke. Testimony from industry leaders shattered the illusion of greater privacy. The CEO of Paxos, a major stablecoin issuer,

Starting point is 01:50:45 acknowledged that his company already has the ability to freeze user funds to comply with government directives, as you saw at that bank. We control the smart contract, and we're able to decide if an address should be frozen or if funds should be seized. And let me tell you, when Trump talked about his Bitcoin reserve and he stopped talking about Bitcoin, he started talking about these other three tightly centrally controlled currencies. What were they? It's like SOL and it was a R ripple currency and then there was another one. But the bottom line, we looked at them, they were all about facilitating transactions and

Starting point is 01:51:32 they were all about smart contracts and things like that and they were closely tightly controlled. Folks, this is about control. This is not about moving in the 21st century where we can rapidly move money around and everybody has easy access to this, so we don't have to be encumbered with paper or with metal or any of the rest of this stuff. We can just do it all digitally. We can live in the virtual reality. Well, the reality is that you're going to be a slave in the control of that virtual

Starting point is 01:52:03 reality. that you're going to be a slave and the control of that virtual reality and the cryptocurrencies that Trump started focusing on Are all about tightly centrally controlled transactions so He said so we control the smart contract so we're able to decide if an address should be frozen That means you. Or if funds should be seized, he said. The very same tools that many fear that a CBDC might introduce, transaction monitoring, asset freezing, account blacklisting, they're already there. And the stable coins. So stable

Starting point is 01:52:42 coins are subject to strict regulatory compliance right now. They will be able to enact all this know your customers. They already have it. They know your customer stuff. They apply the same know your customer and the same anti-money laundering requirements as banks do. By the end, it was clear by the end of this hearing that the real debate is not about government controlled money versus private digital currencies. The real debate is about control. And the reality is that they're not debating whether there should be any control. The debate is not about control, but about who controls. Are you going to be controlled

Starting point is 01:53:17 by the government, like Biden and Stalin want you to be controlled? Or are you going to be controlled by the fascist public-private partnership like Hitler and Trump want. The distinction between a CBDC and a stablecoin is largely a matter of just who holds the reins. That's right. When we look at gold, so what is happening with gold? It has been interesting, I think, to watch. I was surprised, actually, at how poorly crypto and Bitcoin has done. I think a lot of that is as people start to realize that this Bitcoin reserve thing that

Starting point is 01:53:54 Trump is talking about is not really what they initially imagined. And I think they've seen a lot of fraud and other things like that with the Trump meme coins. You know, Trump and Melania and other stuff like that, they see that there's something corrupt happening here. And that it's also not going to be about Bitcoin, it's going to be about some of these other things. So Bitcoin has lost a lot of its shine, shall we say, but not gold. Gold after people were expecting that something like that might be happening, that Bitcoin was going to be favored by Trump, gold went down

Starting point is 01:54:31 temporarily and I said at the time, so it's an opportunity, it's on sale because nothing is fundamentally changed. They're still moving towards these control things, it depends on who's going to have it and they still have the same fundamental problems in the economy. So the gold price has continued to hold around $3,000, a little bit above it as a matter of fact. And this is happening even though you have a lot of economic information coming in, the purchasers, purchasing managers index, the PMI thing where they look at new orders and

Starting point is 01:55:03 inventory and deliveries and production bids and employment, all that kind of stuff. It's kind of an anticipation of economic activity. They saw that that went down for manufacturing. It went up for services. So that's kind of going sideways and yet there's still a concern that with small private companies, they've already entered a recession. And there is concern about inflation.

Starting point is 01:55:29 Of course, there's a lot of concern about the debt. The key concern over tariffs is the impact on inflation. The March survey indicating a further sharp rise in costs as suppliers pass tariff-related price hikes onto U.S. companies. Wait a minute. That was supposed to be paid by those foreign countries, not even the foreign corporations, as Trump is saying. It's going to be paid by those foreign countries.

Starting point is 01:55:54 No, it's not. It's not going to be paid by foreign countries. It's not going to be paid by foreign corporations. It's not going to be paid by American companies that are buying parts that are coming in more expensive. It's going to be passed on to you. Firms costs are now rising at the steepest rate for nearly two years with factories increasingly passing these higher prices on to customers. Trump people keep lying about tariffs being a tax, about tariffs raising prices,

Starting point is 01:56:27 but it's the reality that everybody really knows. So they've looked at a lot of different things, looking at personal consumption, expenditure, which is also a harbinger of inflation. Looking at the tariffs and other things like that, that is what is kind of holding gold steady, but it's also this uncertainty is keeping it from moving in one direction or the other. And so it's kind of been in a holding pattern. Markets remain alert to potential economic fallout as Trump's proposed tariffs are set

Starting point is 01:56:58 to take effect on April the 2nd. Concerns remain that retaliatory measures could stoke inflation, could slow economic growth, a more aggressive tariff stance could push gold toward the 3100 level. A less severe outcome could open the door for a brief dips before 3000." And notice it said brief dips because fundamentally what's going to drive this is going to be the overall economic condition of the dollar. And that is the reality. It got up to 3,057 last week, and that it's lower, but still above 3,000. And when I say over the long run, you had a conference where a strategist for Crestcat Capital gave his ideas. He said if history rhymes, in other words, if we do something similar to what the government has done before when they reevaluated gold in the past, you know, FDR confiscated gold

Starting point is 01:58:00 and then reevaluated it, put it at $35 an ounce. It's pointed out that in the 1940s, you look at the gold to debt ratio, when they did that, it was at 40%. So the amount of gold they had was equivalent to 40% of the government's debt. Well, the government doesn't have, uh, what are we at? 36, 37 trillion. So it doesn't have, um,

Starting point is 01:58:33 doesn't have 18, 19 trillion dollars worth of gold, not anywhere close to it. In the 1970s, the ratio of the value of the gold to the dollar amount of the debt was 17%. So in the 40s it was 40% and the 70s it was 17%. Where is it today? 2%. 2%. So the government, if you look at their 8,000 tons and you look at the current market price

Starting point is 01:58:56 of gold and you compare that, you know, you do the math and you roll that out and you look at that, compare compared to $37 trillion. That means that the gold that the government owns would only cover 2% of their debt. Whereas in the 1970s it was 17% and in the 40s it was 40%. So this guy says, well if you just do the math, if they were to do something like that, if they were to reevaluate gold, that would take gold up if they went to a ratio of 17% of what their debt is. That would mean that gold would be $25,000 an ounce. If it went to the 1940s, it would be $50,000 an ounce.

Starting point is 01:59:36 Now you would say, why would they ever do this? Well, as we've been talking about for the longest time with Tony when he comes on, look at how all of the other countries' central banks are accumulating gold. The U.S. central bank is not accumulating gold. As a matter of fact, it's at the lowest it's been for 90 years. And so they might ultimately be forced by the accumulation of the other people to reevaluate gold in terms of the dollar. It remains to be seen, but either way, whatever happens to the price of gold,

Starting point is 02:00:11 the being able to escape the surveillance and control folks is priceless. I don't even worry about the price of this gold stuff. It's about being able to buy food and other things like that when they freeze my account, which they eventually will if I live long enough. But that's why you want to go to David Knight, die gold again. It takes you to Tony Yarderman and you can start accumulating gold on a regular basis a little bit at a time. He's got something called Wolf Pack, which I don't know anybody else does that.

Starting point is 02:00:53 Nobody that I know of where you can buy in as little as $50 a month. You can go up to much higher levels if you want to just at a regular savings program, he'll send you gold and silver on a regular basis with that. Or you can go in and buy any amount of gold or silver that you wish, large or small, and that you'll find that you wish, large or small. And you'll find that at DavidNight.Golf. That'll take you to Tony Arderman at Wise Wolf. I really do appreciate his support, by the way. Rumble, NorthAmericanHouseHippo says, I love the video of Trump at Davos January 2020,

Starting point is 02:01:24 just before he did this nonsense, as he's being introed by Herr Claus sitting on that row of chairs by himself, looking like an errant child waiting for the headmaster. Yeah, well, he got his marching orders. He was there like on the 20th or whatever, and by the 31st you had his pharmaceutical guy announce that it was a pandemic in the US as I point out six cases and then he lowered the boom on us March the 13th. Rumble Atomic Dog, my bank put a stop payment on a certified check I had them make. Thirty thousand dollars for a truck, I didn't even know that that was possible. Yeah Wow, that is amazing. That's amazing. I

Starting point is 02:02:08 Wonder why they did that. I know why they banned me on other platforms I spent a lot of time on PayPal because it was PayPal and Vimbo write it all at once and that was right after this show was only about five months old at that point in time and So I spent a couple hours with a person with a rep there and he was looking into it and he said, there's nothing here that you haven't violated in any procedures. The only thing I can find is just one message that says, shut this account down immediately. That's all it takes, folks.

Starting point is 02:02:36 So start to get your gold and silver before you get that. Shut this account down immediately. We'll be right back. The Common Man. They created Common Core to dumb down our children. They created Common Pass 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

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Starting point is 02:04:26 is at risk of our financial livelihoods being messed with. Remember, the devil runs the government. Yes, be careful what you say. That's why I don't like to use people's last name when I thank them for contributions. And so there's a fine line to walk. I take it as a personal front when there's these implied threats. They're not even implied. I mean, they're stated. And so when somebody tells me that I can't talk, I go out of my way to get in their face about it.

Starting point is 02:05:00 So that's just kind of the way that I am. That's what Karen always says. She says, you might as well do this on the radio because they're gonna come after you anyway. You're not filtering anything. You're not trying to hide anything. So you've made yourself a target so you might as well go for it. So I do it. But you know I think there's something, you know, everybody needs to look at what they're comfortable with and think about it. Just don't say anything stupid and don't let some anonymous person goad you into saying something stupid. That's the key thing because that's the other thing that is out there. Karen just handed this to me on social media.

Starting point is 02:05:42 They now are calling this thing that I began talking. I call it a chat DJT. They're calling it signal gate because everything is a gate, right? So signal gate, and there's now a lawsuit about that. And that lawsuit has now been put before the same judge who blocked Trump from deporting Venezuelan the trendy gang. Trendy Aragua gang. So I just call them trendy.

Starting point is 02:06:10 The trendy gang. You can't deport gang members there. Yeah, so we'll see how that plays out. And there's more about that that we want to talk about. I want to, real quickly, go over some comments and some emails and some things like that. Jason Barker, Knights of the Storm Foxhole report sent this to me. He said it looks like Spotify is on me now. He said I received an email that I had a copyright violation. I assumed it was for the latest Name That Tune episode that we did in the past Saturdays. It turns out

Starting point is 02:06:42 though it was for my last two Christmas episodes. I made an intro video which features video clips from the Bible series from the History Channel. The video is not what flagged the shows however it was the song in the background which is freely available on YouTube. Said I made sure to credit the author of the instrumental piece and so forth. So he said I can only assume they're looking for a reason to pull my channel. I think that's it. When you look at the same kind of stuff I've talked about over and over again about It's a Wonderful Life, the movie was available in the US on YouTube for free. It had been viewed for over a million times. It had been up for like seven years.

Starting point is 02:07:25 I used some clips from it, and that's fair use. I used the clips. I was like, look, they've got the bank run that is there. And this is similar to what was being done and the lead up to creating the Federal Reserve and talking about the similarities of Potter to these guys. And so I put that, and they took it down on that basis, said, oh, it's a copyright

Starting point is 02:07:47 violation in America because they lost their copyright a long time ago everywhere else globally and then they restored it to them because they paid off the right people in Washington. They got their copyright restored on It's a Wonderful Life. It wouldn't have been a popular movie. As a matter of fact, if they hadn't lost the copyright. The fact that copyright was gone, they played it on Ted Turner's cable channel endlessly and made it famous. It was not well received when it first was put out and people had kind of forgotten about

Starting point is 02:08:18 it. Even the people who owned it forgot about it and forgot to renew the copyright. But they played games and they got the copyright back. Nevertheless, what they did in terms of censorship, and that was the first time anything was censored at Infowars, I thought it was kind of interesting that they wanted to censor somebody talking about the creation of the Federal Reserve because that really is at the center of their power. Their superpower is to be able to bribe and blackmail people with money, as I've been saying throughout this program.

Starting point is 02:08:46 I say it all the time. And that comes from the Federal Reserve and the Fiat currency. But going back to the copyright issue, we all have to be really careful about it. I probably should talk to Gard, because he plays copyright songs. I don't know they carve out, you know,

Starting point is 02:09:02 a time frame or any of that kind of stuff that's copied. That's why I did my own music for the program. Because I've already had that card played against me like they're playing against you, Jason. So probably should be careful about that type of thing. As a matter of fact, it's interesting. I had a listener who is in Canada, and he showed me a video that he did last August. I just saw it yesterday. The video he did last August was snow on the ground.

Starting point is 02:09:31 There was a little rabbit that was there and he's feeding the little rabbit at the beginning of winter. And he put in the music that I have. We see the pictures of the Smoky Mountains. It's actually called Heart of the Heartland and it's by Peter, I don't know how to pronounce his last name, but the name of the tune is Ostrakha or something like that, I don't know how to pronounce it, but it's Heart of the Heartland. I did a cover of it where I played the different instruments, all the instruments that are there, I played, I've got MIDI instruments, so you know you know play the mandolin with it and

Starting point is 02:10:05 the cello and the guitar and all the rest of the stuff and so it sounds different than the than the original the tempo is a little bit different the instrumentation is a little bit different I even added in some strings at the end that were there he's got one verse where he adds in steel guitar. I didn't do that. So I wanted to keep mine shorter anyway. But you know, it's pretty close other than that. It does actually the song. But it's my performance of the song. What I thought was interesting when I looked at his video was that YouTube identified my song as the and pointed to Heart of the Heartland even though it was a cover of that so I

Starting point is 02:10:55 thought that was interesting so I don't know maybe my you know going to the trouble of performing these songs is not really going to do anything for me in the long run. I don't know. I have to start performing folk songs more that are in the public domain. We shall see what happens. This was sent to me by a listener. Melanie sent this. Said I'm in Minnesota. I just received this last week. And let me, here it is right here just received this last week it's unbelievable it's got 16 pages here's what it looks like National Woodland owner survey from the Forest Service and 16 pages of this and we'd like to know a little bit about your property how about that don't worry

Starting point is 02:11:43 mrs. Robinson it's just for our files. Look about you. All you see are sympathetic eyes. And so I thought I would put this out. She said, just wondering if other people have received this. So has anybody else gotten this? The National Woodland Owner Survey. Maybe this is a prelude to Doug Burgum and Scott Bessent and Howard Lucky-Lutnik doing an inventory of what they can sell to people. Who knows what's going on with that. On Rumble, North American House Hippo says, I've heard cases where cops will play music on their loudspeaker when they're engaged in misdeeds so that YouTube will automatically block anyone trying to

Starting point is 02:12:22 upload a video. That's right. That's right. Thanks for reminding me of that. They absolutely do do that. So in the past, even, you know, I think they've now moved on from Happy Birthday. But it was Warner Brothers that was vigorously trying to enforce a copyright on Happy Birthday. And so people were getting some of their stuff blocked even for that, but cops do that deliberately, right? On Rockfin, a Syrian girl says, the power of the US government hangs on their ability to print money out of thin air through the Fed without the Fed. None of the government's unconstitutional activities will be possible.

Starting point is 02:12:58 That's why they police it so carefully with that. This is also sent to me by a listener. This is from Busty Seal. I can use that, I'm sure that's not a real name. I hope not. I don national park, they had a thing up and it was, they had to take it down. I forget what the year of exploration of the glaciers and, uh, glacier national park was going to be, but they had a plaque there that was like, uh, all these glaciers are going to be gone by 2017 or 19 or whatever it was. And people were taking pictures of that and laughing at them. So they had to take that down because the glaciers were there still, and are still there, and

Starting point is 02:13:49 these glaciers will still be there, and yet this is an article that's being put out by the press. Preservation of glaciers is not just an environmental, economic, and societal necessity. It is about our survival. Well, your ability to be able to discern these lies, these MacGuffins from these, that's what your survival is really about. And then this was sent to me, more Glacier News. Mountains and glaciers. Water Towers 2025 UN World Water Development Report. This is from a person, Rin.

Starting point is 02:14:26 I don't know if that's their real name or not, but this is a long report about how vital it is for us to have glaciers and how we have to have glaciers because we've got to have fresh water and things like that. Well, what do you want? Do you want to keep the glaciers or do you want to drink the glaciers? They can't seem to make up their mind. And of course when we look at these plans from the robber barons that are surrounding Trump, and as they talk about our resources, understand that includes fresh water. We've seen this play out in California where Nestle has and other companies have gone into different places and they bought the fresh water and then other people don't have access to it.

Starting point is 02:15:11 Homeowners, people who live there don't have access to it. People who are growing food don't have access to it. They're buying it and putting it in bottles and selling it to us at an inflated price and that type of thing. So again, all of this is a struggle over these different assets. It remains to be seen how this is going to play out with us. Some other letters that I've got here. This is from, let's see, well now that one is Jason. I already did Jason. Here we are. On Rumble, we got a comment,

Starting point is 02:15:45 North American House Hippos said, I uploaded a video featuring David Knight and there was a YouTube copyright claim for the melody of Liberty Fanfare. Huh, with the claim it's name being in Chinese characters. Well, that's interesting. Wow. Because that's also something, of course,

Starting point is 02:16:02 that I did my, I significantly changed that for the introduction. Because I wanted to have something I could talk over. That sort of thing happens a lot on YouTube. Some Chinese or Indian, usually from those two countries, company will just claim all kinds of different things, just hoping that the person won't fight them on the claim. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's amazing. That's what I object to. YouTube has basically, they position themselves out there as protecting copyright,

Starting point is 02:16:33 but they do exactly the opposite. All these streaming services, nobody pays for music anymore. And it used to be that people would buy stuff through iTunes, but they all caught onto that game, and they figured out they could make even more money streaming it. Because look, it's just like transportation. They said, we can make more money if we lease cars to people than we can if we sell it to them. And oh, by the way, we can make even more money if we rent it by the ride. That's what Eric Peters and I have talked about for the longest time.

Starting point is 02:17:02 They want you to rent everything from them. They don't want you to own anything, not even music. And they want to be able to dox you. If I wanted to push back on that claim, then I would have to give them all my personal information about that and spend a lot of time fighting it. Any troll, any Chinese troll can come in and claim that they own anything that you got there and YouTube will go with them. YouTube won't even allow me to put up Christmas music

Starting point is 02:17:32 because I'm a band person. So this is from Randy and he says, he is the one who actually sent me the Heart of the Heartland thing. And again, it identified it was, it's even more striking the fact that they'd be able to do that with Liberty Fanfare. And again, it's somebody who doesn't own it. But the fact that they would identify it as that and then claim ownership of it.

Starting point is 02:18:01 There's no way a Chinese company owns that. That is something that was done by John Williams for the 100th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty when they had a service for that. And then I got this. It was a message on the order from Luke who said he bought one of the coins and reminded me that he had met me in Kingston, New York at Gerald Slente's event back in 2021 actually was when I was there. He said met you in 2020, but it was actually 2021 that I was there and when he

Starting point is 02:18:42 Thanks for reminding me this he gave me a Morgan coin, a Morgan silver coin, which is a very unique coin. It's got a little bit of an alloy in it. It's 10% copper and 90% silver to have it be more durable. And it's an older coin that was minted back in the 19th century. So I really do appreciate that. Thank you for that. And we're going to take a quick break, folks, and when we come back I want to talk about

Starting point is 02:19:13 what's going on in a little bit more detail with this new head of the CDC. I said yesterday that she's been involved in the bio version of DARPA, BARDA. She's also been involved in several of these different organizations, and we've learned more about her past, and I want to go into more detail about it. But as I said, as soon as I saw that she was involved in these different organizations and it moved over from one of them to the CDC, I said she's bringing with her this artificial intelligence stuff that they're going to now start merging in. So AI and genetics and probably also nanotech.

Starting point is 02:19:53 We'll see what happens with that. But we're going to go into more of her background and what RFK Jr. said about that. So here is the heart of the Heartland. So So I'm gonna be a man, I'm gonna be a man You're listening to the David Knight Show. All right, welcome back. And Karen just handed this to me. It's still they're doubling down on the signal gate stuff. I said before, I said, um, you know, Hexeth was very angry. We didn't give them any war plans or any of the rest of the stuff. And the guy who got it said, well, they gave me targets.

Starting point is 02:21:58 They gave me dates when this was going to happen. Now they're, he's leaking some of the texts. I said, we're going to find out pretty soon. Who's telling the truth? Well, Hegses leaked text reports, Axios said that this is when the first bombs will definitely drop. Also said where they're going to drop as well. So now we know that he's got some integrity issues that are there. As they say almost sarcastically or tongue in cheek. They said, here's a reality check,

Starting point is 02:22:27 dropping bombs in another country is generally understood to be an act of war, you think? Though the US is not technically at war with the Houthis or with Yemen and so forth. Well, we'll see, see how that works out. But again, the real issues, and that is part of the real issue, the fact that there wasn't

Starting point is 02:22:45 a declared war and the rest of this stuff, but the other issues are still there and there's a lot of them. What about the fact that, well, we've got to do this because we can't control Israel. All those things are very important and are not being talked about for the most part. Let's talk though about RFK Jr. and this person who's now been picked for the CDC. This is on children's health defense. And at least in this article, they were pretty honest about this.

Starting point is 02:23:17 They said, critics called out Susan Monterrez because of her work for biosecurity agencies. That was my concern about it. Of course we know that she is a vaccine cheerleader and so forth. But then they said, again, Children's Health Defense was under RFK Jr. He's left now on leave to run HHS. RFK Jr. said he, quote, handpicked Monarez because because she is a long time champion of Maha. Well, Maha hasn't been around for a long time, has it? I mean, it is, in and of itself, it's pretty

Starting point is 02:23:55 much a lie. But everything about Maha is a lie. He said she is caring, compassionate, brilliant, microbiologist, and a tech wizard who will reorient CDC toward public health and goal standard science. And this is what I'm concerned about. It's going to become more about artificial intelligence and nanotech with this. By the way, Harry Hound sent me tweets that people have done some background into her husband. Her husband is also a part of the spook industry. He's with the National Security Directorate.

Starting point is 02:24:31 Isn't that interesting? Well, Susan Monarez came under fire on X immediately following yesterday's announcements as Children's Health Defense. Trump tapped Monarez two weeks after he withdrew his first nominee, Dr. David Weldon. Weldon failed to secure enough votes, reportedly, because of comments that he had made about the links between vaccines and autism. But R.F.K. Jr. said that he handpicked her.

Starting point is 02:24:59 Some maha supporters and health freedom activists who disagreed with Kennedy's characterization took to X to vocalize their criticisms, says Children's Health Defense. One account says, not afraid to call it what it is. Another terrible mistake from the Trump administration. What? Says this person who is anonymous. Their account has died suddenly. They're not afraid to call it what it is.

Starting point is 02:25:22 It's a mistake. No, you are afraid to call it what it is. It's a mistake. No, you are afraid to call it what it is. It's a betrayal. It was a mistake to support Trump. This is the guy who pushed the mRNA vaccines on everybody and talked about it incessantly to the consternation of people like Alex Jones and who's this? Who's that other guy? Wayne Ellenrute, you know, they're constantly saying stop talk

Starting point is 02:25:47 Pushing the vaccine. We've got to win this election Tell them that you did if you can't tell them that they're bad. Just stop talking about it Well, he can't he can't stop talking about it. And if anybody pushes him on it He goes into this thing about how he saved us all save millions of lives No, you killed millions of people worldwide with your vaccine that you funded, that you pushed, you funded the advertisement for it and you continued to brag about it. Nevertheless, it was not a mistake. This is what we always say, well, you know, mistakes were made.

Starting point is 02:26:19 No, no, it wasn't a mistake. It was pure iniquity. This is not a sin where you missed the target. This is iniquity conceived in your heart, pushed out and shown to everybody. This guy is definitely afraid to say that Trump did this. Another person says, we adamantly oppose Susan Monterrez as the next CDC director that's helped Freedom Louisiana. Said this would be an absolute travesty. Dr. Brian Tyson, vocal critic of COVID-19 vaccines said,

Starting point is 02:26:51 Trump is not serious about ma-ha. Is anybody serious about ma-ha? Only the Trump suckers are serious about ma-ha. I said yesterday, Jane Ruby said, look, he's hired a murderous put out there. And that's, that was the thing that got me kicked off for a weekend off of Spreaker where I had been for six years, talking, using the phrase murder, which I stand by. I think the pharmaceutical companies are murderers. Murderers. Toby Rogers, who is monitoring X, said there's literally zero support

Starting point is 02:27:32 for Monterrez on the platform. Many people had been supporting Joseph Latipo, the Florida surgeon general. Either way, what's Kennedy going to do about this? Kennedy had said the posts erroneously attributed to Monteres supporting COVID-19 vaccines for children. He said, no, no, no, no. That was written during the Biden administration when Dr. Mandy Cohen was CDC director. It just happened to have her name on it. Well, why did she allow that to go out if she didn't have anything to do with it? This sounds like the kind of explanation we got from R.F.K. Jr. when he called for the imprisonment and or execution of people that he disagreed with when he was pushing climate MacGuffins.

Starting point is 02:28:24 So I think that she is fully on board with vaccine stuff. No doubt about it. Come on. Stop lying to that. See, again, do you need any more proof to see what RFKJ is about, what Maha is about than this? It wasn't bad enough that she gets in there, but then he now is going to defend her and even tell you that she's not pro-vaccine. What a liar he is. Just amazing. Some critics raise concern about Monterey's work in biosecurity. Yep, that was my big concern because we know that these people are going to be pro-vaccine. But this takes it to the next level. As I said, it's going to be AI mRNA. people are going to be pro-vaccine. But this takes it to the next level.

Starting point is 02:29:05 As I said, it's going to be AIMRNA. It's going to be, I've called these things a genetic code injection from the very beginning, but it's going to be AIGCI, just like we saw with Stargate. That's why I said, I think this was planned. I think they put out Dave Weldon there, so that shill organizations like Gateway Pundit would say, look at this, they shut down what Trump really wanted. As if he couldn't find somebody else to put in there until they get tired of it.

Starting point is 02:29:34 Trump should be shutting down the CDC. RFK Jr. should be shutting down the CDC, not putting somebody in there. But they're gonna put somebody in there and it's like, oh, okay, well, this is who I would really like to have, but since you won't let me have them, I'll go with your pick. How's that? You like that, Gateway Pundit? That's your Trump right there. And say, yeah, it was a rhino who shut it down. No, Trump is the rhino. He's, I guess, He's, I guess, he's not a Democrat, he's a globalist. I don't know.

Starting point is 02:30:09 Anyway, some critics raised concerns about her work in biosecurity. So Jeffrey Tucker, Brownstone Institute, said she ticks every deep state box. He said from the agencies who brought you COVID lockdown, dangerous shots. And Jeffrey, from the president who brought you COVID lockdowns and dangerous shots. Come on, it's not just the agencies. Trump, there were all these agencies were under Trump and he was fully on board. He bragged about it for years after he left the presidency. So this CDC director and R.F.K. Jr., all the rest of them are from the president

Starting point is 02:30:49 who brought you lockdowns, dangerous shots, and the phony pandemic. So here's your new CDC director with a CV that ticks every deep state box, he said. So she has worked for every major biosecurity agency that there is. The very ones behind so much of the dangerous research, the secretive goings-on that have created so many disasters, on the face of it, it seems like very bad news," said Tucker. But then he spins it. And he says, he makes excuses for this, just like these other people.

Starting point is 02:31:24 Well, you know, some mistakes were made. Well, these were the agencies that were bad, but Trump's not bad. He's good. He says, cleaning up the mess at CDC requires more than a pundit, an influencer, or an outspoken critic of the status quo. Yeah, you know what it requires? It requires somebody to tell you the truth. That's what it requires.

Starting point is 02:31:44 That's not punditry. It's not spinning stuff. To tell the truth is not being a pundit. To tell the truth is not influencing somebody, trying to influence somebody, pushing them towards this group or that group. And if the truth is critical, so be it. And to take somebody with a backbone to stick to what is right. That's what it takes, Jeffrey. It doesn't take somebody who knows it from the inside.

Starting point is 02:32:12 This is why he says, well, it doesn't take any of those other things, he said, that require expert management experience to the problem, technical expertise, knowledge that only comes through long exposure to the world of classified information backed by training in infectious diseases. No. What it requires is the truth. Because if people understood what has been done at the CDC, they would go down to that abomination in Atlanta and they would tear it down brick by brick. If they understood what the CDC was doing, if they understood what the CDC was doing, if

Starting point is 02:32:45 they understood what the FDA is doing, they would tear those buildings down. They wouldn't wait for Trump to cut the funding. They wouldn't let him put in another globalist. We don't, we're not going to save this from the top down. We're not going to have anybody that is on our side appointed by Trump or by RFK Jr. or the rest of these people. It's going to require that people come to their senses that they stop complying with this stuff and that they actually do active resistance against it. And that's going to require the truth, not punditry, not influence. He said, in other words, it takes a hacker to defeat the hackers. Well, here's the problem, Jeffrey. What they're doing is they are

Starting point is 02:33:31 hacking our bodies. Do you understand the difference? Get rid of this institutional think. The institutions are corrupt. They need to be torn down and not replaced. Monterrez assumed the acting director position leaving her job, let's say this, as deputy director of the Advanced Research Project Agency for Health. Arpa, H. Arpa, very much like DARPA, but there's also another one called BARDA. And she's been involved in both of those. To me, that's checking all the boxes. So the ARPA H was recently created by the Biden administration. The purpose is to accelerate high risk, high reward biomedical research.

Starting point is 02:34:30 High risk, high reward? Isn't that the way they sold the mRNA shot to us? High risk, high reward? Oh no, actually they told us there's no risk at all. It's a moonshot, it's a miracle from God, right? And so they had some of these so-called Christian leaders sell it. ARPA-H is modeled after the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA. DARPA that does these heinous killer robots, autonomous killer robots, autonomous cars and drones and all the rest of it. All of that is coming from DARPA. The mind control stuff, the brain computer

Starting point is 02:35:14 interface, Neuralink and all the rest of these creepy things that Elon Musk is doing. Of course, they were all projects that began with DARPA. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under President George Bush was where she also worked. Hey, you know, George W. Bush, the guy who gave us the PREP Act, the guy under whom they did Dark Winter two months before 9-11, they had the false flag anthrax attack a week later and then they pushed out the model legislation and continued to practice it That guy who kicked it off 9-eleven was just the first shoe to drop

Starting point is 02:35:51 The other one dropped with Trump and in between George W Bush put in the prep act to make sure that you won't get compensated for anything that they do to you to deny your Essentially your personhood, you know what we can do to your, whatever we wish and there's nothing you're going to get from it. So at that Office of Science and Technology, Sue was an advisor to BARDA, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority. In recent DARPA TV video, Monarez promoted the use of AI for health care, touting its use by patients, providers, and for the defense of the, listen to this, the health ecosystem. This is

Starting point is 02:36:39 her mentality. This is the person that Trump has put in at CDC, the person that was handpicked by RFK junior. That tells you everything about the two of them in this phony maha thing right there. The eco, the health ecosystem, we need to have artificial intelligence doing that. Most of her comments were vague, but she celebrated ARPA-H's plan to fund anything quote unquote that furthers its mission. ARPA-H says, and this is Children's Health Defense, I mean, they've given you their dish in the dirt here on this stuff for whatever reason.

Starting point is 02:37:16 I hope they're going to keep it honest. ARPA-H, which is dedicated to increasing the use of generative AI in operations and across the healthcare sector had already received about $4 billion in funding as of November 2024. This is something created by Biden and within just the first couple of years of its existence, they're dumping billions of dollars into it. Projects that were finished while she was there at ARPA-H include a program to use personal health data to predict and to treat potential diseases before a person has symptoms. See how similar this is to what Trump kicked off his administration with? The Stargate Project?

Starting point is 02:38:00 We're going to use AI and we're going to custom design treatments for you. And we'll tweak your genes and all the rest of the stuff with it. So here they are using AI and using to go through your personal health data to treat potential diseases, potential diseases, diseases you don't have yet. You know, if you're not sick, we'll make you sick before a person has any symptoms. See, this is the next level of all this PCR garbage, all this pandemic garbage. Oh, we got cases here. They don't have any symptoms. Well, it's still a case. And if I can call it a case, we've got a pandemic. Well, these are people who don't have any symptoms of anything. They're not

Starting point is 02:38:43 sick. They don't have a disease, but they're going to say that you've got a disease because they're going to look at your personal health information and have AI make that determination for you. That's what this hand-picked CDC director, Monerez, is about. Another project would use generative AI to develop antibiotics. What could possibly go wrong with that? Antibiotics are dangerous enough. Damage both my son and my daughter, my mother. Several projects including one by defense contractor Raytheon seeking to use private health data to develop increasingly

Starting point is 02:39:23 capable and quote-unquote trustworthy chat bots to be used in a wide range of patient care, starting with neonatal applications and mental health. Do you find it disturbing that it's overlapped between military industrial complex and the pharmaceutical industrial complex? And of course, that's been part of it since going back to dark winter. They're pulling all these people together. Fauci's been involved in all these types of things as well. You need to understand why Operation Warp Speed was being run by the

Starting point is 02:39:53 military. Why these people were giving the formula for this poison mRNA vaccine, giving that to Pfizer-Moderna to manufacture. This is a military operation that is directed against us. And now they want to expand this with this woman at the CDC who has been through all of this stuff. That's the world that she's coming from. You should be very alarmed about what is happening with this. Others seek to train AI to develop medical technologies autonomously. Awards have gone to universities and to private biotech firms.

Starting point is 02:40:28 Members of the biosecurity community, like Dr. Luciana Borrillo, a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign raising flags expressed enthusiastic support for Mona res Telling stat news that Mona res has quote dedicated her life to public service and biomedical research Yeah, you should be very concerned about that because you know when we go back and we look at what happened in 2020 you'll never forget this kind of stuff here, right? This cartoon. For the people who are listening and not seeing this.

Starting point is 02:41:10 Cartoon, I'll Miss You Dad. As you see an elderly person with a face mask on. And it says, I only wish that I could have held your hand one last time, because she's not allowed to be there. And in the last frame, you see these goofy masked medical people dancing around, you know, the TikTok dancers that we saw everywhere, all the stage choreographed stuff, like a drone shots, dolly shots, you name it.

Starting point is 02:41:45 It was such a terrible pandemic. All hands on deck. We don't have enough people. We're going to have to keep you out of the hospital if you're sick because we don't have enough beds. But we got this. This is part of their domination dance. It's disgusting. I am so disgusted with all of this stuff. Uh, it's just again, it is, um, been there from the very beginning and now Trump is doing it again to these people and they don't understand. Will the CDC study vaccines and autism under her? Ask children's health defense. Well, what do you think?

Starting point is 02:42:24 That's a rhetorical question if ever there was one. New York Times reported that she has endorsed the COVID-19 vaccines, but little else is publicly known about her stance on other vaccines. I think we can take a pretty good guess. The CDC is responsible for making the vaccine recommendations for Americans. It says the increasingly controversial childhood immunization schedule, which most physicians use to determine which vaccines a child needs and when to give them to them in quantity. As a matter of fact, I want to correct what I said. Yes, I was saying 72 vaccines by the age of 18 is 76, 76 for 18 different vaccines.

Starting point is 02:43:03 So they're giving them over and over and over again. It also includes now the COVID-19 vaccine. Kennedy said that he would investigate the childhood's vaccine schedule. You think that's going to happen? Once the vaccine is on this list, they can get broad protection from liability for injuries. That's why they put the COVID vaccine on there, because they want that liability protection. And so nothing is going to happen folks at the federal level, nothing at all.

Starting point is 02:43:36 But there are things that can be done, theoretically even at the state level. This is a children's health Defense article that is also on the Free Thought Project. An Iowa bill would strip vaccine makers of some of their liability protection for the injuries that they cause people. See, some of this can be rolled back at the state level. We make a fatal mistake when we put all of our eggs in not only the federal basket, but the White House. We don't want to completely depend on them because they're not dependable.

Starting point is 02:44:14 So there are things that remain to be done that can be done at the state level. A lot of things could actually be done. Now of course, at the state level, I would imagine that if this thing looks like it's going to be able to pass, that they are going to start showering these people with money, the pharmaceutical people will, to stop this. They will run people against the ones who come up with it, just like we had Senator Frank Nicely, he came up with a bill to stop outside money from coming into Tennessee. And that bill got voted down by the people who represent the outside money.

Starting point is 02:44:50 And then you get a guy who defeats him, who comes from nowhere. This guy's got a resume like Mel Chizadek, right? We don't know where he came from. We don't know what he does. We don't know where he's going. Any of this kind of stuff. I mean, this guy, he put nothing up on his website about his life at all. What did he do for a living before this? What does he think about anything? Nothing.

Starting point is 02:45:18 No positions on any issues whatsoever? And yet he had a lot of out-of-state money showered on him, an amazing amount, and it was just one smear and lie against Senator former Senator Frank Nicely after another, and he won the election. And so you know it's not a given that we're going to be able to fix this stuff in the state, but it is a given that you're not going to fix it at the federal government level. It's going to be really difficult now even at the state level But we have in Iowa the House of Representatives subcommittee has advanced a bill to bar the sale and administration of vaccines in the state unless the

Starting point is 02:46:00 Manufacturers waive some of the liability protection granted under federal law for injuries that are caused by their vaccines. You see you could do stuff like that From a practical standpoint, like I said, the money is going to pour in and they're going to shut this thing down but Everything doesn't have to be done. It is theoretically possible To get this stuff done at the state level But it is practically impossible, it is absolutely impossible at the federal level and it's practically impossible even at the state level.

Starting point is 02:46:33 The way of liability protection for design defect claims. Design defect claims occur when a product, a problem with a vaccine's design rather than a flaw in the manufacturing process. So this was something that it was stalled in Judiciary Committee, but it isn't dead yet. It can either be added to another bill of this legislative term or they can reintroduce it next term. But they said the guy who's sponsoring it said, we don't allow this for toaster ovens. We don't allow this for paint.

Starting point is 02:47:05 We don't allow it for anyone of 10 million different items that people buy in the United States. We shouldn't allow it for vaccines either. You know, one of the arguments that the vaccine people make, well, you know, we have, we vaccinate so many people and there's going to be frivolous lawsuits and just the litigation costs alone will drive us out of business. Well, it doesn't drive anybody else who's competes in the mass market out of business. Well, it doesn't drive anybody else who competes in the mass market out of business. Again, it doesn't drive the toaster people out. Maybe they have to make toasters that don't electrocute people. How about that? And maybe that kind of stuff is looked at by underwriters lab, not by the federal government, to make sure that it's electrically safe. So he says, if anything, the vaccines ought to be more strict because these things are

Starting point is 02:47:50 more complicated because they can do more damage to people. But of course they are FDA free to do anything. Vaccine makers won freedom from liability from designed effects in a 2011 Supreme Court decision. It wasn't the 1986 act. It was a 2011 Supreme Court decision that extended it even further than they did in the 1986 act. Up until that point, the 1986 act, National Childhood

Starting point is 02:48:18 Vaccine Injury Act, had given Big Pharma partial liability protection for vaccines that were listed on the CDC's childhood immunization schedule, but it also continued to hold them responsible for product design defects. And so the Supreme Court said, no, you get blanket immunity. There's nothing you can do that is going to get you in any trouble. Again, when we look at the state level versus the federal level, as I said many times, things can be better or worse at

Starting point is 02:48:51 the state level. And here's an example, New York, where it is worse at the state level. A New York court is now going to try to force Amish kids to vaccinate in order to go to school. Amish kids. Force them to vaccinate to try to force Amish kids to vaccinate in order to go to school. Amish kids, force them to vaccinate to go to an Amish private school. That's New York. They can make things a lot worse. In 2019, the state of New York scrapped religious exemptions for school vaccine mandates following a spike in measles cases. Again, measles. Everybody had measles when I was in school. It's not a big deal. Let's stop pretending. We just had, it was all over the news. All these news sites are picking up this news. Somebody traveled to Washington DC that had measles. The most contagious disease

Starting point is 02:49:42 in the world, they said. So what? I bet somebody went to Washington, D.C. with a common cold, too. Right? They say that's contagious. They say that's done by a virus. Well, take a look at the research that they did in the UK. Forty-five years of trying to figure out how a cold is transmitted to other people. I say that colds, if it's done by contagion, they'd be qualified as more contagious than measles, wouldn't you? Happens a lot more. Well, you know, they even shared mucus between people, but they couldn't figure out how a cold got transferred. Maybe it's not a virus at all.

Starting point is 02:50:24 Maybe it's your body reacting to, I don't know, cold? Could that be it? George Washington died from a cold that he contracted when he was, or maybe he died from the doctors who nearly bled him to death and gave him mercury, but he got a cold when he was riding around his estate in the winter on a horse, right? Do you think he caught the cold from somebody when he was riding around his estate? I don't think so. I think he got it from the cold.

Starting point is 02:50:56 Anyway, they play this game, and so isn't it amazing that they are going to run roughshod over parental choice over vaccines. They're going to run roughshod over any medical considerations for these vaccines, and they're going to run roughshod over religious considerations for these vaccines and do it all for something like measles, which may not even be caused by a virus. Prove it. Have you isolated the measles virus? No, they haven't. So they had a measles, a couple of measles cases, and so now on the basis of that, they want to take away the Amish community's ability to make that decision. And again, remember when we go back to 2019, this was when you had Donald Trump say this.

Starting point is 02:51:54 They have to get the shots, the vaccinations are so important, this is really going around now, they have to get their shots. So because of that, the Amish, they gotta get the shots. Because as many people pointed out, they are the control group. They are the group that hasn't been getting the shots.

Starting point is 02:52:14 And they haven't been getting autism and a lot of these other things. Massive allergies, rheumatoid arthritis, you name it. The Amish haven't been getting them, because they haven't been getting the shots. So it's so important. They got to get those shots. Can't have a control group out there showing people that if you don't get the shots, you don't get all of the...

Starting point is 02:52:36 You want to talk about a pandemic? You want to talk about something that is saturating our society? It's because of these 76 shots that you're supposed to get. So they asked the district court to intervene. They argued that their First Amendment right to religious freedom was being violated. It is. That their 14th Amendment right to due process was being violated. It is. Their First Amendment rights to religious liberty and all the rest of stuff along with their 14th Amendment rights. For the last century the U.S. Supreme Court has understood the Due Process Clause to include a parent's rights to direct their children's

Starting point is 02:53:12 health care and their religious upbringing. The Amish plaintiffs explained that if schools mandate vaccinations, they will be forced to make an impossible choice, either inject their children and violate their religious practices or deny their children an Amish education at an Amish private school. And of course they did this with the Jewish kids as well. The ultra-Orthodox Jews did not want to get vaccinated. And they were protesting it in New York. So they're going to go after these religious groups that don't want to participate

Starting point is 02:53:45 in this Nazi science and have medical concerns about it as well. And the district court ruled in favor of the state and on March the 3rd, so did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. The Second Circuit maintained that vaccine mandates do not violate parents' constitutional rights because? Because why? They do not come at the expense of the Amish faith or the Amish way of life. That's an absolute lie. It is an absolute lie. They have their faith that is there. What they don't have is faith in the vaccines. You know, the Amish have been the people who have been the first ones on the fence to establish homeschooling rights. That's what they're probably going to have to do is forget their Amish schools and go their

Starting point is 02:54:36 own way because they live in New York and because in some states it's worse because of the state government. New York is one of those. The Amish are an obvious control group. They said they can force this on the Amish. If they can do that, then nobody's rights are safe. Of course. That's right. So one user wrote, said, as a paramedic, I've seen what these COVID vaccines have done to us as a dad.

Starting point is 02:55:03 It has been painful to watch many vaccines mandated. The powers that be know the Amish are an obvious control group and they are hunting the elephants in the room. New York claims that it's about safety, but they will let unvaccinated kids in if they've got a doctor's note, but they won't let them get an exception if they've got a prayer with them. That's the real issue. Meanwhile, we have Bear, which has bought Monsanto. They didn't care about all of the lawsuits and the outstanding judgments against them over glyphosate when they bought them.

Starting point is 02:55:46 Because bear don't care. I guess that's why they don't care about any of this stuff. Yeah, let's bring on Monsanto. I know, I know, they're awful, but we can make a lot of money from them. And we can, it doesn't matter all these different liabilities that are out there. Well, they just had a verdict for $2 billion. It remains to be seen. Verdicts like that can always be reestablished at a later date.

Starting point is 02:56:15 But the problem is the glyphosate. And it is there. People understand that it's a problem. It's been a problem for a very long time. We're just about out of time. But before we leave, I want to quickly touch on this free speech issue. We had a case go before the Supreme Court, and it was a pal of Donald Trump, Steve Wynn, who is another casino owner.

Starting point is 02:56:41 Of course, Trump's a former casino owner. He's such a great businessman that he ran several of them bankrupt. But anyway, Steve Wynn was trying to overturn the 1964 Supreme Court case, New York Times versus Sullivan, which upheld the First Amendment's protection for freedom of the press, stating that journalists and publications can only be sued for libel if they knowingly published something false with an intent to harm. So if you publish something that is false, if somebody has a problem with it, they can contact you and you've got a period of time there where you can make a retraction, that type of thing. If you don't do that, then they say, well, that was malicious. And so then they can sue you for libel. But really when we look at this, Steve

Starting point is 02:57:30 Winn and Trump have both been very vocal about the fact that they want to shut down any negative press about them. Trump is really focused on attacking the free press and free speech and social media. If they've been successful in overturning New York Times versus Sullivan, you would not be reading this article today, says Brian Shalhavi at Health Impact News, along with every other publisher who dares to criticize Trump, they'd all be shut down. Steve Wynn had argued that the Associated Press did not investigate claims of sexual assault against him before publishing.

Starting point is 02:58:07 Look, all you have to do is say alleged. And you know, if somebody has alleged this, you're reporting the truth. You know, that says this is still yet to be determined. And there is no malice in that. And so this got shut down nine to zero, unanimously by the Supreme Court, which is a very good thing. And the details of this case, a woman had told the police that he had raped her, but he said that the AP did not defend him. They didn't put anything in that would cast doubt on her claims. They don't need to. All they have to do is say she made an allegation to the police.

Starting point is 02:58:48 A trial court judge ruled that she had indeed defamed him, but he couldn't convince the courts that the AP had unlawfully published her claims. So they overturned that. Now what is troubling is the fact that he says that he wanted, he specifically wanted to overturn the Sullivan case he said in the world that we live in now we can't have free speech like this basically to paraphrase what he had to say and that is the position of Trump as well on a lot of these issues so again we have had the Supreme Court has now pushed back on a couple of these key Trump

Starting point is 02:59:26 issues that are there. We have, before I run out of time here, I want to play this clip for you. This is actually something going back to 2002. We actually had our own government running ads talking about how precious free speech is. Can you imagine that being done today? Excuse me. I can't seem to find these anywhere.

Starting point is 02:59:45 Huh. These books are no longer available. I didn't know. May I have your name, please? Why? Excuse me. As he's walking out of the library, he gets stopped by a couple of men in suits.

Starting point is 03:00:07 What if America wasn't America? Says freedom, appreciate it, cherish it, protect it. Oh, yeah, well, that was an ad that was done in 2002. You think that'd be done today? And yet, today is the day that we see this kind of stuff. You know, because you have people like Miriam Adelson who has bought Trump lock, stock and barrel and has told him to shut down people who criticize Netanyahu, for example. You know, I've said for a long time, don't call this anti-Semitism. Just like the left, these people will pull this out and say, well, you're racist if you criticize our political guy, Netanyahu.

Starting point is 03:00:48 Well, you know there's a lot of people criticizing him. I didn't get around to it today, but there is, you know, there's a fight with their Supreme Court, a fight with their Attorney General, and that country has got a lot of dissent. I guess they're all anti-Semitic Jews, aren't they? Thank you for joining us. Hello, it's me, Vladimir Zelensky. I'm so tired of wearing these same t-shirts everywhere for years. You'd think with all the billions I've skimmed off America I could dress better. And I could

Starting point is 03:01:17 if only David Knight would send me one of his beautiful gray MacGuffin hoodies or a new black t-shirt with the McGuffin logo in blue. But he told me to get lost. Maybe one of you American suckers can buy me some at thedavidknightshow.com. You should be able to buy me several hundred. Those amazing sand-colored microphone hoodies are so beautiful. I'd wear something other than green military cosplay to my various gala and social events. If you want to save on shipping just put it in the next package of bombs and missiles coming from the USA.

The David Knight Show - Wed Episode #1976: “ChatDJT” or “SignalGate” Ignites Partisan War in DC

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